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Revolutionizing storytelling with AI: Empowering ELLs

March 31, 2025February 7, 2025 by Nesren El-Baz, ESL Educator

Integrating AI tools responsibly with storytelling empowers ELLs to find their voice and share their unique stories with confidence.

As educators, we constantly seek ways to help students overcome these barriers. Enter artificial intelligence (AI)--a powerful tool that transforms storytelling into an accessible and engaging experience for…

Student Well-Being

They aren’t bad kids–they just don’t know they’re good kids yet

January 23, 2025 by Dr. George Philhower, Eastern Hancock Schools

In our schools, we need to foster environments where every child knows they’re good, even "bad kids" who haven’t figured it out yet.

In the world of education, labels can become self-fulfilling prophecies. A child is labeled "troubled," "difficult," or "a bad kid," and suddenly, that label becomes their identity.

Game-Based Learning

Gamifying math and beating the summer slide

June 20, 2024 by Dr. Sara Delano Moore, ORIGO Education

$Gamification in math challenges students to consider new ways of understanding problems and gives them the freedom to make mistakes.$

Just as we don't become fluent in art, language, or sports through repetitive drills over a few weeks, mastering math requires a different approach.

Teaching Trends

4 ways to create a comedic classroom

November 2, 2023 by Nick Joe, Professional Learning Lead Consultant, NWEA

Help students learn by applying improv comedy principles in your classroom and keeping an open mindset to teaching and learning.

The art of improv comedy is to create a scene from nothing but a suggestion. An actor can never say or do anything that will be wrong. There…

AI in Education

A cautious approach to using AI in education

December 11, 2023September 19, 2023 by Alexander Slagg, Middle School English Language Arts Teacher, Illinois

Guardrails are needed to keep AI technologies mission-centered in schools and classrooms--using AI in education has potential and pitfalls.

The November 2022 release of ChatGTP by OpenAI was an inflection point for AI technology. It was quickly followed by several competing AI systems: Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search…

Teaching Trends

10 reasons we love teachers

May 9, 2023 by Britten Follett

celebrate our students’ wins and teach them lessons through their mistakes every day of the school year

Just seven days a year to celebrate teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week is hardly sufficient. After all, they celebrate our students’ wins and teach them lessons through their…

Building Resilience in STEM – A Whitepaper from VEX Robotics

May 26, 2023February 28, 2023 by Jeff Festa

Making mistakes and iterating to solve problems are an important part of STEM and Computer Science learning. Students respond to ... Read more

STEM & STEAM

6 ways to embrace the messiness of math education

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 by Michele Israel, Contributing Writer, edWeb

$Some traditional approaches to math education might not be as useful as previously thought--here are some tips for a new strategy$

Math is not easy to teach or learn. So, teachers use a variety of strategies to boost their students’ numeracy skills as they progress through math education. But…

COVID-19 Update

Here’s the biggest mistake educators make with remote learning

January 7, 2021December 30, 2020 by Dennis Pierce

5 ways to create a community of learners

Education thought leader Alan November isn’t shy about discussing what he believes is a key misstep that many educators are making in shifting to web-based instruction during the…

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Grade expectations: How to look at grading in a new light

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 by David Coker, Ed.D.

You're doing it all wrong--transform grading so it actually impacts student learning

The teacher finishes giving instructions and sits down for students to begin completing the assignment. While students work, the teacher grades papers and prepares for the next hour,…

District Management

Want to improve your leadership development? Use simulations!

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 by David De Jong, Ed.D.

American schools are facing a crisis in the lack of professional learning for school leaders.

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8 ways to reduce device damage in 1:1 programs

January 23, 2019January 22, 2019 by Doug Johnson

As a technology user, I have over the years: Dropped and broken my phone’s screen Spilled liquid on my laptop’s keyboard, frying the motherboard Pulled the cord out…

Ancillary

How I found more satisfaction in teaching

June 21, 2018 by Raymond Steinmetz

Early in my career, I got upset and disappointed when students made mistakes in class. I couldn’t understand why they weren’t understanding when I was teaching everything so…

eClassroom News

How I found more satisfaction in teaching

September 24, 2021June 21, 2018 by Raymond Steinmetz

Early in my career, I got upset and disappointed when students made mistakes in class. I couldn’t understand why they weren’t understanding when I was teaching everything so…

eClassroom News

Do you make these common classroom-management mistakes?

February 15, 2019May 17, 2018 by Stacey Pusey

The dunce cap, a ruler on the knuckles, kneeling on rice: Modern teachers wouldn’t think of using these methods to correct students’ behavior. But for all the progress…

District Management

The 4 most common mistakes districts make in professional development

November 30, 2016 by Dianne Pappafotopoulos, M.Ed

Across the globe, teachers are continually asked to integrate technology into their curriculums to keep up with future-ready skills and in turn they complain that they need more…

Innovation Insights

What do we really mean by risk taking in the classroom?

January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by Trevor Shaw

It's important for students to learn risk taking skills. But how do schools do that without taking some big risks themselves?

IT Management

10 teaching with technology mistakes you don’t want to make

February 3, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

Are you tentative about how to go about integrating technology in your classroom? Are you already doing it, but want to make sure you’re doing the right thing…

District Management

Don’t make these mistakes with flipped learning

September 23, 2014December 12, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

Flipped learning won't help students if teachers only change the format for instruction. Here are the classic mistakes some teachers are making.

Revolutionizing storytelling with AI: Empowering ELLs

They aren’t bad kids–they just don’t know they’re good kids yet

Gamifying math and beating the summer slide

4 ways to create a comedic classroom

A cautious approach to using AI in education

10 reasons we love teachers

6 ways to embrace the messiness of math education

Here’s the biggest mistake educators make with remote learning

Grade expectations: How to look at grading in a new light

Want to improve your leadership development? Use simulations!

8 ways to reduce device damage in 1:1 programs

How I found more satisfaction in teaching

How I found more satisfaction in teaching

Do you make these common classroom-management mistakes?

10 teaching with technology mistakes you don’t want to make

Don’t make these mistakes with flipped learning

With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts

Counslr Launches in Texas to Increase Access to Mental Health Support for Staff and Students

Ignite Reading Again Approved as 1:1 High-Dosage Early Literacy Tutoring Provider in Massachusetts

aiEDU and The Rithm Project Partner to Infuse Human Connection into AI Literacy Through High School ELA Curriculum

Catapult Learning is Approved to Provide High-Dosage Tutoring in Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Schools

Birmingham City Schools Leads Groundbreaking Research on Student Motivation and Math Achievement

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