eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? I recently read 10 to 25 , a new book by David Yeager, one of the leading research psychologists in adolescent development and motivation. None of this is to say content doesn’t matter—good curriculum is essential.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

We would go to one platform to look at their reading data, another for their behavior data, and yet another for math. Before Bullitt County Public Schools implemented a comprehensive data system, we often found ourselves looking at multiple different data sources for each individual child.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. Join us to explore the future of education with AI.

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k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This phenomenon creates a significant barrier for students pursuing degrees in over 50 STEM-related disciplines, thereby restricting access to critical career pathways in science, medicine, and technology. This challenge mirrors what would occur if students were expected to read novels without first mastering the alphabet.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. Join us to explore the future of education with AI.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Reimagining Curriculum to Foster Engagement and Identity Over the years, fellows have noted how hard it has become to not only create engaging curriculum for students but also find ways to foster community and identity development in the classroom. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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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. Some just want to read a good book and be seen for who they are, not as a stereotype waiting to be saved. Where intervention was nonexistent.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. When I taught fifth grade at a school in Nevada, I had to follow the curriculum in the provided textbooks, and there was no room to deviate. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. With median U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Tara reads that she will be asked to make connections between the theories she is learning about in her coursework and the tasks she is able to complete and submit from her workplace. Welcome to psychology. Generative AI is changing education as we speak.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. Personally, I won’t read authors who use ai.” –Anonymous author on X “Authors using AI art on your covers, you’re cutting off your own leg. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. I last published on this topic on my ed blog in 2017.

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Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Assisting with lesson and curriculum planning. Assessing the Risks As with any new technology, a thorough risk assessment is crucial. Create texts tailored to specific reading ages and styles. New DFE Guidance: 5 Ways for Schools to Use AI The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology, AI and Science CPD and Support

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Though the chart below reads left to right, it’s ideal to imagine it as a kind of incline, with Knowledge at the bottom, and Create at the top. It also makes a powerful self-directed learning tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2025

This tells future bosses you can use technology as a tool and can give you an edge in a competitive job market. Include your facility with 1:1 programs, carts, and other approaches to using technology in classes. Additional Tips Take a few evenings to read about the state of your education field.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This means readings from various fields, expert guest talks, or tasks that ask students to blend information from many sources. Hojeij combines her expertise in curriculum development with a strong research portfolio, having secured over 2 million AED in research grants over the past 10 years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Authority, on the other hand, is when I decide what lessons to assign to students, or when they must read silently to themselves or aloud to the class. They are for everyone. I have control over their actions and learning. Of course, it's easier to be in control when your role as a teacher puts you in a position of authority.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2025

Among them are decisions around technology use with their young learners, which are too often shaped by policies and pedagogies that lag behind the latest research and the abundance of available options. Read on… Copyright 2025 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Tara reads that she will be asked to make connections between the theories she is learning about in her coursework and the tasks she is able to complete and submit from her workplace. Welcome to psychology. Generative AI is changing education as we speak.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The Academy Program, on the other hand, serves students who benefit from a highly customized curriculum with a strong emphasis on life skills, vocational training, and independent living. AEF also integrates cutting-edge technology to enhance personalized learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This means readings from various fields, expert guest talks, or tasks that ask students to blend information from many sources. Hojeij combines her expertise in curriculum development with a strong research portfolio, having secured over 2 million AED in research grants over the past 10 years.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 3, 2025

You don’t have to do a deep dive into your curriculum yet, though. Limit (or completely eliminate) Technology Finally, technology will likely play a big role in your classroom, but that doesn’t mean you need to introduce it on the first day. Think of the first day of school as just a small preview of the classroom’s rhythm.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2025

Last year, we posted books you might like to read this summer. ” 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.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 25, 2025

I don't read them all -- indeed, I only tend to read those that come from authors who I know or who previously contacted me. I'm sure most are fantastic books, but I only have so much time, and even if I do read the book, there is no guarantee that I'll hype it here. These guys have invented a game they call "bumper swings."

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Their mission is to ensure every student is “ AI ready ” — prepared to use emerging technologies, like generative AI, in an ethical and responsible manner in school, life and future work, regardless of where those careers take them. These combined learnings will inform curriculum development and student support strategies across the district.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2025

According to the Read by 4th coalition , 71 percent of fourth graders in Philadelphia, the sixth largest U.S. city by population, are reading below grade level. Both the loss of school librarians in Philadelphias school district and its disappointing reading scores caught the attention of Deb Kachel, a school librarian of 30 years.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

Meanwhile, Houston Independent School District partnered with an AI company to develop reading passages tailored to individual student levels and classroom goals. This could be gamified lessons that minimize cognitive overload, voice-assisted content to reduce reading anxiety, or real-time emotional feedback to help manage frustration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

My X friends gave me great suggestions, but first: A comment on the selections : I did get more than I could list so I avoided books with hot-button subjects teachers are divided on and focused on positive and uplifting reading. Or read them all. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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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. Books were pulled from libraries. Black History Month was canceled.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

We’re all awash in content possibilities, but much like parents say it’s a full-time job reading emails for children’s schools, it can feel like a job to find content beneficial for kids,” Pasnik says. It’s almost like we’re educators making the curriculum in school: There’s a level of expertise that we bring.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 29, 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.

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Intelligence STEM Curriculum Reading 81

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). Authentic Reading Experiences Wanted.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2025

I reprint it every year because it covers all the basics, avoids boring details, and gives kids (and adults) rules to live by: Not everything you read online is true It used to be anything we read in print was true. Since anyone can become published, some of the stuff you’re reading online isn’t true.

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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. Illich pulls no punches and it can be painful to read him, even for someone like me who has spent is career outside the currents of modern education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 22, 2025

1 Read Silent Spring Published in 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring started many thinking about Earth’s health. Have students read the book, meet in study groups to discuss it, and then devise their own projects to address the concerns. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2025

Here are the most-read posts last month: May is Homeschooling Awareness Month Tech Teacher Appreciation Week 20+ Online Resources for Screenshots, Screencasts, Screenshares Happy Mothers Day! Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Intelligence Curriculum Reading Activities 81

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

Skip to content Analogy Booklet Read Expand Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search Toggle Menu Home / Learning Posts / Teaching Is Human Work. The curriculum cannot speak to the community. Technology amplifies the system, not the human. Systems Aren’t Built for That. Systems don’t speak.

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