ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s the argument of Kieran Egan, a Canadian philosopher and longtime professor at Simon Fraser University who passed away in 2022. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. Conversely, I also have settler students who push back and say “it is not their culture.”

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. Encouraging teachers to collaborate, coach and mentor others can also improve climate, culture and retention.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

She was absent from one class 28 days during the 2022-23 school year. Just 6 percent of students met or exceeded the math standards in 2022. We are always constantly trying to build a stronger school culture," she said. "In She said in Mexican culture it's the mother's responsibility to take care of children.

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High School Charter School Cultures Elementary School 141

ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” “Do Creating a Culture of Inquiry It’s important to qualify these claims about student input. And perhaps this is why it’s imperative to build what may be called a “culture of inquiry.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2022

“The least interesting thing we can use technology for is to deliver content. ISTElive @iste pic.twitter.com/RFzYuYn0nr — Ashley Morrison (@IHMSMorrison) June 26, 2022. From Online Safety to Digital Wellbeing To illustrate his next point, Culatta used his daughter’s flight school education as an example. Absolutely!

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They were exchanging stickers of sought-after players as they prepared for the 2022 World Cup, which was at least two full months away at that point. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2023

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990. Social and Cultural Contexts As psychologist Lev Vygotsky has shared , learning mathematics is also social and cultural.

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Cultures Elementary School Teaching Education 120

ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. In many ways it was. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities. This summer, responses shifted.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

Professional Development 145

Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country.

Teaching 142

Teaching History Public School Cultures 142

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Across the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2022, 50 tutors worked with 116 elementary students. By the time education majors at American University become seniors, most of them will have completed their 40-hour tutoring requirement, usually as part of an upper-level service learning course.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

She says she joined the faculty because she was intrigued by the opportunity to be part of an education institution “that is actively working to put back those things that were taken from our people for so many decades.” Tlingit culture as well as aspects of other Native cultures are being taught in that space.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some public flagships are paying attention to the transfer pipeline’s potential for educating people of varied backgrounds. “It Ryan told The Washington Post in 2022, “which is to be a place of opportunity, a place of social mobility.” It helps us fulfill our mission as a public university,” University of Virginia president James E.

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Cultures Economics Research Humanities 136

ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Vermont, like many states , is committed to a mixed-delivery model for pre-K education , allowing the state’s pre-K tuition subsidy to be applied for programs in a variety of existing settings, including those based in homes. Together, all of those programs served just 44 percent of eligible 4-year-olds and 17 percent of 3-year-olds.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. I told her about the exciting moments from my visit — learning about the school culture, seeing teachers in action, and meeting my incredible new students.

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Inclusive Curriculum Elementary School Leadership Teaching 117

ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

Primary Sources 104

Primary Sources K-12 Professional Development Cultures 104

ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

In 2022, NAFCC partnered with the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) to survey nearly 13,000 FCC providers about whether and how they used the child care stabilization grants — and to better understand what might happen if the funding is not renewed.

Economics 98

Economics History Public School Cultures 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders.

Leadership 128

Leadership Psychology Humanities Public School 128

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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Leadership Cultures Charter School Economics 98

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. I still remember one teacher I had pointing to his TV cart and saying, “that’s the busy teacher’s best friend.”

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Teaching Education K-12 EdTech 122

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Actually, it’s 2022, and they are sitting in Debbie Venteicher and Erin Stanley’s American Studies class, gathered around a device and collaboratively working to complete a digital breakout created with Genially. “Not However, what they rarely know is happening," says Venteicher, "is that they are getting an immersion of 1930s pop culture.

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Library History Cultures High School 117

ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

The decline has become worse in the decade since, says Thomas Smith, professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt and an author of the report. In our country, the best avenue that students have to excel, to achieve and to be part of this workforce is through education,” says Stephen Pruitt, president of SREB.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

Leadership 144

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 144

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Business as usual wasn’t working well for a lot of faculty and staff in 2012, and it’s less likely to work in 2022. Institutions positioned for success in the next decade will seize this opportunity by prioritizing new approaches to working conditions and building better workplace cultures.

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Tradition Cultures Humanities Education 130

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The first two high schools to win the DC + XQ competition, in 2022, had embraced the themes of Afrofuturism and entrepreneurship. In February 2022, XQ Institute and D.C. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. spent about $2 billion in local taxpayer dollars on public education.) In these conversations, D.C.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? In December 2022, I decided to leave the classroom.

Teaching 107

Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. We talked with educators who immigrated as children to the U.S., schools in recent years.

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K-12 Ancestry Education Geography 144

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Then, in 2022, I was at the Singapore EDUtech Asia conference, and as I was walking by the booths, I saw my vision had become a reality.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

AJ Jacobs, a junior at Winthrop University who is studying elementary education, at a reading intervention camp in summer 2022. I know for my classroom, I want to have books available by authors of all different races, with characters that look like my students, not just one color or culture. Because that's a calling.

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Elementary School Middle School Leadership High School 110

ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges. A study released by the U.S.

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Elementary School High School Community Engagement Humanities 122

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

School staff and elders also live in the southernmost parts of the reservation, sometimes in multi-sided hogans, sacred dwellings in Diné culture (which in some cases, Merrill says, are constructed to look like a woman’s fingers interlaced together with her hands over her pregnant belly). No cell phone signals.

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K-12 Government Library Public School 121

ED Surge

JULY 11, 2022

Deep in the heart of New Orleans, a hotbed of American culture and history, scholars Cornel West and Robert George—or as they call each other, Brother West and Brother Robbie—came together during the ISTE 2022 conference to discuss exactly that. (I I had the honor of moderating the discussion.)

Education 21

Education History Humanities Teaching 21

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2023

So it’s no surprise that a January 2022 survey by the RAND Corporation showed that 85 percent of principals are experiencing job-related stress. While the pandemic may have raised public awareness of the plight of education and the stress teachers and administrators face, this has always been a reality.

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