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. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Reflection also includes considering the emotional and social aspects of teaching. Tools like NoRedInk can help reduce the planning load for teachers while providing students with structured opportunities to continue developing their writing skills. What routines supported a positive learning environment, and which caused friction?

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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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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. They can even write thank-you cards to veterans. It’s available in both English and Spanish.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. This year, the college paid almost $47,000.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Music, in particular, has long been an ally of instructors teaching a second language (L2)—a language learned after one’s native tongue—especially since the field transitioned toward a more communicative approach. 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

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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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Even if a student has never seen the word, they can reason: autobiographer is a person who writes the story of their own life. Over 60% of academic vocabulary in English comes from Greek and Latin roots and affixes. Explicit Teach one affix or root at a time. Pick 10–12 roots and affixes to teach over the semester.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. What if grade school were designed to teach students how to make decisions and know themselves deeply as much as it taught them math and literacy? Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Music, in particular, has long been an ally of instructors teaching a second language (L2)—a language learned after one’s native tongue—especially since the field transitioned toward a more communicative approach. Create Your Own Verse   Each group writes a new verse that matches the song’s style and rhythm. Instructions: 1.

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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. Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. Many faculty are often unprepared for the volume of work that comes with teaching online.

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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. Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. Many faculty are often unprepared for the volume of work that comes with teaching online.

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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. By organizing ideas visually, students can structure their thinking, make connections, and build confidence before they start writing or speaking. Theyre great for things like character analysis, argument writing, or exploring cause and effect.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

The Nuance Of Teaching & Learning Research on student motivation illustrates that student motivation is driven largely by the intrinsic desire to accomplish goals: “The fifth family of social–cognitive constructs that has been a major focus of research on student motivation is goals and goal orientation.

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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

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. Likewise, 25% of freshmen entered the university at the lowest writing level in 2019. The following year 29% of incoming students started at the lowest writing level.

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

While videos have a bad reputation in the teaching world as something lazy teachers employ, which is honestly often true, it doesn’t always have to be this way. Having a helper student up front helping to write things on the board, answer and ask questions, and be a part of demonstrations.

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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. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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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. Create a Word Wall: Have students write down words and quotes that feel relevant to the goals they listed. The vision boards are accompanied by a writing assignment, and then they’re all hung as a class display.

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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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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 16, 2025

There was no way, I thought, that more than a couple dozen people would turn out for this event featuring an English-speaking preschool teacher from a little cooperative school halfway around the world. When the day arrived, however, there were people sitting in the aisles. Maybe this idea of play-based learning wasn't so crazy after all.

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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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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

If you had to teach a class, what would the class be called? Trivia Train: Write a topic on the board (such as weather or animals) and have each student name a fact they know about it. Aligned to CCSS for writing, speaking, listening, and more, they work in any class period where students could use a little nudge to start socializing.

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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. MATH We have used Teaching Textbooks from the beginning with all of my kids and we still love it!

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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

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. If you usually use writing prompts for high school to start class, add riddles to the rotation (maybe on Funny Friday or Witty Wednesday).

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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, Teach students about the mechanics and value of group debates with a number of persuasive topics. 8; CCRA.SL.4

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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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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Teachers may find the template below a useful resource as they plan their station rotation lessons, especially if they teach online or in a concurrent classroom where the teacher-led stations are likely happening via video conferencing. English: Station Rotation Ideas. I know getting started can be the most challenging part!

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. When I initially pitched the program concept to my principal, I emphasized the co-teaching component. Teaching is an exhausting profession.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. Schools are challenged by the growing number of English learners in their classrooms, with some districts having as many as 100 different native languages spoken by their students. Face students when you teach.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Identifying the Needs of English Learners English learners (ELs) have unique needs requiring targeted instructional approaches to support their language acquisition and academic success. Because ELs come from diverse linguistic backgrounds, their English language skills may vary widely.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Impressively, the librarians also fielded questions, addressing ethical considerations of AI, detailing the importance of vocabulary when it comes to writing powerful prompts, and reminding students that they need to be thinkers themselves and not just settle for what ChatGPT generates. You have questions and you’re looking for answers.

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