TCI

JANUARY 6, 2025

TCI, a leader in K-12 educational content and curriculum, is proud to announce that its K-6 and 7-12 Social Studies programs have received favorable reviews in the latest textbook adoption reports released by the Office of Instructional Materials & Library Services within the Mississippi Instructional Materials Review Board.

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K-12 Social Studies Local History Critical Thinking 52

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself.

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K-12 Teaching Professional Development Leadership 132

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? It takes time, strategy, and rethinking professional development.” Educators : How are you tackling these challenges in your classrooms?

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K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). The Great Plains region is one of six across the country whose role is to provide subgrants to organizations seeking to include Library resources in their educational programming.

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Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites 130

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2020

Equity There have always been issues with equity when it comes to education. It also provides school leaders with a lens to provide valuable feedback to teachers when it comes to addressing priority standards, implementing scaffolding techniques, creating performance tasks, and developing quality assessments.

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Pedagogy Social Justice K-12 EdTech 546

Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

They included time constraints, fear, lack of professional development, not knowing how to integrate it into the curriculum, teacher overload, teacher resistance, flexibility, scale, and freedom. The post Creative Coding Across the K-12 Curriculum appeared first on Digital Promise.

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K-12 Professional Development Teaching Education 118

TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Civic education is the cornerstone of a functioning democracy, yet recent evaluations reveal significant gaps in how it is taught across the nation. history instruction is essential for developing informed, engaged citizens who can navigate the complexities of modern society. High-quality civics and U.S.

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Civics Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies 98

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. I believe this mindset shift is emblematic of the widening gulf between national professional organizations and local teacher communities. Pandemic exhaustion is also real.

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Professional Development K-12 Leadership Teaching 137

ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

Edtech has become inseparable from the education system. But how prepared are K-12 districts to handle the thorny privacy and security issues that these tools raise? There have been several high-profile incidents, including the Illuminate Education data breach that exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of students.

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K-12 EdTech Human Rights Professional Development 128

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 28, 2025

Conceptualized by Dr. Jeanne Theoharis, these sessions bring together committed scholars with hundreds of educators to learn illuminating history and discuss its relevance for our time and for our classrooms. For K12 educators, the classes offer compelling alternatives to the standard narrative found in most textbooks.

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History K-12 Professional Development Teaching 97

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

As a practitioner I am always looking to learn how to better assist educators at all grade levels. Superintendent Scott Rocco provided me with a great opportunity to not only work with teachers in his district, but to also push me outside my comfort zone, which has always been secondary education. Please share in the comments section.

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EdTech K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy 288

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Change is a word that is thrown around in education circles more and more each day. We are made to think that education is in a downward spiral and that students are ill prepared to succeed in college and/or careers that require students to think and apply learning differently. Image credit: [link] ?The

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K-12 Leadership Professional Development Cultures 352

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2024

Educators around the country are scrambling to save jobs and programs created in the last few years as they face the end of the federal funds aimed at helping schools recover from the pandemic. Can educators free up essential resources from ineffective programs and nonstrategic professional development?

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K-12 Tutoring Leadership Professional Development 121

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Delaware Department of Education.

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Professional Development K-12 Project-Based Learning Civics 110

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2024

The daily struggle is evident in the school systems across the nation, where a multitude of supports, staff, solutions, and professional development options are implemented without sufficient consideration for their overall fit and impact. This is where the power of diverging from methods that concentrate on a single approach is found.

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K-12 Leadership Professional Development Education 274

ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt.

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K-12 Tutoring Advocacy Private School 115

ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally. From their responses, we began developing a plan to set a new vision for the district.

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Professional Development K-12 Middle School Teaching 117

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I also was unprepared for the amount of corn I would see virtually every minute of my journey through a state that really gets it from an educational standpoint. A common message of change must be embraced by all stakeholders, especially Boards of Education and Central Office Administration, for 1:1 programs to be rolled out in schools.

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K-12 Elementary School Professional Development History 269

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

As schools across the country look to recover from the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions, federal relief funds can go a long way toward supporting students and building a brighter future for education. Department of Education , many states have spent less than half of the funding allocated to them.

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K-12 Professional Development Tutoring Educational Technology 98

Edthena

MARCH 18, 2022

Prioritize the teacher professional development that will most affect student outcomes. when ‘teacher professional development’ is put on their schedule? Educators’ plates are full and they don’t always see the value in another PD session or tool. Make sure your teacher professional development is worth it.

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Professional Development Teaching K-12 Education 98

Edthena

JUNE 29, 2021

We’ll be the first to tell educators that summer is their much-deserved break. Just because summer is here doesn’t mean teacher professional development has to stop. Read on for how to plan your self-driven, at-home teacher professional development this season. Relaxation and rest come before all else. Fair enough.

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Professional Development EdTech Teaching Education 95

Edthena

JULY 9, 2021

Lots of things adjusted with distance teaching, but the changes to professional development for educators has actually helped it become more accessible. Indeed, educators know that stronger teacher learning leads to stronger student learning. Doug began, “We have so much to learn and we are learning so much.”

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Professional Development Leadership Teaching Education 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The fact that voluntary professional development can attract 90 percent of teachers is seen as a wild success.

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Professional Development High School K-12 Education 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

But her report also noted that educators have been let down before by various initiatives that failed to make a change in the countrys math achievement scores. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. Who or what do you trust now? Related: Widen your perspective.

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Government Professional Development K-12 Teaching 107

ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners. For example, we used Minecraft in one classroom long before Minecraft Education.

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Education K-12 Critical Thinking Public School 136

ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. This highlights the necessity of integrating robust numeracy programs into early education frameworks to give students a head start. The Equity Factor in Early Numeracy Equity remains a top priority for many K-12 administrators.

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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Psychology 66

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

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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EdTech K-12 Education Government 120

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S.

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K-12 Education Professional Development American History 123

Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. Schools need more robust examples that focus on what CT is (and isn’t), and they need specific support around K-12 CT integration.

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K-12 Middle School Professional Development Research 161

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Fortunately, the education sector had time to smooth out some of these wrinkles, especially with improved connectivity and advancing technology such as artificial intelligence (AI). Having seen such positive changes firsthand, Elliott Levine , director of business development at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. ,

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K-12 Education Human Rights EdTech 141

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Those who were enrolled in — or considering enrolling in — American University’s School of Education said they wanted more classroom experience, more opportunities to practice their craft before being released to do it alone every day to a room full of kids. Wish granted. They’re more comfortable in the classroom, more familiar.”

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Education has become a major battleground for the attempted anti-racist paradigm shift of diversity, equity and inclusion work; mirroring society, this work remains stuck in a cycle of advancement and retaliation. Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge.

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K-12 Sociology Social Science Education 116

Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

strengthening regionally specific industry-educator partnerships. The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Read the complete KVEC case study here. million from the U.S.

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K-12 Professional Development Economics Learning Science 156

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity. Professional Development.

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K-12 Professional Development Tradition Teaching 143

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

Department of Education and will last five years. The participation of HBCUs is notable in part because they play a key role in training future K-12 science teachers. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too. The project is funded through a nearly $8 million innovation grant from the U.S.

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Education K-12 Cultures Project-Based Learning 132

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

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. This week I’m focusing on higher ed, and next time I’ll feature lessons from K-12.

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Education K-12 Professional Development Teaching 137