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Future-Proofing Learning: Preparing Students for an Uncertain Tomorrow

A Principal's Reflections

Future-proofing learning requires a shift in pedagogy, focusing on higher-order thinking, authentic application, purposeful technology integration, personalization, and flexible learning environments. It should be a tool that empowers students to explore, create, and connect, not simply a replacement for traditional teaching methods.

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New Zealand has a problem with mathematics. Can a new strategy make a difference for students?

The Hechinger Report

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education.

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Meet Nearpod: A game-changing tool for student engagement – EARLI 2023

Pedagogy to Share

In addition to presenting the tool and its pedagogical possibilities, I will present data from a recent study on pedagogy of care in online settings. Summary Emerging from the traumatic COVID-19 period, many educators are searching for ways to pursue further professional learning in techno-pedagogy. Buttrey, K. W., & Yue, W.

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Technology Sparks Growth Mindset and Innovation in the Classroom

Digital Promise

Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS). “We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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Convincing students that learning blue-collar job skills will pay off

The Hechinger Report

The city’s two traditional high schools are creating programs in mechatronics, a growing field that combines mechanical engineering and electronics; Pophal is also courting businesses and adding more opportunities for workplace learning. That kind of work environment doesn’t exist any longer,” he says. That compares with a 1.6

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In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Over the past seven years, Krechevsky and her research team have been working on a project called the Pedagogy of Play , studying play-based learning at schools in Boston, Denmark, South Africa and Colombia. Rosecrants left teaching in 2017 when he was elected to represent Norman, Oklahoma in the state house.).