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Mr. Seifert the science teacher addresses the class re: the rumors about him & Ms. Barker the 5th grade teacher.
▶️ Miss Barker Was NOT Ready for This... #shorts #repost #school

Designing conflict-based communicative tasks in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language with ChatGPT
Xia Li (LIDILEM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09089 https…

Designing conflict-based communicative tasks in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language with ChatGPT
In developing the teaching program for a course in Oral Expression in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at the university level, the teacher designs communicative tasks based on conflicts to encourage learners to engage in interactive dynamics and develop their oral interaction skills. During the design of these tasks, the teacher uses ChatGPT to assist in finalizing the program. This article aims to present the key characteristics of the interactions between the teacher and ChatGPT during…

Sorry to miss it in person and that I cannot stay for the panels on: teacher, gender, inclusion, decolonisation, and future action. Lovely to see and hear so many wonderful colleagues even from a distance.
My fun memory was the cartoon by the talented (then PhD student) Kalifa Damani during my talk on silent exclusion at the REAL Centre in January 2020 before the world shut, and many fun moments with Pauline Rose over the years.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.

Teacher Takeaway
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Revisiting Diffusion Models: From Generative Pre-training to One-Step Generation
Bowen Zheng, Tianming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09376 https://

Revisiting Diffusion Models: From Generative Pre-training to One-Step Generation
Diffusion distillation is a widely used technique to reduce the sampling cost of diffusion models, yet it often requires extensive training, and the student performance tends to be degraded. Recent studies show that incorporating a GAN objective may alleviate these issues, yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In this work, we first identify a key limitation of distillation: mismatched step sizes and parameter numbers between the teacher and the student model lead them to converge to di…

We’re witnessing unprecedented attempts to bully academic institutions with the administration’s ideological aims.
These attempts challenge long-standing norms of academic freedom
—that is, the ability of a teacher or researcher in higher education to investigate and discuss subjects without fear of political interference.
Our elected officials should stand up for scientific research and those who produce it in the face of politically motivated attacks.
But public a…

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

Red state partners with PragerU to develop teacher licensure assessment | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-red-state-begin-requiring-new-teachers-pass-prageru-america-first-assessment-keep-licensure

Teacher training in the age of AI: Impact on AI Literacy and Teachers' Attitudes
Julia Lademann, Jannik Henze, Nadine Honke, Caroline Wollny, Sebastian Becker-Genschow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03011

Teacher training in the age of AI: Impact on AI Literacy and Teachers' Attitudes
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education requires teachers to develop AI competencies while preparing students for a society influenced by AI. This study evaluates the impact of an online teacher training program on German in-service teachers' AI literacy, usage behaviors, and attitudes toward AI. A pre-post design study was conducted with teachers (N1 = 291 for AI literacy, N2 = 436 for attitude assessment) participating in the course. The program combined synchronous…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

Put Teacher in Student's Shoes: Cross-Distillation for Ultra-compact Model Compression Framework
Maolin Wang, Jun Chu, Sicong Xie, Xiaoling Zang, Yao Zhao, Wenliang Zhong, Xiangyu Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04636

Put Teacher in Student's Shoes: Cross-Distillation for Ultra-compact Model Compression Framework
In the era of mobile computing, deploying efficient Natural Language Processing (NLP) models in resource-restricted edge settings presents significant challenges, particularly in environments requiring strict privacy compliance, real-time responsiveness, and diverse multi-tasking capabilities. These challenges create a fundamental need for ultra-compact models that maintain strong performance across various NLP tasks while adhering to stringent memory constraints. To this end, we introduce Edge…

UniTracker: Learning Universal Whole-Body Motion Tracker for Humanoid Robots
Kangning Yin, Weishuai Zeng, Ke Fan, Zirui Wang, Qiang Zhang, Zheng Tian, Jingbo Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Weinan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07356

UniTracker: Learning Universal Whole-Body Motion Tracker for Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots must achieve diverse, robust, and generalizable whole-body control to operate effectively in complex, human-centric environments. However, existing methods, particularly those based on teacher-student frameworks often suffer from a loss of motion diversity during policy distillation and exhibit limited generalization to unseen behaviors. In this work, we present UniTracker, a simplified yet powerful framework that integrates a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) into the …

He should have become a priest. Then they'd never have fired him...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/new-orleans-teacher-widower-mark-jacobs-catholic-school

Appeals court says trans woman teacher must go by he/him pronouns in Ron DeSantis' Florida - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/appeals-court-says-trans-woman-teacher-must-go-by-he-him-pronouns-in-ron-desantis-florida/

MST-Distill: Mixture of Specialized Teachers for Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation
Hui Li, Pengfei Yang, Juanyang Chen, Le Dong, Yanxin Chen, Quan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07015

MST-Distill: Mixture of Specialized Teachers for Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation
Knowledge distillation as an efficient knowledge transfer technique, has achieved remarkable success in unimodal scenarios. However, in cross-modal settings, conventional distillation methods encounter significant challenges due to data and statistical heterogeneities, failing to leverage the complementary prior knowledge embedded in cross-modal teacher models. This paper empirically reveals two critical issues in existing approaches: distillation path selection and knowledge drift. To address …

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon's Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework
Satyapriya Krishna, Ninareh Mehrabi, Abhinav Mohanty, Matteo Memelli, Vincent Ponzo, Payal Motwani, Rahul Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06260

Evaluating the Critical Risks of Amazon's Nova Premier under the Frontier Model Safety Framework
Nova Premier is Amazon's most capable multimodal foundation model and teacher for model distillation. It processes text, images, and video with a one-million-token context window, enabling analysis of large codebases, 400-page documents, and 90-minute videos in a single prompt. We present the first comprehensive evaluation of Nova Premier's critical risk profile under the Frontier Model Safety Framework. Evaluations target three high-risk domains -- Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear …

"Marching orders for this time of The Great Turning."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc42aNYo8vw
(A great teaching, as a great teacher prepares to to leave us.)

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Foo Fighters:
🎵 The Teacher
#NowPlaying #FooFighters
https://open.spotify.com/track/7buGBnA0vkYulQafSZnpHx

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Yajun Wei, Xinting Peng, Yi Zhong, Feipeng Pi, Yanfang Zhai, Lei Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05586

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Embedding physics problems unreal-world settings, here termed contextualized physics problems (CPP), is widely believed to foster students' interest, motivation, and learning. However, firm evidence for this claim remains scarce. To explore this issue, we surveyed 868 secondary students and 154 teachers to examine their attitudes toward CPP and investigate whether students and teachers perceive these problems as promoting student interest and motivation in learning physics. The findings reveal …

Multi-Distillation from Speech and Music Representation Models
Jui-Chiang Wei, Yi-Cheng Lin, Fabian Ritter-Gutierrez, Hung-yi Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07237

Multi-Distillation from Speech and Music Representation Models
Real-world audio often mixes speech and music, yet models typically handle only one domain. This paper introduces a multi-teacher distillation framework that unifies speech and music models into a single one while significantly reducing model size. Our approach leverages the strengths of domain-specific teacher models, such as HuBERT for speech and MERT for music, and explores various strategies to balance both domains. Experiments across diverse tasks demonstrate that our model matches the per…

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
Jon M. Miller (Univ. of Michigan), Misaki Mizumoto (Univ. of Teacher Education Fukuoka), Megumi Shidatsu (Ehime University), Ralf Ballhausen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, NASA/GSFC, CRESST), Ehud Behar (Technion), Maria Diaz Trigo (ESO), Chris Done (Univ. of Durham), Tadayasu Dotani (ISAS), Javier Garcia (Caltech), Timothy Kallman (NASA/GSFC), Shogo B. Kobayashi (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Aya Kubota (Shibaura …

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
We report on XRISM/Resolve spectroscopy of the recurrent transient and well-known black hole candidate 4U 1630$-$472 during its 2024 outburst. The source was captured at the end of a disk-dominated high/soft state, at an Eddington fraction of $λ_\mathrm{Edd} \sim 0.05~(10 M_{\odot}/M_\mathrm{BH})$. A variable absorption spectrum with unprecedented complexity is revealed with the Resolve calorimeter. This marks one of the lowest Eddington fractions at which highly ionized absorption has been de…

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Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
Zarreen Reza, Alexander Mazur, Michael T. Dugdale, Robin Ray-Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05925

Small Models, Big Support: A Local LLM Framework for Teacher-Centric Content Creation and Assessment using RAG and CAG
While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly utilized as student-facing educational aids, their potential to directly support educators, particularly through locally deployable and customizable open-source solutions, remains significantly underexplored. Many existing educational solutions rely on cloud-based infrastructure or proprietary tools, which are costly and may raise privacy concerns. Regulated industries with limited budgets require affordable, self-hosted solutions. We introduc…

Gallup: ~60% of 2,232 teachers at US K-12 public schools say they used AI tools in the past school year; regular users estimate weekly time savings of 5.9 hours (Jocelyn Gecker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatgpt-teacher-c…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Golden Teacher:
🎵 Diop
#GoldenTeacher
https://goldenteacher.bandcamp.com/track/diop
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mcH5eyKV90mo5gTvp8vmG

Want to learn how to work with children and families in museums? Our new student gallery teacher program, geared to second- and third-year undergraduate students and to graduate students at the #UniversityOfGeorgia kicks off this fall semester.

#ScribesAndMakers May 30 - Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Spark! Our teacher held poetry Fridays, he invited authors to read for us, he allowed creativity. The subjects mingled a bit, but I learned a lot more when I had fun, I didn't even notice that we were being taught history or whatever at the same time.

The teacher with the goatee (12th c.)

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CAST: Contrastive Adaptation and Distillation for Semi-Supervised Instance Segmentation
Instance segmentation demands costly per-pixel annotations and large models. We introduce CAST, a semi-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) framework that compresses pretrained vision foundation models (VFM) into compact experts using limited labeled and abundant unlabeled data. CAST unfolds in three stages: (1) domain adaptation of the VFM teacher(s) via self-training with contrastive pixel calibration, (2) distillation into a compact student via a unified multi-objective loss that couples…

Generalization performance of narrow one-hidden layer networks in the teacher-student setting
Jean Barbier, Federica Gerace, Alessandro Ingrosso, Clarissa Lauditi, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gibbs Nwemadji, Rodrigo P\'erez Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00629

Generalization performance of narrow one-hidden layer networks in the teacher-student setting
Understanding the generalization abilities of neural networks for simple input-output distributions is crucial to account for their learning performance on real datasets. The classical teacher-student setting, where a network is trained from data obtained thanks to a label-generating teacher model, serves as a perfect theoretical test bed. In this context, a complete theoretical account of the performance of fully connected one-hidden layer networks in the presence of generic activation functio…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

NaturalThoughts: Selecting and Distilling Reasoning Traces for General Reasoning Tasks
Yang Li, Youssef Emad, Karthik Padthe, Jack Lanchantin, Weizhe Yuan, Thao Nguyen, Jason Weston, Shang-Wen Li, Dong Wang, Ilia Kulikov, Xian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01921

NaturalThoughts: Selecting and Distilling Reasoning Traces for General Reasoning Tasks
Recent work has shown that distilling reasoning traces from a larger teacher model via supervised finetuning outperforms reinforcement learning with the smaller student model alone (Guo et al. 2025). However, there has not been a systematic study of what kind of reasoning demonstrations from the teacher are most effective in improving the student model's reasoning capabilities. In this work we curate high-quality "NaturalThoughts" by selecting reasoning traces from a strong teacher model based …

“From Catalunya in the northeast to Andalusia in the southwest of Spain, she overcame local differences, building solidarity among anarcho-syndicalists whose strength really lay in local and regional councils. She had the capacity to speak to a crowd as if she were talking to friends in a café, and reached equally the male and female working class. A natural teacher, she understood and could explain how particular struggles fit into larger campaigns… she was one of those mythical organizers …

Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
\v{S}imon Lib\v{r}ick\'y, Jan Haji\v{c} jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04963 https://ar…

Modeling the Difficulty of Saxophone Music
In learning music, difficulty is an important factor in choice of repertoire, choice of tempo, and structure of practice. These choices are typically done with the guidance of a teacher; however, not all learners have access to one. While piano and strings have had some attention devoted to automated difficulty estimation, wind instruments have so far been under-served. In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the difficulty of pieces for winds and implement it for the tenor saxophone.…

A LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems for Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers
Kaiqi Yang, Hang Li, Yucheng Chu, Ahreum Han, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Jiliang Tang, Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05292

A LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems for Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers
Professional development (PD) serves as the cornerstone for teacher tutors to grasp content knowledge. However, providing equitable and timely PD opportunities for teachers poses significant challenges. To address this issue, we introduce I-VIP (Intelligent Virtual Interactive Program), an intelligent tutoring platform for teacher professional development, driven by large language models (LLMs) and supported by multi-agent frameworks. This platform offers a user-friendly conversational interfac…

Brain2Model Transfer: Training sensory and decision models with human neural activity as a teacher
Tomas Gallo Aquino, Victoria Liu, Habiba Azab, Raissa Mathura, Andrew J Watrous, Eleonora Bartoli, Benjamin Y Hayden, Paul Sajda, Sameer A Sheth, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20834

Brain2Model Transfer: Training sensory and decision models with human neural activity as a teacher
Transfer learning enhances the training of novel sensory and decision models by employing rich feature representations from large, pre-trained teacher models. Cognitive neuroscience shows that the human brain creates low-dimensional, abstract representations for efficient sensorimotor coding. Importantly, the brain can learn these representations with significantly fewer data points and less computational power than artificial models require. We introduce Brain2Model Transfer Learning (B2M), a …

Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher
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Daughter, slightly outraged: I hope *MY* teacher doesn’t prepare their exam questions the night before! 😬 #academicChatter

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Am I the only one who foresees the future #AI business model as enshittified ad-infused LLMs? Once LLMs are ingrained in every class and board room, you‘ll suddenly have to pay big bucks while the free plans will be riddled with ads. It‘ll be like that #BlackMirror episode where the teacher spews comme…

Sentiment Analysis in Learning Management Systems Understanding Student Feedback at Scale
Mohammed Almutairi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05490 https://

Sentiment Analysis in Learning Management Systems Understanding Student Feedback at Scale
During the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the educational paradigm has experienced a major change from in person learning traditional to online platforms. The change of learning convention has impacted the teacher-student especially in non-verbal communication. The absent of non-verbal communication has led to a reliance on verbal feedback which diminished the efficacy of the educational experience. This paper explores the integration of sentiment analysis into learning management systems (LMS)…

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Matryoshka Model Learning for Improved Elastic Student Models
Industry-grade ML models are carefully designed to meet rapidly evolving serving constraints, which requires significant resources for model development. In this paper, we propose MatTA, a framework for training multiple accurate Student models using a novel Teacher-TA-Student recipe. TA models are larger versions of the Student models with higher capacity, and thus allow Student models to better relate to the Teacher model and also bring in more domain-specific expertise. Furthermore, multiple…

Today, the full-moon day of the fourth month ("aashaada") of the #Hindu luni-solar calendar, is "guru poornimaa" in #India and elsewhere.
In #Sanskrit, "guru" is teacher; "poornimaa" is full moon (literally "state of fullness"). The day honors teachers. So, as they say, "shree gurubhyoh namah", or "salutation to the teacher". 🙏
#Trivia: This year's "guru poornimaa" falls on Thursday ("guru waasara"), the weekly day of teachers. There's more to the weekday name "guru waasara", but that's for a rainy day. 🌈
#teachers #appreciation #gratitude

https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2025/06/ai-replace/index.html

Robust One-step Speech Enhancement via Consistency Distillation
Liang Xu, Longfei Felix Yan, W. Bastiaan Kleijn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05688 https://…

Robust One-step Speech Enhancement via Consistency Distillation
Diffusion models have shown strong performance in speech enhancement, but their real-time applicability has been limited by multi-step iterative sampling. Consistency distillation has recently emerged as a promising alternative by distilling a one-step consistency model from a multi-step diffusion-based teacher model. However, distilled consistency models are inherently biased towards the sampling trajectory of the teacher model, making them less robust to noise and prone to inheriting inaccura…

#ScribesAndMakers May 30 - Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Spark! Our teacher held poetry Fridays, he invited authors to read for us, he allowed creativity. The subjects mingled a bit, but I learned a lot more when I had fun, I didn't even notice that we were being taught history or whatever at the same time.

Absolutely no one:
Me, after getting a global ping by the school Japanese teacher after she sent a planning update at nearly 1AM to the student chat: *sends thinly veiled remark about her working too much at night as a haiku*

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Imperial Teen:
🎵 Teacher's Pet
#ImperialTeen
https://imperialteen.bandcamp.com/track/teachers-pet
https://open.spotify.com/track/7HYXsAARjUvCAeLWJ3uZ2h

I feel very undecided about the book I picked up: “Think Like a Monk” by Jay Shetty.
There’s a nagging thought in the back of my mind that the book might not be what I’m looking for. The confirmation bias kicked in immediately and within minutes it called out the following: “Three years after I moved to Mumbai, my teacher, Gauranga Das, told me he believed I would be of greater value and service if I left the ashram and shared what I’d learned with the world”. So these are the teachings of someone who studied for 3 years what others are practicing a life time and then was sent out to be a marketer.

AgentDistill: Training-Free Agent Distillation with Generalizable MCP Boxes
Jiahao Qiu, Xinzhe Juan, Yimin Wang, Ling Yang, Xuan Qi, Tongcheng Zhang, Jiacheng Guo, Yifu Lu, Zixin Yao, Hongru Wang, Shilong Liu, Xun Jiang, Liu Leqi, Mengdi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14728

AgentDistill: Training-Free Agent Distillation with Generalizable MCP Boxes
While knowledge distillation has become a mature field for compressing large language models (LLMs) into smaller ones by aligning their outputs or internal representations, the distillation of LLM-based agents, which involve planning, memory, and tool use, remains relatively underexplored. Existing agent distillation methods typically replay full teacher trajectories or imitate step-by-step teacher tool usage, but they often struggle to train student agents to dynamically plan and act in novel …

MiCoTA: Bridging the Learnability Gap with Intermediate CoT and Teacher Assistants
Dongyi Ding, Tiannan Wang, Chenghao Zhu, Meiling Tao, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Wangchunshu Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01887

MiCoTA: Bridging the Learnability Gap with Intermediate CoT and Teacher Assistants
Large language models (LLMs) excel at reasoning tasks requiring long thought sequences for planning, reflection, and refinement. However, their substantial model size and high computational demands are impractical for widespread deployment. Yet, small language models (SLMs) often struggle to learn long-form CoT reasoning due to their limited capacity, a phenomenon we refer to as the "SLMs Learnability Gap". To address this, we introduce \textbf{Mi}d-\textbf{Co}T \textbf{T}eacher \textbf{A}ssist…

Did I just hear English Teacher sing "I am the world's biggest paving slab"? I think Ursula will have someething to say about that. #Glastonbury #DoctorWho

It was a completely underwhelming experience. It was like being fingerbanged by a shop teacher.

Unpacking Generative AI in Education: Computational Modeling of Teacher and Student Perspectives in Social Media Discourse
Paulina DeVito, Akhil Vallala, Sean Mcmahon, Yaroslav Hinda, Benjamin Thaw, Hanqi Zhuang, Hari Kalva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16412

Unpacking Generative AI in Education: Computational Modeling of Teacher and Student Perspectives in Social Media Discourse
Generative AI (GAI) technologies are quickly reshaping the educational landscape. As adoption accelerates, understanding how students and educators perceive these tools is essential. This study presents one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of stakeholder discourse dynamics on GAI in education using social media data. Our dataset includes 1,199 Reddit posts and 13,959 corresponding top-level comments. We apply sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and author classification. To support th…

Court rejects transgender teacher's challenge to Florida law
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/within-the-four-walls-of-a-classroom-appeals-court-rejects-transgender-teachers-first-amendment-challenge-to-florida-law-restricting-use-of-preferred-pronouns/

T-TExTS (Teaching Text Expansion for Teacher Scaffolding): Enhancing Text Selection in High School Literature through Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendation
Nirmal Gelal, Chloe Snow, Ambyr Rios, Hande K\"u\c{c}\"uk McGinty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12075

T-TExTS (Teaching Text Expansion for Teacher Scaffolding): Enhancing Text Selection in High School Literature through Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendation
The implementation of transformational pedagogy in secondary education classrooms requires a broad multiliteracy approach. Due to limited planning time and resources, high school English Literature teachers often struggle to curate diverse, thematically aligned literature text sets. This study addresses the critical need for a tool that provides scaffolds for novice educators in selecting literature texts that are diverse -- in terms of genre, theme, subtheme, and author -- yet similar in conte…

The Atomic Teacher
#education #solarsystem #evolution #classroom

As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine,
U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a
40-day “Fast for Gaza.”
From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting
and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority
and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Mary Kelly Gardner, a teacher from Santa Cruz, Calif…

Veterans launch 40-day fast to protest Israel’s starvation of Gaza
“Having seen what war does … I simply have to do more than hold a sign at a demonstration,” said one veteran organizer.

Enhancing Programming Pair Workshops: The Case of Teacher Pre-Prompting
Johan Petersson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20299 https://arxi…

Enhancing Programming Pair Workshops: The Case of Teacher Pre-Prompting
This paper explores the pedagogical potential of "teacher pre-prompting" as a means of guiding student collaboration in programming education. In particular, we investigate how brief teacher-initiated questions posed before students engage in pair programming workshops can help shape problem interpretation and division of labor. Based on qualitative analysis of video data from a university course in systems development, we identify five distinct pre-prompting patterns. Our findings suggest that…

Here’s the video of my 8 minute talk today at the “No Kings” rally and march in Charlotte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJC_MAjQSU
I spoke as both a military veteran and a current middle school classroom teacher.

Enter: Graduated Realism: A Pedagogical Framework for AI-Powered Avatars in Virtual Reality Teacher Training
Judson Leroy Dean Haynes IV
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11890

Enter: Graduated Realism: A Pedagogical Framework for AI-Powered Avatars in Virtual Reality Teacher Training
Virtual Reality simulators offer a powerful tool for teacher training, yet the integration of AI-powered student avatars presents a critical challenge: determining the optimal level of avatar realism for effective pedagogy. This literature review examines the evolution of avatar realism in VR teacher training, synthesizes its theoretical implications, and proposes a new pedagogical framework to guide future design. Through a systematic review, this paper traces the progression from human-contro…

#WritersCoffeeClub 25th May 2025. Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
Let me assume that my teacher when I was 10 wasn't a writing person and say that their efforts to hold a poetry-Friday had an immense effect on me. We had a reason to write, and of course, we read each of the others writing. I have no idea whether our teacher wrote things …

On $NP \cap coNP$ proof complexity generators
Jan Krajicek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20221 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20221

On $NP \cap coNP$ proof complexity generators
Motivated by the theory of proof complexity generators we consider the following $Σ^p_2$ search problem $\mbox{DD}_P$ determined by a propositional proof system $P$: given a $P$-proof $π$ of a disjunction $\bigvee_i α_i$, no two $α_i$ having an atom in common, find $i$ such that $α_i \in \mbox{TAUT}$. We formulate a hypothesis (ST) that for some strong proof system $P$ the problem $\mbox{DD}_P$ is not solvable in the student-teacher model with a p-time student and a constant number of ro…

FL Christian School Teacher Busted In Child Sex Sting - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/fl-christian-school-teacher-busted-in-child-sex-sting/

Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools
Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kavyansh Chourasia, Nirmit Arora, Rahul Singh, Rene F. Kizilcec, Akshay Nambi, Tanuja Ganu, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00456

Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools
This study investigates Shiksha copilot, an AI-assisted lesson planning tool deployed in government schools across Karnataka, India. The system combined LLMs and human expertise through a structured process in which English and Kannada lesson plans were co-created by curators and AI; teachers then further customized these curated plans for their classrooms using their own expertise alongside AI support. Drawing on a large-scale mixed-methods study involving 1,043 teachers and 23 curators, we ex…

Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher
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#WritersCoffeeClub 25th May 2025. Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
Let me assume that my teacher when I was 10 wasn't a writing person and say that their efforts to hold a poetry-Friday had an immense effect on me. We had a reason to write, and of course, we read each of the others writing. I have no idea whether our teacher wrote things …

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WhiSPA: Semantically and Psychologically Aligned Whisper with Self-Supervised Contrastive and Student-Teacher Learning
Current speech encoding pipelines often rely on an additional text-based LM to get robust representations of human communication, even though SotA speech-to-text models often have a LM within. This work proposes an approach to improve the LM within an audio model such that the subsequent text-LM is unnecessary. We introduce WhiSPA (Whisper with Semantic and Psychological Alignment), which leverages a novel audio training objective: contrastive loss with a language model embedding as a teacher. …

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Leveraging a Multi-Agent LLM-Based System to Educate Teachers in Hate Incidents Management
Ewelina Gajewska, Michal Wawer, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23774

Leveraging a Multi-Agent LLM-Based System to Educate Teachers in Hate Incidents Management
Computer-aided teacher training is a state-of-the-art method designed to enhance teachers' professional skills effectively while minimising concerns related to costs, time constraints, and geographical limitations. We investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) in teacher education, using a case of teaching hate incidents management in schools. To this end, we create a multi-agent LLM-based system that mimics realistic situations of hate, using a combination of retrieval-augmented…

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
Emma R. Dodoo, Tamara Nelson-Fromm, Mark Guzdial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14147

The Teacher's Dilemma: Balancing Trade-Offs in Programming Education for Emergent Bilingual Students
K-12 computing teachers must navigate complex trade-offs when selecting programming languages and instructional materials for classrooms with emergent bilingual students. While they aim to foster an inclusive learning environment by addressing language barriers that impact student engagement, they must also align with K-12 computer science curricular guidelines and prepare students for industry-standard programming tools. Because programming languages predominantly use English keywords and most…

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Teacher-student training improves accuracy and efficiency of machine learning interatomic potentials