ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Just like that, she’s gone,” my friend said to me just a few weeks ago, devastated that her daughter’s second grade teacher — her favorite teacher — left before the school year ended. In eight states, teacher turnover rates are the highest they’ve been in five years, with schools serving families with high poverty rates being hit the hardest.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. So I decided to accommodate the 100th Day fever by wrapping it in learning. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. They love parties.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students. To achieve a comprehensive understanding, over 50 experts from 20 countries were convened, aiming to provide practical, implementable and secure recommendations for educational institutions.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. Create the five-year vision for your school. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2023

How would you react if you learned that one of your students felt that you don’t treat them like a full person, with a life and responsibilities beyond the classroom? They began to view assignments and learning holistically, and started taking into account the students' lives and external challenges.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality. In response, more than half of all U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

Kimberly Nidy Director of Technology at North Canton City Schools But making interoperability work is complex, and education service agencies (ESAs) play a pivotal role in this landscape. The fact that we were very specific in what we were attempting to achieve was pivotal to our success. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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JULY 14, 2022

Classes enable you to create and share assignments, grade assignments, access tools to track students performance and assess their learning. If you logged in to SmartMusic through the license of your school or school district you can then connect your newly created class to the platform at this point and create School-funded class.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. So I decided to accommodate the 100th Day fever by wrapping it in learning. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. They love parties.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. Thanks to the emergence of AI, this is finally possible.

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Educators Technology

JULY 17, 2022

Below is a collection of some good tools to help students using Chromebook learn typing. Students will get to learn how to type fast and accurately using a wide variety of typing games, activities, exercises, lessons, step-by-step guides, video tutorials, and many more.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Literacy Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. If you prefer, read The Night Before the 100th Day of School about one boy’s struggle to find 100 of anything to bring to class for the 100th Day project.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If this is the 100th day of school, here are resources for that: Geography. Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That was the approach that Claire Bowen and her team took when organized a week-long series of data science programming back in 2020, when the pandemic first forced students and teachers to hunker down into remote learning. It just showed how much kids wanted to learn about this.” It’s not in our DNA; we have to learn it.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. She believed her students could achieve great things. There was a shift in culture and in school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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Box Light

AUGUST 30, 2023

In districts and schools, a comprehensive learning ecosystem is gaining attention as a powerful asset for driving innovation and progress. This ecosystem integrates technologies like interactive displays, digital signage, 3D printers, robots, and classroom audio to create a dynamic and engaging learning environment.

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

How do you create one in your class or school? Whether the symptoms are apparent or not, these disabilities can affect their cognitive and learning processes. million students with disabilities for the school year 2021 to 2022. Among the services they provide is guidance on assistive technology in schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of inclusive education is to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or abilities, has an equal opportunity to learn and succeed. UDL provides a framework for designing and delivering lessons that address the diverse needs of all learners, including those with disabilities and other learning challenges.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. To advance the teaching and learning experience.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

After 12 years of compulsory schooling, they approach the edge of the nest — and many feel unprepared, realizing they are about to lose the comfort of seeing their friends every day, the support of trusted adults outside their families and the predictability of a daily school schedule.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. Willian Glasser’s 5 Basic Needs.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. Stacie Johnson AI can bring access in a way that we've never had before.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2023

That means those students are missing 10 percent of a school year—or more. Why kids don’t show up to school is a thorny problem, Chang says. But it’s something that states will have to confront if they want to beat back the tide of “learning loss” and inequality catalyzed by the pandemic. The big takeaway?

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

The process of learning should be as joyous as the end result. In 2022 she became the CEO of Tools for Schools, the developers of Book Creator – an inclusive, creative edtech tool. But it was also a time when I would start thinking about the upcoming school year. ” As a teacher, I have a different opinion.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2022

How do we accelerate learning? The US Department of Education Roadmap for Reopening Safely says that “accelerated learning provides opportunities for students to learn at grade level rather than through tracking or remediation….” Simply put, acceleration “builds on what students know as a way to access new learning.”

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JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Learners achieve higher achievement scores in math One 2016 randomized study by Roschelle et al found that students attained higher achievement scores when teachers combined one-on-one attention and web-based homework tools. But where to start?

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. Oh, do you want to try?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, many young children have limited access to high-quality educational opportunities because of socioeconomic factors and technological barriers. This article highlights the initiatives of one such company, Rocket Learning. India has 35 million children under six who need early learning support.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

Students who might be living in shelters or public housing also couldn’t consistently access school remotely, in part because their access to internet or quiet spaces to complete homework was insufficient. These students are also at an increased risk for chronic absenteeism, missing 10 percent — or more — of the school year.

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