A Principal's Reflections
MAY 22, 2022
We have been made to think certain things are absolute truths for most of our lives. Take, for example, the saying that practice makes perfect. While this sounds great in theory and can be a great motivation to pursue growth opportunities, an underlying fallacy is embedded in this message. Take bowling, for example. The ultimate goal of any bowler is to reach a perfect score of 300 by getting nothing but strikes.
Mr and Mrs Social Studies
MAY 24, 2022
Travel Themed Classroom Travel Themed Decor If you love travel and are looking to switch up your classroom decor, this set of travel themed classroom decor will be a perfect fit! We’ve created 10 travel-themed classroom resources that are easy to implement and ready to display. Whether you decide to use a few or all of them, these travel-themed decorations will transform your classroom and excite your students!
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2022
Robin Golden drifted through high school without making much of an effort. After graduating in the spring of 1981, she planned to forgo college and head straight to the job market. When her father, a professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore, signed her up for classes there that fall, she was furious. She didn’t want to go, and when she dropped out after two years, her GPA was 1.8.
ED Surge
MAY 27, 2022
Matt Gibson spends a lot of his time thinking about how people learn. As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. That’s thanks in large part to Gibson’s participation as a coaching fellow at the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators.
Digital Promise
MAY 26, 2022
The post Strategies for Trauma-Informed Care in School appeared first on Digital Promise.
Education Elements
MAY 23, 2022
It's been a year since the school district surrounding Columbus, Indiana started their strategic planning process. The district team partnered with Education Elements, and during a time of increased uncertainty, chose to set a clear direction. Now, as the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation prepares to roll out their new plan this coming fall, we talk with superintendent Dr.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2022
U.S. college enrollments have declined by 3 million students over the past decade. While the decrease has been concentrated in community colleges, it’s coming soon to many four-year institutions. Demographers predict an “enrollment cliff” beginning in 2025, when the traditional college-age population will start shrinking for the foreseeable future. Unless they bring in more students, colleges will struggle financially, and some could shut their doors.
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Digital Promise
MAY 23, 2022
The post Lessons from Sesame Workshop: Leveraging Research and Learner Testing for Powerful Edtech appeared first on Digital Promise.
Letters and Ink Blog
MAY 27, 2022
It’s been one crazy year, and I’m exhausted. We’ve finally made it to the end, and my instinct is to play a movie for the last week of class next week. BUT, kids have worked hard, and I don’t want to just tap out. I’m sure many of you are in the same boat, so I made a list of activities that are fun and creative while still being moderately standards- related.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 24, 2022
As we hopefully begin to emerge from the pandemic, we’re only starting to appreciate its full impact on our children’s lives, learning and futures. The pandemic took the lives of hundreds of thousands of family members. It led to a troubling rise in mental health issues, a so-called second pandemic. And during periods of remote and hybrid instruction, academic progress for many students stalled , particularly for those who were already struggling.
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
Educator shortages continue to be a top concern for many. And the trend of teachers leaving the classroom is unlikely to reverse course anytime soon. In a recent National Education Association survey of roughly 3,600 educators, more than half indicated that they were likely to leave or retire from education sooner than planned because of the pandemic.
Rosie the History Teacher
MAY 26, 2022
It is that time of year – many new teachers are graduating and getting their very first teaching certificates. Maybe you already have a teaching job lined up for the Fall, or going on interviews or searching for a great first teaching role. It is an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. Especially now, when teachers are faced with challenges day after day while trying to do the most important work of caring for and teaching children.
Stanford History Education Group
MAY 27, 2022
What Fact-Checkers Know About Media Literacy—and Students Should, Too kerrd Fri, 05/27/2022 - 12:58 05/26/22 [link]
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2022
In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Credit: NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images. Ron Floyd dropped out of New Jersey’s Seton Hall University after his junior year more than 20 years ago.
ED Surge
MAY 24, 2022
Scientists ran an unusual summer camp in the 1970s and ‘80s—and its main purpose was to study the sleep patterns of kids and teens. Campers actually wore electrodes all day so they’d be ready to plug in for monitoring. What researchers found, and have continued to study in the years since, is that teens have different, and greater, needs when it comes to sleep than people of other ages.
C3 Teachers
MAY 23, 2022
In classrooms, we use inquiries to deepen student understanding of content and to sharpen student skills towards making evidence-based arguments, asking important questions, and taking informed action. In the past, I’ve worked with teachers on adopting the language of inquiry, not only as they learn to create and deploy inquiries, but as general praxis.
Stanford History Education Group
MAY 27, 2022
What Fact-Checkers Know About Media Literacy—and Students Should, Too kerrd Fri, 05/27/2022 - 12:58 05/26/22 [link]
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2022
Michael Woods doesn’t tell his high school students that he is gay. He doesn’t bring up gay marriage or any other topic that might court controversy, either. This story also appeared in USA Today. “I am very cautious about a lot of things,” said Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, who teaches science. “I enjoy keeping my job.”.
ED Surge
MAY 23, 2022
Michelle Kang has spent much of her first month as the new CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) on something of a listening tour. She’s visited child care programs to see and hear what providers and educators are facing more than two years into the pandemic. She’s had numerous conversations with folks in the field about the challenges that are holding them back from thriving in a profession they love—staffing shortages, low pay, better opportunities elsewhe
ED Surge
MAY 24, 2022
The fast-growing startup Class Technologies will acquire the virtual classroom tool Blackboard Collaborate, according to an announcement last week. Class Technologies became one of the best-funded new edtech startups since the start of the pandemic, having raised more than $164 million to build out a series of classroom features on top of Zoom. That means colleges, schools and corporate-training operations pay Class for the ability to do things like give out assignments, proctor tests and take a
ED Surge
MAY 26, 2022
There was so much data waiting to be explored in College Scorecard’s seemingly endless depths that we went back for more. This time, we’re taking a look at what its thousands of data points can tell us about graduation at institutions in the U.S. Getting To The Finish Line Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard | Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo Plenty of students enter community college with the goal of transferring to a four-year institution.
ED Surge
MAY 25, 2022
Schools have changed. Learning has changed. The personal lives of everyone involved in those systems have changed. And they’re still changing, after two years of a brutal pandemic, untold economic hardship, political polarization and social unrest. No one understands this more intimately than the teachers, school leaders and students who live through it every day.
ED Surge
MAY 26, 2022
Jackie Kim is training for a career in acting and stunts. Photo by Shuran Huang for EdSurge. BALTIMORE — The doppelganger swaggers, taunting the party of friends who must pass him to continue their quest. Agnes, the least skilled fighter, desperately swings both her wooden sword and shield in the monster’s direction, trying not to notice that he has shape-shifted into a brawny caricature of her own boyfriend.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 25, 2022
Once the magnitude of the latest elementary school shooting became clear on Tuesday, I heard the same single word repeated: Speechless. Nineteen children in a fourth grade classroom and two teachers, all killed by an 18-year-old gunman, a high school student who police believe also shot his grandmother and was later shot and killed at the scene. While we are reeling from the recent shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead, news comes of this devastating reminder of our vulnerability, of the toll gu
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