ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

Hope that school might return to normal in the fall is quickly dimming as new COVID-19 variants threaten to pummel communities throughout the country and COVID hospitalization rates increase. All signs point to record teacher and staff departures at schools across the country. But that would be a mistake.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. For students struggling to simply show up for school, this can translate to poor access to the basics. The most common problem?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

With all the talk of the downsides of smartphones for teenagers, parents have looked to smartwatches as a way to stay in contact with their young children while avoiding the full internet and social media access of a phone. At least that was the narrative a couple of years ago.

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MARCH 11, 2019

I do talk about it in my Digital Citizenship grad school class (if you click the link, it’s MTI 557) but haven’t turned those ideas into blogs yet. Even though 86% of universities currently educate students with disabilities, only 24% of the schools say that they offer those students assistance “to a major extent.”

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APRIL 8, 2024

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Yet, the one-size-fits-all model persists in many high schools. Could we expand high school options to guarantee every student’s success?

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Are you a middle school science teacher looking to ignite your students' curiosity? All these resources are freely accessible from the Natural History Museum of Utah. And the best part? Research Quest sponsored this blog post. All opinions are my own.

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JUNE 19, 2024

Schools across the USA are embracing virtual information sessions to enhance learning experiences and streamline communication. No longer bound by geography, students can access diverse resources and personalized support while parents can stay connected with teachers effortlessly.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. School was once thought of as a safe place for students and educators, but many students, staff and families have lost a sense of safety and security. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. That’s been changing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtually every school and teacher were thrust into the edtech landscape. Louis, Missouri.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

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MAY 16, 2015

Today’s students have access to far more knowledge than their parents once found in encyclopedias and on maps. With the click of a mouse and without leaving the classroom, they can access the collective knowledge of all mankind via the Internet. Technology in the Classroom Keeps Kids in School, Helps Them Learn.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lessons are given by high school and college students who clearly show their love of the subject. Do you get the idea that the Tract learning platform breaks the mold of what students and teachers typically think of as school? How about these: It makes it OK for students to explore new interests in school. Dig deeper.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Whether it’s a learning disability, physical impairment, or sensory issue, recognizing these elements will guide you in selecting the right technological tools. By incorporating tools designed to support their unique challenges, you empower them to access learning more independently and effectively.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Literacy Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. If you prefer, read The Night Before the 100th Day of School about one boy’s struggle to find 100 of anything to bring to class for the 100th Day project.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Over the past few months (well, since March), I’ve spent a lot of time reinventing my teaching protocols, doing a rigorous evaluation of whether my standard practices are best suited for the new best practices for teaching at home and school (click here for lots of info on COVID-19 and education ). Access revision history.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Everyone knows what bullying is — someone being taunted physically or mentally by others — and there are endless resources devoted to educating both students and teachers on how to combat bullying. It gets worse every year as the Internet plays an increasingly dominant part in student lives at home and school. How serious is it?

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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. It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bell’s chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. How do you do it, in your school? It didn’t work. It’s easier than you think.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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JULY 24, 2024

Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. Comments made in high school, pictures posted in college, funny videos taken out of context—all are available for future employers to view. Why does it matter?

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Account Breaches Cybercriminals can deploy a variety of techniques, including hacking and credential stuffing, to unlawfully gain access to online profiles. By gaining entry to your email account, for instance, bad actors could assume your identity and target your students, school, and loved ones for various scams.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2023

That means those students are missing 10 percent of a school year—or more. Why kids don’t show up to school is a thorny problem, Chang says. Chang agreed to hop on a call to school EdSurge on some of the complexities of K-12 absenteeism across the country. The big takeaway? It’s about meaningful relationships.

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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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JUNE 29, 2015

intuitive to use for both teachers and students, to encourage daily access. It should be non-intimidating, non-threatening, even non-geeky, so stakeholders feel as comfortable as they would in a physical classroom. full access to Google Drive. You can access it with a Google log-in. includes reminders of activities.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And back in September, around 82 percent of Florida school districts closed for at least one day — keeping roughly 2.5 million students out of school. This puts physical classrooms in harm’s way, and also threatens students’ academics and mental health, too. physical threats to schools from weather vary from region to region.

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2024

A VR experience created by students at The New School in New York City is designed to take viewers to an almond farm in California and illustrate the effects of pesticides on bee colonies. The goal is not just to create a virtual field trip to a farm that students in a classroom might not have access to.

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ED Surge

JULY 6, 2022

Principals, in many schools, are seen as the person responsible for the mental health and well-being of their staff, serving as sounding boards and problem solvers for their teachers, who are carrying the emotional burdens of their own personal and professional lives as well as the struggles, stresses and trauma of their students.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school. In terms of measuring absenteeism in college or university settings, it's harder because most schools don't have university-wide policies on absences. We don't want students in the classroom when they're not physically well.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They’ve changed into online treasure hubs to help kids access education. The digital library has introduced an approach connecting students to personalized methods to access their courses. As long as you have access to a screen and internet, you can open millions of books and the whole world’s information.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022. Transcript - Episode 797.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

On a recent visit to a school district, I was startled to find a procurement office with folding tables stacked with hundreds of paper purchasing orders that needed to be manually reviewed and approved. The answer, unfortunately, is too many schools. School finance workflows are a good place to start.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The report urges schools away from all-in-one service bundles that outsource design, construction, and sometimes even teaching of online courses, and especially from contractors who promise hugely increased revenue. We’ve already seen some first steps in this direction, from a few schools; let us continue that way.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The teacher is as critical or more in an online classroom as they are in the physical class. How to I provide equity for those without computers or internet access at home is challenging? Access the required site through mobile devices. Provide mobile hotspots distributed by school. How do I make online learning personal?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Mark Zuckberberg, Meta’s founder and CEO, held up what he described as the first working prototype of Orion, which lets wearers see both the physical world and a computer display hovering in the field of vision. This is the physical world with holograms overlaid on it.” For educators, this might not come as welcome news.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Imagine not only waking up to a pandemic, forced into an isolated space without the physical and emotional support you need for learning, but also discovering that the place you call home has been deemed unlivable. Price Middle School (LJPMS) families after the city of Atlanta condemned property in the Forest Cove neighborhood in 2021.

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