Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching. Grading, especially, is viewed with skepticism. Relationships. “At

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

The end of the year is not just a time for wrapping up grades and packing up classrooms–it’s also a powerful opportunity for growth and renewal. Reflection also includes considering the emotional and social aspects of teaching. Next year, many educators aim to reclaim joy, both in our teaching and in our students’ learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

In a ninth grade class, he researched the earning potential for a STEM degree (“so much more money”) and the demand for mechanical engineers (“exploding”). The improvements have been especially pronounced for English learners and Native students, many of whom live on the Yakama Nation. Now over 89% do.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

This activity emphasizes computational thinking and problem-solving, incorporating Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and utilizing differentiation strategies to support diverse elementary learners. Identify the intended grade level and the specific ISTE Student Standards the lesson will address.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. Homeschooling offers a unique opportunity to tailor your child’s education to their specific needs and interests.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6 Evaluate Vendors With 17 percent of its 12,700 students classified as English language learners as well as a significant refugee population, Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma used the CITES framework to develop a robust vendor-evaluation process. “We

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft By TNB Creations Grades: K-6th This seven-page craft takes about an hour to complete and includes a picture for students to color, along with space to write a letter. America the Brave Veterans Day Voting and Elections By Reagan Tunstall Grades: K-2nd Celebrate both Veterans Day and Election Day by creating a lapbook.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second.

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Whether youre teaching elementary students or high schoolers, this strategy works for everyone. You Can Use It Anywhere, With Any Grade Think-Pair-Share isnt tied to one subject, it works anywhere. Whether youre teaching little ones or older students, it just fits. Think-Pair-Share levels the playing field.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

By fourth and fifth grade, students encounter thousands of new words across content areas—many of them multisyllabic, abstract, and Greek or Latin in origin. Why Morphology Instruction Is Essential in Upper Grades By upper elementary, phonics-based decoding alone won’t cut it. Explicit Teach one affix or root at a time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level. Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Offer hands-on training, lesson plans and co-teaching models to help educators feel confident using game-based tools. What stood out most? Focus on teacher support.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

And as faculty members grapple with what this means for grading, tech companies have proved yet again that there’s money to be made from panic. As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. This year, the college paid almost $47,000.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Like most language arts/English teachers, I always wanted to share my love of reading with my students. The first book series I remember reading was in fourth and fifth grade. Whenever I teach 9 th graders, I always dedicate 10 minutes for silent reading at the beginning of every period. I just hope he has good brakes.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. We need to find ways to teach, learn, and find the often-elusive work-life balance to slow down and meet faculty needs and improve student engagement. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. But the mechanisms to fund those obligations are increasingly unstable.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. We need to find ways to teach, learn, and find the often-elusive work-life balance to slow down and meet faculty needs and improve student engagement. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. Language spotlight: Ask students to teach the class a word or short phrase from their home language. Explore how ELL LIVE can help you give multilingual learners the support, structure, and teaching that drives real progress.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

Use these easy and effective ELA activities for middle school to keep students engaged and teach them valuable skills. From enjoyable English games to interesting lessons for reluctant readers, ELA will quickly be their favorite class of the year. Follow these teaching tips to keep middle school students engaged from bell to bell.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Math and English levels among incoming freshmen have improved in the past couple of years, university data show. Photo by Louis Bryant III for CalMatters Grade inflation in high school contributed to those pandemic-era gaps, said Lesley Davidson-Boyd, associate vice president of California State University, San Bernardino.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 23, 2025

My daughter is 16 and in 11th grade this year. Below are the 11th-grade homeschool curriculum picks we have made for her! Health & PE , via Compass Classroom ENGLISH We are doing something new and tackling a full literature course. Changes may come, but this is the plan for now. CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT SHE DID IN THE PAST?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Teach students to use the SMART formula to ensure that any goals they set are specific and measurable. Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide.

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Reading Power Gear

JUNE 17, 2025

A dual-language edition in English and Mi’gmaq. HighWater Press, 2018) The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom – Leigh Joseph Readers take a walk with a group of children through nature where a guide teaches them about native plants and how the Squamish culture has traditionally used them.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month is an excellent opportunity to teach students about influential Hispanic figures from the past and present. You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Wendy Lopez Elizondo traveled more than 800 miles last year to face her biggest professional challenge teaching in the United States. She even worried about her English, noting that while she speaks her second language well, using it professionally every day was intimidating at first.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

If you had to teach a class, what would the class be called? Ice Breakers for the First Day of School By Teaching from A-Z Grades: 5th-12th Set the tone in your class right away with three ice breaker activities for students to get to know each other. Would you prefer a chicken-sized horse or a horse-sized chicken? 1, 2, 4, L.1,

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Psychology “Do Now” Writing Prompts & Slides By Loosli Learning Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Psychology Ideal for psychology classes or any subject focused on critical thinking, these do now writing prompts are an intriguing way to start the day. Have students write to the prompt before class begins.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

Low enrollment into the teaching profession, inadequate compensation and benefits, and high attrition rates have all contributed to this problem. School districts nationwide struggle to fill teaching positions , especially in elementary education, secondary English, and special education. The result?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

My family moved to Athens, Greece when I was in 4th grade. One of the most important reading journeys of my life was Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain , a dense, difficult work, translated into English from the original German, written by a very smart man. This is when I first became aware of Scholastic Books.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Do projects where your grade is your hard work alone, or count on your friends to help you make the grade? By Mindful and Kind Counseling Grades: 6th-12th You can create your own slides or use one of these 40 premade Would You Rather question slides. Have free time and get Cs or have straight As but no time to socialize?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

2 | EDITABLE By Lana’s Classroom Grades: 6th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Fifty riddles and accompanying solutions make it easy to incorporate daily riddles into your class period. Negative Exponent Riddle Me Worksheet by Learning Made Radical By Learning Made Radical Grades: 8th-9th Subjects: Algebra, Math Standards: CCSS 8.EE.A.1

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Fun Debate Topics Persuasive Speaking Activity Middle School, High School By Lindsay Ann Learning Grades: 6th-9th Subjects: English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS SL.9-10.4, Should grades matter a lot when it comes to a student’s future career? Which is more harmful: online videos or endless television?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But “there’s an even more basic level of literacy that people need to pick up,” notes the former English teacher and administrator. A core skill that Murphy wants to help students build is argumentation, and the company’s approach to teaching this is built into its name—Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterargument, Audience (CERCA).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

More than a third of its students come from low-income families, and one out of every eight students is an English language learner. Stepping Stones takes a unique approach to teaching young students mathematics that is based on decades of research and has proven to be successful for all types of learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

For starters: Algebra, history, chemistry, English and yes, even civics and how to brush your teeth. Among those at this year’s Expo: Researchers at the University of Oregon showed off Numbershire and KinderTek , two math games for young children that teach foundational skills with illustrations and evidence-based practices.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2017

I have been teaching in a 1:1 classroom for four years at Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School. We started in 5 th grade when my colleague got a Khan Academy grant to purchase 12 Chromebooks to supplement the Chromebooks our school provided. Our PARCC scores have risen each year since we introduced 1:1 in 5 th grade.

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