ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2024

A VR experience created by students at The New School in New York City is designed to take viewers to an almond farm in California and illustrate the effects of pesticides on bee colonies. At first, participants wearing a VR headset can walk around the virtual stands of trees, and hear the sounds of rustling leaves and buzzing bees.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Schools are becoming increasingly unsafe for our nation’s students — physically, socially and emotionally. There were 46 school shootings in 2022. In addition to physical violence, the identities of traditionally marginalized youth have been threatened by recent political discourse. high school students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Jayne Demsky Rather than just a distaste for school, refusal can be visceral.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from? This is still a prevalent theme for Black womxn in education. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was raised above all else to not only revere education, but to literally show respect to educators and elders by being a dutiful, quiet, listening and obedient learner. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research? Growing up in the U.S.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. I was a green educator catapulted into a leadership role. In fact, I was a district leader who made this recommendation at times.

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Educators Technology

JULY 14, 2017

July 14, 2017 Here is a collection of some good educational iPad apps to help you with the teaching/learning of physics. This collection is specifically curated for high school students and teachers.read more.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

Hope that school might return to normal in the fall is quickly dimming as new COVID-19 variants threaten to pummel communities throughout the country and COVID hospitalization rates increase. All signs point to record teacher and staff departures at schools across the country. But that would be a mistake.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

E-Books and Online Libraries in Modern College Education One of the most significant archives of human knowledge and learning’s quiet companions, libraries have made an undeniable impact. Libraries have always been a trusted educational sidekick since people started learning stuff. We wouldn’t be where we are without them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2023

PDF editors are valuable tools in schools that allow students with different platforms–Google Apps, MS Office, and others–to make annotations, add comments, edit content (with some restrictions), and collaborate. Lesson plans and materials can be shared as PDFs with reasonable assurance they will be able to access and read it.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Integrating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) into Physical Education (PE) classes offers an innovative approach to education. This article explores how PE educators and facilitators can use STEM learning in their coursework.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A high school student in Minnesota tells a Black classmate that her dark skin is ugly and that she hopes she takes her life. At my own school district in Minneapolis, where I serve as a counselor, incidents related to hate, bias and interpersonal violence have been climbing since the pandemic began.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And back in September, around 82 percent of Florida school districts closed for at least one day — keeping roughly 2.5 million students out of school. This puts physical classrooms in harm’s way, and also threatens students’ academics and mental health, too. physical threats to schools from weather vary from region to region.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For educators, this makes for a daunting test. When families are dealing with not having basic necessities, school just isn’t a priority,” says Susanne Terry, coordinator for homeless education services in the San Diego County Office of Education. It’s the physical part of getting kids to class.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment. Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities. Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. Most notably, it became clear that for Black women educators in this study, being a teacher is more of an identity than a job title. Last year, the U.S.

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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. So what explains the disconnect?

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter If you want to know how to start an eSports program in your school. Or if you want to know why so many schools are getting eSports programs, this episode is a must-listen for you. Esports are rapidly growing in schools across the country.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

One of the greatest challenges schools and districts face is low parent engagement. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that children are learning, but learning extends beyond school walls. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that children are learning, but learning extends beyond school walls.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Are you a middle school science teacher looking to ignite your students' curiosity? It's a one-stop-shop for any middle school science teacher looking to incorporate the scientific method into their curriculum. So why wait?

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

School isn’t just about academics. That’s perhaps the clearest lesson that emerged from the pandemic when it comes to education. To be a place where students learn, schools also must support the social and emotional health of the kids sitting in desks. Students were out of the habit of being physically in schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She knows she can’t handle the physical demands of working with young children forever — several of her peers in the Durham area have developed back problems from the constant bending down and picking up, she notes — and like anyone else, she hopes to retire at some point. . I wasn’t thinking about the future.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A solid early education serves as a cornerstone for a child's future. It shapes their physical, cognitive, social and emotional development while setting them on a path to success in both their academic journey and overall life experiences. He aspired to make high-quality education financially viable and scalable for a broader system.

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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

MARCH 24, 2023

We feel this with each school shooting we endure. More lives lost, more families devastated, more educators operating in fear. More broadly, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics , “mental health disorders have surpassed physical conditions as the most common causes of impairments and limitations in children.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. At least 30 colleges closed in 2023, according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. Yet Sitka isn’t exactly a higher education desert.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2021

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are buzzwords that every educator wants to know more about. Kathy Schrock , columnist for Discovery Education explains: Augmented reality layers computer-generated enhancements on top of an existing reality to make it more meaningful through the ability to interact with it.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. Reform practices and policies in classrooms, schools and districts.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

When Gorgette Green-Hodnett wrapped up her 21-year career in high school education a couple years ago, her family members celebrated. We have to go to your school and help you,’” she says. “I Hawaii experienced a spike in retirements during the 2020-21 school year. And what can schools change to get them to stay?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. But now that so many educators and students have had direct experience with online formats, it’s a narrative that seems to be sinking in.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

For many Indigenous communities, the goal of education has always been to nurture the wellbeing of the whole child, including their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual development I recently reflected on this memory as I once again sat at that same wooden table. From a very young age, I recognized these differences.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

With teacher morale seemingly at an all-time low, school districts are looking for ways to keep educators from burning out and quitting. Districts around the country are announcing plans to adopt four-day school weeks in the fall. Teachers will work a four-day week, but students will continue going to school five days a week.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Summer jobs for many high schoolers (myself included) was a right of passage, where we stuck our toe into the adult work-a-day world for a brief period before returning to school for more education. Retail Job Opportunities Retail jobs are ideal for high school students looking for flexible work schedules during the summer.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. EdSurge: What problems in education is ViewSonic hoping to address with the launch of UNIVERSE ? ViewSonic's Recommended Resources: Metaverse Education: What’s Next for Virtual Learning? Do the dynamics change?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The lasting impact of the pandemic has become clearer as students and educators returned to the classroom this year. And educators, already stretched thin, have been challenged to not only meet all students where they are in their learning, but also support their emotional needs as they cope during a crisis.

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. Every educator and parent knows how science and contextual learning excite students.

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