eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

ISTE+ASCD announced the recipients of the 2025 ISTE+ASCD Impact Award, Distinguished District Award, Distinguished Educator Preparation Program Award, and 20 to Watch Award. ” ISTE Impact Award This award recognizes individuals who make significant contributions to transforming learning and improving education systems on a broad scale.

STEM

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

Our elementary school is no exception–we were recently dealing with a situation where 20 of our students were chronically absent. This surge in absenteeism presents major challenges for educators striving to maintain instructional momentum and ensure equitable learning opportunities.

Elementary School

eSchool News

JULY 18, 2025

U-M researchers found that new educators are pioneering paths in science education by offering opportunities for scientific conversations, innovative learning strategies and encouraging children to become active participants in scientific exploration. “We are seeking additional funds for this work.

Science

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Inspect all aspects of the water cycle Kids start learning about the water cycle early in their education, but, to help them fully grasp it all, go beyond looking at charts and watching the weather. Dip a toothpick in dish soap and touch it to the notch. Have kids record how long the boat moves before needing more soap.

Elementary School

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

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 counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

Education

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. It was home. My stomach sank.

Elementary School

eSchool News

JULY 24, 2025

Novato, CA – The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development and curriculum for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has announced the recipients of its 2025 PBL Champions and John Larmer “JL” Lifelong Learning Awards. Congratulations to our 2025 award recipients!”

Interdisciplinary

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

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. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd.

Math

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

Still, educators can offer early literacy support and help for struggling readers using evidence-based reading instruction. Educators must begin by assessing a student’s current word recognition and comprehension to plan effective reading intervention strategies (Connor et al., What is a delayed reader?

Disabilities

Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which kids are unlikely to fully grasp even if the information is trustworthy. School counselors across the country describe similar experiences to Kembles.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

What if I told you the education system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly the way it was built to? I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. Part of my dissertation, I compared two elementary schools less than three miles apart.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

What if I told you the education system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly the way it was built to? I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. Part of my dissertation, I compared two elementary schools less than three miles apart.

Teaching

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

Culture

Organized Classroom

JUNE 11, 2025

Engaging students in fundraising activities can be a rewarding experience for both educators and young learners. By involving elementary students in fundraising, educators can create a positive impact on their development while contributing to meaningful causes. Check out Teacher Life Balance Academy HERE !

Elementary School

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

One of the foundational myths of schooling is that we must somehow get the kids to stop moving around in order to focus, but the exact opposite is true. Some schools have even gone so far as to cut back on recess in elementary school in favor of more "seat time."

Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Something broke in American education these past years. You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles?

Hybrid Learning

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

From clapping catchy beats with hands and feet to singing for all the class to hear, amp up your lesson plan with music activities for elementary students that hit all the right notes. General education teachers can sneak a little Beethoven into science or roll with bucket drums in math. And these jams aren’t just for music teachers!

Activities

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

They made educated, data-driven bets on how to best support their students and teachers by investing in educational infrastructure and support systems, from high-dosage tutoring to teacher coaching and professional development on new, streamlined literacy and math curricula. We would have to lay off staff across the board.

Coaching

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

And 28 elementary schools in the state did not have a single proficient student. In the intervening years, the state passed a number of changes — including the Alabama Numeracy Act — in an effort to boost K-5 elementary math performance. But a half-decade is a long time. These challenges are severe.

Math

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. Among the hurdles is helping families — and educators themselves — understand one of the flagship offerings of the program: transitional kindergarten.

Elementary School

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

But in April, the Trump administration cancelled funding for Take Flight and over 800 other STEM education projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Sixteen states sued to stop Trump’s NSF cuts, which represent a significant hit for STEM education research. Why the government funds STEM education research President Harry S.

STEM

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 21, 2025

Today, most children go to elementary schools where corporal punishment is off the table. If being educated is defined as being equipped to deal with the world in which we find ourselves, it seems that this, the choice to love, is the most necessary thing in the world, more important that literacy, more important than math.

Motivation

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS. It’s joyful, and educational, and we've heard that in our formal research process.”

Fairness

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 2, 2025

Whether you’re an art teacher hunting for fresh ideas or a general education teacher ready to shake up your math routine, grab those markers and let the math-inspired masterpieces begin. Explore elementary resources Table of Contents 1. Fractions Quilt 2. Equivalent Fractions Kite 3.

Art

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. Its a high stakes fight to educate bilingual children in Victoria, and Texas as a whole. It creates a real connection, she said.

English

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 16, 2025

We had the pleasure of hosting Sara on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in April, and she shared some great insights about doing project-based learning in early childhood education.

Elementary School

Class Tech Tips

JUNE 16, 2025

We had the pleasure of hosting Sara on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in April, and she shared some great insights about doing project-based learning in early childhood education.

Elementary School

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall. We are all self-educated despite those years of schooling. This too is an ongoing process.

Education

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 15, 2025

Too much screen time in elementary school is delaying reading and writing skills, weakening focus, and hurting social development." Things that we once considered central to cognition and essential for being "educated" have faded, while alternative ways of being and doing have risen. We're not heading for a learning crisis.

Reading

Cal Matters

JULY 23, 2025

In summary Migrant Education programs serve students whose parents work in California’s agricultural fields, dairies, fisheries and timberlands. Medina credits Mini-Corps tutors with getting her through high school and helping her enroll in college, where she ultimately earned a teaching credential.

English

Teach Thought

MAY 20, 2025

Games can serve as platforms for lessons in math, science or just about anything -- even if they weren't designed to be educational.

Game-Based Learning

Cal Matters

JULY 18, 2025

‘Like having a hand cut off’ In Napa County, school officials have been scrambling to fill dozens of vacancies and find money to create permanent jobs for AmeriCorps staffers. Alexis Lopez got involved with AmeriCorps in part because she knows what life is like for kids with no place to go after school. It was tragic,” Lopez said.

Schools

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

His best known work, Deschooling Society , published in 1971 is a no holds barred critique of institutionalized, compulsory schooling, arguing that the overall effect is to alienate most children from their own learning. Sadly, most of what we do in standard school is offer answers to questions that no child has ever asked.

Motivation

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 24, 2025

They were the first to find that academic advantages faded rapidly once the kids moved on to elementary school. It gives educators the tools to reveal, explain, and defend their play-based program to parents and other stakeholders who have been taken in by the "academic" snake oil. I can't wait to share it with you!

Study

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math.

Math

Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

Data from 35 states suggests that child care deserts are more prevalent in urban and rural areas , but rural areas are further disadvantaged by licensed worker shortages in education, healthcare, transportation, and other relevant fields. This is as true in Okanogan County, Washington, as it is anywhere nationwide.

Disabilities

eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2017

As students move through different phases of their education, the shape of their learning spaces changes. Young students see brightly-colored bookshelves and reading areas, where middle school students have lab tablets and desktop computers. How does a school future-proof its classroom technology?

Technology