Wed.Jul 16, 2025

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Using AI to reimagine teacher preparation for scale, equity, and reflective practice

eSchool News

Key points: AI coaching helps make high-quality pre-service teacher observations a reality A look at one school’s innovative approach to PD Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? For more on AI coaching and careers, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub With growing teacher shortages nationwide, particularly in high-need subject areas and underserved communities, educator preparation programs (EPPs) have a big task at hand: prepare more pre-service teachers to enter K-12 class

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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back

Edsurge

Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. Before the block became a movie set for gentrified dreams, it was something else entirely. It was home. In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. I was raised in a residential building that mirrored the borough itself: diverse, vibrant and full of life.

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Gen Z educators embrace AI tools more often than Gen X

eSchool News

Key points: Most educators want AI policies that strengthen the human side of education Ensuring academic integrity in the AI age You’re using ChatGPT? A true story about why AI literacy starts with us For more news on educators and AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub While educators demonstrate enthusiasm for AI’s efficiency and accessibility benefits–especially younger educators–they have a desire to preserve the human element in teaching and would like clearer guidance on A

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Is Online Schooling a Good Fit for Teens?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Even before COVID burst on the scene and drove many schools into online versions of themselves, remote teaching had been gaining popularity. Driven by reasons like flexibility, personal needs, and accessibility, the positives associated with online schooling were convincing many to take a second look. The Ask a Tech Teacher team has done that with this article on– Is Online Schooling a Good Fit for Teens?

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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

On the surface, reluctant learners look like teens who don’t care about your lesson. They may zone out, act up, or make any excuse to get out of the classroom. But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning.

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50 Powerful Instructional Strategies Examples for Every Classroom

We are Teachers

Looking for new and exciting instructional strategies examples to help all of your students learn more effectively? Get them here!

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Morphology Instruction in Upper Elementary: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Teach It

Brown Bag Teacher

As upper elementary teachers, we know that word learning can’t keep up with word exposure. By fourth and fifth grade, students encounter thousands of new words across content areas—many of them multisyllabic, abstract, and Greek or Latin in origin. Take photosynthesis , geography , interruption , or autobiography. These are not “sight words.” And they’re not just big—they’re meaningful.

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Why I Asked to Loop with My Class (and Would Do It Again in a Heartbeat)

We are Teachers

The benefits of looping students are many. Teachers know their students' gaps, they avoid the back-to-school getting to know you, and more!

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2025 PDK Educators Rising conference wrap-up

Dangerously Irrelevant

I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to attend the 2025 PDK Educators Rising Conference in Orlando, Florida. PDK International named me as an Emerging Leader back in 2007, which was extremely helpful to me as CASTLE and I got our technology, leadership, and innovation work up and running. This year PDK awarded me one of its five Distinguished Educator Fellowships , which has felt like a wonderful opportunity to close the circle, reconnect with PDK in some different ways, meet new folks from aro

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Zones of Regulation Activities To Help Kids Manage Their Emotions

We are Teachers

Teach students to identify and manage big feelings with these Zones of Regulations strategies and activities.

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2025 PDK Educators Rising conference wrap-up

Class Tech Tips

I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to attend the 2025 PDK Educators Rising Conference in Orlando, Florida. PDK International named me as an Emerging Leader back in 2007, which was extremely helpful to me as CASTLE and I got our technology, leadership, and innovation work up and running. This year PDK awarded me one of its five Distinguished Educator Fellowships , which has felt like a wonderful opportunity to close the circle, reconnect with PDK in some different ways, meet new folks from aro

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AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison

Cal Matters

In summary Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success. Students don’t have the same incentives to talk to their professors — or even their classmates — anymore. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude have given them a new path to self-sufficiency.

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Savvy Cyber Kids Appoints New Members to Board of Directors

eSchool News

Atlanta, Georgia,(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Savvy Cyber Kids, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, appointed new members to the Board of Directors starting July, 1, 2025. Joining the Board of Directors for Savvy Cyber Kids are James Azar, Anne-Marie Brockwell, Jason Cenamor, Nelson Soares, and Dr. Jasyn Voshell. Savvy Cyber Kids enables youth, families and school communities empowerment through technology by providing age-appropriate cyber safety, cyber ethics and digital parenting resources and

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I Have a Philosophy?

Teacher Toms Blog

I started this blog in 2009 simply because I'd written a couple articles for Seattle's Child magazine that I thought were pretty good and felt they deserved a life beyond the recycling bin. That was the entirety of my ambition. This blog would provide an online home for these two articles. Period. They didn't have any readers beyond my friends and family, and that was fine because that's all I expected.

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Opinion: Conflating AI With Human Cognition Is Bad for Education

GovTech

AI models are trained to optimize outputs, but in educating children, the process is the point. If we assess children only in terms of what can be “trained,” we repeat the mistake of emphasizing output over experience.

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What Online School Looks Like: A Student Day in the Life Q&A With Mayah

k12

By: Mayah S., 10th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. This year, the talented group of students is creating social media content across platforms to help build brand awareness and engage our audiences around the online learning experience.

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Project POTUS 2025 Middle School Winners Announced

eSchool News

Indianapolis, IN — Project POTUS, a national middle school history initiative from the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, has named winners for this year’s competition. Since the founding of our nation, there have been nearly half a billion American citizens. Of those, over 12,000 of us have served in Congress. Just 115 have become Supreme Court Justices.

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New Ohio Law Requires Policies for AI and Cellphones in Schools

GovTech

The 2026-27 Ohio budget mandates that K-12 districts create policies to govern the use of artificial intelligence and cellphones, and offers a handful of $100,000 grants to community colleges for implementing AI.

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Building Modern Networks in Independent Schools

EdTech Magazine

At Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., Derek Morton knew the networks were due for an upgrade. The 10-year-old infrastructure “wasn’t able to keep up with the number of connections that we were demanding from it,” says Morton, senior director of technology and data systems. “We were seeing a lot of tickets being generated, and this of course bubbles up to the headmaster.

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Pa. Tech Summit Unveils Major Investments in AI, Cybersecurity Education

GovTech

Projects announced at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University this week included new workforce training programs as well as cybersecurity education for middle and high schoolers.

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How to Run Your First Day of Art Class!

Cassie Stephens

Hi, friends! Before we dive in, I just wanna say that what you're about to see here is how I run my first 30 minute art class with my first though fourth grade students. I have shared a lot of videos in the past about my first day of art.and really, this one is no different. EXCEPT.I'm going to walk you thru the method behind my madness so you can understand not only HOW I'm doing something but what and why.

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Summer Phishing Trip

Edtech IRL

I don’t know about what you’re seeing, but my organization has seen a large uptick in cookie-theft phishing attacks that are consistent with the Sneaky 2FA phishing toolkit. I’ve traditionally only seen one or two of this style of email each month, but in the past two weeks, I’ve seen 60+. The scary part about this toolkit is that it’s built specifically to get around multifactor authentication, one of the core defenses most organizations rely on today.

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Phishing Scam Cost Rural Nebraska School District $1.8M

GovTech

Broken Bow Public Schools fell victim to a sophisticated phishing scam in the form of an email containing false payment instructions that appeared to come from a trusted vendor in ongoing construction projects.

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The Social Disposition – Housing Insecurity and the Emergency Department

Cook County EM Blog

Every single Emergency Department in the United States treats unhoused patients on a daily basis, and their needs vary greatly from ICU level care to the common cold. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, in January 2023, there were an estimated 653,104 people experiencing homelessness on a given night (1). The numbers continue to rise and between 2019-2023, there was a greater than 12.1 percent increase in the number of individuals experiencing homelessness for the first time

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The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom

Teach Thought

Skip to content Analogy Booklet Read Expand Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search Toggle Menu Home / Teaching Posts / The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom Teaching Posts The Best Source Of Education Research Is Your Classroom By Terrell Heick July 16, 2025 July 16, 2025 Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom.

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Rethinking Learning Loss: When Students Don’t Use What They Learn

Teach Thought

When rethinking learning loss, we should consider 'transferability' of knowledge to student life.