eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

These tools offer interactive lessons, personalized learning paths, and fun activities that reinforce what students learned during the school year–without making summer feel like school. For students who want to get ahead or reinforce tricky concepts from the previous school year, Khan Academy is an ideal, self-paced resource.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2025

Online CTE curriculum platforms provide ready-made interactive lessons, assessments, and multimedia content that teachers can incorporate, ensuring that even schools in rural areas or with limited lab facilities can offer robust, up-to-date coursework. The results of leveraging technology in CTE are impressive.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 30, 2025

I once randomly met a teacher from a local high school at a social event. I knew that one of my young relatives, then a 15-year-old, attended the school, so naturally I mentioned him. There has never been a scientific study done that finds that holding a body still improves cognitive function. Movement is not a choice.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Charlotte, NC Discovery Education , the creators of indispensable K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced an exciting new slate of standards-aligned educational content and instructional resources for Back-to-School 2025 that will inspire teachers and engage students.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Carl Morris, Co-Founder of educave, draws on extensive insights gained while building and scaling other EdTech and Education businesses, such as The Online School, EDAI, and Carfax Education. This kind of adaptive, data-driven support is helping students achieve more in less time, making learning both more effective and more motivating.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Currently serving as the school leader in Vietnam, he brings over a decade of experience in school leadership, teacher training, and educational transformation. I realized that to make lasting change, I needed to reach beyond the walls of one school. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

Because this type of vision loss affects tasks that require detailed focus, such as reading, writing, and recognizing faces, students with central vision impairment often face unique challenges that can affect their overall school experience. The student can magnify the image, scan and study it, and take what they need from it.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

The Creativity Challenge in Computer Science Education Creativity often declines as students progress through school. A 2021 OECD study found that 15-year-olds consistently show lower levels of creativity and curiosity than 10-year-olds globally. That distinction resonates with students and school leaders seeking future-ready skills.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Since it encourages internal motivation through an outwardly-created set of circumstances, gamification sits at the awkward intersection of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The Grade Point Average might be the most visible example of gamification in school. The rest are sent to vocational school. Personal) your praise?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide. They connect students with practicing industry professionals and help them gain hands-on experience that empowers them to excel in their chosen field.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Currently serving as the school leader in Vietnam, he brings over a decade of experience in school leadership, teacher training, and educational transformation. I realized that to make lasting change, I needed to reach beyond the walls of one school. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 3, 2025

The first day of school is one of the most important days of the year. As a mentor teacher, the biggest tip I give mentees is that they should absolutely put effort into planning their first week of school BEFORE spending extra time on their classrooms. FREE First Day of School Lesson Plans! I NEED ThESE! with all their stuff?

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

When Molly Lane was a school social worker, walking down the hall with colleagues sometimes turned into impromptu therapy sessions. It became clear, she says, that the school system wasnt doing enough to support teachers mental health. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

You can also connect with other local schools to see if they’re interested in sharing a booking. Many authors host super affordable Zoom sessions for schools, which expands your options. Many authors will also sign copies of their work at your school (or bring copies signed in advance to save time). Plan ahead!

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k12 Online Schools

JUNE 24, 2025

Studies have shown that students with strong digital skills tend to have higher grades and better engagement in their educational pursuits. Children must learn to understand the motivations behind media messages and recognize bias or persuasive techniques.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

My Personal Homeschool Experience During the 2021-2022 school year, my husband and I decided to homeschool our twin third graders. We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. It was a dream!

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

12th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. We asked them what makes online school so great, and here’s what Madison had to say. My K12 Why What do you like about online private school?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

All you need to add is a classroom full of eager middle schoolers, and you’ve got the best school year ever! Keep a copy of your teaching philosophy nearby 8th Grade ELA teacher Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed Seamlessly transition 8th grade ELA students to high school 1. Table of Contents 1.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. There were vital pieces that were missing.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Give them a try during Music in Our Schools Month in March. Add music to classic recess games When you think of music in elementary school, you might picture kids pounding out rhythms with Boomwhackers or squeaking away on recorders. But don’t hit pause there: Music and movement are key players in a child’s development.

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k12

JUNE 16, 2025

Can the type of school a student attends shape their path to entrepreneurship? In a national survey commissioned by K12, 380 young business owners with no affiliation to K12 shared how their educational experiences in online, public, or private schools influenced their early ventures.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it. Give students examples of proper citation formatting including for AI tools and textbooks and expect students to use them throughout the school year. But integrity is a different coin entirely.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

Perfect for educators at any level of experience, for independent reading or for schoolwide book studies, this practical book will leave you feeling inspired and ready to do the things that matter most for the people who matter most―your students. This is no ordinary teaching book.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. Perfect as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or brain breaks for high school , these five-minute writing ideas are a great way to get students into a writing state of mind right after the bell rings. Would you prefer a late start to your school day or an early release?

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessees Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimores classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record. Coaching is one strategy Weakley administrators and teachers credit with boosting middle school math scores after they crashed during the pandemic.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

His best known work, Deschooling Society , published in 1971 is a no holds barred critique of institutionalized, compulsory schooling, arguing that the overall effect is to alienate most children from their own learning. major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. for their own good."

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 15, 2025

Too much screen time in elementary school is delaying reading and writing skills, weakening focus, and hurting social development." I still jump on to communicate with old high school friends and to interact with Teacher Tom readers, of course, but the endless parade of posts and messages that populate my feed are a monumental waste of time.

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Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

Many of the universities that have been called to testify before the House Committee on Education and Workforce are among the nation’s most elite schools. We sought out colleges that fit this criteria and offered diverse school settings across the country. We also sought out a balance of public and private schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Take the South Fayette School District for example. Montour School District and Carnegie Mellon created research consortium with three other area districts called the LearnLab. Vincent College's Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media to study interactions between teachers and students through the use of technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

According to Dr. Peter Gray of Freedom to Learn : “ Unschooling parents do not … do at home the kinds of things that are done at school. If you use Genius Hour in your classroom, you have a sense of how inspiring, motivating, and addicting learning for the love of learning can be. What is it. Let curiosity guide the day.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Even before schools closed in the spring, teachers were already grappling with a crisis in student motivation. Student motivation is important because it can be directly linked to attainment. Combined with the added challenge of virtual instruction, motivating students continues to preoccupy educators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession. What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. With increasing coursework and extracurricular activities, a structured approach to studying helps manage time effectively, reduces stress, and boosts learning outcomes. These resources can complement your study plan and provide additional support.

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