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5 strategies to get your students talking

eSchool News

Key points: Students should engage in meaningful discussions to engage in learning 4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital engagement, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Communication is one of today’s most in-demand skills, and building strong communication skills in person and online is critical.

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ISTELive 25: The Intersection of Indigenous Culture and Technology

EdTech Magazine

From solving problems — how do you shake the bells on a jingle dress when your robot can’t jump up and down? — to interacting with First Nations peoples in a virtual world, technology can bring traditional indigenous viewpoints into a modern classroom. Minecraft Education’s A Pacific Northwest Coast Experience transports students to a native village where they must unlearn the usual rules of the game.

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Amid discouraging math scores, are states improving elementary math instruction?

eSchool News

Key points: Only 21 states provide clear, detailed guidance to teacher prep programs Only 1 in 8 elementary teacher prep programs adequately teach math The math anxiety equation: How to solve for confidence in math class For more news on teacher prep, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that most states fall short when it comes to preparing and supporting elementary teachers to effectively teach math, despite the gla

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"I Can Pick Up This Whole School!"

Teacher Toms Blog

Several of the kids were taking turns boasting about how strong they were. "I can pick up this whole table!" "I can pick up this whole school!" "I can pick up this whole world!" As their claims escalated ludicrously, some of their classmates called them out. "No you can't!" "You can't even pick up a piece of paper!" "You can't even pick up a piece of toilet paper!

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ISTE Takeaways—What It Takes To Win the Impact Award

eSchool News

Jean-Claude, one of the recipients of the prestigious 2025 Impact award, highlighted three key ISTE takeaways: co-design in educational technology, learner variability supporting neurodiversity, and AI integration. He emphasizes that AI discussions are evolving beyond teacher efficiency to focus on revolutionizing curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy across subjects like math, science, and reading.

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Why An Interactive Classroom Is So Important

Lab to Class

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. While few classrooms are this extreme anymore, there is still a large amount of time where students are expected to sit and listen to the teacher.

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Look Who’s Talking—Bringing STEM Up To Speed

eSchool News

Tim presented at no less than seven sessions at ISTE this year, focusing on cross-disciplinary STEAM education and meaningful AI integration in classrooms. He emphasizes that educators need to move beyond simply replacing traditional teaching methods with AI tools and instead focus on integrating AI with project-based learning approaches. He highlights the importance of finding the best AI tools for specific districts and audiences, noting that the educational AI landscape changes so rapidly tha

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Look Who’s Talking—Making Artificial Intelligence a Real Classroom Solution

eSchool News

Dr. Charania emphasizes that educators shouldn’t wait for formal AI plans but should leverage their own “circle of influence” to create change. Her presentation highlights how teachers can use AI tools not just for efficiency, but to ignite human agency. Mahnaz also praises recent updates to Canva and Google’s Gemini as powerful, free tools for educators.

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Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts & Decodable Passages

Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

If you’re looking for engaging, hands-on phonics activities to boost early reading success, this is the perfect place to start! Designed specifically for Kindergarten and 1st grade students, these Short Vowel CVC Phonics Foldable Crafts & Decodable Passages for Early Readers help students practice reading, spelling, and writing simple consonant-vowel-consonant words.

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How K-12 Districts Can Navigate Compliance, Staffing, and Instructional Risk in 2025

Elevate k12

The Compliance Playbook Just Got Shredded In 2025, the rulebook for public education is being rewritten in real time. Districts across the country are facing a convergence of policy shocks that are fundamentally altering how they deliver instruction, serve students with specific needs, and ensure legal compliance. The federal government has begun dismantling the U.S.

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New York Launches Website to Prepare Schools for Phone Ban

GovTech

The new website includes a policy FAQ, toolkit and examples that school districts can use to design their own policies to restrict personal devices from being used on school grounds during the school day.

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The Supreme Court Says Schools Need To Allow Opt-Outs From LGBTQ Stories—What Teachers Need To Know

We are Teachers

Legal experts caution that this precedent could lead to objections against other topics, including evolution, social-emotional skills, and more.

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BBC Launches Online Learning Hub for U.S. Educators

GovTech

The U.K. media giant is expanding its educational offerings internationally, starting with the U.S., with an online learning hub containing more than 1,000 videos, lessons and other resources for K-12 teachers.

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Toys + Core Words

Primary Punch

It’s no secret that I fully support play-based therapy sessions. In many of my sessions I am working towards teaching a variety of core vocabulary (words that are frequently used in conversation aside from nouns) with my students. My goal is for my students to understand these words as well as begin to use them too. Sometimes it’s hard to come up with core words to target with a certain toy so I often use a pre-made list.

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What Do Teachers Need to Know About Cybersecurity?

GovTech

Ahead of a presentation at the ISTELive 25 + ASCD Annual Conference 25 in San Antonio, a STEAM educator from Pennsylvania shared tips for making cybersecurity training personal and actionable for teachers.

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Federal Court Blocks Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law—What Teachers Need To Know

We are Teachers

The Federal Court blocks Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law. Here's what teachers need to know about this new development.

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Poetry Friday: Independence Day Roundup of Protest and Praise for This Complicated Country We Call Home

A Year of Reading

Poetry is not news. It is not a comment upon it. Art does what art does, which is often a tricksy thing. — Pádraig Ó Tuama You’re an artist if you create something! You’re an artist if you don’t see the worrld the way it is, if you hate white walls! No one else decides what art is, no one can stop you loving whatever you like, the cynics and critics can have control of all the other crap on the planet.but they can’t decide how hard your heart beats!

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Books I read in June 2025

Class Tech Tips

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2025… Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood , Sara Lev, Amanda Clark, & Erin Starkey (education) The First Book of Swords , Fred Saberhagen (fantasy) A Drop of Corruption , Robert Jackson Bennett (fantasy) The Golden Enclaves , Naomi Novik (fantasy) The Final Dawn , T. W. M. Ashford (science fiction) Conscript , Scott Bartlett (science fiction) The Invaders Plan , L.

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Books I read in June 2025

Dangerously Irrelevant

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2025… Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood , Sara Lev, Amanda Clark, & Erin Starkey (education) The First Book of Swords , Fred Saberhagen (fantasy) A Drop of Corruption , Robert Jackson Bennett (fantasy) The Golden Enclaves , Naomi Novik (fantasy) The Final Dawn , T. W. M. Ashford (science fiction) Conscript , Scott Bartlett (science fiction) The Invaders Plan , L.

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Help! My Coworker Is a TikTok Influencer—and I’m Not On Board

We are Teachers

"My coworker is a teacher influencer—what do I do?" Check out our advice on this week's Ask We Are Teachers.

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Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books

Edsurge

Young adults are finding it harder to borrow books reflective of their lived experiences in their schools and public libraries. It isn’t because these stories don’t exist — they do — but because they’ve been challenged and removed, restricted, or were never purchased at all. This is especially true in parts of the country where state legislatures have enacted laws criminalizing what educators can and can’t say about politically, religiously, or morally divisive topics, as well as regions where p