Box Light

MAY 10, 2024

On May 7, 2024, Clayton County Public Schools (Clayton County, GA) received the Education Technology Implementation District of the Year Award from Boxlight Corporation. This recognition highlights the strong partnership between Boxlight and CCPS, dedicated to modernizing classrooms and enhancing student engagement.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Getting into algebra early is thought to improve college attractiveness, and the course is often a high school graduation requirement.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. If you ask school leaders, that sets it apart.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Today, as education leaders, you’re faced with an increasingly diverse student population, each with unique learning styles, abilities, and aspirations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2020

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Find Public Domain Images.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. The fervor around AI was on full display at the SXSW EDU conference held in Austin, Texas, during the first week of March.

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ED Surge

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. So what, specifically, does the system do?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2021

I had an opportunity to chat with Doruntina Alshiqi about the education system in Kosova. Primary education is provided for students here. Primary education is provided for students here. It consists of schooling from grade one through five. It provides education through grade nine. Higher Education in Kosovo.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

Should schools be run like businesses? At least one educator, though, worries that the arrangement is more of a misfit than even proponents of the idea might realize. This former high school teacher and current professor shared his thoughts in a Twitter thread today that got some attention. Public schools are publicly funded.

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Box Light

AUGUST 21, 2023

EOS Education by Boxlight and Clayton County Public Schools (Jonesboro, GA) proudly united to host the inaugural Teacher Appreciation Celebration, an event organized by the EOS Education Digital Learning Specialist Team. This celebration also serves as one of the many collaborative events we have planned with CCPS.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2024

Dutt is one of the college students being conscripted as high-dose tutors for struggling schools. Pandemic relief funds allowed many schools to set up these programs. But with ESSER funding nearly lapsed, schools have to find other sources to keep the programs going.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I’m in my 12th year as a public school educator, and I cannot recall a time in my career when I felt this much fatigue. I teach US History and Sociology at a large, well-resourced comprehensive public high school that mirrors the racial and socioeconomic demographics of the United States. I am exhausted.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

By we , my principal meant the Department of Education, and by need , he was referring to the recent exodus of school administrators in the state of Hawai’i. My state is not only suffering from a teacher shortage , but a mass departure of administrators has also caused a dearth of qualified leadership in our schools.

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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 27, 2024

As school boards prepare to approve their budgets for the fall, many are grappling with how to make up for the yawning chasm left by the loss of federal pandemic-relief dollars. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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Box Light

MARCH 5, 2024

Clayton County Public Schools (Jonesboro, GA) and Boxlight's partnership spanning over eight years has significantly transformed education by addressing the challenges posed by outdated technology. CCPS faced issues with aging projectors, prompting a strategic collaboration with Boxlight.

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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. Department of Education and will last five years.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2024

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service. Controversial Practices?

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Box Light

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Denver Public Schools (DPS) is leading the way in career exploration through its Spark Early Career Exploration Program , emphasizing diverse career exposure for students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. These peaks and valleys molded me into a resilient educator and established my why as a teaching professional.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

The struggle for equity in education stretches back beyond our nation's living memory. In a recent discussion with global education leaders , we took a hard look at some of the inequitable practices that continue to plague our schools. The struggle for equity in education stretches back beyond our nation's living memory.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Five months after federal stabilization grants expired, deeper cracks are beginning to show in the early care and education sector. At a time when the field is suffering, leaving families, educators and providers across the country scrambling, the progress in Massachusetts is remarkable. We see more programs opening. “And

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. The answer?

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Here’s my New Year’s resolution for higher education: extend the reach of research to the people. To address this, higher education must revisit its roots in educating citizens, preparing both students for society and society for itself. The public, less so. Sometimes, the literature on a given study topic is just mixed.

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Middle Web

MAY 21, 2023

Williamson and Blackburn highlight four good reasons to be optimistic about the future of America’s public schools. Community approval is the highest in nearly 50 years; teachers are better prepared for the future, and the resilience of public educators remains remarkable.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 21, 2024

As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show. This will impact you as you help draft policies for your school or organization or even as you grapple with parenting concerns.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. When I first came to this school, I felt as if student voices didn’t matter. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2022

When I first began attending school, my teachers often seated me in the back of the classroom. That meant I didn’t just attend school in Florida, but also in the states that we traveled to, such as Indiana and Michigan. For this reason, I feel supporting this population is one of the most urgent priorities in education today.

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ED Surge

MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a world where technology is evolving at an unprecedented pace, education stands on the cusp of transformation. Imagine classrooms where teachers are empowered by cutting-edge technology and where students don't just learn from textbooks but co-create their educational journey. It's one thing to say: Go learn about AI.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2023

Aristotle famously said, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” She is a former educator with 15 years experience in the classroom. In 2022 she became the CEO of Tools for Schools, the developers of Book Creator – an inclusive, creative edtech tool. Good luck with the new school year!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. Whether they are just feeling nostalgic or genuinely miss me, it’s always nice seeing their faces.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Emerging technologies are revolutionizing how organizations across industries operate, and the education sector is no exception. Even now, as schools firmly embrace in-person learning again, it’s clear that the education sector is in a period of great modernization. The main three are: public, private, and hybrid clouds.

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