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How to incorporate real-world connections into any subject area

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Key points: Teachers are supporting students taking ownership of their learning Explicit instruction: Students need more of it 3 edtech tools for station rotation in early learning For more news on real-world connection, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In my classroom, I frequently encounter students expressing their opinions: How is this relevant to the real world?

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Invention Convention 2025 is coming

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Invention Convention Worldwide is a global K-12 curricular program mapped to national and state educational standards that teaches students problem identification, problem solving, entrepreneurship, creativity skills, and confidence. RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals 2025 runs June 4-6, 2025 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI. Here are websites to help you and your students learn about the excitement of inventions: A Guide to Inventions Famous Inventors How Inventions Change History (video)

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CoSN 2025: Humans in an AI world

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Key points: CoSN 2025 will tackle AI in education, among other topics CoSN outlines trends, challenges in K-12 innovation 10 tips for using analytics and adaptive tech in schools For more news on CoSN, visit eSN’s CoSN Corner Like it or not, AI is evolving, and it is cementing its place in education. And the CoSN 2025 Conference is preparing attendees to meet the AI challenge head-on, focusing this year’s conference theme on human leadership in an AI world.

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Can Small Language Models Help K–12 Schools?

EdTech Magazine

Everywhere you look in the current educational technology landscape, theres a newer, better, more promising artificial intelligence (AI) tool. But as the dust settles, K12 ed tech leaders and educators are learning that there isnt a one-size-fits-all model for education, and large language learning models, such as ChatGPT, arent always the perfect fit.

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Teaching Students Self-Monitoring Behavior Skills

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Picture a classroom where you dont have to address student misbehavior constantly. Managing behavior is one of the toughest parts of teaching , with so much time spent reminding students how to behave. But what if that wasnt necessary? What if students knew how to follow directions, use their critical thinking skills, and stay focused during work time?

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America’s Educational Crossroads

TNTP Blog

While our nation’s leaders wrestle with questions of governance, America’s young people are in crisis. The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed widening achievement gaps, with today’s struggling readers performing worse than their counterparts from three decades ago. Meanwhile, American students have fallen to 24th place internationally in mathematics.

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March 21, 2025: Navigating a High-Stakes Selection Season

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This week’s Market Insights equips district leaders with reading resources for navigating a high-stakes selection season. N ewsletter Highlights: Market Insights Blog: Beyond Siloed Solutions: A Collaborative Approach to Building a Cohesive Math Learning Ecosystem On-Demand Webinar: A New Curriculum Era: Aligning Math Instruction With Quality, Equity, and Innovation What We’re Reading: Brookings Institute | 5 years after COVID-19 hit: Test data converge on math gains, stalled readin

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How to Not Become an Angry Old Man

Teacher Toms Blog

Walt Whitman wrote: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes.) It's perhaps my favorite line from my favorite poem, Song of Myself. It is an acknowledgement that the self is the sum total of everything we have seen, smelled, tasted, heard, and felt. It is that moment when we recognize that we are not any one thing, but rather all the things and all of our responses to things.

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Trump signs executive order that aims to close U.S. Department of Education

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. President Donald Trump has signed a much anticipated executive order that he said is designed to close the U.S. Department of Education. The order Trump signed Thursday tells Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities to the maximum extent appropri