eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

That early access to knowledge helped shape who I am today, and I carry that legacy into my work leading library services and digital learning for more than 30,500 students in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. For my district, that enduring solution has been World Book.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

The targeted program focused on foundational skills – phonemic awareness, letter naming, and oral reading fluency – and delivered remarkable results: 99% of participating students improved their overall composite early reading assessment scores from pre- to post-test. Catapult Learning’s HDT model is designed to scale individualized learning.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. It should extend our ability to listen, relate, and empower learners to co-create knowledge within a community of care.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2025

Pangram was definitely the best detector we were able to test, Russell says. The majority vote of our five expert annotators substantially outperforms almost every commercial and open-source detector we tested, the researchers wrote, with only the commercial Pangram model matching their near-perfect detection accuracy.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future. If education is meant to prepare students for life beyond the classroom, then we must ask: are we equipping them with knowledge or wisdom? That number should stop us in our tracks.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview. As for Hatch Valley High School, Goins reports, students there saw improvement in test scores.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Almost a quarter (24 percent) of teachers recommended that students create AI-powered flashcards and personalized study plans to help them understand class materials and prepare for tests in the way they learn best. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

To understand mathematics deeply and carry that knowledge for life, students can’t just observe math; they need to do math,” said Brett Woudenberg, CEO of MIND Education. That involves making predictions, testing ideas, discussing their thinking, and revising along the way.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. It should extend our ability to listen, relate, and empower learners to co-create knowledge within a community of care.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Key points: Creating a culture where all students see themselves as capable math thinkers starts with leaders Key questions that unleash powerful PLCs Ethical PD: Doing right by the teachers who do right by the world For more news on teachers PD, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Constant content reviews ensure AI stays relevant to current medical knowledge. How can schools test the accessibility of AI tools? Schools should perform usability tests with diverse student groups, including those with disabilities, to assess AI tools’ effectiveness.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Consider changing assessments from high-stakes timed tests to projects, homework, open-note/open-book take-home tests. Refer to people how they refer to themselves. Realize that impact matters, regardless of intention. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

These hallowed halls of knowledge host sellable information, from Social Security numbers and medical histories to mental health records and bus routes on outdated systems, making them tempting targets for attackers. This means establishing alerts and working towards regular device audits, patch testing, and rollback strategies.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Beyond that, the classes help students see that they have the skills and knowledge to pursue a college degree, he says. Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. The program also targets knowledge and training gaps in local schools. Barriers to access vary from state to state, Fink says.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Building Interdisciplinary Courses: Choosing Scope and Mixing Knowledge Creating a solid interdisciplinary course starts with a clear scope and thoughtful mixing of knowledge. The U-shaped learning model from O’Sullivan (2025) backs this kind of team learning since building people skills helps blend knowledge and put it to use.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

But if you’re new here, I’ll give you a very quick overview: Retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall something you learned from memory by doing things like taking a test on it or using flashcards instead of just looking at, rereading, or reviewing the information. ’ and then applying it to new knowledge.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. In management, it might be a company.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge 4. Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Once the dread of big tests is gone, you may find that engagement takes its place.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

Students are no longer just attending school to pass tests–they are actively seeking knowledge and skills to help them achieve their dreams. Path to self-actualization: Unlocking career potential At the pinnacle of Maslows hierarchy is self-actualization.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned. In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light. what we actually do).

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

By corporations who do very little testing to see whether or not those products are safe or effective for children. The product-makers may have no connection with students … They think that there is this fundamental idea that the [point] of teaching is to transmit knowledge. A lot of edtech programs today are aimed at the K-12 market.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

NGSS MS-ETS1-2, ETS1-1, ETS1-3; MS-PS2-1 Subjects: Engineering, Math, Physical Science This hands-on STEM project for middle school takes students through the steps and knowledge needed to create bottle rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles, CSs, and duct tape. Lead them through an activity that demonstrates their knowledge of heat transfer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Diagnostic assessments, as opposed to summative assessments, measure students’ current knowledge and skills, helping educators identify gaps and areas for growth, and guide teachers and school leaders toward where students might need additional instruction, resources or support to meet learning outcomes. How would it be delivered?

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

To my knowledge, what the examples I’m seeing are hybrid or online, and it makes a ton of sense because it’s not like these students who are coming back in are typically going back into a regular mainstream school in the traditional district. I was chatting with a longtime friend of mine who’s. You’re with and.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 19, 2025

That means providing them with the tools, strategies, and knowledge they need to establish sustainable fitness habits that last. It’s not just about learning the rules of a sport or doing well on a fitness test—it’s about building confidence, understanding how their bodies work, and creating habits they’ll actually want to stick with.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

We began with a pilot program to test AI tools in targeted areas before expanding to broader use. We offer students access to powerful technology and software for AI solutions while equipping educators with the knowledge and skills to teach with and about AI. Start small.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

Students work on cars that they’ll later pit against each other in the ultimate test of mechanical engineering, aerodynamics, and creativity. Provide marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers for groups to cook and enjoy s’mores in an especially delicious project test!

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Creative Expression of Learning: Not every child shines through essays or multiple-choice tests—and that’s okay. Whether it’s a short video, digital art, a song, or a presentation, expressing knowledge in a format they enjoy can boost engagement and retention.

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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 18, 2025

Its a great way to build background knowledge while sneaking in some reading comprehension practice. Hand out small wand magnets and let your little scientists test what sticks and what doesnt. The Strength Showdown Lets test some muscle magnet-style! Ready for some hands-on activities with magnets? The key takeaway?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

I could, I suppose, have pre-tested them prior to opening the box, then re-tested them after playing with the junk, but what would be the point? So I just left them alone, secure in the knowledge that they were attempting to teach themselves what they, in that moment, most wanted to know, following their own interests and passions.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

NSF has long been a primary funder of this work, and one of the few institutions that helps researchers not only test new ideas in the classroom, but figure out what worked and why–which is key to replicating a successful program. Families also got to put their building skills to the test. Now we just went to zero.”

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

Common Methods Schools Have Implemented To Tackle the Teacher Shortage School leaders across America are implementing the following strategies to address the teacher shortage crisis : Rehiring Retired Teachers Retired teachers bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the classroom.

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