Faculty Focus

AUGUST 7, 2025

Educators have sought to understand why some students persist in overcoming challenges, while others do not. We present an exploration of growth mindset initiatives as factors that promote persistence and student success in online courses. This exploratory review focuses on the relevant literature, includes practical suggestions for classroom applications in online courses, and indicates avenues for future research.

Instructors

GovTech

AUGUST 7, 2025

A North Carolina school district this week organized a generative AI "prompt-a-thon" to help students build AI literacy through discussing, designing and experimenting with various programs.

Schools

Teachers Pay Teachers

AUGUST 7, 2025

Back-to-school season brings fresh starts, new students, refreshed classroom decor, and the promise of a great year ahead. While it’s a time to introduce rules and set expectations, it’s also the perfect opportunity to build the foundations of strong relationships and a positive classroom culture. Your first-day-of-school activities help students to feel safe, seen, and connected.

Activities

eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2025

Key points: Public school districts face mounting healthcare costs–the right investments are key Empowering school staff with emergency response protocols 5 strategies to refine recruitment and help solve the teacher shortage For more on school benefits, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub For public school districts across Florida and much of the country, employee benefits–particularly health insurance–are among the largest and fastest-growing budget line items.

Schools

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2025

Lately, Angela Reyes’ oldest daughter talks her ear off. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘I need you to quiet down!’” Reyes laughed. But when the now-12-year-old was a kindergartener, her speech was largely unintelligible. Reyes credited school-based speech therapy for her daughter’s progress and that of her three sons. Reyes and her four children are among the nearly 80 million Americans covered by either Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP).

Disabilities

EFL Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2025

CELTA Tips for ESL Teachers ESL teaching is such a deep ocean that every time you plunge into it, you come out possessing something new. That possession could totally be […] The post CELTA Tips for ESL Teachers appeared first on EFL Magazine.

Teachers

We are Teachers

AUGUST 7, 2025

Considering going phone-free this year? Wondering if it's even possible anymore? Hear from this high school teacher on how she did it.

High School

We are Teachers

AUGUST 7, 2025

It's a major problem in so many schools: students who are regularly absent or extremely tardy. Is there a solution to chronic absenteeism?

Teachers

eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2025

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows.

Study

John Spenser

AUGUST 7, 2025

Machine learning is changing our world in profound ways. It will impact the way we learn and the way we teach. In today’s article and podcast, I want share a few big ideas on what that might look like. I’ll share some questions we might. The post How Will AI Transform the Teaching Profession? Four Trends to Consider appeared first on John Spencer.

Teaching

Cal Matters

AUGUST 7, 2025

In summary Even in California, where prison access to technology and research resources is better than average, students regularly face dead ends. Since Pell Grants have become available to people pursuing degrees from prison, every state and the Federal Bureau of Prisons has tried to expand access to higher education. What they haven’t all done, however, is create a learning environment that supports college-level study.

Internet

Teacher Toms Blog

AUGUST 7, 2025

Increasingly, modern humans are living our lives online, which is to say that we exist without a physical presence. Of course, this isn't entirely a new phenomenon. The landline telephone likewise allowed us to "be" with others without being physically present. Even before that we could engage remotely through letters we stuffed in envelopes and posted.

Writing

Organized Classroom

AUGUST 7, 2025

This section is for class sizes of 20-21 students. While all the photos show options for 20 students, feel free to place an additional student on the end of one of the groups, if needed. This arrangement allows the students to face towards the center of the room, or allows them to work together easily. How else could you use this seating arrangement in your classroom?

Students

The Nerdy Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2025

Join the Champions Community!🌟 Join Season 1 of the SchoolAI Champions Program! 🌟 Season 1 runs from August 5 – October 31, 2025 Get ready to earn points, unlock exclusive rewards, and compete for the Ultra-Mythic Prize: 🎉 A trip to the ISTE/ASCD 2026 Conference in June AND a magical day at Disney’s Magic Kingdom! ✨ How to Get Started✨ 1.

Teachers

A Year of Reading

AUGUST 7, 2025

I’m having more fun with my personal Sealey Challenge this year than ever before! Right when it came out, I bought the big hunka-munka A CENTURY OF POETRY IN THE NEW YORKER 1925-2025. It’s been sitting on my desk ever since…until now. My challenge is to spend 30 minutes a day reading from it. I usually open to a random spot and go from there, keeping my notebook open to jot juicy words (including ones I’ve never heard and need to look up, as was the case for scaturient),

Reading

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 7, 2025

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in July 2025… Every Parent’s Dilemma , Don Berg (education) The Gene Machine , Bonnie Rochman (science) Lethal Prey , John Sandford (thriller) For Love of Mother-Not , Alan Dean Foster (science fiction) The Tar-Aiym Krang , Alan Dean Foster (science fiction) Red Rising , Pierce Brown (science fiction) The Electric State , Simon Stålenhag (science fiction) Outland , Alan Dean Foster (science fiction) Birds of Prey , David Drake (science fiction) Dark

Reading

Class Tech Tips

AUGUST 7, 2025

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in July 2025… Every Parent’s Dilemma , Don Berg (education) The Gene Machine , Bonnie Rochman (science) Lethal Prey , John Sandford (thriller) For Love of Mother-Not , Alan Dean Foster (science fiction) The Tar-Aiym Krang , Alan Dean Foster (science fiction) Red Rising , Pierce Brown (science fiction) The Electric State , Simon Stålenhag (science fiction) Outland , Alan Dean Foster (science fiction) Birds of Prey , David Drake (science fiction) Dark

Reading

We are Teachers

AUGUST 7, 2025

Teachers, are you longing for more sleep, better sleep, or better yet—both? Then Brooklyn Bedding has you covered with this discount!

Teachers