eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Using a student-centered process, we have seen positive results with schools who want to develop effective cell phone policies to minimize distractions, enhance student focus, and help them build relationships with teachers and peers. Are students engaged in meaningful work or simply just ‘doing school’?

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Schools Students Feedback Participation 176

k12 Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

As we consider the role of AI in our lives, one quote has kept popping up on my echo-chamber social media feeds: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes” (Joanna Maciejewska). Maybe we are asking the wrong questions?

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Writing Essay Art Knowledge 229

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Multiple times in any class period, teachers call on students to contribute to the lesson of the day. Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups.

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Culture Feedback Languages Language 264

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. Learn from their journey, featuring the innovative AI Trust You Add-On that fosters stronger student-teacher trust. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. What should we use?

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Art Math STEM Participation 286

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. The reason that you and your students choose to use AI should be clear and intentional.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 98

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. From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?”

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 247

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. The reason that you and your students choose to use AI should be clear and intentional.

Critical Thinking 122

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 122

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Knowing they are covered under our district licenses with Google allows CPS to encourage their use to revolutionize the way we educate our students. Students also use Gemini for real-time academic help, such as asking follow-up questions and details about a particular topic. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 204

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Peer-to-peer conversations can help students to make connections with each other and course content. There has been a noticeable decline in students’ engagement with course materials, evidenced by reduced annotations and superficial reading habits (Deale & Hyun, 2021; Mizrachi & Salaz, 2022).It Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A.,

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 93

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

The researchers partnered with foundry10, an education research organization, to survey 1,510 adolescents between 9 and 17 as well as 2,826 parents of K-12 students in the United States. Afterward, the participant’s mom, who helped them publish the book, discussed the use of AI with the student. Typically, though, it does the opposite.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 167

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. Learn from their journey, featuring the innovative AI Trust You Add-On that fosters stronger student-teacher trust. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. What should we use?

Art 146

Art Math STEM Participation 146

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. In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 147

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. It’s crickets.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

I was watching as a few of my students took notes while the remaining students sat passively, perhaps hoping my animated gestures and pacing would somehow osmotically transfer my explanation of classical conditioning into their brains. Yet simply abandoning these proven engagement strategies isn’t the answer.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 65

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. From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?”

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

In summary Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them?

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

All you need is designated time in your class, the right writing materials, and a prompt that really inspires them. This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) ” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. Yes, even math!

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Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

k12 Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

As we consider the role of AI in our lives, one quote has kept popping up on my echo-chamber social media feeds: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes” (Joanna Maciejewska). Maybe we are asking the wrong questions?

Writing 130

Writing Essay Art Knowledge 130

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. Learn from their journey, featuring the innovative AI Trust You Add-On that fosters stronger student-teacher trust. We blend math, robotics, reading, and writing for engaging, collaborative learning. What should we use?

Art 145

Art Math STEM Participation 145

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Johnson is one of several Utah educators discovering that computer science isn’t just about coding — it’s about helping students think critically, solve problems and make sense of the world around them. At the heart of the plan was a bold goal: provide every student with access to computer science education. Where does it occur?

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Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 141

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.

Education 118

Education Essay Culture Math 118

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Each student receives a fictional budget and must bid on leadership traits they value most. What has changed is the way students talk about those traits. In the earlier years, students would bid quickly, justify their picks in straightforward terms, and move on. “I Students linger over the choices. Communication is key.”

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Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 143

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. What a good question. My first attempt at alternative assessment didnt go very well.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2025

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom. You can purchase just the teacher manuals or student workbooks to serve a 1:1 environment, Google Classroom, and hybrid teaching situations. Stuff that goes nicely with this K-12 Student Workbooks (PDF only) are a great addition.

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Curriculum Grades Intelligence Middle School 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. One student tilted their head. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. I never position the question as rhetorical. Another smiled. Engagement.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 98

Teach Hub

JUNE 13, 2025

If you’re a classroom teacher who wants to help students learn from their mistakes, take responsibility for their actions, and make things right with others, you can start using restorative practices today. It’s about building stronger relationships with your students and creating a classroom where all students feel seen, valued, and heard.

Languages 98

Languages Language Questions Writing 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. One student tilted their head. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. I never position the question as rhetorical. Another smiled. Engagement.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 85

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

Thats the question our team of educators in the Oktibbeha County School District set out to answer when we created One-Two-Three-Read! Instead of launching a traditional reading log, we asked students what they liked most in their free time. Students were thrilled. Some students even lapped the board, earning extra incentives.

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Motivation Reading Achievement Feedback 161

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

When we intentionally broaden our students’ worlds with unique ways to build community connections, we create new opportunities for our students to see themselves as part of a larger community. These real-world connections add depth to classroom discussions, spark curiosity, and inspire students to explore new topics.

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Writing Questions Discussions Activities 52

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Creating a classroom where every student feels confident to contribute doesnt happen overnight. When paired with strong instructional practices, these tools open up more ways for students to participate, process, and thrive. Background building is the process of helping students connect new content to what they already know.

Languages 52

Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Rather than simply acknowledging that students are using AI, we should create opportunities for them to explore practical strategies. This approach will help students better understand and utilize AI as an educational ally, enabling innovative methods for effective classroom integration.

Ethics 88

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 88

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

On a quiet morning in Ottawas Rockcliffe Park, more than a century ago, a woman named Theodora Philpot opened her home to four young students. Following World War II, Elmwood broadened its academic horizons beyond the humanities, and by the early 2000s, its student body had grown from 130 to over 300. Its about who the students become.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 210

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” In 2012, she moved to Coursera, then an experimental startup struggling to bring Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to students around the world.

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History Intelligence Writing Knowledge 113

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to facilitate learning. We talk about writing as a product for assessment, a subject where paragraphs and commas are taught, or a skill that one either has developed or lacks. Rarely do we hear people, even teachers, discuss writing as a process for learning.

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Writing STEM Learning Critical Thinking 622

Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Views Facebook Linkedin Print A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and students learn.”

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Evaluation Critical Thinking Knowledge Reading 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

How do you get students interacting when they’re feeling shy, all while keeping your class management under control? Use these ice breakers for high school students on the first day of class or when starting a new semester. Try these questions for a change of pace: What’s your go-to app when you open your phone?

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High School High School Questions Activities 52