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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High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

In response to these new tools becoming available to the public, many teachers found themselves resisting AI, considering the ways in which it could complicate verifying academic honesty in student writing and artwork, acknowledging the inaccuracies that AI can generate, the human biases that impact the dataset AI uses, and more.

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Essay Education Textbooks Writing 226

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Visualize Your Equations with Paper Math. Paper’s new math literacy solution, Paper Math, gamifies math by allowing students to manipulate equations through an artful interface to help break math problems down into intuitive core concepts, making the experience immersive and fun.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. AI Writing Review enables students to submit their drafts for lightning-fast feedback. This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For students attending college, there is a college essay review tool, a college application management, and a scholarship search. Earlier this month, Paper announced a new suite of learning tools that includes products addressing math skills, literacy, after-school programming, and college and career readiness.

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Secondary Education Essay High School High School 287

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

One student, Johnny, is a talented artist but reads and writes well below grade level. His catchphrase is “Oh, writing isn’t my thing.” We need low-stakes, shareable writing assignments to break the ice, so I use micro-writing exercises as often as possible. A quick scan of the room makes it easy to understand why.

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Writing Assignments English Essay 168

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

“I love teaching and helping kids grow,” she added, “but I hate that writing instruction takes up hours and hours of my life.” A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. 9% of writing assignments in grades six to eight include long form writing.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 156

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Whether a student is researching climate change, drafting an essay, or solving a coding problem, the ability to craft clear, thoughtful, and precise questions makes all the difference. In math, they might refine their query from, How do I solve this problem? And in creative writing, they might refine a prompt like Write me a story.

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Questions Critical Thinking History Essay 307

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. MagicSchool.ai can translate into Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 275

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Turnitin recently launched an AI writing detection tool to help educators identify text that may have been prepared by Bard, Gemini, and other AI tools. When calculators were first introduced, educators feared they would encourage shortcutting and allow students to skip over fundamental math concepts.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 239

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of services, including math, science, reading, writing assistance, and college prep, all available online from anywhere with an internet connection. Services include: Live Tutoring One-on-one academic support in math, science, reading, writing, and more.

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Essay Schools Internet Feedback 158

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students. Runner-up McGrath wrote in his essay , “Parent-Teacher Conferences are a big part of our school year. We have these meetings during each grading period throughout the year. About Rosetta Stone.

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Essay English Language Languages 162

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. One day, I asked my students to write an exit ticket responding to a section of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and John submitted a full paragraph.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 174

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. First Avenue Students can access Khanmigo to get hints for solving challenging math problems or explain concepts they find confusing across all subjects.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 261

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Are they going to need to do this reading in order to write something later or conduct research later?’” Now students would likely find his writing too difficult to understand on their own. “I

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 200

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

She was part of a team researching how to build a better writing feedback tool. Think of programs that can automatically generate suggestions or scores for students based on their writing. Sometimes it’s not even that actual writing process that’s causing students the challenge.

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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 213

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

SAT Prep—This course will cover in-depth what students need to know for the math, reading, writing, and essay portions of the SAT, including test-taking techniques and practice problems. Numerade’s video-based instruction makes learning accessible and engaging. Course offerings include the following: Test Prep.

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High School High School STEM Laboratory 223

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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Exams Essay Reading STEM 147

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. By redirecting him with an assignment that piques his interest, the teacher helps James boost his confidence and understand that he is truly capable of doing the World History assignments.

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Teaching English Students History 304

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

Writing a diary entry from that persons perspective. Ask students to choose two pieces that showcase the same skill, such as writing an argument, solving a specific type of math problem, conducting a lab report, or presenting their ideas. Designing a digital trading card with stats and accomplishments.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. After one year of using enVision, Johnston County saw real growth.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 327

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

Galen McAndrew, a teacher at d.tech, told EdSurge that design thinking offers students a different approach to solving problems in a variety of subjects, like math and English. McAndrew used an example of a student writing an essay in an English class.

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Essay Schools English Math 161

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay.

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 274

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. They shared first-hand experiences with racism in the workplace.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 115

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

eSpark, an online supplemental curriculum provider for math, reading, and writing, is bringing AI-powered phonics practice to foundational reading instruction this school year. Students have the option to freely write admission essays and receive AI-provided feedback or can brainstorm using common application prompts.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some of his writing stretched my thinking in new directions. Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. In fact, as we gear up for the 2016.

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Science English Education Language 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. He needed meaningful readings and writing prompts that allowed him to use writing as a mechanism for self-expression.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 137

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

For instance, children work on identifying patterns in math lessons, engage in iterative writing and revising activities during writer’s workshops, and break down multi-step directions to play games in gym class. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’d honestly rather work on math right now. I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. This isn’t advisory Mister, this is MATH AND I’M TRYING TO TELL YOU MY ANSWER!”

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

In February, instructional coach Jacquelyn Whiting shared how she helped a math teacher at her school modify a remote lesson about building and measuring blanket forts into one that celebrated giving students a safe, personal space to learn that restored a little bit of agency after a year when they had lost so much.

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Education Essay Ethics Coaching 178

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, if a student is working on an essay in a language arts class and is way off track, the teacher can pop a message on their screen that says, "Hey, this paragraph looks off-topic, try focusing on." But if that student can send a message to tell the teacher something privately, they’ll do it.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 200

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2016

A new version of the SAT makes writing optional and reflects student coursework. To the casual observer, the SAT looks the same — questions on math and English, an essay, a set amount of time to finish each question. The nearly four-hour exam drops to three hours if students decline the now-optional writing portion.

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Exams Essay Writing Testing 108

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Think More Like an Art Teacher Math teachers’ approach to teaching is effective given their subject matter, but when unleashing play in the classroom, teachers—even math teachers—may find it helpful to think of their class more as an art class than a math class.

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Failure Art Essay Math 166

Teach Hub

MAY 19, 2025

Consider writing your learning objectives in I can statements that are simple, concrete, and kid-friendly. I can solve multi-step math problems using equations. Quick writes: Give students a prompt and one to two minutes to jot down their thoughts. Try going back and checking your math.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Feedback Essay 75

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

It may surprise you how little their answers vary—and may prompt you to write a heartfelt note, pass on a compliment or give a word of thanks to the next teacher you meet. Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: To have a student say, “I miss our math class,” means so very much.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 158