ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Today’s high school and college students are part of Generation Z, a group of people who range in age from 12 to 28, and have characteristics, attitudes and aspirations that distinguish them from prior generations. It is not, however, known for its flexibility or pay. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. But my school doesn’t work that way. Morita, you were wrong.

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MAY 29, 2024

Effective time management will not only lead to success in achieving your goals, but also help you maintain your mental well-being. However, unfortunately, we usually can’t achieve this because of not having enough time or not organizing our schedules properly. So, let’s learn more about it from the Ask a Tech Teacher team.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. When I first came to this school, I felt as if student voices didn’t matter. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. According to a study conducted by Challenge Success, a school reform nonprofit, high school students are already doing more homework than they were before the pandemic, averaging 3 hours of homework a night, up from 2.7

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Educators who wish to use PDL often run into three roadblocks : School Standards. Standards are in fact the foundation that underpins your students’ ability to achieve their PDL goals. Treat your grade-level or school curricula the same as you might the school standards. In-place curriculum. Encourage enthusiasm.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

During the busy parent-teacher conference season in the school calendar, teachers usually have to multitask. A flexible schedule allows you to make time for essential duties or emergencies. Also, you can ask your colleagues to help you plan or even track some records in school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction.

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JUNE 8, 2024

How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar Modeled after Apple’s popular tech support stations, a Genius Bar in a school setting is a student-run help desk where peers provide tech support, advice on digital tools, and assistance with various tech-related issues.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

This article is for recent graduates, either from high school or college, ready to look for a first job. You should highlight the top skills a particular employer needs, including flexibility, communications and management. The skills might include teamwork skills, project management and managing communications.

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JUNE 20, 2023

This encourages healthy habits and helps establish boundaries while permitting some flexibility. During weekdays, it might be slightly easier to keep track of their usage due to a structured schedule involving school, homework, and extracurricular activities.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 19, 2023

Serving at Reagan High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Misa has made a profound impact through her dynamic approach to educational leadership. Under her guidance, the school has not only seen significant growth in its International Baccalaureate (IB) Career Program, but also received numerous awards for student achievement.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We wanted to make sure it is as flexible as possible for instructors. They include activities based on students’ grade level–third grade up to high school seniors—that explore topics like health equity, food insecurity and national parks. Having role models makes it so much more accessible and easier to believe it’s achievable.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

Christopher Bugaj Assistive Technology Specialist, Loudoun County Public Schools One way for educators to meet the needs of students is to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into their instructional practices. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Today, teachers want to call out student strengths and weaknesses, accomplishments and areas of improvement, as aligned with the standards that their school mission is built on. It is built in the flexible HTML 5 language. That requires a detailed picture of what students have learned. The problem is: This is time-consuming.

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JUNE 20, 2024

You can then compare savings accounts to a flexible piggy bank where they can easily get money from, but it earns less interest. Class Party Planning You can also let your students take charge of planning an event, like a class party or a school dance, with a fixed budget.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

Black and Latino students living in poverty have been systemically affected by factors not related to their families but rather their schools. One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools.

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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. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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MARCH 17, 2015

Don’t let those geeky tech nerds who work magic on your school’s computers intimidate you. NOT knowing how to use technology is not a ‘problem’ It’s a chance to think, stretch the brain, achieve new heights and that huzzah feeling that only comes with great success. Ask for help.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Educators who wish to use PDL often run into three roadblocks : School Standards. Standards are in fact the foundation that underpins your students’ ability to achieve their PDL goals. Treat your grade-level or school curricula the same as you might the school standards. In-place curriculum. Encourage enthusiasm.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the last 10 years — particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — schools and colleges have had to adapt and evolve their approaches to learning and collaboration, opening the door to the “learn from anywhere” world. It really is the future of education, enabling students, teachers, and other faculty members to achieve more.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and conform while growing up in white schools. I sense this same feeling of difference in a student who recently transferred to my school from a predominantly Black school in Milwaukee.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Throughout the retreat, I watched and participated as youth organizers critically analyzed their school experiences and co-created ideas for school improvement campaigns. Wouldn’t it be cool if our school was actually like that?” Across the state, the common thread was mental health in school.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

That meant MS Publisher skills learned at school were rarely transferrable to a home environment. If you have never designed graphically before, start with the free Design School with how-to instructions on many projects and skillsets. Most schools include robust units on using and understanding tables, charts, and graphs.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It is challenging to include those characteristics in classes when you are concurrently trying to achieve school goals, comply with curriculum timelines, juggle parent concerns, and blend your lessons with those of colleagues. Students learn best when they are relaxed, happy, and feeling loved. Are classmates bored or riveted?

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MAY 29, 2020

What I do worry about is running out of books so this year, I spent the last few months stalking efriends to find out what they recommend to kickstart the 2020-21 school year. See what you think: Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works. And it paid off. I came up with six.

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JULY 10, 2023

As educators, we eagerly anticipate the start of a new school year while using our summer break to recharge and prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead. In this article, we will explore how embracing flexibility and innovation can enhance your robotics and computer science classes.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. If we don't get in front of this now with a nimble, flexible, guideline policy or strategy as a collective whole, it's gonna continue to change.”

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MARCH 20, 2019

Our job as educators is to encourage students in whatever their choice of post-school employment is, be it more education, a technical school, or a job. One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. North Carolina: Getting Kids College Ready.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter If you want to know how to start an eSports program in your school. Or if you want to know why so many schools are getting eSports programs, this episode is a must-listen for you. Esports are rapidly growing in schools across the country.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It is challenging to include those characteristics in classes when you are concurrently trying to achieve school goals, comply with curriculum timelines, juggle parent concerns, and blend your lessons with those of colleagues. How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Class. This is where mindfulness becomes important.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2024

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor: Edge U Badges Edge U Badges Edge U Badges from Forward Edge is a fantastic microcredentialing program for teachers, administrators, and school staff. With the ISTE Seal of Alignment, this program is approved by many districts as a flexible, personalized way for teachers to learn and grow.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. The answer?

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Gordon, a Nationally-recognized Teacher and in the Top Five in my school district, so abysmally failed to spark my love of learning. Effective teachers care about the student, their goals, and their achievement of goals. They are flexible. In my school, controlled by state standards, he could no longer do that.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

We’ve developed a comprehensive and flexible curriculum intended for mass adoption. Our surveys reflect that over 90 percent of teachers who completed this professional development were confident in teaching CT lessons in their schools and willing to recommend CoolThink to other schools. Let’s discuss that idea further.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2022

In essence, this allows schools a better option to pick only the services needed, which helps with lower tuition and acknowledges that colleges and universities have been developing their own online-education capabilities. The jury is obviously still out on whether these strategic changes will work for the company.

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