ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

She’s taught fifth grade for 25 years in the Aurora Public School system in Colorado. After teachers there asked for better professional development tools, the principal at Macias’ old school introduced TeachFX. Mandi Macias has personal experience with this kind of evolution. Teachers often make the worst students,” says York.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. This could mean providing additional training for teachers on the instructional use of digital learning tools—how they’re going to use technology.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools. Privilege, opportunity and happenstance led to my first encounter with TFA at a career fair during my junior year of college, where I was eventually recruited.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 108

ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

If you want to feel the soul of a city, go into one of its public school classrooms. I was insecure about classroom management and wasn’t forthright about my disability with colleagues and students. I understood this intimately during my time student teaching on the East Coast in Boston.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

To begin to answer this question, EdSurge recently spoke with Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, a prominent teacher pipeline that pushes for greater educator diversity in public schools, and Meheret Woldeyohannes, the director of external affairs for that organization.

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