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JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig.

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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

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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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 9, 2023

There were 46 school shootings in 2022. There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. Less than three months into 2023, there have been seven. high school students.

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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

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

JUNE 28, 2023

The trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing culture wars and disappointing academic performance results have made education discourse particularly fraught. Across the country, we’ve seen conversations about education become charged. There is no doubt that our schools are in crisis. My school was on that list.

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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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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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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.

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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 105

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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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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.

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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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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 118

ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In June 2022, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron Desantis signed a bill that permits military veterans the ability to become classroom teachers without degrees. In the 2021-2022 academic year, students of color represented approximately 63 percent of the public school populations in Arizona and Florida.

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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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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Recently, I was humbled and honored to be named the 2022-23 Teacher of the Year in my county as well as one of seven finalists for the state of Maryland. There’s a wide body of research showing that students who have a solid grasp of who they are and how they can contribute to society are more likely to be successful.

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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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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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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” The COVID pandemic has brought a rush of new people interested in building tools and businesses to help improve education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The teacher shortage has dashed the dreams of students, parents and educators who hoped the 2022-2023 school year would bring about a return to how things were before the pandemic. For schools and districts, high turnover is not only problematic for school culture, it is also a significant drain on time, resources and money.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The new data reflects the 2021-2022 school year and reveals that, nationwide, there was an average of 408 students for every one school counselor. Once that happened and they saw the negative impact [that the cuts] had on students and student outcomes and school culture, they reinstated school counselors, hired more school counselors.

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