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APRIL 12, 2024

However, such turns of phrase often betray a tendency to think of “computers” and of “LOGO” as agents that act directly on thinking and learning; they betray a tendency to reduce what are really the most important components of educational situations — people and cultures — to a secondary, facilitating role.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

Human nature compels us in many cases to take the easiest possible path to success. Instead of enabling the status quo to dictate the learning culture of a school, critical reflection is employed to disrupt professional practice in order to grow and improve. This question is a start, however it doesn’t really matter much what we think.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

In my classroom, I treat students as humans first, not obstacles to classroom management. I would have felt like my autonomy and humanity were being honored because I would get to advocate for not only the student but myself. We will also let each other down, but we are in the work of being openly human all the time, and that’s okay.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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JUNE 17, 2024

In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative?

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

In “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding-Glass Doors,” Rudine Sims Bishop proposes that educators consider the relationship between reader and texts as possible "mirrors" and "windows," highlighting reader identities and experiences through critical discovery.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cultivating a Culture One day during my English class, Khalil, one of my sixth grade students, created a live soundtrack to accompany my lesson on mentor sentences. The combination of our classroom culture and reading growth achievement earned our class the 2018 Southwest Ohio Teach For America Classroom of the Year Award.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. I wanted to grow.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

I want you to remember that there are humans behind these stories. Instead, we melded into a distinct culture through the sugar plantation experience of our great-grandparents , with each ethnic community retaining its identity and cohesion and resisting the pressure to completely lose either through assimilation.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the number of Latine students increases in my school, it’s important that we humanize the migrant experience so that we can redefine the American Dream for students today. Students want to be connected, cultured and aware of the realities beyond the classroom. This student's perception is slightly exaggerated, but I get it.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly. For example, with communication between Human Resources and Finance, they are able to coordinate a quicker backfill strategy, decreasing the time and resources it would take if planning strategies were not set in place.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

There is no substitute for real human interaction as this is the ultimate relationship builder. It is during this time that they get to share their ideas on the topic, discuss implementation strategies, reflect on what others have said, or provide positive reinforcement. I am always inspired when I eavesdrop on these conversations.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. But human brains are not like that. So the more we can bring the body into learning, the better.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Some schools have gotten creative to ensure they have enough teachers, says April Salerno, associate professor of education at the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development. They will partner teachers together so that one is teaching in English and one is teaching in the other language,” she says.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. Are they culturally relevant for our kids?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. King, Ph.D.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

Latinos who work in education are ready for change , and they say their culture already holds dear values like community-building and generosity that are needed to improve education for their students. It’s generally a culture of helpfulness and inclusivity, he expands, one that uplifts everyone.

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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. One possible answer is investing in more inclusive partnerships.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

We need to think of diversity beyond discrete, all-encompassing and exclusive labels and empower role models for students who are more than an ethnicity, a gender, a sexual orientation, or a disability, but unique and intricate human beings. In the former, it was my disability that defined who I was, but in the latter, it was my skin color.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

As a student acts and speaks, his or her avatar will perform in front of a virtual audience, but other humans in the room won’t see the virtual theater that the student sees. They cite projects that their collaborators have worked on that teach about the Holocaust and about a community of women in South Korea trying to preserve their culture.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Due to our cultural stereotypes about who is naturally gifted in math, the students most likely to “choke” under pressure are talented girls and students of color. This problem is highly intransigent because it is largely based on cultural stereotypes that are passed from adults to children and are difficult to change.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2023

One student candidly shared that he felt like his teachers weren’t invested in him as a human being, because the amount of homework that he was assigned didn't take into account his commitments outside the classroom and other barriers to studying.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I learned about the massive scale of labor, human capital and strategic investment that go into making a successful organization. As a new college grad, I was lucky to work at a company that held an “up or out” culture and provided clear structures and routines for continuous professional feedback, networking and skill development.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist at UC Irvine. She’s been sharing her observations with EdSurge readers for nearly a decade now, reflecting on young people’s interest-driven and playful engagements as they relate to education. It doesn't have to be building a whole new school or remaking your curriculum.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. Some products show promise; others fall flat. What Does It Do? Does It Have a Solid Evidence Base?

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

He’s not really about equity work, look at the culture he’s created. This sense of safety can also contribute to a culture of freedom and autonomy, which can motivate individuals and teams to do their absolute best and ultimately, lead to commitment. I was starting to believe these things.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Understanding context is a crucial human skill that is best taught through storytelling and real-world applications. English language arts and history teachers have long excelled at teaching context by helping students understand the background and culture surrounding texts or historical events.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is the third in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain about Latino culture. Bartleby is a human man and clerk hired by the story’s narrator, a lawyer. Here’s what they had to say. ‘No.’

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As an educator, I present Black literature to readers as a tool for their own liberation. Two months later, Mildred D.

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