Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). Elementary Math. Blended Learning.

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MAY 19, 2022

A group of blockchain projects called “learn-to-earn” (also sometimes called “earn-to-learn”) aims to incentivize learners to engage with educational content and, just as importantly, stick with it. The training content is broken up into short, personalized learning “pills” based on personal goals. In SuperSkills!,

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

PHARR, TEXAS — In the entryway of Graciela Garcia Elementary, visitors are greeted twice. All that is made explicit because Garcia Elementary is a dual-language school. Once by a huge multi-colored sign that says “Welcome” and again by one that reads “Bienvenidos.” Another sign cheerfully declares, “Today is English day!”

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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. EdSurge: There is a lot of discussion right now about learning loss and learning gaps.

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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. Futernick shares these recorded discussions on his podcast, “ Courageous Conversations About Our Schools. ”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Riley Campbell isn’t one of those aspiring educators who always dreamed of leading her own classroom or who played school with her friends growing up. For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When he was in high school, Zachary Farley latched onto the idea of becoming a teacher. Then in college, when he started learning Mandarin, a deep love of languages took hold, and he began to make new plans. He had a front-row seat to a career that would allow him to pursue his two greatest passions: language and learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

We feel this with each school shooting we endure. As the founder of an organization that provides social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences for preK-12 students, educators and families, and a mother of three, I spend a great deal of time considering what this crisis means for schools and communities. Enough is enough.

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Accelerate Learning

MARCH 22, 2024

Integrating engineering concepts into elementary education is a crucial topic in this day and age. Exposure to engineering concepts at a young age boosts STEM learning and builds a problem-solving mindset, which is key for tomorrow's innovators. It's about preparing students for a future where technology and engineering are central.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2022

eSpark is a free no-prep solution that teachers of math and reading at the elementary level need to try. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. I recommend that Math and Language Arts teachers of elementary-aged students check out eSpark. Still, I would prefer to use the term “interrupted learning.”

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The students in our academy are motivated, passionate and dedicated to learning more about the field they are interested in.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. When I requested to have her evaluated for additional support at school, I was told to give her time.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. It uses survey responses from principals of nearly 2,700 P-12 schools to take the pulse of myriad issues that affect students and how schools operate. million of emergency school funds were spent on mental health support for students and staff. Gilmore says.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A few years ago, it seemed like social-emotional learning was rocketing into the mainstream. Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

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Educators Technology

AUGUST 17, 2022

It's about time of the year we, teachers and educators, start getting ready for the start of a new school year. To help make this return as smooth as possible, I am sharing with you this collection of back to school worksheets and printables to use with your students in class. There is an individual membership which costs $24.95

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. It’s that those tasks are only a very small part of what Eva Stone views as a significant role within a school. The school often can step in and help. “We

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Unlike North Carolina’s K-12 schools or community colleges, child care programs aren’t consolidated under a public system. The longer it takes for young learners to return to their early care and learning settings, the longer it takes for their families to resume regular working schedules.

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Educators Technology

JULY 29, 2022

Veteran, award-winning teacher Phil Done (32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny) has knocked it out of the park again with his recently released The Art of Teaching Children: All I Learned from a Lifetime in the Classroom by Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. He has also served as an educational consultant around the world.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At its core, personalized learning is about recognizing that no two students learn exactly the same way. It moves beyond the one-size-fits-all approach by focusing on each student’s strengths, needs and learning pace. Additionally, my administrators studied innovative school models at various locations. Dr. Joseph W.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

HOUSTON — On a Tuesday in August, one day before the official start of the school year, the halls of Jefferson Early Learning Center were filled with the tinkling chatter of pre-K students who were escorted by their parents to meet the teachers. That month, the temperature reached a record-breaking average high of 102.7

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Chaula Butterworth was a stay-at-home mom before the pandemic, raising her three school-aged kids. But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, Butterworth felt something of a call to service. Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is the Learning Pit metaphor? How can this illustration be used with students to help them learn? He also discusses the importance of drawing the Learning Pit correctly and how to teach it to students. He is the creator of the Learning Pit.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2021

Moon Phase Simulation Viewed from Earth and Space (interactive, elementary and middle school)—and associated Lesson Plan. Observing the Moon in the Sky (interactive, elementary). Moonrise to Moonset (media gallery, elementary). You can find her resources at Structured Learning. More on space.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Stacy George. Gerstein: I taught machine learning activities to the students with ISTE standards using Google's Teachable Machine as the tool.

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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. He has taught at urban, suburban, rural, and private schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2023

5 Surprising Ways Homeschoolers Can Use Canva for Learning and Fun Explore how your homeschoolers can use Canva to enhance their learning, graphic design, and tech skills to level up their assignments. When you’re ready to present, you can share digitally or download and print for your school projects!

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

A school district in Brighton, in the Denver metro area of Colorado, was having a hard time keeping teachers. The salaries in the district, 27J Schools, were low for the region. So, strapped for cash, the district decided to switch to a four-day school week. The need was becoming dire.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. Even with these strengths, my learning curve was steep. In fact, I was a district leader who made this recommendation at times.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

24, 2022, I was facilitating a meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia for education and youth development leaders when I got word that my 15-year-old godson had been shot at his high school in St. She suggested that after I spoke to my children myself, I should call the administration at each school and ask them to handle my kids with care.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. School safety is a complex and emotional societal issue. Some 95 percent of U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. The panel surveys about 2,400 school principals representing all grade levels. Not likely.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

As you enter today's classrooms, it's clear: Technology isn't just a tool, it's the driving force behind vibrant communities, shaping how students learn and teachers connect. Many schools prioritize stakeholder collaboration in the process of assessing technological needs. Gauna has 16 years of experience within the district.

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