Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

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. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. These platforms allow students to practice skills at their own pace while giving teachers real-time insights into their progress.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2025

Solid math skills open doors to higher earnings, college opportunities, and the fastest-growing careers. Empowering teachers with the knowledge and skills to teach math effectively is essential for improving life outcomes for all children,” said NCTQ President Heather Peske. “If This press release originally appeared online.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

This approach aligns with research on how students develop passion, purpose, and essential skills for college success and workplace engagement. We use clear rubrics, reflective feedback, and skill progression models that prioritize growth over grades. That’s why we focus on competency-based assessment.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2025

Too many students are falling behind in their math skills, limiting their academic success and future economic opportunities. Recent math scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that a quarter of fourth graders lack even basic math skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

All student groups — including Black and Hispanic students, those with IEPs and Multilingual Learners — had equitable skills growth, and those meeting end-of-year reading benchmarks grew more than 125%.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

Meanwhile, 62 percent of employers are seeking AI skills in new hires, and over 78 percent of organizations report using AI technologies in 2024, up from 55 percent the year before. It’s about fostering curiosity, judgment, integrity, and communication–skills they’ll need no matter what tools the future holds.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Educators can adopt similar strategies to design interdisciplinary lessons that promote engagement, creativity, and foundational literacy and STEM competencies across grade levels. Identify the intended grade level and the specific ISTE Student Standards the lesson will address.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

In 2024, both Oklahoma and Wisconsin lowered what it means for students to be proficient in grade-level content. That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years. Its a troubling trend thats sweeping through red states and blue states alike.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Cultivating Confidence: Transforming Middle Grades Math Education : A public charter school in Orangeburg, SC, offers a dynamic Algebra 1-focused related arts course to enhance math and reading skills while fostering positive math identities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

Early literacy tutoring content focuses on building foundational skills, including phonological awareness, phonics knowledge, and decoding skills to help students become independent and fluent readers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

In the eighth grade, he started working on a math program that uses AI to provide just-in-time feedback and contextual hints. Among students who scored below the national average, the majority–68 percent in grade four and 75 percent in grade eight –are economically disadvantaged.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

This tool is especially powerful for developing creativity and communication skills. 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. The platform lets you filter texts by grade, Lexile level, or topic.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its about time that schools dragged math into the modern world, so that it imparts useful skills, Henderson says. That includes how job skills play into math paths for students. For example, Marylands state board has flagged that it wants every student career ready by the end of 10th grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer science principles could enhance early literacy instruction — and ended up transforming her classroom in the process. Yet the seamless functioning of these tasks relies on a skilled computer science workforce. “Let’s do it!”

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

The personalized, one-on-one support that Ignite Reading provides is exactly what our students need to build strong foundational reading skills by the end of first grade. AI-enhanced supports for students in grades 6-12. Its programs focus on kindergarten readiness, third-grade reading proficiency and algebra proficiency.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

This approach aligns with research on how students develop passion, purpose, and essential skills for college success and workplace engagement. We use clear rubrics, reflective feedback, and skill progression models that prioritize growth over grades. That’s why we focus on competency-based assessment.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Kibeam is redefining early childhood literacy education with the launch of Kibeam Wand : a first-of-its-kind, screen-free, AI-powered handheld device that reinforces foundational reading skills through immersive storytelling and play-based learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

In today’s world, where misinformation is rampant and digital literacy is more important than ever, students must also develop the critical thinking skills to evaluate sources and identify truth. Students, in turn, build literacy skills in context, rather than treating reading as an isolated subject.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

We have an extremely diverse student body, which means foundational skills and native languages are varied and distinctive. If they don’t have those skills, theyll resist working with the teacher in a Tier 1 setting. Sometimes they don’t want to ask for help, and they may need a nudge.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

While AI seems like a relatively new development, it’s been around for quite some time, and is changing very quickly within the education space. “We’re keeping an eye on usage in the U.S.,

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

One might assume that the most desirable skills for someone entering a STEM field would be things like vast scientific knowledge or a laser-like attention to detail. Whiteboard: Whiteboard is ideal for grades K-12 and works especially well for drawing, images, and math symbols. Ive wondered about this myself on a few occasions.

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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. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade? We’ve gathered our favorite 8th grade ELA teacher essentials, including tips for brand-new teachers and seasoned veterans alike.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

The three panelists shared their perspectives, borne out in an April 2025 Gallup survey : they want to learn to use AI tools in appropriate ways, they’re anxious about the potential negative impact on their critical thinking skills, and they want explicit guidance from their faculty members—which they’re not consistently getting.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Taking Chances in the Spotlight’ Research shows that students who practice social-emotional skills in safe environments with well-defined goals have improved social behavior, emotional regulation and academic performance. “We We have clinical psychologists who go through all the improv exercises,” Gethard said.

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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. Tools like NoRedInk can help reduce the planning load for teachers while providing students with structured opportunities to continue developing their writing skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade (IES Practice Guide). What is a delayed reader? Supporting delayed readers starts with understanding who they are. Foorman, B.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

The ability to identify misleading or false information is a skill that will benefit them in their personal and academic lives. By teaching students how to refine their searches and discussing the impact of these search skills, students will be more discerning when it comes to reviewing search results.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Cultivating Confidence: Transforming Middle Grades Math Education : A public charter school in Orangeburg, SC, offers a dynamic Algebra 1-focused related arts course to enhance math and reading skills while fostering positive math identities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

Fortunately, a wide range of high-quality digital tools can help K-12 learners stay curious and build STEM skills throughout the summer months. These “snacks” are short, creative experiments that use easily accessible materials to teach key scientific principles.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

These essential, durable skills are at the heart of frameworks like ISTE’s Standards for Students and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning’s framework , which emphasize what students need to thrive in school and beyond. The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level. What stood out most?

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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. Each of these titles will help you seek fresh inspiration and sharpen your skills in classroom management, student engagement, or a subject area you want to improve.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Highlights include new Math Talks for grades 3-5, which feature activities focused on making sense of mathematics through open-ended prompts and rich student discussions, Daily Fix-Its and Weekly Edits, which are teacher-led presentations targeting common student grammar errors, and more. The new civics-focused series, Need toKnow Jr.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2025

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. 46 lessons. 46 projects.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

These improvements broaden DreamBox Reading’s coverage to support all PreK-5 learners and expand educators’ abilities to develop students’ foundational skills and confidence in reading through personalized instruction.

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