k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Learning That Works for Every Student Imagine a student who is bright, curious, and eager to learn but constantly struggles in a traditional classroom.

Skills 137

Skills Schools Learning Students 137

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

“This year’s awardees represent a global movement to accelerate meaningful learning and we’re honored to celebrate their vision and impact.” ” ISTE Impact Award This award recognizes individuals who make significant contributions to transforming learning and improving education systems on a broad scale.

STEM 130

STEM Education Coaching Elementary School 130

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I’m entering my fifth year as the founder of a microschool, a small learning environment that currently serves approximately 20 students. After watching my students deeply engaged in learning, one district leader told me, “It looked like you’d been given free rein to be creative, and that’s a problem.” Where learning is personalized.

Schools 148

Schools Beliefs Culture Testing 148

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Learn to ride the wave. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning. Another way educators have sought to foster and connect identity to curricular engagement is through social-emotional learning practices and strategies.

Education 116

Education Essay Culture Math 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Montessori education emphasizes hands-on, self-directed learning with natural materials, fostering independence and curiosity. For parents and educators who follow or are interested in the Montessori approach, which emphasizes hands-on activity, self directed learning, and natural curiosity, this article will come in handy.

Technology 115

Technology Education Attention Beliefs 115

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

As much as the sentiment of students standing up to the powers that be warms my punk rock heart, it’s hard to balance my beliefs in authority with the need to always be the leader in control at the front of the classroom. I have control over their actions and learning. One day, Ms. This stuff doesn’t matter!” Yeah, I was a real rebel.

Multiple Choice Questions 113

Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 113

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

Art 114

Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 114

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Older Gen Z students entered college with a stronger belief in the system. And I’ve seen students rise to meet that stress with reflection, humor, honesty, and in some cases, the emotional clarity that many of us didn’t learn until adulthood. There are differences between the older and younger ends of Gen Z. I see them.

Beliefs 142

Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 142

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. The schools Lifted and Unstoppable philosophy ensures every girl learns to trust her voice, take risks, and lead with confidence. The recently reimagined Learning Commons is a perfect example.

Schools 209

Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 209

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Key performance indicators (KPIs) may include: Educational Outcomes : Improved retention rates, higher graduation rates, or enhanced learning outcomes.

Ethics 118

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 118

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Key performance indicators (KPIs) may include: Educational Outcomes : Improved retention rates, higher graduation rates, or enhanced learning outcomes.

Ethics 75

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 75

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

Art 97

Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 97

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Whether you’re new to working with MLs or just looking for a few fresh ideas, these five teacher-approved strategies are here to help boost participation, build language, and make learning meaningful for all.

Languages 52

Languages Language Participation Writing 52

k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. While technology can be a powerful tool for learning and connection, it has also created vast spaces where students’ anxieties are amplified. As a mother, I hoped that when I sent my daughters to school, they would feel that same sense of safety and love.

Multidisciplinary 137

Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 137

k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

As a teacher, I connected with the same love of learning that my family many of whom were educators before me had cherished for generations. It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. As a mother, I hoped that when I sent my daughters to school, they would feel that same sense of safety and love.

Multidisciplinary 130

Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 130

Teacher Mood

MAY 25, 2025

What did I learn about myself as a teacher? Use this series to support yourself like you support your studentswith care, structure, and a belief in your ability to grow. Before jumping into Pinterest-perfect classroom decor or next years lesson plans, I want to invite you to take a slower first step. Reflection. The most stress?

Schools 69

Schools Classroom Management Beliefs Grades 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Through her, I learned that advocacy means listening, guiding, and supporting with consistency and compassion. Be a Cheerleader One of the most joyful lessons I learned from a mentor was to bring genuine enthusiasm into the classroom. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

Beliefs 106

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 106

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. We had support from universities.

Coaching 134

Coaching Math Achievement Grades 134

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Through her, I learned that advocacy means listening, guiding, and supporting with consistency and compassion. Be a Cheerleader One of the most joyful lessons I learned from a mentor was to bring genuine enthusiasm into the classroom. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

His work continues to foster inclusive learning environments, strengthen school-university partnerships, and empower educators to drive meaningful change in schools and communities. Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning.

Confidentiality 213

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

His work continues to foster inclusive learning environments, strengthen school-university partnerships, and empower educators to drive meaningful change in schools and communities. Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning.

Confidentiality 130

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

Having said that, here’s a granular list of teacher-approved books to keep you busy this summer: What Great Teachers Do Differently by Todd Whitaker What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? Learn how to assess what you need, check in with yourself throughout the day, and act on what you learn.

Reading 96

Reading Education Classroom Management Intelligence 96

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 9, 2025

We know that young children learn about their world by attempting to embody it, so they assume the costume both figuratively and literally, in an effort to understand it from the inside-out. Or rather, your beliefs are part of the present tense story you are telling yourself. I'm a firefighter." "I'm I'm a gorilla." "I'm

Beliefs 101

Beliefs Writing Learning 101

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Informational Writing Choice Board (Distance Learning) By Swain in the Middle Grades: 5th-8th Standards: CCSS W5.2, How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Do students lose a lot of what they’ve learned over summer break? Write about something you failed at and what you learned from it.

Writing 52

Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

If youve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know learning is personal. Personalized learning is about meeting kids where they are helping each one move forward at their own pace, in their own way. This led to our Portrait of a Graduate and a focus on modern classrooms.

Beliefs 106

Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.’ are able to change existing schedule, transportation, staffing, budgeting, and other structures in concrete, tangible, productive, and strategic ways to support new forms of learning. understand that every person brings their own beliefs, ideas, assumptions, and values to the table. empower student choice.

Schools 167

Schools Beliefs Motivation Discussions 167

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2017

At one of my recent workshops, I was approached by a teacher who had never redesigned her lessons to take advantage of edtech’s potential to transform learning. The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. Learn from the best innovations in education!

Beliefs 276

Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 276

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2024

The workgroup includes top leaders from 14 organizations, including the Michigan Education Association, Michigan Association of School Boards, Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals, Michigan Elementary & Middle School Principals, Michigan Department of Education, Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning, and more.

Beliefs 288

Beliefs Ethics Education Middle School 288

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

I host a podcast called The Balance and wrote a book titled Balance with Blended Learning because I see teachers struggling with balance in every coaching and training session I facilitate. When we design learning experiences with balance in mind, the output of a lesson will feel more balanced too.

Blended Learning 521

Blended Learning Feedback Learning Online Learning 521

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

It’s important to bring together research and outside learning tools to a team that is always striving and driving in the same direction. It takes communication, organized teamwork, and a belief in modern data-driven approaches to bring forth learning success. A school is an orchestra.

Teachers 332

Teachers Beliefs Instructors Schools 332

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is a commonly-held belief that algebraic concepts are directly related to critical thinking skills. And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical fields.

Learning Outcomes 318

Learning Outcomes Critical Thinking Beliefs Learning 318

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It is encouraging to observe an increasing number of educational leaders calling out the importance of student-empowered, student-owned, and student-centered learning. Personalized learning defines a learning experience for the student and teacher that is intrinsically motivated and student empowered/owned. Student Interests.

Beliefs 322

Beliefs Learning Students Motivation 322

eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Attendees will also be able to share their own ideas for fostering social and emotional learning during these unprecedented times. She an educational leader who is fueled by the belief that learning anytime, anywhere, is critical for both our students and educators.

Learning 276

Learning Beliefs Middle School Middle School 276

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Luhtala suggests that political belief polarization may emerge because of people’s conflicting confirmation and desirability biases, which leads them to interpret new evidence as a confirmation of one’s own existing beliefs and theories. Related content: School librarians facilitate learning despite massive school closures.

Beliefs 363

Beliefs Schools High School High School 363

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Key points: Digital learning is a key part of students’ school experiences As technology evolves, so, too, do students’ learning opportunities See related article: Is AI the future of education? Edtech tools, connected learning experiences, and 21st-century skills all play a role in preparing students for the future.

Reading 294

Reading Learning Beliefs Learning Styles 294

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.

English 361

English Culture Teaching Beliefs 361