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JUNE 9, 2025

You’d think High School and college students would flock to these jobs, but they don’t. Connect Software Engineering to Real-World Impact For most teens, talking about theory isn’t enough; what grabs them is knowing what builds the apps they use, the games they love, and the real tools behind everyday technology.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. “To Give schools more control over their digital culture. Having an effective digital culture is a prerequisite for having a healthy school culture,” Culatta asserted. To put it more bluntly, we believe life is too short for sucky learning.”

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

Starting today, FFA teachers and students throughout the United States, including FFA chapters in 185 middle and high schools, will receive a classroom set of FarmBeats for Students kits free of charge.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

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?

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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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JUNE 20, 2025

What’s Built vs. What’s Needed “Right now, we’re mostly substituting AI for traditional tasks, rather than transforming how we teach,” says Chantell Manahan, director of technology at Metropolitan School District of Steuben County in Indiana. But teachers are asking for more sophisticated integration with pedagogical knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

For teenagers, high school is a critical time of development both academically and socially. As more families explore options like online high school in Washington state , it’s worth considering whether virtual schooling supports or hinders a teenager’s growth. school day doesn’t always work for everyone.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2025

At one point, our high school students were learning in a church because we didn’t have a traditional classroom set-up. We also lacked the equipment that a traditional high school might have. Student, teacher, and family feedback on the Empowerment Center has been extremely positive.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Markus Alcantar, a senior and a peer counselor at Lincoln High School, said his favorite exercise of the workshop was one in which he got to become an apple.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

The Alliant Credit Union Foundation has awarded a$108,000grant to Digital Leaders Now, the nonprofit that powers the Digital Leaders Academy at Ridgewood Community High School District 234, to support the implementation of innovative digital opportunity programs.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

When a high school student uses AI to design a community mural or a college freshman collaborates with peers across continents on a digital storytelling project, it’s clear the boundaries of learning are shifting.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Kimberley Thompson-Hairston, Director of Instructional Technology and Media for Stokes County Schools and Chad Stevens, Head of K-12 Engagement for ClassDojo, sat down with eSchool to discuss strategies for success when it comes to district-family communication.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

This is especially important for adolescents and teenagers entering high school–they may have missed critical social development opportunities during the pandemic and now need additional support to navigate both academic and social challenges. Another major hurdle for districts is funding these essential services.

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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. What stood out most? The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level.

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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

JUNE 16, 2025

From first grade classrooms to high school computer labs, teachers across the state are building confidence in CS instruction and finding meaningful ways to connect it to their everyday teaching. With rapid advances in AI and technology, they recognize the need to keep adapting.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2025

As AI becomes more embedded in how students learn, it’s critical to remember that technology works best when paired with real human connection. Overall, college students are more likely than high school students to use AI tools, and they are also more diligent when it comes to verifying AI-generated content.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

At Bowling Green Independent School District in Kentucky, high school students can take a class in which they repair HP Chromebooks as part of the school’s computer science pathway. The student team uses Incident IQ to field and track repairs, explains Technology Director William King. The district has seen only…

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2025

The technology remains the most impactful force in education. Thankfully, that’s where Denise Pope , Co-Founder of Challenge Success at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, comes in. Tired of talking about AI? That’s too bad. The challenge becomes avoiding all the Claptrap.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Unless AI technology evolves to a point where it plays a meaningful role in real social systems, where time, attention, and affirmation are scarce and must be earned, it will fall short of solving the motivational challenge. But I don’t believe it’s the technology alone that drives these outcomes. We’ve tried improving curricula.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

Avantis Education , a global leader in Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) technology for K–12 schools, unveiled the engaging Future Forests Experience and its most advanced ClassVR headsets to date – Xplorer and Xcelerate. “At

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Addressing Systemic Challenges and Supporting Educator Sustainability Last but not least, educators were not only adamant about the systemic challenges of K-12 education, but also expressed ways schools and districts can work to better support the retention of educators in our schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education. We have to look at all of this: What do the high schools need? What do the community colleges need?

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Use Math Apps to Spark Engagement Technology can be a game-changer for keeping young students engaged in math. Use Online Math Practice Tools Middle schoolers love technology, so take advantage of engaging math websites. Small-group settings make math feel less overwhelming and more like play. GeoGebra for exploring geometry.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

Districts arent just experimenting with a few technology or agriculture pathways anymore; theyre building entire CTE-focused programs and schools, designing curricula aligned to workforce trends and giving students more ways than ever to find purpose and opportunity after graduation.

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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.

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k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This phenomenon creates a significant barrier for students pursuing degrees in over 50 STEM-related disciplines, thereby restricting access to critical career pathways in science, medicine, and technology. This challenge mirrors what would occur if students were expected to read novels without first mastering the alphabet.

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JULY 8, 2025

The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states. Alongside recently published a report revealing what worries today’s kids are willing to share with artificial intelligence systems.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” She began by designing a web-based grammar program before joining the team that created the Stanford Online High School.

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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. Business partners make it possible for us to achieve our mission of preparing students for career success, Whitehead says.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

The company recently completed a major evidence study across 242 sites and 25,000 students, showing significant improvements in English language arts, reduced disciplinary issues, better school culture, and 2.5 fewer absent days per student. See them at Booth #733 or go to [link]

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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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

I asked my students, “Do you understand why you learn what you learn in school?” Some said yes, or gave textbook answers such as, “So we can be successful in high school,” or “to grow our brains.” Clark crying and apologizing for being a bad kid, we returned to the question of why. But many, when pushed, said no.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

But the technology offers only a shadow of accurate detection: It highlights any matching text, whether properly cited or not; it flags everything that mirrors AI’s writing style, whether a student used AI inappropriately or not. He said $15 million is a lot of money to spend on a tool with such limited value.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

Since Zoomers began to reach age 16 in 2013, the rate of students who drop out of high school has fallen to its lowest level and remained steady at 4 percent. For millennials, about 11 percent of people ages 16 to 19 left school without a degree.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

He emphasizes that effective digital programs are driven by specific educational needswhether supporting CTE (Career and Technical Education), dropout recovery, or creating early college opportunitiesrather than by technology itself. So when they graduate from high school, they’re well on their way to an associates degree.

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