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DECEMBER 10, 2024

High School is like the second half, and youre about to find out if youre a winner. You either learn them now, in high school and in time for the USNA application, or you’ll learn them later in the School of Hard Knocks that is life. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. More on this later.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

But it doesnt have to be, says Phonisha Hawkins, director of instructional excellence for secondary math at KIPP Texas Public Schools, a branch of the national KIPP charter network. So then I became an instructional coach for a middle school, for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. I was basically the face of middle school math.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher has a passel of online resources to help you introduce, teach, and reinforce digital citizenship to your students. A year-long curriculum that covers everything you need to discuss on internet safety and efficiency, check out K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. 46 lessons. 46 projects.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. These policies prioritized standardization and testing, turning schools into spaces of conformity and compliance. Colleagues often self-censored, deeming certain texts and topics “too controversial” for our school community.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Virtual high schools have become increasingly popular as technology has advanced and educational needs have evolved. Here is an overview of key data and trends associated with them: Enrollment and Growth Enrollment Numbers : Virtual high schools have seen significant growth in enrollment.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we’re exploring one of the most exciting and relevant topics in education— teaching kids to code. Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/e202 Aditya Batura : Explore simple steps for teaching coding, including unplugged activities.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Gamification of Education This video is from a series I taught for school districts. Digital citizenship teaches safe online practices for students. Games like Minecraft and Sim City can teach complex subjects effectively. This video is from a series I taught for school districts.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

A school-based makerspace is a hands-on, creative environment where students can explore STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and other interdisciplinary subjects. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s the outline for a seminar I teach in schools before the holiday break, to excite teachers about what they can accomplish “the second half” of the school year: Every year, I make New Year resolutions and ignore them. Resolutions that are, instead, about my teaching mindset.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

While STEM topics seem a natural fit in high schools and post-secondary curriculum, education experts are promoting a focus on STEM subjects for younger and younger children. Bring Weather into Your Lesson Plan with Earth Networks and WeatherSTEM One of the hottest topics in schools and an area of greatest need is STEM resources.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Literacy Read Rosemary Wells acclaimed book, Emilys 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 boys struggle to find 100 of anything to bring to class for the 100th Day project.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Can a high school freshman be goal-oriented? And high school requires the ringing of many academic, social and economic bells. Often contradictory, choices must be made early in the high school regarding ambitions, focus, and intents. ‘No It’s hard the summer before high school, but she’s trying.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

How to use Digital Quick Writes This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: summarized by NoteGPT Summary In this video, Jacqui Murray discusses the concept of quick writes as a dynamic and engaging way to teach writing in the classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Today: K-12 Technology Curriculum Overview The K-12 Technology Curriculum is Common Core and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech for grade level state standards and school curriculum. Each ebook is 148-203 pages, with 251-420 images.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Wikipedia defines “cyberbullying” as: the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards. How serious is it? His body was found later by his older sister.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. Over the last 40-plus years, my work has been trying to make fluency a more central element of our reading curriculum. The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 7, 2025

Thats a bias I have no doubt taken in my teaching career. But is it the right bias for developing high school CS curriculum? Ive said in a number of ways that we dont teach high school physics because we need for physicists. We teach HS physics to help students understand the world they live in. Should we?

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Knowing that SEL is valuable and requires dedicated time, my school has taken the approach of allowing me and my colleagues to stay with the same caseload of children for five years, which is a rare opportunity for counselors and educators to have in this field.

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JULY 14, 2022

Today: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum. K-8 Keyboard Curriculum (four options plus one)–teacher handbook, student workbooks, companion videos, and help for homeschoolers. K-5 (237 pages) and Middle School (80 pages), 100 images, 7 assessments. K-5–print/digital; Middle School–digital delivery only.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. I’ve been there often.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. I mean, its fun! Another Word for Fun?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If parents are confused by what you teach, they will pass that on to their children. I schedule this after school while parents are waiting for their children to finish enrichment classes or sports. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

An after school setting follows these basics, but adapted to a full-time exploration of the topic. Basics While immersing themselves in a topic they love, Genius Hour also teaches students how to pursue a goal important to them. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. By the end of that first semester, 10 of my colleagues had already left the program.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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MAY 17, 2024

How do you teach the hard to teach class? Differentiate This video is from a series I taught for school districts. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s always interesting to find out what new teachers learned in their early teaching that affected their later years. It makes teaching easy if kids love to be in the room every day. Below are five lessons that I have learned in my first five years of teaching. It took troll to the entire school and on me as well.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To explore the role of soft skills in student success and how they can be nurtured in schools, EdSurge sat down with Patrick Keeney , Senior Director of Product Management and Partnerships for Career and Technical Education (CTE) at McGraw Hill School. Are there established standards for soft skills in education?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This is a topic dear to my heart–non-college options for high school grads. Exposing kids to trades isnt just about preparing them for jobsits about strengthening their minds and teaching them valuable life skills. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to BTS resources from Microsoft BTS resources from Teachers Pay Teachers Back to School Survival Kits BTS Toolkit from Education.com Make a class photo in Pixton EDU –image credit Deposit Photos ([link] We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher.

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JUNE 26, 2023

In this article, discover how high school education is shifting towards personalized learning. The Future of High School Education: Navigating the Shift to Personalized Learning High school – a time of excitement, curiosity, exploration and growth. Technology advances and education evolves at an unprecedented pace.

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JUNE 9, 2022

With the growing interest in tech comes a call for summer school programs that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. The goal during the after school tech club time is that each student will publish their first ebook–or at least give it a good start. plan required research. write the book. review with a critique group.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Implementing Mindfulness Practices in Schools In recent years, mindfulness has gained significant traction, not just in adults’ lives but also in educational settings. Incorporating mindfulness practices in schools has proven beneficial for students’ well-being, emotional regulation, and academic success.

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