ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

To support improved student outcomes, educators increasingly look to technology. But how do they fuel authentic engagement, using technology as a tool to not only enhance learning but also inspire curiosity and strengthen connections? Dont overthink it. Be willing to learn alongside your students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). Gen Z is in an awkward phase.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Note: This post is directly related to my work at the International Center for Leadership in Education Efficacy has been on my mind a great deal as of late, and as a result, it has been reflected in my writing. The DPA doesn’t just look at technology and innovation.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. While progress is being made in sub-Saharan Africa in primary education, gender inequality is in fact widening among older children. Equilibrium.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

We will be able to embed learning into collaborative processes to improve performance and extend the learning culture while using technology as the learning environment, as well as prepare students for a 21st century workforce in which many of them will have to communicate and collaborate virtually.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

Among these resources stands the Innovative Practices Assessment (IPA), which was created to fill a void in moving from ideas and innovative practices to results that improve the learning culture. The IPA establishes the framework for educators and administrators, facilitating an innovative lens to underpin individualized professional growth.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. How do we, as educators, empower ourselves to affirm Indigenous knowledge as foundational to our practice and move closer to a pedagogy of justice and gratitude in our curriculum? As a teacher, it filters through my relationships with students and into the curriculum I curate.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan, is an enrolled member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2015

Illustrate how your opinions have been implemented in some way to change educational practice. Technology will not revolutionize education. Educators who effectively integrate technology to enhance and support learning will. An idea is wasted if it is not acted upon leading to change in culture and/or practice.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020. “[Now] some of them have blossomed, some of them have overcome that.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This also reflects a broader issue that sends a damaging message to students about what’s truly important in their education. When we devalue the subject areas on the margins of our state-mandated curriculum, we fail to recognize the full range of skills students need for a well-rounded education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. But many experts say it depends on what a teacher is doing with AI.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

As an art educator, I am not alone in seeing this phenomenon, other art teachers across the USA know how the arts can give multilingual learners (MLs) opportunities to succeed in school even if they are struggling in other classrooms. Having educators and fellow students with whom I could communicate started to build my confidence more.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. I've heard this.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars. Educators are the perfect partners for parents to support kids in these areas, often bringing expertise and experience that parents wouldn’t have otherwise.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. This digital disconnect isnt just a result of outdated systems; its about the complex web of cultural, organizational and infrastructural barriers that leave many institutions data-rich but insight-poor.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Constructive dialogue” has become a buzzword in higher education in recent years, especially since protests over the Israel-Hamas war have shaken campuses across the country. The group is also looking to lower the amount of cancel culture on campus, such as students attacking one another online, she says.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2017

We had a vibrant conversation on the topic of Digital Leadership with a focus on school culture, embracing change, strategic use of social media, the Model Schools Conference , and innovation. To be honest, I really didn’t remember doing this as I routinely try to promote the great work of educators I know every opportunity I get.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

Department of Education and will last five years. By partnering with HBCUs, the hope is that the curriculum will be more culturally responsive to the needs of students in the rural South. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too. The project is funded through a nearly $8 million innovation grant from the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. In elementary school especially, teachers often carry math fears picked up during their own education. Whos Afraid of the Big, Bad Math?

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spend time with educators these days—in K-12 or higher ed—and phrases such as these will come up often. It's not a new narrative, but the pandemic has heightened pressures on teachers and professors as it continues to radically reshape the education landscape. Why are we hearing so much about educator burnout and demoralization now?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

For many Indigenous communities, the goal of education has always been to nurture the wellbeing of the whole child, including their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual development I recently reflected on this memory as I once again sat at that same wooden table. From a very young age, I recognized these differences.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Lunchtime at high school in the United States is an experience so culturally ingrained that I would wager every person who went through this school system has a vivid image of what it entails; some of the cliches that come to mind are food fights, awkward journeys across the cafeteria or eating lunch alone in the bathroom.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Despite the historic funding that was funneled into the field in the wake of the pandemic, early care and education continues to be one of the most beleaguered occupations in the United States. Early childhood educators earn, on average, $13.07 Nationally, wages for early childhood educators have increased by 4.6 billion a year.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning. Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. EdSurge connected with Cote and Davison Humphries for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Jeremy Price was curious to see whether new AI chatbots including ChatGPT are biased around issues of race and class. So he devised an unusual experiment to find out.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. Understanding the Prevalence of Trauma Among Black Women Educators When I look back over my journey as a Black educator, there were many unforgettable, challenging moments.

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