Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2025

All of them, I’ve found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools–taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic and granular.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2025

This isn’t technology for technology’s sake–it’s about enhancing learning and skill development. These innovations provide instant feedback and allow students to practice repeatedly until they master the skill. For example, simulation software is widely used in health science programs to let students practice medical procedures.

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Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

Posted on 10/07/2025 by timmanson Over the last year it has been interesting to watch the number of educational specialists who have been invited to come over to Northern Ireland to help us to develop our strategic reviews into the curriculum and assessment. Teachers have become happy to teach the same old stuff.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Key points: Formulaic writing can constrain thinking and limit creativity Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy Video game design boosts students’ literacy skills For more news on writing instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!)

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

I’ll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn’t use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success. Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design. What should we use?

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

In today’s world, where misinformation is rampant and digital literacy is more important than ever, students must also develop the critical thinking skills to evaluate sources and identify truth. Our librarians teach information literacy and digital citizenship as core parts of our library program.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2025

Solid math skills open doors to higher earnings, college opportunities, and the fastest-growing careers. Empowering teachers with the knowledge and skills to teach math effectively is essential for improving life outcomes for all children,” said NCTQ President Heather Peske. “If

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 248

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its about time that schools dragged math into the modern world, so that it imparts useful skills, Henderson says. That includes how job skills play into math paths for students. She is the director of curriculum for NAF, a nonprofit that is trying to make education more career-focused.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2025

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

Here are a few Tuesday and Wednesday sessions to put on your schedule: Level Up Your Classroom with Google’s Gemini: An Educator’s Guide to AI : Join this session for an exploration of Gemini, Google’s cutting-edge AI technology, and its potential to transform K-12 teaching and learning.

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Ethics Game-Based Learning Feedback Math 270

eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

Instead of looking at each new technology as a tool that must be integrated in the curriculum, why not determine what is missing from current instruction and identify what prevents integration from occurring naturally? Fortunately, there are standard practices that can be utilized to teach verification.

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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. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 212

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

While the book focuses primarily on literacy instruction at the elementary level, it offers valuable insights and practices for anyone who teaches or works with disabled students. Very often, disability is invisible in curriculum,” Tondreau says. “Or Even if you’re locked into a scripted curriculum, you still have options. “If

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Disabilities Teaching Culture Special Education 91

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. Skills that are essential in college and the workforce. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

It is a comprehensive platform with curriculum-aligned content, industry-standard tools, and expert support, bridging the gap between gaming and academic success. Cleverlike specializes in building and teaching esports experiences in creative games that connect directly to career skills in the software of the future.

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Education Curriculum Skills Teaching 130

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

These features empower teams to enhance their robots’ actions with sound effects, character voices, or background music, deepening the storytelling experience while building additional technical skills. Robotics-based activities can significantly enhance student engagement, promote hands-on learning, and cultivate 21st-century skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

I’ll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn’t use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success. Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design. What should we use?

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Art Math STEM Participation 146

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder is pragmatic and fosters the critical thinking skills needed to navigate AI. The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. When teaching your students to use AI, have them question the output that was generated.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 97

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

Whether you are mastering a skill for work, learning to cook, or training for a marathon, you adjust your pace based on progress–not the ticking of a clock. In this model, students move forward when they have demonstrated mastery of a skill or concept, not when the bell rings or the calendar flips to June.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. None of this is to say content doesn’t matter—good curriculum is essential. Or basketball. Or Taylor Swift.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

This philosophy is embedded in the British Curriculum, which offers both structure and flexibility. ProEd Global School blends this rigorous curriculum with personalized support, ensuring that every learner gets the guidance they need to thrive, not just survive in the classroom. “Our goal is to help them define it on their own terms.”

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Exams Counselling Education Schools 137

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

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.

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Education Essay Culture Math 122

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

These essential, durable skills are at the heart of frameworks like ISTE’s Standards for Students and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning’s framework , which emphasize what students need to thrive in school and beyond. Future-Ready Skills: Participants gain experience in public speaking and digital design.

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STEM Disabilities Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking 142

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Professional growth doesn’t have to be overwhelming… it can fit into your summer routine as a rewarding way to improve your teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

A follow-up study in 2025 confirmed this trend, highlighting even steeper declines where secondary students have fewer opportunities to build new skills. Creativity now ranks among the top skills employers seek , alongside analytical thinking and AI literacy. This isn’t just an education issue — it’s a workforce one.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 155

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. These can be adapted to other art programs like Canva.

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Skills Art Intelligence Curriculum 92

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. What if grade school were designed to teach students how to make decisions and know themselves deeply as much as it taught them math and literacy? But it didn’t have to be this way.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

The development of Discovery Educations newest content is based on feedback from the companys school-based partners and makes teaching and learning even more relevant, interesting, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products.

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Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 189

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2025

Here’s the run-down so far this year: LOTS of Resources for Kids’ Online Research Robot Teachers vs Human Teachers How to Find Old Elementary School Teachers How Students Can Build Their Own Apps 15 Websites on Natural Disasters Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills Does Mindfulness Make Your Class Better?

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Intelligence 92

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder is pragmatic and fosters the critical thinking skills needed to navigate AI. The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. When teaching your students to use AI, have them question the output that was generated.

Critical Thinking 112

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 112

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

These improvements broaden DreamBox Reading’s coverage to support all PreK-5 learners and expand educators’ abilities to develop students’ foundational skills and confidence in reading through personalized instruction. This adaptivity ensures that students are met where they are with just-right instruction and fun activities.

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Reading Education Intelligence Schools 130

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

I’ll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn’t use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success. Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design. What should we use?

Art 150

Art Math STEM Participation 150

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. It was an extra thing, not our main spelling curriculum. Do you use a spelling program I didn’t feature?

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Curriculum Teaching Philosophy Learning Styles Grades 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

They’re meant to help develop fine motor skills, improve concentration, problem solving skills, and help a child be self sufficient. For example a knobbed cylinder or a bead chain, each material has a unique function that guides a child to master a skill through repetition and exploration.

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