eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

While Gemini is providing our employees with access to generative AI, Gemini for teens will provide our high school students with the focused support of AI in a safer environment with appropriate safeguards, said superintendent Dr. Jose L. Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing. Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements. Fortunately, there are states we can look to for guidance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

Steinberg says that some teachers use AI to highlight aspects of a student’s work aligned with a rubric but stop short of letting AI assign a grade. Mark Bannecker, an English teacher at North High School in Missouri, is building AI-powered learning modules that guide students through skill-building exercises.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

In a 2023 national survey by Hanover Research, only 27% of American high school students said they felt what they were learning was relevant to the real world. These aren’t just assignments. His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 18, 2025

This isn’t just a checklist: It’s your blueprint of essentials for a high school math classroom that supports every learner and highlights your unique teaching style. Stocked with a few extra essentials for a high school math classroom, it’s a small way to set students up for success and eliminate pauses.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Its great for in-class use and also works well as a homework assignment. Keeping High Schoolers Engaged in Math By high school, many students have already decided whether they “like” or “hate” math. It offers interactive activities and visual representations to keep students engaged.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

They’ll memorize elaborate lore, master mechanics, mimic skills, and explain them to others—all without being assigned a single worksheet. The problem is that school content often lacks any social payoff. Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. We’ve tried improving curricula.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Authority, on the other hand, is when I decide what lessons to assign to students, or when they must read silently to themselves or aloud to the class. I asked my students, “Do you understand why you learn what you learn in school?” They are for everyone. I have control over their actions and learning. But many, when pushed, said no.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Perfect as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or brain breaks for high school , these five-minute writing ideas are a great way to get students into a writing state of mind right after the bell rings. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Keep a copy of your teaching philosophy nearby 8th Grade ELA teacher Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed Seamlessly transition 8th grade ELA students to high school 1. Incorporate project management Assigning too much homework can be detrimental to kids , rather than helpful. Be prepared for the unexpected 11.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

So my question became, “How do I encourage my students to read in a way that lights a fire for them, so that they don’t see it as just another torturous reading assignment from their dumb teacher?” I was looking for something extra, something different, something more personal. It’s a little revelation I called “independent silent reading.”

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Computer science should begin early and continue throughout elementary, middle and high school. In many schools, computer science instruction is assigned to teachers based on availability rather than expertise. Computer science curricula should be turnkey, ready for any educator to pick up and teach.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

Create race cars with everyday items When it comes to engineering activities for middle school, nothing beats a race car — except another race car. Assign a specific type of race car construction project, such as rubber band cars, balloon cars, and bottle box cars, or allow students to use their own materials from home.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Give them a safe and structured place to let their arguments fly when you assign these persuasive writing prompts. Does AI count as a school tutor? 10 Informative 8th Grade Writing Prompts When you assign informative writing prompts to your 8th grade class, you’re letting them be the instructors!

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

12th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. Sometimes, I need to focus longer on my college classes, so I have to wait to work on a high school assignment until the next week.

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k12

JULY 16, 2025

10th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. We asked them what makes online school so great, and here’s what Mayah had to say. My K12 Why Why did you switch to online school? By: Mayah S.,

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 30, 2025

I once randomly met a teacher from a local high school at a social event. I knew that one of my young relatives, then a 15-year-old, attended the school, so naturally I mentioned him. She's recently learned that his teachers were dangling these mandated breaks as a "reward" for completing this or that assignment.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Project & Rubric – Back-to-School, New Year, End-of-Year Activities By Jenn Liu — Engaging to Empower Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Life Skills Teach middle and high school students how to make a vision board using this no-prep, interactive Google Slides lesson!

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 12, 2025

Printable Sentence Starters for Middle and High School Stories Having printed out writing starters for middle or high school students is a great homework assignment. You can assign one prompt per week that is due by the end of the week. Click HERE to grab it now! Great for this age group.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

In addition, middle school grades and attendance are the best indicators of how a student will do in high school and whether theyre ready for college at the end of high school, a 2014 study found. Mullins said helping students individually in class works far better than assigning them homework.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Discover ways to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month activities into your school day and honor the contributions of Hispanic leaders, artists, athletes, and icons worldwide. Middle and High School Hispanic Heritage Month Activities Once students reach middle and high school, they’re ready for more complex topics and assignments.

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. What’s something you can do in online school that you couldn’t do in your old school? My Future What do you want to do after high school?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

I don't specifically recall many of the books, but there was an engrossing one about the Bermuda Triangle and another aspirational one about high school football. Reading what other people assigned to me was always a slog, and not the self-selected kind. My lifelong fandom of The Who started with a very sanitized band biography.

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k12

JUNE 17, 2025

10th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. I started a different online school that wasn’t with K12, because I figured, what’s the difference? By: Leyla L., But I was wrong. Thank you, Kylah!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

High school isn’t all fun and games, but it can have a few jokes and riddles! Keep students guessing and thinking with a set of riddles for high school students. A pillow 14 ELA Enigmas and Wordplay Puzzles Need a brain break for high school students between chapters of your latest novel unit? What am I?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Find everything you need for facilitating great debates in your high school class. From good debate topics for high school to resources for structuring and crafting arguments, you’ll find everything you need for a fiery debate in any subject. Should high school students be allowed to drop out of school when they want?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all. My point is that here I sit, a man who holds a high school diploma and university degree, the definition of an educated man, but most of the learning I actually use in my day-to-day life came from life itself, not any sort of curriculum.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At 16 and 17 years old, Matthew and William graduated from high school with 60 college credits apiece and are now enrolled with honors in their first year at McNeese State University. We as a family credit much of their academic success to their online high school, Louisiana Virtual Charter Academy (LAVCA).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Peter Gray of Freedom to Learn : “ Unschooling parents do not … do at home the kinds of things that are done at school. More specifically, they do not establish a curriculum for their children, do not require their children to do particular assignments for the purpose of education, and do not test their children to measure progress.

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k12

JUNE 5, 2025

Key Takeaways You’re On Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift was voted the song that most defines high school grads’ senior year, capturing the emotions of independence, transition, and self-discovery. This mapping allows for a high-level genre breakdown while preserving interpretability.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

That includes school vouchers, which create a new incentive for families to shop around among charter and private schools rather than automatically enroll children in their assigned district public school. Mauskopf says that public charter schools also market heavily to families.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

public high schools has a positive effect on students’ social networks, psycho-social outcomes, and health behaviors. Academic tracking” is a common practice in high schools through which lower-performing students are clustered with others of similar academic achievement. The findings, published Dec.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2020

Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological Supply Company introduced a new product line to help high schools provide high-quality, hands-on science instruction during COVID-19 disruptions. The teacher controls the digital resources and assigns them as suggested in the lesson plans or as students progress.

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