eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

That early access to knowledge helped shape who I am today, and I carry that legacy into my work leading library services and digital learning for more than 30,500 students in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Integrate them into curriculum planning. In fact, every teacher is a reading teacher.

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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

JULY 8, 2025

Here are 5 high-caliber digital resources that can help K-5 educators connect their curriculum to the imagination of their students. The platform covers all subjects–from vocabulary and reading strategies to science, social studies, and math–through catchy songs and interactive lessons. ClassHook lets you do just that.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Since 2009, he has taught History, English, and Theology in the United States, and has since expanded his expertise to the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Business studies in China. His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future.

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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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

A University of Pennsylvania study from 2024 found that students using AI for math prep scored lower. Constant content reviews ensure AI stays relevant to current medical knowledge. Incorrect answers or misleading feedback may create confusion or lower academic performance. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

This study is the first to investigate the impact of Core5 at scale in California schools,” said Lexia President Nick Gaehde. Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year. “Our points higher than their peers at the non-Core5 schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. Building Interdisciplinary Courses: Choosing Scope and Mixing Knowledge Creating a solid interdisciplinary course starts with a clear scope and thoughtful mixing of knowledge. Yang et al.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Leigh Arnold, an educational technology specialist from the School District of Palm Beach County, noted that “students enjoyed the opportunity to participate in something they love, while educators were thrilled to see them demonstrate their knowledge through creative builds and presentations.” What stood out most?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. Building Interdisciplinary Courses: Choosing Scope and Mixing Knowledge Creating a solid interdisciplinary course starts with a clear scope and thoughtful mixing of knowledge. Yang et al.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s. In “Teacher in the Machine,” Trumbore traces edtech’s beginnings to three professors at distinct schools: Suppes, who founded the Computer Curriculum Corp.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned. That is, when do make our reflective practice modus operandi, we declare our commitment in developing our professional knowledge and artistry. we say what we do) and our theory in action (i.e.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Campuses invest enormous time and energy revising their gen ed programs of study to create the kinds of interconnected learning experiences that produce broadly educated degree completers. She is being asked to use the knowledge and skills she has developed at work to scaffold new information related to the field of psychology.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

NGSS MS-ETS1-2, ETS1-1, ETS1-3; MS-PS2-1 Subjects: Engineering, Math, Physical Science This hands-on STEM project for middle school takes students through the steps and knowledge needed to create bottle rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles, CSs, and duct tape. Lead them through an activity that demonstrates their knowledge of heat transfer.

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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. At the time Take Flight lost its National Science Foundation grant, its curriculum was being tested by 1,200 students and 30 rural middle school teachers across 10 states. Take Flight, a research project backed by $1.5

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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 nation-state has adopted it, drafting all citizens into a graded curriculum leading to sequential diplomas not unlike the initiation rituals and hieratic promotions of former times.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. Here’s what Hattie’s distillation of hundreds of studies involving hundreds of thousands of students said didn’t much matter : class size. I confess, I found it frustrating. charter schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2016

Study math online, but use a program like Khan Academy that tracks progress and scales material to student needs. By now, tech tools facilitate the student ability to meet not only the specific curriculum tasks, but higher-order thinking and the Habits of Mind that make up successful adults. Modification. There’s the model.

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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. Vincent College's Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media to study interactions between teachers and students through the use of technology.

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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. In fact, if you look at the list of traits valued in popular education programs such as Habits of Mind and Depth of Knowledge , the reasons why parents unschool their children mirror the traits included in these lists.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. Social studies education serves as the cornerstone for cultivating informed and engaged citizens capable of understanding the complexities of the world around them.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2023

DALLAS (PRWEB) — Frog Street , an early childhood education company designed around the latest science in early brain development, has announced the results of a study conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Education evaluating the efficacy of the Frog Street Pre-K curriculum with students in Texas.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Waltham, MA – KinderLab Robotics , a leader in educational STEAM robotics for grades pre-K–5, has launched Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Grades , a free curriculum designed to help students understand how AI tools work and think critically about how these tools can improve lives in their communities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, has expanded and enhanced its Bell Ringer content with the goal of providing a bell ringer for every day of the school year. The curriculum is standards-based and developed by teachers. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

According to a 2016 study by LendEDU , more than half of 18- to 24-year-olds wish they’d taken a personal finance course in high school. As the business education teacher at Niles North High School (NNHS) in Illinois, I’m passionate about ensuring that every child has access to an equitable and effective financial education curriculum.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For its ©2023 update, McGraw Hill has drawn upon decades of rigorous literacy studies, collaborated with preeminent reading researchers and experts, and listened to and incorporated feedback from educators and users. The 2023 edition is our best yet!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While classrooms focus on theoretical knowledge, they may fail to prepare students for the real-life challenges they will inevitably face. Schools must prioritize partnerships with local businesses, create flexible schedules that allow for work-study opportunities, and provide guidance on balancing academics with work.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Ohio is dedicating millions to a curriculum overhaul. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. Don’t oversimplify this.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

Leading education companies Curriculum Associates and Corwin are partnering to help districts nationwide elevate teaching and learning practices that most impact student growth. It encompasses more than 1,850 meta-analyses, comprising more than 108,000 studies involving more than 300 million students to date. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.—

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge. Well-planned case studies can challenge students’ problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Where to Find Case Studies?

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 26, 2022) —The Aim Academy of Science and Technology in Minneapolis, MN, today announced it has selected Discovery Education — the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place— to support science and social studies instruction in all grades.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Learning, on the other hand, is defined as “the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.” Due to the rigidity of curriculum, standardized tests and the controlling nature of compulsory education, playfulness and unstructured time are seen as detrimental to a student’s learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

When my friend, Emma, was preparing for finals, she used Trello to organize her study schedule, Quizlet for flashcards, and weekly Google Meet sessions with classmates to discuss tough topics, transforming her test stress into an effective study routine. Because studying for exams can feel overwhelming.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers at the University of Missouri collaborated to develop an evidence-based, online professional development curriculum. In a 2022 study , Rose found that social exclusion is a far more common form of bullying than physical or verbal aggression.

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