Box Light

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Denver Public Schools (DPS) is leading the way in career exploration through its Spark Early Career Exploration Program , emphasizing diverse career exposure for students.

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Box Light

MARCH 5, 2024

Clayton County Public Schools (Jonesboro, GA) and Boxlight's partnership spanning over eight years has significantly transformed education by addressing the challenges posed by outdated technology. CCPS faced issues with aging projectors, prompting a strategic collaboration with Boxlight.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2024

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service. Controversial Practices?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

However, nuance is needed in communicating conclusions and helping the public—and even leaders and experts—to understand them. Those in the throes of studying school resources are very much aware of other scholarly perspectives. The public, less so. Perhaps those rankings could also calculate what the public digests.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. Whether they are just feeling nostalgic or genuinely miss me, it’s always nice seeing their faces.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When Mayra Valtierrez talks about the students in New Mexico public schools who are learning English, one thing becomes clear: It’s an incredibly diverse population. The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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Box Light

AUGUST 21, 2023

EOS Education by Boxlight and Clayton County Public Schools (Jonesboro, GA) proudly united to host the inaugural Teacher Appreciation Celebration, an event organized by the EOS Education Digital Learning Specialist Team.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. It uses survey responses from principals of nearly 2,700 P-12 schools to take the pulse of myriad issues that affect students and how schools operate. million of emergency school funds were spent on mental health support for students and staff. Gilmore says.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

With the growing interest in tech comes a call for summer school programs that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. public speaking. In this class, take students through the six steps required to move from dream to publication: brainstorm. analytical thinking. citizenship/ethics/etiquette. critical thinking. persuasion.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling students get back on track academically after the disruption caused when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

Should schools be run like businesses? This former high school teacher and current professor shared his thoughts in a Twitter thread today that got some attention. The vision of schools as businesses is currently ascendant. That is: schools should respond to what their customers want. Public schools are publicly funded.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Do you ever worry that core subjects are getting lost in the muddle of all the other stuff that is becoming part of the accepted curriculum in K-12 schools? Public Policy and the Executive and Legislative Branches Quiz. Public Policy Flashcards. Public Policy Matching. getting good grades on civics, history. Civics games.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical. Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist. Well, yes and no. But mostly no.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

trillion infrastructure bill into law, our nation is poised to make historic investments in its highways, public transit, railways, airports, ports, water systems, broadband networks and electric grid. When school districts spend months implementing a new edtech tool, they often learn a great deal—and they learn it the hard way.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically. This is a dilemma.

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Educators Technology

JULY 29, 2022

After thirty-three years of teaching children, mainly in CA public schools, Done retired from the classroom. From the first-day-of-school jitters to the last day’s tears, the book explores a teacher’s craft, the classrooms they work in, the curriculum they teach, the challenges they face, and the reason all teachers do it—the children.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2022

June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License. provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school.

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Newton STEM

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The Boston Public Schools STEM Fair will showcase students’ work to the public, in-person on March 4 , 8AM-2:30PM, at Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center (360 Huntington Avenue, Boston). If you can volunteer to be a Judge at the Fair (8AM-11:30AM) on March 4, apply here.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina. And since the beginning of this school year, he’s taught first grade in Fulton County Schools, in northern Georgia. “I He’s taught music, drawing on his experiences in music production.

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Middle Web

MAY 21, 2023

Williamson and Blackburn highlight four good reasons to be optimistic about the future of America’s public schools. Community approval is the highest in nearly 50 years; teachers are better prepared for the future, and the resilience of public educators remains remarkable.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University. Nearly all of the top sites linked to by schools “extensively” used tracking software, according to the report.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

Education researchers have long kept an eye on the changing demographics of public schools, some looking at the potential for those shifts to shepherd in inequity as ethnic groups migrate or fluctuate in size. The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

For thousands of high school students who are graduating, this time of year is all about looking to the future — namely, preparing for college in the fall. States with 1,000 or more undocumented high school graduates are shown. estimates that 120,000 undocumented students are graduating from high school this year. Source: FWD.us

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Defined Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

Elizabeth Kreutzer, middle school s cience teacher and science department chair at Loch Raven Technical Academy in Baltimore City Public Schools , discusses her experience incorporating project-based learning into her classroom. In today's digital age, student engagement is more of a challenge than ever before.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. Questions about what we can learn from the history of education are familiar to Larry Cuban, a longtime education historian and school reformer. He looks back over nearly a century of change in his new book, “Confessions of a School Reformer.”

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The Maker Mom

DECEMBER 30, 2023

One of the best ways children learn to develop ideas and communicate with others is through public speaking and debate. Many of these schools also offer in-person camps during the summer. Advanced lessons build on previous experience, further developing research skills, public speaking, and teamwork, all while having fun.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Adjacent to a former high school, the lot was wasted space back then, she says. The owners of the abandoned parking lot and the land beneath it — the local school district — realized as much, and they hatched a plan. It’s an approach that is gaining momentum among public school districts nationwide.

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Thimble

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Funding for Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) Thimble is a grade 4-12 standards-aligned and hands-on curriculum that teaches students science, engineering, robotics, and coding through… The post Thimble Federal Funding Guide for Public Schools appeared first on Thimble Online STEM Classes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). But really, it's not just a one-sided thing. Who Is in the Top 5 Percent?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. I like the challenge.” It’s something that everyone can participate in.”

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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

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

APRIL 5, 2024

The challenges teachers face are coming from a variety of forces from campus expectations to school district mandates to state legislature — and they’re coming from all parties, including parents, students, administrators, politicians and society at large. It’s hearing people say, “Public schools are failing!”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2023

Why is it important to preserve historical school video recordings? Ask a Tech Teacher contributor has some ideas: 3 Effective Ways to Digitize and Preserve School’s Historical Video Recordings Each year, schools manage and process all sorts of documents and data, starting with students’ personal information and ending with events.

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