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

MAY 16, 2025

Transparency throughout the student writing process enables educators to leverage the opportunities that AI technologies present, while upholding the integrity of original student work, said Turnitin chief product officer Annie Chechitelli.

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Education Critical Thinking Students Ethics 288

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

They found that many of the teens in the study were aware of the concerns and dangers surrounding AI, yet didn’t have guidelines to use it appropriately. It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. But in this study, there seemed to be few social disparities.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 169

k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

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. Sgourdos also holds CAGS from the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

“Tech-Free Teaching Assistants” — Create a six-week program in which older students serve as tech-free mentors during study halls and free periods, modeling productive work habits and leading phone-free activities. These TAs receive leadership training and help younger students develop alternative study strategies.

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Schools Students Feedback Participation 185

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

One time, I planned a novel study around a book my students selected, but I was forced by an administrator to trade it in for standardized test prep. We had taken their interests seriously and made room in the school experience to study a topic of their choice. The results were joyful, a little messy, but entirely theirs.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 149

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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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

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 student can magnify the image, scan and study it, and take what they need from it.

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Assistive Technology Students Textbooks Reading 204

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 248

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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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

A mountain of studies back up Nietzsche's assertion. And it doesn't necessarily have to be robust movement either: one study found that when people doodle while listening to a lecture, they retain nearly 30 percent more of the information. Changing what the body does," she writes, "can change our feelings, perceptions, and thoughts. (If

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

This study is the first to investigate the impact of Core5 at scale in California schools,” said Lexia President Nick Gaehde. Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year. “Our points higher than their peers at the non-Core5 schools.

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English Language Languages Art 130

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

Armed with markers and paper, they work collaboratively to connect concepts like anxiety, depression, and trauma responses, discovering links they might have missed studying alone. In my traditional classes, I divide students into small groups to create concept maps exploring the relationships between different psychological disorders.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 65

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

“I hope the demonstrations and campus visit solidified how important the ocean is and how there is so much out there to study and learn.” Besides conducting lessons, the graduate students also spoke to the sixth graders about STEM-related careers, areas of study, and scientific pursuits. “A

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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. In addition to a heavy writing component, there is also a heavy reading component.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

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. And until it doesn’t, I’ll keep teaching, mothering, writing, and shouting — because this isn’t just policy. But it does.

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Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 114

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.” 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.

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History Intelligence Writing Knowledge 117

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). Dr. Jennifer P.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). Dr. Jennifer P.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. Creative coding unlocks all of these possibilities.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 153

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. Sheza Shaikh centered mental health and belonging in her writing.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 53

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. Examining science education in ChatGPT: An exploratory study of generative artificial intelligence.

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Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 88

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

Whether it’s hearing an author share about the creative writing process, exchanging postcards with students in another part of the world, or even attending a mystery Zoom with a special guest, these moments help students see how we’re all connected. It can also inspire students to spend more time on their own writing!

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Writing Questions Discussions Activities 52

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

‘Writing,’ for example, can become ‘Expert and self-initiated application of the ‘revision’ step of the writing process.’ Not all students want trophies or gold stickers, or to be patted on the head for ‘studying hard.’

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 103

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Morphology is the study of morphemes —the smallest units of meaning in language. 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. What Is Morphology, Really?

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Teaching Languages Language Writing 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

In turn, we can immediately utilize new information to further our faculty assessment reports, professional development, academic writings, and research publication. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture. When your class ends, write down the during-action reflection as soon as possible.

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Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge Laboratory 55

Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

Therefore, I won’t assume what GenAI writes or cites is accurate, and I will do my own research. I want the complexities, the nuance, the human experience that makes an article or study or creative work unique. We do this to support our arguments, demonstrate our scholarship, and contribute to an ongoing conversation.

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Instructors Critical Thinking Plagiarism Intelligence 82

Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

Therefore, I won’t assume what GenAI writes or cites is accurate, and I will do my own research. I want the complexities, the nuance, the human experience that makes an article or study or creative work unique. We do this to support our arguments, demonstrate our scholarship, and contribute to an ongoing conversation.

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Instructors Critical Thinking Plagiarism Intelligence 66

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Part library, part innovation hub, part quiet study nook, it offers flexible zones where students can choose how they learn bestwhether thats brainstorming with peers, diving into solo study, or using digital tools to bring projects to life. The recently reimagined Learning Commons is a perfect example.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 210

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Ready to ignite your students’ imaginations and sharpen their writing skills? With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. They’re developing the skills to investigate real-world topics, explain ideas clearly, and write with purpose.

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

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. Keep writing prompts on hand 6. Keep writing prompts on hand Some 8th graders claim they don’t like writing, but we all know those 8th graders just haven’t found the right prompt yet!

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Grades Teaching Teachers Teaching Philosophy 52

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Fulfilled and Frazzled Katharine Strunk, dean of the University of Pennsylvanias Graduate College of Education, wasnt surprised by the studys findings about teachers feeling toward their workplace versus their workload.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. We read approximately 5,000 picture books together during snack time, finished 10+ novel studies together, and I even created an entire unit based on going to four different Pumpkin Patches.

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Teachers Math Social Studies Language 52

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. It’s a great addition to a social studies lesson. You might read The Poppy Lady by Barbara E.

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Activities Teaching History Writing 95

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

So when we were seeing research studies or classroom examples of culturally sustaining pedagogy, they tended to focus on race or language or culture, and disability wasn’t sort of fleshed out. However … it was rarely taken up in concrete examples.

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Disabilities Teaching Culture Special Education 91