Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

Not surprisingly, more students are using generative AI to assist them in writing. In an undergraduate business communication course that I oversee, the percentage of students who declared their use of generative AI for a writing assessment (i.e. “Visual rhetoric in the curriculum: Pedagogy for a multimodal workplace.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance. CPS staff are creating Gems (custom AI experts in Google Gemini) when they upload the district’s curriculum development evidence guides and rubrics. Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2025

by contrast, lacks a national AI curriculum, and remains mired in debate about whether students should even use ChatGPT to write essays. China’s 2017 “New Generation AI Development Plan” explicitly names talent cultivation as key to its global ambitions. The education system is its primary tool.

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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. That cycle keeps them growing, and more importantly, keeps them engaged.

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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. Using Book Creator, educators can align writing goals to multimedia production, making literacy more interactive, purposeful, and relevant. ClassHook lets you do just that.

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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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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.

Art 150

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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. That cycle keeps them growing, and more importantly, keeps them engaged.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

To meet both needs–ensuring that all students participate while also elevating key voices–give all students time to think, write, or talk before selecting one or more students to share. Then, say Tell us __. Be intentional with your movements.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Use AI for Your Benefit Generating activity ideas or lesson plans, creating rubrics, and assisting with basic writing tasks are three ways to easily get started with an AI chatbot. What other questions could be asked to dive deeper and more concisely into the information? Use AI to assist you with generating clearer and more concise messages.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

While students don’t make every decision and still participate in teacher-driven parts of the day, what’s different in our design is that the school curriculum pushes them to explore three questions: “What do I want to learn?”; “When and how will I learn it?”; and “Is my learning the right level of challenge?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2025

They donate hardware, fund curriculum materials, and sometimes offer training for teachers. 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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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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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Art Math STEM Participation 144

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

With a full spectrum of offerings, including professional learning, curriculum, and embedded assessment tools, Lexia provides educators with Structured Literacy solutions that are proven effective and designed to drive meaningful literacy outcomes.

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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.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Among the new content and resources now available to users of Discovery Education Experience are: Ready-To-Teach Lessons Enhancing Curriculum Built around research-based instructional strategies, these new ready-to-teach lessons and activities target critical classroom needs and help teachers create unique learning opportunities for each student.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

One time, I even begged to include more African American literature in the curriculum. Writing handbooks. In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. The answer was no, but I did it anyway, quietly, like it was something shameful. Absolutely. Filing taxes.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

All you need is designated time in your class, the right writing materials, and a prompt that really inspires them. This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) ” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. Yes, even math!

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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. They might have 20 minutes dedicated to reading and 20 minutes dedicated to writing.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Use AI for Your Benefit Generating activity ideas or lesson plans, creating rubrics, and assisting with basic writing tasks are three ways to easily get started with an AI chatbot. What other questions could be asked to dive deeper and more concisely into the information? Use AI to assist you with generating clearer and more concise messages.

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k12

JUNE 27, 2025

We’re here to help you find a summer school curriculum that will leave your kid feeling confident for the upcoming year and excited to keep learning! A curriculum tailored to your kid’s needs can assist with: Maintaining Momentum: The brain is a muscle, and like any muscle, the longer you don’t use it, the weaker it gets.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. The gap between CS instruction and creative exploration is a pressing challenge.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

After decorating and writing their names on Styrofoam cups, the cups were brought aboard a research vessel, lowered deep underwater, and then brought back to the surface. “We were pleased to engage in this learning experience with URI,” said Nicole Elliott, a science teacher at DelSesto Middle School.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to facilitate learning. We talk about writing as a product for assessment, a subject where paragraphs and commas are taught, or a skill that one either has developed or lacks. Rarely do we hear people, even teachers, discuss writing as a process for learning.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

Very often, disability is invisible in curriculum,” Tondreau says. “Or Bringing voices of disabled authors into your classroom is a way to give those identities space in the curriculum.” Even if you’re locked into a scripted curriculum, you still have options. “If Or there might be one text.

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

As research has suggested, they can be used for assessment design, curriculum design, lesson planning, personalizing and differentiating learning , and almost any other ‘thing’ a teacher–or student–has to do.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

‘Writing,’ for example, can become ‘Expert and self-initiated application of the ‘revision’ step of the writing process.’ ’ Accomplishing this gets them a badge or trophy or some representation of that achievement–something that students understand and can collect over time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” Anne Trumbore “I have been an ensemble player in the transformation of online education from experimental and low status to ‘innovative’ and ‘disruptive,’” she writes. “I

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. Include review materials in your curriculum 3. Keep writing prompts on hand 6. Use 8th grade writing prompts throughout your curriculum to keep their pencils moving and their minds creating.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

In turn, we can immediately utilize new information to further our faculty assessment reports, professional development, academic writings, and research publication. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture. When your class ends, write down the during-action reflection as soon as possible.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 18, 2025

What Matters Most the First Week of School Before we talk about plans and pacing, here’s the foundation: the first week of school is not about jumping straight into your curriculum. And you don’t have to figure it all out alone. It’s about building trust, establishing routines, and helping students feel safe in a new space.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

What curriculum should you use? We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. Share Your Schedule Every day, just like when I teach entire classes, I would write out our schedule on the board. Take a deep breath!

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

And when you combine strong values with smart tech and a global curriculum, you get more than a good education. Whether its writing a research paper with academic integrity or designing a technology solution that addresses a global issue, Elmwood girls learn how to think deeply and act responsibly. At Elmwood, learning is never static.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

JULY 21, 2025

When I stepped into middle school for the first time, I had no curriculum and no guidance. A pacing guide helps you map out your curriculum and standards across the year. I’m going to share exactly how I created the pacing guide for my ELA curriculum, but you can also grab my middle school pacing guides for free ! #1

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