k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

As educators, we’re always finding ways to go beyond the boundaries of traditional Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) courses and supplement the curriculum in a unique and meaningful way. Traditional tests don’t always capture things like creativity, grit, or collaboration.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Teaching 8th grade ELA can be a uniquely rewarding experience, as long as you’ve got the right tools. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade? We’ve gathered our favorite 8th grade ELA teacher essentials, including tips for brand-new teachers and seasoned veterans alike. Table of Contents 1.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. One time, I even begged to include more African American literature in the curriculum. A space where test scores didn’t define worth. Their brilliance wasn’t dimmed by ability, but by systems too broken — or too indifferent to see them.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 9, 2025

As a homeschooler for over 20 years with my three kids, I have seen and used a lot of homeschool curriculum. I plan to share about all of the subjects and all of the homeschool curriculum we have used over the years. Grades: 1st & up Approach: Orton-Gillingham based, multisensory, explicit phonics instruction.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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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

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The Moment I Came Around As I reflected on the level of choice I give to students, and the degree of authority I have over them, I recalled my own schooling during fifth grade in Ms. Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test. Martin’s class. Some students created Canva presentations and Google Slides.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

JULY 21, 2025

I’m giving you a crash course on curriculum planning in just one weekend. Friday: Pick Your Rhythm When you’re curriculum planning, you’re looking at a lot of different ELA skills: reading, writing, grammar, listening, and vocabulary. Instead, the rhythm that worked best for my curriculum planning was alternating units.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

With the item and test analyses in hand, the research team and school district collaborated to produce a final version of the diagnostic assessment designed for high school students. While the AI readiness framework covers preK-12, the team began by designing a diagnostic for high school students in grades 9-12.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Like the smile from acing a test or the joy of earning a reward, those flashes of satisfaction are unforgettable. Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

Energy & Motion: Bottle Rocket STEM Projects Newton’s Laws of Motion Activity By Williams Hands On Science Grades: 6th-10th Standards: CCSS RST.6-8.7, Put their science and teamwork skills to the test with a five-activity survival STEM resource. 1, 2, 3, 4; 7.G.B.4, 4, 5, 6; 6.EE.C.9; 1, 2, 3, 4; 6.RP.A.1, 1, 2, 3; 7.RP.A.1,

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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

As a science teacher, especially in the elementary grades, teaching these rules isnt just about safety. Whether youre diving into 1st grade science or setting up your 3rd grade science lab, classroom expectations and procedures are everything. Its about setting the tone for your entire school year.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

The result: districts are facing shortages of educators who are not only qualified to teach, but certified in areas where compliance is non-negotiable, such as delivering IEP services, bilingual content-based instruction, or state-tested core courses. Pay special attention to Title I campuses and state-tested subjects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 27, 2025

Believe it or not, there are a whole list of skills easy enough for a fifth grader (maybe even fourth, but I haven’t had time to test it yet). Over the next months, in this series, I’ll show you how to teach Photoshop skills appropriate for fifth grade and up. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 18, 2025

Stay ahead of the game with MY FREE curriculum road map for science. Hand out small wand magnets and let your little scientists test what sticks and what doesnt. The Strength Showdown Lets test some muscle magnet-style! Kids love movement and hands-on exploration, so give them time to test, predict, and discover.

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k12

JULY 7, 2025

You want something easy to access and that works with your existing curriculum (because who has time to reinvent the wheel?). A Flexible Homeschool Curriculum Supplement That Works for YOU Let’s face it—one-size-fits-all resources rarely work for homeschoolers. Other times, you just need to move on and skip the whole “test” thing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Now, a dozen students from six families are suing the department for sidelining books, curriculum and cultural awareness events that conflict with the presidents goal of excising gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion from public life. The administration has now made that verboten in DoDEA schools.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

To be honest, when they talk about what they do to and with the children in the name of moving them through "the curriculum," I'm struck by a kind of despair. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

High workload: Besides teaching classes, grading assignments and exams, and providing feedback, full-time teachers must plan lessons, attend meetings and professional development programs, and organize extracurricular activities. They deeply understand the curriculum, student behavior, and classroom management.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

In this vein, his executive orders have targeted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives , restorative justice programs , curriculum that suggests the United States has racist origins , and especially protections for transgender students. We do all these DEI trainings, and our kids still can’t read and write on grade level,” she said. “We

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

2 | EDITABLE By Lana’s Classroom Grades: 6th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Fifty riddles and accompanying solutions make it easy to incorporate daily riddles into your class period. Test your students’ funny bones and critical thinking skills with these science-themed riddles and jokes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

If you’re planning to participate in Hour of Code, here are a series of activities — broken down by grade — that will kickstart your effort. Grade-levels below are guidelines. First Grade — Follow one of the free online Hour of Code activities. Scroll to the section for first grade.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2016

Successful online and blended learning programs in a recent survey are those that prioritized better teacher-student relationships, used an online curriculum as a primary instructional source, and used a combination of in-person and virtual instructional support.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. My fifth-grade scores were tops in the district,” Szako said.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

None of these have anything to do with teacher training, background, test scores, rubrics, class size, or pay scales. It’s interesting to note, in all of Hattie’s voluminous research, the big effects on whether students thrive are: student self-reporting grades. I inform all about the language of learning. teacher clarity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

There, administrators recently partnered with Carnegie Mellon to pioneer the development and pilot testing of the nation’s first coherent K-12 curriculum on computational thinking. Montour’s first-grade teachers are also working with a team of researchers from St. Take the South Fayette School District for example.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair. Another inquiry-based initiative we are always working on is our Next Generation Curriculum model.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2025

Resize and move to fit on page Test picture effects available If you use pictures from the internet, be sure theyre royalty free. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There’s no set curriculum or schedule; students learn what interests them with guidance from involved adults. There are no worksheets, tests, or structure to provide evidence of learning or templates for teaching. The children pick what to learn, when, at what pace. How to start Unschooling. Let curiosity guide the day.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2025

In the words of James Stockdale, USNA ’46 and Medal of Honor Winner: “The test of character is not ‘hanging in there’ when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know that no light is coming.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Responding to a critical gap in technology education, CompTIA Spark has launched free technology curriculum specifically for middle grade classrooms, grades 5-8. The nonprofit organization worked with educators across the country to develop the curriculum. Filling this critical gap is the mission of CompTIA Spark.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2022

March 17, 2022— Whether students are prepared for grade-level learning matters more to their progress over the course of the pandemic than whether they were remote or in school, according to a new report released by Curriculum Associates. About Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,March KEY THEMES.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2020

While the National Assessment Governing Board decided to proceed with scheduled 2021 testing, most educators have no standardized testing data available from the 2019-20 school year. Standardized assessments won’t make the grade. Standardized tests administered early in the year are a typical tool used by schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“I feel like if you do poorly on one test, you kinda get in your mind that maybe this isn’t the subject for you, or you go into the next test feeling less confident. So, then it may influence your academic performance and reflect on your grades.”. For students: Building confidence in themselves and their ability to learn.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This report is one of the first to gather and analyze nationally representative data from more than five million Grades K–2 students, thanks to their i-Ready® Diagnostic for Reading and for Mathematics. Kristen Huff, vice president of assessment and research at Curriculum Associates. Some grades demonstrate modest recovery.

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