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JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. It’s almost like the teacher is programming the robot to do their job for them.”

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MARCH 7, 2023

School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. When schools reopened in 2021, Burkiett and her team decided to roll out the program across the district for students in kindergarten to third grade. So we were pretty happy with Amira,” Burkiett says.

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MAY 9, 2024

It includes access to thousands of educational resources without hidden costs or permissions. Curriculum Alignment: SplashLearn aligns closely with school curricula, reinforcing classroom learning with games and activities. Subsequent plans start at $7.50/month. You can get started here ! You can get started here !

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career Starting a career is an exhilarating journey, and in today’s tech-driven world, the technology you choose during your school years can be a foundational step toward your professional tech arsenal.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2023

Makerspaces in schools are a place where the normal rules of classroom learning are tossed aside in favor of just a couple — have fun, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. As schools continue to grapple with a student mental health crisis , could makerspaces also present an opportunity to support students’ well-being overall?

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MAY 2, 2024

Balloon archways surrounded the stage as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Alberto Carvalho, last month announced what he hailed as a pioneering use of artificial intelligence in education.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

For some schools, this meant making a commitment to diversity in their mission statements, as well as creating plans intended to increase equity. But research has found that while schools mostly use similar language in their mission statements broadly, equity is a major exception. But that’s in California.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM identity can last a lifetime and help students thrive in school, future careers and life. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners. The STEM+CS team develops every opportunity from a lens of inclusion and accessibility for all.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Ballard believed that the tool required too much time for teachers to parse and leverage effectively in their teaching.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The 100th day of school is a special milestone celebrated in many educational institutions around the world. It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. They observed classrooms.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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MAY 10, 2022

If you have students in your school who do not have English as their primary language, this is a must-listen-to episode. (Or You can provide feedback to your students on any text (print or digital) and they can hear you read as well.This is a perfect tool for summer school, reading tutors and anyone teaching reading.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. Having role models makes it so much more accessible and easier to believe it’s achievable.”. How much does it weigh?

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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. Here are three methods our team has been using.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. After all, if a science student hasn’t spent time actually producing reactions in a lab, Austin says, “they’re probably not going to be taken seriously out in the public,” limiting their success in graduate school or in the job market.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Acceleration Research with Dr. Douglas Fisher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Acceleration research can teach us how to accelerate learning. Learn about important acceleration research that can help us emerge and improve as we move towards rebounding after the pandemic.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Beacon Press “The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)Member” by Cynthia Dillard, Ph.D. King, Ph.D.,

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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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MARCH 29, 2022

The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. I’ve noticed news stories about schools adding financial literacy to the High School course load (yay!). It is a fast-paced, interactive game that engages students in football strategy while teaching money management skills.

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JUNE 12, 2023

No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. Discuss why they use a password to access the computer. But, not at school). Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. How did it make them feel?

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JUNE 2, 2023

Why is it important to preserve historical school video recordings? How about: to preserve old recordings that are degrading with time to make them more accessible to potential viewers and researchers to increase their lifespan But what’s the best way to do this? Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT nearly a year ago, teachers have debated whether to ban the tool (over fears that students will use it to cheat ) or embrace it as a teaching aid (arguing that the tool could boost learning and will become key in the workplace). Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In many of his videos, he acts out scenes from famous Hollywood films, except swapping in terms from the strategic management courses he teaches. teens say they use the service, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey , and TikTok recently surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the internet. Sixty-seven percent of 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. Nidy: Now that North Canton City Schools has a working dashboard, we have already started to build narratives around what is happening in our classrooms.

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MAY 15, 2024

The decision to remain a science or math teacher, or to continue teaching within a particular school, is closely related to sense of identity (Ware & Kitsantas, 2007). Each teacher was at a different high school or middle school, enabling cross-site comparisons.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bell’s chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. How do you teach fifth graders to be careful when the cool middle schoolers aren’t?

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MAY 28, 2020

They aren’t used to the homeschool aspect of remote teaching and it is a challenge to balance the needs of all of their children as well as their own personal circumstances. Today, she’s focused her considerable experience on how parents and teachers can support remote teaching. You’ll enjoy this: . Trust the Teacher.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning. It simply means teachers include games in their lesson plans to teach curricular concepts.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence. 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. What was the country like a hundred years ago? What caused it to change? Who was president?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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APRIL 6, 2020

The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. If your school doesn’t teach a course about personal economics, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Age group: Middle school. Age group: middle and high school. Age group: high school.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Groundhog Day Teaching Resources. If this is the 100th day of school, here are resources for that: Geography. Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library. Groundhog Day Games.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. That’s been changing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtually every school and teacher were thrust into the edtech landscape. Louis, Missouri.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. Stacie Johnson AI can bring access in a way that we've never had before.

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APRIL 24, 2019

No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research.

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