eSchool News

JULY 31, 2025

This post originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: There are four key angles that illustrate AI’s potential impact on education AI can personalize learning–it can’t make students care AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub A few weeks ago, MIT’s Media Lab put out a st udy on how AI affects the brain.

Education

Faculty Focus

JULY 31, 2025

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from a distant technological concept to an everyday tool accessible to our students. In recent years, AI has proven to be a disruptor in the delivery of education, raising concerns among educators. Rather than viewing AI as a threat to academic integrity or a shortcut that undermines learning, educators have an opportunity to reframe AI as a collaborative partner in the educational process (Bowe

Metacognitive Skills

eSchool News

JULY 31, 2025

Key points: Let AI support the writing process, not define the product Building an educator’s AI toolbox AI tools that support learning–not cheating For more news on using AI in writing, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub A colleague of ours recently attended an AI training where the opening slide featured a list of all the ways AI can revolutionize our classrooms.

Writing

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 31, 2025

Whether your child loves to write or groans at the thought, choosing the right homeschool writing curriculum can make all the difference. From structured, step-by-step programs to creative, literature-rich approaches, there’s a wide variety of writing resources to meet your family’s needs. As a homeschooler for over 20 years with my three kids, I have seen and used a lot of homeschool curriculum.

Writing

GovTech

JULY 31, 2025

A study in Oklahoma will examine the benefits and challenges of the expansion of educational technology in classrooms, focusing on its impact on the health and academic performance of elementary school students.

Elementary School

From the Pond

JULY 31, 2025

Ladybug Clocks, Coloring, and Telling Time Fun! 🐞⏰ If you're teaching your students to tell time to the hour and half hour, I have an exciting little update for you! My popular time-telling resource just got even better! Clocks for Hour and Half Hour Time now includes a bonus coloring page featuring 3 clocks—perfect for writing both analog and digital time.

Math

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2025

The enrollment cliff has long loomed in the minds of higher education leaders anticipating that a sharp decline in the number of incoming students starting around 2025 could spell disaster for their institutions’ bottom line. And a lesser discussed — but equally concerning — enrollment cliff is potentially emerging within the K-12 education sector. While colleges are seeing the dip in large part because of the questioned value of degrees , the K-12 space is facing a perfect storm of factors that

Schools

A Place Called Kindergarten

JULY 31, 2025

Launch your KINDERGARTEN WRITING WORKSHOP with drawing! Learn how to build confident young writers with visual storytelling, a FREE LINES THAT WIGGLE ANCHOR CHART and engaging drawing mini-lessons. If you're wondering how to kick off your Kindergarten Writing Workshop successfully, the answer is simple: start with drawing. Before kids write words, they communicate through pictures.

Writing

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 31, 2025

A major focus of Teacher Tom's Play-Based Learning Summer Camp (see below) is the role of the adults when the task of learning is turned over to the children. I was watching the girl arrange her things, or rather, the things she had made hers by gathering them from around the playground. It was clear from her behavior that she had a plan, but since these were loose parts, anything could be anything to an outside observer.

Art

We are Teachers

JULY 31, 2025

Time to update your preschool book collection? Here's a mega-list of books for preschoolers—all about me, emotions, seasons, and more!

Teachers

GovTech

JULY 31, 2025

The Maryland Energy Administration will pay for 53 electric buses and 40 charging stations, aiming for cost savings, cleaner air and workforce development for a more sustainable student transportation system.

Schools

Cal Matters

JULY 31, 2025

In summary The suspensions affect hundreds of UCLA grants and come days after Trump’s Department of Justice concluded in an investigation that “Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA were subjected to severe” harassment. The Trump administration is suspending hundreds of science research grants at UCLA in response to a Justice Department finding this week that the campus didn’t do enough to halt antisemitism during last year’s pro-Palestine protests.

Failure

GovTech

JULY 31, 2025

Some Texas parents are in an uproar at the idea their child wouldn’t have cellphone access at school, but the editorial board of the Weatherford Texas Democrat argues that their anger is misplaced, and unwarranted.

Accessibility

A Year of Reading

JULY 31, 2025

Catherine challenged the Inklings to try a triptych this month, using Irene’s recent blog post as a springboard. Here’s how the rest of the Inklings tripped their tych, if end-of-summer mania allowed them join in: Heidi @ my juicy little universe Margaret @ Reflections on the Teche Linda @ A Word Edgewise Catherine @ Reading to the Core Molly @ Nix the Comfort Zone Jane has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup at Raincity Librarian.

Reading

We are Teachers

JULY 31, 2025

Music teachers, this one is for you! Get a 10% discount on MONO music cases and bags, designed to move with you.

Teachers