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. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

We feel this with each school shooting we endure. As the founder of an organization that provides social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences for preK-12 students, educators and families, and a mother of three, I spend a great deal of time considering what this crisis means for schools and communities. Enough is enough.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

A group of blockchain projects called “learn-to-earn” (also sometimes called “earn-to-learn”) aims to incentivize learners to engage with educational content and, just as importantly, stick with it. The training content is broken up into short, personalized learning “pills” based on personal goals. In SuperSkills!,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Elementary education is a pivotal time in a child’s education journey. It is when students form preferences, gain confidence, and find a passion for learning. In this article, you will explore 23 easy-to-implement STEM lessons educators and/or parents can facilitate with elementary-age students to spark curiosity in STEM.

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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. Instead of learning loss, Dr. Instead of learning loss, Dr. Fisher is advocating how we can accelerate learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. And the fact that students learn valuable lessons in the many hours they spend outside of the classroom, too, before school, after school , on the weekends and in the summer.

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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. He has taught at urban, suburban, rural, and private schools.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. Mistakes are valuable.

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STEM Sport

JULY 6, 2022

But how do you engage elementary students in STEM – a seemingly complex subject? Given sport’s interactive nature, sports lesson plans allow students to engage through hands-on learning, rather than passively. Best Sports to Lesson Plan Around for Elementary Students. Lesson Planning with STEM Sports.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. But the finer points of instructional science or political brawls aren’t the only things decelerating student learning.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research?

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

What researchers found, and have continued to study in the years since, is that teens have different, and greater, needs when it comes to sleep than people of other ages. But it turns out that plenty of schools make it hard for teens to get the amount of sleep that doctors recommend. The lead researcher was] Mary Carskadon.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 16, 2022

SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. He has practical ideas for understanding and using game-based learning in the classroom. So, let me encourage you to take some time to learn about SEL games today in this podcast. Learn how games can be a powerful way to teach life skills.

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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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Teach Science for All

JANUARY 23, 2024

The research, conducted through a randomized controlled trial in 1st-grade classrooms across three California school districts during the 2021/22 academic […]

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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. physical threats to schools from weather vary from region to region. It can also disrupt their learning progress — and affect their well-being. In the U.S.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Keyboarding is a topic that most parents want their children to learn and many schools don’t have time to teach. We are taking the next two weeks–two articles–to answer the questions that should help you as a teacher or administrator decide what type of keyboarding program is best for your school. Zeitz, 2008.

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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? Louis, Missouri.

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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. Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Those conditions were enough to prompt school closures, and on Wednesday, Jan. 4, students in Minnetonka School District got a proper snow day. Many students, no doubt, built snowmen, went sledding and delighted in the unique childhood experience of an impromptu day out of school. People enjoy a snow day.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 15, 2022

School leadership is more challenging than ever. Practical, encouraging ideas are shared throughout this show for principals, administrators, and anyone working to encourage school leaders. Practical, encouraging ideas are shared throughout this show for principals, administrators, and anyone working to encourage school leaders.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Researchers sent text reminders to some parents to use the materials they received. The Price Is Right By kindergarten, young children are supposed to learn quite a lot of math skills.

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User Generated Education

JULY 12, 2020

I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. So not just black students who need to learn about their blackness and their history, but white students as well and nonblack people of color need to know our country’s history and talk explicitly about it.(

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Defined Learning is a fantastic way to bring project-based learning to every grade level and subject area. Some teachers (and students) are great at coming up with meaningful project ideas that align with standards and learning objectives. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The start of a new school year is always busy. New students, new parents, new rules at school–but there’s one more piece that shakes up my education ecosystem: new webtools. Education Galaxy supports math, reading, language arts, and science at the elementary level (K-6). What makes Education Galaxy so Special?

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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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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the past, we have released blogs that list the top ranked STEM high schools and Magnet schools in the United States. STEM Sports® is passionate about giving students quality STEM curricula that allows them to learn with the curriculum using sport. Winsor School. Pine Crest School. Lakeside School .

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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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. It can save teachers time by automating tasks , while also causing headaches as an accomplice to cheating students. In Michigan, it was a team effort. AI is everywhere.

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Scientix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Students’ perception is one of the most important nuances in primary school. Keywords: elementary school, STEM, STEM method. However, the target group of studies is for the most part high school children but rarely primary school children. Why is STEM important in primary schools? About STEM.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Thomas Arnett from the Christensen Institute Shares What the Insitute has learned from administrators and teachers about best practices for teaching during the pandemic. This year, I introduced the free screencasting tool, Screencastify, the first week of school to all of my students so they could record screencasts.

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