eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning. With Gemini’s help, the district won four grants totaling $100,000, all by using Gemini to aid in grant research and writing. Teachers can use Gemini to create personalized lesson plans in a much shorter amount of time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

Mark Bannecker, an English teacher at North High School in Missouri, is building AI-powered learning modules that guide students through skill-building exercises. With a module-based system, the AI could serve as mentor and coach while I work with individual students on soft skills that the AI isn’t good at.” asks Manahan. “AI

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

This tool is especially powerful for developing creativity and communication skills. Using Book Creator, educators can align writing goals to multimedia production, making literacy more interactive, purposeful, and relevant. It also includes question sets to aid in developing reading comprehension skills and vocabulary.

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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. Block out time for reading and writing 3. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. Table of Contents 1. Start with core concepts 2. 1, CCSS W.K.2,

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Since 2009, he has taught History, English, and Theology in the United States, and has since expanded his expertise to the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Business studies in China. This approach aligns with research on how students develop passion, purpose, and essential skills for college success and workplace engagement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Tools like NoRedInk can help reduce the planning load for teachers while providing students with structured opportunities to continue developing their writing skills. A former early intervention and elementary teacher, he is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Research has consistently highlighted the benefits of music in L2 acquisition, from improving pronunciation and listening skills to enhancing vocabulary retention and cultural understanding (Degrave, 2019; Kumar et al. Create Your Own Verse   Each group writes a new verse that matches the song’s style and rhythm. Instructions: 1.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Research has consistently highlighted the benefits of music in L2 acquisition, from improving pronunciation and listening skills to enhancing vocabulary retention and cultural understanding (Degrave, 2019; Kumar et al. Create Your Own Verse   Each group writes a new verse that matches the song’s style and rhythm. Instructions: 1.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Gamification allows broad content areas (like English-Language Arts) with few measures of performance (alphanumeric symbols) to be broken up into more granular–and achievable–concepts and skills.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

By organizing ideas visually, students can structure their thinking, make connections, and build confidence before they start writing or speaking. Use sentence stems to provide extra language support for students to write or share their responses such as: I think means. A synonym for is. One difference is because.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Simple Course Design Supports Student Success Darby (2019) writes about how students can easily become overwhelmed by online classes and may struggle using the institution’s portal or LMS. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Simple Course Design Supports Student Success Darby (2019) writes about how students can easily become overwhelmed by online classes and may struggle using the institution’s portal or LMS. Dr. Jennifer P.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to facilitate learning. We talk about writing as a product for assessment, a subject where paragraphs and commas are taught, or a skill that one either has developed or lacks. Rarely do we hear people, even teachers, discuss writing as a process for learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

ELA class gives middle schoolers the opportunity to write creatively, read imaginative stories, and present their thoughts and opinions to peers. Use these easy and effective ELA activities for middle school to keep students engaged and teach them valuable skills.

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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. But with the advent of technology, the internet, and cell phones, it seemed like reading for pleasure (not to mention the requisite attention span) had gone the way of buggy whips, writing quills, and powdered wigs.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. UC Riverside found that math and writing skills were lower among the students who graduated from high school during the pandemic than for previous high school graduates. They struggled to pass classes and navigate college applications.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Ready to ignite your students’ imaginations and sharpen their writing skills? With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. They’re developing the skills to investigate real-world topics, explain ideas clearly, and write with purpose.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. What makes someone admirable?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Create a Word Wall: Have students write down words and quotes that feel relevant to the goals they listed. 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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k12

JUNE 27, 2025

Summer school can help keep your child’s learning skills sharp so they start the next year feeling ready. So, if your kid needs to work on their number skills this summer, a math curriculum is available. Catching Up: Did your kid end the school year with some grades that were lower than anticipated?

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

The lessons included real-world scenarios for using drones, like finding a lost child, that often appeal to young girls, and writing exercises to remind kids of what they’re good at before they try something hard. Families also got to put their building skills to the test.

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k12

JULY 9, 2025

Right now, I have a fairly light high school course load, consisting of English, science, algebra, and some career-focused extracurriculars. Last semester, I took both English and history at the college level, which somewhat freed up my schedule this semester. I also work on writing scripts for my YouTube videos.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month Bulletin Board Activity in English & Spanish- Hispanidad by La Misi de Espanol Subjects: Other (ELA), Spanish Use a collaborative bulletin board project as a beginning-of-the-year icebreaker! 10 Practice long-term research skills with a CCSS-aligned resource on Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 21, 2025

In fact, the Ancient Greek word for leisure, skhole , is the root of our English word for school. By that, he proposed that we seek out and embrace those things that we do without prompting, effortlessly.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

Perfect for class members working on social skills or for those too-silent periods, these questions, activities, and getting-to-know-you resources are just what you need to warm things up in class. Trivia Train: Write a topic on the board (such as weather or animals) and have each student name a fact they know about it.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 23, 2025

Health & PE , via Compass Classroom ENGLISH We are doing something new and tackling a full literature course. For writing, we will finish up IEW S&S Level C and then most likely begin University-Ready Writing. She will also do Fix It Grammar for a simple daily review of grammar skills.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

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. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. Reading a book to the end requires effort.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

These simple questions are an easy way to get students talking and thinking without the pressure of a writing prompt. Write a journal on mathematical equations or try your hand at writing poems for publication? Its also a great bell ringer journaling activity for English to keep career exploration in your upperclassmens minds.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

Students can answer the riddle in a daily journal or chat with a partner before you start the day’s lesson, letting them settle in and practice using important critical thinking skills. Test your students’ funny bones and critical thinking skills with these science-themed riddles and jokes. How is this possible?

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Cal Matters

JULY 17, 2025

In summary So that the UC could better develop its academic programs to prepare students for the changing workforce, the UC developed a new data tool to show where tens of thousands of alumni work in California and the skills those employers seek.

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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. Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Teachers teach writing to improve how kids learn.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Encourage engaging debates with weird and light-hearted topics Less-serious topics engage students and help them practice public speaking skills through a low-stakes activity. Should high school focus on digital skills more than academic skills? You can even let your class come up with the wacky topics they’ll argue. 8; CCRA.SL.4

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I spent countless hours guiding them through the writing process, giving feedback, and encouraging them to think critically. AI-powered tools have entered the educational landscape, and theyve changed the way I teach writing–particularly persuasive writing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Speaking and writing are about producing the language, requiring a different mental muscle from learners. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

So, I’ve created the following idea documents brainstorming learning activities that teachers in math, English, and history may find helpful as they plan for their station rotation lessons. English: Station Rotation Ideas. When I work with history teachers, I adapt and use many of the strategies I employed in my English class.

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