eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

NWEA research notes that students can lose up to two months of math skills over the summer, and reading abilities can also decline, particularly for students from underserved communities. With the growing availability of engaging, high-quality online learning tools, students have more opportunities than ever to keep their skills sharp.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

Technology may pose solutions, too: some counselors say they are changing how they connect with students and are testing out artificial intelligence platforms. And because of the big role counselors have, the ratio between counselor and students doesnt always lend itself to that type of emotional support.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. Since 2009, he has taught History, English, and Theology in the United States, and has since expanded his expertise to the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Business studies in China. That number should stop us in our tracks.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

That early access to knowledge helped shape who I am today, and I carry that legacy into my work leading library services and digital learning for more than 30,500 students in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Students, in turn, build literacy skills in context, rather than treating reading as an isolated subject.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Key points: Building an app for kids came with unique challenges A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI tools for kids, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub A recent survey found that 88 percent of U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. Develop Holistic Solutions: By considering the broader context, students can develop more holistic and sustainable solutions to complex problems.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

For 60 years, SkillsUSA has provided these types of hands-on learning opportunities for students in the form of regional, state, and national competitions–and participants in these contests have gained valuable career experience.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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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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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Operating three campuses in the Davie area, AEF Schools cater to a diverse student population through two Preparatory Programs and one Academy Program.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. Develop Holistic Solutions: By considering the broader context, students can develop more holistic and sustainable solutions to complex problems.

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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. As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

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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

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Here’s a quick overview of the legalities associated with their use for schools: Legal Risks and Obligations for Schools Using AI Tutors AI tutors are quickly changing how students learn, offering personalized support across different subjects and formats. Who is responsible if an AI gives bad advice or shares sensitive student data?

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

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. The workforce diploma would make it more difficult for students on that track to get into those colleges. Is it worth my time?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years. Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

This pattern is deeply problematic because it reinforces systemic inequities that disadvantage Black, Latinx and low-income students. A 2019 study by the Library Research Service found that predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more annually than predominantly nonwhite districts, despite serving the same number of students.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. They need tools from many fields to tackle these issues. Yang et al.

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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. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. They need tools from many fields to tackle these issues. Yang et al.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

This article delves into the complexities of developing and implementing an AI framework that not only aligns with an institution’s unique mission but also addresses the diverse needs of its stakeholders, including faculty, students, staff, and administration.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Shift to a student-centered classroom 8.

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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. As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2025

On college campuses, this trend can be palpable as well, with students, faculty, and staff feeling more inclined to get involved in civic affairs in some way. This is intended to provide guidance for others seeking to galvanize student voting and to create a foundational civic infrastructure on their own campuses for future election cycles.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 6, 2025

On college campuses, this trend can be palpable as well, with students, faculty, and staff feeling more inclined to get involved in civic affairs in some way. This is intended to provide guidance for others seeking to galvanize student voting and to create a foundational civic infrastructure on their own campuses for future election cycles.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

This article delves into the complexities of developing and implementing an AI framework that not only aligns with an institution’s unique mission but also addresses the diverse needs of its stakeholders, including faculty, students, staff, and administration.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s. In 2012, she moved to Coursera, then an experimental startup struggling to bring Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to students around the world. We weren't paid very much.

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GovTech

JUNE 18, 2025

After testing 15 different messages designed to spur teacher engagement with software tools, researchers found that students of teachers who received them completed about 2 percent more math units.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

By fourth and fifth grade, students encounter thousands of new words across content areas—many of them multisyllabic, abstract, and Greek or Latin in origin. Morphology instruction in upper elementary gives students a way to break words down, reason through meaning, and approach academic vocabulary with confidence and strategy.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

Watch physics in motion with a student roller coaster 8. NGSS MS-ETS1-2, ETS1-1, ETS1-3; MS-PS2-1 Subjects: Engineering, Math, Physical Science This hands-on STEM project for middle school takes students through the steps and knowledge needed to create bottle rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles, CSs, and duct tape. 1, 2, 3, 4; 7.G.B.4,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning. In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light.

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Teach Hub

JULY 18, 2025

When you think of rote learning, chances are you picture students writing their spelling words five times each or chanting times tables together. But the truth is, when it’s used the right way by us teachers , rote learning can help students thrive. It can build fluency, free up mental space, and even give kids a boost of confidence.

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