eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2025

Key points: Every privacy program needs leadership to champion the work Is your district safeguarding student data? Protecting our students: The urgency of securing education data For more news on data privacy, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, its really that simple of a priority–and that complicated.

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Teacher Cast

APRIL 14, 2025

Instructional coaches act as vital connectors between administration and teachers, enhancing professional growth and student success. The complexity of this role requires effective organization and productivity systems, including digital forms and spreadsheets. Tools like Notion can streamline coaching efforts, improving data management and ultimately fostering teacher development and student learning outcomes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2025

Key points: Standards-aligned lessons use virtual museum visits as a foundation for deep language learning Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs Revolutionizing storytelling with AI: Empowering ELLs For more news on ELLs, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Art has a unique power in the ESL classroom–a magic that bridges cultures, ignites imagination, and breathes life into language.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

The emergency call landscape is changing. Even as schools are adopting Enhanced 911 (E911), states are working to digitize their emergency centers in a pivot toward Next Generation 911 (NG911). K12 leaders must understand these changes to comply with current laws and to ensure their infrastructure is ready for the digital evolution in emergency communications.

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Class Tech Tips

APRIL 14, 2025

Hey, yall, I think I have this whole AI in education thing figured out. Am I doing this right?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 14, 2025

Starting tomorrow, on my writer’s blog, WordDreams , my wonderful efriends are helping me launch my latest prehistoric fiction, Badlands. Early reviews… “Your best ever” –husby (you say he said the same thing last time? I don’t remember) “…prehistoric man takes on nature in all her fury and survives.” –Sandra Cox I’ll be visiting writer friend blogs April 15-26th.

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EFL Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

How to Prepare for Your English Exam In my previous article, I discussed a few of the many English tests available online and offline. However, before you register and pay […] The post How to Prepare for Your English Exam appeared first on EFL Magazine.

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EFL Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

7 Ready-to-Go Spolin Improv Activities for Your Classroom Improvisation for the Theatre by Viola Spolin, came into my possession buried in a pile of laundry. It’s dogeared, battered, tattered, and […] The post 7 Ready-to-Go Spolin Improv Activities for Your Classroom appeared first on EFL Magazine.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

Guest Commentary written by Silvia Paz Silvia Paz is the founder and executive director of Alianza Coachella Valley, and was the chair of the governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Lithium Extraction. I grew up in the Salton Sea region in a mobile home community of farmworkers. Our corner of the unincorporated town Mecca lacked access to transportation, grocery stores, health clinics, sidewalks, reliable electricity and sewer or water infrastructure.

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Teacher Toms Blog

APRIL 14, 2025

The closer something is to the core of existence, the harder it is to define. One of the reasons we struggle to do consistent research into play, for instance, is that we can't, from research team to research team, seem to agree on what exactly play is. Although most of us know it when we see it. Consciousness is so notoriously difficult to define that it's often referred to as "the hard problem".

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GovTech

APRIL 14, 2025

Many U.S. school districts have turned to technology, especially digital surveillance, as the antidote to campus violence. Not everyone is sold on that approach, as it can raise issues with privacy and security.

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Organized Classroom

APRIL 14, 2025

Hey Friends! Denise here from Sunny Days in Second Grade. Since we have to make it through the last few weeks before those heavenly lazy days of summer are upon us, I have a little idea I’d like to share with you. I’ve never really been one for the end of the year countdown idea. Mostly because I like to keep the kids unaware that we’re actually winding down because that seems to translate in them amping up, if you know what I mean!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 14, 2025

On the best days, teaching is one of the most fulfilling careers you can find. You get to inspire students, collaborate with other professionals, and impact the future of your community every day. But as we all know, not every teaching day is as rewarding as the last. So what do you do when you start to feel the tell-tale signs of teacher burnout? Learn all about symptoms, tips for turning things around, and how teacher burnout can have a major effect on the entire educational profession.

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We are Teachers

APRIL 14, 2025

Learn how to become a plumber, with information and advice from a real professional in the field. Plus, grab a free printable poster!

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Priceless Ponderings

APRIL 14, 2025

Priceless Ponderings The Best Homeschool Social Studies Curriculum for Busy Parents Finding the perfect homeschool social studies curriculum can feel overwhelming. You want something engaging, low-prep, and aligned with educational standardsbut with so many options, where do you even start? If you’re a busy parent, you need a curriculum that simplifies your life while making social studies exciting for your child.

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k12

APRIL 14, 2025

When we think about STEMscience, technology, engineering, and mathwe usually think of high school or college. But the foundation for curiosity, problem-solving, and innovation starts much earlier. Elementary students begin to explore the world around them, ask big questions, and develop the critical thinking skills that make STEM subjects so exciting.

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Teach Your Kids

APRIL 14, 2025

Why is it that homeschooling gets accused of “hurting” public schools, while no one says that about private schools or public virtual schools? Homeschoolers aren’t corporations. They’re ordinary people trying to do right by our kids. Let’s be real: I’m not interested in protecting public school as an institution. I’m interested in helping children access a good public education.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 14, 2025

Some days, your classroom feels like a whirlwind of energywhether its excitement over a special event, frustration from a tough lesson, or a case of the giggles that just wont stop. Managing these emotions in a way that keeps learning on track (without feeling like youre constantly putting out fires) is essential. One of the most challenging times for this is during transitions, especially right after lunch or recess.

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GovTech

APRIL 14, 2025

A bill introduced to the House of Representatives this week would ban cellphones from school classrooms, with exceptions for students with disabilities or other needs, such as lack of English language proficiency.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

In summary More than 100 California bills moved to the suspense file last week, the start of a process where consequential decisions are made out of public view. In just 24 minutes and without any debate , the most powerful committee in the state Senate last week moved 33 bills from public view into a secretive process that will decide whether the measures live or die.

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GovTech

APRIL 14, 2025

Leaders from across the political spectrum found common ground at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego this month discussing workforce preparation and critical thinking, which all parties seem to agree need attention.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

Court research by Robert Lewis, Lauren Hepler, Anat Rubin, Sergio Olmos, Cayla Mihalovich, Ese Olumhense, Ko Bragg, Andrew Donohue and Jenna Peterson Ivan Dimov was convicted of reckless driving in 2013, after fleeing police in Washington state while his passenger allegedly dumped heroin out the window. Before that, he got six DUIs in California over a six-year period.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

CalMatters wanted to understand how California handles dangerous drivers. When we began looking into it, we found that while there has been research on infrastructure, technology and engineering solutions, there had been little study of the drivers who cause bad crashes. So we asked the California Department of Motor Vehicles for data on drivers involved in fatal and serious-injury collisions.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

In summary Six conservancies throughout the state will oversee work largely in Southern California and the Sierra Nevada. Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed new legislation that will provide more than $170 million in state funding to help prevent wildfires while signing an order aimed at speeding up the work by easing environmental permitting. The funding which the Democratic governor said was part of a broader effort to better protect communities ahead of peak fire season comes as the state is un

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

Jerrod Tejeda holds a framed photo of his daughter Cassi Tejeda, who was killed by a drunk driver with two prior DUIs, at his home in Visalia on March 6, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Ervin Wyatts history behind the wheel spreads across two pages of a recent court filing: Fleeing police. Fleeing police again. Running a red light.

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Cal Matters

APRIL 14, 2025

In summary The National Institutes of Health restored a leading University of California researchers $36 million grant studying dementia on Friday after terminating it three weeks ago as part of the Trump administrations DEI purge. The UC says others were restored, too. The National Institutes of Health reversed its termination of a $36 million grant to a UC Davis researcher studying dementia, a day after CalMatters wrote about the cancelled grant and the researcher filed an appeal.

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