eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2025

That’s where game-based learning comes in. Meanwhile, video games are already one of the most familiar and compelling forms of media for students–so why not use them as a learning platform? When done right, it can radically change how students learn and retain essential skills. Most systems in games are extremely complex.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

Some students get funneled to the military pathway, despite having no aspirations to serve, because the aptitude test is easier to pass. Many have struggled to address the same big questions, including what exactly high school is for, and what students should need to do to earn a diploma. Washington is not alone.

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Teach Hub

MAY 2, 2025

Experiential learning isnt just a buzzword, its a game-changer in the classroom. Instead of students passively absorbing information, they get to get their hands dirty (sometimes literally) and connect learning to real-world experiences. Outdoor Learning Adventures When you take learning outside it adds a new layer of engagement.

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Activities Learning Students Critical Thinking 81

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college major. and “Is my learning the right level of challenge?”

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

The takeaway Ive come to is this: Success in learning comes down to intention. Focus on social-emotional learning Social-emotional learning (SEL) plays a key role in helping students with autism develop tools for self-regulation, communication, and interpersonal connection. Heres how that looks in practice.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

As we matured and grew as teachers of writing, we learned that teaching writing in such simplistic ways may be easier, but it was not actually teaching students to be writers. We learned with time and experience that writing instruction is a complex task within a complex system.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Next, test some small changes Key Action: Pilot changes and gather feedback from students and educators A current partner school that is focusing on cell phone policies this school year is taking a deliberately slow approach to developing a policy. Our Listening In Protocols offer helpful ways to solicit authentic opinions from students.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

This months episode explores how remote and digital learning has evolved beyond emergency pandemic measures into strategic, purpose-driven educational approaches. DLACs John Watson distinguishes between emergency remote learning during the pandemic and today’s well-planned online and hybrid models. Have a listen, OK?

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Therein lies a paradox I have struggled with in my career: How can I continue to teach students that questioning authority is not only okay, but sometimes necessary, while maintaining a position of authority myself? I have control over their actions and learning. One day, Ms. This stuff doesn’t matter!” Yeah, I was a real rebel.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Be open and welcome student questions. Re-examine assignments and assessments for bias and exclusionary practices.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

As co-designers, we envisioned a space where leaders could contemplate big questions: How do we lead with integrity when the ground beneath us may be shifting? And, most importantly: How can we design learning experiences that are as adaptive and resilient as the leaders we serve? What did we learn? Take action to learn.

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Learning Participation Feedback Curriculum Design 112

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

AI tutors are transforming education by offering personalized, accessible, and efficient learning support. But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. These steps help prevent breaches and maintain trust in digital learning environments.

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Disabilities Ethics Schools Plagiarism 139

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. That class always has a wait list now.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

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.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Notably, the K-12 segment is the largest consumer of Android-based mobile learning apps. To make matters worse, the growing connected device networks and remote learning opportunities further exacerbate these vulnerabilities. When students own the device in question, the situation gets a little trickier. With over 3.3

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

Learning objectives. I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning. Students asked sharper questions.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Americans are questioning the value of the return on their investment: Is it worth my money? Students who opt for the workforce diploma will not have their ACT test scores included in their schools public reports. Department of Education. Is it worth my time? I wouldnt have the credits, Giles realized.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

Learning objectives. I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. It turns out, paradoxes are rocket fuel for learning. Students asked sharper questions.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 85

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. Often, this means finding a central theme, problem, or question that ties everything together. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

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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Ethics Evaluation Testing Science 116

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s. She also worked at NovoEd, another online learning platform. She also worked at NovoEd, another online learning platform. Companies took advantage of these schools.

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History Intelligence Writing Knowledge 118

Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

There are test tubes, beakers, and maybe even open flames depending on the grade level. Your students are already learning about school rules and classroom procedures, so why not include science safety in the mix? Ask questions if youre unsure about anything. Walk, dont run, in the science area.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

She became one of the first Turnitin users at the large community college north of Los Angeles, testing out the software before campuswide adoption. As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. This year, the college paid almost $47,000.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

For students who are testing below grade level, incorporate the CCSS for language arts that are closer to their actual abilities. You can fill in learning gaps before they’re confronted with even harder material next year! State your standards and objectives at the start of the lesson “What are we learning today?”

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Teach Hub

JULY 9, 2025

These aren’t just literary questions, they’re life questions. When they see characters struggle, fail, learn, and grow, it validates their own experiences. In stories like Frankenstein or Lord of the Flies, students wrestle with tough questions: Can someone be blamed for how they turn out? Who decides what’s “good”?

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Students Essay Questions Culture 92

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

She works with students with autism and students with specific learning and cognitive needs and loves organizing desks into smiley faces, basic shapes, and even letters for creative classroom seating arrangements. She believes this approach can increase student focus, comfort, collaboration, and excitement for learning.

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Classroom Management Discussions Grades Lecturing 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Like the smile from acing a test or the joy of earning a reward, those flashes of satisfaction are unforgettable. Plan hands-on science experiments for kids that bring learning to life. Turn off the lights and test it out. For teachers, watching students have those aha moments isnt just special: Its the dream.

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Elementary School Elementary School Science Schools 75

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

As districts explore AIs potential, they must also confront critical questions about equity, algorithmic bias and access. Zachery-Ross: Ypsilanti Community High School has been selected as the first HP AI Spotlight School , an initiative focused on powerful teaching and learning with technology, especially artificial intelligence.

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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 100

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2025

Our on-the-ground experience echoed the data for our campus tabulated by the National Study of Voting, Learning, and Engagement (NSLVE) project at Tufts University, which is available for most campuses in the United States (National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement 2025). The Youth Vote in 2024.”  Accessed June 18, 2025. 

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Teacher Mood

JULY 6, 2025

Students know when the day lacks structure, and they tend to respond with off-task behavior, testing boundaries, or simply shutting down. You’ll also find decodable stories paired with comprehension questions —a powerful way to give students authentic reading practice, even with a substitute. It’s not just a matter of academic loss.

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Teachers Classroom Management Activities Writing 52

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Oversight for Special Education is shifting to the Department of Health and Human Services, raising urgent questions about IDEA enforcement and IEP accountability. That plan is now in question due to visa bottlenecks and federal review protocols ( Chalkbeat , EdWeek ). Domestic pipelines are shrinking too.

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Special Education English Languages Language 94

Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2025

Our on-the-ground experience echoed the data for our campus tabulated by the National Study of Voting, Learning, and Engagement (NSLVE) project at Tufts University, which is available for most campuses in the United States (National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement 2025). The Youth Vote in 2024.”  Accessed June 18, 2025. 

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