k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. It should extend our ability to listen, relate, and empower learners to co-create knowledge within a community of care.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration. The new civics-focused series, Need toKnow Jr.,

Laboratory 184

Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 184

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Spanish Bulletin Board – Frida Kahlo art and culture lesson By Mister Senor Grades: 3rd-12th Illuminate Hispanic culture and art with this colorful, creative bulletin board about Frida Kahlo. That’s why your math boards should be more than just decorative. They should grow with your students.

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Schools Counselling Math Motivation 98

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Start by Building Background Not all students enter the classroom with the same prior knowledge, especially multilingual learners. Youre activating prior knowledge, linking new terms to visuals, and giving MLs the chance to show what they know in a low-stress, high-engagement way. Why it works: These activities make learning sticky.

Language 52

Language Languages Participation Writing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

With funding from the National Science Foundations Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (NSF S-STEM) program, we provide scholarships and support students with co-curricular activities to enhance their educational experience. Guest speakers open their eyes to the different possibilities.In

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STEM Science Activities Student Engagement 53

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Conscious Discipline – A useful framework for fostering emotional intelligence and creating a calm, focused classroom culture. Accelerating K-8 Math Instruction – Practical tips for fostering meaningful math understanding in younger learners. called it eye-opening, and Jessica W.

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Reading Skills Teachers Classroom Management 59

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

For decades, the federal government believed getting more students interested in science, math, and technology was a national security priority. Together, they were studying how parents can advocate for improvements in their children’s math education and what teachers can learn from them. “All those little things matter,” she said.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

From riddles you can use as icebreakers and bell ringers to riddles made just for science and math, we’ve got plenty of head scratchers and brain teasers to keep the learning going (with a few giggles in between!). Students can work on their own or in teams to test their knowledge of facts while solving subject-specific riddles.

High School 52

High School High School Schools Math 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

They can be designed around pre-packaged online curricula or the sorts of adaptive software that are being developed to support learning in math and language arts. Change that would allow for blended learning in public schools requires a major culture shift. In that light, the obvious question is, “Why blend?”

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Blended Learning Learning History Textbooks 247

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract. YummyMath asks students to apply math to real-world situations involving food, sports, weather, movies and entertainment, and art. ” When learning happens in context, it reflects a time, place, and culture.

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Online Learning Learning Participation Knowledge 420

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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Math Teachers Textbooks Critical Thinking 206

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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Problem-Based Learning Math Education Learning 195

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. That has consequences.

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Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 199

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow the algorithmic steps of the math problem, she struggles with her reasoning and ability to make sense of the steps she is taking.

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Achievement Math Culture Knowledge 187

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I work intentionally to ensure students’ linguistic capital—an expression of community cultural wealth — is acknowledged through language supports via student pairings and vocabulary, sentence, and speaking scaffolds. Together, we create a rich and culturally wealthy community of learners.

English 190

English Culture Language Languages 190

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This approach often fails to recognize and accommodate the diverse ways students understand and express their knowledge. This could be a specific skill, concept, or knowledge area.

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History Physical Education Art Essay 382

eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Teachable Machine is free to use and super accessible, making it a great resource for helping students discover what a learning machine is and how they work. Brent Grahn, a high school math teacher at Shakopee High School in Shakopee, MN, uses Geogebra. Geogbra features tools for all things visual and tangible in math.

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Education STEM Art Culture 300

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

It covered a range of insights about body piercings, including how different religious cultures apply them and how they may benefit migraine sufferers. In inquiry-based classrooms, teachers guide students through the research process and allow them to share their knowledge on their chosen subject.

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Reading Assignments Math English 319

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I beat the national average of 3-5 years for high school math and science teachers. Enhanced collaboration and innovation: Teacher leaders naturally facilitate knowledge-sharing and idea generation among their peers. Maybe exploring the world. Can you say that in an interview? He hired me anyway. Content provided by:

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Teachers Coaching Culture Math 293

eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Connect family engagement and learning and development: This supports student achievement, especially when we help families and students develop knowledge and skills. Can you create online resources that help parents and guardians teach their kids strategies for solving math problems or improving reading at home?

Culture 339

Culture Math Communication Languages 339

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. It was her own struggles as a math student, which overlapped with her parents’ difficult divorce, that motivated Noriega to strive to cultivate a classroom where her students feel both loved and capable of doing math.

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Knowledge Educational Technologies Technology Education 146

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

This is a significant gap in AIs ability to support language learners and culturally diverse classrooms. Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history.

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Intelligence Education Languages Language 296

Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle.

Math 167

Math Accessibility Education Knowledge 167

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This encourages them to synthesize their knowledge, form their own interpretations, and express their perspective on the matter. Math Problem Solving: Students make claims about solutions to math problems, provide evidence by showing their work, and ask questions about different problem-solving strategies.

Questions 415

Questions Metacognitive Skills Ethics Math 415

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Consider how their thoughts have changed, evolved, or expanded as they’ve gained more knowledge or insights. Math Problem Solving: After introducing a new problem-solving strategy in math class, the teacher could ask students to share how their approach to solving math problems has shifted.

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Ethics Metacognitive Skills Culture Critical Thinking 331

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Key points: Inspiring young women in STEM programs requires cultivating a culture of community Black students need more STEM career exposure Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades For more news on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes.

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STEM Education Math Ethics 345

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. Math Problem Solving Connect: Relate a new math concept to a daily life scenario or a previously learned concept.

Metacognitive Skills 334

Metacognitive Skills Discussions Art Math 334

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Complex Problem Solving: Tasks that involve higher-order thinking and problem-solving, such as math word problems, scientific experiments, or coding projects, often require different amounts of time for students to analyze, understand, and solve. Below is a list of academic tasks that benefit from variable time on task.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2015

For a while now, schools have been slowly merging science and math lessons with visual arts as a way to add a hands-on component, and perhaps a dash of culture, to ordinary STEM curriculum. Share knowledge back and forth. “Or think of the math magic square. How every school can create a great STEAM program.

Art 280

Art STEM Math Schools 280

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Math Skills Reinforcement: For math classes, must-do stations could focus on foundational math skills that need reinforcement, as identified by assessment data, while may-do stations could offer problem-solving activities, collaborative real-world math challenges, or math games that stimulate critical thinking and application.

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

STEM learning experiences that connect to and leverage students local rural knowledge and experiences are important components of effective K-12 STEM education in rural settings. This post originally appeared on the NAS news site and is reposted here with permission.

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STEM Culture Education Science 231

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Some superintendents across the city even require dedicated time for math and reading practice on computers. How did they build foundational reading, math, social, emotional, and executive functioning skills while sitting behind a computer, tablet, or phone? How did they grow without the much-needed free play?

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Teachers Schools Reading History 294

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

A culture of continuous learning Wendy W. When we commit to participating in a culture of continuous learning, we are living out phrases like, “It’s okay not to know,” “Everyone has things they are still learning,” or ,“We all make mistakes.” These included deeper integration of ST Math , which has been a game-changer.

Education 305

Education Schools Math Science 305

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Her crew is trained and led by navigators who had to relearn indigenous sailing methodologies and reclaim knowledge and traditions lost due to colonization. Not all knowledge is learned in one school.”. This proverb asks us to look to any source of knowledge. Aʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi. Photo credit: Denise Espania.

Culture 138

Culture Knowledge Lecturing History 138

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

As I wrote in my last column , the traditional skill we have valued in teachers when paper was the dominant media—the ability to transfer knowledge of a subject—is becoming less important. Increasingly, a teacher’s knowledge can be found online and in various learning styles. He immediately said, “The ability to ask good questions.

Questions 279

Questions Teachers Internet Knowledge 279

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM careers.

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Math Middle School Middle School Achievement 155

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Math Students Reading Testing 263