A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

Personalization is the future of education because it recognizes that every student is unique, with distinct learning preferences, paces, and goals. It empowers learners to take ownership of their education while developing critical competencies necessary for success. Personalized learning is not just a trend but a necessity.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al., Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. It’s been a wild ride. billion in 2021.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend.

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A Principal's Reflections

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. The DPA doesn’t just look at technology and innovation. All rights reserved.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while many of the studies showed gains for learners in some cases, the researchers concluded that flipped learning isn’t living up to its promise. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully. The hype is convincing — it’s seductive — but the implementation of the hype is not,” he said. “It

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak. Throughout the study, students who had any amount of media literacy education did better on the study’s test questions than their peers.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Education in the 21st century is obsessed with assessing children, attempting to measure every aspect of their intelligence, learning and growth. In her first book, Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education , which comes out on Feb. She has these dual researcher and practitioner hats.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border. Researchers point out that the inequities they uncover in the report are not unavoidable. It’s time to draw the line.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. This got me thinking about what might be missing to ensure efficacy.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. She signed up. “Me

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

Its part of the administrations push to decentralize education, which comes along with a burst of energy for school choice options around the country. One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. Choice varies by place.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. Research shows that approximately 1.27 Understanding and addressing fluency has become increasingly urgent for educators, administrators and parents alike. students are not reading at proficient levels.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect. These skills are the bedrock.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its an approach some researchers think is too often missing from the classroom. Even among researchers, this can cause bulimic partisan commitments to one or the other, he adds. Its unfortunate, because research has shown that they are deeply connected, Clements says. But whats meant by play?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. And the data usually boils down to student grades,” York explains. This feature wasn’t possible to add six months ago.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

But last month, just a few months after the fanfare of the public launch event, the district abruptly shut down its Ed chatbot, after the company it contracted to build the system, AllHere Education, suddenly furloughed most of its staff citing financial difficulties. Related document: Contract between LAUSD and AllHere Education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

As I was researching for some solid pedagogical links, I came across this wonderful article that Todd Finley wrote for Edutopia titled Rethinking Whole Class Discussion. For even more research-based ideas click HERE. Research supports the importance of discussion when backed by the purposeful use of technology.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. Department of Education and will last five years. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Instead, he’s spreading the word to teachers one by one, through the book and by tirelessly speaking at conferences and other education forums.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. The best advice is to start with a solid use case.

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ED Surge

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. Research by Barbara C.

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. Here, let me take you there.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” 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. EdSurge: What is educator wellness?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Their researchers found that while girls who say they’re interested in STEM grew by 10 percentage points to 55 percent, compared to survey results five years prior, the number of girls who describe themselves as confident or smart enough to earn their dream job has plummeted. “We

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ED Surge

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. To inform these conversations, observational research — without intervention — is the necessary foundation.

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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2023

It’s no secret that educators and school leaders endure a lot of stress, from managing classroom and school communities to monitoring staff and student morale. Educators may even shoulder the expectation that they must solve every problem on their own. So, in the face of chronic stress, how can educators practice self-compassion?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. Most notably, it became clear that for Black women educators in this study, being a teacher is more of an identity than a job title. Last year, the U.S.

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For educators, this might not come as welcome news. And a growing body of research, popularized by the Jonathan Haidt book “The Anxious Generation,” argues that smartphone and social media use harms the mental health of teenagers. “This is the physical world with holograms overlaid on it.” Cheating Glasses?

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