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.

Learning 130

Learning Critical Thinking History Secondary Education 130

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Using Book Creator, educators can align writing goals to multimedia production, making literacy more interactive, purposeful, and relevant. Furthermore, it’s a powerful tool for developing literacy skills and content knowledge in a way that resonates with children across grade levels and learning styles.

Quizzes 162

Quizzes Social Studies Learning Students 162

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. With AI, though, no one yet fully understands how it works, so parents can’t pass that knowledge down. “In A red use would be inappropriate or unethical, such as asking ChatGPT to write an essay based on an assigned prompt.

Essay 169

Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 169

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.

Interdisciplinary 144

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Is the information precise, significant, and relevant to the knowledge that I am seeking? Use AI for Your Benefit Generating activity ideas or lesson plans, creating rubrics, and assisting with basic writing tasks are three ways to easily get started with an AI chatbot.

Critical Thinking 98

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 98

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.)

Gamification 103

Gamification Motivation Learning Learning Styles 103

k12 Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

As we consider the role of AI in our lives, one quote has kept popping up on my echo-chamber social media feeds: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes” (Joanna Maciejewska).

Essay 130

Essay Writing Art Knowledge 130

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Blunt says her use of whiteboards includes “anything they want and anything I want,” she has four frequently-used prompts for making retrieval a regular part of her classes: brain dump: Ask students to write down everything they remember about a topic for 2 minutes. ’ and then applying it to new knowledge.”

Multiple Choice Questions 80

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Her colleague, Kelli Cannon, a digital learning specialist, added, “It was my first year in the digital specialist role, and I wanted to expand my knowledge.” They then advanced to writing code that instructed how to build a specific tower using the cups.

Science 144

Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

For example, at the end of our discussion on memory formation, I ask students to quickly write down the most important concept they learned and one question they still have. Measuring Engagement and Refining Strategy One-minute papers serve as powerful self-assessment tools in my traditional classes.

Active Learning 65

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 65

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

The same traits tend to rise to the top: kindness, strong communication and knowledge/expertise. They consider whether communication is still a key leadership trait if AI tools can help people write emails or manage schedules. Over the years, the results have been remarkably consistent. That hasn’t changed. They debate.

Beliefs 145

Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 145

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.” Anne Trumbore “I have been an ensemble player in the transformation of online education from experimental and low status to ‘innovative’ and ‘disruptive,’” she writes. “I

History 117

History Intelligence Writing Knowledge 117

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Launching with four exciting episodes featuring lessons on run-on sentences, context clues, and writing purpose, the series is a go-to resource for differentiated ELA instruction.

Laboratory 193

Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 193

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Is the information precise, significant, and relevant to the knowledge that I am seeking? Use AI for Your Benefit Generating activity ideas or lesson plans, creating rubrics, and assisting with basic writing tasks are three ways to easily get started with an AI chatbot.

Critical Thinking 120

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 120

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 turn, we can immediately utilize new information to further our faculty assessment reports, professional development, academic writings, and research publication. what we actually do).

Lecturing 55

Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge Laboratory 55

Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

First, a student has to be able to define what an ‘author’s position’ is and what ‘evidence from the text’ means ( Knowledge-level ). Though the chart below reads left to right, it’s ideal to imagine it as a kind of incline, with Knowledge at the bottom, and Create at the top.

Critical Thinking 52

Critical Thinking Evaluation Knowledge Curriculum Design 52

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

By empowering educators with unparalleled ease of use and the knowledge and tools they need, Lexia helps more students unlock their potential to read, write, and speak with confidence. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.

English 130

English Language Languages Art 130

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Start by Building Background Not all students enter the classroom with the same prior knowledge, especially multilingual learners. Youre activating prior knowledge, linking new terms to visuals, and giving MLs the chance to show what they know in a low-stress, high-engagement way. Why it works: These activities make learning sticky.

Language 52

Language Languages Participation Writing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Getting Meta with AI in the Classroom: A Reflective Approach In a junior-level education course, I assigned students the task of writing a reflective paper on the various uses of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in the classroom. AI is so new that the landscape of our knowledge is changing constantly.

Ethics 88

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 88

Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

It is great to have their experience and wealth of knowledge feeding into the NI education system, but I do feel a little embarrassed by the lack of Northern Irish voices who are leading curricular change in Northern Ireland. As a Vice Principal, I have a deep knowledge and understanding of what works and what does not work in my school.

Curriculum 96

Curriculum Blended Learning Knowledge Discussions 96

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing. From the beginning, students werent just research subjectsthey were research partners.

Disabilities 53

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 53

Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Integrating AI Into Bloom’s Taxonomy AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping how students access and interact with knowledge—but where do they fit within Bloom’s framework? Prompting it to generate interview questions may fall under Applying , while using it to design a project or co-write a podcast script can reach Creating.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Critical Thinking Knowledge Reading 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

The Writing Revolution 2.0 – A comprehensive guide to teaching writing as a foundational skill across subjects. The Knowledge Gap – An eye-opening exploration of the importance of building knowledge-rich curricula in education. called it eye-opening, and Jessica W.

Reading 59

Reading Skills Teachers Classroom Management 59

Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

Having a helper student up front helping to write things on the board, answer and ask questions, and be a part of demonstrations. There is a lot more that can be done to make classrooms include more social interactions that don’t involve the teacher at all.

Lecturing 52

Lecturing Attention Discussions Questions 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Stories of Our Summer : Create printouts of little books and have each student write a story about a favorite summer activity or a favorite book they read. Constructing Knowledge : Use a construction site theme with bricks labeled with math skills. Be sure to leave room to list three interesting facts.

Schools 98

Schools Counselling Math Motivation 98

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Virtual Whiteboards: These online tools replicate the traditional classroom whiteboard—and in some cases, students can even write or draw on them too. 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.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

The lessons included real-world scenarios for using drones, like finding a lost child, that often appeal to young girls, and writing exercises to remind kids of what they’re good at before they try something hard. There’s a lot of knowledge and expertise that will be lost,” she said. “We Now we just went to zero.”

STEM 225

STEM Science Middle School Middle School 225

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

I could write volumes about what I saw happening as the children played with these random materials and speculate about what they were learning, but in all honesty, that would be total BS on my part. So I got out a box of small "critters" and that's what we did. I don't need to know what they are learning, only they do. That's enough.

Testing 87

Testing Reading Knowledge Writing 87

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

We typically think of education as a process of moving from ignorance to knowledge, that we build learning from the foundations up, like a constructing a house. new experiential data," writes cognitive psychologist and author Christine Caldwell, "and if we feel sufficiently drawn to it (i.e., We consciously take in.

Learning 94

Learning Writing Motivation Knowledge 94

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? Intuition has a maligned reputation as one of the lesser kinds of reasoning," writes neuroscientist Patrick House, "but is, in fact, second only to consciousness itself as the mammalian brain's greatest feat. Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out?

Language 91

Language Languages Communication Writing 91

k12

JUNE 16, 2025

The most common way these entrepreneurs earned their first $10K was through freelance services like design, writing, or coding (30%). Only 8% of young entrepreneurs said their school was the main source of their business knowledge. Others did so by selling physical products (29%) or reselling or flipping items (18%).

Schools 52

Schools Motivation High School High School 52

k12

JULY 9, 2025

I have several very knowledgeable teachers who know how to convey information extremely well. I also work on writing scripts for my YouTube videos. Last semester, I took both English and history at the college level, which somewhat freed up my schedule this semester. Can you tell me more about your teachers?

English 52

English Fairness Schools Students 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

But most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich counties, has come their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.” I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. Recesses were long and frequent.

Motivation 101

Motivation Testing Failure Grades 101

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

Students can work on their own or in teams to test their knowledge of facts while solving subject-specific riddles. Test their knowledge of organelles and their functions with scavenger hunt activities. Follow these tips to brighten up your curriculum and your students’ days.

High School 52

High School High School Schools Math 52

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Obviously there are people who write to us and say, ‘thank you so much — now I can access the books that have been taken away from me,’” said Mikel. But despite the interest in Books Unbanned, most knowledge workers agree that it’s far from ideal.

Accessibility 211

Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211