eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

Here are five online learning resources to support summer STEM learning: 1. From building mini solar ovens to exploring magnetism or water tension, each activity includes clear instructions, an explanation of the underlying science, and discussion prompts to extend learning. or “Can a tree grow without seeds?”–and

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam Ngo Thanh is an educational leader, innovator, and advocate for equity-driven, holistic learning. In a recent interview with K12 Digest, Nam Ngo Thanh discussed his experience with technology, innovation, and education. From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?”

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2025

Students’ AI usage can range from summarizing content to full-scale writing support, which begs the question: What can educators do if they suspect an assignment is authored by AI? This is a great opportunity to discuss what is and isn’t a violation of academic integrity. Should they ask for an extension?

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups. Tell me indicates that I, the teacher, have asked a question and want an answer. I want to judge what has been said.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

Meanwhile, in my online section of the same course, students worked through carefully crafted modules at their own pace, their participation in discussion boards ebbing and flowing unpredictably. Instead, we need to reimagine active learning for both spaces, maintaining the core principles while adapting the execution.

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Teach Hub

MAY 2, 2025

Experiential learning isnt just a buzzword, its a game-changer in the classroom. Instead of students passively absorbing information, they get to get their hands dirty (sometimes literally) and connect learning to real-world experiences. Outdoor Learning Adventures When you take learning outside it adds a new layer of engagement.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

This months episode explores how remote and digital learning has evolved beyond emergency pandemic measures into strategic, purpose-driven educational approaches. DLACs John Watson distinguishes between emergency remote learning during the pandemic and today’s well-planned online and hybrid models. Have a listen, OK?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

The team began with the open-ended question, “How might we pilot different practices related to cell phone/social media use to gauge the effectiveness or impact on student well-being, engagement and sense of belonging?” Teachers design highly interactive, discussion-based lessons for these periods.

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Teach Thought

JULY 11, 2025

Views Facebook Linkedin Print These Learning Strategies Make Students Curious by Terry Heick Understanding where curiosity comes from is the holy grail of education. Views Facebook Linkedin Print These Learning Strategies Make Students Curious by Terry Heick Understanding where curiosity comes from is the holy grail of education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2025

Not just general practitioners–these middle schoolers aimed high and discussed specialties like cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, plastic surgery, and anesthesiology. While their ambition is inspiring, it raises important questions for educators, such as: What are alternative careers in a students field of interest?

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Some classroom strategies stick around for a reason, and Think-Pair-Share a cooperative learning approach is one of them. Think-Pair-Share is a three-step discussion routine that helps students build confidence in their ideas before they share them with a larger group. Start with a Strong Prompt The way you ask questions matters.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Afterward, the participant’s mom, who helped them publish the book, discussed the use of AI with the student. Opinions also differed on how to discuss AI with their children. Many districts have also facilitated listening sessions with parents and families to help them navigate discussing AI with their children.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Without adequate reading, students will be reluctant, or unable, to participate in class discussions and conversations for lack of understanding and fear of not measuring-up to peers (Severe, E., Preparing to join classroom discussions requires intentional preparation. Spinning Questions. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Be open and welcome student questions. Immediately address ableist /biased remarks in the classroom through discussion.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Learning That Works for Every Student Imagine a student who is bright, curious, and eager to learn but constantly struggles in a traditional classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Therein lies a paradox I have struggled with in my career: How can I continue to teach students that questioning authority is not only okay, but sometimes necessary, while maintaining a position of authority myself? I have control over their actions and learning. They are for everyone. One day, Ms. This stuff doesn’t matter!”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2025

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. A year-long digital citizenship curriculum that covers everything you need to discuss on internet safety and efficiency, delivered in the time you have in the classroom.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. That class always has a wait list now.”

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Reciprocal reading is a structured yet flexible strategy where students work together to make sense of a text using four roles: summarizer, questioner, clarifier, and predictor. Questioning The role of a questioner teaches students to stop accepting text at face value and start digging deeper.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

They discuss whether innovation matters more now because the world feels so unstable. That skepticism shows up in small moments: a student asking if kindness in leadership is “performative” or “sustainable,” or a group discussing whether decisiveness is still admirable when leaders are often forced to pivot quickly.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

Learning objectives. I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning. Students asked sharper questions.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

Learning objectives. I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning. Students asked sharper questions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Elianis: Before using the tool, I couldnt ask questions or talk to other students in the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

AI tutors are transforming education by offering personalized, accessible, and efficient learning support. But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. These steps help prevent breaches and maintain trust in digital learning environments.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Learn to ride the wave. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning. Another way educators have sought to foster and connect identity to curricular engagement is through social-emotional learning practices and strategies.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? Instead of fearing AI, we should actively explore its potential in the classroom, emphasizing how it can enrich the learning experience. Lets confront the reality: students are using AI.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Whether you’re new to working with MLs or just looking for a few fresh ideas, these five teacher-approved strategies are here to help boost participation, build language, and make learning meaningful for all. It makes learning more accessible by setting the stage and giving students the context they need to engage with confidence.

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Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

The thoughts on learning and education from Tim Manson. Skip to content Home About Blended Learning Using ICT for Learning – where are we now? 2024) What about Blended Learning? for Blended Learning) What is Blended Learning? What are the building blocks of Blended Learning? Why pedagogy?

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. No matter how interesting the teacher, sometimes it can be hard for students to focus for very long on a lecture.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. But scholars like Maha Bali reminded me that we need to engage with AI in order to discuss its implications and influence its outcomes. But I’ll admit, I didn’t jump right in. I value originality.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

makes learning more meaningful. These real-world connections add depth to classroom discussions, spark curiosity, and inspire students to explore new topics. Explore the author’s work and help your students prep thoughtful questions. In addition to written clues and yes/no questions, you could also share props.

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