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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

ED Surge

But there are still companies and investors who succeeded in 2022. Below are a few of the hypotheses I am watching in 2023: Hypothesis 1: Results Matter Education buyers—parents, schools, and talent development departments—will make more decisions based on efficacy and fewer based on relationships with vendors.

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The Role of the Substitute Teacher Needs an Overhaul

ED Surge

In a deal struck between the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, a new position — paraprofessional classroom manager (PCM) — was created as a temporary solution to allow paraprofessionals (paras) like me to sub for classroom teachers. These are luxuries that are not afforded to most subs.

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As a Paraprofessional, My Role Is Undervalued, Underpaid and Too Often, Forgotten

ED Surge

Even though the work paraprofessionals do is critical and is proven to improve student learning , I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been thanked and it often feels like my voice is the last to be heard in shaping routines, classroom management practices and instruction, even for students I have worked with for years.

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Simulated Climate Solutions: Using the EN-ROADS Simulator in Lessons

Dr. Preece

2021) and resources available (Rackley, 2019), we are increasingly seeing climate education in Geography classrooms as a synoptic and decision-making activity at the local scale (Hicks, 2019; Barton & Noyes, 2022). Doing this is difficult. Graph Guides (Chikofsky et al., How can you teach with this?

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Evolving Towards Impact-Driven Thinking

A Principal's Reflections

Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the shift to a transformational mindset in detail after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2022. Schn (1983) emphasized that reflective practice is crucial in professional development, fostering continuous learning and improvement. The key to classroom management.