Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Make math hands-on and incorporate vertical learning 4. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. Table of Contents 1. Start with core concepts 2.

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A Place Called Kindergarten

MAY 31, 2025

If you're a kindergarten teacher looking to build strong number sense, encourage mathematical thinking, and foster classroom discussion, KINDERGARTEN MATH TALKS are your secret weapon. These quick, engaging prompts are the perfect way to kick off your math block with purpose and routine. What Are Kindergarten Math Talks?

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

broadened my worldview and helped me internalize the importance of cultural relevance and adaptability in educational reform—what works in one context must be thoughtfully localized in another. At the same time, I’ve prioritized integrating SEL as a core part of classroom culture—beyond isolated lessons.

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k12 Digest

JULY 28, 2025

Encouraged by his teachers, Tony participated in the Pascal Contest, one of the top math competitions in the world. The school hosts international events and serves global cuisine in the cafeteria, helping students experience cultures beyond their own. Some get academic help in math or science. Then there’s Tony C.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

At Khan World School, a partnership between ASU Prep and Khan Academy, students have shown learning growth as high as 2 to 5 times national norms in math, reading, and language arts. Or is it relying heavily on the support structures, relationships, and cultural norms students bring from outside, especially from their families?

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

They learn that math isnt just numbersits problem-solving. Elmwood encourages students to create and lead clubs that reflect their passionswhether thats robotics, creative writing, or cultural heritage. Thats why the school has built a culture where care isnt an afterthoughtits a foundation. But its not all theory.

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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. Offering multiple ways to share thinking reduces anxiety, supports language development, and builds confidence over time. A synonym for is.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 25, 2025

Math Talk Bulletin Board Bundle By Hanging with Mrs Hulsey Grades: 2nd-6th This math board set works great for math talks, math centers, teaching problem-solving steps, or displaying student growth. These reminders will help students remember those invisible 1’s in math. The resource comes with 100 labels.

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Teach Your Kids

JULY 7, 2025

Meet the tutors ➡️ Rowan (Latin and Ancient Greek) A specialist in Latin and Ancient Greek, Rowan loves guiding gifted learners into the fascinating world of classical languages and ideas. His approach makes even the most complex material engaging and accessible for curious minds.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective. Creating an empowering learning environment starts with a school culture built on structure, consistency, and emotional support.

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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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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 23, 2025

This activity is perfect for building directional language skills while keeping everyone active and engaged. You might catch collaboration and critical thinking in action as students work on collaborative projects, or you might see it unfold naturally during small math groups as they problem-solve together.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

Beat the Teacher: Compete against the whole class in a trivia contest with topics like pop culture, movies, or your specific subject matter. Icebreakers + math = a good school year Get numbers on the table right away with ice breakers for math class. Competitive Ice Breaker Games for High Schoolers Ready for a little fun?

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Elevate k12

JUNE 26, 2025

At the same time, the pipeline of new teachers is shrinking, particularly in hard-to-staff subjects like special education, science, and English as a Second Language (ESL). The J-1 Visa program was created under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, more commonly known as the Fulbright-Hays Act.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Describe your family culture and explain how it shapes who you are. Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English? narrative prompts allow students to write using clear sequences, descriptive details, reflection, and figurative language. Should plastic water bottles have a deposit to reduce litter?

Writing 52

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Cal Matters

JULY 23, 2025

The Santa Clara County Office of Education laid off 22 staff and shuttered many services for migrant students, including college visits, a math and science program, a debate tournament and summer programs. Of those who are enrolled in school, only 16% met the state’s math standard and 24% met the English language arts standard last year.

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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!). Raise the humor quotient in your math class with these delightful math riddles. How is this possible?

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. In math , students can move beyond computation to analyze real-world datasets. The road ahead Building a data-literate school culture takes time and intention.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

The problem for many struggling math students is that often those “universal” numbers and symbols hide in surrounding contexts of unfamiliar vocabulary, settings, and narratives. In the process, math can actually become a universal thread to connect many types of content and learners. Math is joyful! Math is joyful!

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

BOSTON (March 31, 2025) In recent months, almost 2,000 schools and districts have purchased or renewed licenses for Lexia English Language Development (Lexia English) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand. The numbers show just how much students and educators have needed access to a culturally responsive language learning solution.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Lastly, we created a weekly schedule with both live sessions on Zoom to introduce new concepts and links to recorded lessons for online math instruction, as well as online instruction in English/language arts and writing. The biggest obstacle to online math instruction is checking in on the students’ thinking.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Department of Education dubbed speaking a second language a “superpower” when it announced plans last year to support multilingual education with grants. In states like California and New York , students speak as many as 150 languages. Arabic, the second-most common home language, comes in with a mere 2.5

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements. State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I told my supervisor the design and language used in the activity were not accessible to my students. Given Spanish was my home language, I said mesero. All assignments are scaffolded in groups while students translate questions and vocabulary into languages they can read and write.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

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. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Can you create online resources that help parents and guardians teach their kids strategies for solving math problems or improving reading at home? A family member can share with a class how they use math in their medical career, for example. Families engage with schools in different ways, and this can be partly due to their cultures.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Switching seamlessly between languages like many bilingual learners do AI-powered translation tools are improving, but they dont match the way multilingual individuals naturally switch between languages in real life. Bilingual students often engage in code-switching, blending languages based on context, audience, and emotion.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. However, learning a new language can be a long, difficult process that requires courage, resilience and trust from students who initially might feel vulnerable and out of place.

English 310

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate. Teachers can guide students in designing their own models related to class lessons, from creating geometric shapes in math to building replicas of simple molecules in chemistry.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Estrada fell for a girl who only spoke English his freshman year in high school but refused to let a language barrier divide them. After moving to the United States from Guatemala a little more than a year ago, love, not a new app or platform, propelled him to pick up a new language. Nonprofit organizations, including the.

Language 154

Language Languages English Exams 154

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

Math 217

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

IM 360 is the organization’s largest-scale curriculum upgrade to date, designed in response to the expressed needs of educators and learners in the K–12 math community. ” The IM 360 curriculum continues to be coherent and accessible to all. . ” The IM 360 curriculum continues to be coherent and accessible to all.

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Math Education Language Languages 246

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Close to 30 percent of Providence students are English Language Learners, and yet most of them are being taught by teachers who don’t speak their native language. We need solutions that empower students to bring their culture, race, and socioeconomic status to classroom projects and discussions. Enter F.E.E.D.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

On Thursday, the organization announced the launch of #ISeeMe, a campaign aimed at boosting the amount of culturally responsive materials in U.S. Wondwossen is a former elementary school ESL teacher, and when she was in the classroom, she used to tell her students they were “language superheroes.” “The classrooms.

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Culture Languages Language Elementary School 165