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JANUARY 31, 2024

As a parent, I felt the impact of the departures when I had to guide my then seventh-grader through math without a consistent teacher after a mid-year exit. Of the many definitions of trauma, the concept that guides our analyses of trauma in this research is one that acknowledges that anti-Blackness is traumatizing.

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MARCH 8, 2023

The day after the retreat, one student shared in our group chat, “The retreat was actually really fun. Wouldn’t it be cool if our school was actually like that?” In my experience, this profoundly impacts how students show up in the classroom. Over 25 educators showed up and listened to these powerful stories.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The distance between the “consumers” (the learners and families) and the “creators” (the product developers) has been wide, contributing to an R&D process largely uninformed by those most impacted by inequitable conditions. Superintendents must be listeners and learners to have the capacity to sit back and let others lead.

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STEM Discovery Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In conjunction with leading social impact partners, Discovery Education is offering engaging digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National STEM Day observances nationwide. Explore hundreds of resources tailored to STEM teaching and learning wherever it takes place.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

One telltale sign of a classroom community built upon strong relationships is when a teacher can put an academic lesson aside in order to address events happening inside the classroom that might be impacting the social-emotional development of learners. A basketball game got too serious and the word “bullying” was being thrown around.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

She had several children at our school and while her family was navigating a crisis, her children were going through various academic and social challenges. Her family benefited from the strength and collaboration of our team. Loss of Community I recently saw a parent whose child I taught a few years ago. I remember her well.

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MAY 1, 2023

Brigitta Witt Vice President of Social Impact and Sustainability at T-Mobile One of the most rewarding educator experiences is witnessing students become agents of change and positively impacting their communities with their own creativity, grit and innovation. His project has made an incredible impact on families in need.

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MAY 17, 2023

While the program endures challenges that often prevent me and my team from offering the best resources for migrant students and families, the potential for impact is more than worth the struggle. Roadblocks aside, we have managed to coordinate and build a number of programs that have had a lasting impact on student and family participants.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And I have seen the impact of this work firsthand, from boosting student confidence in the classroom to improving lackluster reading scores. Still, without training, support and resources to effectively provide interventions for these students, the impact of these screeners will end at that initial red flag. Our students can’t wait!

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students. I wanted this club to be youth-led, so I relied heavily on student conversations to guide our work. One thread that quickly emerged from our initial discussions was teacher practice. My students were ready to disrupt that dynamic.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Yet, in our research study on the experiences of this underrepresented group, most of the Black women we talked to experienced the opposite in their workplaces, namely apathy and interpersonal racism and discrimination. What they describe are manifestations of systemic inequalities that impact Black teachers.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 2, 2024

Discover the impact placements have and read our Q& Source Do you have a suitable research project or experience for a Year 12 learner? Students are bright, capable, and can complete a variety of tasks including data analysis, scoping, and experimental design.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. How much longer will the status quo suffice?”

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

The impact of chronic absenteeism reaches beyond the individual student; the nation as a whole is affected. For example, our high school has an average daily attendance rate of 97 percent, meaning 97 percent of our students are here. We need to do that before we can determine the barriers specific to our students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

You may wonder what is wrong with you and why you aren’t impacted more or less. In New Orleans, we honor our dead with candlelight vigils and second lines , repasts and t-shirts bearing their images with newly added wings. Our relationship was a tenuous one, built slowly around this shared goal. Grief doesn’t abide by time.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And will the people filling those roles be as diverse as our country? Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students. Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

There were over 300 families that resided in Forest Cove, and many of the children from these households attended our school. If anything, the issue shed light on the lack of investment in the local communities where our students live and exposed the gap in mental health resources for students and their families.

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Accelerate Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In this blog, we'll uncover the impact of STEM on college and careers. Read on to find out how STEM is shaping the future of our workforce. We've previously discussed the benefits of STEM in early childhood education – but what about its benefits for students beyond secondary education?

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

That is impactful when considering an annual tuition of $50,000! Alight's Workday Adaptive Planning How can institutions effectively attract and retain top talent while mitigating the negative impact of vacancies on workforce morale and turnover? McGrath: One common approach from higher education institutions is tuition discounting.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last month, the superintendent of New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) and the Orleans Public School Board decided to close our school at the end of the academic year. If our school had a failing school based on all these metrics, I’d be less angry about this result, but 95 percent of our score was calculated based on test scores.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If my former student’s response is any indication, the rote process of watching videos and completing worksheets created an aversion to the very content we thought our students needed. Before we knew it, our solution became the problem. I also won’t pretend the curriculum did not have a negative impact on me, as well.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

That’s one of the findings by a committee tasked by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine with looking into social media and its impact on children’s health and well-being. So our push was not about, ‘Watch out for social media and mental health,’” Reich says. “It

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

Understanding Different Learning Styles Your journey to success begins with comprehending the different learning styles and how they impact your educational experience. Let’s explore this, considering some innovative strategies and how they are transforming education as we understand it. One such case is the High Tech High in San Diego.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. Black hair carries such dignity and high regard in the Black community that it is often referred to as our crown. The issue is not Black hair. It’s (Not) Just Hair!

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. It's complex.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Elliot Haspel: Climate change poses enormous threats to early childhood development, so in my view, all of our efforts to improve child and family well-being are gonna be capped if we don't address climate change. Beyond the physical and neurological impacts, what about the impacts of climate change on the experience of being a child?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

The following principles can be used to deepen existing collaborations between educators and edtech products, generate ideas for structuring new projects and initiatives and reflect on how impactful technology is developed, adopted and implemented. Guiding Principles for Building Feedback Loops 1.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I’ve been a school social worker for the last 15 years, so I am acutely aware of our nation’s mounting youth mental health crisis. I know that robust mental health and social-emotional support for students are non-negotiable in education and I applaud the new programs and resources designed to address this urgent challenge for our students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Despite this evidence, many of our COVID-19 recovery dollars are being spent on interventions that emphasize high-dosage tutoring rather than other potential strategies. The good news is that SEL programs have been proven to have a powerful effect on students’ coping skills while also positively impacting academic achievement.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

She is teaching me how to properly introduce myself in our Lakota language, Lak?ótiyapi. I feel a deep sense of comfort knowing she has had this conversation before with dozens of young Lakota learners during her time as a Lakota language teacher in our community of Fort Yates on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

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MARCH 18, 2024

At the conference, a panel of early education leaders gathered to do just that, in a session exploring the potential of AI to support and empower the adults who help our nation’s youngest children, titled, “ChatECE: How AI Could Aid the Early Educator Workforce.” A summary of the discussion follows. For the full conversation, listen here.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In our first story, we explored the impact of rising housing costs on teacher shortages by visiting a rural mountain community where this crisis is playing out in real time. Here are the key takeaways from our reporting: 1. The resulting turnover rates have an impact on students and school communities.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity. When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. At first, I was annoyed.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. In the weeks leading up to the conference, I obsessively checked our registration platform almost hourly to see if the confirmed attendee numbers had increased beyond the low double digits.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Our Blackness was elevated and celebrated every day, so when I began recruiting, I was unaware of the racial disparity between America's teaching cadre and our nation’s student population. Our students were majority Black but (at that time) our staff was mostly white.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 7, 2022

powell writes, “The rate and intensity of the change threaten to outpace our ability to adapt. I got the job and returned to work in September last year, just as the realization that our first year back to “normal” would not be so normal, at all. The long-term impacts of the pandemic roil the waters of change for all of us.

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