eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

A recent Google blog post outlines how four different school districts are leveraging Google AI tools, like Gemini and NotebookLM, for innovative teaching and learning. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance.

Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Even before COVID burst on the scene and drove many schools into online versions of themselves, remote teaching had been gaining popularity. Driven by reasons like flexibility, personal needs, and accessibility, the positives associated with online schooling were convincing many to take a second look.

eLearning

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. This foundational knowledge includes study skills.

High School

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

Instructors

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

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?

Lecturing

k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

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.

Education

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Introduce social studies experiences 6. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. A great ELA curriculum doesn’t just teach mechanics; it lifts the veil to a powerful and enchanting world of language. Start with core concepts 2. 1, CCSS W.K.2,

Curriculum

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Phase 3 Live Finale: Elementary, middle and high school teams competed in a 30-minute esports showdown, held at the Levan Center of Innovation at Nova Southeastern University, to design climate-resilient schools. From the brainstorming to building to the presentation, I feel honored to have been part of this experience.”

STEM

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Most kids are autodidacts—they just don’t learn school subjects autodidactically. Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. This motivational lens could also help explain why high-dosage tutoring tends to outperform self-paced software, even when both offer personalized learning.

Motivation

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2025

We’re excited to have the VR goggles so our students can experience what they would not have in a community high school, said CaTisha Howard, a Bridgeport Public Schools administrator in the Bridgeport Residential Center program. Theyll get to explore if they want to be an auto mechanic, Howard said. .”

Students

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. Keep a copy of your teaching philosophy nearby 8th Grade ELA teacher Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed Seamlessly transition 8th grade ELA students to high school 1. by staying true to your teaching philosophy.

Grades

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide.

Skills

Elevate k12

JUNE 11, 2025

Both Tiffany (Elementary General Ed & Gifted) and Stephanie (Middle & High School Math) have modeled remarkable teaching by crafting and upholding the perfect LIVE learning environment, expertly planning for their classes, and nurturing a culture of collaboration, growth, professionalism, and strong student engagement and outcomes.

Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s. She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School. I really thrive in those environments. [At

History

Teach Hub

JULY 25, 2025

Whether you’re teaching kindergarteners or high schoolers, there are simple ways to weave social-emotional learning activities into your routine. Set up a space where they can write anonymous shout-outs like “Thanks to Brady for helping me study” or “I noticed Reece included someone who was sitting alone.”

Activities

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Fulfilled and Frazzled Katharine Strunk, dean of the University of Pennsylvanias Graduate College of Education, wasnt surprised by the studys findings about teachers feeling toward their workplace versus their workload. That definitely, I think, weighs on teachers' minds a lot.

Teachers

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.

High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 25, 2025

Highlight specific subject areas with topical bulletin board ideas Make the subject you teach part of your classroom theme with posters, banners, and editable labels. By Performing in Education Grades: 3rd-12th Teach all types of writing like a pro with this easy-to-follow writer’s workshop bulletin board!

Counselling

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

There were plenty of studies replete with data on engagement, reading strategies, and Lexile scores. We even did it every Monday in my own high school and called it ISR (actually, then it stood for “Intensive Silent Reading” because the 70s were crazy). There’s an old saying in teaching, however: You can’t save ‘em all.

Reading

Teach Hub

JULY 25, 2025

Whether you’re teaching kindergarteners or high schoolers, there are simple ways to weave social-emotional learning activities into your routine. Set up a space where they can write anonymous shout-outs like “Thanks to Brady for helping me study” or “I noticed Reece included someone who was sitting alone.”

Activities

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 19, 2025

Here is an excerpt from today’s New York Times article, How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 students Into the A.I. Future : Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John F. Kennedy and discussed his campaign for “new frontier” economic and social policies. said Ashley Acedo, 17.

Discussions

Class Tech Tips

MAY 19, 2025

Here is an excerpt from todays New York Times article, How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 students Into the A.I. Future : Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John F. Lowd asked her students to analyze whether the chatbot simulations accurately reflected the Kennedy speeches they had studied.

Discussions

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. I honestly didn’t learn much that year.

Math

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Use strategies that support integrity, maximize learning, and minimize cheating As I argue in my book AI with Intention , if we want students to use AI tools with integrity, we must teach them how. Teach strategies to use AI appropriately so students can use these tools as more than a mere shortcut. Teach students how to cite sources.

Academic Integrity

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

Study cause and effect with a Rube Goldberg machine 7. Study cause and effect with a Rube Goldberg machine When scientists think back on their favorite class projects for middle school engineering classes, they likely think about a Rube Goldberg machine. Explore middle school resources Make a solar oven that cooks 9.

Middle School

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

If you could teach a class on anything, what would it be? Describe your study process or homework routine. 10 8th Grade Social Studies Writing Prompts Stretch 8th grade writing prompts across the humanities with short social studies writing assignments. What chore do you secretly like to do at home?

Writing

k12

JUNE 24, 2025

12th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. The number of opportunities I’ve had through my K12-powered private school is something I never would’ve had at my previous school. By: Madison B.,

Schools

k12

JULY 24, 2025

These records might be necessary for a child to return to public school, get their high school diploma, or apply to colleges. Is online school the same as homeschooling? Attending school from home also gives parents and students control over the environment. Parent availability and teaching comfort.

Exams

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 30, 2025

From preventing summer learning loss to building core skills to planning ahead for the homeschooling year, weve gathered summer teaching resources that parents and caregivers can use to support learning at home and turn summer into a season of discovery and enrichment. Theres good news though: a little enrichment can make a big difference.

Teaching

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 30, 2025

I once randomly met a teacher from a local high school at a social event. I knew that one of my young relatives, then a 15-year-old, attended the school, so naturally I mentioned him. There has never been a scientific study done that finds that holding a body still improves cognitive function. Movement is not a choice.

Motivation

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. You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach.

Activities

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2025

The paper inspected data from five school districts in the Central Valley region of the state during the first two months of the current Trump administration. Young students missed the most school. And “it wasn’t just a January blip,” Dee says, because the study showed sustained drops in attendance.

Schools

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched herself teach class. 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.

Testing

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

But as history is about to take center stage in 2026 for 250th anniversary celebrations of the nations founding, there are growing signs that the work of teaching about the countrys past has become harder than ever. According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S. We feel so polarized right now.

History

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 24, 2025

They point to studies that show that children who are exposed to these "school readiness" types of curricula have a leg up with things like letter recognition and print awareness. This study continues to track low-income children from a play-based program since the mid-1960's.

Study

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 15, 2025

I still jump on to communicate with old high school friends and to interact with Teacher Tom readers, of course, but the endless parade of posts and messages that populate my feed are a monumental waste of time. Over the past year I've made the conscious decision to cut way back on my social media consumption.

Reading