A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 19, 2023
A thriving culture views technology as a seamless component that can enhance learning in a multitude of ways. When digital tools are intentionally integrated, students are able to produce tangible evidence of their conceptual comprehension, develop a range of competencies, illustrate the construction of new knowledge, and become self-directed in their learning.
ED Surge
MARCH 22, 2023
Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. We were discussing the agenda when the topic of ChatGPT elicited a collective groan. It had only been a few weeks into the semester, and we had already sent dozens of students’ names to administrators to report this new version of plagiarism. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 22, 2023
Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sense of satisfaction — and a pang of despair. This story also appeared in The Washington Post The students getting the good news had been just like her — struggling with student debt because a for-profit college had defrauded them — with one difference, a difference that hadn’t seemed important until recent
Digital Promise
MARCH 23, 2023
The post The Role of Micro-credentials in the Credential Ecosystem appeared first on Digital Promise.
Cult of Pedagogy
MARCH 19, 2023
Listen to the interview with Jamyle Cannon ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Giant Steps I remember listening to a conversation once between two men I taught middle school with. Some of the details are fuzzy now, but here’s the gist of it: Both were classroom teachers and both were coaches of our school’s football team. Midterm grade reports had just come out, and they were talking about one kid, a player on the team, who was failing one of his classes.
ED Surge
MARCH 23, 2023
This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce driver
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 21, 2023
BOSTON — The six toddlers in the “Bears” classroom at the Ellis Early Learning center were hard at play when, suddenly, a tower of large, brightly-colored plastic blocks crashed to the ground. The children froze as the little boy who had just built the tower burst into tears. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift “Look, he’s sad!” their teacher said gently as she kneeled next to the 2-year-old.
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Catlin Tucker
MARCH 21, 2023
Do you want to design lessons that allow you to work with small groups but worry about keeping the rest of the class on task? Even the most experienced teachers find themselves teaching “that one class” that needs extra support and structure when implementing the station rotation model. As a classroom teacher, instructional coach, and now site administrator, I have curated several easy-to-implement tips to help teachers effectively implement and manage the station rotation model with
ED Surge
MARCH 24, 2023
Enough is enough. We feel this with each school shooting we endure. We feel this with each suicide that takes a loved one from us far too soon. More lives lost, more families devastated, more educators operating in fear. Each time, we’re left wondering if there’s anything else we could have done to prevent another tragedy. It’s no question that American youth are facing an urgent mental health crisis.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 23, 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. Subscribe today! Several years ago, officials at Pathways, an Alabama-based nonprofit that provides services and shelter for women and children who are homeless, learned that their clients needed more than a safe, temporary home: They needed child care, too.
History Tech
MARCH 20, 2023
Just so you know. Huge March Madness fan. First four days of the tournament rank right up there with the NCSS conference, Fourth of July, and the winter holidays. And the 2023 version did not disappoint. Would have liked KU to have done better but otherwise loving the upsets.
Edthena
MARCH 22, 2023
Coaching instructional coaches and helping instructional coaches develop their skills is an important part of their improvement, just like coaching someone in any profession. Before utilizing technology such as video to coach instructional coaches, however, establishing trust is crucial. When any form of professional development is built on a foundation of trust, more meaningful learning can take place.
ED Surge
MARCH 21, 2023
Since the release of ChatGPT, which can generate original text that seems like it was written by a human, educators have expressed concern about students using the tool to write their essays for them. So naturally, companies are rushing to create tools that they say can help detect when text is written by a bot. But will these tools work? And even if they do at first, will this approach continue to be effective as AI gets more sophisticated?
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 20, 2023
It seemed like a match made in heaven. This story also appeared in Wired Dominican University of California needed something fresh. The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming in the Bay Area. Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal.
Education Elements
MARCH 22, 2023
School districts face an increasingly competitive market as districts grapple over teacher talent. In Texas, the state implemented a grant system called the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA), where districts create criteria for designating “Master” teachers to reward their top performers.
Edthena
MARCH 24, 2023
Instructional coaches who support teachers have a variety of questioning techniques in their coaching repertoire. Strong questioning techniques from coaches help teachers reflect more deeply on their teaching practices and generate classroom strategies on their own. But, is there a “right” type of question for instructional coaches to ask? Are open-ended questions “better” to ask teachers than closed-ended questions?
ED Surge
MARCH 22, 2023
For a young person struggling with mental health, what kind of difference would it make to know they aren’t alone? To know that someone else at school feels the same loneliness or heartache or has the same problems at home? In Diana Chao’s case, it turned out to be lifesaving. At 14 years old, she put all of her pain into letters addressed to no one in particular — pouring out the feelings that led her to attempt to end her own life.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 20, 2023
Public school choice appeared to increase overall arrests and days incarcerated for young men in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a study by three economists, “ Does School Ch o ice Increase Crime? ” circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Bob Leverone Many major cities around the country, from New York and New Orleans to Denver and Los Angeles, have changed how children are assigned to public schools over the past 20 years and now allow f
Education Elements
MARCH 21, 2023
It’s the time of year when hiring managers and principals are gearing up to recruit and onboard their staff for the upcoming school year. As we prepare for this hiring season, most of us have team members who were promoted, or pre-existing vacancies, and newly retired staff which creates additional open roles to fill. Undoubtedly, there are some big shoes to fill, but where are the people?
Dr. Preece
MARCH 24, 2023
Having taught secondary Geography for most of my professional life post-academia, the decision to leave classroom teaching was a difficult one for me. While the COVID pandemic and the challenges for teachers was undoubtedly a factor, I think I’d also come to the conclusion that I loved my subject (and/or was more capable of it) more than I loved leadership and management.
ED Surge
MARCH 20, 2023
When Alexis Hancock signed her child up for child care, she wasn’t expecting to have to download an app to participate. When that app began to send her photos of her child, she had some additional questions. That experience is not unique. Across the country, more and more child care programs are signing up to use administrative technology. Some of these tools are mobile apps that allow for easy communication between teachers and families and also facilitate billing.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 20, 2023
If you only read the headlines about education in the U.S., you would think our situation is hopeless. You would encounter alarming phrases: teacher shortages, pandemic learning loss and historic declines in math and reading scores. You would also know that, during the pandemic, our classrooms changed dramatically (some argue permanently). Under-resourced students and those in rural areas without internet access could not consistently attend classes, either in person or virtually.
Maitri Learning
MARCH 20, 2023
Do you want more high-quality research on Montessori? The Montessori Research Pool can help! Through a collaborative effort, a new, University-based Montessori Research Pool has been created. How to be included If you are interested in participating in Montessori research, you can become part of the Montessori Research Pool by filling out this form !
Dr. Preece
MARCH 21, 2023
In between other headlines this week, you may have seen that the IPCC has published their Sixth Assessment Report. While the headlines have rapidly faded in to other news, and even the publication of other reports, it’s a critical piece of work that points the direction of global agreements and international bodies in the next few years. But what does it mean for classroom teachers, and what should you do with it?
ED Surge
MARCH 20, 2023
Literacy is the foundation of overall educational success. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 21, 2023
Based on the latest results from the Nation’s Report Card, the pandemic has wiped out two decades of student progress, with the largest recorded decline in mathematics scores since 1990. In reading, scores sank to 1992 levels. Significant resources are being mobilized — including $122 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act — to help students catch up.
Maitri Learning
MARCH 20, 2023
Do you want more high-quality research on Montessori? The Montessori Research Pool can help! Through a collaborative effort, a new, University-based Montessori Research Pool has been created. How to be included If you are interested in participating in Montessori research, you can become part of the Montessori Research Pool by filling out this form !
4QM Teaching
MARCH 19, 2023
Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. This is a valuable and important goal. Humans remember what we think about, so actually engaging intellectually with history will help students to remember more of it. And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critic
All Things Pedagogical
MARCH 19, 2023
[CW: I feel this post may be triggering to people who are working through trauma] My to-do list this weekend is enormous and yesterday instead of tackling it, I decided to go for a walk because I have been swimming with ideas about memory and loss and teaching and learning all week. This is going to be one of those, oh no Ann is in deep phenomenological theory thought land posts, sorry.
ED Surge
MARCH 21, 2023
What will it take to build a sustainable early care and education system in the United States? That was the question I posed to leaders from the field who came together on March 8 — coincidentally, International Women's Day — to weigh in on the issue, sharing solutions they're seeing that seem promising, innovative and scalable. The setting for our conversation was a featured panel at the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas.
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