eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2025

Key points: AI and collaborative edtech tools offer a creative path to digital citizenship skills Adding AI to your K-12 digital citizenship curriculum Critical thinking in the digital age of AI: Information literacy is key For more on edtech and digital citizenship, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub What happens when over 100 passionate educators converge in Chicago to celebrate two decades of educational innovation?

Critical Thinking

k12 Digest

AUGUST 12, 2025

Nicholas Bevington is an award-winning educational leader with over two decades of experience, including 18 years as a head. As Head of Junior School at Dulwich College (Singapore), he leads one of the world’s most successful international schools, celebrated for academic excellence, a holistic approach, and innovative curriculum design. A First Class Honours graduate from Keele University, he began his career on the British Airways Graduate Programme before retraining at Newcastle University an

Culture

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2025

This press release originally appeared online. Key points: Educators need more support to make the science of reading a primary classroom method Solving our literacy crisis starts in the lecture hall NAEP scores show disheartening trends for the lowest-performing students For more news on the science of reading, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub While most New York educators enthusiastically support the science of reading, few report using it as their primary approach to literacy instruc

Reading

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 12, 2025

“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie In my role as a fellow at my university’s Center for Teaching and Learning, I’ve had dozens of conversations with faculty across disciplines—and one pattern has become impossible to ignore. The gulf between those working to integrate AI into their teaching and those swearing off its use entirely is growing wider by the month.

Ethics

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2025

Key points: It’s critical to emphasize the benefits of the professional learning program–for the teachers and for their students A look at one school’s innovative approach to PD Elevating principals, teachers, and students through shared purpose For more on professional learning, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub A lot of teachers assume that once students get to fourth or fifth grade, they already know how to read.

Teachers

Teachers Pay Teachers

AUGUST 12, 2025

Back-to-school season is in full swing. You’ve already learned who your students are, and even those bulletin boards are starting to take over your dreams. As you prepare for the year ahead, Meet the Teacher ideas and resources can help your students and their families get to know you better. Explore organization strategies and ready-to-go resources, plus engaging activity ideas, to help make your Meet the Teacher Night manageable for you and memorable for everyone.

Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2025

Gamifying assessments for teachers means integrating the game-like elements students love into lesson plans in such a way that students want to learn material. It’s been around a long time, but gaining popularity in today’s classrooms. With a long track record of use, it’s fair to ask: Does it work? The Ask a Tech Teacher team has a quick overview of this question: Gamification of Assessments: Fun or Flawed?

Gamification

Reading Power Gear

AUGUST 12, 2025

Kids love nonfiction. And I love sharing great new nonfiction books because then you can share them with the readers in your class! Remember, nonfiction books are instrumental in helping students build knowledge, vocabulary AND, most importantly, learn and wonder about the world around them. Here are some great new nonfiction books that I think your students will LOVE to learn from, listen to, and LOVE this fall!

Writing

Autism Classroom Resources

AUGUST 12, 2025

I know many teachers struggle trying to think of reading IEP goals for nonverbal students and students with significant disabilities. Many think that students who are nonverbal aren’t going to be able to read. But that isn’t the case. In fact, there are specific beginning skills that nonverbal students can learn that foster the use of print–or literacy.

Reading

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2025

It became a routine as familiar as going to lunch or picking up a child after school. Each day started with students logging online and listening as a teacher taught through a screen instead of at the front of a classroom. While this shift to virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic eventually boomeranged back to in-person learning for most children, for some families, it’s become their new normal.

Disabilities

GovTech

AUGUST 12, 2025

As of last year, Texas had 24 full-time, public virtual schools in operation serving nearly 62,200 students. In 2014, the state had only a few virtual schools and less than 5,000 students in them.

Schools

Elevate k12

AUGUST 12, 2025

When Every Day Counts The first weeks of school set the tone for the entire year. For principals, they are also the weeks when every hour counts, when routines take root, relationships form, and learning momentum builds. Many principals are starting this year already in a sprint. Maybe you held out hope that the perfect in-person hire would come through before the first bell rang, only to have the position still vacant on day one.

Coaching

GovTech

AUGUST 12, 2025

The nonprofit AI Education Project (aiEDU) has launched a new program aimed at supporting artificial intelligence literacy and workforce readiness in rural and Indigenous communities across the U.S.

Intelligence

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2025

New York, NY, August 12, 2025 – Counslr , a leading mental health and wellness platform , announced today that it has expanded its footprint, partnering with many school districts across the country in anticipation of the 2025-26 school year as budget cuts erode school mental health initiatives, resulting in school communities to explore alternative cost-effective solutions.

Accessibility

We are Teachers

AUGUST 12, 2025

What is really changing in our schools? And what do school enrollment changes mean for teachers and school leaders?

Schools

EFL Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2025

No Whiteboard Teaching in No Time I would like to share with you the way this works, i.e. how I use these digital tools to raise productivity and save precious […] The post No Whiteboard Teaching in No Time appeared first on EFL Magazine.

Teaching

We are Teachers

AUGUST 12, 2025

Set the tone for the new school year with these great teacher introduction letter to parents examples, plus editable templates for pre-K - 12!

Teachers

Teacher Toms Blog

AUGUST 12, 2025

Salvador Dalí My wife and I moved to Germany in the early 1990's. She grew up in Austria, Germany, and northern Italy, so for her it was a kind of homecoming, but for me it was a true fish out of water experience. For instance, I was accustomed to American style supermarkets with massive aisles of, say, chips, offering dozens, if not hundreds, of choices.

Attention

k12

AUGUST 12, 2025

Does your child belt out ballads in the backseat? Choreograph TikTok-worthy dance routines in the living room? Juggle, act, beatbox, or play the ukulele like a pro? It’s time to take that talent from the kitchen floor to the main stage—because the K12 Talent Showdown is officially on! What is the K12 Talent Showdown? It’s the ultimate nationwide talent competition for K12-powered students in grades K–12.

Grades

GovTech

AUGUST 12, 2025

Some critics of Pennsylvania cyber charters overstate how cheaply they can operate, while advocates overlook how much they receive for special-ed students and how much less they spend on buildings and transportation.

Students

Cal Matters

AUGUST 12, 2025

In summary The administration terminated the grants over alleged DEI violations. University of California attorneys argued the suspensions were arbitrary and capricious. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants that it suspended at UCLA last month, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement.

Essay

The Life of a Conflicted Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2025

It’s hard to imagine that next Monday, we’ll be back in school. #whyohwhy Tell me about it. We’ve enjoyed our summer. A lot. #nokidding Ha! To summerize our summer: Spent a few days in Flordia right after school let up to decompress on the beach. Got chairs on the beach almost every day along with an umbrella. We took a kayak trip in some backwater, which was fun.

Fairness