eSchool News
MAY 21, 2025
Key points: Comprehensive action plans should start in schools and extend into homes Data gaps negatively impact academic progress and attendance Maybe its time to change up high school to improve student attendance For more news on absenteeism, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Empty seats have become a common sight in our nations classrooms.
k12 Digest
MAY 19, 2025
Dr. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St. John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.
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Edsurge
MAY 21, 2025
As the education world grapples with a post-pandemic academic recovery that has stalled in some regions , a new research paper is taking the measure of key players in students success: their teachers. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Researchers are looking at whether teachers have what they need to thrive in Teaching for Tomorrow: Educators on the Future of Their Profession, part of a multiyear study undertaken by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation.
Teacher Cast
APRIL 17, 2025
Do you remember your last epiphany? That moment whenwhether walking or drivingeverything suddenly clicks and the world makes perfect sense? Well, yesterday I had one of those moments, and I can't wait to share it with you. Discover how to combine Canva and Google Sites for stunning websites. Elevate your digital presence with easy design tips and tricks!
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 22, 2025
Ten years ago, EdTech: Focus on K12 published a list of blogs that covered all things relating to educational technology. Over the past decade, that list has become an honored tradition for our community, changing with the times to feature education IT influencers, podcasts and more. In 2015, the social platform X still featured a little blue bird logo, the only TikTok we knew was a Kesha song and daily encounters with artificial intelligence (AI) were limited to using spell-check.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 13, 2025
Top Grant Sources to Bring Technology to Under-Resourced Classrooms In todays classrooms, technology is more than a supplement its a necessity. From digital literacy tools to interactive learning platforms, access to reliable technology helps level the educational playing field. However, for many under-resourced schools, affording updated tech remains a major hurdle.
John Spenser
MAY 21, 2025
In classrooms across the country, something subtle but powerful is taking shape. Amidst the distractions, the surface-level shortcuts, and the pressure to speed everything up, Ive seen students quietly shift from passive to active. They’ve gone from compliant to curious and from distracted to dialed. The post Teachers Are the Champions of Depth in a Culture of Distractions appeared first on John Spencer.
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Teach Thought
MAY 27, 2025
This Blooms Digital Taxonomy helps teachers evaluate and design digital tasks like ChatGPT use, blogging, podcasting, and more. The post A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks appeared first on TeachThought.
Teach Hub
APRIL 25, 2025
If you constantly flip through project after project and everything starts to feel the same, whether its a diorama, slideshow, tri-fold board, or even a digital presentation, when it lacks creativity, it becomes forgettable fast. When projects feel like they are merely checking off boxes instead of sparking curiosity, students miss out on meaningful learning.
Faculty Focus
APRIL 29, 2025
Bullying in nursing is a well-documented issue, but less attention has been given to the experiences of nurse educators who face hostility within academic institutions. While nursing education should promote professional growth, collaboration, and mentorship, many nurse educatorsespecially those in tenure-track positionsexperience bullying from colleagues, senior faculty, or administrators.
eSchool News
MAY 12, 2025
Key points: Building community in the name of sustainability is a core component of the environmental movement How this educator integrates Dungeons & Dragons into the curriculum How I came to love phenomena-based science instruction For more news on teaching trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As a teacher and advocate for environmental education, Ive seen students around the country feeling eco-anxiety.
k12 Digest
MAY 15, 2025
Carl Morris, Co-Founder of educave, draws on extensive insights gained while building and scaling other EdTech and Education businesses, such as The Online School, EDAI, and Carfax Education. Through these experiences, Carl developed a deep understanding of what founders require to navigate the unique challenges within the Education Industry and achieve sustainable growth.
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2025
When would I ever use this? Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. Solving this motivation problem is tricky. It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses lik
Teacher Cast
APRIL 15, 2025
Use Google Sheets to create interactive timelines that enhance student understanding of historical events, with steps for setup, chart creation, customization, and classroom applications like project management and curriculum planning. Troubleshooting tips are also provided for common issues. The post Create a Dynamic Timeline with Google Sheets: A Teacher’s Guide to Visual Planning appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Network.
EdTech Magazine
MAY 1, 2025
Cyberthreats impacted 82% of K12 schools in the past year and a half, with a high rate of attacks targeting human behavior among the reported approaches. In particular, phishing scams continue to threaten school cybersecurity, as noted in a Consortium for School Networking report. In addition to using deceptive links in emails, attackers are now trying to use QR codes to obtain personal credentials and other information.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 21, 2025
These are simple features ( including frames, quadrant colors, photo effects like snow) that add sophistication and professionalism to a finished product. This is a good addition to a Photoshop unit. It doesnt take much time to teach and its wow factor is off the charts with students. from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Copyright 2025 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved.
Class Tech Tips
MAY 19, 2025
Here is an excerpt from todays New York Times article, How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 students Into the A.I. Future : Her class at Southwest Miami Senior High School had already read about John F. Kennedy and discussed his campaign for new frontier economic and social policies. Now Ms. Lowd asked two dozen 11th graders to open their laptops and type a prompt into Googles Gemini chatbot: Act like President Kennedy.
GovTech
MAY 15, 2025
State and local entities had already begun to receive grant awards to teach digital skills and provide connectivity and devices for underserved people, including K-12 students, when the program was canceled last week.
Teach Thought
MAY 4, 2025
Here are 30 ideas to promote creativity in learning, including tapping into multiple intelligences and using emotional connections.
Teach Hub
MAY 16, 2025
Some classroom strategies stick around for a reason, and Think-Pair-Share a cooperative learning approach is one of them. Whether youre teaching elementary students or high schoolers, this strategy works for everyone. It doesnt require any preparation, and when utilized intentionally, it can completely transform the way students process and engage with the content.
Faculty Focus
MAY 18, 2025
Preparing the next generation of graduates in a 21st-century, diverse, and international classroom requires a pedagogical shift to recalibrate ones practice. A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. 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 a
eSchool News
MAY 22, 2025
Key points: It’s time to build smarter systems that reduce teacher burdens and increase student engagement To boost teacher morale, reimagine the teacher role Key strategies for education leaders to boost morale For more news on teacher burnout, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub The current education crisis isn’t just about the need to support student academic recovery–it’s also about teacher retention.
k12 Digest
MAY 19, 2025
Dr. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St. John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.
Edsurge
MAY 5, 2025
Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. 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. One such game is called Decimal Point.
We are Teachers
MAY 28, 2025
Looking for ways to make remote learning easier? These Chromebook keyboard hacks are perfect for students and teachers!
EdTech Magazine
MAY 28, 2025
Security preparedness is important for everyone working in a K12 environment, especially for those in school leadership. Cybersecurity and physical security incidents alike require a rapid response to mitigate damage. Nearly 80% of IT professionals agreed that incident response was helpful to their organization, according to research from CDW. Despite the benefits, security training may not be at the top of every K12 leaders to-do list.
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 28, 2025
Something broke in American education these past years. Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. I went out to our international contributors for ideas. They had a lot, but this one I thought I’d cover first: Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete? You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
Listen to the interview with Tony Frontier: Sponsored by ExploreLearning and Listenwise This page contains Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future.
Imagination Soup
MAY 21, 2025
Take a middle grade reading road trip around the USA! Discover the best middle grade books set in each state of the United States of. The post 50 States Reading Road Trip (Middle Grade Books Set in the USA) appeared first on Imagination Soup.
Teach Thought
MAY 17, 2025
Our task? Overcome a child's natural tendency to play, rebel, and self-direct in hopes of providing them with an 'education.
Teach Hub
APRIL 23, 2025
Lets be honest, math doesnt have the best reputation. Its been one of the most disliked school subjects for decades. According to this survey , 42% of Americans disliked math classes during their K-12 education. But why? For many, math feels like swimming upstream. It requires thinking, theres usually a right and wrong answer (no gray areas), and there are so many different formulas and calculations to keep track of.
Faculty Focus
MAY 11, 2025
The Age of AI is Upon Us. Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g., Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., Schoeder, 2024).
eSchool News
MAY 13, 2025
Key points: Digital infrastructure is the backbone of teaching, learning, and operations Leadership is key to protecting student data privacy in 2025 10 tips for using analytics and adaptive tech in schools For more news on IT trends, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub If the Supreme Court decides Universal Service/E-Rate is unconstitutional, losing E-rate funding would have a catastrophic impact on the vast majority of school districts, according to CoSN ‘s 2025 State of Edtech District
k12 Digest
MAY 28, 2025
Its a familiar story for many parentswatching their child struggle in school, knowing they are capable but somehow unable to thrive in a traditional classroom. For a group of dedicated parents in 2003, this concern turned into action. They envisioned a school where children who didnt fit the standard mold could still succeed, not just academically but socially and emotionally.
Edsurge
MAY 15, 2025
Gen Z may be the first generation to have childhoods rife with screens and defined by having a second life online , but some of their cohort might also be first to say that connectivity has its downsides. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. New data from the Pew Research Center shows that nearly half of Gen Z teens say social media harms people their age , and roughly the same share say they spend too much time scrolling.
We are Teachers
MAY 19, 2025
This bundle of visual schedule templates includes a daily schedule, work-reward board, daily routine, first-then board, and binder schedule.
EdTech Magazine
MAY 13, 2025
Every security team knows that multifactor authentication is a powerful weapon in the fight against credential theft, ransomware and data breaches. Often, corporate IT teams have go-to solutions that they can roll out quickly and easily such as text-messaged codes, standards-based one-time password apps (such as Google Authenticator) and proprietary software token applications but all of these MFA approaches assume a business environment.
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