ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Education is made for students. There is no one who knows what students need more than us.” — Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ) Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

I recently connected with Grace Pai, the executive director of the organization, and Esther Hurh, a professional development (PD) facilitator who has been delivering sessions about the TEAACH Act to educators, to better understand the challenges around putting the TEAACH Act into practice.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The potential of generative AI is both promising and profound, but it raises critical questions: How can this transformative technology be harnessed not only to educate but to empower inclusively and equitably?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is especially true in educational settings, where equipping students with digital citizenship skills is essential for their safe and responsible navigation of the digital landscape. On February 13, 2023, the Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act was introduced in the Senate.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Program Details Fellowship timeline: This fellowship will run for 9 months from July 2022 to April 2023. Attend monthly professional development workshops and group Zoom calls conducted via Zoom outside of teaching hours. Fellow commitments: Participate in a fellowship launch call on Monday, July 18, 2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

I was looking for something that was backed by great research, had good tech support and would have professional development,” Van Fossan says. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

The program will initially be available in four districts, but telehealth services will expand to all districts throughout the state by July 2023. Carey Wright, the recently retired Mississippi state superintendent of education, explained the goals of the partnership this way: “Healthy students learn better. The goal of the program?

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. Now that this program is coming to an end, educators wonder what the future will look like without this funding.

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Edthena

APRIL 17, 2024

In Spokane Public Schools , a forward-thinking approach to professional development is making waves, under the strategic direction of Nick Lundberg, Title I and Special Programs Coordinator. The program doubled its size for the 2023-2024 school year (to 60 teachers).

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

Mary Alice Cohen With hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funding to spend, bipartisan support and action, a new department devoted to the field, and statewide universal preschool slated to launch in 2023, Colorado is becoming one of the foremost states for early childhood education in the country.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

Many FFNs have completed background checks, health and safety training, professional development and more. Yet the health crisis also presented an opportunity to devise creative solutions. They don’t own their homes, but other than that, they look like what we would want providers to look like,” she says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2025

Professional organizations recommend that schools have a school counselor for every 250 students, but the national average for 2023-2024 was below that. But the shortage is more drastic in some other states. For school counselors, its similar. Few states have achieved that ratio. The pell-mell is already causing trouble.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2024

These are people who felt that being educators was their calling, but the sacrifices they have been asked to make — especially in light of the strain of the pandemic — made remaining in their teaching jobs seem impossible. Here are the most popular K-12 stories from 2023. Teaching Was My Dream.

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ED Surge

JULY 3, 2023

When we started to devise a summer reading list of EdSurge articles from 2023 that have been most popular so far this year, we couldn’t help but notice a pattern: Readers are hungry for stories about teachers leaving the profession. School’s out for summer. School’s out … forever? I’ve lost who I am entirely. Who I am is gone.’”

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Public schools provided teachers with an average of 266 minutes of dedicated planning time per week, according to results from the School Pulse Panel administered in December 2023. The panel surveys about 2,400 school principals representing all grade levels. That works out to about four hours and 26 minutes of planning time per week.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Five months after federal stabilization grants expired, deeper cracks are beginning to show in the early care and education sector. Those dollars go a long way toward keeping programs open, staffed and sustainable, a number of providers in Massachusetts shared with EdSurge.

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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. This is more urgent than ever. more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

The historic resources in the American Rescue Plan—already being put to work in states and districts across the country—and the funds requested for the Department of Education in the President’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget reflect these values. Invest in teacher, educator and board member professional development and support.

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