ED Surge

JULY 6, 2022

Principals, in many schools, are seen as the person responsible for the mental health and well-being of their staff, serving as sounding boards and problem solvers for their teachers, who are carrying the emotional burdens of their own personal and professional lives as well as the struggles, stresses and trauma of their students. In effect, principals absorb the experiences and exasperations of both students and staff, and in many cases, hear complaints and worries directly from parents and mem

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Troy Groom, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was browsing social media this spring when he read something that made him perk up: Gov. Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Groom, who was once enrolled at Bowie State University, left college when his first daughter was born.

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Digital Promise

JULY 6, 2022

The post Teachers Partnering with Artificial Intelligence: Augmentation and Automation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

JULY 3, 2022

Addressing the staffing shortage in public schools may seem like running a marathon barefoot, uphill, and in the sweltering sun. When faced with an ever-expanding school and district improvement checklist, it’s human nature to pick the seemingly more manageable task first. Why not run the morning mile on the padded track instead of the impossible race?

Cultures 82

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. That’s according to Julie Evans, CEO of the nonprofit Project Tomorrow, who has been doing focus groups with students for years—both before and after the pandemic—and whose organization conducts an annual survey of middle and high school students about their learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

By June, many U.S. colleges and universities have traditionally stopped accepting applications for admission and have a good sense of who will be in their incoming classes in the fall. Not this year. Pandemic stresses created financial problems for many higher education institutions, as they were already bracing for enrollment declines due to the coming demographic cliff.

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Edthena

JULY 8, 2022

? ?. If you’re working on improving teaching practice (your own or of the teachers you coach), artificial intelligence can be the new innovative source for teacher support. On a recent episode of the Getting Smart podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller highlighted how AI Coach by Edthena uses artificial intelligence to guide teachers through self-reflective coaching cycles.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

Content Warning: pregnancy loss/stillbirth. I sent this meme out to the faculty at my high school in May with an invitation to meet with me and reflect on this past year of teaching. I am an instructional coach and I teach emerging multilingual learners, but I also consider myself a practicing unlicensed teacher-therapist. Is that a thing? It should be a thing.

Education 118

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

One out of every six white school children in the United States – nearly four million white students – attend schools that are 90 percent or more white , according to the most recent federal data from 2019. A similar share of Hispanic children, totaling two million students, attend schools that are all or nearly all Hispanic. This degree of racial isolation is slightly less common among Black children.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

JULY 6, 2022

The linkages between the sustainable development goals impact on the solutions. The more points you get for the project, the more sustainable. Synergies Vs tradeoff. Potential projects that can be submitted for sustainability. What are planetary boundaries? I like the workshop in the it allowed me to see sustainability not only for the environment but also the society and the economy.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 3, 2022

“T he single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw It is hard to deny how important communication is for any leader, no matter their profession. In many cases, it will make or break their success. All too often, we have seen headlines where leaders have come under fire for hiccups or missteps in their area, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

When he started working as a school superintendent almost a decade ago, P.J. Caposey was eager. A couple of months before he was scheduled to start, he asked for an email address so he could get going early. That’s how he found out that the district didn’t have work emails set up. Fast forward and things have changed. In a little less than a decade, the district has gone from having no functional email to “ubiquitous Wi-Fi” and every kid with a device, Caposey said during a panel at the ISTE Liv

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

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. Subscribe today! “What is your most pressing challenge right now?”. That was the question Kim Smith, then the executive director of Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools, posed to 250 district leaders and educators at one of the organization’s meetings a few months before the

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Geography Teacher Sharing

JULY 2, 2022

Using Google Earth to compare the changes of ECP between 2010 and 2021 The following pictures and videos were taken during the fieldwork on 2 July 2022. Explore the 360 video below. Students crafted the hypotheses for geographical investigation. Students were given the tide level table and weather forecast, prompting them why these are necessary. Students recorded the data collected on the worksheet.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

In 2015, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust set out to develop a computational thinking (CT) and coding education initiative of world-class standard, based on up-to-date teaching tools and proven pedagogy. Funded by the Trust, in partnership with the Education University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and City University of Hong Kong, CoolThink@JC was created as a free, basic education for all students, designed to be implemented in mainstream curricular and formal co

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Over the course of Vanessa Marie Bustamante’s 13-year career in academia, one thing that’s never waivered is the part of her identity firmly rooted in being an “average homegirl.” It’s something that the California-based educator at MiraCosta College, who also goes by the moniker Homegirl Doctora, says often chafes against more rigid, traditional campus culture.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. Photo by Ryan Kelly for EdSurge. Class starts with silence, and breath. Fill the balloons that are your lungs, the professor says, then empty them completely. “Thank yourself for making it to class,” she adds. “There’s nothing that happened in the past you can change at this time.

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2022

In the bad-old days of college teaching, especially in technical subjects, professors would stand before a classroom of freshmen and say, “Look to the right, look to the left. One of them will not graduate.” The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. But these days more professors take a more caring approach to teaching—a compassionate response to the collective trauma driven by the COVID pandemic and other challenges facing tod

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2022

Movies have taught me so much about the history of the United States and the world. It was “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ” that educated me on the real-life effects of the military drafts during the Vietnam War. “ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ” taught me how Germans and Jews lived in Nazi Germany. The film “ The Impossible ” showed me the devastating consequences of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Southeast Asia.

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History History Education Cultures Public School 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Nearly every day, a new study about the mental health of college students appears. Citing some measure of sadness, anxiety, feelings of burnout or use of unhealthy coping skills, these studies say the same thing: College students are struggling. Understanding of student mental health issues was growing before the pandemic took hold, and the stigma around these issues slowly breaking down.

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