Skip to content
  • eSchool Media Sites:
  • eCampus News
  • Featured Contributors
  • Login
  • Bluesky
  • X
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Resource Library
  • Edu. Resource Centers
  • Webinars
  • Newsline
  • Digital Issues
  • Resource Guides
  • Podcast
  • Profiles in Innovation
eSchool News
FREE REGISTRATION FOR EDUCATORS
REGISTER NOW 
Innovation Insights with Kevin Hogan
eSchool News
REGISTER NOW
  • IT Leadership
    • Innovation Insights
    • CoSN Corner
    • E-rate Funding
    • Internet Connectivity
    • IT Innovations
    • K-12 Cybersecurity
    • K-12 Tech Innovation News
    • School Data Management
    • Student Data Security
  • Innovative Teaching
    • Teaching Trends
    • Classroom Management
    • Curriculum & Assessment
    • Personalized Learning
    • ELL
    • Universal Design for Learning
    • Literacy
    • College and Career Readiness
    • Durable Skills
    • Students with Special Needs
    • Edtech Trends
    • School Library Innovations
  • Educational Leadership
    • DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access)
    • Education Policy & Funding
    • School Management
    • District Management
    • COVID in Schools
    • Building & Campus Security
    • Digital Innovation
    • Teacher Professional Development
    • Emergency Planning & Response
  • STEM & STEAM
    • STEM & STEAM Trends
    • Computer Science Education
    • School Makerspaces
    • Coding and Robotics
  • SEL & Well-Being
    • SEL Trends
    • Student Well-Being
    • Teacher Well-Being
    • Trauma-Informed Teaching
  • Digital Learning
    • Learning in the Digital Age
    • AI in Education
    • Digital Literacy
    • Digital Learning Tools
    • AR & VR in the Classroom
    • Machine Learning in Education
    • Academic Esports
    • Online & Hybrid Learning
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • Game-Based Learning
  • IT Leadership
    • Innovation Insights
    • CoSN Corner
    • E-rate Funding
    • Internet Connectivity
    • IT Innovations
    • K-12 Cybersecurity
    • K-12 Tech Innovation News
    • School Data Management
    • Student Data Security
  • Innovative Teaching
    • Teaching Trends
    • Classroom Management
    • Curriculum & Assessment
    • Personalized Learning
    • ELL
    • Universal Design for Learning
    • Literacy
    • College and Career Readiness
    • Durable Skills
    • Students with Special Needs
    • Edtech Trends
    • School Library Innovations
  • Educational Leadership
    • DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access)
    • Education Policy & Funding
    • School Management
    • District Management
    • COVID in Schools
    • Building & Campus Security
    • Digital Innovation
    • Teacher Professional Development
    • Emergency Planning & Response
  • STEM & STEAM
    • STEM & STEAM Trends
    • Computer Science Education
    • School Makerspaces
    • Coding and Robotics
  • SEL & Well-Being
    • SEL Trends
    • Student Well-Being
    • Teacher Well-Being
    • Trauma-Informed Teaching
  • Digital Learning
    • Learning in the Digital Age
    • AI in Education
    • Digital Literacy
    • Digital Learning Tools
    • AR & VR in the Classroom
    • Machine Learning in Education
    • Academic Esports
    • Online & Hybrid Learning
    • Virtual Field Trips
    • Game-Based Learning

teens

Student Well-Being

I offer free online therapy to teens. Here’s what I’m seeing–and why it matters

December 30, 2024 by Erin Mack, Chalkbeat
Online therapy can help teens explore their emotions, develop coping strategies, and build resilience--key well-being skills.
Before the pandemic, the idea of communicating with a therapist via text seemed unthinkable. Then COVID closures and an unprecedented surge in teen mental health issues changed everything.
Durable Skills

Most teens want media literacy education, but aren’t getting it

November 7, 2024November 5, 2024 by ESchool News Staff
A new study shows that American teens are awash in conspiracy theories and are cynical about the media--and want media literacy education.
An overwhelming majority of teens (94 percent) want their schools to teach media literacy, although just 39 percent reported having had any such instruction during the 2023-24 school year.
Digital Literacy

In the age of bots and AI, how can students identify misinformation online?

August 6, 2024 by Garrett Smiley, Sora Schools
Today’s curricula must prepare students to navigate the murky waters of AI, bias, and misinformation with news literacy.
Now that AI can effortlessly create convincing but fabricated stories, today’s curricula must prepare students to navigate the murky waters of AI, bias and misinformation.
College and Career Readiness

As teens rethink college and career options, counselors are trying to adapt

November 27, 2023 by Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat
The pandemic upended the college and career landscape for New York City teenagers, and counselors are trying to redefine their roles.
When students come into Danielle Insel’s college and career advising office with their sights set on higher education, she has a checklist of next steps ready. For years,…
Student Well-Being

How school-home communication combats chronic absenteeism

July 12, 2023 by Dr. Kara Stern, Head of Education Solutions, SchoolStatus
When it comes to chronic absenteeism, schools should focus on consciously aligning school communication with school connectedness.
Adolescents are in crisis right now. Social media, pandemic isolation, gun violence, and structural racism have formed a perfect storm. It’s been so devastating to teens that the…
Curriculum & Assessment

3 ways to make inflation interesting for students

January 25, 2023November 9, 2022 by Fred Fransen, CEO, Certell
Storytelling can be an effective way for teachers to make topics like inflation relevant to students
Inflation hit a four-decade high in the United States during September, with the consumer price index up 8.2 percent from a year earlier. While most adults are painfully…
Student Well-Being

Chicago students can take up to 5 mental health days

December 7, 2022September 15, 2022 by Norah Hendrickson, Chalkbeat Chicago
With mental health issues increasing for youth due to the pandemic and rising violence in the city, students welcome the chance to take a break
With working 25 hours a week at her minimum wage job at an ice cream shop, juggling a stressful workload with AP and honors classes, and dealing with…
SEL & Well-Being

4 ways to create safe mental health environments for our students

November 3, 2021 by Joan Steinberg, President, Morgan Stanley Foundation & CEO, Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health’s Advisory Board
Stepping in to solve the youth mental health crisis in classrooms may seem daunting, but with a plan, it’s possible
The Covid-19 pandemic has dealt our nation’s youth a difficult hand. After adapting to virtual learning over the past year and a half, many students this school year…
Newsline

Today’s Teens Questioning the Status Quo When It Comes to College

February 24, 2021 by ESchool News Staff
high school graduation rate
After experiencing an unprecedented year marked by a global pandemic, racial unrest and a turbulent U.S. presidential election, today’s teens ... Read more
STEM & STEAM

A national esports effort aims to ‘change the trajectory’ for students

February 21, 2021February 19, 2021 by Dennis Pierce, Contributing Writer, eSchool News
As it grows in popularity, many stakeholders and educators realize esports has great potential to help students connect classroom lessons with real-world possibilities
As a student, video gamer and flight instructor Hudson Davis was often bored in school. He found that many classes provided only a surface-level understanding of key topics—and…
Curriculum

Using politics to teach critical thinking

February 15, 2017December 1, 2016 by Dr. Jenna Cramer and Kristin Hubers
election-digital-literacy
As high school social studies teachers in a swing state, election season is some of the most fertile ground for learning, and this past cycle—with all its splashy…
STEM & STEAM

Full Sail launches new camps for coding, robotics, gaming, and more

December 15, 2015December 14, 2015 by Laura Ascione
full-sail-labs
Full Sail University on Dec. 11 unveiled Full Sail Labs, an educational experience designed for students from 1st to 12th grades with a focus on technology, science, art…
Featured on eSchool News

A helpline for schools tackling cyberbullying

May 16, 2019August 24, 2015 by By Bridget McCrea
cyberbullying-social
First-of-its-kind pilot gives schools a new tool for combating cyberbullying on social media -- a helpline with close ties to Facebook and Twitter.
IT Management

Survey suggests nearly half of teens text in class

August 30, 2010 by Maya Prabhu
A new study by textPlus found that 43 percent of teens ages 13-17 say they text in class, and of that group, 17 percent of them say they…
IT Management

Teens’ social media use on the rise, but fewer are blogging

February 5, 2010February 4, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The use of social-networking web sites among young Americans continues to climb—but fewer teens and young adults are blogging now than four years ago, and the number of…

Stay up-to-date with the
INNOVATIONS
in K-12 Education Newsletter

Name
By submitting your information, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
This field is hidden when viewing the form
Email Newsletters:

Sponsored Content

Sponsored

Advancing digital equity through teacher leadership

Advancing digital equity through teacher leadership

Meaningful opportunities for teachers to build expertise and leadership beyond their classroom add to a sense of professionalism and fulfillment. In an age when the role of technology in education is rapidly changing, why not allow teachers to lead the way?

Sponsored

Engaging the reluctant reader: Benefits of gamified learning in literacy education

Engaging the reluctant reader: Benefits of gamified learning in literacy education

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. These students are often reluctant readers because they find the process complicated, and they lack confidence in their abilities.

Profiles in Innovation
Profiles in Innovation

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

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

Math is a fundamental part of K-12 education, but students often face significant challenges in mastering increasingly challenging math concepts.

Profiles in Innovation

Fighting chronic absenteeism with data-driven insights–and a little fun, too

Fighting chronic absenteeism with data-driven insights–and a little fun, too

Chronic absenteeism remains a widespread challenge in schools across the country, but in Wisconsin, Racine Unified School District’s Julian Thomas Elementary and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School are demonstrating that innovative, data-driven approaches can make a difference.

Read more Profiles »

Latest Newsline
Newsline

Otus Launches AI Advisory Board to Bring Voices of K-12 Leaders to the Forefront of Innovation

Newsline

Kenneth C. Griffin Donates $2 Million to Nonprofit Achieve Miami’s Teacher Accelerator Program to Strengthen South Florida’s Teacher Pipeline

Newsline

Ignite Reading Partners with UF Lastinger Center’s Florida Tutoring Advantage

Optoma Announces Launch of the New 3-Series Interactive Displays with Google Certification and AI-Enabled Tools

Newsline

Otus Wins Gold Stevie® Award for Customer Service Department of the Year

See All Newsline Updates »

Login

Lost Password
Not a member?
Register for FREE to access all our K-12 news and resources.
eSchoolNews
Advertise

About Us

About eSchool News
Privacy Policy

Contact Us

Contact eSchool News
Article Submissions
Press Release Submissions

Social Media

Facebook
X Twitter
Linkedin

© Copyright 2025 eSchoolMedia & eSchool News. All Rights Reserved. 9711 Washingtonian Boulevard, Suite 550, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 | 1-301-913-0115
  • eSchool News
    • IT Leadership
    • K-12 Tech Innovation News
    • Innovative Teaching
    • Educational Leadership
    • STEM & STEAM
    • SEL & Well-Being
    • Digital Learning
  • Resource Library
  • Edu. Resource Centers
  • Webinars
  • Digital Issues
  • Guides
  • Hero Awards
  • Podcasts