eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Teachers and parents can assign grade-level texts, paired with vocabulary lessons and comprehension questions. ReadWorks is especially helpful for English Language Learners, offering audio versions and question supports to aid comprehension.

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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? The question is no longer whether AI will influence classrooms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. I’ll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn’t use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success. Key points: At ISTELive 25, choose from bold speakers and eye-opening sessions Empowering neurodiverse learners with AI-driven solutions Disrupting U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Tell me indicates that I, the teacher, have asked a question and want an answer. Each student should know that their voice matters–not just because they happen to be answering my question but because we all have something to learn from what they say. I want to judge what has been said.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

With that question in mind, I made the root of my work about connection. When I was in the classroom, I quickly learned that students are feeling this eco-anxiety whether were talking about climate change or not. I asked myself: If a teachers role is to prepare students for the real world, shouldnt we be helping them solve the climate crisis?

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Key points: Formulaic writing can constrain thinking and limit creativity Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy Video game design boosts students’ literacy skills For more news on writing instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!)

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

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. Allow them to explore the question together. This can help students learn to consider an argument from both sides.

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Teach Thought

MAY 16, 2025

We're sharing 75 questions students can ask themselves that can guide their thinking and awareness before, during, and after your teaching.

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Teach Thought

MAY 11, 2025

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

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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

When we personalize support, structure the environment thoughtfully, and teach with clarity and empathy, we give students the best chance to reach their full potential. This might mean clearly outlining what is expected in an assignment, breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, or organizing test questions in a logical, grouped format.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

AI will revolutionize not just teaching and learning, but also the future of work. He also revealed four key pledges the organization is making to improve the educational experience for everyone. To put it more bluntly, we believe life is too short for sucky 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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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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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

One in five educators believe that AI is the way of the future and both teachers and students will need to embrace it to succeed, while 17 percent stated that AI can be as valuable as textbooks to teach students concepts. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Whether youre teaching elementary students or high schoolers, this strategy works for everyone. Heres the breakdown: Think Students take a moment to reflect on a question or prompt independently. It Builds Confidence and Gets Students Thinking More Deeply When you ask a question, like Why do you think the character did that?

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

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. After showing one of his classic street interview segments—where he asks everyday people basic science questions that many fumble to answer—he surprised the audience by pushing back against their laughter. Or basketball. Or Taylor Swift.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. I’ll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn’t use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success. Key points: At ISTELive 25, choose from bold speakers and eye-opening sessions Empowering neurodiverse learners with AI-driven solutions Disrupting U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Students more immediately see the relevance of courses that relate to careers of interest, particularly data science, which allows students to interrogate data with real-world questions, Henderson says. When would I ever use this?

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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. I feel engaged with people who are interactive — they’re not trying to teach at you, but they’re trying to teach with you together,” Patterson said.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

What if grade school were designed to teach students how to make decisions and know themselves deeply as much as it taught them math and literacy? So, in 2019, when I found out that a former manager of mine was starting a school that answered the same questions that plagued me, I knew I wanted in. But it didn’t have to be this way.

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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

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

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools. The purpose of the information (and the algorithm behind it) Students must learn to question not just why a source was created, but why it was shown to them. The stakes are higher.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Course Context I teach a required, writing-intensive course for students in their junior year of their undergraduate studies. For the student that wants to prepare for in-class conversation, preparing and providing a few open-ended reading reflection questions (launchpad ideas) may be useful. Spinning Questions.

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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. Students also use Gemini for real-time academic help, such as asking follow-up questions and details about a particular topic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2025

While their ambition is inspiring, it raises important questions for educators, such as: What are alternative careers in a students field of interest? Not just general practitioners–these middle schoolers aimed high and discussed specialties like cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, plastic surgery, and anesthesiology.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. 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.

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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?

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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. Thank you for your work towards broadening access to higher education! Jennifer E.

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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. 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. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. 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? history in an urban St. One day, Ms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Usually parents who attended college or are wealthier teach their children about new technology and how to use it, Hayes says. It’s a fairly new technology; there are a lot of mysteries and questions around it for families who don’t use the tool very much,” Rubin says. Hayes says, “because I don’t think it’s going anywhere.”

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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. 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

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. Senior year, having exhausted our school system’s Spanish progression, two friends and I asked Señora to teach us “Spanish 6.” By then, I was teaching Spanish. newsletters.

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