A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 20, 2022

Like most kids, past, and present, I loved playing video games. During my very early years, Atari was the best and only option. My parents eventually bought an Apple IIe where we needed to use floppy disks to load any meaningful content, which added to our gaming experience. However, once the Nintendo was invented and stationed in our basement, we toiled away immersed in classics such as Super Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, and Mike Tyson’s punchout.

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TeachThought

MARCH 22, 2022

Were you an active or a passive learner? Of what you learned today, what are you most comfortable with and what is still 'iffy'? The post 50 Learning Reflection Questions For Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. The responses always yield the same results. Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2022

The ritual of handing students a written hall pass probably hasn’t changed much since schools were first created—unless you count the invention of laminating machines that made paper passes more durable. In the last couple years, though, many schools have brought digital innovation to this seemingly simple process, namely by adopting electronic hall pass systems.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2022

What happens when you stop teaching young children via direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play? They could learn just as much—or more— when it comes to literacy, numeracy and executive function skills critical to early academic success, according to a new review of 17 studies of play. Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided play, they can learn just as much in some dom

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Through an educator-industry partnership between Digital Promise and Merlyn Mind, seven practitioners have the opportunity to share feedback on cutting edge technology and engage in critical conversations on the broader use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. Technology for Classroom Orchestration. As educators continue to adopt and broaden their use of classroom technology tools, a new dilemma has surfaced: how to coordinate and manage these different tools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 23, 2022

So these are front and center in our schools, right? Not content, right? . Image credit: World Economic Forum, 2020. Related Posts. Top 50 P-12 Edublogs? – June 2008. Avoid magical thinking: ‘Design for online’ this fall. Photos! [guest post]. The Death of Subjective Values. Welcome back for the 2020 school year! [a letter from your local superintendent and school board].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

In January, the U.S. Census Bureau released national data showing that nearly 40 percent of parents with children younger than age 5 had experienced disruption in child care in recent weeks. Disruption for parents means they can’t go to work or are figuring out late into the night where they might be able to cobble together child care. Disruption for children is even worse.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Digital Promise announced today that Chaula Gupta has been named the organization’s Vice President and Chief Program Officer. In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations.

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Education Elements

MARCH 22, 2022

Kate Sanders, Teacher: How do I empower more student leaders? This question had been circling my brain for months. As the adviser for the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapter at Sequatchie County High School , I have had the opportunity to facilitate unique opportunities for student leaders. However, much of the workload is placed on the shoulders of the FCCLA officer team.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

It’s official: Kids are spending more time on screens now than they were before the pandemic. That development is perhaps not surprising given the fact that many school and social activities migrated online during the past two years, says Mike Robb, senior director of research at the nonprofit Common Sense Media, which recently released a research report detailing the findings.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2022

Stress is taking a toll on teacher mental health. This is not a surprising statement, as educators have countless responsibilities. Teachers have needed to adjust their work in many ways in recent years. This reality can make it difficult for educators to sustain their well-being. Christian van Nieuwerburgh, global director of Growth Coaching International, has coached numerous teachers and believes it’s critical for educators to create a well-being plan for themselves to support their mental he

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

The need for mental health services on campuses across the country has intensified during the pandemic. With it has come an increased awareness among college counselors and administrators about the importance of meeting the needs of every student — especially those who hold marginalized identities and may have experienced extraordinary hardship over the past two years.

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Education Elements

MARCH 21, 2022

As a product of the 90s I spent my late elementary school years like many of my contemporaries: playing Super Nintendo. I grew up with a large group of cousins and whenever we got together we approached video games as a group project. We took turns helping one another with the tough spots in the game; those of us who were older played a “leadership” role, determining who got to play, and – if we had enough lives left – when we would give a little kid a chance.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

“Mr. Morita, you were wrong. School is not the problem. Students are the problem.” This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. He seemed to think that if students would just study and be compliant then they would do well.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 22, 2022

When students are empowered to act on issues they are passionate about, they have the opportunity to positively change their communities and the world around them. Through the inaugural Ciena Solutions Challenge Model Schools Program, Digital Promise and Ciena supported teams of teachers and students at Notre Dame High School, Ridgemont High School, and St.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2022

LANHAM, Md. – Close to 700 days after her youngest children last set foot in a school classroom, Monica Rodriguez faced a decision she dreaded: Should she let them return to in-person learning? This story also appeared in The Washington Post. For months, her youngest, Daniel Lewis-Coleman, a fourth grader, started his school days just as he had in March 2020, perched at a small table in the family’s kitchen.

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Pedagogy and Formation

MARCH 21, 2022

Discovering literature I first wrote about ‘discovering’ literature in a book published in the 1990s called ‘ Pathways to Literacy ’. In it I explained it took me until I was 8 years old before I read my first book. This was in spite of the fact that I’d been able to read since about 4-5 years of age! The first book I truly 'read' was Jules Verne's ‘ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

One thing the pandemic has made clear, many experts say, is that families with young children need more support than they’re getting. The shuttering of child care centers forced many parents to leave their jobs, fueling the Great Resignation. And a U.S. Treasury report from September noted the harmful effects of shortfalls in the childcare supply. For early childhood education, coronavirus stepped on the gas pedal, accelerating trends that were already happening, in good and bad ways.

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Letters and Ink Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

Teaching interviews can be so intimidating! Especially if you’re finding your first job or you’ve been in the same position for a while. If you haven’t landed the interview yet, be sure to take a look at this post where I dig deep into the process of resume crafting. SchoolSpring also offers a teacher job board to help you connect with positions all over the US!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Based on the spending patterns of more than 3,000 school districts , U.S. schools are on track to spend more than $1.5 billion of their federal pandemic recovery funds on after-school programs, according to FutureEd, an independent think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. This figure makes after-school programs the fourth most popular way to spend federal funds to address learning loss, behind summer school, software and instructional materials.

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 21, 2022

Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

They can’t read Shakespeare —a teacher told me when they found out I was starting a unit on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with my ninth-grade students— do you even know them? The moment a teacher decides their students can’t do something, then the battle has already been lost to the monster of educational inequity in our country. This conversation has rattled around in my head for months now, causing this gnawing feeling in my stomach.

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Civics U

MARCH 24, 2022

There is much attention these days to inflation – that is, to the rising prices of groceries, housing, vehicles, and especially, it seems, to rising gas prices since they affect so many people and are so visible at gas stations. Inflation is also the subject in effect when there is news that the Federal Reserve Board (“the Fed”) might raise interest rates as a means of slowing inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2022

On paper, Asia Leeds had the perfect career. An assistant professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, she could focus on her passion of studying Afro-Latin American culture. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. In reality, she felt like she was doing at least seven jobs while getting paid for one: teaching, research, writing, applying for grants, advising students, running a minor, serving on committees.

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 21, 2022

Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements , or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea is students pay nothing up front for college but pledge to pay a percentage of their wages for a set time after they graduate and get a job. One startup leader who tried the approach says it didn’t quite go to plan, as he shared in a Twitter thread making waves this week.

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Edthena

MARCH 23, 2022

Reality check: Are teachers engaging in coaching cycles on a regular basis? The truth is, many schools often don’t have enough coaching capacity to put a coach in every classroom every day to support teachers’ continual improvement. But we know that teachers can and should continue their professional learning and growth for positive student outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

For more than a year, news headlines have chronicled a staggering drop in student test scores, particularly in math. The pattern has been consistent across states. In Massachusetts, 37,000 more kids need substantial academic support in math this year, compared to pre-pandemic times. To put that in perspective, if we put those children in a single school district, it would be the second-largest district in the state.

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 25, 2022

How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

If you were just tuning into the Scripps National Spelling Bee last summer, settling in to watch the competition play out, for the first time, during a pandemic, you might not have noticed Zaila Avant-garde as anyone other than Speller 133. At least not at first. But as the competition whittled down, Speller 133 remained, buoyant but soft-spoken as she aced each word.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 25, 2022

How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

On a Native American reservation in the southwest corner of New York state sits Salamanca City Central School District. Marcy Brown is the Director of Technology for the small district, tasked with the procurement of all educational software and hardware for a group of roughly 1,400 students and 300 faculty members. In her 16 years with SCCSD, Brown has held four different positions, beginning as a self-described “tech savvy” earth science teacher.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

It was the Fall of 2020, and I delivered my testimony on Zoom to the Texas State Board of Education. As I finished my comments, I turned off my camera and sat silently in my classroom, unsure of how the board members received my words. This was the first time in many years that Texas was revising its sex education standards, which would impact millions of students in Texas for many years.

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