Remove 2017 Remove Cultures Remove Educational Technology
article thumbnail

Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Nevertheless, just like their students, educators thrive in personalized learning experiences. This could include workshops on specific instructional strategies, online courses on emerging educational technologies, or peer coaching programs that foster collaboration. Improving teacher quality in an era of educational reform.

article thumbnail

How a Small Town in a Red State Rallied Around Universal Preschool

ED Surge

It started with Randy Jensen, who became superintendent of the American Falls school district in 2017. Read, talk, play’ is something the whole community could support,” says Randy Jensen, the superintendent of American Falls School District since 2017. At the time, he says, kindergarten readiness rates “were like, whew, rock bottom.”

article thumbnail

What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Encouraging teachers to collaborate, coach and mentor others can also improve climate, culture and retention.

article thumbnail

American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

ED Surge

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

K-12 113
article thumbnail

Teaching Was My Dream. Now I Wonder If It Is Stunting My Other Passions.

ED Surge

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. I wanted to help shape a culture where every voice matters, I wanted to flatten the hierarchy and, of course, like many professionals, I wanted to try something new. I wanted to grow.

Teaching 145
article thumbnail

Alaska schools pay a price for the nation’s slowest internet, but change is coming

The Hechinger Report

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past.

article thumbnail

What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

ED Surge

By 2017, EdSurge noted that some college administrators were wary of Piazza’s approach, because professors were adopting the tool with no oversight from college leaders who needed to make sure it aligned with data practices used elsewhere on campus. It varies across cultures and across nations,” she argued. “In

EdTech 124