Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview. As for Hatch Valley High School, Goins reports, students there saw improvement in test scores.

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Math Motivation High School High School 186

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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Students Learning Styles Assignments Intelligence 225

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Almost a quarter (24 percent) of teachers recommended that students create AI-powered flashcards and personalized study plans to help them understand class materials and prepare for tests in the way they learn best. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Math Participation Feedback High School 238

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

Some students get funneled to the military pathway, despite having no aspirations to serve, because the aptitude test is easier to pass. In Washington state’s final year of the exit exam, around 1 in 10 high school seniors didn’t pass the English language arts portion, and 1 in 5 didn’t pass the math test, the Seattle Times reported.

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Exams High School High School Schools 264

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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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 53

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

Our librarians teach information literacy and digital citizenship as core parts of our library program. In today’s world, where misinformation is rampant and digital literacy is more important than ever, students must also develop the critical thinking skills to evaluate sources and identify truth.

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Language Languages English Math 267

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Next, test some small changes Key Action: Pilot changes and gather feedback from students and educators A current partner school that is focusing on cell phone policies this school year is taking a deliberately slow approach to developing a policy. Our Listening In Protocols offer helpful ways to solicit authentic opinions from students.

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Schools Students Feedback Participation 178

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. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 247

eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

“Massachusetts districts face urgent literacy gaps, and our high-dosage tutoring model is designed to close those gaps efficiently and effectively,” said Devon Wible, vice president of teaching and learning for Catapult Learning. “We Kindergarten and first graders more than tripled their scores on five of six subtests.

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Secondary Education Schools Learning Coaching 235

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. References: Caine, R. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. link] Gozuyesil, E., & Dikici, A.

Science 247

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 247

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

InsightMath creates an intentional learning experience with an integrated digital platform, engaging printed materials, classroom manipulatives, supportive teaching guides, and more. “To That involves making predictions, testing ideas, discussing their thinking, and revising along the way.

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Math Curriculum Lecturing Education 130

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me. A space where test scores didn’t define worth. Teaching has always come naturally to me. I needed to build something new, something bold.

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Schools Beliefs Culture Testing 148

Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

For many counselors, the prevalence of children using social media to self-diagnose suggests a larger problem related to lasting social and emotional impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, unregulated virtual spaces and the importance of teaching media literacy skills. We say, Okay, it looks like youre upset. Lets take a deep breath.

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Ethics Schools Students Skills 160

Teach Hub

MAY 2, 2025

For example, If youre teaching a unit on community helpers, create a mini post office, grocery store, or hospital. Create a simple outdoor science experiment, like making rain gauges to track precipitation over time or test how different types of soil (sand, clay, and garden soil) absorb water and how erosion occurs.

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Activities Learning Students Critical Thinking 81

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. 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? Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me. But it didn’t have to be this way.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 151

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., Consider changing assessments from high-stakes timed tests to projects, homework, open-note/open-book take-home tests.

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Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 95

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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Math Beliefs Culture Ethics 178

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. by staying true to your teaching philosophy.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Teaching Philosophy 52

Teach Hub

APRIL 24, 2025

Keeping a class focused is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. Here are five practical, teacher-tested ways to get your class back on track when their focus flies out the window. It feels like youre constantly in pursuit of your students attention, trying every trick in the book. Its frustrating.

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Attention Testing Participation Activities 75

Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Best Practices for Morphology Instruction Research and classroom-tested practices agree: effective morphology instruction in upper elementary is: 1. Explicit Teach one affix or root at a time. Pick 10–12 roots and affixes to teach over the semester. It’s a foundational shift in how we teach kids to think about words.

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Teaching Language Languages Writing 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

They are not intended to replace human educators, just complement traditional teaching. How can schools test the accessibility of AI tools? Schools should perform usability tests with diverse student groups, including those with disabilities, to assess AI tools’ effectiveness.

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Disabilities Ethics Schools Plagiarism 139

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

Otus earned the certification by demonstrating how its product team consistently partners with K-12 educators to guide product design, test new features, and provide direct feedback that shapes future updates. This approach not only reflects the authentic needs of teachers, administrators, and students—it drives better outcomes.

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Coaching Testing Feedback Achievement 130

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

When I reviewed the data, I noticed a glaring pattern: The best-rated schools in Brooklyn with strong state test scores, robust programming and rave parent reviews were clustered in neighborhoods with high property values, PTAs that fundraise like Fortune 500s, lush parks and Trader Joe’s within walking distance. But it does.

Elementary School 116

Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 116

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. This mindset ensures that tools never overshadow the human core of teaching and learning.

Interdisciplinary 144

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

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? Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test.

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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 115

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. Yet I suspect many teachers are disinclined to make software usage a major mechanism for conferring status and respect in their classrooms because encouraging more screen time doesn’t feel like real teaching. Or basketball. Or Taylor Swift.

Motivation 271

Motivation Learning Students Achievement 271

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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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

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. References: Caine, R. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. link] Gozuyesil, E., & Dikici, A.

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Students who opt for the workforce diploma will not have their ACT test scores included in their schools public reports. Legislators decided that schools should not have to report standardized test scores for students who did not have to take the requisite math and science classes. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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High School High School Schools Math 240

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.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 96

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Knowledge is evaluated with a slew of assignments and tests, and a letter grade is given as a kind of trophy—As are big trophies, Fs trophies of the wrong kind, but trophies still. Views Facebook Linkedin Print How Does Gamification Uncover Nuance In The Learning Process? Class rankings? More learners than podium spots.

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Gamification Motivation Learning Learning Styles 103

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. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Elevate k12

JUNE 27, 2025

“Use of Student Names” and “Checking for Understanding”, for example, are two of the indicators in this rubric that teachers in our CEA Working Group found to be the most impactful in improving their teaching practice. We know that student engagement is a critical piece of any classroom.

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Coaching Feedback Achievement Evaluation 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

No matter what subject you teach, spend time showing students how to take notes, how to study for tests and quizzes, and how to balance their time between homework and other after-school activities. Find new ways to assess learning Reluctant learners often suffer from test anxiety , especially by the time they reach high school.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. In order to be certified to teach dual enrollment courses through a community college, high school instructors must have at least 18 graduate-level credits in the subject matter theyd be teaching, Usher says.

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Instructors Math Study High School 136

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories. Players must complete all of the minigames in Decimal Point Amusement Park to ensure that the aliens leave Earth with a better understanding of decimals.

STEM 166

STEM Math Education Peer Review 166

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

The organization is best known for its skills competitions that bring students together to network with industry professionals and test their abilities in more than 100 career fields. When students take part in SkillsUSA competitions, they compete with students in the state based on technical standards created by industry leaders.

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Skills Students Middle School Middle School 155