eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. “To Give schools more control over their digital culture. Having an effective digital culture is a prerequisite for having a healthy school culture,” Culatta asserted. To put it more bluntly, we believe life is too short for sucky learning.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2025

This collaboration will accelerate AI literacy and AI readiness across Michigan’s K-12 schools by expanding support for educators and leveraging the state’s existing network of instructional and educational technology coaches. Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world–and our classrooms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

In this exclusive interview with eSchool, Richard reveals significant changes coming to the conference that signal a major shift in how educational technology events operate, as well as the multitude of other intangibles at play in the world of edtech.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

At ISTELive 25, Alana Winnick, educational technology director of New York’s Pocantico Hills Central School District, shares why student voice is her passion and how she drives student leadership in her own schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

Starbridge , which uses AI to help businesses spot early buying signals from school districts, looked at 5,000 U.S. school districts for the 2024-25 school year and found that 37% discussed AI in at least one board meeting. Differentiation takes so much time. Some AI tools can do so much with that in seconds.”

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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. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. For charter school advocates, the decision was a relief and a close call. The court heard oral arguments for St.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2025

IT staffing shortages Data privacy from increased AI use Cybersecurity/ransomware attacks Something else Δ The findings also provide valuable information to education stakeholders–including superintendents, school boards and business officers–as they set priorities and make budgetary decisions.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Suitable for: Middle and high school students who want tailored practice and a bit more support in tough subjects. Suitable for: All grade levels–from elementary children designing a poster about dinosaurs to high school students putting together a multimedia history project.

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2025

The report, published by LearnPlatform by Instructure, offers a comprehensive, data-rich snapshot of how K-12 schools across the United States used digital tools, resources and edtech solutions during the 2024-25 school year. The report analyzed more than 64 billion interactions from 3.7

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) has just released updated guidance for AI , opening the door for schools to embrace artificial intelligence in ways that they feel could transform the educational landscape. So, what does this mean for your school? Planning school trips. Creating policy documents.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

While the research underscores the critical role teachers play in their students futures, being an educator is perhaps as difficult as it has ever been, the report authors write. This poses a risk for schools struggling to retain talented, experienced educators, as Gallup research finds that workers who report high levels of burnout are 2.6

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

When a high school student uses AI to design a community mural or a college freshman collaborates with peers across continents on a digital storytelling project, it’s clear the boundaries of learning are shifting. What challenges do schools face in assessing creativity and durable skills, and how are some trying to change that?

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

Goyette’s arrival is noted for marking the beginning of a new era, bringing innovation, uniformity, and central control to the district’s technology infrastructure. His team aimed to ensure that every school was using the same systems and processes, thereby advancing the students’ access to technology.

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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. This fundamental truth about human cognition has finally found its perfect technological match in the form of microlearning.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

During the pandemic, school districts amassed an enormous amount of digital tools sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of urgency. But with pandemic relief funding winding down and pressure mounting to demonstrate educational impact, many districts are now facing a new challenge: cleaning house. According to LearnPlatform , U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. This was the South Florida Showdown , the first Minecraft Education tri-district esports challenge of its kind.

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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. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

But over the last five years — and in the last year particularly — the education landscape has changed dramatically. With a dipping economy, a fight about school voucher options and confusion about what the “Montessori” term even means, is Montessori still the “it” trend in the preschool world?

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Johnson is one of several Utah educators discovering that computer science isn’t just about coding — it’s about helping students think critically, solve problems and make sense of the world around them. At the heart of the plan was a bold goal: provide every student with access to computer science education. For lining up for class?”

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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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. Local property taxes remain the primary driver of school funding in many states.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

River Valley School District inPennsylvaniahas been selected as the first partner to bring this vision to life. Designed by experts with deep experience in K-12 classrooms, Yourway offers tools and support that are practical, effective, and tailored to meet the real needs of today’s educators and students. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. points higher than their peers at the non-Core5 schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

“Back in school, you ever get busted for trying to walk and have some administrator tell you, ‘Son, you can shirk your obligations and try to be different from your peers, but the responsibility of your future is gonna find you!’" In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. history in an urban St. I’m the fun teacher!

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Her research focuses on educational technology, leadership development, and teaching innovation. She has taught and coordinated undergraduate and graduate courses in Education and interdisciplinary education while maintaining a ten-year commitment to teacher mentoring with the Al Jalila Foundation.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

The GovSpend database of government-purchasing records shows a nationwide spike in Turnitin contracts during the 2020-21 school year. As a writing instructor, he takes issue with schools unquestioningly handing over original student work to a for-profit company. The Center for Democracy & Technology, a D.C.-based

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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.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education. Educational leaders may not reach out to underserved schools or underrepresented communities, so students dont know about them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. They recognized that AI was a technology they’d likely need throughout their lives, but also that using it irresponsibly could hinder their education and careers, she says. And they themselves also recognize this.”

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

As a former CTE educator and now working on CTE at Pearson , Ive watched this evolution up close. Schools are no longer relying on a single source. Locally, school districts are getting creative. CTE Is Now the Norm, Not the Niche CTE has firmly moved into the mainstream of high school education.

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GovTech

JULY 1, 2025

In a Q&A before the International Society for Education Technology conference this week, Richard Culatta said the next phase of AI education may involve teaching "life skills" students will need in order to thrive.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Gary argues that educators should view AI as simply another useful technology rather than something to either fear or blindly embrace. Educators should approach AI pragmatically – it’s “just software” that will gradually make everything better, not something to catastrophize or glorify.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Guest speaker John Watson is the founder of DLAC (formerly Evergreen Education Group), which has been a leading consulting and advisory firm serving school districts, state agencies, foundations, and companies in the K-12 digital learning field for more than 20 years. Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Innovations in Education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

Encore Data Products is set to showcase its latest educational technology at the ISTE 2025 conference. These smart pens instantly scan and translate printed text into multiple languages, making them ideal for multilingual students, ESL learners, and educators alike.

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