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. Whether you’re a brand-new teacher or an experienced professional, you’re sure to find something just for your needs. to focus on yourself.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Using Book Creator, educators can align writing goals to multimedia production, making literacy more interactive, purposeful, and relevant. The platform covers all subjects–from vocabulary and reading strategies to science, social studies, and math–through catchy songs and interactive lessons.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Teachers might ask themselves: Which lessons sparked curiosity? How did the teacher respond to challenges–whether student behavior, shifting expectations, or personal stress? A former early intervention and elementary teacher, he is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California.

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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. She advises teachers to emphasize the importance of struggle and mistakes as part of the learning. The strategies are summarized below.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

He supports leadership development and school improvement across London, mentors new headteachers, and collaborates with universities on teacher training. The issue is much bigger than convincing students that they can’t use AI to write brilliant answers to questions, though. Maybe we are asking the wrong questions?

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Reading before bed? But not everybody feels this way about reading. My own brother — who is incredibly intelligent, younger than I am, and has already paid off his house (what?!?!) — once told me, “I never read anything unless I absolutely have to.” Every single day we seem to move closer to a society that simply doesn’t read.

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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 glasses can help with these social challenges.

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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. Teachers design highly interactive, discussion-based lessons for these periods.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

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. Gain practical, classroom-ready strategies to support staff in implementing AI effectively.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

This reality is compounded by a nationwide shortage of certified special education teachers. SDI delivers real-time, IEP-aligned instruction and structured progress monitoring from a certified special education teacher. Here is what sets SDI apart: Certified Special Education Teachers, Guaranteed Every SDI session is led by a U.S.-certified

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. We’ve gathered our favorite 8th grade ELA teacher essentials, including tips for brand-new teachers and seasoned veterans alike. Provide relevant reading materials 5.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. Some just want to read a good book and be seen for who they are, not as a stereotype waiting to be saved. It’s a buzzword I hear often these days on social media, especially in teacher groups where educators are reimagining their futures.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. I wouldn’t have gone back to [Turnitin].”

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

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. Gain practical, classroom-ready strategies to support staff in implementing AI effectively.

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. Our teachers explicitly teach students how to make time- and goal-management decisions during daily morning meetings.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

You can also weave in Howard Gardners theory of multiple intelligences to figure out how your students best express themselves; some shine when they write, others when they build, act, or code. It could be another teacher on your team, a specialist like an art or music teacher, or even a class in a different grade.

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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. I aimed, therefore, to bring the writing process further into the classroom, including proposals, drafts, and revisions.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

I’m here to share my advice to new homeschool parents (or veterans) from the perspective of a veteran teacher and someone who has homeschooled. 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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Teacher Mood

JUNE 26, 2025

Let’s dig into batch planning for teachers and copy strategies that actually work—because real educators need real systems that save time and sanity. What is Batch Planning for Teachers, Really? Batch planning for teachers helps eliminate the daily decision fatigue that often leads to burnout.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. For example, have all response postings due on a Tuesday at noon.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. For example, have all response postings due on a Tuesday at noon.

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Teacher Mood

JULY 6, 2025

And as a teacher, your unexpected absence shouldn’t throw your students—or your team—into instructional chaos. As a former academic coach and current behavior specialist, I’ve seen too many classrooms spiral when a teacher is out without leaving anything meaningful behind. This is an area many teachers overlook. Life happens.

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Reading Power Gear

JUNE 3, 2025

We are in the home stretch, so I thought it would be a good time to feature some favourite books for “gifting” teachers at the end of the school year, including a few titles for teachers who may be retiring. Hopefully you will find a perfect gift for that perfect teacher in yours or your child’s life!

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

The program gives educators one possible model to follow as they look to reverse the trend of declining student proficiency in reading. Students went through all the steps of creating a video game, including writing the storyline, creating characters, and building the world in which their game takes place.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Getting Meta with AI in the Classroom: A Reflective Approach In a junior-level education course, I assigned students the task of writing a reflective paper on the various uses of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in the classroom. AI is so new that the landscape of our knowledge is changing constantly.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft By TNB Creations Grades: K-6th This seven-page craft takes about an hour to complete and includes a picture for students to color, along with space to write a letter. They can even write thank-you cards to veterans. You might read The Poppy Lady by Barbara E. It’s available in both English and Spanish.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

He supports leadership development and school improvement across London, mentors new headteachers, and collaborates with universities on teacher training. The issue is much bigger than convincing students that they can’t use AI to write brilliant answers to questions, though. Maybe we are asking the wrong questions?

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Different learners with different teachers, through different assignments, completed in lieu of different learning styles, with the overwhelming influence of incredibly different personal lives—through this environment of disparity, the letter grade attempts to be the one thing that is universal.

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Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

Part of this is the reality that most of our teachers have never really had to deal with change. Teachers have become happy to teach the same old stuff. I have been a teacher for 30 years and have been a Vice Principal for the last 11 years. Interestingly, many teachers have not really noticed or acknowledged the changes.

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Reading Power Gear

JULY 15, 2025

Primary teachers and teacher librarians – you may find a few new “book hook” titles or series for your classroom or school libraries. If you ever read the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, you will make connections! Full of magic, humour with a focus on the power of writing !

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Whether you’re new to working with MLs or just looking for a few fresh ideas, these five teacher-approved strategies are here to help boost participation, build language, and make learning meaningful for all. Allow private messages to the teacher for students who feel unsure about spelling or grammar. A synonym for is.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

As upper elementary teachers, we know that word learning can’t keep up with word exposure. Even if a student has never seen the word, they can reason: autobiographer is a person who writes the story of their own life. Word building, sentence writing, vocabulary mapping, and word detective tasks build fluency.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

Building a strong sense of community within our classroom is something we all strive to do as teachers. Hearing an author share about their creative writing process encourages students to better understand everything that goes into creating a book. It can also inspire students to spend more time on their own writing!

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Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Prompting it to generate interview questions may fall under Applying , while using it to design a project or co-write a podcast script can reach Creating. Asking ChatGPT to summarize an article aligns with Understanding.

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