Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bek McRae (@missmcraesteachingtales) Make everyone more comfortable with a “meet the staff” bulletin board Whether students are stepping into a brand-new school or leveling up to middle or high school, the start of the year can feel intimidating. It comes with two “Did You Know?”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Perfect as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or brain breaks for high school , these five-minute writing ideas are a great way to get students into a writing state of mind right after the bell rings. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. The 2021 class of high school graduates saw the percentage of low-performing math students tick up even more, to 22%.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it. The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. The fact that AI detection tools are not foolproof (Fleckenstein et al.,

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

12th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. I wasn’t able to lean into that at my previous in-person school. Did you previously go to a brick-and-mortar school? By: Madison B.,

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Project & Rubric – Back-to-School, New Year, End-of-Year Activities By Jenn Liu — Engaging to Empower Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Life Skills Teach middle and high school students how to make a vision board using this no-prep, interactive Google Slides lesson!

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k12

JUNE 16, 2025

The study looked at when these entrepreneurs reached key income milestones, what motivated them, and how their school environment supported the development of skills like independence and creativity. Online school grads score highest in creativity development (65%), slightly ahead of public (64%) and private (62%) grads.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Learning, in my experience, is primarily a process of self-motivated individuals interacting with their environment and the people they find there. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. Online learning works for me because I am responsible and motivated to achieve high standards in my academics. At my school, I can control my work environment.

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k12

JUNE 5, 2025

Key Takeaways You’re On Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift was voted the song that most defines high school grads’ senior year, capturing the emotions of independence, transition, and self-discovery. 59% say listening to music gives them hope or motivation, and 45% say it helps them process difficult emotions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2025

This workbook walks you through the long process, provides check lists of everything required, decision making matrices, goal-setting exercises to determine if USNA is a good fit for you, and a mix of motivation and academic advice to balance a decision that rightfully might be the biggest one most teens have ever made.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. They are disconnecting and disengaging.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The lack of motivation has contributed to lower academic performance and increased dropout rates. According to a recent report by The 74 Million , only 44 percent of 12th graders report “learning a great deal” in school, compared to 86 percent of third graders.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Between balancing core instruction, administering assessments, grading homework, and ensuring students are prepared for college and career, high school teachers have a lot on their plates. When students have strong social and emotional skills, they are more motivated, engaged, and understand the value of their learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

AISF does not have a certified high school but does have 11 high school-aged students who have no other options for an international education in town. So, our school has been offering them courses from VHS Learning in grades 9 and 10. In my dream of dreams for a small school, I would have a blend.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ARLINGTON, Texas/PRNewswire/ — Workforce solutions provider Ancora has developed a new relationship with McGraw Hill to launch Ancora High School. The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2020

It was 2017 when I first heard that a business incubator program was starting at my high school, Vista Ridge High School in Cedar Park, TX. Grades aren’t everything, they said. Not your everyday high school classroom. I was curious as to what this class could offer me. I decided I would give it a try.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. Grading is the most time-consuming task teachers are responsible for beyond the classroom. I have yet to meet a teacher who enjoys grading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I emphasized the role technology can play in helping teachers to get more eyes on student work and, as a result, motivate students to do their best work. I want my students to practice articulating their ideas, sharing their work, and responding to questions so they are better prepared for life beyond high school. Rightly so.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The students in our academy are motivated, passionate and dedicated to learning more about the field they are interested in.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In some cases, a dyslexia diagnosis doesn’t happen until a student is in second grade, with some cases going unnoticed until the learner is already in high school. With research showing that interventions are the most effective when they are done in kindergarten and first grade, the earlier the intervention the better.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

With math scores falling globally , top high school math students point to academic burnout as a key factor. The survey gathered responses from 1,000 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. For 35 percent of respondents, getting a scholarship or a good-paying job was a motivating factor.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

As a parent, I marvel at the amount of work my own children–2nd and 4th grade–bring home on a weekly basis. Because I clearly saw the value of not assigning homework elementary level, I had to take a closer look at why I was assigning homework at the high school level. I knew I had to do something different, but I felt trapped.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Nick Mack, a fourth-grade teacher in Burlington, Vermont, says his students are at a transformative stage of their early education. Around fourth grade, students transition from just reading for reading’s sake—or just for pleasure—to reading for understanding content,” he explains. Research backs up this assertion.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In my school, the award ceremonies began in first grade, and after I received my first one, I wanted more. Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students. They believed that students’ motivation should come from within.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In order to fill the need for these high-wage, in-demand jobs, early STEM intervention and career awareness for students in the middle grades are necessary. Career-connected learning helps students understand how academics connect to real-world careers which can improve academic motivation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school. In addition, as course content becomes more challenging in higher grades, teachers may tend to use these complex strategies more often.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The survey, administered from March 26 to April 1—a few weeks into the pandemic, when many parts of the country were under shelter-in-place orders and nearly all students had been sent home from school—captured the experiences and struggles of 13,000 high school students who had been registered to take the ACT exam in April or June.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Families have moved their homes to Salisbury, North Carolina to live in the school district where Anthony Johnson teaches 4th and 5th grade on the slim chance that their children will be enrolled in his class. Anthony hated school as a child. This week we’re bringing you a special episode of our weekly podcast.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

public schools and their communities enjoy from STEM programs were underscored in a new survey conducted among some of the nation’s leading middle and high school STEM educators. educators who led their school’s efforts in entering the company’s annual Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition , which is currently in its 13th year.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2017

Other students may not care about their grades or understand how their current education connects to their future success. It is probably not a huge surprise that students need to be motivated. It may further not be a startling surprise that one huge way students can be motivated is by making real world connections.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

That is why schools that embrace social-emotional learning programs see reduced absenteeism, higher student engagement and motivation, a stronger feeling of community among students, improved academic performance, and fewer dropouts. My fifth-grade teacher, Ms. I know this firsthand.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sustaining that interest is important, too, particularly because girls and underrepresented minority groups quickly lose interest in STEM learning–and never regain motivation to pursue it. This motivates students to tackle more difficult challenges.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

Grade inflation is growing, and grade point averages alone are not enough for colleges to make informed decisions about applicants without an objective measure of competence—like, say, a standardized test. grade points, from 3.17 Its reasoning? in 2010 to 3.36 Sanchez, an ACT researcher who co-authored the report.

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