We are Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

These icebreakers for high school students make great icebreakers for middle schoolers too, and they're perfect for back-to-school season.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 18, 2025

The new school year is knocking, and you’ve got big goals. 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. Just check it off, stock up, and roll into the school year feeling confident and classroom-ready.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders. In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). For millennials, about 11 percent of people ages 16 to 19 left school without a degree.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Nothing says “the first day of school is almost here” quite like decking the walls and halls of your classroom! Creative and inspiring back-to-school bulletin boards are one of the most effective ways to set the tone for a positive and engaging learning environment. It’s time to say “welcome back” with style.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

That realization has implications not just for how we understand student engagement, but for how we design schools…and why AI alone can’t get us where we need to go. But the more I’ve observed students in and out of school, the more convinced I’ve become that it’s based on a faulty assumption. At the time, that critique gave me pause.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

The company recently completed a major evidence study across 242 sites and 25,000 students, showing significant improvements in English language arts, reduced disciplinary issues, better school culture, and 2.5 fewer absent days per student. See them at Booth #733 or go to [link]

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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 9, 2025

It’s the first day of school, and your high school class is quiet. Use these ice breakers for high school students on the first day of class or when starting a new semester. Help them introduce themselves with more engaging ice breaker activities for high school students that range from funny to fascinating.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, we are thrilled to shine a spotlight on two teachers who have truly exemplified the spirit of excellence this school year. Please join us in congratulating our SY2024-25 Elevate Teachers of the Year, Tiffany Barksdale and Stephanie Gonzalez!

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k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

Michele Gay, founder and executive director of Safe and Sound Schools, is an internationally recognized leader in comprehensive school safety. As a mother, I hoped that when I sent my daughters to school, they would feel that same sense of safety and love. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

Michele Gay, founder and executive director of Safe and Sound Schools, is an internationally recognized leader in comprehensive school safety. As a mother, I hoped that when I sent my daughters to school, they would feel that same sense of safety and love. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. The 2021 class of high school graduates saw the percentage of low-performing math students tick up even more, to 22%.

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k12

JUNE 5, 2025

As more teens explore alternatives to traditional college , families are rethinking what it means to launch a successful career after high school. It shows where high school grads can find real opportunities to grow without a standard 4-year college degree. cities offers a helpful guide for non-college-bound graduates.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

As much as it was my job to teach students to write, I also felt the grading system disadvantaged those students who came in with subpar high school educations and less writing experience. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9, no. University Press of Colorado, 2022.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

The GovSpend database of government-purchasing records shows a nationwide spike in Turnitin contracts during the 2020-21 school year. As a writing instructor, he takes issue with schools unquestioningly handing over original student work to a for-profit company. I trust you. I trust that your work is your own.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

All you need to add is a classroom full of eager middle schoolers, and you’ve got the best school year ever! 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. Table of Contents 1.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Guest speaker John Watson is the founder of DLAC (formerly Evergreen Education Group), which has been a leading consulting and advisory firm serving school districts, state agencies, foundations, and companies in the K-12 digital learning field for more than 20 years. The computer-generated transcript is below: Kevin Hogan OK.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

National Science Foundation, aimed to solve that problem with a drone-focused curriculum for rural middle schools. It seemed “touchy feely” to the digital learning specialist who works in a rural New Hampshire middle school and is known as the “drone lady.” Take Flight, a research project backed by $1.5 million from the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agencys decision to pull books that may not align with President Donald Trumps executive orders on race and gender. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled. Health courses were canceled.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach. Discover ways to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month activities into your school day and honor the contributions of Hispanic leaders, artists, athletes, and icons worldwide.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

History in Secondary Schools, 16 percent of teachers said they received frequent or several criticisms from parents or others over the way they teach history. One of Trumps first executive orders claimed schools use radical indoctrination to imprint anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on children.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

When traditional icebreakers just dont cut it, try switching things up with Would You Rather questions for high school. Ease into the new year with these fun and lighthearted Would You Rather questions for high school students. Try them for a morning meeting, first-week-of-school activity, or SEL check-in.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Since One Stone is so different from the typical high school experience, our culture is a crucial part of how we define ourselves. Instead, we have a single open space, coaches and portfolios.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

As schools look ahead to serving not just student needs, but the greater needs of their community and world, service learning becomes an increasingly important part of high school education. In any number of homes and schools across the nation, students are more comfortable with using digital devices than many adults.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ARLINGTON, Texas/PRNewswire/ — Workforce solutions provider Ancora has developed a new relationship with McGraw Hill to launch Ancora High School. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

students who wouldn’t see college as the automatic next step after high school. This insight sparked a year-long project to redesign our high school model. This insight sparked a year-long project to redesign our high school model. These big picture changes will transform our high schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. The interest in our program has been intense; the school’s 500+ students come from 95 grade schools across several counties and even the neighboring state of Indiana. By graduation, those students had achieved an average score of 3.09

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2023

RICHFIELD, OHIO (PRWEB) — Navigate360 , the nation’s leader in K–12 school safety and student wellness solutions, announces the recognition of Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District in Atlantic County, New Jersey, with the District Excellence Award for School Culture & Climate.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

NAPERVILLE, Illinois and BARBERTON, Ohio (PRNewswire-PRWeb) — Metrasens , a leading provider of advanced detection systems for security and safety applications, is pleased to announce its partnership with Barberton High School (BHS), the primary high school within the Barberton City School District.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Poptential course packages boost student engagement by using a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources. Click to tweet. More information is available at poptential.org.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There are lots of different ways that high school students earn college credit, but one of the most powerful is also one of the least known. Today, working in both a state and a school committed to helping students earn college credit before graduation, I saw a world of opportunity in Modern States, which debuted in 2017.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I have been teaching at traditional and charter schools for the past 18 years, and I remain encouraged by the determination of the students I serve, even when faced with the challenges we’ve seen over the past several years due to the pandemic.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

By following this roadmap, states can lay the groundwork to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to take them to a bright future. CASEL’s mission is to help make evidence-based SEL an integral part of education from preschool through high school.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

Here are five examples of how AI can be used effectively in high school science classes: 1. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? AI is revolutionizing high school science education by making learning interactive, personalized, and data-driven.

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