k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This phenomenon creates a significant barrier for students pursuing degrees in over 50 STEM-related disciplines, thereby restricting access to critical career pathways in science, medicine, and technology. This challenge mirrors what would occur if students were expected to read novels without first mastering the alphabet.

Education

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

She insisted on having the latest World Book Encyclopedia set every year, instilling in me a love of reading and inquiry. In a landscape where English proficiency and reading levels vary widely, it’s essential that we provide high-quality, credible resources that offer both language accessibility and academic rigor.

Language

eSchool News

JULY 14, 2025

In fields like computer science and IT, learning to work alongside AI tools is itself a valuable skill–today’s students might use AI for data analysis, automated coding assistance, or predictive modeling as part of their CTE projects. The results of leveraging technology in CTE are impressive.

Technology

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

BOSTON – In California, third- to fifth-grade students at 525 schools using Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand, made significantly higher literacy gains compared to their peers in 4,362 schools that did not use the program. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.

English

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

Research indicates that students typically lose between one to two months of reading and mathematics skills during summer vacation. Establishing structured reading routines is paramount, with research showing that reading just six books during summer can prevent a decline in reading achievement.

Learning

eSchool News

JULY 3, 2025

He emphasizes that AI discussions are evolving beyond teacher efficiency to focus on revolutionizing curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy across subjects like math, science, and reading. Click through for the details:

Math

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

Across the country, too many children are struggling to read, and too many teachers are struggling to help them. Teacher preparation programs and school districts across the nation have been slow to fully embrace this research base, known as the science of reading.

Lecturing

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Discovery Education , the creators of essential PreK-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced significant enhancements to the online, adaptive literacy program DreamBox Reading. This adaptivity ensures that students are met where they are with just-right instruction and fun activities.

Reading

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their needs. Still, educators can offer early literacy support and help for struggling readers using evidence-based reading instruction. What is a delayed reader?

Disabilities

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

The platform covers all subjects–from vocabulary and reading strategies to science, social studies, and math–through catchy songs and interactive lessons. It also includes question sets to aid in developing reading comprehension skills and vocabulary. ClassHook lets you do just that.

Quizzes

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

Platforms like Diffit and MagicSchool AI are helping teachers scaffold reading materials, translate documents and highlight vocabulary — all in a matter of seconds. The AI can explain connotation, have the students practice and read a short poem, then give them words and ask them for connotations,” he says. asks Manahan. “AI

Teachers

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Douglas Fisher is a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California.

Schools

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2025

In fact, research shows that math scores predict future earnings better than reading scores. Early math skills also predict student success in other subjects like reading and science. This is particularly troubling given that students with higher math scores tend to earn higher incomes as adults.

Math

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Kibeam is redefining early childhood literacy education with the launch of Kibeam Wand : a first-of-its-kind, screen-free, AI-powered handheld device that reinforces foundational reading skills through immersive storytelling and play-based learning. children struggle to read proficiently. Nearly two-thirds of U.S.

Coaching

k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This phenomenon creates a significant barrier for students pursuing degrees in over 50 STEM-related disciplines, thereby restricting access to critical career pathways in science, medicine, and technology. This challenge mirrors what would occur if students were expected to read novels without first mastering the alphabet.

Education

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2025

Part of this is because the AI coaching experience is rooted in research on teacher noticing, improvement science, and iterative practice. So now our human supervisors can read the ‘conversations’ between the pre-service teachers and the virtual coach, instead of needing to watch all the videos directly.

Teachers

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

I recently read 10 to 25 , a new book by David Yeager, one of the leading research psychologists in adolescent development and motivation. Derek Muller, creator of the science YouTube channel Veritasium , powerfully made this point during a recent talk. And what if the one thing AI can’t do is the one thing students need most?

Motivation

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Block out time for reading and writing 3. Design exploratory science activities 5. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. Table of Contents 1.

Curriculum

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2025

The most common way students use AI is to help summarize or understand reading materials, with over 40 percent reporting this as a key task. In third place is using AI to solve math or science problems, followed by brainstorming ideas or creating outlines–something 2 in 5 students say they rely on AI for.

Study

Teach Thought

JULY 9, 2025

So rather than worry that this student can’t read and this student is a brilliant artist ready for a professional mentor to foster his gift and this student needs both a hug and self-knowledge more than content knowledge, you respond analytically. Scientific concepts from the application of science. Proficiency from curiosity.

Education

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. There is a notable drop off in the reading and conversations.In

Instructors

Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

Priceless Ponderings Simple Science Safety Lab Rules: A Guide for Your classroom You know that moment when the glue sticks become lipstick, and the magnifying glasses turn into superhero goggles? Yep, its science time in the elementary classroom. When they dont, youll be running crowd control more than actual science experiments.

Science

Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Use it in math to talk through different ways to solve a problem, in science to make predictions, in reading to dive into character choices, or in social studies to unpack big ideas like fairness or impact. You Can Use It Anywhere, With Any Grade Think-Pair-Share isnt tied to one subject, it works anywhere.

Fairness

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Must-Read Professional Development Book Recommendations from Current Teachers A good read can be just what you need to spark new ideas and inspiration for next year!

Reading

Priceless Ponderings

MAY 18, 2025

6 Easy Science Activities and experiments MAGNETS how do they work? Thats where simple science meets wonder. Below are some playful and educational activities with magnets that turn your classroom or kitchen table into a mini science lab. Stay ahead of the game with MY FREE curriculum road map for science. The cool part?

Science

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF), a national nonprofit, and its awardees debuted the latest advancements and innovations in math, literacy, assessment, and AI from its portfolio of R&D awardees from across its R&D Programs – EF+Math, Assessment for Good, Reading Reimagined, and AugmentED.

Math

Teach Hub

MAY 22, 2025

You can give students a prompt like “a memory I carry with me,” or even tie it into other subjects like sketching a science concept or illustrating a scene from a book. In science, they can create a diagram of a plant cell using textured materials, or make a flipbook that shows the water cycle in motion.

Art

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Two of these authors Dr. Michelle Rivers and Dr. Janell Blunt shared theirs on the podcast you can listen to our conversation in the player above or read the full transcript. Now I’m going to remember what my instructor said or what I read in the book or the video we watched or whatever it was that corrected my knowledge.”

Multiple Choice Questions

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 25, 2025

Book Club Grab Bag: Hang a bag on your bulletin board that contains small laminated replicas of book covers for the books your class could read. This is the book the class will read for the month. Geometry Word Wall | Geometry Vocabulary By Scaffolded Math and Science Grades: 10th Standards: CCSS HSG-CO-A.1, Who Said That?:

Counselling

A Place Called Kindergarten

JULY 24, 2025

UNIT 4: NONFICTION WRITING We tie this unit to science and informational reading. UNIT 3: REPEATING PATTERN BOOKS Students begin creating simple books with patterned sentences like, “I see a…” or “My friend can…” This supports sentence structure, sight word fluency, and independence.

Writing

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. As a first-year graduate student, I had read Susan Blums Ungrading and was immediately smitten. For example, in an eight-point paper, I assign four points to close reading (See Figure 2).

Grades

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. This means readings from various fields, expert guest talks, or tasks that ask students to blend information from many sources. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182). link] Yang, B.-H.,

Interdisciplinary

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Plan hands-on science experiments for kids that bring learning to life. These hands-on science experiments for preschoolers are full of excitement! These playful science experiments spark curiosity about plant growth, motion, sound vibrations, and absorption. As the colorful water spreads, their hidden message appears!

Elementary School

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

To scaffold their analysis, I provided a couple of foundational readings on AI, alongside an article of their choosing, see Roose, 2023 and Gates, 2023 citations. Examining science education in ChatGPT: An exploratory study of generative artificial intelligence. Journal of Science Education and Technology , 32(4), 444452.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. 2001, University of Vermont) is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University.

Instructors

Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Create texts tailored to specific reading ages and styles. New DFE Guidance: 5 Ways for Schools to Use AI The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology, AI and Science CPD and Support These resources, free for all teachers , demonstrate how AI can: Support students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Quizzes

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Authority, on the other hand, is when I decide what lessons to assign to students, or when they must read silently to themselves or aloud to the class. Some wanted to spend more time in science than in my class and felt like being forced to learn about history was a waste of time. They are for everyone. But many, when pushed, said no.

Multiple Choice Questions