ED Surge
JANUARY 16, 2025
I was recently sitting with my friends 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. Naturally, I sought out someone with on-the-ground experience.
Middle Web
JANUARY 16, 2025
With its tools, approaches and ideas that can work in any school, Turning It Around by Todd Whitaker and award-winning principal Courtney Monterecy is a valuable addition to the literature on school improvement, writes former principal and leadership expert Dr. Ron Williamson. The post Create the School Your Students Deserve first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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Teach Hub
JANUARY 16, 2025
School anxiety can start at a very young age. For many students, the excitement of starting school is also paired with feelings of nervousness. While some anxiety is a normal part of adjusting to a new environment, for some children, these feelings can become overwhelming, impacting their ability to focus and enjoy learning. Whether its academic pressure, social challenges, or the fear of failure, its no wonder that anxiety is becoming more prevalent in students of all ages.
Box Light
JANUARY 16, 2025
Teaching is an art, a science and a continual learning process. The rapidly changing world of classroom technology has created new challenges for many educators, but it has also opened up opportunities for innovation and collaboration. In this episode of Unbox Innovation, Michelle Dawn Mooney welcomes Taylor-Ann Charles, a Training and Development Specialist at EOS Education by Boxlight, and Bernadette Moreno, an Education Mentor and Adult Learning Coordinator at Phoenix Union High School (PXU),
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
STEM Next
JANUARY 16, 2025
As we celebrate Mentorship Month this January, were focusing on the profound impact that peer mentors can have on young peoples STEM journeys. Near-peer mentorshipwhere older students guide younger peersis one of the critical strategies that we champion here at STEM Next. This research-backed approach fosters confidence, builds leadership, and helps keep youth engaged in STEM across ages and stages of their STEM journeys.
The Trendy Science Teacher
JANUARY 16, 2025
If we’re being completely honest, I used to find teaching fiber evidence in forensics to be dry and uneventful. Over the years, I have really had to dig deep to find meaningful activities that engage my students in this topic. It’s taken 15 years, but I finally have a fiber evidence unit that I enjoy to teach. More importantly, my students find the topic to be engaging and interesting.
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