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Kenie Richards
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CMO @edutopia.org. Community is a verb. Let’s build it by sharing what works in education.

Previously served educators via Teacher2Teacher, Nat Geo Education, Zearn, and TFA.
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Check out the conversations this week on our community forum, Ask & Answer!

Teachers are sharing what works for them with formative assessment, world languages and more 👇
Ask & Answer from Edutopia
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Our annual research roundup is here!

Here are 10 takeaways from this year’s must-read education studies—from the power of brain breaks to groundbreaking research on AI, cell phones, and handwriting in the classroom. 🧠✍️

#EdResearch #EduSky
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025
We’re back with our roundup of the most insightful studies of the year, from the power of brain breaks to groundbreaking research on AI, cell phones, and handwriting in the classroom.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Want to hear your voice in a future podcast episode? Give us a call (866-333-4930) and leave a voicemail! ☎️

We want to know: With so much emphasis on digital tools in classrooms, why do you continue to teach or require handwriting in your class?
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Share your favorites: @tatertutt.bsky.social is collecting strategies for an upcoming article!

#EduSky #EdChat #assessment
Question from Paige Tutt, Edutopia Editor: We want to hear what works for you: Beyond exit tickets and thumbs up/down—what's a formative assessment strategy you love that gives you real insight into student understanding? Bonus points if it works across grade levels or subjects!
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Educators, Edutopia’s research editor has a question for you!

@youkiterada.bsky.social says: “I’ve been hearing a lot about this topic—but I’d love to understand how widespread it is, and what its implications are.”

#EduSky #EdChat
Question from Youki Terada, Edutopia Senior Editor: Big question! Do mandatory grading policies prevent you from teaching in ways that support learning? For example, through revisions, retakes, or flexible deadlines?
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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In @jen.litandtech.com’s high school ELA classes, generative AI is a tool to help students strengthen their writing—not a replacement for thinking. 💭

In our latest podcast episode, she shares her approach to teaching writing in the age of AI.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4oXsXeO
School of Practice new episode: How to Teach Authentic Writing in the Age of AI. Listen on Apple Podcasts
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Dang, this is so smart (and FUN!) from Netflix as a way to welcome Sesame Street to their family. I have tons of respect for this level of thinking and creativity.
This is a series of Netflix show pages that all have Sesame Street like characters as their profile pics.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Multiple times this week an idea from another teacher multiple time zones away has made its way into our classroom in a positive, impactful way—and I'm reminded, despite all the other stuff, that doing this work in community matters.

It matters a great deal.
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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In our first Jam Session, teacher Kathy-Ann St. Hill-St. Lawrence (a.k.a. Ms. Saint) will break down how she supports learning across content areas through gamification!

Join us for tips, resources, and advice directly from Ms. Saint, other educators, and the Edutopia team: https://edut.to/3X434xV
Introducing Jam Sessions, a new chat series from the team at Edutopia! Join the conversation anytime now through Saturday, November 8.
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Drawing can be a learning superpower, even for students who claim they’re not good at it! 🦸 ✏️

In our latest podcast episode, teacher Selim Tlili shares how to use this strategy to boost content recall and attention stamina—across grade levels and subjects!

Listen here: apple.co/4qvlV2D
School of Practice. Out now and ready to listen: The Extraordinary Impact of Drawing to Learn. Listen on Apple Podcasts.
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Absolutely losing it that the special police unit investigating the Louvre heist is called the Paris Brigade for the Repression of Banditry 😭
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Education research you can use! 🔬🌟

That’s what we deliver in our free, monthly email roundup—and our next edition lands this Sunday.

Subscribe now to get it in your inbox: edut.to/4qmZr3G

#EdResearch #EduSky
Practical research insights delivered monthly. Illustration of paper airplane floating through clouds, with bar graphs and a pie chart on the wings.
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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What’s your biggest classroom challenge right now? 🤔

Drop your toughest or most urgent classroom questions on this thread.

Our team will take what we heard, find experts to help us make sense of it all, and produce a live podcast episode of answers. 🎧
Call for submissions: What are you wrestling with right now—classroom misbehavior, grading stress, student engagement, discussion norms?
We’re working on a live Ask & Answer for our podcast. Drop your toughest or most urgent classroom questions on this thread, and our team will take what we heard, find experts to help us make sense of…
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October 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Do your students avoid asking for help—even when you know they need it? Our latest podcast episode is for you!

It's full of teacher-tested strategies that can make help-seeking not just accepted, but *expected* in your classroom. 🙋

Listen on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4nTfvsr
New episode from School of Practice: How to Get Students to Ask for Help When They Need it. Listen on Apple Podcasts.
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real
Screenshot of NYT YouTube channel introducing a recipe with “chickpea anxiety is real.”
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Introducing School of Practice, our first podcast! 🎧

Join us for 15-minute episodes filled with smart, pedagogy-shifting advice—backed by the research, and test-driven by teachers just like you.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4psx6Zv

Subscribe on Spotify: https://bit.ly/47T3Wwg
The cover of the School of Practice podcast from Edutopia Radio. It features a human pyramid of educators helping each other up.
September 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I’m going skating for the first time since 1997 tonight. Wish me luck. (I’m 42 this could lead to a broken hip.)
September 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Teaching strategies at your fingertips!

With Homeroom, you can build your own personalized educator feed that grows right alongside you. 🌼 Try it out today: edut.to/4n12xry
September 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Remember, birding is there for you.
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I wish this was true because I’m struggling in my Auntie Supreme duties and this would help.
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AirPods Pro 3 feature live Gen-Z Slang Definitions
AirPods Pro 3 with the Gen-Z Slang around the image
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hi there, #EduSky - I’m eager to connect with art teachers so putting out a call! We have a cool project in the works that would give you compensated opportunities to shape some of our visual content at @edutopia.org. Please help me spread the word. My DMs are open to anyone interested!
This is a printer that has printed a note that reads “share what works!”.
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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So, there’s a rescue pup up for adoption in my town and do we think he is actually Falkor?
This is a rescue pup that looks a lot like Falkor from Neverendjng story.
September 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This thread is a great example of exactly why we’ve built Ask & Answer on @edutopia.org. Please join us to get (and give!) support.

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I'm a new teacher & started teaching middle school history the fifth week of school. Each class has a small, core number of students who are extremely difficult (see below). Thoughts on how to reset?
Some additional context I started teaching two 7th Grade World History classes and two 8th Grade US History classes in the 5th week at an Oakland Charter School this last week. The students had demora...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM