eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2025

The following scenario is becoming more common for educators: You’re grading assignments, reading them one-by-one, until one of them catches your eye. Check for misunderstandings Sometimes there’s a mismatch between what a teacher considers cheating, what a student considers cheating, and what triggers an AI detector.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

The way teachers use the AI tools in their classrooms–open conversations around acceptable use help students use AI tools for meaningful learning instead of for cheating. Suitable for: All grade levels–from elementary children designing a poster about dinosaurs to high school students putting together a multimedia history project.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

We would go to one platform to look at their reading data, another for their behavior data, and yet another for math. Specifically, this has allowed us to improve in closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities over the last several years and to provide our teachers with more tailored professional learning for support.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their needs. Still, educators can offer early literacy support and help for struggling readers using evidence-based reading instruction. What is a delayed reader?

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Learn from their journey, featuring the innovative AI Trust You Add-On that fosters stronger student-teacher trust. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. AI Trust You- Building a Culture of Trust and Learning with AI : Discover how LBUSD empowers educators through thoughtful AI integration.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

However, we were skeptical that one solution could work for all of New Brighton’s K-5 teachers and students. We needed something to pull everybody together for positive behavior, attendance, and more, and that’s where our communication platform for districts, teachers, parents, and students came in. Make students feel like VIPs.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. Now, as a fifth-year graduate student approaching completion of my degree, I use contract grading.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

The targeted program focused on foundational skills – phonemic awareness, letter naming, and oral reading fluency – and delivered remarkable results: 99% of participating students improved their overall composite early reading assessment scores from pre- to post-test.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

They didn’t expect a teacher to use the same tool they’d been experimenting with themselves. Encourage co-learning: Parents, teachers, and students can learn together by exploring tools and discussing their uses. Balancing trust and caution One of the most common concerns teachers and parents express is: What if students misuse AI?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Teaching 8th grade ELA can be a uniquely rewarding experience, as long as you’ve got the right tools. A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade? Table of Contents 1.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2025

Online CTE curriculum platforms provide ready-made interactive lessons, assessments, and multimedia content that teachers can incorporate, ensuring that even schools in rural areas or with limited lab facilities can offer robust, up-to-date coursework. The results of leveraging technology in CTE are impressive.

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Technology Quizzes Teaching Methods Blended Learning 269

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

The end of the year is not just a time for wrapping up grades and packing up classrooms–it’s also a powerful opportunity for growth and renewal. Teachers might ask themselves: Which lessons sparked curiosity? How did the teacher respond to challenges–whether student behavior, shifting expectations, or personal stress?

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

The platform covers all subjects–from vocabulary and reading strategies to science, social studies, and math–through catchy songs and interactive lessons. Furthermore, it’s a powerful tool for developing literacy skills and content knowledge in a way that resonates with children across grade levels and learning styles.

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Quizzes Social Studies Learning Students 159

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Reading before bed? But not everybody feels this way about reading. My own brother — who is incredibly intelligent, younger than I am, and has already paid off his house (what?!?!) — once told me, “I never read anything unless I absolutely have to.” Every single day we seem to move closer to a society that simply doesn’t read.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Whether you’re a brand-new teacher or an experienced professional, you’re sure to find something just for your needs. to focus on yourself.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

To help fill the gap we began using two products, both of which were recommended by a teacher who had used the literacy programs at a previous school. Here are five different ways our students and teachers are benefitting from our online literacy platform: Meet students where they are. Teach to a group or individuals.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

If you’re trying to get students to really think while they read, not just skim or restate facts, then reciprocal reading might be just the technique you’re looking for. But what it does is something that every teacher hopes for: it helps students take control of their own reading process.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. The strategies are summarized below.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

A lot of teacher-authors read my WordDreams blog. after January 1, 1978, are automatically protected by copyright once they are fixed in a tangible medium (like the Internet) BUT a single copy may be used for scholarly research (even if that’s a 2nd grade life cycle report) or in teaching or preparation to teach a class.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Learn from their journey, featuring the innovative AI Trust You Add-On that fosters stronger student-teacher trust. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. AI Trust You- Building a Culture of Trust and Learning with AI : Discover how LBUSD empowers educators through thoughtful AI integration.

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Art Math STEM Participation 148

Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

This reality is compounded by a nationwide shortage of certified special education teachers. SDI delivers real-time, IEP-aligned instruction and structured progress monitoring from a certified special education teacher. Here is what sets SDI apart: Certified Special Education Teachers, Guaranteed Every SDI session is led by a U.S.-certified

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. Some just want to read a good book and be seen for who they are, not as a stereotype waiting to be saved. It’s a buzzword I hear often these days on social media, especially in teacher groups where educators are reimagining their futures.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Teachers often seem to have eyes in the back of their heads. They can tell if someones skipping class a floor away by reading faces in the room. Teachers sometimes call it radar , and we use it every day. Thirteen years in, I credit this radar with much of my success as a teacher. But its not instinctual.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Learn from their journey, featuring the innovative AI Trust You Add-On that fosters stronger student-teacher trust. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. AI Trust You- Building a Culture of Trust and Learning with AI : Discover how LBUSD empowers educators through thoughtful AI integration.

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Art Math STEM Participation 150

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

I’m here to share my advice to new homeschool parents (or veterans) from the perspective of a veteran teacher and someone who has homeschooled. We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. It was a dream!

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Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

It could be another teacher on your team, a specialist like an art or music teacher, or even a class in a different grade. If every student is standing in front of the class reading off an index card, its no wonder the energy falls flat. Want to take it even further?

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Students Communication Intelligence Motivation 94

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Beginning Add literature/resources from neurodivergent, disabled, and diverse authors to assigned course readings and class activities. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings. Provide electronic files of reading, resources, presentations, and other materials. When they ask what this means, share these suggestions!

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Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 95

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 103

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Here are thoughts from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: Blending Montessori and Technology: Finding the Right Balance in Early Childhood Education These days, it seems that all toddlers master how to swipe across a screen before they learn to tie their shoes. What About Teachers? What is the intersection of the two?

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Technology Education Attention Beliefs 110

Teacher Mood

JULY 6, 2025

And as a teacher, your unexpected absence shouldn’t throw your students—or your team—into instructional chaos. As a former academic coach and current behavior specialist, I’ve seen too many classrooms spiral when a teacher is out without leaving anything meaningful behind. This is an area many teachers overlook. Life happens.

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Teachers Classroom Management Activities Writing 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) Do you like it when someone reads a book to you, or do you prefer reading independently? What advice would you give a first-year teacher about kids your age? What advice would you give a first-year teacher about kids your age?

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Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to.

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Critical Thinking Evaluation Knowledge Curriculum Design 52

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

As the seminal punk band so adequately expressed for millions of teens across the country, no one represents the concept of authority better than their teachers and administrators. In most classrooms, the management boils down to, “I’m the teacher, so I’m in charge.” I’m the fun teacher! Naturally, this bummed me out.

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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 115

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Use SEL check-in strategies to check up on struggling kids in your class who seem less interested in the instruction, including teacher-to-student journals for learners to keep you up to date on their lives. Once reluctant learners know that success is in their control, you’ll find their grades starting to rise.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

And as faculty members grapple with what this means for grading, tech companies have proved yet again that there’s money to be made from panic. But since her college built it into the system she was already using to read student papers, she found herself checking the automated reports again. I wouldn’t have gone back to [Turnitin].”

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

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. You might read The Poppy Lady by Barbara E. Once finished, they can cut out the pieces and assemble them to create a meaningful bulletin board display.

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