ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

Library 112

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 112

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

Our school leadership could then look at those results and respond: If lots of people chose the word noticed, for example, it would suggest that leadership was doing a good job of recognizing people’s contributions and concerns. It’s called Alpaca , and the woman I was talking to was Karen Borchert , Alpaca’s CEO.

Pedagogy 255

Pedagogy Leadership Library Classroom Management 255

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

Teaching 109

Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 109

Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 13, 2024

2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level kskordal Fri, 12/13/2024 - 09:40 Image The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level: Kathleen R. Durkin James T. Stark Please click each name above to read the full award citations.

K-12 98

K-12 Teaching Classroom Management Leadership 98

Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

In this post, we will focus on one example of an AI system that can help teachers manage their workload and the importance of engaging teachers in the design of AI systems. While AI has come a long way since the 1950s when the term was coined and work on Intelligent Tutoring Systems began, it simply cannot replace a teacher in the classroom.

Classroom Management 159

Classroom Management Tutoring Lesson Plan Humanities 159

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Leadership Classroom Management Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

It’s an ironic twist: The very behaviors that educators often work to suppress in the classroom may be critical to students’ success in the workforce. How can classroom teachers balance their roles in preparing students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy with classroom management?

Leadership 111

Leadership Classroom Management Middle School Economics 111

ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. Classroom walk-throughs and observations place undue stress on new teachers, eat into prep time and can exacerbate existing classroom management issues.

K-12 124

K-12 Classroom Management Professional Development Elementary School 124

Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

Even when students were fully remote, our teachers would teach from their classrooms, and I would walk the hallways and pop into classes just to check on them and provide support as needed. We also focused on improving classroom management in a concurrent teaching environment.

Professional Development 139

Professional Development Lesson Plan Classroom Management Middle School 139

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long, but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching will always be limited at best. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? The school’s out of control.

Humanities 224

Humanities Pedagogy Professional Development Library 224

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Some of the teachers who were in the classroom in the early 2000s are now holding leadership positions in the district. Yes, in fact I think so many teachers struggle with teaching math because they themselves aren’t comfortable with it. ” Was there any pushback to teaching math in this way?

Pedagogy 107

Pedagogy Classroom Management Leadership Public School 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He went into teaching with the goal of building strong relationships with students of color. Bradley, who has 15 years of teaching experience, acts as a mentor. It’s the type of support that the union hopes will help teachers grow in the classroom while empowering them to pursue leadership roles.

Psychology 113

Psychology Classroom Management Professional Development Public School 113

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode as I tried to figure out how to create a graphic organizer for my students’ first essay.

Humanities 133

Humanities Cultures Classroom Management Leadership 133

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by NoRedInk and The Modern Classrooms Project I was having a conversation this morning with a teacher I’m very close to, someone who trusts me enough to be honest with me, and who does it in a way that is loving and generous. Something like teaching. The opposite is also true.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Library Leadership 130

Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

The full paid program offers many more supports, including individualized program consultancy and activation events at Google’s campuses to help school leadership teams get the most impact from our program and transform every classroom in their buildings. Apps can only supplement best teaching practices, not substitute for them.

Classroom Management 97

Classroom Management EdTech Pedagogy Professional Development 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

During their first few days in the classroom, they are bombarded with a variety of situations they had not anticipated, and are often caught off guard by the realities of teaching. When new teachers aren’t supported to rapidly develop skills and address the realities of the classroom, it’s their students who pay the price.

Lesson Plan 75

Lesson Plan Classroom Management Elementary School Cultures 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

To begin the process of reversing the school’s suspension rate, Morgan-Thompson knew her teachers needed stronger classroom management skills. Following guidance from the district, she immediately enrolled her teachers in training that would help them gain control of their classrooms.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School Classroom Management High School Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Efforts to recruit teacher candidates from the local community date back to the 1990s, but programs have “exploded” in number over the past five years, said Danielle Edwards, assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and workforce development at Old Dominion University in Virginia. There are promising signs.

Elementary School 97

Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

But when it comes to selecting ed-tech products or figuring out how to use them in the classroom, they could still learn something from the successful partnership between Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter network that serves the San Francisco Bay area, and Gooru , an ed-tech nonprofit.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 71

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Successful classroom leadership requires instructors specific to career and technical education to add classroom management and teaching strategies to their technical expertise. Leave this field empty if you're human: 3. Intensive teacher training for instructors specific to career and technical education.

Education Policy 75

Education Policy Classroom Management High School Leadership 75

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

said teacher Kierston James, 40, who oversaw Albert, a fellow with the Brothers Empowered to Teach (BE2T) Initiative. Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. Growing up, Albert, now 22, saw almost no men teaching. “I

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. The need for teachers who have both the knowledge and the ability to teach special education students is more critical today than ever before.

Middle School 95

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 95

Edthena

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In fact, according to a report from the Learning Policy Institute , “(School leadership) and administrative support is often the top reason teachers identify for leaving or staying in the profession, or in a given school, outweighing even salary considerations for some teachers.” Training shouldn’t stop when the teacher enters the classroom.

Professional Development 64

Professional Development Classroom Management Leadership Teaching 64

ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

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

Cultures 98

Cultures Classroom Management Humanities Public School 98

Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

a short passage from a chapter, an Educational Leadership article, a summary of a research paper, or an optional book study). C urrent samples from formative assessments where the time between teaching, assessing, and analyzing samples is short so that teachers can immediately implement next steps with students.

Leadership 52

Leadership Lesson Plan Classroom Management Teaching 52

Dr. Preece

MARCH 6, 2023

Introduction: The teaching of climate education has undergone a change in recent years. 2021) and resources available (Rackley, 2019), we are increasingly seeing climate education in Geography classrooms as a synoptic and decision-making activity at the local scale (Hicks, 2019; Barton & Noyes, 2022). How can you teach with this?

Geography 52

Geography Economics Classroom Management Teaching 52

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Why are there so few Black men in the teaching profession? Yesterday at a luncheon, another friend, Chris Emdin, [compared] recruiting Black youth to teach to recruiting someone to return to the scene of a crime, a crime committed against themselves. You noted that HBCUs tend to generate a lot of interest in teaching.

K-12 19

K-12 Classroom Management Economics History 19

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I’d hoped by watching the candidates discuss government, leadership and the most important issues facing our world, he would learn something positive. But it was no teaching moment. Instead, bad teaching was on full display. When you go to vote next month, think about the choice this way: Who do you want teaching your child?

Teaching 107

Teaching Leadership Classroom Management Social Studies 107