Lindsay Mitchell, world language teacher, worked with students to help reduce the number of late assignments and devise a policy that has been adopted schoolwide. The policy, Mitchell writes, has resulted in fewer late assignments, improved student agency and reduced intervention from parents.

Solutions that are lower-tech than AI exist to help educators reduce repetitive tasks, such as Scribbr to generate bibliographies and citations and TextBlaze to quickly drop in often-used text such as instructions, writes educator Michael Gaskell. To take a PDF and make it editable and to cut and paste parts of a document, try PDFescape or Smallpdf, recommends Gaskell.

Close examination of a movie -- evaluating the meticulous planning that goes into every frame, word and camera angle -- can help students make the leap to creating their own films, writes Jason DeHart, who teaches high-school English in North Carolina. DeHart writes that the technology on cellphones has made it easier than ever for students to become filmmakers to tell their own stories.

A robust, culturally responsive curriculum is vital to good algebra instruction, but training teachers to properly implement it "is at least as important as the curriculum itself," former teacher Shantay Mobley, director of the Algebra Success program at nonprofit Urban Assembly, writes in this opinion article. Mobley explains one school's success from focusing on implementation and notes that college-readiness math results at schools participating in the Algebra Success program have risen 14%.

Officials at a charter school in Paterson, N.J., are crediting ongoing teacher training with a sharp increase in math and language arts test scores of students. The school sends its nearly 1,500 K-9 students home early on Fridays to allow teachers to spent two hours in professional development, which is in addition to 10 days of PD in August.

Louisiana's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved a measure requiring that high-school internships be paid if the student is enrolled through the school system and is receiving course credit. Public high-school students in the state may also participate in other work-based opportunities, such as cooperatives or apprenticeships, which were already paid positions.

In this episode, we speak with Milton Alan Turner, NBCT. Turner is a Black male educator in Cleveland where he teaches the French language to high-schoolers. In this episode, Turner speaks about his journey in education and what we can do to recruit more Black males into the education field. Listen to the podcast.

Is a lack of geography holding your students back? Carol Hofer, NBCT, shows how integrating #geography into everyday lessons can open doors to understanding and exploration. Dive into this inspiring blog post to learn how to empower your students to navigate the world. Read more.