A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 16, 2022
During my training to become a teacher, I was immersed in the work of Madeline Hunter when it came to lesson plan design. Her Instructional Theory into Practice (ITIP) model helped me identify the strategies I would use on a daily basis to help my students learn. These included the anticipatory set (hook), reviewing prior learning, checking for understanding, forms of practice, and closure.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2022
One college admissions officer at a large public university described how test-optional admissions had spurred more disagreements in his office. A third reader on an application was often called in to break a tie when one staffer said ‘yes’ and another said ‘no.’ Without SAT and ACT scores, he explained, the job of admitting students had become more subjective and more time-consuming.
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they can be up to something else, as a tool of persuasion trying to shape the narrative. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast we’re looking at how metaphors shape technology in education.
Pedagogy to Share
OCTOBER 20, 2022
I am in a hotel in Crete writing to process an inspiring three-day inspiring workshop funded by the Erasmus + program. When I arrived in Rethymnon in Crete from Israel, I knew I would be participating in a GatherED international workshop about language education in multi-lingual and multi-cultural classroom environments. I immediately discovered that the learning was engrossing, and the powerful emotional connections with fellow participants extended well beyond any expectation.
Edthena
OCTOBER 17, 2022
When instructional coaches strive to correct teachers instead of communicating, they’re playing a game where everyone loses. Compassionate communication is a key component of evocative coaching , an effective coaching model from Megan Tschannen-Moran. Her idea of a win-win game? “Coaches coming together with teachers in connection to open up the realm of possibilities.”.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The pandemic’s disruption to America’s schools was a mere dress rehearsal for what’s to come. The certainty of climate change and likelihood of more pandemics and other large-scale disruptions leave us with questions about what the future of education will look like. While that may sound alarming, I see it as an opportunity. We should use this moment to catalyze a digital transformation of education that will prepare schools for our uncertain future.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 18, 2022
After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students. With new technologies in place, education leaders are challenged to align their recent investments to what matters most: enabling equity, advancing learning and fostering well-being among students and staff.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Most schools here in the U.S. now have been back for a month or two. And I’m hearing from educators that things are … ‘better.’ Which has me wondering, “How are we defining better ?” As we all know, the end of the 2020 school year and the entire 2020-21 school year were an incredible challenge. Schools shut down. People died. Everything was disrupted, and everyone was scared and anxious.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This story also appeared in American Public Media. This podcast 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.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 19, 2022
One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” For those who plan on graduate school, their immediate future is pretty much set. But for most, what happens next is often in doubt. There’s long been the concern that employers won’t take online degrees as seriously as campus-based ones, though these days online degrees are pretty mainstream.
Education Elements
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Gaps. Learning loss. Interventions. All of those words represent important topics that existed pre-pandemic yet were magnified when students returned to in-person instruction. But in true educator fashion, resilience prevailed. Many districts and campuses found innovative ways to meet students where they were. We saw organizations revisiting their missions and visions to determine if what students now needed matched their organization’s statements.
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 19, 2022
In March 2020, some world-renowned university faculty invited me to help launch a new website and podcast initiative, Silver Lining for Learning. Although I eventually bowed out due to other time commitments, the weekly live conversations and guest posts were super fun and informative. I am greatly appreciative of the opportunity that I had to help get Silver Lining for Learning up and running.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 21, 2022
WHITESBURG, Ky. — From the window of her family’s second-floor apartment, five-year-old Ophelia Carter saw the water rising. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Weeks earlier, Ophelia’s father had pointed out a snapping turtle in the shallow river that runs just yards away from their home in Whitesburg, Kentucky, a town of some 2,000 people.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Higher education may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s true even for the most elite colleges. A group of researchers at Stanford University spent the past year documenting how teaching and student services changed at Stanford during emergency remote learning, and their report , released today, argues that there’s been a shift in the institution’s identity as a result.
Norton Learning - Sociology
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses primarily on moral panics, youth, and popular culture, and she is editor of the Everyday Sociology Reader (W. W. Norton, 2020). Her commentary has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the San Jose Mercury News.
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 18, 2022
This year I am serving as both an ISTE Ambassador and an ISTE Community Leader (in addition to some other ISTE volunteer work). Recently I had the pleasure of publishing a post on ISTE’s blog titled Before Using School Technology, Know Your EdTech Purpose. In that post, I connected the ISTE Standards for Students and the 4 Shifts Protocol. Here’s an excerpt: Hope the post is useful to you.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 20, 2022
This podcast was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. This story also appeared in American Public Media. 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.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 21, 2022
As districts across the country search for ways to support early childhood learning, designers, architects and planners can play an important role in creating developmentally-appropriate facilities that support play-based learning, exploration and socialization. The building where children learn, and all indoor and outdoor spaces it includes, can and should become active tools in the learning experience.
Letters and Ink Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2022
SPOOKY SEASON IS HERE! This is my FAVORITE holiday! I love everything about it – the ghosts, the skeletons, the Edgar Allan Poe! I want to celebrate with my kiddos, but I’m usually mid-way through a unit or racing against the clock ticking toward the end of the quarter. I also usually want to cover my butt in case admin wants to see a lesson plan or know what standard I am teaching!
ACRE
OCTOBER 18, 2022
What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. It tests micro and macroeconomic principles as well as knowledge of the world economy. This motivating and fun team learning experience begins with competitions at the state level. 2023 Competition On March 14, 2023, students from around the state joined us at the University of Central Arkansas College of Business to compete across a variety of categor
Maitri Learning
OCTOBER 18, 2022
You may have noticed that we started offering our Montessori Teacher Education Albums for sale. Historically, in the AMI Montessori world, this is a big no no and I am a huge AMI Montessori fan (and an AMI graduate). So, why the heck am I offering the public our sacred teachings without requiring them to have access to a teacher preparation course?
ED Surge
OCTOBER 19, 2022
It’s a chaotic morning. I’m rushing to our daily staff meeting, which starts 10 minutes before the doors open to students. Out of breath, I listen to the list of absent teachers to cover and a few other updates that could have been delivered via email. I think to myself: I really could have used this time to prep. When it’s over, I chat with my colleagues for a quick moment before racing down the hallway to my room to gather myself before the students come in.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2022
I sat at a table with superintendents from around the country this summer, talking about the losses threatening districts coming out of the pandemic. Learning loss was certainly a huge concern, but not the only loss that worried them. Not one of these districts is growing. Some of them have lost more than 10 percent of their students since the pandemic started.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Companies that are committed to diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) provide products and services that authentically and accurately reflect the learners they serve—whoever they are and wherever they live. These organizations have developed and embedded coherent and consistent principles to clearly define DEI content and DEI-attentive products. They have shaped and promoted editorial guidelines for the products they fashion, which will land in the hands of educators and students.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 19, 2022
The kids are not alright. Medical experts agree that, after nearly three years of pandemic-induced strain, children are in the midst of a mental health crisis. One signal of just how severe a crisis: The U.S. Department of Education is ready to give schools $280 million through two grant programs to help young people access mental health care. It’s the first wave of a total $1 billion—funded through the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act—that the department will spend on youth mental healt
ED Surge
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Schools are reopened, and students have resumed in-person learning. But some relics of the pandemic are still holding strong, including dependency on digital technology to aid learning. Many teachers, flush with devices and education software from the remote school days of yore, continue to assign homework that must be completed online, after hours.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 19, 2022
RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. – As part of an exercise to help the class learn English, a third grader pulled a block from a Jenga tower and read aloud a question written on one side. This story also appeared in AL.com. “Where,” the boy read, then slowly sounded out the other words: “Where would you like to visit?”. “Disneyland,” one student said. “Space,” another classmate chimed in.
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