eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

A recent Google blog post outlines how four different school districts are leveraging Google AI tools, like Gemini and NotebookLM, for innovative teaching and learning. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance.

Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Even before COVID burst on the scene and drove many schools into online versions of themselves, remote teaching had been gaining popularity. Driven by reasons like flexibility, personal needs, and accessibility, the positives associated with online schooling were convincing many to take a second look.

eLearning

k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This documentary centered around Colleen’s vision, chemistry comic book series and her success with teaching college-level chemistry concepts to kids. During Colleen’s 30 years of teaching chemistry, she became aware that her students were struggling with basic concepts, including fluency with the symbols for the elements themselves.

Education

eSchool News

JULY 24, 2025

Novato, CA – The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development and curriculum for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has announced the recipients of its 2025 PBL Champions and John Larmer “JL” Lifelong Learning Awards.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2025

Only 21% of high school educators believe their college-bound students are very prepared for success, and even fewer just 10% say the same about students planning to enter the workforce immediately after high school. In fact, 35% say students planning to directly enter the workforce are not very or not at all prepared.

Teachers

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? Most kids are autodidacts—they just don’t learn school subjects autodidactically. Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. Or basketball.

Motivation

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

Education

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2025

I carry the culture, resilience and a responsibility to ensure that my students, many of whom are navigating linguistic barriers and often feel invisible in a curriculum that is almost entirely English-based, don't just survive school, but thrive in it. This I have seen firsthand.

Culture

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

and the National FFA Organization on Tuesday announced the national expansion of FarmBeats for Students, a cutting-edge educational program integrating smart sensors, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) to teach precision agriculture in classrooms. Microsoft Corp.

Technology

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. All you need to add is a classroom full of eager middle schoolers, and you’ve got the best school year ever! Include review materials in your curriculum 3. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade?

Grades

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Phase 3 Live Finale: Elementary, middle and high school teams competed in a 30-minute esports showdown, held at the Levan Center of Innovation at Nova Southeastern University, to design climate-resilient schools. Offer hands-on training, lesson plans and co-teaching models to help educators feel confident using game-based tools.

STEM

k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This documentary centered around Colleen’s vision, chemistry comic book series and her success with teaching college-level chemistry concepts to kids. During Colleen’s 30 years of teaching chemistry, she became aware that her students were struggling with basic concepts, including fluency with the symbols for the elements themselves.

Education

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

One of the most common questions homeschoolers ask is: Which homeschool grammar curriculum should I choose? 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.

Curriculum

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

Many grants also support school-based enterprises, such as student-run cafs, retail shops or food trucks, that help students apply their learning in real-world contexts. CTE Is Now the Norm, Not the Niche CTE has firmly moved into the mainstream of high school education. But schools cant do it alone.

Interdisciplinary

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

Technology is not neutral,” says Joshua Jonas, a curriculum and instruction researcher at Baylor University and former high school teacher. “It We ask vendors to take our survey for curriculum tools that specifically looks at accessibility,” says Samantha Reid, educational technology coordinator. “It

Culture

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. Louis school, I often point out to students that the most significant changes in America have come from people standing up to authority. I asked my students, “Do you understand why you learn what you learn in school?” history in an urban St. But many, when pushed, said no.

Multiple Choice Questions

EFL Magazine

JUNE 17, 2025

ESL Curriculum Creation Tricks from a Veteran Imagine being called into your Department Chair’s office three weeks before a new term begins. With all the real (and imaginary) reasons for […] The post ESL Curriculum Creation Tricks from a Veteran appeared first on EFL Magazine.

Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 7, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. 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.

Intelligence

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School. In “Teacher in the Machine,” Trumbore traces edtech’s beginnings to three professors at distinct schools: Suppes, who founded the Computer Curriculum Corp. I really thrive in those environments. [At

History

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Just as we teach the alphabet, structure, vocabulary and syntax, we must teach the language of computers. Computer science should begin early and continue throughout elementary, middle and high school. Computer science curricula should be turnkey, ready for any educator to pick up and teach.

Science

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Alena Zachery-Ross Superintendent, Ypsilanti Community Schools, Michigan EdSurge: Can you share your schools new designation and how it will have an impact on students and educators? Educators have learned to use tools that alleviate some of the more arduous tasks associated with teaching and learning, making their work more efficient.

Ethics

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 25, 2025

Curriculum Countdown: Write each unit for your curriculum on a separate sticky note. Highlight specific subject areas with topical bulletin board ideas Make the subject you teach part of your classroom theme with posters, banners, and editable labels. Stick all the notes to your bulletin board in order.

Counselling

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

It also lets you check “About Me” pages off your back-to-school checklist. Back To School All About Me Flip-book Activity By Love Live Laugh TEACH Use an “all about me” activity to create your first bulletin board of the year! With the right design, you can even tie it to CCSS , like retelling a story.

Schools

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.

Education

k12

JULY 24, 2025

What is online school? Think of online school as a virtual spin on traditional school. Students attend classes led by certified teachers, follow a curriculum aligned with state education standards, and have classmates. Some online schools are accredited, too. Is online school the same as homeschooling?

Exams

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 23, 2025

Below are the 11th-grade homeschool curriculum picks we have made for her! MATH We have used Teaching Textbooks from the beginning with all of my kids and we still love it! See more homeschool curriculum choices… The post 11th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Picks, Round 3 appeared first on 1+1+1=1.

Grades

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.

Schools

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 30, 2025

From preventing summer learning loss to building core skills to planning ahead for the homeschooling year, weve gathered summer teaching resources that parents and caregivers can use to support learning at home and turn summer into a season of discovery and enrichment. Theres good news though: a little enrichment can make a big difference.

Teaching

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

If you could teach a class on anything, what would it be? Practice writing skills based on the CCSS for history and social studies and your 8th grade history curriculum with tailored prompts. That’s where journal writing prompts come in! Would you rather spend the day at the beach, on a snowy mountain, or at an amusement park?

Writing

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Teach students to use the SMART formula to ensure that any goals they set are specific and measurable. Vision Board Project Goal Setting Bulletin Board Activity By Kitten Approved Curriculum Grades: 3rd-6th Students use a vision board planning sheet, graphic organizers, a checklist, and inspirational images to craft vision boards.

Learning Disabilities

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month is an excellent opportunity to teach students about influential Hispanic figures from the past and present. 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.

Activities

eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

Teachers walk a line as Trump targets DEI Trump promised to get “woke” out of American schools. 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.

Education

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S. We feel so polarized right now.

History

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. Frankly, I couldn't handle the stress of believing that these children's futures depend on my ability to "teach" them all these things they aren't particularly interested in learning.

Motivation

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Financial literacy, and the role of K-12 schools in promoting it, is getting lots of attention these days. Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and data from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt hit an all-time high in early August. 22 states (+DC) require a high school class be offered.

Teaching

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?

High School