eSchool News

JULY 11, 2025

There are numerous lesser-known digital platforms that offer unique, high-quality learning experiences tailored to students’ and teachers’ needs. With written and live discussion formats, students can express their ideas while teachers track participation, collaboration, and the quality of responses.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

For 60 years, SkillsUSA has provided these types of hands-on learning opportunities for students in the form of regional, state, and national competitions–and participants in these contests have gained valuable career experience.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2025

One striking disparity I haven’t heard talked about: While AI usage among students has skyrocketed—from 25% to 60% at the middle school level and 45% to 75% at the high school level over just two school years—only 32% of teachers report using AI for academic purposes.

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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)! Over the course of a week, groups of students design the most break-proof phone case they can with a variety of materials (including a calculator to use instead of a phone).

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant, McTighe and Associates (Columbia, MD) Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD (Paris, France) ISTE Distinguished District Award This award honors school districts that demonstrate effectiveness and innovation in using technology to improve student outcomes and engagement.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years. Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Some students struggle to see how numbers fit together, while others find it plain boring. As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Here are creative strategies tailored for young students, middle schoolers, and high schoolers to make math more engaging and meaningful. The good news?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

What once lived on the margins of academic planning is now front and center in national conversations around workforce development, education equity and student well-being. But for CTE to truly serve todays students, it needs something its never had at scale: flexibility. Grants have become an especially powerful resource.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2025

Today: K-12 Technology Curriculum Overview The K-12 Technology Curriculum is Common Core and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech for grade level state standards and school curriculum. Lessons build on each other kindergarten through 5th grade.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

It’s the first day of school, and your high school class is quiet. How do you get students interacting when they’re feeling shy, all while keeping your class management under control? Use these ice breakers for high school students on the first day of class or when starting a new semester.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

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. Decide how you’ll communicate with students, caregivers, and admin 8. Check with your admin for any supply stipend, or take advantage of those back-to-school sales.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. What middle school class has been your favorite so far? Use these SEL writing prompts to help students stay aware of their own emotional health and social understanding. Do you like sub days?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

If you’re staring at blank walls and not sure what to fill them with (or are in need of new ideas), never fear: The TPT community has plenty of back-to-school bulletin board ideas to inspire you and your students. Create a board that highlights your students and their stories. It’s time to say “welcome back” with style.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

At the start of every new school year, conversations often turn to one thing: goal-setting. Vision boards are a powerful tool to help students visualize their academic and personal goals. Explore unique vision board ideas for students to help you individualize this activity to each of them.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

With so many options—ranging from traditional workbooks to story-based programs and online tools—it can be tough to know what will best suit your student. It is a family favorite that we used all the way through high school. Students correct and mark up errors in a continuing story. GRAMMAR We used Fix It!

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

National Science Foundation, aimed to solve that problem with a drone-focused curriculum for rural middle schools. It seemed “touchy feely” to the digital learning specialist who works in a rural New Hampshire middle school and is known as the “drone lady.” Take Flight, a research project backed by $1.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Students in schools run by the Department of Defense have staged multiple walkouts in recent months to protest the agencys decision to pull books that may not align with President Donald Trumps executive orders on race and gender. The plaintiffs paint another picture of DoDEA.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessees Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimores classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record. When a student answers, she might turn to the other side of the room and ask, What did they just say?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month is an excellent opportunity to teach students about influential Hispanic figures from the past and present. Discover ways to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month activities into your school day and honor the contributions of Hispanic leaders, artists, athletes, and icons worldwide.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Walking students through the unsettling complexities of the past has never been an easy job. Painting approaches to history in stark black and white can shut down debate and keep social studies teachers from achieving what 94 percent of them report is the most important part of their job: preparing students for meaningful civic engagement.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

When traditional icebreakers just dont cut it, try switching things up with Would You Rather questions for high school. These simple questions are an easy way to get students talking and thinking without the pressure of a writing prompt. Try them for a morning meeting, first-week-of-school activity, or SEL check-in.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Clearly, education should be doing more to ensure that students are graduating with financial literacy skills, and while most K-12 teachers understand the importance of teaching financial literacy, as shown in a 2016 survey , only 12 percent teach it. 22 states (+DC) require a high school class be offered.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Find everything you need for facilitating great debates in your high school class. From good debate topics for high school to resources for structuring and crafting arguments, you’ll find everything you need for a fiery debate in any subject. Should high school students be allowed to drop out of school when they want?

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Catch my Words

JULY 13, 2025

These engaging activities will engage your students as they work alone or in groups to solve these brain teasers. Back to Middle School Logic Puzzles I just posted a new resource on TpT. file Link to Google Slides Easel worksheets Check this new resource out on TpT at: Back To Middle School Logic Puzzles Hurry!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

And by the looks on the faces of many of the 475 school kids who showed up to try out the games and learn about what it takes to make them, the free show was a hit. Another 200 students and their families visited later in the evening. Students talk with game developers including Maria Burns Ortiz of 7 Generation Games after panel.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Chronic absence, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school or about 18 school days in a year, is a national crisis. It peaked in the pandemic, when about 31 percent of students nationwide 14.7 million kids were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, according to data from the U.S.

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GovTech

JUNE 6, 2025

Professionals from Frederick Community College in Maryland travel to high schools and middle schools spreading the word about their field, giving students a chance to play operation games and use training devices.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

Its a big question one that many students struggle to answer. Without real exposure to different career paths or learning about careers they may never have heard of, students often make choices based on limited information, missing out on opportunities that align with their skills and interests.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable. In a unit on electricity, students can create simple circuits with batteries, wires, and bulbs.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2020

In September 2018, my school district approved the creation of my FH Knights esports team –the first middle school esports team in the country. Just like traditional sports, esports is a great way to help students develop soft skills. Esports is a great way to teach soft skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in the instruction so students can access on-grade level instruction. With College- and Career-Ready standards, the learning builds.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Sassy–short for Sasquatch, the mythical creature thought to roam Northwest forests–joins the collection of other AI technologies developed by the Journalistic Learning Initiative , a nonprofit organization co-founded by Madison thats committed to empowering students and teachers with educational programs and resources.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

I enjoyed science in elementary and middle school. However, in high school, my science classes were primarily comprised of lectures and worksheets. Here are a few strategies I use in my classes to engage girls and encourage them to pursue STEM in high school and beyond. I ask students to hypothesize why.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2016

One district is getting students more active and analytical with data-collection tools, like probeware. Today’s students, being technology natives, expect the same kinds of engagement in the classroom as they seek out online. Here are 7 ways technology is enhancing and expanding STEM education in our school district.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership with Discovery Education that adds a new, cutting-edge resource to the district’s middle school and high school science curriculum. Pivot Interactives offers opportunities for students to explore and learn for themselves.

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