Incidentally, I pulled this out from behind the paywall as a gift article, so that anyone interested in #EduSky can read it.

What Works For Me! “Lesson-planning hack: Plan from Tuesday to Monday so you aren’t scrambling Sunday night. ‘New’ weeks start on Tuesday, which gives you Monday to finish prepping for the week!” —Nicholas Emmanuele, Teacher

Have you tried a new approach to lesson planning this year? We'd love to hear all about it! 🌟

#WhatWorksForMe #EduSky

April focus: DRDP reports 📊
What stands out first: a strength, an emerging skill, or a support that helps most?
What would you want the next teacher to know?
Share 1 insight.

#EduSky #DRDP

ALT TXT: images are screenshots of resource

Check out the sub-modules for:
🔹 Hinduism
🔹 Buddhism
🔹 Confucianism
🔹 Daoism

Read it here: sites.google.com/view/rebekad...

#EduSky #OpenEducation #EasternPhilosophy #CriticalThinking

Epistemic Injustice

Double Consciousness (Du Bois)

Institutional vs. Implicit Racism

Feel free to use these materials in your own classrooms or for your own research!

👇
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✅ 50+ page AI classroom management guide
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Black male student holding credit card and looking at laptop screen, upset.

Student Success | Financial Strain Shapes Student Experience

A Trellis Strategies survey finds that many students struggle with basic needs and debt but still view college as key to a better future. https://bit.ly/4vdhvjh

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Designing for Belonging: Lessons from Districts Building What Technology Can’t Replace Discover how districts are wrestling with what AI can't replace, prioritizing human skills like belonging, judgment, and connection through systemic redesign.

Designing for Belonging: Lessons from Districts Building What Technology Can’t Replace #EdTech

#EduSky #Teachers #Educators

www.gettingsmart.com/2026/04/06/designing-for...

Rethinking Grades: Inside the Innovative Grading and Assessment Community of Practice - Duke Center for Teaching and Learning In higher education, grading has largely been standardized, with letter grades standing in for student learning. However, the academy has begun to wonder, does traditional grading measure what students actually ...

Rethinking Grades: Inside the Innovative Grading and Assessment Community of Practice #EdTech

#EduSky #Teachers #Educators

ctl.duke.edu/blog/2026/04/rethinking-...

April Showers Handwriting Sheet - Print or cursive worksheet is free to print (PDF file). #handwritingpractice #freeprintable #printmanuscript #cursivescript #EduSky www.studenthandouts.com/fun/months/a...

Flyer shows text regarding the Fall 2026 IEC 173 Course “Play & Learning Across the Lifespan”. The background is light and dark blue and there are pieces of games (dice, tokens, chess pieces) on the top part of the flyer. The text describing the course information is in blue and white and a photo of and contact details of the instructor is in the lower left-hand corner.

Looking for a FULLY ONLINE course this Fall? Interested in how play interacts with human development and learning across all ages? We have the course for you-Play & Learning Across the Lifespan! @utknoxville.bsky.social #teachereducation #playbasedlearning #learningthroughplay #academicsky #edusky

Scribble Workshop on AI writing scheduled for April 10, free in-person event in Arlington Heights with lunch and PDHs for Illinois educators.

See how teachers can partner with Scrible to support the writing process, keeping the productive struggle, sparking curiosity, supporting research, and deepening learning while also helping enable responsible AI use in schools.

https://ideail.org/ScriblePopUp41026

#IDEAil #EduSky

National Poetry Month 30th Anniversary National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, b...

April is #NationalPoetryMonth! 📖

The Academy of American Poets commemorates the importance of poetry this month, organizing several events to gather communities around reading, writing, and appreciating poems 💙

Learn more about this celebration: poets.org/national-poe... #teacherlife #edusky

Coming up in one week! Join our free webinar on pragmatic language skills and SEL on April 14 at 4 PM EDT. 🗣️✨

Register today to join the live session or watch the replay on your own schedule! 🎬

Save your spot: https://ow.ly/7FKc50YynCP

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Do you receive the Thursday Digest? It's a roundup of blogs, resources, and PD opportunities delivered each Thursday morning right to your inbox. Sign up today - keepindianalearning.org/subscribe/ #EduSky

Thank you for your insights, Monique! www.theworthyeducator.com/_files/ugd/2... #EduSky

An image is attached: Magazine cover for the Spring 2026 issue of LEGACY: Transformation in Action, published by The Worthy Educator. The header features bold white italic text on a dark green background.

TOMORROW! Last chance to register for our free webinar with @shannonmmiller.bsky.social & Van Meter Public Library Director Jonatha Basye.

Perfect for public & school librarians feeling the spring stretch 🌱

Register now: https://bit.ly/4bGB0sy

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Primary Needs and Wants Chart - Free to print (PDF file) for lower elementary Social Studies students. #socialstudies #lowerelementary #primarygrades #freeprintable #EduSky www.studenthandouts.com/social-studi...

Reading Was Never Meant to Compete We talk about reading as if it is in a race. As if every time a kid picks up a phone instead of a book, reading has lost a point. And I understand why we frame it that way. The competition feels re…

Pernille Ripp so often writes about the act of teaching reading with such care and thoughtfulness - this is yet another example - "Every platform is designed to want something from you. Reading wants nothing. It just waits." pernillesripp.com/2026/04/03/r... #edusky

Sign up for the free @headteacherupdate.bsky.social bulletin: Every Thursday. Latest #primary #education best practice advice, case studies, #resources, #podcasts, #webinars, free downloads, news analysis & blogs. Practical advice to help your #leadership & your #schools buff.ly/49MQVRT #edusky

Revisiting the Arctic’s Forgotten Warming A new study reveals how sea-ice loss drove mysterious Arctic warming a century ago.

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Oak tree booklist + a JUST ONE OAK GIVEAWAY at @pragmaticmom.bsky.social

Gorgeous art by @tinyaviary.bsky.social

Publishing tomorrow from @ssedlib.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social !!

Enter here (USonly): www.pragmaticmom.com/2026/04/7-pi...

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#kidlit
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96/365 Evalúa cada día (pero sin ahogarte)

Estos días estaba pensando en algo que tiene relación directa con lo que escribía ayer sobre la comunicación con familias: el problema de fondo no es la herramienta, es...

¿Qué opinas?
https://blog.edumind.es/95-3/

#EduSky #AIinEducation #BlueskyEducatio

SEND Reform: The safeguarding implications for Schools In this podcast, we examine the proposed SEND reforms and consider the safeguarding implications for educational settings.

Our latest #safeguarding conversations podcast is live:
ssslearning.co.uk/podcasts/sen...
#EduSky

The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes - CEW Georgetown Postsecondary education can play a critical role in protecting democratic republics against the threat of authoritarianism.

Socioeconomic status plays a role in influencing individuals’ #authoritarian inclinations and preferences. Members of the upper-middle class are less inclined toward authoritarianism than members of lower socioeconomic classes. bit.ly/32tzWon #AcademicSky #EduSky

Photos from today's ammonite-making workshop at Lyme Regis Museum, showing a spiral template, some of the children's 3D ammonites, and a large, real ammonite fossil which is on display there.

(2) Show me a better way to connect art, science, and history. The 70+ children that joined in today all took something special away with them, not just their own artwork, but a connection with our human history, and a much deeper connection to a past long since gone.
#edusky
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A photo from today's workshop at Lyme Regis Museum. The image shows the hands of a young girl and her dad busy making their own ammonite.

(1) Creating art based on fossils at Lyme Regis Museum is a little bit like doing a project on the Ancient Egyptians, in a tomb, with the pyramids just outside. Today, we worked on the site of Mary Anning's workshop, with many of her actual discoveries in the room next door . . .
#edusky #UKEd

Microsoft, RSA Updates Focus on Identity Security in the Age of AI -- THE Journal Two authentication announcements coming out of the recent RSA Conference both point in the same direction: Organizations need a more flexible, unified approach to identity security, especially as AI agents start acting alongside human workers.

Microsoft, RSA Updates Focus on Identity Security in the Age of AI #EdTech

#EduSky #Teachers #Educators

thejournal.com/articles/2026/04/06/micr...

Brandi Kelly gets #celebratED for publishing her first children’s book, Spreading Sunshine with Kindness: Jensen and Rhett's Kindness Adventure! We celebrate Brandi for the publication of this important work, and we look forward to getting our copy! www.get-celebrated.com/post/brandi-... #EduSky

🎉 NEW #SuperReadersClub newsletter went out today & it's filled with springtime goodies:
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