ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

We create entire units and lesson plans well before meeting them, let alone take the time to build meaningful connections with our students. They feel connected to a community and empowered to advocate for change.

Humanities 123

Humanities Leadership Advocacy Lesson Plan 123

ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

As competitive coding is now one of the fastest-growing segments in esports, we want to empower educators to fully explore its potential in the classroom. Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018.

Tradition 108

Tradition Lesson Plan Elementary School High School 108

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

Once she was settled into her new position as a grants coordinator, she saw how similar grant proposals and project plans are to writing and evaluating a lesson plan for a class. Neilson and a former student during a service learning trip to Peru in 2018. There have been adjustments, to be sure, Sherlock adds.

Teaching 131

Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 131

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike. It’s just a reality of the job.

Teaching 105

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Debilitating slowdowns and districtwide outages in past years have been so common that some Nome teachers even now prepare two lesson plans per class—one to use if the internet cooperates and one that requires only textbooks.

Social Studies 103

Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134