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. Make students feel like VIPs.

Elementary School

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

APRIL 29, 2025

While I used to be deeply involved in CTSOs as an advisor and teacher, stepping into an administrator role has allowed me to continue engaging with students in a new way–judging events and witnessing their enthusiasm firsthand. In elementary school, highlighting a variety of careers to younger students is key.

Middle School

k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

For decades, chemistry has been considered a “gatekeeper” course within STEM education, with nearly 50% of college students failing, withdrawing, or dropping introductory chemistry courses (ACS, 2020). Such approaches capitalize on rhythm and repetition to reinforce symbolic associations, similar to alphabet songs in early literacy education.

Education

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

For teachers, watching students have those aha moments isnt just special: Its the dream. These experiments are easy to set up and can be done at home or at school. The teacher should poke holes in plastic caps using a small screwdriver before the activity.) Ready to make more of those moments?

Elementary School

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.

Education

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

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.

Interdisciplinary

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

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

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

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. And these jams aren’t just for music teachers! General education teachers can sneak a little Beethoven into science or roll with bucket drums in math.

Activities

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. she recalled.

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. Never Be Prepared? 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 if her teacher doesn’t have the training or resources to turn cool tech into lessons that stick, she’s likely to crash it, get frustrated, and move on. National Science Foundation, aimed to solve that problem with a drone-focused curriculum for rural middle schools. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

STEM

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 2, 2025

Whether it’s symmetry in a leaf or patterns in a mosaic, math is hiding in plain sight, and that’s great news for teachers. 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.

Art

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 21, 2025

The most sure-fire way for a teacher to shut down disruptive behavior was to threaten to send the offender to the principal's office. I valued the good opinion of my teachers and strived to shine in their eyes. So that's where I focused my efforts, even as I risked being labeled a "teacher's pet." I was after those carrots.

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. The Ready to Learn grant saw its funding from the U.S.

Fairness

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. Using foreign teachers isnt new in Texas.

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. Linda-Darling Hammond, Learning Policy Institute) Fighting for equity (Mark Gooden, Teachers College)

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. Linda-Darling Hammond, Learning Policy Institute) Fighting for equity (Mark Gooden, Teachers College)

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. I often think that I didn't learn to read as much as discovered that I could.

Education

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 15, 2025

"Teachers often notice the cracks before the data does. Right now, many teachers are seeing a sharp drop in focus during reading and writing (thanks to cell phones) and a growing dependence on AI to think and write. But my influence as a teacher, or even a parent, is limited. We're not heading for a learning crisis.

Reading

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

"All over the world the school has an anti-education effect on society: school is recognized as the institution which specializes in education. The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task."

Motivation

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

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 24, 2025

Registration is open for Teacher Tom's Play-Based Learning Summer Camp (See below) The long-term effects of the things we do to children in schools is a notoriously difficult thing to capture in research. They were the first to find that academic advantages faded rapidly once the kids moved on to elementary school.

Study

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

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. Kennedy Jr.s

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

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

Some schools laughed her out of the room, telling her that other families applied as soon as they became pregnant. Transitional kindergarten, a public early education program for 4-year-olds in California that provides a structured bridge between preschool and kindergarten , had been cut from her region for the 2025-2026 school year.

Schools

eSchool News

MAY 3, 2023

During the spring of 2020, the global education community faced tremendous disruption as it transitioned to emergency remote teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During emergency teaching, the innovative educators I work with sought to implement any edtech tool that purported to help keep students engaged in learning.

Elementary School