k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

They are not intended to replace human educators, just complement traditional teaching. But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. These legal steps create a safe, fair, and effective digital learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

A lot has changed since then so it’s time for an update: When I teach professional development classes, by far the topic that surprises attendees the most is the legal use of online images. In fact, the answer to the question… “What online images can I use?” I last published on this topic on my ed blog in 2017.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Teaching Students How to Interact with AI Teaching students how to interact with AI begins with understanding prompt engineering.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Teaching Students How to Interact with AI Teaching students how to interact with AI begins with understanding prompt engineering.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Reciprocal reading is a structured yet flexible strategy where students work together to make sense of a text using four roles: summarizer, questioner, clarifier, and predictor. Questioning The role of a questioner teaches students to stop accepting text at face value and start digging deeper. It’s fairly simple.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

.” The company’s people-first approach includes focusing on: Relationships and diversity Fairness and respect Being purpose-driven Equal treatment Safe spaces Being child-centric Global collaboration There is also a busy-ness that is becoming more prevalent in both education and business.

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Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

What This Looks Like in Real Classrooms Lets talk about some real-life teacher moments where self-checking work makes a differencenot just in theory, but in the day-to-day reality of teaching. This is a question teachers ask all the timeand its fair. Normally, youd collect and grade these worksheets. The self-checking part?

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Teach Thought

JULY 11, 2025

I love teaching with analogies.) learning : education :: true love : dating service True love may very well come from a dating service, and dating services do all they can to make it happen, but in the end—well, there’s a fair bit of hocus pocus at work behind it all. An analogy might help. (I 5 Things That Make Students Curious 1.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

This set includes teaching posters, nonfiction texts, worksheets, games, and a resource page. Differentiated science questions, including short answer, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank, make it easy to reach every learner. These hands-on science experiments for preschoolers are full of excitement!

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Now, the COVID pandemic thrust schools into emergency remote teaching mode virtually overnight. In this conversation, we explore how today’s remote learning differs from that pandemic era emergency teaching. And I think there’s no question that when you think. Question because of what AI is doing, we have no idea.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. So it’s fair to say probably districts have found everyone within their staff and now are having to look for outside candidates.”

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Elementary School Elementary School Fairness Communication 112

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

I trust children with their own curiosity, with their own questions, and with their own pursuit of answers because the freedom to think for oneself is the freedom that makes the other freedoms -- freedoms of speech or assembly or the right to vote, for instance -- mean anything at all.

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Writing Questions Fairness Education 85

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Nature Walk Journal; Nature Scavenger Hunt; Nature Journal Prompt; Outside Guide By Teach Go Green Grades: 3rd-10th Subjects: Environment, Science Guide high schoolers through a writing walk with a nature walk journal.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

But as history is about to take center stage in 2026 for 250th anniversary celebrations of the nations founding, there are growing signs that the work of teaching about the countrys past has become harder than ever. According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S. How do you teach the truth when the truth is all relative?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about. Facilitate a respectful discussion when you bring these controversial debate topics or writing prompts for high school to your classroom Are immigration laws in the United States fair?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Language is a significant barrier to fair and inclusive testing, particularly if language fluency is not relevant to the skill being measured by the test. This is why designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers is a key component of equitable testing. Some top practices include: Write simple, clear and concise questions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Many publishers waived copyright fees for use of materials in distance learning, made teaching resources freely available and aggregated useful content. Plenty of content was used without permission of the copyright owners–some under legitimate “fair use,” some out of lack of knowledge, and some opportunistically.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. This helps to shift the focus away from the teacher-student relationship and towards the quality of the student’s work, promoting a more objective and fair grading process.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Teaches or facilitates each lesson. If the answer to most of these questions is you, the teacher, then you’ve already realized you are doing the lion’s share of the work in your classroom. Why not tap into them as resources and make them do some of the planning, teaching, troubleshooting, assessing, and communicating with parents?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

My children love “would you rather” questions. Would you rather go to the beach or the snow? Would you rather eat a cookie or a brownie? Would you rather watch a movie or read a book? They enjoy being presented with two options and getting to choose one. Would You Rather?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2014

My school was closed because of weather for the first time in my teaching career. This is an ideal space to post announcements, allow students to ask questions, and encourage students to have discussions about assignments. Yesterday Northern California was hit by massive storm. Use a Google Community to Connect Students.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2023

Granted, ChatGPT might make writing that 11th-grade essay on symbolism in “The Great Gatsby” a whole lot easier (which, to be fair, does make grading a whole lot harder). Aside from that, there are real positives to our new AI pal, and overworked teachers can embrace it as the gift that it is: a free personal teaching aide.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

By examining his success, we can learn some important lessons about effective teaching. Here are three keys to Malan’s effective teaching that I think all schools everywhere should apply, from K-12 schools to colleges and universities. Teach students to self-assess. Strengthen the social side of learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI? Bias and fairness: Bias in AI systems and troubles ensuring fair treatment 3. Educators should ensure their skillset includes using and teaching with AI, but should strive to enhance the human aspect of teaching.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is a question every educator has faced before. To be fair, its a valid question. In my experience, teachers have two standard replies to this question: Theyll try to explain the subject in detail, which results in a long-winded answer that confuses their students and doesnt satisfy them.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

” It’s a fair question. This process is easier to do because I teach on a block schedule and work with a co-teacher. However, I may not always have time to return to a previous piece and reassess it prior to this conversation, so this gives us time to chat about their hard work. These conversations are invaluable.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2019

Of course, many popular movies deal with social and emotional issues, and these can be great for teaching SEL in our classrooms. As students watch, help them interpret the films you show, and give them direct invitations to ask questions and think critically about what they’re seeing on the screen. Science Fair.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. What Is Fair Use? The short answer is, well, yes. In the U.S.,

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Reading Fairness Teachers Disabilities 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. Everything is online. cyberbullying.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

Our coaches encourage our teachers to reflect by asking them questions to encourage it and by helping them learn to ask reflective questions of themselves. We also have teachers watch their peers teach and watch videos of their own teaching so they become more mindful of their own practices. 1) Focus your PLC meetings.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2017

As Dan Rothstein, executive director of the Right Question Institute, tells the story: “The teacher presented the following equation: 24 = (smiley face) + (smiley face) + (smiley face).” Then, she asked her students to think of as many questions as they could about the equation. 3) Write down every question exactly as stated. (4)

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the Baldwin Union Free School District , educators and leaders are working diligently to avoid brain rot as they strive to teach students how to ask questions, evaluate information sources, and become actively involved in their communities. One of the questions we ask is, Should you share this? Everyone should be doing this.

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Critical Thinking Social Studies Evaluation Fairness 259

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The result is a learning experience that is more attuned to individual needs and differences, ensuring each student has a fair chance at success. Taking Stock of Current Teaching Practices I encourage educators to question the prevailing reliance on whole-group, teacher-led instructional design. The post Time Efficiency vs.

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