A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases. This means that students can engage with a wide range of material and have access to resources that they might not have been able to access otherwise.

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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Teaching Research 536

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. In this second post, Michigan Virtual outlines how they successfully created resources by crowdsourcing ideas on how to address shared challenges among educators.

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K-12 EdTech Leadership Education 159

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 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! For young children, experiencing conflict in the classroom is a normal part of growing up. It means they are learning how to interact with others and navigate the world.

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Classroom Management Education Teaching 133

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“This is happening.” I repeated the phrase again, and again, and once more — part of a chorus of perhaps a dozen people sitting together in a meeting room at the university where I’m a graduate student. The exercise was part of an active shooter training, which consisted of about an hour of lecture followed by an hour-long simulation. “This is happening.

Psychology 131

Psychology Education Educational Technology 131

A Psychology Teacher Writes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I’ve written before about a general approach to lean marking in my subject ; as I noted there I don’t think there’s anything revolutionary in my approach and it’s something that has taken a while to develop. One of the strategies outlined was the use of whole-class feedback (WCF) which I want to elaborate upon further here – what does it actually look like?

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Psychology Research 130

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The post How We’re Supporting Teachers to Engage in World History Discussions appeared first on Digital Promise.

World History 124

World History History Research 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Before the pandemic, middle school students’ test scores in math tended to decline as they moved through each grade. But the depth of this problem was obscured as most states, and thus most newspapers, reported achievement trends by comparing each new year’s eighth graders to the previous year’s eighth graders. The disruptions caused by the pandemic took this hidden problem and exacerbated it.

Middle School 126

Middle School Tutoring High School Education 126

Edthena

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Culturally responsive teaching is key to equitable and inclusive education for all students. For candidates in higher education programs training to become teachers, learning to teach with a culturally responsive lens is not just about talk, it’s about action. City University of Seattle’s undergraduate program director for teacher certification Dr. Bryan Carter put it this way: “ Equity right now is a big term in education.

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Anthropology 365

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” I consider it to be the study of humans and the variety of relationships humans have. These relationships include some of the most obvious: kinship, communities, institutions, businesses, and religions. It also includes our relationships to our past (archaeology), our biology, our evolutionary history, and other beings (e.g., animals, plants, fungi, microbes, and the super

Humanities 40

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Students’ race and ethnicity affect their chances of earning a college degree, according to several new reports on higher education released in January and February 2023. However, the picture that emerges depends on the lens you use. College degrees are increasing among all racial and ethnic groups, but white and Asian Americans are far more likely to hold a college degree or earn one than Black, Hispanic or Native Americans.

Tutoring 125

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness , a reading researcher, author, and vice president of academic content at Learning Ally , a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the reading gap.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Teaching Research 117

4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. In this post I’ll explain why teaching Question Two, “What were they thinking?” helps students to develop a critical civic disposition: listening to people who we expect to disagree with. FOUR QUESTION STRUCTURE The Four Questions were designed to structure historical inquiry, but they work equally well when applied to issues and events in the present day.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Climate change has been driven by human behavior. That’s why long-term success in halting it must involve large-scale changes in how we live. Most of the behaviors we associate with preventing climate change are totally inaccessible to younger children. They can’t buy electric cars or redirect their retirement accounts away from fossil fuels. They can’t even vote.

Teaching 124

Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Research 124

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. Woo-kyoung Ahn, a psychology professor at Yale University who directs the Thinking Lab there, decided to teach an introductory class called “Thinking” that lays out the most common mistakes of human reasoning and strategies to correct them.

Psychology 114

Psychology Humanities Research Cultures 114

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It took me many years to love my Blackness. Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. It helped me shape and define who I was, who I am and who I am becoming.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

While the national labor force has long since rebounded from the pandemic, the child care sector has lagged behind , experiencing a slow recovery that continues to this day. In the three years since the arrival of COVID-19, families have struggled to find high-quality, affordable child care for their children. Child care providers have been hard-pressed to find qualified workers to fill their open positions, often because retail and service industry employers have emerged as better-paying compet

Government 107

Government K-12 Leadership Advocacy 107

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How many hours each week do you spend on creating, sharing, monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback on student activities? One survey found teachers average more than 10 hours weekly on planning and grading , and another study reported that about a third of teachers spend at least 2 hours daily on pre- and post-instruction activities. It is not uncommon for teachers to spend hours searching through edtech tools to customize and differentiate for individual student needs.

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Library Education EdTech Critical Thinking 104

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Teacher exhaustion is high. So is the need to help students get back on track with their studies after several years of pandemic disruption. But providing structural support for teachers has proven tough for schools. “We’re incredibly good at delivering instruction and being empathetic to our students,” says Frederick Heid, superintendent of Polk County Public Schools in Florida.

Tutoring 101

Tutoring K-12 Public School Teaching 101

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education made its move to strengthen oversight of revenue-sharing agreements between colleges and companies that help operate online courses — in steps that could have a big impact in the edtech sector, as well as for the many students enrolled in online degree programs. Last week, the department issued new guidance about how higher ed institutions work with companies that offer a bundle of support for online programs, including student recruitment.

EdTech 97

EdTech Education Government Educational Technology 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The dean of Harvard Medical School was emphatic and unambiguous when he announced that it would end its participation in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. This story also appeared in USA Today “Rankings cannot meaningfully reflect the high aspirations for educational excellence, graduate preparedness, and compassionate and equitable patient care that we strive to foster,” Dean George Daley wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Many people on both sides of the debate are awaiting the oral arguments before the Supreme Court next Tuesday about whether President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is constitutional. Last August, Biden announced that a student loan borrower whose income was low enough to receive a Pell grant while in college would be eligible for up to $20,000 in debt cancellation, as long as their current income was less than $125,000 (or less than $250,000 in the case of married couples or heads

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