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Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?
ED Surge
APRIL 2, 2024
As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. So success will require a broader effort to educate parents and students, he argues.
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An Innovative Journey to Scalable Computer Science Programs
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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. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students. Initiatives like the U.S.
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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha
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FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This was the first time I heard this term, which is surprising given that my own two children and many of the children I support are of this generation. In conversations with teachers and leaders about the current problems in our schools including academic delays and behavioral challenges, COVID-19 is most often pointed to as the culprit.
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As a Paraprofessional Working in the Classroom, I’ve Learned That Relationships Come First
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DECEMBER 15, 2023
For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or pulls small groups. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted a lot for educators and students. What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? They also spend time getting to know their colleagues.
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Why Educators Should Lean in to AI to Better Support Students
ED Surge
OCTOBER 2, 2023
On the one hand, we are driven to create tools that make our lives more efficient, but we also can’t help but feel a little uncertain of these new steps even as we are compelled to take them. With all new technology comes a great deal of trepidation that our previous ways of knowing are being lost.
Empowering New Teachers: Insights from Alex Kajitani, the Rapping Mathematician
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MARCH 4, 2024
” In this podcast, we offer encouragement for new and old teachers, emphasizing those in their first year of teaching and how it feels to be at this point in the school year. ” So Alex, as new teachers finish up their first year, maybe their second year, what are your words to them? What's next?”
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How to Make Every Student Feel Valued
Cool Cat Teacher
MARCH 7, 2024
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I hope today's show will provoke thought and thinking about what it means to relate to our students. Relationships may not be easily measurable but have a significant impact on student achievement. Stream by clicking here.
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They Started Teaching During the Pandemic Year. Where Are They Now?
ED Surge
APRIL 23, 2024
For first-year teachers, it was baptism by fire. In summer 2020, EdSurge profiled nine first-year teachers to understand what it was like for them to launch their careers during the pandemic year (2019-20). Five of the original nine responded to our queries. I spent the first 3.5 I spent the first 3.5
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Do You Remember Struggling to Learn?
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AUGUST 11, 2023
Teachers need to struggle to learn (davidlargent.blogspot.com) Our students often (usually?) We forget our own struggles. It’s a reminder to me that many of our students come from different cultures, customs, and languages. Being aware of where our students come from is important.
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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. When we got into the classroom, the students were shy. They had a wall,” Cole-Ochoa says of the students in the small town of Elsa, Texas. “[Now] You have to take care of the students’ needs first,” she explains.
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What Brings Gen Z to the Library?
ED Surge
MARCH 11, 2024
With Gen Z now making up a substantial portion of today’s college students, their attitudes toward libraries have implications for higher education. Many undergrads come to study or to track down academic resources, but there’s a social pull as well, another trend flagged by the ALA survey. They might be coming in for coffee.
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Earth Day Class Activities
Ask a Tech Teacher
APRIL 19, 2024
It is a day we can all participate in making our air clean, our water fresh and our land unlittered rather than accepting the trash-filled oceans, the smoggy skies, and the debris-laden land that is becoming the norm. Despite the questionable health of our world, we have made progress.
How My Students and I Are Redefining the American Dream
ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2024
I’ve come to realize there is an unspoken pride in our family that is rooted in the Latine experience of the American Dream. It’s no coincidence, then, that I am an educator and, as such, I think about how to present and process the American Dream with my students. This student's perception is slightly exaggerated, but I get it.
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5 Ingredients For Student Well Being: Help Students Be Healthy
Cool Cat Teacher
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In a world where the mental health of our youth is becoming an increasingly pressing concern, Dr. Brian Smith's podcast couldn't come at a more critical time. But what exactly are these five essential ingredients for nurturing student well-being?
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From Challenge to Triumph: The Learning Pit Concept Explained
Cool Cat Teacher
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
How can this illustration be used with students to help them learn? He also discusses the importance of drawing the Learning Pit correctly and how to teach it to students. This practical episode from a classroom teacher will help us explain learning to our students. And I wanted students to know that, you know what?
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The Growing Importance of Digital Citizenship
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
In an era where technology and digital platforms are integral to our everyday lives, the role of digital citizenship is ever more critical. This is especially true in educational settings, where equipping students with digital citizenship skills is essential for their safe and responsible navigation of the digital landscape.
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We Need More Math Teachers. Here’s How to Prepare Them for Life in the Classroom.
ED Surge
MARCH 27, 2024
The ninth-graders in my classes and the preservice teachers I teach have one thing in common: math has not always come easy for them, and for many in both groups, learning math can be overwhelming. The first key component is a focus on a mathematical mindset. My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math.
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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation
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DECEMBER 18, 2023
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. He identifies two significant facets, with the first revolving around using AI as a tool to enhance learning, emphasizing personalized education and support.
How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Experience the unique joy of helping students thrive,” the public service announcement says as it depicts a range of people working with students. The national campaign comes at a time of concern about teacher shortages in many schools and districts. Teaching is a journey that shapes lives. Are you ready?”
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How to Keep Teaching When Your Students Keep Dying
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
In my thirteen years of teaching, I’ve lost more students than I can count on two hands. This experience has been brutal, but I am a better person and a better teacher for shifting my priorities to honor the people my ghosts — and former students — once were, and the meaningful relationships we built while they were alive.
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Podcast: Hero at the Classroom Door
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FEBRUARY 19, 2024
This heartfelt episode is guided by the unwavering believe that every student deserves to be seen and heard – truly seen – in a world where we often rush past the small, yet important moments. Together, let's inspire a wave of kindness in education, showing the world that the most powerful lessons come from the heart.
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How Data Drives Strategies for Improved Student Outcomes
ED Surge
APRIL 10, 2024
In turn, this analysis helps educators make informed choices that directly affect student learning and school effectiveness. It allows for comparing a student's growth over time and also noting their achievements against benchmarks. That's one way to figure out where to shine our light.
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To Serve Bilingual Students, This Future Teacher Will Draw on Her Own Experience
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MAY 7, 2024
This fall, Martinez will become a bilingual teacher for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in Morgan Hill, a small city near San Jose, California, as part of the next Teach for America cohort. But more than that, she wants to encourage bilingual students and English language learners the way other teachers did for her.
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To Improve a Child's Education, We Must Be Willing to Let Old Practices Die
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At the first staff meeting of the 2022 academic year, our entire team of coaches and coordinators was exhausted. We’d spent the first two weeks of the year subbing in buildings, covering lunch duties and pitching in wherever we were needed. Over and over again, we come up with the minimum viable product and move on.
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Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching
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AUGUST 24, 2022
Here’s Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Elaine Vanessa’s, take on that–5 bits of wisdom she acquired while surviving the early teaching years: My first five years of teaching were the shortest and longest years of my life. However, my first years were not like that. Take time to get to know your students.
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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
As a teacher, it filters through my relationships with students and into the curriculum I curate. When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. The short answer: it starts with us.
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Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?
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FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan, is an enrolled member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. Some were concerned that strapping on a VR headset would take students further from the natural world. EdSurge: How did this project come about? Additionally, I'm not an elder.
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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears
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MARCH 22, 2023
It had only been a few weeks into the semester, and we had already sent dozens of students’ names to administrators to report this new version of plagiarism. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices.
How I Helped Students Reclaim Pride for Their Black Hair With My Curriculum
ED Surge
DECEMBER 20, 2023
I believe that my experience with students inside the classroom informs, to a great measure, the work that I do today as a school diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leader. 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.
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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?
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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. He has long argued that U.S.
How My Voice As an Asian American Teacher Goes Unheard — and Why I Can’t Speak Up
ED Surge
JANUARY 31, 2024
Let’s wrap up our conversations and get back together!” Whether I’m in an online breakout room, an in-person small group or a turn-and-talk, when I’m with teachers who are coming at me from a non-Asian, Continental, mostly suburban perspective, I know I’ll end up on the receiving end of people talking at me and not to me.
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My School Gave Me Hope, but Our Superintendent Shut It Down
ED Surge
JANUARY 12, 2024
In the week between Thanksgiving and winter breaks, I had two visits, one from an alum who works near the school and keeps an eye on his brother who will graduate this year, and another from a former student, home from Northwestern University for the break. The effect their presence had on the space was palpable.
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Teaching About Generative AI Art Creation
Cool Cat Teacher
AUGUST 17, 2023
This week my students are using Adobe Firefly in a generative AI art competition being held in my classroom. My student after a class period using Adobe Firefly. Generative Art Generation Coming to Your Favorite Slide Creation Program Recently Google Slides added generative AI. We all laughed. Artist: _ In the style of _ artist.
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Youth Mental Health and Safety Don't Take a Summer Break
ED Surge
JULY 10, 2023
Just because this school year has ended doesn’t mean the crisis facing our nation’s youth is over. Black students were more likely than Asian, Hispanic, or white students to attempt to take their own life. And 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ students reported having made a plan to do so. In fact, the data suggests the exact opposite.
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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms
ED Surge
MARCH 19, 2024
When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. Similarly, there's many stories about belonging uncertainty for students of color and for first-generation college students.
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This Strategy Helped My Students Learn to Disagree Respectfully
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
“What will you remember about our class?” My students sat quietly considering the question. “I I, too, was struck by how artfully my students disagreed. The teacher coaches students before and after the discussion, sharing norms and modeling sentence starters, but during the discussion, the teacher remains silent.
Latino Teachers Share How Their Communities Can Reshape Education — If Given the Chance
ED Surge
JULY 25, 2023
Read the first part here. As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic. I know where they're coming from.
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As We Welcome in New Voices of Change Fellows, Our Alumni Reflect on the Stories They Told
ED Surge
JUNE 30, 2023
As another school year comes to a close, so does another cycle of our Voices of Change Writing Fellowship — a program that brings together a diverse cohort of K-12 educators and school leaders to share their experiences. And they explored how their own identities and backgrounds shape their experiences. Here’s what they had to say.
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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement
ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2023
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. In this class, I mostly saw students following along closely, and taking notes. But it was just one student, and most seemed to be paying attention. What's happened to them?
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How the Invisible Tax of Being an Educator of Color Pushed Me Out of the Classroom
ED Surge
MARCH 8, 2024
During my first years of teaching, I decided that no matter how difficult life got, both in and out of the classroom, I would never leave my class in the middle of the year. Utilizing Trauma to Establish Meaningful Connections My first few days teaching seventh grade history were nothing short of a disaster.
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Giving Birth to My Son Taught Me That Change Is Hard. Here Is Why Teachers Must Adapt Anyway.
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. We must rise to this moment—our students, communities and colleagues depend on it.
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Professional Development Is Dying — and It's Most Evident in My Local Teacher Community
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. 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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How Desk Chairs Became a Lesson About What We Deserve in Public Schools
ED Surge
MARCH 15, 2023
One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. Profanity from past students lives on in the rubber sidings of these desks. These are the same desks I used when I was a student.
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