A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

With all the promise that educational technology holds, several pitfalls are always on the minds of educators. The top two issues that commonly come up in my talks with educators are the technology (Internet, hardware, devices, apps) not working or off-task behavior on the part of students.

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To address such challenges, a concerted effort must be made to ensure that newer technologies are implemented thoughtfully and responsibly, with a focus on enhancing the educational experience for all students. Ecosystem Evolution We need to build an ecosystem that works best for all educators and supports learners.

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MAY 15, 2024

Inclusive STEM programs widen job opportunities for the growing technology sector, support students in building digital literacy skills and empower young people to become creators — not just consumers — of technology. Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Today, the use of this technology in education settings is underway, and states are even beginning to release guidance on how to navigate AI in schools. If we could save some of our early educators time — to spend even more time with our little ones — I think we would all benefit. A summary of the discussion follows.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Its clear that the ways we communicate, make decisions and solve problems are changing as we embrace this new technology. Education is no exception. Students are ready for AI, and its time for higher education to foster open discussions on how to integrate AI meaningfully in learning and instruction.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Instead of fighting the use of tech in the classroom and schools’ educators should not only embrace it embrace but look to expand their toolbox to better empower learners. It seems that every day I’m introduced to a new tech tool that promises to change education. To improve outcomes student agency has to be at the forefront.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As I learned more about the attributes of the youngest generation, I began to think about the implications for educators. How are educators creating conditions to prepare them to mold this new world they were born into? To help educators do that, I often ask them: “Do we know what our students value? If not, how can we find out?”

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MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. EdSurge connected with Cote and Davison Humphries for this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Assessments have the power to shape educational outcomes, but are we truly measuring what matters? Ensuring that assessments are fair, inclusive and meaningful for all students is a growing priority for educators. Candace Thille Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education Students must know what is being assessed.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. Understanding the Prevalence of Trauma Among Black Women Educators When I look back over my journey as a Black educator, there were many unforgettable, challenging moments.

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OCTOBER 29, 2017

Note: This post is directly related to my work at the International Center for Leadership in Education Efficacy has been on my mind a great deal as of late, and as a result, it has been reflected in my writing. Copyright © by International Center for Leadership in Education, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning. Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Department of Education and will last five years. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too. Across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted hands-on learning experiences, and in California , for example, many school districts did not prioritize science education in their academic recovery plans.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Rhode Island was launching a registered apprenticeship program for early childhood educators. With her employer’s support, Gundy would get to continue her paid teaching job as she took college courses, pursuing a Child Development Associate (CDA), a nationally recognized credential for those who work in early care and education settings.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

After transitioning from teaching adolescents to educating adults, I’m challenged to understand people in the context of their identities and workplaces, especially when that context is unclear to me and those I educate. Understanding double consciousness helps me reconcile what pushed me out of a mainstream education.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Five months after federal stabilization grants expired, deeper cracks are beginning to show in the early care and education sector. At a time when the field is suffering, leaving families, educators and providers across the country scrambling, the progress in Massachusetts is remarkable. We see more programs opening. “And

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MAY 22, 2024

As a longtime early childhood educator who has been nurturing young minds for four decades, I’m aware of the many challenges of the profession, from compensation to staffing to a lack of respect for the work. But this experience left me wondering — where is my safety net when I fall ill or seek retirement as an early childhood educator?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Traditional Approach Problem-based learning has a rich history in American education, with John Dewey laying the theoretical groundwork in 1916 and McMaster University pioneering the PBL program for medical education in 1969. Deforestation in Borneo presents fractions in the context of an environmental problem.

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APRIL 9, 2024

She says that some of the best examples of VR in education are short, intense experiences — like the student project with the bees — that are carefully placed into larger classroom lessons. Flying around like a bee, she says, helps users “really embody this moment that we are living in — of climate change and some of the choices we make.”

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JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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MAY 5, 2024

The IPA establishes the framework for educators and administrators, facilitating an innovative lens to underpin individualized professional growth. Among these resources stands the Innovative Practices Assessment (IPA), which was created to fill a void in moving from ideas and innovative practices to results that improve the learning culture.

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MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from? This is still a prevalent theme for Black womxn in education. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. We spoke with educators and families in West Virginia to understand what that historic funding enabled them to do — and the “impossible choices” they now face.

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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every year ACX, as the blog is often called, hosts a book review contest, and the latest winner summarizes Egan’s 1997 book, “ The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding.” And that appealed to Brandon Hendrickson, who stumbled across Egan’s work while doing a master’s program in education at the University of Washington.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

It was a bit of a dizzying experience trying to get ahead of the technology as we scrambled to find ways to cope with this impressive new platform, so seemingly well-equipped to help our students effortlessly complete their assignments.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. But even fans of administering oral exams admit a major drawback: They’re time-consuming, and take a lot out of educators. Even so, some educators have been giving the oral exam a try.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

These changes, called a “decisive victory” in the long-standing “reading wars,” have pitted education research favoring phonics-based instruction against other ways of teaching students to read, including word recognition. There’s an unvoiced assumption behind this — that education is prone to “fads.” Mary's College.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Educator wellness is more than buzzwords. Learn the 4 dimensions of educator wellness and how they can help strengthen work-life balance and teacher efficacy.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Our goal is to understand how the patterns of usage shape the interpersonal dynamics of the group members.

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APRIL 30, 2024

To draw early educators back into classrooms , legislators in the Bluegrass State made a change in fall 2022 that expanded the eligibility requirements of Kentucky’s child care subsidy program to include all staff who work at least 20 hours per week in a licensed early care and education program. It was an instant boon.

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JULY 1, 2024

Still, there’s a tendency for people to remove some of the nuance when talking about the uptick in homeschooling and microschools, Angela Watson, an assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, told EdSurge in May. They had identified education as the beginning of a chain of events that fed into poor life outcomes.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education. My mantra now is: I'm a successful educator and businesswoman. I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. I'm an educator. Its a treat.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all.

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JULY 10, 2024

Digital Promise leaders reflect on top insights and learnings around education technology from the ISTELive 2024 conference.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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