eSchool News

JULY 22, 2025

Key points: AI is helping to level the playing field for English Learners AI tools that support learning–not cheating You’re using ChatGPT? A true story about why AI literacy starts with us For more on using AI with English Learners, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub “I don’t think he understands anything I say in class,” Ms. Pierce, a high school science teacher, admitted to me recently.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Homeschooling offers a unique opportunity to tailor your child’s education to their specific needs and interests. You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Making a curriculum for homeschool students that’s engaging and tailored to their learning style is key to helping them succeed. Keep things simple by following this step-by-step guide to building effective lessons.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2025

To bridge language barriers, streamline school operations, and enhance family engagement, Bloomz, the leading all-in-one school communication and engagement platform, today announced a suite of transformative new features. At the forefront is Immersive Translation, a first-of-its-kind innovation that provides equitable access for ESL/ELL families by translating the entire Bloomz app—including menus, buttons, and dialogues—into more than 250 languages.

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Gaggle Speaks

JULY 22, 2025

Across the nation, educators have been preparing for a quiet—but consequential—change: on July 17, 2025, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline retired its “Press 3” option specifically for LGBTQ+ youth. The federal rationale is to “serve all help-seekers under one model,” yet many advocates fear a loss of culturally competent care. That shift lands squarely on the shoulders of school and district leaders.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2025

Even before Donald Trump moved into his second term as president, experts and advocates predicted a drop in school attendance by students from immigrant families, arguing that a “ climate of fear ” would prevent students from showing up in their classrooms. Now, emergent research suggests just how quickly that happened, and how staggering some of the attendance drops were.

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EFL Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

How to Use Scratch Animator in The Classroom Today In this article you will get knowledge about How to use scratch in the EFL Classroom Creating learning environments that are engaging […] The post How to Use Scratch Animation Maker in the Classroom appeared first on EFL Magazine.

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GovTech

JULY 22, 2025

Purpose-built AI learning platforms that don’t give students the answer, as opposed to tools that allow for direct answer generation like ChatGPT, are the way to avoid making students utterly dependent upon AI.

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We are Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Idioms are expressions that don't always make sense literally. Use these idiom examples to teach kids and English language learners.

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GovTech

JULY 22, 2025

A two-week program at North Carolina Central University gives attendees a $1,000 stipend, field trips to local businesses, team bonding activities and a pitch competition to help with the students’ overall development.

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Cemd

JULY 22, 2025

What is the Jobs to Be Done Theory? When selecting supplemental products, one approach district leaders can take is to identify the “ Jobs to Be Done ”; that is, what gap does a given supplement aim to fill? What jobs does your core product do well, compared to your supplemental product(s)? The Jobs to Be Done framework advances the idea that individuals do not simply buy products; rather, they bring them into their lives to accomplish a “job” and make progress.* The contextual circumstances and

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Artificial intelligence is transforming education, from adaptive learning platforms to intelligent tutoring systems, and its influence will continue to grow. As AI tools are integrated into classrooms, schools increasingly need powerful processing units to handle AI workloads. This is where neural processing units come in. What Are Neural Processing Units (NPUs)?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 22, 2025

Registration is now open for Teacher Tom's Play-Based Learning Summer Camp (see below). Psychologist and author of the book Changing Our Minds , Naomi Fisher, once told me that her three-year-old son took an early interest in numbers. One day as they walked together through their neighborhood, he noticed of the house addresses. "Did you know," he asked his mother, "that there are lonely numbers and friendly numbers?

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k12

JULY 22, 2025

By: Sierra M., 11th 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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We are Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

These picture writing prompts are a unique way to excite young creative writers. Find options for all grades on a variety of subjects.

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GovTech

JULY 22, 2025

Spurred by legislation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023, schools in Palm Beach County will begin rolling out new safety cameras that will automatically issue tickets to vehicles exceeding the speed limit by 10mph.

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Teach Thought

JULY 22, 2025

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when an individual encounters a conflict between what they believe and how they behave, or between two competing beliefs.

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We are Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Teachers, if you'd like to protect your eyes for the remainder of the summer or simply save on your new specs, Ray-Ban has you covered!

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Teach Thought

JULY 22, 2025

Skip to content Newsletter Analogy Booklet Search Read Expand Recent Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Critical Thinking Terms Assessment Terms Survey Contact Toggle Menu Standing for Critical Thinking and Progress by Terrell Heick At TeachThought, we have always focused on promoting critical thinking cross for use in ‘human’ applications–namely, people (i.e., education stakeholders) and places (i.e., communities).

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