ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Thats a good thing in Adams view, as shes more than a little confident that todays K-12 students will be using AI in some fashion when they eventually join the workforce. Districts arent only thinking about AI as part of teaching theyre exploring how it can help with a wide swath of jobs. Thats up from just 6 percent in 2024.

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K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 138

NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 1990, NCHE has supported K-12 teachers in the development and implementation of history education, with support from scholars, museums, historic sites, and other history educators. Today, NCHEs work focuses on three areas: professional learning, community building, and advocacy.

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Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites 130

TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Harnessing Kairos: Balancing Structured Time and Learning Velocity in K-12 Classrooms Time in education is about more than minutes on the clock or adhering to rigid schedules. ’ See also Critical Thinking Is A Mindset In practical terms, learning velocity is the pace at which a student processes, absorbs, and applies knowledge.

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Lesson Plan Critical Thinking K-12 Teaching 266

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor. But it is entirely applicable to the American context.

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Critical Thinking Research Teaching Education 112

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. Develop students’ reflective and critical thinking skills.

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Critical Thinking K-12 Tradition Teaching 306

ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 10 Most Popular K-12 Stories, in Descending Order 10. The truth, she realized, is that she often deviates from lesson plans and works outside her job duties, to prepare her students “to change the world, to navigate the unpredictable with critical thinking and resilience.” Thank you, as always, for reading.

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K-12 EdTech Lesson Plan Library 106

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For instance, play in early education reinforces the development of social-emotional skills and critical thinking. When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused.

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K-12 Pedagogy Teaching Elementary School 119

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2025

Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic.

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Elementary School Pedagogy K-12 Professional Development 128

TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Emphasis on Social Studies Practices: Materials emphasize inquiry-based learning, analysis of primary and secondary sources, and the development of critical-thinking skills.

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Civics Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Older children, experts say, need thoughtful questioning and responses that help develop critical thinking skills and vocabulary. Can you imagine being in a room with 12 2-year-olds who are not potty trained by yourself every day? Daniel said questions should nurture vocabulary development and critical thinking skills.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Classroom Management Research 102

Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Since the disruption of schooling during COVID, shes also spent time catching students up on critical thinking skills. Most voters focused on a point she raised as she introduced herself: that no one then serving on the Dublin School Board had experience as a K-12 classroom teacher. This surprised voters.

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Government Controversial Topics American History Civics 96

ED Surge

APRIL 30, 2025

Dr. Zachery-Ross brings over 25 years of experience in K-12 education, starting as a teacher and school psychologist in Detroit Public Schools. It fosters critical thinking, creativity, innovation and real-world problem-solving skills, preparing students for an AI-driven world.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Public School Professional Development 64

ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Theyre not allowed in any K-12 classrooms. Those questions that kids ask, and their ability to think through those questions, their ability to think about whether something seems feasible, seems likely that's all critical thinking. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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K-12 Middle School Critical Thinking High School 116

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The end goal is not to just provide access to digital devices — it’s to develop the skills to use these tools for heightened learning, critical thinking and self-expression. In the early grades (pre-K-3), students should engage in foundational computational skill building, such as pattern recognition.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Social Studies 141

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

To reinforce the reality that the station rotation model is a K-12 model, I highlight the benefits of this model for teachers, which include: The ability to create small learning communities within the larger class.

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K-12 Artifacts Critical Thinking Research 214

TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning strategies have transformed K-12 classroom instruction, shifting away from passive lectures to interactive, student-centered learning experiences. Research shows that active learning increases student performance, reduces failure rates, and fosters deeper critical thinking. What Is Active Learning?

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K-12 Education Critical Thinking Tradition 52

ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners.

Education 136

Education K-12 Critical Thinking Public School 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

That’s a good start, but to be transformative, nationally, content should be representative and include African American studies; Asian American studies; Latinx studies; Native American Studies; women, gender and sexuality studies; and sociology and other social sciences across the K-12 curriculum.

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K-12 Sociology Social Science Education 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. At the K-12 level, states have begun incorporating media literacy into their standards and programs have begun cropping up aimed at training students to be better consumers of news.

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K-12 Civics Critical Thinking Middle School 145

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Critical Skills in the Age of AI Which skills is the natural next question. Power Skills, which include creativity, collaboration, resilience, leadership and critical thinking , make all other skills more effective. Students learn critical skills through NXTLVL's game-based learning program.

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K-12 Leadership Critical Thinking Teaching 128

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is STEM education in action: Hands-on projects help students develop critical thinking skills while sparking interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Students need opportunities to develop the critical thinking skills that will allow them to succeed in these fields.

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K-12 Elementary School Museum Critical Thinking 140

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. Elliott Levine Director of Business Development Qualcomm Technologies If we look at K-12 education on a worldwide level, the majority of learners don't have internet access at home. Don’t be afraid to fail.

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K-12 Education Human Rights EdTech 141

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Students who learned virtually or in hybrid settings largely missed out on the critical thinking that develops through classroom conversations. Providing college students with developmental coursework means creating and delivering compact and efficient lessons to help them fill their K-12 learning gaps.

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K-12 Critical Thinking High School Government 134

ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

These competencies include creativity and innovation, communication, critical thinking and problem-solving, citizenship, flexibility and adaptability, and resilience. Does it have a commitment to 21st Century Skills but is still working on exactly what such skills are and how they exist across the K-12 spectrum?

K-12 107

K-12 Artifacts Critical Thinking High School 107

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI Literacy applies 21st-century skills , including communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. These pathways articulate system-wide, K-12 learning opportunities that are consistent across classrooms, cumulative from year to year and competency-based. What Is AI Literacy?

Education 138

Education K-12 Educational Technology Critical Thinking 138

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some teacher educators have pushed back at me on this point, asserting that it is the job of the K-12 system to have provided this basic knowledge. Anyone who thinks a future elementary teacher can get by without thorough preparation in history probably hasn’t turned on the news lately.

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K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 127

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

students in grades 5-12 reveals that access to school-based learning opportunities and role models is highly correlated with students’ persistence on their career journey. The study of U.S. Since launching in April, the “Meet an Amazonian” experiences have reached more than 150,000 students from over 2,000 U.S. Title I eligible schools.

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K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Middle School 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

More K-12 schools are emphasizing the noncognitive skills that students can access throughout their schooling and careers. Kindergarten should not merely establish a springboard for success in upper grades. It is also the developmental foundation for mastery of content that is the focus of elementary, middle and high school.

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K-12 Critical Thinking High School Economics 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Squinting at my 16” laptop screen 12 hours every day while communicating with students and grading their papers was growing painful, so I bought a 34” curved ultra-wide external monitor ($570). I bought paint ($170) to re-do the walls. Nationally, the most at-risk faculty teach the most at-risk students with the least support.

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Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Economics 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Since 2017, students in Mineola have been introduced to coding through unplugged classes in pre-K, and by first grade, have been allowed to take the devices home. In a pre-K class at Hampton Street students worked on learning the letter L by cutting it from paper or fashioning it from clay. Otherwise, we’re not doing our job.”.

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K-12 Library Elementary School High School 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Deploying these tools in that way assumes that quick, iterative feedback drives critical thinking — when what students really need are deep conversations that will pull them in unexpected directions, Aguilar says. As part of his role at the center, Aguilar conducted research into how teachers think about AI in classrooms.

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K-12 EdTech Tutoring Humanities 133

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

When we asked the students to question data on climate change and its sources, they dove in, displaying curiosity, critical thinking skills, computer and data literacy. Despite this, the diverse group of teenagers arrived each day, taking time out from their challenging home lives, eager to learn.

K-12 144

K-12 High School Critical Thinking Economics 144

TCI

JANUARY 21, 2025

The three critical elements of a good game are strategy, chance, and design. A well-defined plan or method to achieve victory not only adds depth to the game but also encourages critical thinking. Strategy: At the heart of every great game is strategy.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Critical Thinking Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Martin said that the survey showed that high schools should stress “reasoning and critical thinking skills, decrease the emphasis on specific mathematical topics, and increase the focus on data analysis and statistics.” Yet, in many K-12 classrooms, statistics is the proverbial end-of-the-year unit that you may or may not get to.

High School 143

High School K-12 Social Science Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2021

Many teachers don’t like assessments either, bemoaning the lost resources for other aspects of learning, like critical thinking , that have been drawn away by test prep. It can now cost tens of thousands of dollars to generate a single K-12 test question.

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K-12 Government Critical Thinking Research 133

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Tonya Clarke, the coordinator of K-12 mathematics for Clayton County schools, and her colleagues shared the Cardi B lesson at a math convention earlier this fall as an example of a culturally relevant lesson that can lure students into thinking about math in a way that is engaging and exciting.

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K-12 Cultures Critical Thinking Middle School 133

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Stacy George. The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills.

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Humanities Education K-12 Critical Thinking 127