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Reframing ed tech to save teachers time and reduce workloads

The Hechinger Report

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

ED Surge

Here’s how it impacts and demoralizes educators—and how they can push back. College Board Changes AP Exams Again to Accommodate Pandemic-Era Testing by Emily Tate In 2020, the College Board announced changes to its AP testing program. But there are effective strategies for making change, improving morale and getting buy-in from staff.

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

ED Surge

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. Young people from organizations across the city came together to learn about community organizing, build community and develop a city-wide education justice campaign. Then, leaders build campaigns around the shared experiences within the community.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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The Role of the Substitute Teacher Needs an Overhaul

ED Surge

I applied for the role, was accepted and served as a PCM from October 2020 to June 2022. During that period, I continued my duties as a para, ensuring the students I worked with met the goals and mandates of their Individualized Education Plan (IEP). These are luxuries that are not afforded to most subs.

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Accessibility Tools Can Be Transformative for Some Students. But at What Cost?

ED Surge

When John first came to me in fall 2020, he was a ninth grader and we were in the thick of the pandemic, doing emergency remote learning. It was tough to gauge John’s abilities and potential because he didn’t say a word and kept his camera off during every Zoom lesson. John’s sharp intellect was apparent. Young people are tech savvy.

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They Left Teaching in Search of a Better Life. Did They Find It?

ED Surge

In January 2022, a National Education Association survey found that 55 percent of educators were thinking of leaving the profession earlier than planned, nearly double the number of teachers who said the same in July 2020. Most educators have not left, and many never will. labor force, at 44 percent.

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