A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

You would be hard-pressed not to have heard how AI is evolving at such a fast rate. Tools like ChatGBT and Google Bard weren’t even a thing before 2023. With any innovation, there is both excitement and fear. While there is room for caution, leaders can tap into the power of AI. As I shared in Digital Leadership , evolving technology enables and empowers leaders to seize the moment and look for ways to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

When first implementing the station rotation model , many teachers express concern about designing offline student-led collaborative stations. Although they understand the benefits of these collaborative conversations in station rotation, including increased self-efficacy, relationship building, and constructing knowledge together, teachers usually feel more comfortable designing teacher-led collaborative stations where they can control the discussion and ensure everyone is on task.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

JULY 19, 2023

As educators, we all know the importance of differentiation in the classroom. It is the process of tailoring instruction to meet the diverse needs of learners. Differentiation helps students learn more effectively and efficiently by providing them with a personalized learning experience. However, differentiation can be a challenging task, especially if you don’t have access […] The post 5 Effective Strategies for Differentiating in the Interactive Classroom appeared first on A Lesson

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2023

The post The Power of Professional Development: How to Use Micro-credentials as an Organization appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really unlucky, perhaps a teammate repackaged your work as their own. Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2023

The skirmish last fall began on a Montgomery County, Maryland, school bus. This story also appeared in The Washington Post Someone—no one is exactly sure who—tossed a water bottle from the back of the bus, smacking a sixth grader sitting near the front. The next day, the water victim retaliated by throwing a container of milk to the back, dousing a seventh grader.

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Education Elements

JULY 17, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted the culture of learning in America and the issue of school enrollment is a current topic of repeated conversation. Remote learning created the option for students to learn outside of the school building and the shifts from remote, to hybrid resulted in a noticeable decline in school enrollment. Many students simply struggled to return to school.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, schools are recognizing the importance of equipping every student with a personal device to facilitate digital learning. These one-to-one initiatives aim to provide students with equal access to educational resources, fostering creativity and critical thinking while preparing them for the demands of a technology-driven world.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Less than a month after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harvard’s admissions dean announced the university’s commitment to enrolling a higher number of Black students than in the past. Soon, other Ivy League universities, such as Yale, Princeton and Columbia, increased efforts to enroll Black students, too, and the era of affirmative action was born.

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Ben Newmark

JULY 20, 2023

In the 1999 film Two Hands, a young Heath Ledger plays Jimmy, a young man making his first steps into the world of organised crime, and his dead elder brother who was killed by the same gangsters Jimmy is doing a job for. At a crucial point in the film Jimmy’s brother laments how it was only after death he began to appreciate poetry. “Whatever you’ve been through,” he says, “someone else has been through it too – and they wrote it down.

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Social Studies Success

JULY 20, 2023

Primary Source Practice This spring, I had an epiphany ! I was sitting down with a friend, planning out a new workshop on how to analyze primary sources – students were really struggling analyzing primary sources! We pulled out all of the STAAR release questions and began to analyze the data. When I was looking at the primary source questions side by side, I started to notice a pattern… the types of questions asked on the STAAR test are dependent on four specific Social Studies ski

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

Last September, I was sitting at a long table in the sunlit conference room of my school, looking around at the many new faces on my school’s leadership team. At that moment, I had the jarring realization that my 17 years of service in the school were more than the rest of the team combined. We welcomed a new principal, dean of students, school psychologist and literacy specialist this past year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

SALEM, Ore. — Jaeci Hall completed her dissertation in tears. She was writing about the importance of revitalizing and teaching Indigenous languages, specifically the Nuu-wee-ya’ language and her tribe’s dialects. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.” This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordin

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Achieve the Core

JULY 19, 2023

What thoughts come to mind when you look at this example of student work? What do you notice? What are you wondering? If you collected this student’s work and looked at it later in the week, or even later that day, what would you learn about the ways in which the student engaged with the concepts? As an English language supports specialist in an elementary school, I co-teach with classroom teachers to provide multilingual learners equitable access to grade-level content while advancing their soc

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Learn for Living

JULY 18, 2023

In the fall of 2022, our team shared a podcast with John Eick when he originally shared the idea of Scroll Your Roll. A simple activity where people share a snapshot of their lives during a staff meeting or even in the classroom. At a recent School Culture Summit one of the schools mentioned they had used Scroll Your Roll once and then turned the rubix cube to make it a Scavenger Hunt.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2023

Hayley Wise has had to move houses four times in the last 12 years that she’s been a home-based child care provider. Every time she’s moved, Wise’s rent has gone up. Every time she’s moved, she’s had to restart the daunting search for a sympathetic landlord who will rent to her even though she is licensed to have up to 14 young children in her care each day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses aroun

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O-Level Geography

JULY 17, 2023

Temperatures reached new highs on 17 July 2023 as heatwaves and wildfires swept the Northern Hemisphere. Where are the areas affected by the heatwave? What are the impacts of the heatwave? How do the people cope with the heatwave? What other impacts of climate change are seen in the video? Why are temperatures higher in July for Europe and US?

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History Havoc

JULY 16, 2023

One misconception I think many people have is that the Civil War ended at a courthouse. It did not. There is a difference between court house and courthouse. The one word version is the actual courthouse where judges would hear cases. The other is a small town. Appomattox Court House is a small town in Virginia, and a must see for any history buff. The National Parks Service has done a phenomenal job keeping this great piece of history alive.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. As we’ve reported in the past, some teachers have clearly expressed that tech tools should support and not replace their expertise. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

A 6-year-old in Leila Lubin’s classroom wouldn’t budge from his seat. The rest of his peers had filed off to their enrichment classes but he refused to move. He wasn’t done with his work and he didn’t want to go. This story also appeared in USA Today Lubin, a champion of behavior management and crisis prevention training for teachers, knew what to do.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2023

“Andrew” grew up in poverty, and neither of his parents went to college. “Carl” grew up in an affluent and well-educated family, with a father who rose through the ranks to become a colonel in the U.S. Army. Both of these students are Black. And their divergent histories reveal the socioeconomic diversity of Black students who study at the nation’s most selective colleges.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2023

Imagine you are a prospective first-generation college student , seeking to attend an institution of higher education in efforts to obtain economic mobility. Chances are your first steps (among many) will include visiting the websites of colleges and universities of interest. What will you find on your online search? Well, if you visited the Community College of Aurora’s website prior to May 2023, you would have discovered more than 5,500 webpages of content.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

COVENTRY, England — When she finished high school, Helen Kinchin got what was supposed to be a temporary job, after which she planned to go to college. This story also appeared in National Public Radio Fourteen years later, she was in the same job and had two kids, but still no degree. That’s when Kinchin, now 36, found a way to finally resume her education in a way that was fast, simple and comparatively cheap.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

SHEFFIELD, England — Even after rising in London to the top of his profession, Damion Taylor pined to return to the Northern English roots still evident in his distinctive accent. This story also appeared in The Washington Post Which is how the former head of finance at the British Post Office and active co-founder of a startup in the hot field of renewable energy came to be teaching finance, banking and financial management to undergraduates at his hometown alma mater, Sheffield Hallam Universi

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2023

Over the last several decades, paying for college has shifted ever more from a public responsibility to an individual one. Now, even after accounting for grant aid, college costs are high enough that the majority of students cannot earn a degree without taking on debt. To cover the average cost of attending a four-year public college, students from families making $30,000 or less now need to spend 93 percent — nearly all — of their total family income, a recent analysis by The Institute for Coll

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2023

Confidence in higher education among Republicans sank the most. But confidence also dropped among independents and Democrats. Credit: Amanda J. Cain for Hechinger Report Americans’ confidence in the nation’s colleges and universities has plummeted , according to a new Gallup poll. If that lack of support continues, it could have long-term ramifications for both higher education and the U.S. economy as a whole.

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