A Principal's Reflections

MAY 14, 2023

Change is hard because it requires us to step outside of our comfort zone and into the unknown. It means letting go of the familiar and embracing something new. This can be a scary and uncertain process, which is why many people resist change. There are many reasons why people resist change. Some people are afraid of the unknown. They may worry about what will happen if they change, and they may not be confident in their ability to adapt to new situations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Claire Considine, a teacher’s aide at Naperville North High School in a suburb about 35 miles west of Chicago, had lost count of the hardships that she and other school support staff had been through since she was hired in 2019: the trauma and disruption of Covid-19, chaotic online instruction, mask and vaccine debates, and rising behavioral and mental health issues among students.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

As a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, I was among those who got a recent campus-wide email with an urgent directive: Don’t use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard or Bing, as doing so “is equivalent to receiving assistance from another person.” Upon reading it, I took a pause. I’m a former educator in the process of writing my dissertation for my Doctorate of Education, as part of a part-time program while working a full-time job at Google.

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Tutoring EdTech Humanities Teaching 145

Digital Promise

MAY 17, 2023

The post Micro-credentials Designed for Today’s Higher Education Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education 108

Education Elements

MAY 16, 2023

Prior to becoming a consultant for Education Elements, I served as a Middle School Math Teacher. It was a tough but rewarding job, and I absolutely loved it. Math is a passion of mine, and I adore the raw, sarcastic, hilarious moments that often come from interacting with middle school students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Patrick Ben III always knew he’d go to college, even though his parents hadn’t. This story also appeared in USA Today He also knew that the high school he attended on Chicago’s South Side offered few of the advantages that wealthier kids got. There were no Advanced Placement courses, for example, and little help was available with college and financial aid applications, said Ben, who is Black.

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High School Economics Advocacy Research 145

ED Surge

MAY 19, 2023

Makerspaces in schools are a place where the normal rules of classroom learning are tossed aside in favor of just a couple — have fun, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. As schools continue to grapple with a student mental health crisis , could makerspaces also present an opportunity to support students’ well-being overall? And even a creative way for counselors to get their young patients to open up?

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Library Research Humanities Teaching 143

Edthena

MAY 17, 2023

Effective instructional coaches continuously work on improving their instructional coaching skills to best support the teachers they coach. When coaches develop their coaching skills, teachers and ultimately students benefit from stronger positive outcomes. “Evocative Coaching” author Megan Tschannen-Moran joined Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller for a PLtogether Lounge Talk about getting better at instructional coaching.

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Teaching Education 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes.

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Tutoring Tradition Social Science Research 129

ED Surge

MAY 18, 2023

During the pandemic, schools became more reliant on tech than ever. The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. And the companies that provide these tools aren’t always careful stewards of the sometimes-sensitive information they collect from students.

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EdTech K-12 High School Education 143

Teaching Civics

MAY 15, 2023

Integration!…Using Children’s Literature to Teach Economics and Civics Tuesday, June 20 | 8:30AM-2:30PM CST | Gr. K-5 Join us as we consider how economic and civic concepts and skills foster reasoned decision-making for ourselves and our community. Together we will strengthen our knowledge and skills in teaching econ and civics while also finding meaningful ways to integrate with children’s literature.

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Civics Economics Teaching K-12 52

Strange Maps

MAY 14, 2023

There is a basic flaw woven into the very fabric of cartography. We trust maps to tell us the truth, but they can’t help lying to us. The lying starts with the standard flatness of maps. How is that a good fit for the roundness of the Earth? It isn’t. Some distortion is already implied. Map subjectivity is a feature, not a bug But the bigger lies are those of omission — and inclusion.

History 52

History 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators. The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators.

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Public School Professional Development K-12 Tutoring 128

ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

Inspired by past educators, Aida Hadzovic has built a reputation for innovative teaching strategies for English. Hadzovic earned a degree in English education and later pursued a science degree in part because of the demand for science teachers in Brooklyn, New York. Her diverse background in teaching writing, science and coding positioned her well to participate in the Project Topeka pilot, a multifaceted AI program that gave real-time feedback to students to support the development of argument

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Middle School Teaching Cultures Education 118

All Things Pedagogical

MAY 14, 2023

There were so many things I could have written about this week, but the more I thought about it the more I realized that they were all connected in some way. I could have written about what happens when someone follows you on all your social media platforms and barges into conversations you are having with other people that they don't know on a regular basis to use your connections with those people to build their own profile and think you won't notice.

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Library Education 40

Pedagogy to Share

MAY 17, 2023

What does GatherEd mean to me? For the second time, GatherEd has provided an opportunity to halt the everyday race, always loaded with local worries, administration, tasks and surroundings, to zoom out of routine and into crucial issues from a different perspective. GatherEd means a chance to grapple with the complexity of education in a changing global reality, collaboratively unpacking terms like multiculturalism and multilingualism.

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Education Pedagogy Cultures Human Rights 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, tens of thousands of girls were banned from attending school beyond sixth grade. Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. As a group of girls in Kabul have been grappling with all this, they’ve formed a connection with some other teens half a world away in California.

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Tutoring World History Humanities High School 125

ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

Olga puts on a fleece pullover and wraps her head in a bandana while her husband dons similar garb. It’s four in the morning and still dark outside. They’re off to work in the grape harvest in Napa Valley, California. Olga is a recruiter for the Migrant Education Program (MEP); by working side by side with the farmworkers she hopes to recruit, Olga can talk about the services MEP provides, and hopefully, enroll them in the program.

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High School Leadership Tradition Cultures 109

ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

During the pandemic, schools became more reliant on tech than ever. The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. And the companies that provide these tools aren’t always careful stewards of the sometimes-sensitive information they collect from students.

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EdTech K-12 High School Education 94

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

Are schools too quick to turn student disturbances into criminal matters? Schools around the country have been wrestling with that issue in recent years, including whether to have police in schools , and if so, when to use them. A lawsuit that has been playing out in South Carolina offers a powerful example of the systemic issues involved. The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her d

Humanities 88

Humanities Advocacy Cultures High School 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2023

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read.

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Teaching Education High School 62

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

Situated at the base of the Great Smoky Mountains, surrounded by old country stores and taffy shops, is a theme park that, for the staff who work there, operates like a self-contained community. Dollywood Parks and Resorts is a destination for families — “guests,” as they are better known by staff — to play, celebrate and be charmed by the Southern hospitality that the park’s namesake, entertainer and icon Dolly Parton, grew up on and has come to embody.

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K-12 Advocacy Government Tradition 97

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2023

BALTIMORE — On a chilly May morning in Leakin Park, preschoolers at the Carrie Murray Nature Center Forest Preschool fanned out across a small section of the woods. Bundled up in colorful rain suits, boots and mismatched gloves, some children used tin buckets to scoop water from a creek while others traipsed off with a teacher to examine a large log a few yards away.

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Leadership Tradition Elementary School Research 144