eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

Key points: AI can help students navigate difficult science subjects AI in K-12 instruction: Insights from instructional coaches GenAI and cultural competency: New priorities in teacher prep For more news on AI and STEM, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub STEM learning is critical for all students, regardless of their postsecondary path, but by high school, engagement often drops and students lose interest in critical subject matters.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2025

Minecraft has been popular with kids for a long time with no sign of slowing down. It’s useful for teaching a plethora of subjects, from history to math to geology to tech skills. Just as important, it’s that rare fun lesson that teaches problem solving and critical thinking without the usual pain. Edweek has a good article that focuses on Minecraft and coding, a quick three-minute read that is well worth your time: How Playing Minecraft Can Help Students Learn Coding Skills “S

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

Key points: Successful educator collaboration requires more structured support GenAI and cultural competency: New priorities in teacher preparation Advancing digital equity through teacher leadership For more news on PLCs, visit eSNs Educational Leadership hub What is the next generation of professional learning community (PLC) that will increase the power of collaboration to inspire more effective teaching?

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Teach Thought

MARCH 18, 2025

Bad data annotation weakens AI. Learn common mistakes, how to fix them, and build reliable datasets for accurate machine learning models.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) recently announced that it has become the new steward of Engaging Schools extensive body of educational resources. With Engaging Schools set to close in early 2025 after more than four decades of impact, CASEL will ensure the organizations valuable tools, books, and frameworks remain available to educators worldwide.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we? The answer, I believe, lies in using AI to help clear space for the work only we can dothe collaboration, connection, and critical guidance that makes education transformative.

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Reading Power Gear

MARCH 18, 2025

Spring is springing or just about to! It is the perfect time to take your class outside to search for signs of spring and enjoy the wonders and colours of the new season! And what better way to launch your searching for spring than by sharing a spring picture book? This week, I am featuring some newer Spring books (released in 2024 or 2025) and next week, I will be sharing some old favourites!

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Teach Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

As a teacher, youve seen firsthand how your students can lose focus, from daydreaming in their seats to chatting with their friends. Keeping a childs attention has never been easy, and with the average attention span now down to about 8 seconds (which is said to be shorter than a goldfish), its becoming even harder. While flexible seating has helped younger students release some energy, older students are often expected to focus for longer periods.

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English Teacher Margarita

MARCH 18, 2025

Picture above: Parts of speech with thanks to 7 ESL These are this term's blog entries partly seen in class: We can stop bullying An informal email Friends forever I've lived a life Showing emotions: Verbs Present Perfect or Simple Past?

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From the Pond

MARCH 18, 2025

Spring into Subtraction with the Bunny Whiskers Math Craft! Spring is the perfect time to bring a little hoppy fun into math lessons, and the Bunny Whiskers Subtraction Mathtivity is a hands-on way to teach young learners the "take away" strategy in a visual, interactive, and engaging way. This adorable math craft allows students to see, touch, and manipulate numbers as they practice subtraction, making it an ideal activity for small groups, math centers, or independent practice.

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Edtech IRL

MARCH 18, 2025

Do you collect bootable flash drives? If I dig through my desk or my backpack, I’m likely to find flash drives for the previous 4 Ubuntu LTS releases, pfSense, a few Kali drives, VMware, a ProxMox for good measure, and about every version of Windows under the sun. Naturally, none of them are labeled. To level up your USB game, it’s quick and easy to make a multiboot drive that can be used to store bootable images of all your ISOs.

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From the Pond

MARCH 18, 2025

Spring into Drawing: Easy Daffodil Directed Drawing for Kindergarten! Spring is a season of fresh beginnings, bright colors, and beautiful bloomsmaking it the perfect time for a daffodil-directed drawing lesson! If youre looking for a simple yet creative way to introduce your students to drawing, writing, and seasonal learning, this Easy Daffodil Directed Drawing is just the thing.

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The Life of a Conflicted Teacher

MARCH 18, 2025

Well, we are halfway through the Slice of Life Challenge, “sponsored” (not sure that is the right word), by the Two Writing Teachers website (an amazing resource for those of you who are writers or teachers of writing), so let’s check in and see how we are doing. #hippie Let’s not get carried away! In these 18 days: I’ve managed to write more than I have in months, which is huge.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

A woman approached me at the entrance to Trader Joe's the other day. She wanted to talk to me about a group she belongs to that meditates for world peace. I have nothing against either meditation or world peace, but I was hoping to get in-and-out, so I took the card she handed me and started to move past her. As I did, she stopped me, "May I ask you a question?

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2025

Panicked calls from parents. More empty desks in classrooms. Higher anxiety. Those are some of the effects school officials from around the country say their communities have been experiencing in the weeks since the Trump administration rolled back a federal policy that restricted Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from conducting raids on school grounds.

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