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Here Are the 10 Stories K-12 Readers Couldn’t Put Down in 2024

ED Surge

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024.

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What We’re Reading: 3 Resources for Supporting Teachers and Reducing Burnout

Edthena

Check out the key strategies below, as well as links to the full articles (and related content!). This SmartBrief article outlines five strategies for people supporting teachers to help address and reduce teacher burnout and “bring back the joy of teaching.”

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

ED Surge

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Between the ages of 12 to 15, there are more differences than similarities in each person’s connectome. Early Childhood.

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Put that Oxygen Mask on First: 2 Strategies for Teachers Who Want a Positive Classroom Environment

Edthena

Empathy-based programs come from the work of Jason Okonofua at Berkeley, rooted in social psychology principles. Teachers read an article, and it was a non-pejorative article about students and what might cause student behavior,” Heather Hill described.

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Sharing Picture Books With Kids Can Make Them Smarter and More Attentive

Digital Promise

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. . Our study, published in the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, found that trained carers were not only much better at book sharing: when they played with their infants without books, they were also more sensitive and responsive.

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Has video killed the red grading pen?

The Hechinger Report

In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. Evolutionary psychology, he says, offers a possible explanation: “Our brain has evolved to communicate face-to-face, the more we go away from that specific channel, the less efficient we are.”.