eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Key points: AI tools offer unique opportunities to support ELLs in their storytelling journey 5 education innovation trends to watch in 2025 Using AI to teach persuasive writing to English learners For more on AI for ELLs, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Imagine this: You assign your students a writing prompt, and while some eagerly begin crafting their stories, others stare at the blank page, muttering, I have nothing to write, or I cant think of a story.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A friend of mine told me this story: “On a chilly winter evening in New York City, Sarah (not her real name) was struggling with the cold and the cost of her subway ride home when an elderly man noticed her plight. Without hesitation, he gave her a fully loaded subway card, explaining he had more than he needed. He also offered her a homemade sandwich, insisting it was no good to waste food.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For the three K12 technology panelists at the 2025 TCEA Convention & Exposition session in Austin, Texas, future proofing education is not about buying the latest, shiny piece of educational technology. Its about making sure that students and teachers have what they need to prepare them to thrive in the 21st century. And one way to ensure that is to lease technologies instead of buying them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The Trump administration has cleared the way for immigration arrests at or near schools, ending a decades-old approach. Republican and Democratic administrations alike have treated schools and child care centers, along with churches and hospitals, as sensitive or protected locations where immigration enforcement should only take place when there is an immediate danger to the public.

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