ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. billion in 2021.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019). To fortify educators' understanding of Minecraft, we introduced a virtual learning sequence starting with "Minecraft 101."

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. Not financially—edtech funding is down from 2021 to 2022 —but geographically.

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EdTech Tutoring Classroom Management Government 121

ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

That shot up to 50 percent at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when many districts were still giving remote instruction. That surged to a whopping 64 percent at the start of the 2021-22 school year, though it fell to 61 percent in fall 2022. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. What Does the Data Say?

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Tutoring Government Professional Development Research 120

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021. We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. Source: American Community Survey.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

She recognizes that tools must align to teachers’ instructional goals and must be accompanied by professional development that covers not just how individual tools function, but also how they fit into effective teaching practice. “I I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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EdTech Leadership Professional Development Pedagogy 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to a recent report from the National Rural Education Association, 80,000 more English-learner and multilingual students were enrolled in rural districts in the 2021 school year than in 2013. Historically, rural school districts have struggled to provide high-quality education to non-native English speakers.

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Teaching Professional Development Community Engagement Library 133

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Being equipped and ready to respond when students experience a traumatic event must be a top priority for every educator in America. Unfortunately, it is not a universally required part of educator training or professional development. In 2021, youth mental health was declared a national emergency by the U.S.

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Professional Development K-12 Elementary School Middle School 101

ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Who Am I in Education? Soon after, I began my first summer professional development at a school in the neighborhood I grew up in. Motivated to change this conversation and influence policy at the state and local levels, I ran for school board in 2021.

Leadership 124

Leadership Middle School Professional Development Teaching 124

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair. But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 105

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Yet teacher candidates and their classmates who aren’t majoring in education are paid $22 an hour for tutoring DC Public Schools students, as well as for their time spent in weekly training and professional development. Department of Labor in 2021 to designate education as an eligible sector.

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 144

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

Edthena

JUNE 24, 2021

During the pandemic, education technology became front and center in the classroom. And the dose-response relationship between greenery and mental health holds even when controlling for socioeconomic status and other risk factors. Read more on EdWeek: How to Help Students Take a Mental-Health Break This Summer.

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Educational Technology Teaching Professional Development Research 52

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. “Don’t go back!” This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. Our consistent answer is: “Don’t go back!”

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Elementary School Professional Development Learning Science Research 109

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

By the end of the 2020-2021 school year we resumed in-person learning with full days. Sometimes they’d give everyone a few unexpected hours back by canceling a professional development (PD) meeting. During the height of the pandemic, every school was struggling, but we faced unique challenges given how new our school was.

Leadership 108

Leadership Professional Development Cultures Middle School 108

ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

Since that time, CoolThink@JC has won multiple awards and gained recognition on the international education stage. And in a clear demonstration of its potential and early success, the program earned ISTE’s Seal of Alignment in 2021, obtaining full scores in the categories of Innovative Designer and Computational Thinker.

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Pedagogy EdTech Professional Development Leadership 101

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

Education 101

Education Professional Development Economics Teaching 101

ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. John’s sharp intellect was apparent.

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EdTech Professional Development Tradition Lesson Plan 109

ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Ana Gotter notes in her article, “Social Media Media Career Growth in 2021: What You Need to Know" she notes a 9% increase in job growth over a 10-year period. In the last decade, the number of professionals who use the title social media manager on LinkedIn has doubled and job postings for these roles have spiked more than 1,000%.

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Teaching Tradition Pedagogy Professional Development 109

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

When schools reopened in 2021, Burkiett and her team decided to roll out the program across the district for students in kindergarten to third grade. I was looking for something that was backed by great research, had good tech support and would have professional development,” Van Fossan says.

Teaching 120

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 120

ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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K-12 Tutoring Advocacy Private School 91

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

But when schools returned fully in person for the 2021-22 school year, my workload increased dramatically. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began. I have always put in extra hours outside of the school day. It’s just a reality of the job.

Teaching 104

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 104

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

She was tasked with overseeing and supporting membership, accreditation, conferences and events, global outreach and engagement, and professional learning—all areas that had to be retooled in some fashion for a pandemic environment. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 104

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Many schools used ESSER funding for: New learning materials Educational technology Improved and repaired physical facilities Student mental health resources Expanded summer school and after-school programs Can I Still Use ESSER Funds? Department of Education. References U.S. District seeks input on how to spend Esser Funds.

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K-12 Charter School Social Studies Government 52

ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year.

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Cultures Education Elementary School High School 118

ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

Many FFNs have completed background checks, health and safety training, professional development and more. In Ouray, 44 percent of housing units were vacant as of 2021, according to federal data, a designation that includes houses whose owners have a primary residence elsewhere and those that are being used as vacation rentals.

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Economics Professional Development Government Education 96

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Putting the ‘Person’ in Personal Learning Networks While educators building communities to learn and share ideas isn’t new, today’s personal learning networks (PLNs) offer educators the chance to hone their focus and build their practice in specific areas of professional development.

Professional Development 120

Professional Development Teaching Economics Education 120

ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Our credentialing process - which traditionally includes a litany of required college-level coursework, licensure steps and extensive professional development - can admittedly be frustrating and difficult to traverse. Due to the success of Golden Apple over the years, the program has now expanded to New Mexico.

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Teaching Professional Development Humanities History 101

ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

and from various positions in the K-12 education sector gathered in structured small group discussions to connect, share their stories and learn from each other in virtual learning circles. Finally, many teachers took on programming, curriculum development and professional development by themselves.

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K-12 Education Leadership Professional Development 104