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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

High School students will soon move into college and career where digital tools are de rigeur. Here are twelve recommended by the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students In the ever-evolving landscape of education, keeping students engaged can be a challenge.

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ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

Last year, when Jayla Arensberg was a sophomore at Burnsville High School near St. Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I It’s a stark example of how the line between high school and college is blurring for more students. I like that.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts. Today it sits at 9.5

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APRIL 18, 2024

School absenteeism has been one of the small but chronic problems in the past. Since the pandemic, it is so much more, to the point it is a front-of-mind issue that schools scramble to address. Despite efforts to improve attendance, challenges persist, prompting renewed focus on student engagement and support strategies.

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JULY 30, 2024

8 Crucial Steps for University Admission Success for High School Students Applying for university is a significant milestone for high school students. Here are eight crucial steps to help high school students navigate the university admission process effectively. GPA, check out colleges that accept a 3.5

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JUNE 4, 2024

June 4th-6th: Buy any K-8 School License get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased (Please note: new orders only; domestic or freight-forwarders only) Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants.

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MAY 20, 2024

When Mysa School started about eight years ago, the microschool movement was new. A school with about 40 students in Washington, D.C., The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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. My resignation — coming after eleven years in the same school district — wasn’t impulsive.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

I stayed in this role for only three years before going back to school to teach, but my short stint in the corporate world carried me to the classroom with a perspective that allowed me to see all the ways teaching is treated as a calling rather than a career, and how that impacts school teachers.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we dive into essential qualities of effective school leadership. From building relationships to tackling teacher burnout, our guest principals and educational experts share their strategies for creating positive, high-impact school environments.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

million English learners in public schools, you’d know the opening line explains that recent data has something interesting to reveal about the U.S.’s While not all emergent bilinguals — as they’re also called — are immigrants, some districts may offer programs or schools for students who are new to the country. s bilingual students.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

YouTube Video – Premiere Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Show Notes In today's episode, Vicki Davis speaks about school safety and building positive relationships with students. Frank shares his personal journey, his faith, and his promise to rebuild the community. Read more here.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2024

“If workload is already the burden on teachers, I think schools will have to get creative,” Merriman says, “and hopefully the teachers themselves can help with the innovation of how to focus on well-being without it becoming yet another burdensome activity that they've got to check the box on.” How do we define it?

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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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AUGUST 19, 2024

Even while schools are stuck dealing with deep challenges, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding is running its course. For some teachers and school leaders, it can feel like an onslaught. It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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JUNE 26, 2024

While summer is the busiest time of year for military families to transition to their next duty station, throughout the school year, they move from state to state, and sometimes even across the world.

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JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. But there’s a push to change that. In April, the U.S.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. I took my first CS course in grad school, and before that I totally thought I was not a CS person,” he says. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

As High School students explore post-graduation options, more and more are looking at careers as creators. Dive into the world of photo editing with our comprehensive guide tailored for high school students. It is fulfilling and potentially lucrative and relies heavily on individual passion and preparation.

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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. These programs exist in many districts across the country, some as standalone schools and others as programs embedded in the district.

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MAY 31, 2024

It’s graduation time for High School seniors, that moment when they take over their own bills, budgets, and balancing income with outcomes. The following seven tips by Harley Wade from State of Writing will help high school students learn how to budget properly. What does your parent(s) give you for allowance?

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AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. The Reform Merry-Go-Round Fad is the wrong word, says Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor at Stanford University who writes a blog about school reforms.

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JUNE 25, 2024

The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum. Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

I know he can learn and do the math, but his struggles with attention and staying focused, along with the structure of school, make it really hard for him and others who share his challenges to find the success they deserve. Trapped between the schedule of the day and his own brain, he was going to fail.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2024

A couple of years ago, as schools that had been forced to go virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic began to bring students back on campus, Pedro Olvera noticed that his phone started ringing more. Adding a language barrier between a child and school psychologist makes the evaluation more complex, Olvera says.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Balloon archways surrounded the stage as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Alberto Carvalho, last month announced what he hailed as a pioneering use of artificial intelligence in education.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Getting into algebra early is thought to improve college attractiveness, and the course is often a high school graduation requirement.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. As a high school teacher, this is especially important as many of my students are nearing adulthood. Schooling is already compulsory. On a Friday during one of those long, exhausting days, two birds flew into my classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 23, 2024

Career Guidance in Cypriot Schools: How Students are Prepared for a Successful Future School education in Cyprus is recognized by the world community of educators as the most progressive and fundamental. What are the benefits of career guidance for Cypriot school students?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2024

An ESSER spending analysis by Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University found some puzzling instances where funneling more money into a pandemic-worsened problem didn’t help schools recover. Not as much as you might think. Source: Edunomics Lab.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Years later, as I enter my fourth year as a school principal, I have come to appreciate my anxiety as a superpower. How My Anxiety Manifested When I Started Working in Schools When I became a teacher, my anxiety worsened noticeably and that continued as I began gaining more responsibility in my work and transitioned into school leadership.

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