Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

For teachers, watching students have those aha moments isnt just special: Its the dream. Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

And they will say, No, Ive just been watching a lot of TikTok videos and I think that I have anxiety, said Hanna Kemble, an elementary school counselor and a counselor leader coordinator for the state of Kansas. School counselors across the country describe similar experiences to Kembles.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2025

Here’s the run-down so far this year: LOTS of Resources for Kids’ Online Research Robot Teachers vs Human Teachers How to Find Old Elementary School Teachers How Students Can Build Their Own Apps 15 Websites on Natural Disasters Online Sites to Teach Mouse Skills Does Mindfulness Make Your Class Better?

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

I feel that this is a perfect representation of how schools often deal with new and emerging technologies. They can be working hard to provide the best instruction for their students but become immediately distracted anytime a new technology is introduced. These include human-made items (i.e.

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Learning Lecturing Internet Fairness 220

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. Students plug away at tough procedures, such as geometric proofs, but dont know why they are doing it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant, McTighe and Associates (Columbia, MD) Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD (Paris, France) ISTE Distinguished District Award This award honors school districts that demonstrate effectiveness and innovation in using technology to improve student outcomes and engagement.

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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. Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. It was home. Over 65 percent white.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their needs. Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. Teachers must avoid benign neglect, which occurs when delayed readers are unintentionally overlooked.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

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.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

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.

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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. Our tight bond helps every student.”

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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! It even helps students connect to their cultural roots in meaningful ways.

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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.

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Elementary School Elementary School Participation Activities 83

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2025

Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Amie McElroy, elementary school director at STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in May. I am always impressed with what students are doing there!

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Class Tech Tips

JUNE 20, 2025

Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Amie McElroy, elementary school director at STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in May. I am always impressed with what students are doing there!

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Problem-Based Learning STEM Elementary School Elementary School 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 21, 2025

] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Tim Boyle, principal of Science Leadership Academy Middle School (SLAMS) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in June. I had the opportunity to visit SLAMS a couple of years ago.

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Class Tech Tips

JUNE 21, 2025

] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Tim Boyle, principal of Science Leadership Academy Middle School (SLAMS) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in June. I had the opportunity to visit SLAMS a couple of years ago.

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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. she recalled.

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Class Tech Tips

JUNE 18, 2025

] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Francesca Peck, principal of Polaris Charter Academy in Chicago, Illinois , on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in May. Linda-Darling Hammond, Learning Policy Institute) Fighting for equity (Mark Gooden, Teachers College)

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

Across the state, only 22 percent of students were proficient in math — a percentage that was lower for Black and low-income students. And 28 elementary schools in the state did not have a single proficient student. Professional learning support for teachers is vital, Knighten says.

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Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 129

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. The transitional kindergarten program is typically offered within existing elementary schools, and all districts will be required to offer it.

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 18, 2025

] Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Francesca Peck, principal of Polaris Charter Academy in Chicago, Illinois , on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in May. Linda-Darling Hammond, Learning Policy Institute) Fighting for equity (Mark Gooden, Teachers College)

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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.

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STEM Science Middle School Middle School 210

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. Math art projects are a creative way to reinforce concepts like fractions, geometry, and measurement while giving students the freedom to express themselves. It’s also a fun or end-of-unit activity.

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Art Math Grades Activities 52

Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

Children need to be mindfully taught how to communicate in a flexible way as it is not something that is often learned without guided experiences by a parent or teacher. Teaching students to be more flexible in their communication will make them more inclusive, better leaders, and more easily able to avoid or deescalate tension.

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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.

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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. I wanted to support bilingual students, children who, like me, speak Spanish at home. Using foreign teachers isnt new in Texas.

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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)

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Elementary School Elementary School Learning Middle School 59

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)

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Elementary School Elementary School Learning Middle School 57

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. We know about this because Socrates student Plato was using new technology of the phonetic alphabet to write it all down.

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Reading Writing Elementary School Elementary School 85

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." Many students. It's harsh.

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Motivation Testing Failure Grades 101

Cal Matters

JULY 18, 2025

The loss of the program would have a deep impact on hundreds of California schools, particularly those serving low-income students, where AmeriCorps staffs tutoring, mentorship and after-school programs. She dreaded telling her students. “It I know first-hand how much kids need after-school programming,” Lopez said.

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Schools Assignments Elementary School Elementary School 85

Jodi Durgin

JULY 6, 2025

Patrick’s Day in your elementary classroom? Patrick’s Day Writing Prompts Lap book Activity guides students through learning facts all about St. Patty’s Day “can has is” chart activity where students finish the prompts I thought… I wondered… St. Patrick’s Day Facts for Kids Project Teachers love the St.

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Elementary School Elementary School Writing Activities 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

I know that I didn't think I read at all when I arrived in elementary school, but on my first day in class Miss McCutcheon had placed on our desks a construction paper cut out of the character Ted (a stuffed bear) from the Dick and Jane readers. I often think that I didn't learn to read as much as discovered that I could.

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Education Writing Reading Coaching 90

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

As teachers and administrators, our goal is compliance. However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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. school systems, the Magnolia Independent School District in Texas serves a diverse student population. Like many U.S.

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