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. He shared his views on integrating technology meaningfully into the classroom, Teaching methodologies, personalized learning, interdisciplinary instruction, and many more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Over the last few years we have had the pleasure of working with several school partners to address the growing concern around cell phones in schools. Leveraging the assets and ideas of the broader community, including teachers and families, is essential for successful school change.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

As AI dominates the education zeitgeist, I think it’s time to highlight an effective teaching tool as tried and true as a Ticonderoga No. I learned this first–and best–from my high school Spanish teacher, who, as the matriarch of the Spanish department, went simply by “Señora.” By then, I was teaching Spanish.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Featured speakers and highlighted voices include school district superintendents, professors, podcasters, executive directors, researchers, authors, and more. When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. Be sure to reserve time for the Creators Fiesta , a destination for creative discovery and hands-on making.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

These platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to personalize learning, refine curriculum development, and support teaching. But as AI adoption accelerates, one critical question remains: Will AI strengthen learning, or will it undermine it?

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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

MAY 12, 2025

With that question in mind, I made the root of my work about connection. 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. Students social-emotional needs were high, as was their eco-anxiety.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

I have incorporated this particular linguistic shift into my work with other educators at Relay Graduate School of Education. Tell me indicates that I, the teacher, have asked a question and want an answer. The next time you ask a question in your classroom, consider pausing for a moment before speaking.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

In a corner of Huffman High School, the sounds of popping nail guns and whirring table saws fill the architecture and construction classroom. Down the hall, culinary students chop and saute in the schools commercial kitchen, and in another room, cosmetology students snip mannequin hair to prepare for the states natural hair stylist license.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2025

The platform uses AI to assess student performance and provide just-in-time support, making it a great tool for teaching scientific practices and critical thinking aligned with NGSS. It helps students build listening skills while learning about current events, science topics, and historical moments.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

graduate with a high school diploma compared to 86 percent of their non-autistic peers, and that gap speaks for itself, but we have the tools to close it. Throughout my career as a behavior therapist, classroom teacher, and Head of School, Ive worked closely with students on the spectrum and their families.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

So, how do we navigate disagreement in a way that builds trust and works toward the success of our classrooms and schools? Teachers can help students practice forming a Scout Mindset by asking them questions with correct answers, but where there’s widespread disagreement about what that answer might be.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

They are not intended to replace human educators, just complement traditional teaching. But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. Schools must now balance innovation with compliance, oversight, and long-term accountability.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

AI will revolutionize not just teaching and learning, but also the future of work. Give schools more control over their digital culture. Having an effective digital culture is a prerequisite for having a healthy school culture,” Culatta asserted. To put it more bluntly, we believe life is too short for sucky learning.”

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That moment in 1915 became the foundation of what is now Elmwood School an institution that, in 2025, proudly celebrates 110 years of inspiring young women to lead with confidence and purpose. The schools leap into the future began in 1978 with the introduction of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math anxiety, a new global survey shows. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Teach Thought

MAY 11, 2025

Do students like going to school here? Do teachers like teaching here? Here are 30 questions teachers can ask at their next job interview.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

That realization has implications not just for how we understand student engagement, but for how we design schools…and why AI alone can’t get us where we need to go. But the more I’ve observed students in and out of school, the more convinced I’ve become that it’s based on a faulty assumption. Or basketball. Or Taylor Swift.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2025

This year, I judged the middle school career research event, which allows students to explore careers of interest by completing a career interest survey, researching a field, and presenting key details such as education requirements, job outlook, salary, and what a typical workday looks like. What problems are students interested in solving?

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. When would I ever use this?

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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. He shared his views on integrating technology meaningfully into the classroom, Teaching methodologies, personalized learning, interdisciplinary instruction, and many more.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Featured speakers and highlighted voices include school district superintendents, professors, podcasters, executive directors, researchers, authors, and more. When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. Be sure to reserve time for the Creators Fiesta , a destination for creative discovery and hands-on making.

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Art Math STEM Participation 146

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. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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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. Navigating the Disorienting Dilemma As we reason through this innovative technology, we will question truth and reality. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world.

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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! It’s the little things!

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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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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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. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2025

PRNewswire/ — BirminghamCity Schools (BCS) is spearheading an innovative research initiative to explore the critical link between student motivation and math performance. During the 2023-24 school year, MIND Education and ST Math reached more than 2.17 BIRMINGHAM, Ala./PRNewswire/ Visit MINDEducation.org.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

When cleaning up some materials on a backup drive, I came across an article I wrote for the September/October 1997 issue of Book Report , a journal directed to secondary school librarians. However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Its a familiar story for many parentswatching their child struggle in school, knowing they are capable but somehow unable to thrive in a traditional classroom. They envisioned a school where children who didnt fit the standard mold could still succeed, not just academically but socially and emotionally.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

They respond to a murmured question in a class full of conversation. And its changed the way I look at my early days of teaching. For most teachers, student teaching is their most valuable preparatory experience , and a strong program gives them armor against burnout. How did you hear us? You see whats possible.

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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. Navigating the Disorienting Dilemma As we reason through this innovative technology, we will question truth and reality. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning.

Critical Thinking 122

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 122

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. The course’s six modules began with essential questions — What is computational thinking? We learned so much. Where does it occur?

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

These “snacks” are short, creative experiments that use easily accessible materials to teach key scientific principles. With grade-specific content from kindergarten through high school, this site features virtual tours, design challenges, DIY engineering activities, and live webinars with NASA scientists and engineers.

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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. It’s a major concern that generative AI will impact school development at a really developmentally critical time for young people,” Rubin adds. And they themselves also recognize this.”

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