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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

What do you remember from history class? To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Brainly’s Back-to-School survey highlights a growing trend–66.5 The research shows that 67 percent of middle and high school students are using AI to help with their schoolwork. percent), history (14.7 percent) and world languages (11 percent) following way behind. Where are students going for help?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In fact, spaced repetition is the key to all learning of knowledge-heavy subjects, from preschool literacy and numeracy exercises through high school, corporate training, and beyond. And yet it remains the most underrated and underutilized learning principle in the history of education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reason I even graduated from high school was because my mom ran into my English teacher at the grocery store when I was in 10th grade, and the teacher mentioned that I’d missed class–a lot, actually. I started down that path as the youngest school technology director in my home state of Mississippi’s history.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Twelve years ago, when I left a career as a lawyer to become a history teacher, my vision of what a “good teacher” looked like was shaped in part by movies, such as “Stand and Deliver” and “To Sir, With Love,” which depict teachers who overcome institutional dysfunction to connect with students and inspire them to achieve their potential.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

Additionally, students can use ChatGPT to learn new languages, receive personalized tutoring, and explore new subjects at their own pace. Esports I also learned that middle and high school extracurricular esports programs offer numerous ways to engage students in instruction, especially in a rural community like Alberton.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I have a vivid memory of a co-worker visiting me in the library at school to mention that my older son Gus had fallen out of his desk in class. My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

As different as these students are in personality, they are equally thriving in a new program for English language learners in danger of aging-out of traditional high school. Called Accelerate to Graduate (A2G) this program is being piloted at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Ky, where I teach.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One of our schools provides advanced math and computer courses for various IT certifications, while another has a dual enrollment program that allows high school students to graduate with an associate degree and a high school diploma. Here are some ways to set your STEM-focused school up for success.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

The students at Hot Springs High School in Hot Springs, Arkansas will soon have another option to choose from when it comes to high-quality preparation for college and career readiness. Hot Springs High School students will be able to choose from seven options in the Career-related Programme.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. And some educators worry that as more companies offer chatbot stand-ins for historical figures, students will spend less time diving into the raw materials of history themselves to draw their own conclusions. “I

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, programming languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python are increasingly important to master regardless of profession or industry. Coding and robotics can help students develop critical skills for success after high school, highlighting the importance of coding in real life.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

STEM storytelling combines language arts with STEM, enhancing students’ understanding of scientific impact through a historical or personal lens. Even incorporating history, such as the evolution of technology or major scientific breakthroughs, can contextualize STEM subjects in ways that feel relatable and meaningful.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2017

Spanish 1 was my worst grade in high school, and guess what subject I teach now? Having a real life experience in Nicaragua with native speakers forever changed the way I would understand the world and motivated me to learn a language. That’s right. I primarily teach Spanish. What Real Life Can Do for All Subjects.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The recent development of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has opened entirely new possibilities for the design and implementation of computer-based tutors with the potential to help students succeed. Shrewsbury High School has been using online learning since the mid-1990s, says Nga Huynh , the school’s assistant principal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

How to make a game on Scratch Kodu – create games on a PC and Xbox via a simple visual programming language. Quest –create your own text adventure game Stencyl – design games without coding, but by choosing elements and characters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

This transition has proven to be one of the best decisions our district has made to enhance school-home communications. Real-time language translation. Now, if someone doesnt receive the message, we know it, and we can straighten it out quickly in the language that the recipient speaks. Access to data, metrics and analytics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – Carousel Digital Signage has provided Elkhart Community Schools with a seamless way to communicate timely, up-to-date messages to its diverse network of students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The public school district is comprised of 14 elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether they go on to college or begin a career immediately after high school, they will no longer have somebody telling them what to do and when to do it. Almost 20,000 students in more than 600 high schools around the world use our nonprofit’s courses to supplement their school’s face-to-face offerings.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

And although the system is installed in the school’s science lab, students and teachers have already embraced its use in other subject areas, including history explorations focused on World War I and an English Language Learners (ELL) exchange program that incorporates remote collaboration with fourth-grade students in the United Kingdom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2015

In addition to the honorees and guests, twelve students from The Young Women’s Leadership School were on hand to demonstrate the wide variety of high-quality digital learning activities within the CFY learning platform, PowerMyLearning , which is designed to support personalized instruction and student-driven learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

With a mission to enhance teaching practices and foster collaboration, Gale Community For Educators offers a platform that encourages literature, English, history, and civics high school teachers to connect, share ideas and access valuable resources. Through these specialized programs, teachers can: enhance their skills.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2017

School has always been a place for learning math, science, history, and art, but now it’s also becoming the place for students to learn other skills that are crucial to their future success and happiness, no matter where they end up. The Sheriff’s Department ended up using funds from assets confiscated in local drug busts.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I listened actively not just to their words, but to their emotions, body language, and non-verbal cues. Whether it was one-on-one conversations, class projects, or show-and-tell activities, I found ways to connect with my students on a personal level. I tried to learn about their interests, hobbies, and personal experiences.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Maxwell Elementary School in Tennessee, won for creating a Super Families workshop series program and celebrating her ELL first-graders’ “superpowers.”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I credit my old high school Spanish classroom for my discovery. We chanted and danced “Pie-pie-pie” (a Spanish-language twist on “head, shoulders, knees, and toes”) in a giant circle. I “discovered” it as a teacher in 2011. Many educators deployed it in fall 2020. But it’s hardly new. Teach students outdoors.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning students proficient in the language within one year. Another 18 states and the District of Columbia have been struggling to find enough people who teach English as a second language.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” About 40 percent majored in history, political science, economics, or sociology with the rest in varied other degrees.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My father attended classes for 11 years (there was no fourth year of high school then and no kindergarten), but even so, his classes were separated by grade levels and students were assessed by letter grades. Passing time in school no longer matters. Okay, you made it through high school. Mathematics. Psychology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Jessica Lander’s classroom at Lowell High School, every student is a recent immigrant or refugee. Lander teaches history and civics at this large public school in Massachusetts, and she says one of the most important strategies is to find ways to bring out her students’ stories in the classroom. “And

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

By its second year, more than 1,000 students were enrolling in the course, making it the fastest-growing course in campus history. Opportunities to teach data science at the high school level are also opening up. It is also being replicated by high schools in three other states.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I saw a brilliant high school student named Curtis help his father build a shed in the backyard and initiate a Black Lives Matter activism project. Social justice enterprises serve powerful roles and can connect to history and culture, community engagement and civic duty.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Teachers of Color After student teaching on the US continent in a high school, I felt so isolated as the only Asian adult on campus. Despite our history, we must contend with the fact that we are settlers with values and beliefs that may not align with Indigenous and Native communities.

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