ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

A coalition of 14 education organizations, helmed by the nonprofit Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, released sample guidelines earlier this month that walk teachers and administrators through potential pitfalls to consider before using an AI tool in the classroom or for other tasks. In Michigan, it was a team effort.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Middle School Humanities 105

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content? You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Do they ask challenging questions?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The potential of networked farmers swapping expertise and experimental results – call it crowdsourcing crops – is also at the heart of OpenAg , an initiative of MIT’s Media Lab, led by research scientist Caleb Harper. But for everyone else, they were totally DIY, using downloadable step-by-step instructions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Root’s job is to celebrate the code you create by bringing it to life,” said Justin Werfel, a senior research scientist at Wyss. If they can download an app, then they can use the robot to help teach coding.”. Cherney, now a Wyss research assistant, pegged his creation as a robotic whiteboard eraser that he called MAG-NEATO.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

This one-day lesson plan was developed in Spring 2024 by Dr. Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The election would mark the first of Franklin D.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. The research that supports collaborative learning applies to individual learners, not the group as a whole.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In the weeks ahead, the girls would weave the interview and their own research into four individual narratives about Millones, one of several immigrants telling their stories at King, where nearly a quarter of the students were born overseas. For now, however, they were mired in the initial research and needed to get out of their own heads.

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ACRE

MAY 1, 2023

In partnership with the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, Dr. Mike Casey, Professor of Finance at the University of Central Arkansas, developed a set curriculum units for teaching personal finance topics to Arkansas students based on the state’s personal finance educational standards.

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ACRE

MAY 1, 2023

In partnership with the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, Dr. Mike Casey, Professor of Finance at the University of Central Arkansas, developed a set curriculum units for teaching the basics of Taxation and Public Finance using a variety of hands-on projects and activities. direct deposit, paper check, payroll card) PF.2.EI.2

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Lesson Plan Economics Government Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

That would have brought everything—email, online testing, cloud-based records systems and student research—to a halt. Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds. But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans. They evaluate earning potentials and various salaries and research the cost of living around the United States.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

There is a long history of research looking into the importance of spoken language as foundational for learning to read and write. This is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., For more information, download our free lesson plan describing how to use Matching Cards.

Teaching 52

Teaching Psychology Lesson Plan Research 52

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The Penguin Random House High School Collection , which both Lewis and Torres worked on, is a curated set of thematically grouped texts and lesson plans that go beyond the literary canon to incorporate a wide range of texts that represent different experiences, characters, and cultures. There’s over 1,500 documented studies.

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Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 254

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2017

It’s after the school day ends, research says. Throw away the books and stop asking each teacher to individually “reinvent the wheel” by creating lesson plans from scratch. We are the leading resource for free, downloadable, editable STEM course materials, with over two million downloads to date.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

One company trying to change this is Colombia-based Coschool, which allows teachers to upload their own materials for other educators to download for free or a fee. Working with 15 schools, ChalkTalk built a fully adaptive, highly personalized curriculum-design technology to reduce teachers’ lesson-planning time from 2.5

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EdTech Tutoring Lesson Plan Professional Development 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Led by Micah Ross, a biology teacher, the academy was piloting an app-based pandemic simulation, part of Operation Outbreak , a platform of lessons on infectious diseases and the public health response to their spread. Credit: Becky Morris. We both thought she sounded amazing,” Brown recalled.

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. The district already had an internal learning-management system that housed lesson plans, organized assignments and tracked student progress online, she said. Credit: Kershaw County School District.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Some 75,000 teachers to date have signed up to download its materials, including the lessons on labor, said Deborah Menkart, co-director of the Zinn project. Sanchez’s favorite lesson (not one he authored) is the “ Organic Goodie Simulation.”

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Education Economics Civics History 90

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Young people are also organizing to stand up and speak out about the sex education they need and deserve, most recently in Miami-Dade , where they organized to pressure the school board to ensure the district offers science-based, research-backed sex education.

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Social Justice K-12 Lesson Plan Advocacy 102

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I also wanted to let folks know that we at the Zinn Education Project offer free, downloadable people’s history lessons that many of you have probably used for middle and high school students, and we also have an important report on Reconstruction that we hope you all will check out and think about how to use in your classrooms.

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