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February Dates to Remember
As winter slowly transitions to spring, ignite your students' enthusiasm with resources celebrating Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, Random Acts of Kindness Week, and Digital Learning Day. These events offer engaging opportunities for educators to design interactive lessons that blend academic learning with social-emotional skills, historical understanding, and digital literacy.
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Share these Valentine's Day resources with your students to take them beyond the cards and chocolate to focus on this holiday's history. This collection includes lesson ideas for various subjects, including math, language arts, and history.
Discover edtech for your Valentine’s Day lessons »
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Find what you need for Presidents' Day (2/17)! This article, “Hail to the Chief: Exploring American Presidents,” includes classroom activities, extension ideas, book suggestions, and correlations to standards.
Learn about past and present presidents »
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The Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Foundation celebrates RAK week starting February 9 and Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17. Check out this collection of tools related to empathy to find tools appropriate for your grade level.
Help your students to understand empathy »
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Digital Learning Day is happening next week—start looking for ideas today! The focus for 2025 is how "technology connects us, transforms education, and brings ‘heart’ into learning." This site shares many ways for people of all ages to participate.
Celebrate digital learning! »
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The Week at TeachersFirst
We invite you to join us on Tuesday (2/4) for our next OK2Ask virtual workshop and encourage you to check out our Infusing Technology Blog. We’re also sharing a collection related to famous authors. And finally, don't forget to give your input in our weekly poll!
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Tuesday, 2/4, 7 PM ET
Level up your teaching with engaging digital games and puzzles that ignite critical thinking! This smackdown will explore viral sensations like NYT's Wordle and Connections and hidden gems like TED's The Purring Test.
Register and experience these tools firsthand »
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Get caught up on our recent posts
Dive into our Infusing Technology Blog and learn about tech tools, read about frameworks, discover timely classroom suggestions, and more in posts written by experienced classroom teachers and tech coaches!
What will you learn? »
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Find pages dedicated to several authors
Many famous authors were born in February: Judy Blume, Langston Hughes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Douglass, Amy Tan, and countless others. We’re sharing a collection of author websites to recognize these and other fantastic writers!
Share authors with your students »
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Share your thoughts with our community
This week our poll asks, "Which of these February events will you use in your lessons the most?" Share your reply with other educators and view the results when you click submit.
Tell us about February happenings in your class »
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6 New Collections to Explore
Don't miss these six new special topics collections related to hot edtech topics.
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