eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Khan Academy : Khan Academy’s free online platform offers comprehensive lessons in math, science, history, and more. ReadWorks is especially helpful for English Language Learners, offering audio versions and question supports to aid comprehension. Parents can access dashboards to track progress and set goals over the summer.

Math

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom. This project encompassed science, data collection, SEL, ELA, social studies, and math. We measured our plants weekly and graphed our results.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

In a landscape where English proficiency and reading levels vary widely, it’s essential that we provide high-quality, credible resources that offer both language accessibility and academic rigor. Our librarians teach information literacy and digital citizenship as core parts of our library program.

Language

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.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making.

Teachers

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

However, in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, there is a growing need to enhance this traditional model with innovative teaching methods (Barker, 2000). This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

Art

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

This uncertainty can be daunting, but one thing is clear: Foundational knowledge in computer science will be essential, no matter what paths they choose. Computer science is essential, not optional. Just as we teach the alphabet, structure, vocabulary and syntax, we must teach the language of computers.

Science

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

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning.

Interdisciplinary

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

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

However, in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, there is a growing need to enhance this traditional model with innovative teaching methods (Barker, 2000). This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

Art

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

It’s about giving educators more freedom and time to focus on what matters most: teaching.” LG CreateBoard Prep transforms the LG CreateBoard from an in-room teaching tool into a hub for 360-degree engagement,” said Sanville. With LG CreateBoard Prep, lesson creation is no longer confined to the classroom. notebook and *.flipchart

Quizzes

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

So Brito took some engineering classes at his high school, became president of his state’s Technology Student Association, and is starting at the University of Washington this fall on a pre-science track. But the career-exploration labs also piqued her interest in science, and now she could also envision becoming a pediatric nurse.

Exams

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

This activity emphasizes computational thinking and problem-solving, incorporating Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and utilizing differentiation strategies to support diverse elementary learners. I aim to demonstrate how technology integration can be purposeful and manageable by modeling this approach.

STEM

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

Common issues include deficits in phonological awareness (Kilpatrick, 2015), limited exposure to language-rich environments, and instructional mismatches. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade (IES Practice Guide).

Disabilities

Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Whether youre teaching elementary students or high schoolers, this strategy works for everyone. Use it in math to talk through different ways to solve a problem, in science to make predictions, in reading to dive into character choices, or in social studies to unpack big ideas like fairness or impact.

Fairness

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. Derek Muller, creator of the science YouTube channel Veritasium , powerfully made this point during a recent talk. Our job isn’t to teach them how to learn. Watch what happens when a kid gets into Minecraft. Or basketball.

Motivation

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Design exploratory science activities 5. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. And don’t forget: Science is everywhere. Table of Contents 1.

Curriculum

Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

Priceless Ponderings Simple Science Safety Lab Rules: A Guide for Your classroom You know that moment when the glue sticks become lipstick, and the magnifying glasses turn into superhero goggles? Yep, its science time in the elementary classroom. When they dont, youll be running crowd control more than actual science experiments.

Science

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? I'm inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's way of understanding plants, one that is grounded both in Western science and ancient wisdom. Kimmerer asserts, "Plants teach the universal language." Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out?

Languages

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Phase 2 Semi-Finals: District champions tackled the challenge of restoring the Everglades ecosystem, applying science and teamwork in a digital environment. Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Collaboration: Teams build shared purpose and community. Focus on teacher support.

STEM

Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Morphology is the study of morphemes —the smallest units of meaning in language. Explicit Teach one affix or root at a time. Language builds on itself. Pick 10–12 roots and affixes to teach over the semester. It helps students decode the language of science, math, literature, and beyond. Spiral them.

Teaching

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning.

Interdisciplinary

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Language barriers can have a profound impact on these students academic performance, classroom engagement and social connection. Traditional supports for emergent bilingual students, such as peer translation, bilingual aides or simplified language, often fall short in busy classrooms where time and resources are stretched thin.

English

Faculty Focus

JULY 24, 2025

The Challenge of Hierarchy I have been asking myself the following questions with increasing frequency as I grapple with teaching international cohorts of learners: How can I move away from being considered the sole source of knowledge in the classroom? Most of these students have trained as clinicians or hold degrees in the hard sciences.

Ethics

k12 Digest

JULY 28, 2025

We teach our students to speak up for themselves, to ask for help when needed, and to support one another. Faculty and staff come from diverse backgrounds and speak more than five languages; something that makes a big difference for students adjusting to life in a new country. “We Some get academic help in math or science.

Schools

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

DreamBox Reading by Discovery Education starts young readers off right with a highly engaging, systematic approach to literacy aligned to the Science of Reading. Improved Teaching and Learning Supports: New professional learning and supports for PreK-5 educators are now available to maximize classroom impact.

Reading

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity The first time I stood in front of 20 bored freshmen, all alone, teaching a course I had designed, also all alone, I was teaching a general education writing and speaking course at the University of Iowa. As a TA, I even received rubrics with that language.

Grades

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Thats especially true when youre supporting multilingual learners (MLs), who are navigating both academic content and a new language at the same time. Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. Make Language Visual with Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers arent just cute.

Language

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

Faculty Focus

JULY 24, 2025

The Challenge of Hierarchy I have been asking myself the following questions with increasing frequency as I grapple with teaching international cohorts of learners: How can I move away from being considered the sole source of knowledge in the classroom? Most of these students have trained as clinicians or hold degrees in the hard sciences.

Ethics

k12 Digest

JUNE 30, 2025

This is not science fiction. Microlearning modules can now be powered by AI to address exactly what a learner needs whether it’s understanding Chinese banquet etiquette or mastering the language of leadership in West Africa. Let us build classrooms that not only teach but transform. It’s already here.

Intelligence

k12 Digest

JUNE 30, 2025

This is not science fiction. Microlearning modules can now be powered by AI to address exactly what a learner needs whether it’s understanding Chinese banquet etiquette or mastering the language of leadership in West Africa. Let us build classrooms that not only teach but transform. It’s already here.

Intelligence

A Place Called Kindergarten

JULY 24, 2025

A YEAR OF KINDERGARTEN WRITING FROM DRAWING TO CONFIDENT WRITERS Teaching writing in kindergarten can feel like chasing a moving target. UNIT 4: NONFICTION WRITING We tie this unit to science and informational reading. UNIT 5: HOW-TO BOOKS These books allow students to use sequence and procedural language. The answer?

Writing

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. Now I’m back to teaching in a school, and they love the social and extracurricular aspects of school, so they’re back, too, but there is still so much I took away from the experience.

Teachers

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition.

Disabilities

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

When it comes to areas in which AI can have a positive impact on students, educators see the greatest potential for AI in language translation (1st), preparing students for career readiness (2nd), and helping them improve grades and test scores (3rd).

Students