ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. These are people who promote conflict for conflict's sake because there's some political gain or financial gain in doing that.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

We became more than a babysitter,” says Mignon Callender, a former LYFE student parent and current LYFE teacher. “We We know that we are teaching more than the children in this program.” Every student parent is connected with a social worker who helps them plot a path forward and think about their futures.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

million children who entered kindergarten in the fall of 2020, and as a result of the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, started her public school career remotely. While the school waited, we sought outside evaluations to explore if there were supports that would be helpful to reduce the challenges she was experiencing at school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When we got into the classroom, the students were shy. But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.” But then we still have some that wanna be on their phone, they wanna be on their Chromebook here at school, so they isolate themselves.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

That gives us the tools that we need to be able to solve problems that we may not know how to do, but we can take the challenge, and we can find out how to fix it.” “That gives us the tools that we need to be able to solve problems that we may not know how to do, but we can take the challenge, and we can find out how to fix it.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As I drove down the lengthy driveway of Mercy Montessori Center, I called my great aunt from Athens, Georgia, whom we lovingly call Aunt Puddien. Eventually, I was able to elicit participation from 18 individuals who would help me achieve my vision for DEIB at Mercy. Aunt Puddien is like another mother to me and I trusted her wisdom.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sachdeva’s interest in early education was influenced by his mother, who runs a preschool in her home, allowing him to observe the learning processes of local young children. There are 350 million children below age six around the world who are at risk of not meeting their developmental potential simply because of where they were born.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Frankenmuth School District has about 1,400 students, nearly 91 percent of whom are white. Its poverty rate is about 5 percent. In contrast, to its west, Saginaw City School District is home to nearly 5,200 students, 81 percent of them students of color. Its poverty rate is 50 percent. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

By creative thinking, they do not mean they need people who can draw and paint well. How can we help educators overcome the fear of the unknown regarding AI? Johnson: This is a new phenomenon, so we have to acknowledge the emotions and the feelings that come from that [fear]. That end-to-end process is creative thinking.

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Many schools have just one mental health professional, Gilmore explains, who could be the only source of support for hundreds or thousands of students. 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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

As a kindergartener who spoke only Spanish, Cervantes-González had a part-time bilingual aide in her otherwise English-only classroom. That includes bilingual teachers, who are in high demand across the country. That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 11, 2024

In this show, we dive into the essential homework hacks that every parent and student should know, focusing on developing lifelong learning skills, enhancing organizational abilities, and promoting a growth mindset. We can help our children learn! We only recommend the best in education on the 10 Minute Teacher! We’re exhausted.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

I grew up going through many adverse childhood experiences, and I always had teachers who made a positive impact on my life, and wanted the same,” she says. She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

While I still have a caseload of students who I meet with regularly, my job description explicitly states that I am the mental health provider for the staff at our school. As a person who walks the halls with the same students and families as my colleagues, I’m able to quickly and tangibly support them with many day-to-day challenges.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. As Boaler asserts, “Everyone can learn math to high levels.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

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. When you tell our stories, I want you to tell them with fidelity.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 7, 2024

Today, for Thought Leader Thursday, we are talking to Tom Hierck, 41-year educator, and author of 25 books. He gives suggestions for schools that help them frame school behavior and understand students' dreams, needs and abilities in a way we can put into our classroom practice. He is the author/co-author of 25 books.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Texas , where roughly 40 percent of residents are Hispanic, nearly 1 million students in public schools are English learners who speak Spanish at home. This presents a hurdle to growing the number of bilingual teachers, she says, because educators who teach children in Spanish obviously need to be proficient in the language.

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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. Then we have the children of immigrants that were born here, and thus inherited a language from their family.” Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

A number of ACRL members would say ‘Wow, we see a lot of similarities in terms of usage and media consumption.’” They might be coming in to see their friends, but we know they’re coming into our physical spaces,” McNeil said. At Purdue, a staggering 98 percent of undergraduates actually spend time in the libraries, McNeil said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ironically, that seems increasingly far from the reality in our classrooms; if anything, it feels like the state of teacher professional development is dying at a time when we need to engage and connect the most. When those connections are severed or stale, we end up dead in the water before we even start.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The person who really helped me along this journey has been educational technologist Jaime Donally. . Heather Brantley I don’t want to be a teacher who teaches at kids; I want to be a teacher who learns alongside kids. You will inevitably have some students who are not immediately invested. It was just a mess.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But Farley, who had been learning Mandarin for a few years by then, was serving a class of kindergarteners enrolled in a Mandarin-English dual immersion program. In this installment, we are featuring Zachary Farley. As a paraeducator who speaks both languages, I was a good fit for the program. So that was my journey.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Getting to the classroom has been a struggle for students like Laura, 15, who just finished her freshman year at East Palo Alto Academy (EPAA). We agreed not to publish Laura's real name, to protect her privacy. Alex said that students who are chronically absent "very easily fall behind." Department of Education data.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff? Are we getting to the root of the departures and career pivots?

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2024

Time and time again, I felt rage and disgust with educators who quit simply because it was too much. While some educators would rally at the thought of being back home and working in their former schools, those of us who have experienced adversity within our respective communities quiver at the thought of being back.

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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. No matter what happens to my students, the relationships we are able to have when I prioritize these commitments cannot be taken away from us.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s the argument of Kieran Egan, a Canadian philosopher and longtime professor at Simon Fraser University who passed away in 2022. And that appealed to Brandon Hendrickson, who stumbled across Egan’s work while doing a master’s program in education at the University of Washington.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The proposal, which leaders of the Dublin Unified School District began testing with a cohort of teachers last year, was pitched as a way to shift emphasis from winning points on tests and homework to student mastery of material — and to improve equity by better supporting students who might take a bit longer to learn. It changed us.” “The

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. 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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

Unfortunately, my students’ work — and the inkblots which carried my feedback — would never get into the hands of readers who could make change. You’ve learned to write in a system where you’re writing to readers who are paid to care about you. Who would read their work? But there are forces that get in the way.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2023

Seventy percent of public schools nationwide reported an increase in students who have sought mental health services since 2020 , yet only 12 percent of educators strongly agreed that their school was able to effectively meet the need. Are we surprised that students are slipping through the system? Schools are feeling the strain.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We know Black students are punished more frequently and more harshly, but what we didn’t really know was how much all of this discipline was shared across educators versus perpetuated by just a few educators,” says Emily K. “We Penner’s past policy work has examined the factors within education that harm students of certain races.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Edit Adobe PDFs in Adobe Express (bonus) 19:03 Why we want students to use a variety of tools Transcript Hello there, fellow knowledge-seekers! We work with districts all around the country. We hear all the time about schools losing access to these tools. Our school is an Adobe school and we have all the bells and whistles.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. Paul LeBlanc: In a way we got dragged into online against our will. We were a preferred provider for the U.S. We were relatively unknown, very local.

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JUNE 6, 2023

And he worries that too often, teachers and other adults brush off or ignore kids when they ask things like, “Are we all just a figment of someone else’s dream?” Hershovitz, who has two young children of his own, highlights the philosophical potential of youngsters in his book, “Nasty, Brutish and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids.”

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