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MARCH 5, 2024

Over the course of more than an hour of talking, “they started to realize that they really didn't disagree very much,” says Futernick. And they weren't able to say, ‘Let's just agree to disagree.’ And they weren't able to say, ‘Let's just agree to disagree.’ The goal is to highlight areas of agreement rather than discord.

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MARCH 19, 2024

These days most major media and consumer tech products undergo extensive testing, he pointed out, but he says that many grown-ups are fine with a much lower standard for anything designed for kids. That’s perhaps an extreme example, Hedman admits, but he says that lack of testing really shows when students are given the materials.

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I really wanted to get the material across in a way that it sticks with them,” Baselice says. The idea is to get them to think about the different relationships between angles,” Nardolilli says. For example, Nardolilli says, “I’ve noticed that my students make fewer mistakes in identifying angles now.”

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MARCH 22, 2024

But there’s been a problem: Precisely what schools mean by “threat assessment” varies, and it isn’t always based on evidence, according to Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia who developed one of the most widely cited of these protocols. He hopes new guidelines will help. Is that enough?

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APRIL 16, 2024

The number of Latino students who are going to college is on the rise, and they don’t all fit the profile of what institutions might consider the typical freshmen on campus. Santiago says that students who work at least 30 hours per week are more likely to “stop out” and take time off from school to save up more money for tuition.

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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. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Zachary Jackson thinks a lot about what his students may be learning from him in class. They’re so pure,” Jackson says. Me myself, I have crazy drive to succeed,” he says, adding that he pushes his students to excel through basketball tournaments and clubs. They are also practicing how to be a man.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. The teachers just expect her to understand the math right away, she says. Like, my body would not allow me to open the door and step inside, so I just left,” she says. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls the “The Leaking Spanish Bilingual Education Teacher Pipeline.” Say it in English!” I don’t know how to say it in English [I thought].

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says. It’s not a rubric.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s a classic idea : In the 1600s it was the basic model of evaluation at Oxford and Cambridge (with the grilling by professors done in Latin), and it was pretty much what Socrates did to his students. And they say the key is to use technology to make the approach more convenient and less draining.

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APRIL 16, 2024

So what happened to the early education experiments in the metaverse, and what do those watching the space think is next? What's heartbreaking is there was money, there was money flowing from Meta into education directly … and that tap has been pretty well closed, and that I think is tough,” he says.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Learning about what makes Generation Alpha so unique has helped me understand how we might shift our practices accordingly to lean into the strengths of this generation. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.” I wonder what this generation knows that we aren’t measuring?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While he’s enthusiastic about its potential, others are less sure what to think about it. And the decisions those teachers make may be influenced by factors like how familiar they are with the technology or even what gender they are, according to a new study. They also run an AI review of their writing, Kohn says.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Dirkin says the group wanted the document to help school districts and educators think through the use of generative AI without defaulting to either extreme of banning it or allowing unrestricted use. It's doing everything for everyone and anyone that's interested,” he says. “By AI is everywhere.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I’ve been researching cases of people my age doing [college], and then they get out and they use their degree and they still struggle to make a living for themselves,” he says. “If But she says that has changed. They want to have a plan before they go,” she says of most of the students she works with now.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When you’re not sure where you’ll sleep, showing up to class isn’t what you’re worried about. When families are dealing with not having basic necessities, school just isn’t a priority,” says Susanne Terry, coordinator for homeless education services in the San Diego County Office of Education. They fall furthest behind. It’s specific.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

The result is the book “ Verified: How to think straight, get duped less and make better decisions about what to believe online.” There wasn't suddenly a massive decline in critical thinking,” Caulfield says. What is critical ignoring and why is that something you're highlighting? I mean, that's horrible, horrible advice.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Her first semester grades at the California community college were not good, she says, and she didn’t know much about financial aid or academic advising. I didn't know who to talk to, where to go, and all that good stuff,” she says. What if I’m not good enough? What if I don’t get in?’ Just what ifs,’” she remembers.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

They sat down and figured out what knowledge students needed to grasp, and the extent to which they needed to prove proficiency. Traditionally, Spoon says, grading practices for this course tend to emphasize student performance on a limited number of tests.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Department of Education says that $275.7 That’s a recipe for burnout, he says, and doesn’t touch on the need for counselors who are equipped to work with students of color or students with disabilities. “We Gilmore says. During that same time period, the U.S. Do we talk about mental health? That extends to the community level.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Many schools have accepted that students’ overall well-being is an integral part of what helps children and teens succeed academically — particularly in light of the negative consequences created or worsened by the pandemic — and are working to bolster student mental health. But Clarke says that’s just half the picture.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a practice that has gone on for years, but teaching experts say it intensified during pandemic campus shut-downs, when students were looking for ways to connect. “We She says she used a Discord server as a student recently, in an online course she took at the campus. “I

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MARCH 12, 2024

The numbers rose during the pandemic, and researchers had hoped that this was a pandemic-related phenomenon and that the emotional stress students are feeling would decrease to pre-pandemic norms, says Stephanie Marken, a senior partner at Gallup who’s responsible for their education research division.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

What I was told by my family is, ‘Thank God, because you come home and you grade papers. We have to go to your school and help you,’” she says. “I But what happens, more specifically, when veteran teachers burn out and decide it’s time to say goodbye, walking out the door with all of their hard-earned experience?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Their group now has 107,500 members, with 6,700 members joining last month, Long says. While politics wasn’t what pushed Long out, he has seen it impact some teachers. Long says he notices the issue particularly in “hotbed states,” like Florida or Tennessee, where political battles are racking education.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

What does that mean? What does Barbara Blackburn (00:44) Thanks. Well… Vicki Davis (01:05) putting more rigor when you're consulting and working with teachers and saying, Hey, let's, let's reach every child. What does that? So here's what happens. Does that mean a more detailed lesson plan?

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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. Resources Mentioned You're a Teacher Now, What's Next? You know, if I give you a test, a math test, we know what you got right and wrong.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The relationship between social media and mental health is nuanced and different for each person, says Stephanie M. I'm not saying that screen time is not important, but it's not nuanced enough to really understand mechanisms of change, benefit, or harm,” Reich says. While the U.S. It's just your life.

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MAY 19, 2023

Absolutely, say a pair of researchers from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. What they found is that, as outlets for creativity and self-expression, makerspaces are already becoming informal places in schools where students can talk openly about negative emotions like sadness or grief.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

So why do critics say the very idea of a school for the homeless is “problematic?” When parents, students and families are experiencing trauma, it can be actually really helpful to show up to one building, says Marisol Alvarado, vice president of programs at Monarch School. A 2020 report for the U.S.

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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. The digital tools facilitated parent-child interactions, Kalil says in an interview, making the time spent more fun and efficient — just better overall.

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JUNE 16, 2023

It’s going to be a thinking and writing partner in multiple languages,” he says, typing questions into the chatbot on his iPad. We’ve noticed that the earlier we introduce these assignments into a course, the retention rates improve,” Maggioncalda says. Stueve says she needs the flexibility and choice of an online setting. “I

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Let me start by saying: Don’t worry. Scaffold your lessons with what they teach. Ask them to stay during tech class and offer on-the-spot tie-ins between what you teach and they say in class. Ask students what they are doing in class and offer tech methods to make it easier. And for the teachers, also.

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MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. What’s an example? And what was happening was that women were looking at this space and they were saying, ‘This is kind of a geeky masculine space.

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MARCH 14, 2024

The way that they learn is so individualized, the way that their brain takes in information — they all have a personal assistant in their pocket that gives them information,” Robert says. What’s a ‘Good’ Amount of Planning Time? Is an average of 266 planning minutes per week what teachers might consider a good or sufficient amount?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom. Many are busy adults who don’t want their time wasted.”

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