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Bridging the language gap with AI tools every teacher can use

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Pierce, a high school science teacher, admitted to me recently. According to the SIOP Model (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol), building background and explicitly teaching vocabulary are essential steps in making content comprehensible for English Learners. But vocabulary is only part of the challenge.

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An AI Wish List From Teachers: What They Actually Want It to Do

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While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making.

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5 online resources to beat the summer slide

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The platform also features an Article-A-Day challenge that encourages students to build background knowledge and reading stamina with just 10 minutes a day. The platform is well-suited for middle and high school students, especially those interested in project-based learning and critical thinking.

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Can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math anxiety, a new global survey shows. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Mission Molecular Literacy: A Framework for Transforming Chemistry Education

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This documentary centered around Colleen’s vision, chemistry comic book series and her success with teaching college-level chemistry concepts to kids. During Colleen’s 30 years of teaching chemistry, she became aware that her students were struggling with basic concepts, including fluency with the symbols for the elements themselves.

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Solving our literacy crisis starts in the lecture hall

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There are decades of research involving thousands of students and educators to support a structured literacy approach to teaching literacy. Teacher preparation programs and school districts across the nation have been slow to fully embrace this research base, known as the science of reading. And how do we fix it?

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. When would I ever use this?