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. Sgourdos also holds CAGS from the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.

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Learning Critical Thinking History Secondary Education 248

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

How it helps: For struggling readers, English-language learners, or busy students who want to maximize their study time, Speechify makes content more accessible. Speechify What it does: Speechify converts text–books, articles, PDFs–into natural-sounding audio.

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Gamification Learning Exams Knowledge 232

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Study the existing literature on the intersection between childrens learning and advanced tech features. We deliberately fine-tuned Buddys responses to keep it focused on helping kids with English without veering off into irrelevant conversations. Do they require more dexterity and attentiveness than is usual for a child?

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Language Languages Learning English 261

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

In a landscape where English proficiency and reading levels vary widely, it’s essential that we provide high-quality, credible resources that offer both language accessibility and academic rigor. World Book’s digital platform delivers just that. In fact, every teacher is a reading teacher.

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Language Languages English Math 268

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

Adeel Khan Johnsrud: When it comes to AI literacy, I think about where we are now, much like the early days of media literacy when I taught K-12 library studies. But the way report cards work and assessments happen, students get a grade in math or English — not in collaboration, communication or critical thinking.

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Skills Teaching Critical Thinking English 152

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

The quasi-experimental study found the number of students reading on benchmark increased 213% after a year of Ignite Reading tutoring. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Research and Reform in Education have followed approximately 2,000 Massachusetts 1st graders enrolled in the program.

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Reading Secondary Education English Grades 194

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

When teens take the mic Recent studies show that reading for pleasure among teens is at an all-time low. But in this project, English Learners were front and center, using their voices–literally and figuratively–to take ownership of language in a way that felt authentic and empowering.

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Culture Reading Students Language 250

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Educators in Miami-Dade County Public Schools use Gemini to generate quizzes and answer keys, and students are creating study materials aligned to concepts they’re struggling with for personalized tutoring and support.

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 210

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

The platform covers all subjects–from vocabulary and reading strategies to science, social studies, and math–through catchy songs and interactive lessons. Flocabulary : Flocabulary combines instructional content with hip-hop and multimedia to help children learn in a way that’s culturally relevant and fun.

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Quizzes Social Studies Learning Students 152

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. Sgourdos also holds CAGS from the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.

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Learning Critical Thinking History Secondary Education 130

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Introduce social studies experiences 6. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. Start with core concepts 2. Nurture creativity with the arts 7.

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Curriculum Social Studies Art Learning Styles 98

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Our highly trained tutors provide students with 1:1 tutoring in foundational literacy skills each school day, helping them go from learning to read to reading to learn.

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Reading Achievement Grades English 309

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. One time, I planned a novel study around a book my students selected, but I was forced by an administrator to trade it in for standardized test prep. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 146

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. Students in these courses enroll in college at higher rates, according to the study.

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Instructors Math Study High School 130

Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

The “think” step gives introverted students or English language learners time to gather their thoughts, while the “pair” stage gives students a low-key way to talk through their ideas and see if they make sense before sharing them with the whole group. Think-Pair-Share levels the playing field.

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Fairness Social Studies Questions Science 80

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

The company recently completed a major evidence study across 242 sites and 25,000 students, showing significant improvements in English language arts, reduced disciplinary issues, better school culture, and 2.5 fewer absent days per student.

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Learning English Art Culture 145

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Embedding challenges into interdisciplinary units — such as STEM or social studies lessons that explore environmental impact, community planning or climate justice — turns gameplay into real-world problem-solving. Focus on teacher support.

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STEM Disabilities Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking 138

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school. The state is now calling that track the Option A diploma. I wouldnt have the credits, Giles realized.

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High School High School Schools Math 243

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2025

Exposure to the vocational programs ensures students learn more than English, math, science, and social studies–theyll be able to explore what they might want to do after they return to their community schools. Theyll get to explore if they want to be an auto mechanic, Howard said.

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Students Social Studies Skills English 163

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 54

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. Dr. Jennifer P.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 68

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Like most language arts/English teachers, I always wanted to share my love of reading with my students. There were plenty of studies replete with data on engagement, reading strategies, and Lexile scores. i understand why we have to do it for English but it is just boring as the first thing we do in the morning.

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Reading English Grades Attention 75

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. Not all students want trophies or gold stickers, or to be patted on the head for ‘studying hard.’ Academic) A good grade?

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 105

Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Morphology is the study of morphemes —the smallest units of meaning in language. Over 60% of academic vocabulary in English comes from Greek and Latin roots and affixes. It’s evidence-based, high-leverage instruction that directly supports decoding, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. What Is Morphology, Really?

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Teaching Language Languages Writing 52

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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Special Education English Language Languages 94

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. Math and English levels among incoming freshmen have improved in the past couple of years, university data show. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said.

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Math English Lecturing High School 89

Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

Research on Attention to Interactions A newly released study showed that this preference for watching and paying attention to social interactions rather than individuals is not a new human development, but one shared with our genetic relatives, chimpanzees. Science class could have a student be a helper for a science experiment.

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Lecturing Attention Discussions Questions 52

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

This process can happen when studying any subject, not just English language arts. In the best classrooms, writing for learning is facilitated through collaboration with a peer or revision based on feedback from a teacher. Next page: How writing improves STEM learning; closing the writing gap).

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Writing STEM Learning Critical Thinking 622

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft in English and Spanish Manualidad del Día de los Veteranos By Bilingual Scrapbook Grades: K-2nd Available in both English and Spanish, this resource allows students to create a pants-and-boots craft, explore pages about the different branches of the military, or participate in writing prompts.

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Activities Teaching History Writing 97

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

Together, they were studying how parents can advocate for improvements in their children’s math education and what teachers can learn from them. Some of the Latina mothers in the study, for example, saw that English learners had a lot of anxiety about taking high-stakes tests, so they created a peer study group for them.

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STEM Science Middle School Middle School 216

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! Use the resource as a daily warm-up, a printable bulletin board display, or a social studies quiz.

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Activities Culture English Language 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 21, 2025

In fact, the Ancient Greek word for leisure, skhole , is the root of our English word for school. That's right, at the roots of Western civilization lies the transformative idea that school should be a place of leisure, a time to discuss and study, not what others assign you, but rather according to what gives you pleasure.

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Questions Discussions Study English 82

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Reader Response Prompts Journal Middle School ELA Writing 6th 7th 8th 9th By English Oh My Grades: 6th-9th Get your students excited about reading by trying these 38 engaging worksheets, including topics like character analysis, plot structure, and author’s craft. Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English?

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS By Stacey Lloyd Grades: 6th-10th Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts Avoid writers block with a helpful set of narrative writing task cards. Slides include three writing choices each: two creative writing prompts, plus a free write prompt if students prefer that option.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Its also a great bell ringer journaling activity for English to keep career exploration in your upperclassmens minds. Be at the top of the class or study abroad during your senior year? Help ease the pressure and ignite curiosity with a fun and reflective activity. Attend college or take a skilled trade path?

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High School High School Questions Schools 52