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03.15.2024
Unexpected: Five Ways We’re Helping Students Improve Their Writing Skills With ChatGPT
One of our earliest concerns about generative artificial intelligence was that it would diminish students’ writing skills. This week we discovered that ChatGPT is helping students write more clearly and effectively when used well. Follow on Twitter: @ideasforteacher @DrBioTom @jonHarper70bd @CFKurban...
01.27.2024
34 Grade-Specific Ways to Regain Control of a Class Gone Wild
What are the most effective ways to restore a class that’s spinning out of control? We discovered that the answer depends on the grade level. An Edutopia survey identified the top 34 strategies to quiet a rowdy classroom. ...
01.08.2024
Our Most Useful AI Lessons From 2023, How We’ll Use Them in 2024
We start the new year by reflecting on our experiences with generative artificial intelligence in 2023 and the lessons we learned. We close by sharing our most useful discoveries and how we plan to use them in the year ahead. Follow...
01.04.2024
10 Creative Ways to Teach Critical Thinking With AI Image Generators
This week, we dove into AI image generators and how they can be used to engage students in higher-order thinking. We explored and shared the results of testing and comparing several AI image tools with real students in...
12.08.2023
10 Creative Ways to Teach Critical Thinking with AI Image Generators
This week, we dove into AI image generators and how they can be used to engage students in higher-order thinking. We explored and shared the results of testing and comparing several AI image tools with real students in...
11.16.2023
How to Cultivate a Warm, Confident, Firm Tone That Supports Healthy Student Behavior
A 2022 study from the University of Essex and the University of Reading found that tone shifts significantly impact classroom health and student behavior. In this session, we discuss how to cultivate a warm, confident, firm tone that can...
10.19.2023
Too Engaging: 16 New Ways You Can Use Voice to Engage, Teach and Support Students
Dr. Caroline Fell Kurban is the advisor to the Rector at MEF University. Caroline previously held the position of Director of the Center of Research and Best Practices for Learning and Teaching (CELT) at MEF University. She also teaches on the...
09.20.2023
Grading 100 Papers: A Few Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Help
We all agree that grading papers, providing detailed feedback, and maintaining consistency across 100 or more papers are some of the most taxing tasks on a teacher’s to-do list. This week, we met at the AI Cafe to explore...
09.13.2023
Listening for What Students Really Need Us to Hear
Student engagement remains high on the priority list this school term. Recent studies suggest keenly listening to students’ needs can make a significant difference. In this session, we explore what students really need us to hear and how we can...
09.10.2023
How We Prepared for Our First School Term with Generative Artificial Intelligence
It's fascinating; this is the first back-to-school season in the age of generative artificial intelligence -- historic. A middle school teacher, a university professor, an early childhood educator-tech coach, and an education researcher met to exchange notes on how they...
08.06.2023
Five Things We All Need to Know About ChatGPT Before Heading Back to School
Many of us were consumed with teaching when ChatGPT entered the scene last year, so we had little available attention to give it. The impact of this tool and other forms of generative AI has grown since then, and now...
08.01.2023
Remodeling the 24/7 Teaching Lifestyle Starting With Setting Digital Boundaries
The always-on, always-available teaching lifestyle can be overwhelming and stressful. Education technology can add to the problem unless we set some clear boundaries. In this episode, we explore ways to use technology to maximize well-being. Follow: @realtechfored @ISTEofficial @mrhooker @hyphenatic @jonHarper70bd...
06.03.2023
Teaching While Stressed: Hiding Our Emotions Helps Students, Hinders Healing, Try This
Many of us routinely park our emotions at the classroom door by compartmentalizing our stress and anxiety. It turns out that putting on a chronic happy face is harmful. The impact of this practice is well-known among mental health...
05.13.2023
TeachAI: The Great AI Conversation Has Started, Make Sure You’re at the Table
In this episode, we cover the TeachAI initiative, the start of the Great AI conversation, and why getting a seat at the table is so important. Next, we look behind the curtain at the wave of AI technology coming to...
05.07.2023
Ending One Year, Hiring for the Next: A Second Look at the Four-Day School Week
It’s hiring season, and principals are looking at creative ways to fill those teaching positions. It seems like a good time to take a second look at the four-day school week. Many schools have made the switch this year. How...
04.30.2023
Counting the Days: Managing Our Emotional Energy Through the Last Stretch of the School Year
As always, we've given all we have this school year, and now many of us are beyond teacher tired. So what can we do? I've invited a group of colleagues to talk about practical ways to manage our emotional and...
04.23.2023
Why Teaching With ChatGPT Takes a Dream Team to Be Effective
In this second episode, the first is a story about why using ChatGPT in our classrooms takes a dream team. The second update explains why a recent decision on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean could impact teaching with...
04.16.2023
Is Work Life Balance an Education Myth? It’s Complicated, but Here’s What Works
Many educators see work-life balance as a pipe dream detached from the realities of teaching. It’s certainly among the most elusive goals in education. But despite the complex forces pulling us out of balance every day, some educators have...
04.10.2023
Taking Teaching With ChatGPT to the Next Level: Elevating Your Prompt and AI Conversation Skills
We’re discovering that to get the most out of ChatGPT, we must learn how to talk to it. Educators have found that mastering this skill produces powerful teaching resources in a fraction of the time and effort. Join us...
03.29.2023
Yes, We’re Using ChatGPT to Teach Higher Order Thinking, Here’s How
Teachers who have embraced ChatGPT have found that we can take students to the very top of Bloom’s taxonomy by shifting our thinking about the tool. This conversation discusses the traditional barriers to teaching higher-order thinking and how ChatGPT and...
03.20.2023
The Power of Pause: Why Shameless Time Off Is Essential to a Healthy Teaching Mindset
Most of us are so committed to our students, colleagues, and schools that we are hesitant to take time off even when we really need it. Who will cover my class? What impact will my absence have on my students?...
03.12.2023
Teaching English: How Supporting Multilingual Students Is Getting Easier
Teaching multilingual students is full of joy and challenges. We invited three educators to explore how teachers can use ChatGPT to support students who speak English as a second or third language. Follow on Twitter: @cahnmann @michelleshory @irina_mcgrath @bamradionetwork, @Jonharper70bd Irina McGrath...
03.05.2023
AI: Why Balancing Student Learning and Safety Starts With Conversations Like This
When education technology evolves quickly or takes a sudden leap, schools, school leaders, and educators can find it challenging to decide how to respond. Our guest explains why the best initial response is an inclusive conversation. Follow on Twitter: @Digital_Empower @ISTEofficial...
02.20.2023
Three Overlooked Reasons Why Teaching Is So Exhausting, Two Very Promising Solutions
Why is teaching still so exhausting after more than two and half years of concentrated attention on teacher wellbeing? Despite the strategies and well-intended efforts, many teachers report being more emotionally and physically tired than ever. Our guests identify the...
02.13.2023
Why Some Educators Are Convinced Artificial Intelligence Can Make Teaching Less Stressful
Millions of schoolchildren walked into their classrooms at the start of the academic year missing one crucial element that should have set them up for success: the prior knowledge they needed to take on a new grade level. In...
02.06.2023
Why ChatGPT Is Exciting, Scary and Requires Principals to Have Vision and Compassion
We're hearing more about ChatGPT every day stoking a wide spectrum of emotions. Educators have many questions and principals have a pivotal role to play in helping faculty find answers and manage the impacts. Follow on Twitter: @JamesBrauer @Eklundteaches @AllysonApsey @DrRachaelGeorge...
01.28.2023
ChatGPT Is Here, We’re Using It, It’s Amazing: 6 Creative Ways to Teach With It Right Now
Innovative educators are embracing ChatGPT as a transformative tool that can improve teaching and learning, make creating interactive lesson plans more accessible, and unleash a whole new level of student, parent, and community engagement. In this discussion, teachers, tech coaches,...
01.21.2023
What Works: 10 Ways To Get Our Students On Task and Back To Learning After the Holidays
From elementary classrooms to high schools, getting students back to learning after the winter break requires additional attention, intention, and skill. In this discussion, I asked educators to share the most effective strategies they’ve found to reenergize their...
01.11.2023
Practical Ways to Rise Above the Barriers to Unfinished Learning
We can help students surpass the barriers to unfinished learning if we acknowledge the challenges and think differently about how we approach teaching and learning. Follow our PLN on Twitter: @SarahDSparks @playyay @d4griffin3 @ideasforteacher @poweroficu @bamradionetwork @jonharper70bd BreAnn Fennell is a...
01.03.2023
How Helping Students Get One Percent Better Accelerates Learning and Reduces Stress
Our guests agree there are better ways to think about and help our students accelerate learning in the wake of the COVID Pandemic. They share their stories about using the one percent better principle, combined with celebrating small wins to...
12.20.2022
Holiday Buzz, Holiday Break: Balancing School Work and Holiday Traditions for All Students
It’s that time of the school year when we have to balance the excitement of the holiday season, the various traditions of all our students, and the schoolwork we still need to get done. Follow on Twitter: @LAMBradley @ideasforteacher @sgthomas1973...
12.04.2022
What Do You See When You Look at Education Through a Gratitude Lens?
This week millions of teachers and school leaders will turn our attention to gratitude. In the spirit of the season, I’ve invited a group of educators to talk with me about what silver linings they see in education today that...
10.28.2022
An Educator's Guide to What's Changing at Twitter Now That Elon Musk Owns the Platform That Connects Many Teachers and School Leaders
Twitter chats sparked the connected educator movement and gave many educators support and a voice. But Twitter gave a megaphone to all voices and movements raising questions about free speech and the limits of what we should be able to...
09.07.2022
Why We’re Rethinking Student Engagement for the New School Year
Though student engagement has always been essential to teaching and learning, the pandemic has impacted students in ways that raise questions about what it takes to engage students this term. In this episode, we invited a panel of educators to...
08.28.2022
Our Students Feel It Too: A Practical Guide to Creating a Calm Climate for Learning During Very Stressful Times
A calm classroom with students on task is what we all want. In this discussion, two teachers, two psychologists, and a school superintendent unanimously agree that current events outside of the classroom are impacting our ability to reach and teach...
08.14.2022
This Year, a Positive School Culture Is Everything: Here’s How an Entire School District Created One Step-by-Step
Illinois’s largest elementary school district has an exceptionally positive school culture and the receipts to prove it. In this episode, we talk with the superintendent about the step-by-step process they used to build theirs, based on the Happiness Advantage. Stanford...
08.10.2022
A Deeper Look at the Emotional Inner Life of Teaching: The 16 Emotions We’ve Overlooked
The emerging emotional science is clear, we often oversimplify how we discuss the emotional experience of teaching and the emotional inner life of teachers. In this episode, we explore two models that reframe what we often simplistically label as burnout...
07.24.2022
Four-Day School Weeks Are Coming Faster Than We Thought: What Do You Need to Know in Advance?
The four-day school week is not new, but the speed at which schools are adopting the model is breathtaking. Largely driven by the difficulty in attracting and retaining teachers, school districts are making the leap at increasingly rapid rates. In...
05.01.2022
Two Teachers, a Lawyer and a Couple of Talk Show Hosts Walk Into a Bar, the Conversation Was...
We invited the authors of three books written to teach us how to talk with people we disagree with on just about everything. Each shared with us their framework for navigating difficult discussions with difficult people in school, at work,...
04.20.2022
When Student Behavior Disrupts Learning, and You’ve Done All You Know How to Do, Consider This….
Across the nation, at all levels, educators are reporting a rise in troublesome student behaviors. The list of causes is wide and deep, but the first professionals expected to manage student behavior are classroom teachers. This episode takes an unvarnished...
03.12.2022
How Teachers Are Managing the Rapid Stream of Small (and Big) Decisions We Make Daily
In this episode, we pause to examine the seemingly endless minor and high-stakes decisions that we need to make in our classrooms every day. Listen in as we identify ways to manage the decision fatigue that some feel. Follow on Twitter:...
02.05.2022
Navigating Sensitive Cultural, Social and Civc Discussions 101: Identify the Right People
There’s so much we urgently need to talk about, mask mandates, transgender issues, race relations, growing incivility, threats to our democracy, but so little we can safely discuss in mixed company. Increasingly, what starts out as a cordial and benign...
01.26.2022
Sustaining Emotional Energy and Resilience During an Extremely Tough School Year: What Works, What Doesn’t?
As we all push through another exceptionally challenging school year, we pause to talk about proven ways to sustain our emotional energy and resilience. Join us as we separate what works from what doesn’t. Follow on Twitter: @brightmorningtm @a_rebora @ascd...
01.18.2022
Compliant Students or Passionately Motivated Students: Which Are You Seeing Most in Your Classroom This Year and Why?
Many, maybe even most, students see school as a grade game. "What do I have to do to get an A?" Many of us have been driven to see teaching as a compliance game. "What do I have to do...
10.29.2021
Spoiler Alert: The Most Valuable 21st-Century Skill We Needed To Teach and Learn Is Not What We Expected
Remember when we were consumed with teaching the skills that would be needed in the future? Well, the future is here and it’s not what we expected. Which begs the question, what 21st-Century skill is more valuable than the ability...
10.05.2021
Why Ignoring Learning Recovery Is a Privilege Many Students and Teachers Don't Have
We are still searching for an acceptable phrase to define what teachers around the world are doing this school term. Many are avoiding the term "learning recovery" like a carton of milk past the expiration date. In this episode, we...
09.29.2021
Protecting Our Freedom to Teach What We Know Is Best for Students
In this premier episode, we consider the riveting story of a teacher who is committed to doing the right thing, teaching the right things, and serving his students’ best interests. So why is he out of work, and why should...
09.19.2021
‘Assessments Don’t Have to Suck’ – 3 Ways We Can Make Teaching and Learning More Relevant, Riveting and Fun
Eavesdrop on a delightfully down-to-earth, insightful, and inspiring discussion with the head of ISTE about the exciting opportunities we have sitting in our laps and what we can do to make the most of the moment. Follow on Twitter: @ISTE...
08.22.2021
Ignore the ‘Learning Recovery’ Label, Close Your Classroom Door, Do What’s Best for Kids
We don’t like the term “learning loss,” and we see learning recovery as a pig with lipstick. But we know learning recovery mandates are coming our way. In this premiere episode of We Just Want to Teach, we begin our...
08.18.2021
SPECIAL REPORT: Safe Spaces In Schools, How to Create Them, Why They Matter More Now
ISTE REWIND: In this special edition of Learning Unleashed, we air a panel discussion about the need for safe spaces and places in schools, why the pandemic has made these spaces even more important, and how to create them. Follow on...

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K-12 Greatest Hits: Your shortcut to what works in education episodes:

Unexpected: Five Ways We’re Helping Students Improve Their Writing Skills With ChatGPT

34 Grade-Specific Ways to Regain Control of a Class Gone Wild

Our Most Useful AI Lessons From 2023, How We’ll Use Them in 2024

10 Creative Ways to Teach Critical Thinking With AI Image Generators

10 Creative Ways to Teach Critical Thinking with AI Image Generators

How to Cultivate a Warm, Confident, Firm Tone That Supports Healthy Student Behavior

Too Engaging: 16 New Ways You Can Use Voice to Engage, Teach and Support Students

Grading 100 Papers: A Few Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Help

Listening for What Students Really Need Us to Hear

How We Prepared for Our First School Term with Generative Artificial Intelligence

Five Things We All Need to Know About ChatGPT Before Heading Back to School

Remodeling the 24/7 Teaching Lifestyle Starting With Setting Digital Boundaries

Teaching While Stressed: Hiding Our Emotions Helps Students, Hinders Healing, Try This

TeachAI: The Great AI Conversation Has Started, Make Sure You’re at the Table

Ending One Year, Hiring for the Next: A Second Look at the Four-Day School Week

Counting the Days: Managing Our Emotional Energy Through the Last Stretch of the School Year

Why Teaching With ChatGPT Takes a Dream Team to Be Effective

Is Work Life Balance an Education Myth? It’s Complicated, but Here’s What Works

Taking Teaching With ChatGPT to the Next Level: Elevating Your Prompt and AI Conversation Skills

Yes, We’re Using ChatGPT to Teach Higher Order Thinking, Here’s How

The Power of Pause: Why Shameless Time Off Is Essential to a Healthy Teaching Mindset

Teaching English: How Supporting Multilingual Students Is Getting Easier

AI: Why Balancing Student Learning and Safety Starts With Conversations Like This

Three Overlooked Reasons Why Teaching Is So Exhausting, Two Very Promising Solutions

Why Some Educators Are Convinced Artificial Intelligence Can Make Teaching Less Stressful

Why ChatGPT Is Exciting, Scary and Requires Principals to Have Vision and Compassion

ChatGPT Is Here, We’re Using It, It’s Amazing: 6 Creative Ways to Teach With It Right Now

What Works: 10 Ways To Get Our Students On Task and Back To Learning After the Holidays

Practical Ways to Rise Above the Barriers to Unfinished Learning

How Helping Students Get One Percent Better Accelerates Learning and Reduces Stress

Holiday Buzz, Holiday Break: Balancing School Work and Holiday Traditions for All Students

What Do You See When You Look at Education Through a Gratitude Lens?

An Educator's Guide to What's Changing at Twitter Now That Elon Musk Owns the Platform That Connects Many Teachers and School Leaders

Why We’re Rethinking Student Engagement for the New School Year

Our Students Feel It Too: A Practical Guide to Creating a Calm Climate for Learning During Very Stressful Times

This Year, a Positive School Culture Is Everything: Here’s How an Entire School District Created One Step-by-Step

A Deeper Look at the Emotional Inner Life of Teaching: The 16 Emotions We’ve Overlooked

Four-Day School Weeks Are Coming Faster Than We Thought: What Do You Need to Know in Advance?

Two Teachers, a Lawyer and a Couple of Talk Show Hosts Walk Into a Bar, the Conversation Was...

When Student Behavior Disrupts Learning, and You’ve Done All You Know How to Do, Consider This….

How Teachers Are Managing the Rapid Stream of Small (and Big) Decisions We Make Daily

Navigating Sensitive Cultural, Social and Civc Discussions 101: Identify the Right People

Sustaining Emotional Energy and Resilience During an Extremely Tough School Year: What Works, What Doesn’t?

Compliant Students or Passionately Motivated Students: Which Are You Seeing Most in Your Classroom This Year and Why?

Spoiler Alert: The Most Valuable 21st-Century Skill We Needed To Teach and Learn Is Not What We Expected

Why Ignoring Learning Recovery Is a Privilege Many Students and Teachers Don't Have

Protecting Our Freedom to Teach What We Know Is Best for Students

‘Assessments Don’t Have to Suck’ – 3 Ways We Can Make Teaching and Learning More Relevant, Riveting and Fun

Ignore the ‘Learning Recovery’ Label, Close Your Classroom Door, Do What’s Best for Kids

SPECIAL REPORT: Safe Spaces In Schools, How to Create Them, Why They Matter More Now