Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Dr. Maria Montessori’s belief was in child-directed learning. Some good starters include: Drawing apps mimicking crayons or pencils Puzzle or logic games without background noise or timers Audio stories to practice listening and language If it encourages creativity, decision-making, or discovery, it’s a good option.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Key learning outcomes from a Liberal Arts Curriculum include: A liberal arts curriculum fosters a comprehensive understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world through diverse fields such as sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Thats especially true when youre supporting multilingual learners (MLs), who are navigating both academic content and a new language at the same time. It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Make Language Visual with Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers arent just cute.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Key learning outcomes from a Liberal Arts Curriculum include: A liberal arts curriculum fosters a comprehensive understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world through diverse fields such as sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. Elmwood is also working on building exchange programs with like-minded schools, starting with a French exchange that offers students the chance to immerse themselves in the language and culture.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Give second (and third) chances For many reluctant learners, one school failure is enough to reinforce their belief that they’re poor students. This belief can build an affective filter for the student, keeping them from believing that they can succeed in a classroom setting.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases. For educators, this means consistently examining how their language, curriculum, and interactions support or hinder equity. Its not about perfection; its about developing awareness and a willingness to grow.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases. For educators, this means consistently examining how their language, curriculum, and interactions support or hinder equity. Its not about perfection; its about developing awareness and a willingness to grow.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? narrative prompts allow students to write using clear sequences, descriptive details, reflection, and figurative language. What impact do the characters’ choices have on the tone and outcome of the story? Compare this story to another you’ve read.

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Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

Trump’s executive order says antisemitism may violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, but does not cover discrimination based solely on religious belief. Katz acknowledged the emotional impact such language can have on Jewish communities.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

But for multilingual students like me whose native language is not English, the math classroom can be a daunting place. The linguistic supports I received in other content areas were not as present during math, in large part because of the assumption that math is a universal language. It should be joyful.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2020

Culturally responsive teaching before COVID-19 and after should focus on keeping students’ cultural norms and beliefs in mind and putting time into relating to students who have different life experiences, languages, and values than your own. Related content: How we turned around our ELL program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Built on an education-specific large language model (LLM) developed in-house by a team of researchers from top AI labs, including IBM Research, Amazon Alexa, and Google Brain, Origin helps educators eliminate tech friction and focus on creating powerful learning moments in the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Dweck’s work compares the effects of how a fixed mindset, or the belief that skills, talents, and intellect are unchangeable, to that of a growth mindset—the belief that skills, talents and intellect can be developed through hard work and persistence. The power of words.

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Beliefs Grades Languages Language 279

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant thanks in great part to her ongoing enthusiasm for and belief in the power of communication in the lives of children and adults. For this installment, we spoke with Debi Ryan.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2018

First, Berry-Jones discussed culture—the values and beliefs students bring to the classroom. The language and behaviors for each one is different, and for many students, the language at home is so divergent that entering school is like going to a foreign country and speaking a new language.

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Culture Beliefs Languages Language 248

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Having access to diverse texts helps children expand their vocabularies, deepens their understanding of language, provides opportunities for problem-solving, provides critical affirming experiences to students’ lives, and presents opportunities for students to learn about people with different lived experiences. percent of total books).

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

For my math students, having a growth mindset—the belief that intelligence can be developed through application—removes the idea that some students are good at math and some students never will be. Establish a common language and understanding. When their mindset shifts, their approach to math changes.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue. This helps students understand the impact of their learning better and how their ideas have developed over time.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

Each spring, MIND sends out an annual survey to educators who use ST Math, a program created by MIND Education, to find out how the tool is delivering value, to guide future research and development, and to benchmark the understandings and beliefs of the teachers they serve.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Our long-running partnership with Discovery Museum is due to our firm belief that engaging kids early with STEM can broaden their interests and open up a world of possibilities around science and engineering that they may not experience otherwise.”. “The And, [TSW] connects kids as they work together—even if they speak different languages.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

User-friendly (more specifically, student-friendly): It’s important that the feedback is communicated to students in language they can understand. Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. Focused and Specific: Specificity in feedback is vital.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

However, despite this belief, 81 percent of parents either don’t believe or are not sure that AI is even part of their children’s curriculum. Princeton High School students in New Jersey integrated generative AI into a plush robot designed to teach and preserve endangered Indigenous languages.

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STEM Secondary Education Beliefs Ethics 292

eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. One crucial way to do this is to ensure that all communications can be shared in a family’s home language.

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High School High School Counselling Communication 291

eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Our students’ belief that everything they need to know is online can, without the right skillset, leave them prey to misinformation. Language and Composition, your students are learning to evaluate persuasive writing and identify propaganda, because these are key information literacy skills. Whether you are teaching U.S.

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High School High School Skills Schools 309

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Serving diverse demographics, ensuring maximum investment impact Our district—Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky—encompasses 70 schools and programs that serve more than 41,000 students from backgrounds representing 95 home languages. But the data doesn’t always support preconceived notions.

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Reading English Beliefs Languages 267

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

It is also ideal for teaching language as it has many options for asking questions in context. Here, Philip addresses the use of movies in teaching: Movies are a great way for learning a language as it helps getting used to the real-life usage. It can help you with coming up with questions. The classroom is a safe environment for that.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 98

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2015

Through a year-long enrichment experience, juniors and seniors enrolled in any Brooklyn public high school are provided with 180 hours of technical instruction across five programming languages.

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Beliefs History Language Languages 263

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Soon, the tone of the workshop changed, and the group of middle schoolers was on its way to gaining proficiency in the fundamentals of full-stack development and adding one more coding language to their repertoire. What could happen if they have the right console, an extra laptop, a smart TV, or a drone?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. We call these differences “variability” and we embrace it.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

It changed our beliefs about things like ability grouping and whole language reading, showing their impact to be negligible. Why Teachers Should Turn to Visible Learning. Visible Learning changed our practices away from activities that are actually harmful, like grade retention.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Applying this concept to edtech, the belief is that a “trickle-down effect” solution will initially widen gaps, but as it scales it will benefit many (if not all) in the long run. Take dual-language learning as an example. It has been shown that dual-language learning leads to developmental gains for English language learners (ELLs).

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English Languages Language Beliefs 218

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

It’s my firm belief that despite its success to date, this business has only scratched the surface of its potential and I couldn’t be more excited to partner with the team to drive this next phase of growth and to positively impact more deserving students,” said CEO of FEV Tutor, Jim Tormey. About FEV Tutor.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

From the beginning of kindergarten to the end of middle school, minority children are less – not more – likely than white students with similar performance and behaviors to be identified as having learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, intellectual disabilities, other health impairments, or behavioral disorders,” Farkas said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Free AI tools out there, from large language models like ChatGPT to image generators like Bing Image Creator, mean that every student (depending on age) can leverage AI to help them complete whatever learning tasks the teacher has given them. Our beliefs about what is “real learning” are clouded by our own personal experiences.

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 308

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. Last year, I had two students come back to visit me.

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