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APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. That has consequences.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. And a bipartisan coalition quickly agreed that reducing absenteeism by half should be the “top priority” for American schools. At least, that’s what a new study argues.

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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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APRIL 16, 2025

This customisability makes Spelling Force an incredibly flexible tool that can adapt to any teaching style or curriculum requirement. This accessibility makes it suitable for both in-school and at-home learning. Schools can trust that their students data is handled responsibly and in line with Australian privacy regulations.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The rapid evolution of AI is reshaping education, especially when it comes to teaching writing. This is part 1 and I will be adding part 2 to this blog post as it will be about teachers and how they are teaching writing.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many even created special offices or programs in the hopes of teaching students how to talk with people they may disagree with. Faculty will participate in simulation exercises so they’ll be better prepared during the school year when something comes up, he says. This may be tense, but that’s ok.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. But what is learning and why is play seen as so antithetical to teaching? As a high school teacher, this is especially important as many of my students are nearing adulthood. Schooling is already compulsory.

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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

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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APRIL 1, 2025

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. 20% discount on school curricula Code: KZJ8MBNV 4-2-23 through 4-7-23 Whats a School License? A School License is a multi-user PDF of any curriculum student workbook. As many as the school wants. Not a subscriber?

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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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ED Surge

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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APRIL 4, 2025

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bells chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. How do you teach fifth graders to be careful when the cool middle schoolers aren’t?

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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. 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 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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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Many schools, workplaces, and communities organize events to encourage people to cultivate empathy and generosity. Why teach this in school, you ask? The quick answer is that students spend half their waking hours in or around school. Websites that teach Kindness There are surprisingly a lot of them.

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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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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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ED Surge

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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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 10, 2025

Nancy Muoz is on her second act this time, in a school and she feels shes finally where she belongs. She found it in the form of an operations coordinator role inside a middle school in Camden, New Jersey. They loved me from the time I stepped in the school building all up until today. See how you like it.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. For one, he doesnt want to be like the kids at school who do like brain rot. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 30, 2025

One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught. Outside of school, validating data as it is input is pretty important. Bonus as it includes a school context. Not realistic for a high school CS class of course.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 22, 2025

Dan Meyer has long been a powerful voice for how to teach math in engaging ways. But how do we teach math today? Also, Dan shares features of Amplify and how it can help in teaching math. Teaching math seems harder than ever in today's world. Dan details how Amplifys tools assist teachers in learning while they teach.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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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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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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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. This shift changes how we approach teaching young people about digital citizenship. Richard Culatta This is why it’s so important to overtly teach good digital citizenship skills. The determination depends on how we choose to use it.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 29, 2025

So I've run out of credits until April 2nd (I have pro version ($20/month) and my teachers don't – yet — that is a big price tag for the school to pay but we'll figure it out.) Also, how do we teach them about mistranslation and what to do when it glitches and doesn't translate everything correctly?

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ED Surge

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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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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MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. We are seeing a lot of interest from school leaders. Drozda says schools dont necessarily need to rush into building AI classes or programs.

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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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