eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

Key points: Building community in the name of sustainability is a core component of the environmental movement How this educator integrates Dungeons & Dragons into the curriculum How I came to love phenomena-based science instruction For more news on teaching trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As a teacher and advocate for environmental education, Ive seen students around the country feeling eco-anxiety.

Interdisciplinary

Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Some classroom strategies stick around for a reason, and Think-Pair-Share a cooperative learning approach is one of them. Whether youre teaching elementary students or high schoolers, this strategy works for everyone. It doesnt require any preparation, and when utilized intentionally, it can completely transform the way students process and engage with the content.

Fairness

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

There I was, standing in front of my face-to-face Introduction to Psychology class on a sunny Monday afternoon in spring 2024. I was watching as a few of my students took notes while the remaining students sat passively, perhaps hoping my animated gestures and pacing would somehow osmotically transfer my explanation of classical conditioning into their brains.

Active Learning

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

As the education world grapples with a post-pandemic academic recovery that has stalled in some regions , a new research paper is taking the measure of key players in students success: their teachers. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Researchers are looking at whether teachers have what they need to thrive in Teaching for Tomorrow: Educators on the Future of Their Profession, part of a multiyear study undertaken by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation.

Teachers

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Carl Morris, Co-Founder of educave, draws on extensive insights gained while building and scaling other EdTech and Education businesses, such as The Online School, EDAI, and Carfax Education. Through these experiences, Carl developed a deep understanding of what founders require to navigate the unique challenges within the Education Industry and achieve sustainable growth.

Education

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Lets face it, making core content engaging can take extra creativity. Thats especially true when youre supporting multilingual learners (MLs), who are navigating both academic content and a new language at the same time. Creating a classroom where every student feels confident to contribute doesnt happen overnight. It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed.

Language

eSchool News

MAY 21, 2025

Key points: Comprehensive action plans should start in schools and extend into homes Data gaps negatively impact academic progress and attendance Maybe its time to change up high school to improve student attendance For more news on absenteeism, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Empty seats have become a common sight in our nations classrooms.

Schools

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Preparing the next generation of graduates in a 21st-century, diverse, and international classroom requires a pedagogical shift to recalibrate ones practice. A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching a

Accessibility

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

When would I ever use this? Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. Solving this motivation problem is tricky. It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses lik

Math

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Dr. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St. John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

Science

From the Pond

MAY 19, 2025

Starting the day with a short, hands-on math warm-up is one of the best ways to build strong number sense and routines in your K-1 classroom. These warm-ups or lesson ignitions are more than just time-fillers theyre intentional, 510 minute activities designed to review key math concepts and get young learners thinking mathematically right from the start.

Math

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

Key points: A fun twist on a reading assignment boosted student engagement Revolutionizing storytelling with AI: Empowering ELLs We are just beginning the uphill climb to improve student reading scores For more news on reading engagement, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub When students become literacy influencers, reading transforms from a classroom task into a global conversation.

Culture

Teach Hub

MAY 22, 2025

Bringing art into the classroom gives your students a new way to get involved. They open up more, stay focused longer, and feel like their voice matters, even if theyre not the loudest one in the room. Creative projects let them take the lead, get hands-on, and connect to what theyre learning in a way that feels real. You dont need to be an art teacher to bring art into your classroom.

Art

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Peer-to-peer conversations can help students to make connections with each other and course content. In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling.

Instructors

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2025

Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. The court heard oral arguments for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond at the end of April, less than a month before issuing its decision. Arising out of a contested charter grant issued to an openly religious virtual charter school in Oklahoma, the case was a test of both the long-standing interpretation of

Schools

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Dr. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St. John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

Science

GovTech

MAY 15, 2025

State and local entities had already begun to receive grant awards to teach digital skills and provide connectivity and devices for underserved people, including K-12 students, when the program was canceled last week.

Education

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2025

Key points: It’s time to build smarter systems that reduce teacher burdens and increase student engagement To boost teacher morale, reimagine the teacher role Key strategies for education leaders to boost morale For more news on teacher burnout, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub The current education crisis isn’t just about the need to support student academic recovery–it’s also about teacher retention.

Teachers

Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Email Main Menu Newsletter Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Literacy Posts Teaching Posts Search More Menu Toggle Assessment Learning Models by Terrell Heick Curricula Policies Email Home Critical Thinking Posts A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks 88.6k Views Facebook Linkedin Print A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks by

Evaluation

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates.

Disabilities

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship. Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counse

Education

Edtech IRL

MAY 21, 2025

For those of us keeping up with the PowerSchool data breach, a 19-year-old student at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to several federal charges after hacking into the systems of two U.S. companies and attempting to extort millions in ransom payments (one telecom provider and an unnamed educational software company that has been confirmed elsewhere as PowerSchool).

Confidentiality

Teacher Cast

MAY 8, 2025

Teachers today face significant challenges due to increased workload and engagement demands. To address this, an effective productivity system is essential. The guide discusses using Google Sites, Google Classroom, Notion, and Google Gemini to streamline teaching, enhance organization, facilitate lesson creation, and ultimately foster improved student interactions and learning outcomes.

Teachers

eSchool News

MAY 29, 2025

Key points: They’re not just comics–graphic novels have secret literacy powers Student-created book reviews inspire a global reading culture Offering books with favorite licensed characters can engage young readers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Walk into any classroom today and youll hear a familiar refrain from teachers: How do we get kids excited about reading again?

Attention

Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Email Main Menu Newsletter Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Literacy Posts Teaching Posts Search More Menu Toggle Assessment Learning Models by Terrell Heick Curricula Policies Email Home Critical Thinking Posts 100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking 601.5k Views Facebook Linkedin Print Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking by TeachThought Sta

Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

The Age of AI is Upon Us. Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., Schoeder, 2024).

Instructors

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. One such game is called Decimal Point.

STEM

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

With median U.S. salaries for electrical Engineers ~$103,000 and computer e ngineers ~$129,000, who wouldn’t be interested? Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately.

Lecturing

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Dr. Daman Harris is an award-winning education leader committed to equity, instructional leadership, and educator development. He co-founded and co-directs the BOND Project, a nonprofit supporting the recruitment and retention of male educators of color. His book,The Antiracist School Leader: What to Know, Say, and Do, is currently available. During his 29 years as an educator, Dr.

Confidentiality

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Key points: For students with autism, the right supports are often the difference between just getting by in school and truly thriving How schools can better support neurodiverse students Heres how I use tech to help neurodivergent students gain agency For more news on students with autism, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Recent public commentary about autism has brought new urgency to the conversation.

Students

Teacher Mood

MAY 25, 2025

As the final bell rings and the classroom lights flick off for summer , many teachers feel a strange mix of exhaustion and hope. Youve made it. Youve given your all. And now, its time to breathe. But if you’re anything like me, your brain doesnt exactly clock out. Even in June, your mind drifts back to moments from the school yearsome you want to relive, and others you wish had gone differently.

Schools

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case a

Student Engagement

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the districts original decision to use most of its federal Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) money to pay for existing fourth- and fifth-grade teacher positions was short-sighted. I was like, Did you guys think that we were going to just do without fourth and fifth grade after ESSER?

Coaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2025

Top Grant Sources to Bring Technology to Under-Resourced Classrooms In todays classrooms, technology is more than a supplement its a necessity. From digital literacy tools to interactive learning platforms, access to reliable technology helps level the educational playing field. However, for many under-resourced schools, affording updated tech remains a major hurdle.

Technology

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Dr. Daman Harris is an award-winning education leader committed to equity, instructional leadership, and educator development. He co-founded and co-directs the BOND Project, a nonprofit supporting the recruitment and retention of male educators of color. His book,The Antiracist School Leader: What to Know, Say, and Do, is currently available. During his 29 years as an educator, Dr.

Confidentiality

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Key points: Students’ contributions matter for the collective learning of everyone in the room 3 pillars for building a positive classroom culture Why support for students and a strong school culture are key For more news on classroom culture, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As educators, we know that small moves make a big difference, but I personally hadnt thought about the impact of just one word.

Culture

Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

Priceless Ponderings Simple Science Safety Lab Rules: A Guide for Your classroom You know that moment when the glue sticks become lipstick, and the magnifying glasses turn into superhero goggles? Yep, its science time in the elementary classroom. And while its one of the most exciting times of the day for students, it can also be one of the most chaoticunless youve got clear science safety lab rules in place.

Science