A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

What are your exemplars of effective remote or hybrid teaching and learning, and why? Instead of dwelling on all that hasn't worked, energy should be spent on all that has during the pandemic. Consider these questions from your lens. How are you sharing these with colleagues and staff or using them for professional learning and feedback?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

The same goes for teaching skills. However, educators don’t have time to search through random teaching videos online and determine which are actually helpful or the best to learn from. Up pops the exact teaching video they need to see CFUs implemented skillfully. Videos cannot be shared or embedded on any other site, either.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Stories about burnout, toxic positivity and putting respect back in the teaching profession were all exceedingly popular. But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I Then, Public Education. It will be big.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Danger of a Myopic Focus on AI Technology Tools It reminds me of the early days of the edtech boom when I would attend the Computer Using Educators (CUE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conferences, and the most popular sessions had titles like “50 Tech Tools in 50 Minutes.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce. ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. The tools are coming fast, though.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

And even the bill’s leaders say they can imagine positive uses for AI in teaching, and the bill wouldn’t stop colleges from using generative AI to help with tasks like grading or creating educational materials. But champions of the bill also say they have reason to worry about the possibility of AI replacing professors in the future.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. To be clear, I don’t see John’s progress as a reflection of my teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. Legislators must begin regulating AI now.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. Now here’s Steve with this week’s show. Louis, Missouri.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling. It’s an ecosystem that could transform schools—sites for teaching and learning—into marketplaces—sites for buying and selling.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

For leaders like Daniel-Hardy, the introduction of generative AI to the teaching-learning process “feels different,” even though they’ve seen multiple waves of disruptive technology circle in and out through classrooms. When we roll out hardware or one-to-one edtech in schools, we need to purchase laptops and carts and wireless access points.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

We dove into the role of teachers in edtech decision-making and the use of evidence in the development of learning technologies. We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But his book, and that demo, are also attracting some pushback from teaching experts who think AI may have lots of uses in education, but that tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with. In fact, we said, ‘Hey, this could be really valuable in a teaching setting.’

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Edthena

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This combination empowers teachers to choose how to analyze their teaching, receive feedback, and improve their teaching craft. Focused learning plans will show a more direct impact on student achievement. . What are choice boards, and how are they used for teacher professional development?

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Or even teaching fractions in a late-elementary classroom. New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Getting started with your video library of teaching.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This will get you primed to build on the foundation of their teaching practice. Perhaps this includes things such as the day’s lesson plan (easily attached to a video observation in Edthena), their own self-reflection of the lesson, or a list of the schoolwide improvement goals and priorities. and their students’ goals?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

. When technology is offered to schools free of charge, it always comes with the promise of improving teaching and learning. Douglas Levin is founder and president of EdTech Strategies , a consulting firm that provides strategic research and counsel on issues at the intersection of education, public policy, technology and innovation.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

These moments may be important because they differ from what the teacher expected or because they illustrate important principles of teaching and learning. Spot helps teachers build video analysis skills because teachers can draw connections between video evidence and the qualities of teaching that they’ve identified as important.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This ASCD article notes that meaningful mathematical discourse is one of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices , as defined by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). If you want more conversation with students who have a different cultural background, create lesson plans that encourage discourse.

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Edthena

MARCH 29, 2016

It’s called Portfolios, and it enables teachers to securely share up to three teaching videos with external parties, such as principals looking for new hires or organizations accepting applications for scholarships and awards. That’s one reason we’re excited to announce that we’ve developed a feature to meet this need.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Among the benefits are coaching residents asynchronously, promoting teaching resident reflection through video, and developing an understanding of diversity within classrooms. “When we ask our teachers to watch themselves teach, their reflections become so much richer and so much deeper.”

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Edthena

MARCH 3, 2016

Program resources, like a standardized lesson plan template, are also available. We’ve built these tools because we’re committed to helping teachers become better at teaching. Our portfolio builder is set up such that the instructions from the edTPA handbook are available for each task part. Dashboards? Document management?

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Edthena

JULY 25, 2016

For example, the video conversations page is designed in such a way that the “conversations” we are able to have with our students around specific instances of teaching are always productive, transparent, and fruitful. This experience alone is unlike any other tool we have used in the past seven years.

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Edthena

JANUARY 12, 2021

Naturally, by observing different classrooms, you will see unique instruction and various teaching styles implemented throughout the campus. To do this, teachers co-plan a lesson, teach the lesson to their separate classes, and reconvene to discuss how the lesson went. .

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The answer does not lie in a good lesson plan. Read our related Lounge Talk interview with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn about the shift from traditional to distance teaching and coaching. . Students are going to have questions about the Black Lives Matter movement, police violence, and ongoing national conversations about race.

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Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

Whether it is grading or lesson planning or something else, pick one thing to start with before moving on to the other items on their list. C urrent samples from formative assessments where the time between teaching, assessing, and analyzing samples is short so that teachers can immediately implement next steps with students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

And at least one edtech company is making a similar offer: Instructure, the learning management system provider that runs Canvas, is encouraging its employees to volunteer as substitute teachers for districts. And substitute teaching can also serve as an onramp into the classroom, Teng says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Rwanda, an African edtech leader, plowed on with the (formerly) UN-backed One Laptop Per Child initiative without explaining how teachers should work with them. educators were dissatisfied with the training they received; only 15 percent believed they had received satisfactory training in edtech. Bart Epstein, CEO of the U.S.-based

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Sometimes, the demands of teaching and life outside the classroom can be overwhelming. Trying to balance lesson planning, teaching, and taking care of my own well-being hasn’t been easy, but I’m doing my best to carve out moments for myself to stay sane. This week, I felt the weight of it all.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

That means that students have tutoring sessions at least three times a week, working one-to-one with tutors or in very small groups with tutors using clear lesson plans, not just helping with homework. Last year, for example, Tennessee revamped the way it teaches reading to all students. But attendance is uneven.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2022

In fact, when I was teaching, I found them mildly infuriating. For many educators, all too often, they have a long list of folks (administrators, parents, politicians, and curriculum developers) telling them what to do and how to teach. You can’t teach this book.” “You Start teaching this new curriculum this year.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2016

Edshelf represents a socially curated discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning. It contains thousands of edtech tool reviews and also allows you to browse by subject and standard. There is also an option to search teacher-created lesson plans.

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