ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe Recently, EdSurge spoke with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , about using educational tools that not only harness the power of AI but also uphold the creative integrity of students and teachers.

EdTech 130

EdTech Advocacy Critical Thinking Social Studies 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters. But it certainly has exacerbated those challenges and really highlighted and exacerbated those equity gaps.” Betsy Zorio, Vice President of Save the Children’s U.S.

Advocacy 136

Advocacy Economics Tradition Research 136

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices.

Pedagogy 133

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Economics 133

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

K-12 139

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 139

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Creativity builds advocacy skills that employers want, such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. What creative skills are employers looking for?

Advocacy 112

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 112

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities. Creating space and support for students to lead from their personal experiences and teach their teachers how to meet their needs radically disrupts that traditional PD dynamic.

Professional Development 139

Professional Development Advocacy Tradition Leadership 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition.

Civic Engagement 142

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

K-12 143

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Tradition 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.

K-12 131

K-12 Advocacy High School Tradition 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

Advocacy 139

Advocacy Library Government Public School 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Getty Images.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 100

ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2024

Initially, whenever individual students ran into emotional outbursts, I tried traditional methods like distributing worksheets focused on mental health and wellness. However, these worksheets merely listed definitions and coping mechanisms without providing engaging content or opportunities for meaningful discussion.

Advocacy 124

Advocacy Cultures Tradition High School 124

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

Charter School 133

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Related: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve There is a critical need to prepare teachers to be intentional voices calling out the oppression that continues to plague our education system.

Civic Engagement 126

Civic Engagement Civics Education K-12 126

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight.

Advocacy 136

Advocacy Psychology Middle School Tradition 136

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

K-12 124

K-12 Advocacy Tradition Leadership 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

So far, MS 2, , as the school is nicknamed, has personalized its core academic courses by using the Summit Learning Platform, an online resource that has replaced traditional whole-group classroom instruction. Students log into Summit to learn new content and complete assignments, turning to teachers for support along the way.

Education 107

Education Charter School Advocacy Middle School 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. “Every student is different, and ‘inclusion’ for one student may look different from others.

Research 138

Research Education Advocacy Psychology 138

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

Artifacts 124

Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 124

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Charter School Middle School American History 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education.

High School 144

High School Advocacy Research Economics 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Though they may not have the luxury of building from scratch, traditional universities could design degree pathways more like Minerva’s: interdisciplinary and project-based. I am a poster child for the English major.

Humanities 107

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The loans made directly by a college, rather than a traditional lender, are used to pay for classes, but they don’t come with the same protections as federal student loans do. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

Advocacy 96

Advocacy Tradition Education 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education.

Charter School 90

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 90

Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

A big benefit for David is that AI Coach can scale across the district’s teaching community overcoming traditional constraints like timing and logistics. He reflected on his transition from skepticism to advocacy, emphasizing the importance of staying current with technology to enhance educational practices.

Professional Development 110

Professional Development Advocacy Leadership Tradition 110

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. How we care for our students is inextricably linked with how our ancestors cared for others, the children who were theirs and those who weren’t.

Education 126

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The number of institutions that have adopted this approach “is still a small group,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future, or JFF, which has announced a $5 million competition to develop more rapid-reskilling programs that reduce training time by at least 50 percent for well-paid occupations.

Tradition 142

Tradition Advocacy Professional Development Teaching 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thinking of New Mexico, and OLÉ’s success at making inroads for child care teachers outside unionization, how important is it to think about other strategies apart from traditional organizing? When we started doing online organizing, we would get maybe a week’s worth of work visiting centers done in one day.

K-12 133

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 133

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

Tradition 136

Tradition Advocacy Leadership Economics 136

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. While legislative discussions have recently stalled , advocacy efforts continue to mobilize toward an ambitious policy package that would impact millions of little learners and families.

K-12 137

K-12 Education Humanities Advocacy 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Picard’s older children went through the traditional education system and she can see a difference. “I . — When Kylie Jones brings home her report card, it doesn’t have any A’s, B’s or C’s.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy Tradition Public School 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. Many have dependents, jobs and fewer options for federal aid.

Advocacy 94

Advocacy Professional Development Tradition Cultures 94

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion. Though often comparatively overlooked, OST programs are where students have a chance to build social capital among peers. Social capital is highly important to future success.

Museum 111

Museum Advocacy Library Tradition 111

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. As NCLD’s Director of Innovation, I urge us to take a critical look at the “innovations” that may be negatively impacting our students, especially those from traditionally marginalized backgrounds.

EdTech 127

EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Advocacy 127

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. And failure is trending. Equal opportunity goes in all directions.

Charter School 96

Charter School Advocacy Public School Tradition 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111