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Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Outperformed Their Peers On the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment

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The schools were highlighted in a recently released report which compared the students’ performance on the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy (SBAC ELA) assessment. Core5 accelerates the foundational and advanced literacy skills for all students—from at-risk to on-level and advanced—in elementary grades.

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How Students Use Generative AI Beyond Writing

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Not surprisingly, more students are using generative AI to assist them in writing. In an undergraduate business communication course that I oversee, the percentage of students who declared their use of generative AI for a writing assessment (i.e. Over the last two years, Ive witnessed the rise in students use of generative AI as whole.

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How Students Use Generative AI Beyond Writing

Faculty Focus

Not surprisingly, more students are using generative AI to assist them in writing. In an undergraduate business communication course that I oversee, the percentage of students who declared their use of generative AI for a writing assessment (i.e. business proposal) increased steadily over four semesters from 35% in 2023 to 61% in 2025.

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

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That’s a game-changer for differentiation,” says Kim Zajac, a speech and language pathologist at Norton Public School in Massachusetts. One of the biggest ways AI can help educators is with customizing content to land with any student at the level they need. AI’s most promising role may lie in its ability to personalize learning.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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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.

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How Teachers Are Making Computer Science Click

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Making Computer Science Relevant and Relatable A key takeaway for these educators was the power of language. They then advanced to writing code that instructed how to build a specific tower using the cups. — helping teachers see how CS concepts could be woven into daily instruction.

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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve

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PASS Network was going to be a bridge — connecting families to the language, policies and strategies they needed to push for change from within. Something shifted, not just in education, but in me. Writing handbooks. But then, the world stopped. Classrooms went virtual. Absolutely. However, this is also a business. Filing taxes.

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