A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2023

What is the essence of leadership? How do leaders effectively implement, sustain, and scale change? There is no shortage of responses regarding the topic, which is why questions are more important than answers. Narrowing down the most critical competencies can take time and effort. However, let’s look at it from the perspective of debunking what authentic leadership is, not to get at the heart of what it really is when it comes to agents of change.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

How can pulling feedback into the classroom help students develop confidence and improve their self-regulation skills? Feedback is one of the most powerful tools a teacher has to support students in achieving standards-aligned goals. Feedback also Provides clarity on learning goals and expectations. Guides students in understanding their strengths as well as areas in need of improvement.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Have you tried the new AI app called Diffit. I love it—you can take primary sources that you find on the internet, paste in the URL and the program will generate the source with questions, both multiple choice and short answer. You can adjust the length of the source. If it looks too long, just click "shorten." Once you're satisfied, you can open it in google docs.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

JULY 19, 2023

As educators, we all know the importance of differentiation in the classroom. It is the process of tailoring instruction to meet the diverse needs of learners. Differentiation helps students learn more effectively and efficiently by providing them with a personalized learning experience. However, differentiation can be a challenging task, especially if you don’t have access […] The post 5 Effective Strategies for Differentiating in the Interactive Classroom appeared first on A Lesson

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History Tech

JULY 13, 2023

I’m spending a few days with some of the amazing staff at the Library of Congress (I’m looking at you, Cheryl), learning more about their super cool primary sources and more ways to use them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

Using your mind’s eye, visualize a good school. What does a good school look like? Maybe you see a place where children are excited and classrooms buzz with activity. Maybe you see a place where children are enjoying a nourishing meal together or running around on a well-maintained playground. Maybe you see children from diverse backgrounds learning together.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2023

" It's the follow-through that makes the great difference between success and failure, because it's so easy to stop. " - Charles F. Kettering Have you ever made a commitment to do something, only to find yourself needing to follow through? How about getting motivated at a conference or professional learning, only to keep everything the same once you are back in your classroom, school, or district?

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2023

Just because this school year has ended doesn’t mean the crisis facing our nation’s youth is over. In fact, the data suggests the exact opposite. During the 2022-23 school year, suicide skyrocketed to the second leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in the United States. Research shows some youth are more affected than others. Nearly 1 in 3 high school girls said they had considered suicide.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

JULY 5, 2023

Collaboration is an essential skill that students need to develop in order to succeed in school and in life. As teachers, we need to provide opportunities for our students to work together, learn from each other, and solve problems together. The following are my favorite collaborative classroom activities that will let your students build a […] The post How To Boost Student Success: 5 Engaging Collaborative Classroom Activities appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers.

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History Tech

JULY 4, 2023

On June 7, 1776, the Second Continental Congress listened as Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed a resolution declaring the United States independent from Great Britain: “Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that […]

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Schools can’t afford to lose teachers of color. And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. Today, less than one in five teachers identify as Black, Hispanic or Asian American amidst an increasingly diverse student population. It is time to take a hard look at the policies that keep our diverse students from learning from teachers who look like them.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

You would be hard-pressed not to have heard how AI is evolving at such a fast rate. Tools like ChatGBT and Google Bard weren’t even a thing before 2023. With any innovation, there is both excitement and fear. While there is room for caution, leaders can tap into the power of AI. As I shared in Digital Leadership , evolving technology enables and empowers leaders to seize the moment and look for ways to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences. Blended learning aims to lean on technology to do what it does well–information transfer–and free teachers to do what they do well–support individual and small groups of students as they progress toward firm standards-aligned goals.

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. And these days he’s putting those ideas into practice — on a big platform. He’s applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats! , aimed at teaching concepts of computational thinking to kids ages 3 to 6. Edouard is no stranger to making media.

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Education Elements

JULY 11, 2023

I have always aspired to open a new school that cultivates a school atmosphere centered on learning and student achievement. One that recruits and retains the best teachers and staff, meaningfully engages with students, families, and the community, and utilizes research-based and culturally responsive curriculum. I have not yet fulfilled that dream, but I had the opportunity to work alongside James Hopkins, a school principal in Durham, North Carolina, who has done just that.

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History Tech

JULY 10, 2023

Yeah. I’m a little behind schedule. Let’s just say that my May and June did not go as planned and leave it at that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8 million public school teachers are white, but over half of their students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and mixed races. The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student po

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2023

When you think about how you learn best, what comes to mind? Your response most likely flies in the face of how you were taught, and the same could be said of students today. If all kids are doing the same thing, the same way, at the same time, the experience is more impersonal than personal. It might work for some, but definitely not all. Learning is a process, not an event.

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Edthena

JULY 6, 2023

Nowadays, an important responsibility of administrating student and teacher learning includes implementing edtech for a school or district. Schools use many edtech tools and platforms, ranging from student-facing note-taking apps to teacher-facing AI-driven grading platforms. But it’s time-consuming for leaders to help integrate technology efficiently with already-existing school processes.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. The answer? Not enough. There are a number of research organizations collecting data about foreign language study and multilingualism in the U.S., however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2023

The post The Power of Professional Development: How to Use Micro-credentials as an Organization appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

JULY 25, 2023

I support school teams nationwide through the process of unpacking survey and focus group data from their communities. One consistent trend across school districts is that most adults overestimate their ability to understand and empathize with their students’ experiences at school. Even teachers who regularly work directly with students and have the best intentions tend to misrepresent students’ feelings and beliefs about their academic and social experiences at school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Strange Maps

JULY 27, 2023

Famed aviator Charles Lindbergh (top left) addresses a crowd of 3,000 at an America First Rally in the Gospel Temple of Fort Wayne, Indiana. ( Credit : Library of Congress / Public domain) By the late 1930s, the question was no longer whether a Second World War would break out, but when — and who would be drawn into it. Whatever was going to happen in Europe or Asia, the United States should stay out: This was the opinion of a large segment of the American public, led by “America First” celebrit

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Edthena

JULY 31, 2023

In the News There has been more and more recent conversation around the role of AI in education. In this Guardian article, Rose Luckin, a professor at the UCL Knowledge Lab in London, talks about how “AI could be a force for tremendous good within education.” Read more for highlights from this Guardian article about the role of AI in education, or scroll to the bottom for a link to the original.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The right team, professional development and buy-in are essential to transformative digital learning, according to leaders of some of the largest K–12 school districts in the U.S. During a panel discussion at 1EdTech’s Learning Impact Conference in Anaheim this summer, distinguished educators shed light on their districts' digital transformations and emphasized the crucial role of collaboration, professional development and buy-in to ensure the effective integration of technology and curriculum.

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Digital Promise

JULY 26, 2023

The post Why Co-Designing Learning and Employment Record Technologies is Best Practice appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

JULY 17, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted the culture of learning in America and the issue of school enrollment is a current topic of repeated conversation. Remote learning created the option for students to learn outside of the school building and the shifts from remote, to hybrid resulted in a noticeable decline in school enrollment. Many students simply struggled to return to school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

One would hope the math education of our students would be built on a solid foundation of evidence. That has not been our experience as parents and school committee membersin the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which is often singled out as an example of math success. Educators five years ago praised the city’s so-called innovative move to delay Algebra I to ninth grade for all public school students, proclaiming “ How one city got math right.

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US Government Teachers Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Have you tried the new AI app called Diffit. I love it—you can take primary sources that you find on the internet, paste in the URL and the program will generate the source with questions, both multiple choice and short answer. You can adjust the length of the source. If it looks too long, just click "shorten." Once you're satisfied, you can open it in google docs.

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Achieve the Core

JULY 26, 2023

These are the words my young granddaughter uses when she sees anything we have that is interesting that she wants to explore how to use. Recently, a colleague and I explored what happens when we allow students to request whatever tool they might want to help solve a problem. Activating Student Agency In a sixth-grade classroom, the teacher and I selected to use Math Milestones task 6:12 in order to activate and deepen student learning around graphing points on a coordinate plane, understanding s

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

When Aaron Diaz, 16, looked around his Compton, California, neighborhood, he saw people struggling, with little access to mental health care. “Collective trauma is embedded within the community,” Diaz says. That’s why he decided to spend his summer learning about careers in the mental health field. Diaz is part of the first crop of high school students in a new pilot program offered by the state of California in partnership with the Child Mind Institute.

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Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2023

Students and educators from Bristol Township School District, in partnership with Bristol Cares, built a student leadership and community mentorship program

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Education Elements

JULY 3, 2023

Last year, I relocated to my home state of Tennessee from New York City, and I had to secure a car for the first time in many years. As luck would have it, my first winter back in Tennessee was one of the state's coldest on record. Just enough snow fell in late December to make driving, especially up my steep driveway, a daunting experience. As I slowly crept up the hill toward my house, my tires spun in place.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

Jesse Wiese spent seven years in prison; when he left the Iowa facility in 2006, he thought his debt to society had been paid. While inside, Wiese had earned an undergraduate degree and puzzled over how he might do right in the world. He started studying for the law school admissions test, thinking he could become a lawyer and maybe, one day, a judge.

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Strange Maps

JULY 26, 2023

A McDonald’s restaurant in the Kingdom Mall in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. America’s biggest burger chain is usually the first one to enter foreign markets. ( Credit : Lynsey Addario / Getty Images Reportage) When non-Americans think of American fast food, the first thing they picture are the Golden Arches of McDonald’s. That’s because McDonald’s usually is the first U.S. burger chain to open franchises in other countries.

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O-Level Geography

JULY 25, 2023

Where is the great barrier reef located? What are the changes in terms of the severity of coral bleaching from 2016 to 2020? Why is there a shift in the areas affected by severe coral bleaching? What cause coral bleaching? How does climate change impact on coral bleaching? What are the consequences of coral bleaching?

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