eSchool News
JULY 3, 2025
Key points: Students should engage in meaningful discussions to engage in learning 4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital engagement, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Communication is one of today’s most in-demand skills, and building strong communication skills in person and online is critical.
k12 Digest
JULY 1, 2025
Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Northern Colorado, a Master of Science in International Political Economy from the Colorado School of Mines, an MBA in Finance from the Quantic School of Business and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University – Global.
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EdTech Magazine
JULY 2, 2025
Engaging students goes beyond pushing them to participate in lessons and assignments. Allowing K–12 students to take agency of their learning gives them the opportunity to share their voices and flex their creativity. At ISTELive 25, Alana Winnick, educational technology director of New York’s Pocantico Hills Central School District, shares why student voice is her passion and how she drives student leadership in her own schools.
Edsurge
JULY 8, 2025
While social media, bullying and loneliness have long been flagged as top concerns among educators for their students, a new report shows the biggest concern for kids is balancing it all. The kicker: Students didn't share these concerns with adults in their lives. Instead, they expressed these worries to an AI chat system, which schools and health care institutions are increasingly turning to in an attempt to better support youth.
Teacher Cast
JULY 12, 2025
Prepare for your summer meeting with your principal by asking strategic questions that align your coaching goals with the school's vision, share past successes, and ensure support from the entire leadership team for a successful start to the school year. The post 5 Questions Every Instructional Coach Should Ask Their Princpial This Summer. appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Network.
Faculty Focus
JULY 8, 2025
I recently attended a student panel on use of AI in college classes. The three panelists shared their perspectives, borne out in an April 2025 Gallup survey : they want to learn to use AI tools in appropriate ways, they’re anxious about the potential negative impact on their critical thinking skills, and they want explicit guidance from their faculty members—which they’re not consistently getting.
eSchool News
JULY 4, 2025
Key points: Teachers have Google’s expansive suite of tools and accessories at their fingertips With classroom tech, meet students where they are 4 edtech tools that can transform student teamwork For more on Google tools for the classroom, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Google enthusiasts, unite. During an ISTELive 25 session , Dr. Wanda Terral, chief of technology for Tennessee’s Lakeland School System , took attendees through a growing list of Google tools, along with some non-G
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EdTech Magazine
JULY 9, 2025
Artificial intelligence is shaping the world we live in, and its impact is being felt in K–12 classrooms across the country. School leaders are deliberating how best to use, teach and secure AI through the lens of maximizing its value for students and K–12 infrastructure. At ISTELive 25 in San Antonio, five K–12 IT influencers gathered to share their thoughts on the technology.
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. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college major. 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.
Teacher Cast
JULY 7, 2025
The ISTE+ASCD Conference showcased groundbreaking innovations by Renaissance aimed at revolutionizing educational leadership and instruction. Key developments include the Renaissance Next platform for data integration, AI tools enhancing teacher effectiveness, and the Core Publisher Experience linking assessments with instructional materials. Together, these innovations promise personalized and data-driven learning experiences.
Teach Thought
JULY 10, 2025
Skip to content Analogy Booklet Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search Email Main Menu Newsletter Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Literacy Posts Teaching Posts Search More Menu Toggle Assessment Learning Models by Terrell Heick Curricula Policies Email Home Learning Posts How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process 26.8k Views Facebook Linkedin Print How Does Gamification Uncover Nuance In The Learning Process?
eSchool News
JULY 4, 2025
Key points: Lack of AI literacy risks not only economic stagnation, but societal instability AI prompt engineering: A critical new skillset for 21st-century teachers AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention For more news on AI literacy, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In a brightly lit preschool classroom in Shenzhen, 4-year-olds are gathered around an AI-enabled robot named Doubao.
John Spenser
JULY 1, 2025
When I was a student, I thought I was a top tier reader. My teacher didn’t do numbers for our reading groups. She chose large cats. But I knew that it was better to be a Lion than an Ocelot. I knew my reading level. The post The Slow Work of Great Teaching – Why Speed Can’t Be the Only Metric for Student Success appeared first on John Spencer.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 1, 2025
When David Hamilton, director of design technology for Tenacre Country Day School, and David Saunders, director of changemaking and technology for Brookwood School, opened their ISTELive 2025 session titled “Scissors, Laser Beams, and AI: Balancing Low-Tech & High-Tech in MakerSpaces,” they began with the definition of a makerspace. “Where students imagine, design, prototype and reflect — using both traditional and digital tools — to solve problems and tell stories through what they make,” t
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2025
As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. According to the latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics, there were 5.3 million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6 million in the fall of 2011.
We are Teachers
JULY 8, 2025
Teach and reinforce these classroom routines all year long to ensure that everyone in your class gets what they need.
Faculty Focus
JULY 8, 2025
I recently attended a student panel on use of AI in college classes. The three panelists shared their perspectives, borne out in an April 2025 Gallup survey : they want to learn to use AI tools in appropriate ways, they’re anxious about the potential negative impact on their critical thinking skills, and they want explicit guidance from their faculty members—which they’re not consistently getting.
eSchool News
JULY 7, 2025
Key points: Academic and non-academic data allows a district to see the whole child Data gaps negatively impact academic progress and attendance Building a future-focused, student-centered learning environment For more news on district data, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub When I talk about our district being the seventh-largest in Kentucky, with 13,000 students, people don’t have a frame of reference for what it’s like educating that many young people.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 11, 2025
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. TODAY’S TIP Q: When tech gets difficult, my students stop trying.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 2, 2025
Teaching artificial intelligence concepts to students at any level can be intimidating for teachers who aren’t technology experts, but it can feel especially overwhelming to those with students of elementary school age or younger. That’s what a group of educators came together to discuss at ISTELive 2025 in San Antonio. What Is AI Literacy? Nancye Blair Black, CEO of The Block Uncarved, an educational consulting firm that specializes in innovative instructional design and professional developmen
Tim Manson
JULY 10, 2025
thinkdotlearn Think.learn. The thoughts on learning and education from Tim Manson. Skip to content Home About Blended Learning Using ICT for Learning – where are we now? (2024) What about Blended Learning? Why pedagogy? (for Blended Learning) What is Blended Learning? What are the building blocks of Blended Learning? How can we ensure the success of Blended Leanring?
Teach Thought
JULY 9, 2025
Skip to content Purchase Analogy Booklet Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search Email Main Menu Newsletter Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Literacy Posts Teaching Posts Search More Menu Toggle Assessment Learning Models by Terrell Heick Curricula Policies Email Home Teaching Posts The Two Minds Of An Educator 1.5k Views Facebook Linkedin Print All Educators Have Two Minds by Terry Heick In his essay Two Minds , Wendell Berry, unsu
We are Teachers
JULY 2, 2025
These amazing teacher hacks will keep your classroom organized, your sanity intact, and your social media channels popping!
eSchool News
JULY 2, 2025
Key points: AI tools can help educators engage students in deeper learning New partnership trains Michigan teachers for AI innovation You’re using ChatGPT? A true story about why AI literacy starts with us For more news on AI tools and learning, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub It seems like everywhere you look, AI is there–and classrooms are no exception.
Faculty Focus
JULY 1, 2025
The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 2, 2025
At Bowling Green Independent School District in Kentucky, high school students can take a class in which they repair HP Chromebooks as part of the school’s computer science pathway. There’s a room in the high school dedicated to the repairs, which gives students and their teacher everything they need, says Digital Learning Coach Megan Marcum. The student team uses Incident IQ to field and track repairs, explains Technology Director William King.
Teacher Toms Blog
JULY 11, 2025
In 2007 the American Academy of Pediatrics published its clinical report on the importance of play in the healthy development of children and young children in particular. It reaffirmed the report in 2018, citing new and growing evidence that the decline in childhood play is harming children physically, intellectually, socially, and emotionally. This report, which specifically points to the push-down of academic-style instruction into early years programs, was once more reaffirmed at the beginni
Teach Thought
JULY 11, 2025
Skip to content Analogy Booklet Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search Email Main Menu Newsletter Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Literacy Posts Teaching Posts Search More Menu Toggle Assessment Learning Models by Terrell Heick Curricula Policies Email Home Learning Posts 5 Learning Strategies That Make Students Curious 3.8k Views Facebook Linkedin Print These Learning Strategies Make Students Curious by Terry Heick Understanding
We are Teachers
JULY 7, 2025
You need to save this list of Ikea teacher must-haves! These Ikea classroom ideas are teacher-tested, kid-friendly, and budget-approved.
eSchool News
JULY 7, 2025
Key points: The shift toward digital and skills-based education is expected to continue accelerating A new kind of high school diploma trades chemistry for carpentry Career-connected learning builds a more employable, future-ready generation For more news on skills-based learning, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In an era where workforce demands and the needs of high school learners are rapidly evolving, a new survey by Penn Foster Group sheds light on how teachers are reimagining educ
Elevate k12
JULY 3, 2025
The Compliance Playbook Just Got Shredded In 2025, the rulebook for public education is being rewritten in real time. Districts across the country are facing a convergence of policy shocks that are fundamentally altering how they deliver instruction, serve students with specific needs, and ensure legal compliance. The federal government has begun dismantling the U.S.
EdTech Magazine
JULY 3, 2025
From solving problems — how do you shake the bells on a jingle dress when your robot can’t jump up and down? — to interacting with First Nations peoples in a virtual world, technology can bring traditional indigenous viewpoints into a modern classroom. Minecraft Education’s A Pacific Northwest Coast Experience transports students to a native village where they must unlearn the usual rules of the game.
Faculty Focus
JULY 1, 2025
The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments.
EFL Magazine
JULY 1, 2025
The Importance of The IPA Chart The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the result of work by 19th and early 20th century phoneticians such as Henry Sweet, Otto Jesperson and […] The post The Importance of The IPA Chart appeared first on EFL Magazine.
GovTech
JULY 7, 2025
At the ISTELive 25 conference in San Antonio, a group of librarians said the potential of artificial intelligence to enable research must be weighed against costs not only to student learning but to content creators.
eSchool News
JULY 8, 2025
Key points: Formulaic writing can constrain thinking and limit creativity Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy Video game design boosts students’ literacy skills For more news on writing instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!) the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource.
Teach Your Kids
JULY 7, 2025
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