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. Preparing future global innovators takes a district-wide team of facilitators, classroom teachers and school administrators.

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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. Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2022

eSpark is a free no-prep solution that teachers of math and reading at the elementary level need to try. eSpark earned Digital Promise’s Research-Based Product Certification in 2021. I recommend that Math and Language Arts teachers of elementary-aged students check out eSpark. eSpark is simple and easy to use. Sign up now.

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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. 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

JUNE 23, 2022

Schools are awash in technology in a way never before seen, thanks to the mad dash toward digital that was prompted by the pandemic a little more than two years ago. That’s mostly because the research and evaluation necessary to find out hasn’t been conducted. Some could even be “transforming” education, as promised.

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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. Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. Sign Up for Your Free eSpark Account.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. When I requested to have her evaluated for additional support at school, I was told to give her time.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. School safety is a complex and emotional societal issue. Some 95 percent of U.S.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Elementary education is a pivotal time in a child’s education journey. 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. At the elementary level, students find this fascinating and the lessons promote their curiosity.

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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

JULY 6, 2022

But how do you engage elementary students in STEM – a seemingly complex subject? If you are a loyal STEM Sports® blog reader, you may be wondering how sports lesson plans for elementary students differ from lesson plans for kindergarteners. Best Sports to Lesson Plan Around for Elementary Students.

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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

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

AUGUST 9, 2023

Youth mental health is in trouble , and schools have seen firsthand the rise in need for mental health services among students. Schools and districts are paying millions of dollars for access to these digital tools and services, sometimes using funds newly available to them through federal pandemic relief money.

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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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Northeastern University

OCTOBER 25, 2023

50 students from Dever Elementary School in Boston came to Northeastern to participate in STEM activities. The egg worked as a great example of a brain and a skull to emphasize the importance of wearing helmets and for the ongoing research in the brain injury space. Thank you Dever Elementary! Last Friday (10.6)

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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. After doing some more research about their selected young person, they write an I Am poem from the perspective of that person. You’re deliberately teaching them that all the racial groups are equals.

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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

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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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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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. With this in mind, we have compiled a list of the top STEM elementary and middle schools. . Winsor School. Pine Crest School. West Lafayette Elementary/Junior/Senior High School.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. In fact, there is a great deal of research support for consistent retrieval practice and self-testing to build automaticity with number facts.

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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

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. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Two Iowa lawsuits accuse school districts of failing to protect their children from harassment. public schools. Department of Education released figures on student discipline during the 2020-21 school year — when most districts were implementing some mixture of hybrid and in-person classes. In November, the U.S.

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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

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

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. Climate change racked up an eye-popping $165 billion damages tab in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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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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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

Get ready to end the school year in a memorable and fun way for your students (and you!). Episode 779 - 10 Minute Teacher Podcast 9 Ideas for Ending the School Year Well Alana Stanton - Fourth Grade Teacher. Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Click Here to Look at Courses.

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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. Math is hard. Teaching math is even harder.

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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. Nevertheless, the kinds of solutions the researchers considered had another virtue: affordability.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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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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