A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Learning is a deeply personal journey and tailoring it to individual needs and preferences is essential for fostering meaningful and effective education. Personalized learning increases engagement and helps learners develop a deeper understanding of the subject matter. It all begins with understanding the learner's interests, something I dive deeply into in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms.
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Who decided that grading and assessment should be the exclusive responsibility of teachers? Why do we sideline students when it comes to assessment? Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. It is a process where students evaluate their work, reflecting on what they’ve learned, how well they’ve understood complex concepts, how much progress they’ve made toward mastering key skills, and where they may need
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A Lesson Plan for Teachers
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
This generation of students has been raised playing games. They play them for fun, to keep distracted or entertained, and even to help them complete chores or fall asleep. Gaming is a way of life. So why not use games in the classroom to help students learn? Even better, how about learning 10 great ways […] The post 10 Great Ways to Use Scavenger Hunts in the Classroom appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. Altogether, a modest set of conventional choices we’re all familiar with as students and faculty on campus. But in the last couple of decades, since the introduction of online instruction in higher ed, students now expect a much wider range of options — a colle
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Amid the growing debate over how best to teach math, there is another ballooning problem: grades. They’re becoming increasingly untethered to how much students know. That not only makes it harder to gauge how well students are learning math and catching up from pandemic learning losses, but it’s also making math grades a less reliable indicator of who should be admitted to colleges or take advanced courses.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Leaders from Verizon Innovative Learning Schools’ newest cohort share best practices from their recent rollout events.
Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
As students and districts around the country begin the new school year, we are excited to share an inspiring story of how the School District of Newberry County, South Carolina, in partnership with Education Elements, is launching this school year with a powerful new Strategic Plan. There are two key lessons worth sharing which helped drive purposeful change and set a course for a clear and coherent journey ahead.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, students in a small rural Alabama school district soared. This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Other Alabama school districts fared well, too, but Piedmont, a small, 1,100-student district where 7 out of 10 students qualify for free or reduced-price l
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Digital Promise has designed learning pathways to explicitly connect classroom learning to attributes districts identified through Portrait of Graduate
Achieve the Core
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
“Miss, you do know that one person does the homework and then passes it around the lunch table for everybody else to copy, right?” — 9th grade student, circa 2005 Welcome to My “Why” I probably should have known. I vaguely remember the same practice from back when I was in high school. Homework counted 15%, maybe 30%, of our grade in some classes.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Clad in a beanie, university sweatshirt and gold-rimmed glasses, a TikToker who goes by Mimi looks directly into the camera and speaks in a gentle tone as she addresses her viewers on the topics that flash in red-highlighted letters at the top of the video: “TW: Climate Anxiety & Doomism.” The trigger warning is buttressed by a more hopeful message accentuated in green: “& TIPS on how to deal with that.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears. I’m told there has been a nasty avalanche and that it’s my job to restore power to the grid. The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Digital Promise supports Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and closing the literacy gap for adults.
O-Level Geography
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
What is extreme weather? Why is there a need to adapt to more extreme weather? How can Singapore adapt to more extreme weather? Weather monitoring through weather model. Flood alert through SMS and Telegram channel. Public education - how to respond to alert and flash flood in Singapore. [link] 70% of Singapore's coast protected by hard structures. Dam gates to help divert storm water into the sea.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Researchers estimate that dyslexia affects one in five individuals. Yet, it is often misdiagnosed or missed entirely. Even more common than a misdiagnosis is the likelihood that a student with dyslexia will find themself in a classroom without the resources to become a successful reader. In fact, according to the International Dyslexia Association , only about 5 percent of students who have dyslexia are properly identified and given support.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: At the start of her Math Methods course at Drexel University, Karen Greenhaus has a simple assignment for her pre-service early ed teachers
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The post How to Support Students in Creating Learning Materials with Low-Cost Tech appeared first on Digital Promise.
TCI
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
TCI’s free social studies activities will keep students engaged throughout the year as they explore the history behind Labor Day and biographies for Black History Month. Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms. Labor Day (September) Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor the American labor movement.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Shirley Cruz used to pass an old parking lot on her way to and from work. Adjacent to a former high school, the lot was wasted space back then, she says. Uber and Lyft drivers would congregate there, waiting to get assigned to their next rides, Cruz recalls. Otherwise, it sat empty. In Daly City, California, just south of San Francisco city limits, that’s prime real estate.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: When the Covid-19 pandemic hit Northeastern Ohio, it was the National Guardsmen and women who stepped up to save the day.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The post Can AI Be Leveraged to Support Competency-Based Assessments? appeared first on Digital Promise.
Strange Maps
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is a language that gave rise to many others. About 46% of humans, well over three billion people, are native speakers of an Indo-European language. But where did PIE first arise, and who spoke it: pastoralists from the Pontic steppe straddling eastern Europe and west Asia or agrarians from Anatolia in Turkey? The answer to that question has been eluding anthropologists for ages.
All Things Pedagogical
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
A blog post on a Monday, what is this chaos? I apologize to my regular readers for the lack of scheduled posts lately. If you read the previous posts you know that I have been floating between two cities for the last month. On Saturday I managed to bring everything to my new place and so now I hope to start posting and sharing the things I usually do with more of a routine.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
In this short video, reporter Sharon Lurye discusses how parents can help their young children gather basic math skills. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Math is all around us. You don’t have to buy anything expensive or plan an activity in advance. It’s all about taking advantage of those spontaneous opportunities to ask your kids questions and help them learn.
Education Week - Social Studies
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
More than a dozen states require students to take the U.S. Citizenship exam, but it doesn't seem to boost turnout.
Cult of Pedagogy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Listen to the interview with Alex Shevrin Venet ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Listenwise This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Among the many challenges teachers have faced since the onset of the pandemic , one that persists is this feeling that students have changed , that they are
Maitri Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Okay, sorting is fun. I admit it. I feel a strange sort of joy when I can organize things. Although I don't always do it in a timely fashion, having those piles of laundry folded Maria-Kondo-style in little piles on my bed gives me such a sense of satisfaction. And yes, sorting is a key skill children develop in early childhood. Sorting games guide children to group things into categories.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
This summer, the White House persuaded seven major tech companies to make substantial commitments toward the responsible development of artificial intelligence; in early September, eight more joined in. The companies pledged to focus on researching the societal dangers of AI, such as the perpetuation of bias and abuse of privacy, and to develop AI that addresses those dangers.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Picture it: Thirty students in your classroom, each at different levels, with varying needs and interests. Yet, there is just one set of learning standards, one big state exam and one of you. The predicament arises when learners struggle to keep pace with a mandatory curriculum, raising questions about the effectiveness of a one-size-fits-all, grade-level approach to education.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
School libraries should be places where students can learn independently and think creatively outside the traditional classroom. But that won’t happen under a new plan proposed for Houston, the largest school district in Texas. Instead, spaces once reserved for quiet contemplation of books will now be transformed into disciplinary spaces for troubled students.
Maitri Learning
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Okay, sorting is fun. I admit it. I feel a strange sort of joy when I can organize things. Although I don't always do it in a timely fashion, having those piles of laundry folded Maria-Kondo-style in little piles on my bed gives me such a sense of satisfaction. And yes, sorting is a key skill children develop in early childhood. Sorting games guide children to group things into categories.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
This past spring, I overheard one of my fifth graders boast that he would start using ChatGPT to do his homework. I chuckled because I knew him well enough that he wouldn’t follow through. Frankly, I would have been thrilled that he did any homework, even with assistance. I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset. While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery. That means participants log a lot of time in VR most every school day: Students in third through eighth grade are given a Meta Quest 2 VR headset and wear the devices for about 30 to 40 mi
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian.
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