A Principal's Reflections
JULY 30, 2023
When you think about how you learn best, what comes to mind? Your response most likely flies in the face of how you were taught, and the same could be said of students today. If all kids are doing the same thing, the same way, at the same time, the experience is more impersonal than personal. It might work for some, but definitely not all. Learning is a process, not an event.
A Lesson Plan for Teachers
AUGUST 2, 2023
As teachers, we often find ourselves faced with classrooms full of students with a range of abilities, interests, and learning styles. While whole-class instruction can be effective in certain situations, small group lessons can provide more targeted and personalized learning experiences for our students. Let’s explore some best practices for facilitating small group lessons in […] The post Small Group Lessons: 8 Best Practices for the Classroom Teacher appeared first on A Lesson Pla
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 3, 2023
The post Spreading Youth Voice and Creativity: 2023 Ciena Solutions Challenge Model School Program appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
AUGUST 4, 2023
With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 3, 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: There has been a growing understanding that our education system hasn’t done enough to provide students the skills the
Catlin Tucker
JULY 30, 2023
Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences. Blended learning aims to lean on technology to do what it does well–information transfer–and free teachers to do what they do well–support individual and small groups of students as they progress toward firm standards-aligned goals.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 2, 2023
The post How Community Input Enables Users to Help Build Learning and Employment Records appeared first on Digital Promise.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 2, 2023
Yvette Hernandez started applying for college scholarships when she was still a junior in high school — 50 in all, by the time she was done — because she knew her family could not afford to pay for her tuition, room, board and other expenses without them. This story also appeared in Marketplace Most scholarship applications demanded an essay, a personal statement, a resumé, references, an interview, letters of recommendation and good grades, which Hernandez kept up even while also juggling colle
Education Elements
AUGUST 1, 2023
Schools across the country work tirelessly to provide positive educational experiences for their students, staff, and the larger community. Yet, there are times when they fall short of this goal. They may experience high teacher turnover, a poor school climate, and low student achievement, just to name a few challenges. In our work, we see that with the right support systems in place, we can collectively improve school performance and meet the needs of students and educators.
O-Level Geography
AUGUST 4, 2023
The poor are more vulnerable to climate change. This is not only in LDCs but in DCs such as US as well. Top photo shows a neighbour with lower income working class residents. What do you observe to be different in the two neighborhoods? Why would the difference result in difference in adapting to the heatwave? What else increase climate risks other than vunerability?
ED Surge
AUGUST 2, 2023
This is the third in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the first part here and the second part here. Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain about Latino culture. Something perhaps not exclusive or applicable to the way all 62.5 million of us in the United States were raised, but important for context just the same.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2023
When so many states are facing a teacher shortage, why are we shutting experienced teachers out of the classrooms? An important piece of legislation that will solve this problem is gaining momentum. The solution starts with understanding the economics of becoming a teacher: It takes time and money to be certified. One of us, Dr. Mayme Hostetter, president of the Relay Graduate School of Education, regularly hears from Relay graduates who don’t get hired despite having earned their teaching certi
Achieve the Core
AUGUST 2, 2023
Within the teaching profession, there is a lot demanded on a daily basis to ensure best instructional practices are being followed and student learning is being maximized. In an effort to meet these demands, teachers focus their time on the grade level and students at hand. Furthermore, some teachers admit to even just grazing over strategies with students when they were too challenging or when teachers did not see the benefit.
O-Level Geography
AUGUST 3, 2023
Where are the areas affected by the flood? Who are affected by the flood? Why does climate change results in heavier rainfall? What are the economic, social and environmental impacts?
ED Surge
AUGUST 2, 2023
I’ve loved literature since I was a little girl. I was always eager for a new book, a new word, a new understanding, a new connection, a new… knowing. I’ve read about what happens to a dream deferred. I’ve read about southern trees that bore strange fruit. I’ve read about why the caged bird sings. Literature has taken me toward the warmth of other suns and dropped me off at the intersection of awareness and identity.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 31, 2023
The bottom line on college tuition is that there is no bottom line. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At most four-year institutions, admitted students are quoted all sorts of different prices. Often masquerading as “merit aid” or “scholarships,” the discounts are aimed at persuading students to attend, much like online retailers dangle coupons to persuade you to purchase the items in your shopping cart.
Edthena
JULY 31, 2023
In the News There has been more and more recent conversation around the role of AI in education. In this Guardian article, Rose Luckin, a professor at the UCL Knowledge Lab in London, talks about how “AI could be a force for tremendous good within education.” Read more for highlights from this Guardian article about the role of AI in education, or scroll to the bottom for a link to the original.
Education Week - Social Studies
AUGUST 4, 2023
The organization that oversees the Advanced Placement program said Florida has “effectively banned AP Psychology in the state.
ED Surge
JULY 31, 2023
The right team, professional development and buy-in are essential to transformative digital learning, according to leaders of some of the largest K–12 school districts in the U.S. During a panel discussion at 1EdTech’s Learning Impact Conference in Anaheim this summer, distinguished educators shed light on their districts' digital transformations and emphasized the crucial role of collaboration, professional development and buy-in to ensure the effective integration of technology and curriculum.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 2, 2023
Sometime this fall, in a classroom in New York City, second graders will use pipe cleaners and Post-it notes to build a model of a tree that could cool a city street. They’ll shine a lamp on their mini trees to see what shade patterns they cast. Meanwhile, in Seattle, kindergartners might take a “wondering walk” outside and come up with questions about the worms that show up on the sidewalk after it rains.
Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education
AUGUST 2, 2023
Introduce your students to women who have helped shape the fields of physics, biology, computer science, and education but are often overlooked in our textbooks
Perspectives in Anthropology
AUGUST 1, 2023
Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of communication are now available to give expression to universal ideas. This essay explores the role of markets and money in the human economy.
ED Surge
JULY 31, 2023
When Aaron Diaz, 16, looked around his Compton, California, neighborhood, he saw people struggling, with little access to mental health care. “Collective trauma is embedded within the community,” Diaz says. That’s why he decided to spend his summer learning about careers in the mental health field. Diaz is part of the first crop of high school students in a new pilot program offered by the state of California in partnership with the Child Mind Institute.
Dr. Preece
JULY 29, 2023
With incredible heatwaves, record-breaking high temperatures and lows of Antarctic sea ice, the potential failure of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and wildfires across Europe, this has been a summer where climate change has been on the global agenda – even if we haven’t forced it on to the UK radar through our own heatwaves. There’s a few great resources and materials that have come out in the last few months, so I thought I’d pull some together for people to dip in to!
The Hechinger Report
JULY 31, 2023
As a professor, I’ve benefited tremendously by having racially diverse students in my classes. For me, there is no question that the U.S. Supreme Court erred by striking down affirmative action last month. There have since been many thoughtful and persuasive pieces about the decision, including those arguing that Asian Americans have been used as a racial wedge against Black and Latino students and that “ ‘ Race Neutral’ Is the New ‘Separate but Equal.’ ” Yet the prolonged “for or against” frami
Strange Maps
AUGUST 3, 2023
There’s a perverse joy in reading (and writing) about catastrophic climate change. You could say that it’s a secular version of the yearning for the Apocalypse, and perhaps proof that such apocalyptic yearnings are more universally human than merely religious. Map showing the main thrust and side avenues of the Gulf Stream. At its southern end: Dry Tortugas, in the Gulf of Mexico; at its northern end: Ingøya, in the Barentsz Sea. ( Credit : U.S.
ED Surge
AUGUST 1, 2023
Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling this summer striking down the consideration of race in college admissions, attention has turned to other preferences college leaders have long used: especially legacy admission programs that give preference to the children of alumni and of large donors. Suddenly, selective colleges are under increasing scrutiny about just how much advantage alumni and donor children have in the admissions process, and whether those preferences are justified.
Education Week - Social Studies
AUGUST 4, 2023
The former president's latest indictment presents an opportunity for teachers to discuss another set of unprecedented events with students.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 2, 2023
Here are the 17 words from Florida’s new social studies guidelines that lit a fire under much of America, on every side of the debate: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” In typical fashion, many on the conservative side initially lauded this news, although some, including presidential candidate and Senator Tim Scott, eventually began to criticize the standards after national backlash ensued.
ED Surge
AUGUST 1, 2023
In addition to the wide array of challenges that child care providers in America already face — low wages, few if any workplace benefits, lack of respect and professionalization — those who care for and educate young children in their own homes face an additional burden: housing. As EdSurge has been chronicling in recent weeks, housing is a significant hardship for many home-based child care providers, sometimes forcing them out of the sector or preventing them from entering it in the first plac
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 4, 2023
HOUSTON — Steve Lachelop stood in front of a hostile audience on the morning of May 18 to ask for help. It was two weeks until the Texas Education Agency, where he’s a deputy commissioner, would remove Houston’s elected school board from their jobs. This story also appeared in The Washington Post In their place would be people hand-picked by agency head Mike Morath, an appointee of Republican governor Greg Abbott.
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