k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. Are they memorizing facts, or learning how to think, solve, and lead? This approach aligns with research on how students develop passion, purpose, and essential skills for college success and workplace engagement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

In today’s world, where misinformation is rampant and digital literacy is more important than ever, students must also develop the critical thinking skills to evaluate sources and identify truth. Students, in turn, build literacy skills in context, rather than treating reading as an isolated subject.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. These platforms allow students to practice skills at their own pace while giving teachers real-time insights into their progress.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. Are they memorizing facts, or learning how to think, solve, and lead? This approach aligns with research on how students develop passion, purpose, and essential skills for college success and workplace engagement.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

These schedules are rigid, designed not to maximize learning, but to maintain compliance with an outdated factory model that prioritizes memorization and recall over deep understanding and critical thinking. The result? Time becomes a barrier instead of a tool. And yet, we impose these artificial deadlines on learning every single day.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

These features empower teams to enhance their robots’ actions with sound effects, character voices, or background music, deepening the storytelling experience while building additional technical skills. Robotics-based activities can significantly enhance student engagement, promote hands-on learning, and cultivate 21st-century skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

It showcased communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking — the 4Cs in action. These essential, durable skills are at the heart of frameworks like ISTE’s Standards for Students and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning’s framework , which emphasize what students need to thrive in school and beyond.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

This experience is designed to prompt critical thinking about environmental issues and is supported by a free Future Forests Digital Toolkit, which includes lesson plans, Eduverse content, and classroom-ready resources accessible on any web enabled device. Visit Avantis Education at Booth #3119.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

This philosophy is embedded in the British Curriculum, which offers both structure and flexibility. ProEd Global School blends this rigorous curriculum with personalized support, ensuring that every learner gets the guidance they need to thrive, not just survive in the classroom. “Our goal is to help them define it on their own terms.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

A follow-up study in 2025 confirmed this trend, highlighting even steeper declines where secondary students have fewer opportunities to build new skills. That’s why it’s critical to offer computer science experiences that foster invention, expression and design. This isn’t just an education issue — it’s a workforce one.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Among the new content and resources now available to users of Discovery Education Experience are: Ready-To-Teach Lessons Enhancing Curriculum Built around research-based instructional strategies, these new ready-to-teach lessons and activities target critical classroom needs and help teachers create unique learning opportunities for each student.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2025

One of the main advantages of DEI in education is the promotion of a more inclusive and representative curriculum. This enhances critical thinking and empathy. Students gain a broader understanding of the world by integrating diverse perspectives into course materials.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. And when you combine strong values with smart tech and a global curriculum, you get more than a good education. Meadowcroft.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Each of these titles will help you seek fresh inspiration and sharpen your skills in classroom management, student engagement, or a subject area you want to improve.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2025

From early problem-solving to advanced AI skills, learners build critical thinking, ethical technology use and career-ready competencies — block by block. The progression of skills at each educational stage ensures that students are well-prepared for future challenges and can pursue careers in emerging fields.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all online platforms deliver quality education, and the lack of face-to-face interaction can hinder social development and collaborative skills. Relevance to Real-World Applications : Students increasingly seek curricula that align with their career aspirations and life skills.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Gamification allows broad content areas (like English-Language Arts) with few measures of performance (alphanumeric symbols) to be broken up into more granular–and achievable–concepts and skills. Views Facebook Linkedin Print How Does Gamification Uncover Nuance In The Learning Process?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Once you have set your central theme and chosen your fields, think about how to structure the course for sound mixing. Yang et al. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

In our Day 1 workshop, we will use the free 4 Shifts Protocol to redesign lessons, units, and other instructional activities for critical thinking and problem solving, greater student agency, more real-world authentic work, and robust technology infusion. Please bring your own examples and use cases of how you’re using AI!

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Being part of this network helps us integrate cutting-edge AI tools and practices into classrooms, fostering critical thinking, creativity and real-world problem-solving skills to prepare our scholars for a technology-driven world. We use AI to close the gaps by keeping humans in the loop when using the tools.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

What curriculum should you use? I still had my kids use binders/folders/notebooks so they were developing good organization skills. Start with a “Soft Start” Morning Routine Begin your homeschool day in the same way every time and include consistent activities like breakfast, chores, journaling, and then your homeschool curriculum.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Put their science and teamwork skills to the test with a five-activity survival STEM resource. 1, 2, 3, 4; 7.G.B.4,

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

They help establish a culture of respect, responsibility, and critical thinking. And lets be honestworksheets save you time while still supporting critical thinking. As students ask questions, plan investigations, and carry out science experiments, they should always be thinking about how to do it safely.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 4, 2025

Includes 14 articles from Organized Classroom, including topics such as: -Curriculum Mapping -Setting Up Your Daily Classroom Schedule -Digital Filing Cabinets -Weekly Planning Resources -Several To-Do List Templates -Balancing Home and Work Life in your Calendar -File Organization and even more! This 70 page digital book has you covered!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

Students can answer the riddle in a daily journal or chat with a partner before you start the day’s lesson, letting them settle in and practice using important critical thinking skills. Test your students’ funny bones and critical thinking skills with these science-themed riddles and jokes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

In todays technology-rich classrooms, digital literacy is becoming a foundational skill–students are learning to navigate devices, use educational software, and collaborate online. Teaching data literacy helps students succeed academically and develop the civic skills theyll need to navigate the wider world.

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Cal Matters

JULY 8, 2025

Democratic lawmakers at odds with one another over new standards In introducing his bill, Jones-Sawyer viewed a college education as paramount to law enforcement training because it would expose incoming officers to new perspectives, healthy debate and critical thinking skills. “We

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2021

As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. In an online academic environment, the focus on critical thinking skills is amplified. Our learning model fosters independence and self-advocacy with applications in all areas of a student’s life.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

(CAE), a nonprofit developer of performance-based assessments that authentically measure students’ essential academic and career skills, today announced the launch of its new Critical Thinking Skills Resources. Custom scenarios can be developed to more tightly align with existing educational models and curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

On the 2nd Day of Edtech, our story focuses on critical thinking. To make real gains, teachers need to address the underlying problem: the critical thinking gap. Focusing on core cognitive skills sets students up for success throughout their academic careers. These five critical thinking strategies can help.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

This sparks greater interest in literature, enabling teachers to facilitate meaningful interactions that inspire more compelling classroom discussions that increase critical thinking skills, delivering better learning outcomes. Download/view screenshots of Gale In Context: Literature.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2023

CAE), a leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills, today announced the immediate availability of its College and Career Readiness Assessment (CCRA+) through a non-exclusive partnership with Pearson [FTSE: PSON.L], the world’s leading learning company.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Every teacher knows the importance of critical thinking in education. Strong critical thinkers make better decisions, are more informed, have more career opportunities, and are generally better equipped to navigate the challenges of everyday life.

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