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. Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning. With Gemini, my planning is so fast and easy, said STEM teacher Natali Barretto.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Instructions: 1. Choose a song in Spanish (e.g., 

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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.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

While the book focuses primarily on literacy instruction at the elementary level, it offers valuable insights and practices for anyone who teaches or works with disabled students. And because they’re written by disabled authors, they can teach us a lot about those authentic experiences.” Why are these images not linked to Amazon?

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. Teaching students to analyze critically the information generated from AI chatbots will become necessary for a progressing society. Use AI to assist you with generating clearer and more concise messages.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Kimmerer asserts, "Plants teach the universal language." Play, like all movement, is an aspect of the universal language. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. Wouldn't you dance it?

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Morphology is the study of morphemes —the smallest units of meaning in language. Even if a student has never seen the word, they can reason: autobiographer is a person who writes the story of their own life. Explicit Teach one affix or root at a time. Language builds on itself. Take the word autobiographer. Spiral them.

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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. Making Computer Science Relevant and Relatable A key takeaway for these educators was the power of language.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Instructions: 1. Choose a song in Spanish (e.g., 

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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. A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. Keep writing prompts on hand 6. Provide relevant reading materials 5.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me. PASS Network was going to be a bridge — connecting families to the language, policies and strategies they needed to push for change from within.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. Teaching students to analyze critically the information generated from AI chatbots will become necessary for a progressing society. Use AI to assist you with generating clearer and more concise messages.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 13, 2025

Using this kind of language helps students build empathy , reflect on their behavior, and understand how their actions impact others. That might mean writing an apology note or checking in on someone they hurt. Or “It really helps the group when you share your ideas.” It also might mean something more meaningful.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

The Nuance Of Teaching & Learning Research on student motivation illustrates that student motivation is driven largely by the intrinsic desire to accomplish goals: “The fifth family of social–cognitive constructs that has been a major focus of research on student motivation is goals and goal orientation.

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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.

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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.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Professional growth doesn’t have to be overwhelming… it can fit into your summer routine as a rewarding way to improve your teaching. Remember, your summers are yours!

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Students went through all the steps of creating a video game, including writing the storyline, creating characters, and building the world in which their game takes place. Additionally, the students broadened their vocabulary by learning language thats critical to their academic success.

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Teach Your Kids

JULY 7, 2025

Meet the tutors ➡️ Rowan (Latin and Ancient Greek) A specialist in Latin and Ancient Greek, Rowan loves guiding gifted learners into the fascinating world of classical languages and ideas. She is also a gifted creative writing teacher who can support children in creating their own narrative.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Whether its writing a research paper with academic integrity or designing a technology solution that addresses a global issue, Elmwood girls learn how to think deeply and act responsibly.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Like most language arts/English teachers, I always wanted to share my love of reading with my students. But with the advent of technology, the internet, and cell phones, it seemed like reading for pleasure (not to mention the requisite attention span) had gone the way of buggy whips, writing quills, and powdered wigs.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. 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. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

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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?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I'm sure that many teachers, when asked, would say they like the kids they teach, but the entire job of "teacher" in the standard sense is to shape the child in front of us into someone else. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. "I like my child. but I wish he were more motivated." "I

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Reading Power Gear

JUNE 17, 2025

Ashley promises to wait with her uncle by the train tracks, in remembrance of what was lost and she promises to never forget the their culture or language. A dual-language edition in English and Mi’gmaq. Annick Press, 2023) Blue Camas, Blue Camas – Danielle S. Marcotte Inhabit Media, 2024) On the Trapline – David M. Robertson

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

Purchase Options : JacKris Publishing FIRST LANGUAGE LESSONS We used FLL levels 1 & 2 alongside of Growing with Grammar for two totally different approaches in the early years. Purchase Options: Easy Grammar , Christian Book , Amazon Winston Grammar Grades: 4th–12th Approach: Hands-on, uses color-coded cards to teach grammar analysis.

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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.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Teach students to use the SMART formula to ensure that any goals they set are specific and measurable. Create a Word Wall: Have students write down words and quotes that feel relevant to the goals they listed. The vision boards are accompanied by a writing assignment, and then they’re all hung as a class display.

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

However, my coolest high school classes are probably my forensic science course, my 3D animation course, and my practical math course, which teaches me how to complete important life math like filing taxes and understanding credit. I also enjoy writing very much. I’ve been taking dual enrollment since I was 14!

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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.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

If you had to teach a class, what would the class be called? Trivia Train: Write a topic on the board (such as weather or animals) and have each student name a fact they know about it. Aligned to CCSS for writing, speaking, listening, and more, they work in any class period where students could use a little nudge to start socializing.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 22, 2025

I'd not been watching Sarah's production, but only, occasionally, her face and body language. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years. "Nope, not one," was the answer, "But she worked really hard. Every time she tried to crush the tissue like you showed them, the paper came off."

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

“We do believe that the Dear Colleague letter puts a target on districts that are supporting our work and puts a target on organizations like ours,” said Sharif El-Mekki, founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, which works to diversify the teaching workforce.

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