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Can AI help reduce math anxiety?

eSchool News

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online. As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math anxiety, a new global sur

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Gen Z Is Growing Up in Education Upheaval. How Are Teens Doing?

Edsurge

Gen Z is in an awkward phase. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential servic

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Here’s what birdwatching taught me about classroom management

eSchool News

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. During a quiz about plate tectonics, two students whisper in the back of my room. I notice but stay quiet. I have one chance to redirect them. Forty-seven seconds into their conversation, with my back to them, I spin around, make eye contact, and say, I know, right?

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5 Strategies for Refocusing Your Class

Teach Hub

Keeping a class focused is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. It feels like youre constantly in pursuit of your students attention, trying every trick in the book. And lets be honest, most of us are just plain tired of repeating Please stop talking and Eyes on me on an endless loop. Its frustrating. Youve already raised your voice more times than you wanted to.

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CoSN State Chapters Grow With Additions of MACE and CoSNE

eSchool News

Washington, D.C. CoSN today announced that the Mid-America Association for Computers in Education ( MACE ) and the Nebraska Chapter of the Consortium for School Networking ( CoSNE ) have been approved by the CoSN Board of Directors as official State Chapters. CoSN State Chapters play a crucial role in advancing the organizations mission at the local level.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. Notedly, when educators engage in reflection, it is usually in the form of John Dewey : We do not learn from experiencewe learn from reflecting on experience. This type of reflection is called after-action or on-action.

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What "Disrespectful" and "Destructive" Children are Telling Us

Teacher Toms Blog

Not long ago, I was tagged in a Facebook thread of teachers complaining about the behavior of their students. I only spent a few minutes scrolling through the comments, but most of them seemed to be coming from middle school teachers in public schools who were accusing the kids of being disrespectful and destructive. Some even provided photographic evidence of vandalism and general disregard for property.

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How to Protect Student Outcomes During a Staffing Crisis 

Elevate k12

The Real Cost of a Vacancy Isnt Just a Missing Teacher Teacher vacancies have long been framed as a logistical challenge, something for HR teams to solve before the school year begins. But as shortages grow deeper and more complex, the true cost of these gaps is becoming harder to ignore. Vacancies dont just disrupt schedules. They disrupt learning.

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Ari the Robot Had My Students Cheering

We are Teachers

Ari, the newest robot from Ozobot, is a huge hit in classrooms. Take a look at why this STEM teacher loved using it.

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Simple Word Art Mother’s Day Classroom Craft

Organized Classroom

Mothers Day crafts can get pricey and be time-consuming for many teachers. Not to mention the glue, glitter, and chaos that sometimes accompanies it! I prefer to try something different when possible, and preferably something that does not involve the art supplies! As I was trying to think up something that kids would enjoy creating, and something that I would enjoy receiving – I thought of using Wordle to make customized word art, but since that site is no longer up and running, I found W

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65+ Best AI Prompts for Students

We are Teachers

AI isnt about replacing student effort; its about amplifying it with intelligent tools, says author and educator Holly Clark.

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Baltimore Schools Hire Cybersecurity Firm to Investigate Attack

GovTech

After Baltimore City Public Schools discovered that a ransomware attack in February had compromised data, it hired Austin-based CrowdStrike Inc. to provide a cybersecurity forensic analysis and assessment for $160,000.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. Notedly, when educators engage in reflection, it is usually in the form of John Dewey : We do not learn from experiencewe learn from reflecting on experience. This type of reflection is called after-action or on-action.

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ASU+GSV 2025 Panel Recap

Cemd

Speakers Together, this panel explored how state leaders are using curriculum data to drive better decisions and more coherent, equitable instructional systems for students and educators.* *Note: These responses are highlights from the 2025 ASU+GSV panel discussion, and are edited for clarity. This blog is intended as a recap, not a full transcript.

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Poetry Friday: Historically

A Year of Reading

This NPM, I am writing acrostic poems using words from the Banned Words List at the Pen America Website. You can find my poems each day on Poetrepository, IG stories, and BlueSky. But today is special. This is a Poetry Sister Challenge Day, and this month we are writing in conversation with a vintage photograph. I chose to have a conversation with my father as a young man, and ponder everything that happened in his life after that moment was captured, up to and including my very own now.

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ASU+GSV 2025: Audience Q&A

Cemd

Thank you for joining us at this years ASU+GSV Summit for The View From the Top: Leveraging State Data to Increase HQIM. Hosted by CEMD and moderated by Michelle Odemwingie, CEO of ANet, the session featured panelists Cory Epler from TNTP, Lora Kaiser from CEMD, and Craig Waterman from MA DESE. The conversation focused on how state education agencies are leveraging curriculum data to strengthen decision-making and create more coherent, student-centered systems.

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Earth Day Writing Prompt for Elementary Students – 2025

Jodi Durgin

This My Earth Day Promise craft and writing activity is the perfect way to celebrate this April holiday with your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students. Through this activity, students commit to small, personal actions that help care for the planet. Learn more about this Earth Day writing prompt activity below! Whats Included in the Earth Day Writing Prompt Activity?

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What To Do After State Testing (That Actually Helps Your Students)

Beyond the Worksheet

So… state testing is done. Your brain is screaming, “Now what?” If you’re like most teachers, the time between testing and the last day of school can feel like no-mans land. You’re expected to “keep teaching” but everyones a little burned out, your pacing guide is done(ish), and kids can practically smell summer vacation.

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Bee-ing Fluent Within 5! A Warm-Up Game with Bee Grids & Dice Fun 🐝🎲

From the Pond

Hey teacher friends! If youre working with kindergarten students on building fluency within 5 and want a hands-on way to explore addition and number combinations, I have something sweet and simple thats going to buzz with learning potential. You might already have my Bee Grid cards from the Math Kit Bundle 1 well, Ive just given them a little glow up!

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How Can K–12 Schools Make Strategic Long-Term Investments in Technology?

EdTech Magazine

Many school leaders and K12 technology professionals feel uncertain about the future of funding for education. With no clear vision for where money will come from ahead of the next school year, some experts are urging schools to start considering blended funding opportunities now. Still, some K12 IT administrators may hesitate when it comes to making investments in educational technologies.

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After Trump’s crackdown on DEI in schools, judge rules he can’t cut off funding

Cal Matters

In summary California receives $2.4 billion in federal Title I money for low-income schools, about $1.3 billion for special education and $250 million for after-school programs, among other grants. California K-12 schools got a reprieve today when a judge blocked President Donald Trumps order to eliminate diversity programs or risk losing federal funding.

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Trump Signs Executive Order to Ramp Up K-12 AI Education

GovTech

Education leaders said the order creates important momentum, but they expressed concerns about sustainable funding and whether ed-tech leaders will have a seat at the table to help shape the directives initiatives.

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Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools

Edsurge

Since generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene a few years ago, schools and educators have grappled with how to approach the powerful-but-experimental technology. Ban it? Embrace it? A new executive order plants the White House firmly in the latter camp. On April 23, President Donald Trump signed Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.