ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

It is also frustrating when pre-packaged PD sessions are disconnected from your specific school context and student population. The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students. In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Some students quietly grab their water bottles and head out to fill them up, and others sit on the carpet and stretch. While this happens, I watch four students pass by their desks and head straight to the table in the corner of the room to sit in a small circle. Gabriella starts to speak over her.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). The most challenging part has definitely been trying to keep students engaged in the classroom and interested in their learning. Five of the original nine responded to our queries. For the past 1.5

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ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

One clear pipeline for teachers of color is students of color. And the understanding of the students of color and their experience in school, and whether or not that’s been an experience of belonging, of trust, of identity, where students can be their authentic self. A lot of students of color live in predominantly urban areas.

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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. I refer to those epiphanies, when the metaphorical light bulb above a student’s head switches on, as “luminations.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

With High School graduation close, college on the horizon, one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors put together a list of great tips and ideas to help you prepare for one of the biggest steps you can take to build your future: How to Prepare for College College preparation is crucial to ensuring that your college life is successful.

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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Building a telescope with a grandparent or working alongside a parent on a car maintenance project may launch a lifelong love of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We offer four ideas to help programs build connections — inviting families into programs and making them feel welcome in STEM.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

million students, or 29.7 percent of the student population, were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year. percent of the student population being chronically absent. Jody O'Brien Assistant Superintendent of Student Services & Equity Marlborough Public Schools, Mass. According to data from the U.S.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 17, 2022

World language teachers can have challenges with teaching students. However, Rachelle Dene Poth has experience engaging and exciting students in her Spanish classroom From building relationships to using technology, she shares how Spanish teachers can engage students in learning. Click Here to Look at Courses.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Addressing the digital divide requires a human-centered approach In the early days of the pandemic, schools raced to provide devices and hotspots to students, responding to concerns over a widening digital divide. But, as the COVID-19 pandemic has made painfully clear, we've still got plenty of work to do.

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STEM Next

JANUARY 8, 2024

In celebration of National Mentoring Month , STEM Next offers six ideas for adults to advocate, connect, and uplift young people in STEM. Making Mentors pairs autistic high school students with autistic college students and takes a strengths-based approach to supporting STEM pathways. Create lasting relationships.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While the classrooms in my building have returned to the bustling, lively places they were before 2020, I think many of us are still coming to grips with that experience. Sadly, I never received the confidence boost I had hoped for as our attendance numbers remained, and were, embarrassingly low. Pandemic exhaustion is also real.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I used a game to teach my students about the causes behind the start of the First World War. A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 23, 2022

How do you build a positive classroom culture? Teacher-Student Relationships Matter The American Psychological Association has emphasized the importance of improving student-teacher relationships. Thus, student-teacher relationships are part of classroom culture. Ferris Bueller or Bart Simpson?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

The COVID pandemic has brought a rush of new people interested in building tools and businesses to help improve education. But as someone who has long helped entrepreneurs enter and grow within the edtech space, I can say that turning a good idea into a working innovation that helps educators and students remains a challenge.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Del Real Viramontes joined its Puente program , which embedded him in a cohort of students in a math and English course sequence. I think that program was the first program that really provided this idea of transferring to a university,” he says. “We At his third college, his enrollment came as something of a surprise.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Not everyone is sold on the idea that virtual reality technology could or should bring higher education into a future of avatars and holograms. For example, at Columbia University, professors are creating and using virtual reality tools to help students gain empathy across racial lines, learn dentistry techniques and examine molecules in 3D.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Do you have some examples of questions to ask students for feedback?” What are some ways to gauge students about their sense of belonging in the course?” Faculty often ask me a version of these questions, seeking ideas about how they can informally get students’ own perspectives on their learning and experience in a college course.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Districts, families, communities and youth-supporting organizations all have vested interests in supporting the academic journeys of students, yet their decisions affecting education often occur independently. Many seek to address these disparities by implementing education solutions at the district level.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My student stood next to my desk, computer resting on both hands, his eyes wide with a mixture of fear and excitement. We were wrapping up our end-of-book project for “The Catcher in the Rye,” which involved students interviewing a character chatbot designed to mimic the personality and speaking style of Holden Caulfield. Can I ask?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014. Still, our students deserve a curriculum that gives them access to unpacking the injustices of being a young person in a world that still abuses and discriminates against women.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Throughout 2020 and 2021, my students, colleagues and I were in and out of the building between virtual, hybrid and in-person learning because of closures and frequent quarantine periods. One day a student walked in and when I greeted her and asked how she was doing, she responded: “I’m existing.” My students often say, “Ms.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Stream by clicking here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

As such, students with disabilities typically struggle with vision or hearing impairments, attention issues, organization problems, and difficulty recognizing words. As such, students with disabilities typically struggle with vision or hearing impairments, attention issues, organization problems, and difficulty recognizing words.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Professors report that students are disengaged , so much so that it’s even hard to get them to take advantage of free support services. Shifting practices regarding grades may inspire students to take risks and study for the sake of learning. Many faculty and staff members say they feel burned out and demoralized.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

To better relate, we have to understand where students are emotionally so that we can connect with them , get them any extra help they might need, and move them forward. Student Mental Health (Including Anxiety and Depression). From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Search Courses Now.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When Paul LeBlanc began as president of Southern New Hampshire University more than 20 years ago, the institution taught about 2,500 students on its residential campus — and its future looked uncertain. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online].

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

Our education system is having its own Henny Penny moment, with loud voices from the right generating and spreading panic that social and emotional learning, or SEL, endangers and “ indoctrinates ” students. Relationships are the heart of SEL, too. Instead, evaluate the facts. Like Henny, we must now evaluate the facts around SEL.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming. Oli also checked in with students about how they were coping. Or: “Hey friend.

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PCS Edventures

JANUARY 29, 2024

They strive to create a student-centered, interdisciplinary environment that prepares learners for success in the real world. "We can never come to know the whole of reality by isolating variables." Johnson, PhD, Holistic Learning Theory and Holistic Education, 2005 What Is Holistic Learning? STEM educators, does this all sound familiar?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2023

Furthermore, technology provides access to a vast array of educational resources, enabling students to learn at their own pace and tailor their educational experiences to their individual needs. Introducing technology to your children can be a positive experience that can help them learn and develop valuable skills.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we're diving deep into a crucial topic for every student but often overlooked in the curriculum: financial literacy. Podcast Episode Stream by clicking here. The world of returns is perched in an ivory tower, inaccessible to most investors.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

Patrick Harris II (he/him), author from Detroit, middle school English teacher and dean of students at The Roeper School. Corey Winchester (he/him), history and social science teacher and staff coordinator of Students Organized Against Racism (SOAR) at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 21, 2022

The end of the school year can be so exciting and give us ideas for great teaching. Jillian DuBois talks about her end of the school year and from the conversation we have twelve inspiring ideas for classrooms everywhere including: How to Use the element of surprise in learning. Word "Collection" Ideas. Click Here.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

A new school year is upon us, and teachers across the country are returning to their classrooms recharged, bursting with ideas and brimming with optimism. Put simply, data-driven instruction occurs when educators collect and analyze data on student learning and behavior to drive and personalize classroom instruction.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

She said that since August, COVID protocols have been manageable and work feels almost normal, but she shared that while she’s grateful and relieved, she regularly worries about things “getting bad again”—whether it’s another wave of COVID or some other disruption shutting schools down or putting undue burdens on staff and students.

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