Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

When science students combine their natural curiosity with engineering know-how, the sky’s the limit (literally, if you’re working on rockets)! Build the sturdiest bridge in class One of the classic STEM activities for middle school , this team project uses elements of both mechanical and civil engineering, as well as teamwork.

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Teacher Mood

JUNE 17, 2025

Group work? A Teacher’s Guide to a Better School Year Self-Checking Student Work to the Rescue! Ask yourself: What routines ran smoothly without constant reminders? Which expectations did your students consistently meet? Where did things start to unravel—was it time of day? Transitions? Don’t Miss the Rest of the Series!

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

Even though current generational students resist group work, I encouraged them to team up with a study partner (for experience) where they can help each other with content, application, and reporting (even though all submissions must be individual and not just copied from their partner).

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Pros: These non-traditional desk arrangements encourage students to be more creative, think analytically, and have more fun at school. Pro Tip: Chrissy Beltran Buzzing With Miss B is a big advocate of this setup for group work, saying, “I know it can stress some teachers out, but there is so much value in having kids sit with a group.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 30, 2025

Creating a quick routine or checklist for outdoor time, just like you would for any part of your school day, helps make the transition smoother. Make the Most of Group Work Learning outdoors naturally invites collaboration. When students are working together in an open space, they often feel less pressured and more creative.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

It’s the first day of school, and your high school class is quiet. Use these ice breakers for high school students on the first day of class or when starting a new semester. Help them introduce themselves with more engaging ice breaker activities for high school students that range from funny to fascinating.

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From the Pond

JULY 12, 2025

These cheerful, school-themed posters are designed to do so much more than decorate — they support number recognition, counting, and hands-on learning in engaging, flexible ways. Great for Lessons, Centers & Play - Use them during small group work, number of the day activities, or math centers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

K-12 schools can purchase the device for $1,999 USD. It has four front-facing USB ports as well as four HDMI ports, DVI, VGA (HD15 VESA), USB Type-A x 4, 3.5mm stereo audio in, 3.5mm stereo audio out, and a USB Type-B port for touch screen control.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. If you’re EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo, who’s currently in grad school, you’ve recently experienced all three of these scenarios. Great question.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2018

Stephen Independent School District, located in central Minnesota, is one of many school districts across the country that recognized a need to dramatically evolve traditional classrooms to create a variety of specialized and flexible learning environments to meet the needs of next-century learners. Sartell-St.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Over the past several years, these spaces have transformed into collaborative areas that encourage group work, discussions, and hands-on activities, promoting creativity and innovation–ultimately becoming instrumental in shaping well-rounded, adaptable learners.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

That’s why, when I retired from the school system to pursue my PhD, Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psychology seemed like such a perfect fit. That’s why, when I retired from the school system to pursue my PhD, Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psychology seemed like such a perfect fit. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to change.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Tucked away in a corner of Laurel High School in a couple of storage rooms turned into computer labs, Michael Hines is training the next generation of information technology workers. Suitland High School offers a Cisco Networking Academy for students in the southern part of the county. and Virginia. “So you all made a server? .

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

And if you don’t use all that calculus you labored over in high school, the next time your child asks you for help on their calculus homework, you might be a little out of your league. Teach Group Work Etiquette: Don’t assume your students remember how to have group discussions.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

According to a Gallup Student Poll (2015) of public school children, 47% report being “disengaged” at school. When students leave high school, they will be expected to successfully navigate myriad challenges and novel situations. Unfortunately, this statistic doesn’t shock me.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But in a difficult year, where charting the unknown has become a daily occurrence, it’s a tough argument for a school to make. Our organization works with schools and districts across the country to create more student-centered learning experiences, which gives us a unique view to the changes that are, and are not, happening at scale.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

Changes in the classroom that brought many advantages, such as interactive technologies, more small group work, and flexible classrooms, have contributed to noise levels. Some schools may also experience environmental noise such as city traffic, construction, or noise from ventilation systems. What’s causing all this noise?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Group work vs. cooperative learning. When I was still in the classroom, I called lots of activities “group work,” but some students hid from the learning while others carried the group, and that is not true of cooperative learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For group work, either to help solve problems in the group or to gauge progress, record interactions so students can review and reflect on how they interact with their peers. It’s great at providing practical procedural support throughout the school day.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are plenty of reasons that K–3 teachers tend to be less likely than their middle and high school peers to use technology in the classroom. The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. Related : The phonics fix?

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2023

When schools were forced to go remote during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it shone a spotlight on inequities that had long plagued education. Those disparities are carrying over into the learning recovery process, according to the results of the School Pulse Panel. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last summer, not far from the doorsteps of Oakland Unified School District, a group of parents came together to build an academic program from scratch in an effort to close the gap between the education their children were getting in school and the education they deserved. She called it the Hub.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

When I explained what I was doing, why it was needed, and that only their activity during school hours was visible, they started to change their minds. But eventually, they started liking how it worked and how it helped them. I also have students who need to know when to share work with others. I push them to speak up.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Here are 5 ways you can create spaces in your school that unlock creativity in students and teachers, encourage collaboration, and foster project-based learning. At Beaver Country Day School in Newton, Mass., We also observed where our students were actually working and where they were spending their free time in the school.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is the fifth and final profile in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. Bringing about change in schools is complex. Stay tuned! -

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. In fall 2020, many districts, schools, and individual educators across the country took to learning outdoors out of necessity–and their learning activities and strategies blossomed.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For me, the smiles in back-to-school photos felt extra forced this year. I credit my old high school Spanish classroom for my discovery. This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. My curriculum at a project-based learning charter school was mine to invent. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It includes everything we need for a project: the group work activities, the labs, supplies for teachers and students, and the reinforcement labs. The program is designed to be flexible and allows me “pick and pull” as much as I want to use. There was very little that I had to get outside of the platform’s curriculum.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation. Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers. meghan.bogardu….

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s how it works. How video coaching works Because video coaching is new to our school, I have been taking the recordings myself this year. If you give someone a laundry list of things to work on, they will feel overwhelmed and may even become demoralized. If you wait too long, it can begin to feel less relevant.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Between 2011 and 2019, the number of high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness increased nearly 10 percent, from 28 percent to 37 percent. Barely two months into the pandemic, nearly one-third of students reported feeling disconnected from adults and peers at school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Exeter (CA) Unified School District is a small, rural district with approximately 2,800 students, 61 percent of whom are Hispanic and 62 percent of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Approximately one in seven of our students are English language learners.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, music provides the perfect space for would-be student leaders to practice their ability to work with a team and guide their peers toward better performances. This approach is championed by Crystal Hernandez, who sees the school system as synonymous with an orchestra.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

With a wide variety of hardware and software solutions that gather and share information, facilitate group work, enable remote learning, broadcast messages and more, the scope of educational technology is broadening, leaving some schools unsure about where to invest.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2018

Lately, technology additions in classrooms have focused on providing each student with his or her own laptop; for many schools, it’s become the new normal to issue every student a Chromebook. At the same time, the screen-focused atmosphere has stunted the growth of small-group collaboration in classrooms.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

The most important recognition, of course, comes from teachers and students, when they see effective learning and skills development with both Get Set for School, and Phonics, Reading, and Me. We are all proud of the innovative work our development teams did to create – and continuously improve – these breakthrough learning programs.”

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