eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

But when I compare the size of our student body to the passenger count of four cruise ships, it clicks. But when I compare the size of our student body to the passenger count of four cruise ships, it clicks. So imagine we’re on a voyage with thousands of students, except they’re not disembarking after a week or two.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

In most cases, students had learned conversational English but had never really engaged with the alphabet. Here are five different ways our students and teachers are benefitting from our online literacy platform: Meet students where they are. It’s important that students see Lexia as a partnership.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2025

The survey of more than of 3,000 students in grades 7-12 offers insights into teens’ plans after high school. “This analysis of teens’ post high school plans reveals shifts in students’ thinking and planning. Where do students need the most support?

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

From personalized practice questions to interactive explanations, many education-focused AI tools are designed to aid, not undermine, student learning. 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.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future. That number should stop us in our tracks. It’s learning that sticks because it’s meaningful.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. Each point corresponds to a specific objective and is graded complete/incomplete.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

When she needed a fun end-of-year activity for her first-grade students incorporating Candyland, gummy bears and phonics, Irene Farmer turned to ChatGPT. “It The AI provided the creative spark, but Farmer brings the pedagogical expertise and knowledge of her specific students to make it work. Differentiation takes so much time.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2025

Solid math skills open doors to higher earnings, college opportunities, and the fastest-growing careers. And according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the U.S. And according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the U.S. This press release originally appeared online.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

Math isn’t my strongest subject, and when a student asked me to help solve an equation involving angles, I hesitated. Students exchanged surprised glances, and I heard one whisper, almost in disbelief, “She’s using ChatGPT.” Later, I learned that many students were already using a math-solving app called Gauth AI, but discreetly.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

In a ninth grade class, he researched the earning potential for a STEM degree (“so much more money”) and the demand for mechanical engineers (“exploding”). When he graduates in June, Brito will have completed several diploma pathways, including ones aimed at preparing for college and building career skills.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Key points: Lowering the academic bar is a disservice to students and families Leading (again) in uncertainty Five years on: COVIDs impact on schoolsand whats next for education For more news on educational progress, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub We are living in an Ozempic era.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

BOSTON — Ignite Reading — a Science of Reading-based virtual tutoring program serving students in 18 states nationwide — today announced its approval by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to continue providing 1:1 high-dosage evidence-based literacy tutoring to K-3 students across the commonwealth.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. When I was a kid, I convinced myself that I hated avocados,” Gethard remembered the student saying. He remembered one who identified as a fruit.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

They can be working hard to provide the best instruction for their students but become immediately distracted anytime a new technology is introduced. In traditional instruction, teachers spend a great deal of class time teaching students information from these physical resources. These include human-made items (i.e.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new report shows the biggest concern for kids is balancing it all. The kicker: Students didn't share these concerns with adults in their lives. It’s, ‘I know you know you're struggling.

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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. Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

While including the ISTE Standards for Students may initially seem like an additional burden, it can be seamlessly integrated into well-designed lessons. For example, in my coursework, I introduce a collaborative, screen-free robotics activity that aligns with the ISTE Standards for Students. ISTE Standard for Students 1.1

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses like data science that would be useful for students future careers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

Without appropriate support, students may disengage, lose confidence, and eventually decide they’re “just not a math person.” Well-designed hints can help maintain that balance where students feel they are making progress and want to put in the effort to get to the next level. Suppose a student struggles to add fractions.

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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. All costs for Massachusetts students will be covered by DESE.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

When projects feel like they are merely checking off boxes instead of sparking curiosity, students miss out on meaningful learning. You can help your students turn things around. Let Students Have a Voice and a Choice One of the quickest ways to see a difference in the quality of your students projects is by giving them ownership.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Participating students have made impressive gains, averaging more than 2.5 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. The goal is to improve K-5 student outcomes in reading and mathematics.

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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.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future. That number should stop us in our tracks. It’s learning that sticks because it’s meaningful.

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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. Educators may evaluate what worked well and what didn’t, including instructional strategies, classroom management techniques, student engagement efforts, and time management.

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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. Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. The term emphasizes potential rather than deficiency (McLeskey et al.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

That early access to knowledge helped shape who I am today, and I carry that legacy into my work leading library services and digital learning for more than 30,500 students in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Students, in turn, build literacy skills in context, rather than treating reading as an isolated subject.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

I recently attended a student panel on use of AI in college classes. Even, or especially, in an AI age, we know our students need to think critically and learn authentically to be productive and engaged citizens and future employees. We can teach students to critically analyze AI-assisted work and promote authentic learning as we do.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. points and 3.04 points and 3.04

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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 23, 2025

” Colorado Springs School District 11 is leveraging PowerSchool’s AI-powered solution, PowerBuddy for Learning , to help educators spend more time teaching to create a more engaging, personalized experience for students. “We’re keeping an eye on usage in the U.S.,

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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. As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

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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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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Peer-to-peer conversations can help students to make connections with each other and course content. There has been a noticeable decline in students’ engagement with course materials, evidenced by reduced annotations and superficial reading habits (Deale & Hyun, 2021; Mizrachi & Salaz, 2022).It Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A.,

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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?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. For the students, it was more than a game. For many students, these programs provide a sense of belonging and a platform for leadership.

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