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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2025

Daisies pressed into virtual journals spark creative writing, with tech tools preserving the results. A bouquet gifted to a teacher for a STEM fair adds warmth to the event, while marigolds shared in a class garden project teach sustainability. Theyre a bridge to community too.

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Reading Power Gear

JUNE 24, 2025

( Greenwillow Books, 2002) Bright Lights And Summer Nights – Shauntay Grant Mother Moon tells a story to her restless star baby and takes readers through beloved summer activities like a country fair and playing with friends. Colourful illustrations – this book has a real “cozy” feel to it.

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Fairness Reading Writing Activities 58

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS. Nine years later, the show premiered.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. I trust children with freedom because they are my fellow human beings. And what I've found is that when children are trusted with freedom can also be trusted with responsibility, because they are one and the same. I've written since 2009.

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k12

JULY 9, 2025

I also work on writing scripts for my YouTube videos. This varies daily due to my altered schedule to fit in college courses, but the time frame is about the same all week. What kind of classes are you taking right now? Last semester, I took both English and history at the college level, which somewhat freed up my schedule this semester.

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English Fairness Schools Students 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 7, 2025

I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. To an outside observer the games the four played for the rest of the day may have been indistinguishable from the games they had been playing on the previous two. I've recently gone back through the 4000+ blog posts(!) I've written since 2009.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

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? Bring in debate topics after a persuasive writing unit. Should American voters be required to show identification at the polls?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 28, 2017

Though fairly new, Sway has taken over classroom production of visual presentations because the result is visually appealing while minimizing the amount of time students spend formatting a project, giving them lots more time to research and write. Write and format reports. What is Sway. The Pros are big, the Cons small. MS Office Mix.

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Internet Writing Fairness Middle School 154

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair. It allows us to reach students with high-level thinking and reasoning, regardless of their reading level.

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Technology Fairness Schools Ethics 409

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 14, 2025

I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. And then there are those things we want to do, but there are enough unknowns that we are frightened, often into the sort of frozen state of this girl standing at the table's edge. If the girl was going to jump, she would be taking a chance.

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Failure Fairness Writing Learning 81

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Key points: It’s critical for students to have access to reading opportunities 6 tips to help educators support young readers 3 keys to successful summer reading For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub When I was a kid, my dad never let me shop the Scholastic Book 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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The Life of a Conflicted Teacher

JUNE 10, 2025

I’ll write about our Lyft ride in an upcoming blog, but that was the only thing that made us question our judgement. Our adventures: We took a night kayaking trip on a clear-bottom kayak outfitted with LED lights. This was one of the cooler things we’ve ever done. I cannot say enough good things about Destin.

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Fairness Writing Grades Reading 62

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2023

. – Starting tomorrow, Turnitin – a leading provider of academic integrity solutions globally – will activate its AI writing detection capabilities. The technology identifies the use of AI writing tools including ChatGPT, with 98 percent confidence, enabling educators to analyze and review the authenticity of academic work.

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Writing Academic Integrity Education Feedback 299

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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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

“The whole concept of formulaic writing being the only thing this engine can score for is not true,” Chris Rozunick, director of the assessment development division at the TEA, told the Houston Chronicle. Any writing that can be graded by a machine might incentivize machine-like writing.”

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

It is worth our time to prioritize student choice, even if that choice is fairly simple. Would You Rather?

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Laboratory Motivation Fairness Participation 543

Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

Ask them to write a poem (structure and style their choice) and begin with the phrase “Still I rise…” You can have students publish their poems or read them aloud. Students have likely seen their fair share of digital exit tickets this year. How did they “rise” through it all? What was lost?

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Activities Feedback Fairness Coaching 542

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. In case you must ‘sell’ this idea to your administration, here are three great reasons why students should use Minecraft in school: Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Again, think Legos.

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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). ChatGPT Helps with Writing Lesson Plans Teachers can use ChatGPT to get a jump on lesson-planning. Let’s say I’m teaching symbolism in literature.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? Then the state hands off to a vendor who writes a test. asks Mark Moulton. EdSurge: What might make a test unfair?

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Once they submitted their writing, they were asked to provide 2 peers with thoughtful peer feedback on their writing. Yesterday Northern California was hit by massive storm. My school was closed because of weather for the first time in my teaching career. Offer Virtual Office Hours with Google Hangout.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve structured the grade interviews so they mirror our argumentative writing process. ” It’s a fair question. Then as grade reporting approaches, I sit down with every single student for a grade interview. Students come to these grade interviews prepared with a formal argument. They begin with a claim.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It can be hard to get moral compasses to twitch when discussing the intricacies of copyright law, public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons. Students need to understand the following concepts: copyright, public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons. I’m talking about teaching kids about copyright.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. We also accept the fact that, many times, a parent helps build their 4th-grader’s science fair project. By considering human-assisted help fair but computer-assisted help not fair, we create an equity gap.

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Fairness Beliefs Evaluation Essay 299

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

He has steered the course ever since, each spring when he takes breaks from writing books or pieces for The New Yorker, and it has become legendary in journalism circles. 4: On the Writing Process , and I was eager to talk to him about his craftsmanship as a teacher. McPhee lays out his course in his latest book, Draft No.

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Writing Teaching English Reading 167

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

– Today, Turnitin announced that more than 65 million papers have been reviewed since the April launch of its new feature that detects similarities to AI writing. percent – have been flagged as having at least 80 percent AI writing present. percent – have over 20 percent AI writing present. million – 3.3 million – 10.3

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Academic Integrity Writing Fairness Learning Outcomes 244

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

After all, the pandemic is forcing some serious reflections about what’s really essential teaching in schools and colleges. And people are taking a fresh look at the question of whether everyone is getting education fairly. Wolfram is steeped in math tools.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I would write the day’s learning objectives and agenda on the board and spend each class period moving my students as a unit through a series of learning activities. The result is a learning experience that is more attuned to individual needs and differences, ensuring each student has a fair chance at success.

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Blended Learning Education Feedback Teaching Methods 419

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

A writing teacher could use AI to provide quick first-round feedback, leaving more time for meaningful discussions about story structure and creative expression. Some classes use AI writing assistants to help students brainstorm ideas, while others use AI-powered math tools to visualize complex concepts.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Teachers should make efforts not to turn to the whiteboard to write while speaking. Related : How to help ESL students improve writing skills Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers Face students when you teach. It is easier to learn a language when watching how you speak.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2017

3) Write down every question exactly as stated. (4) The rules that she gave her students were simple, Rothstein says: (1) Ask as many questions as you can. (2) 2) Do not stop to judge, discuss, or answer the questions. (3) 4) Change any statements into questions. With these rules established, the students began generating their questions.

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Internet Fairness Students Questions 271

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2017

Google Docs is a free word processing program that does 99% of everything a student will ever need to do when writing. Google Docs automatically keeps track of all revisions made to a document by anyone involved in the edit/write process. To be fair, MS Word has this also, but I’ve found it glitchy at best.

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Writing History Fairness Curriculum 92

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2021

Miller, a psychology professor at Northern Arizona University, “confirming that people write more and remember less when keyboarding.” The study has been cited in other peer-reviewed journals more than 1,200 times, according to Google Scholar, and it has been pointed to in op-eds and other popular articles as well.

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Study Peer Review Fairness Writing 215

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. Writing and Structure The essay’s structure, including the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion, was formulated by the student.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337