A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

He didn’t teach science. We learned science. He is the main reason I pursued a degree in science initially, before taking this passion to the field of education. This was by far one of the most powerful learning experiences I ever engaged in as a student. All of his classes were amazing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Some of the most celebrated education reform efforts today serve to make instruction more difficult. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the sentences and paragraphs. Educators continue to debate how much to emphasize some ideas over others. Its a little bit discouraging, said Philip Capin, an assistant professor of education at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Part I: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group In the ever-evolving education landscape, one of the most pressing challenges teachers face is striking the right balance between time efficiency and ensuring equitable learning opportunities for all students. Can they transfer or apply their learning effectively?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Reimagining learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2020

How can educational researchers ensure continued data collection in the wake of COVID-19? Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research team is experiencing what many educational researchers are familiar with by now—an untimely intrusion by the COVID-19 pandemic that compromises data collection at the end of the school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

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. The assembled group also discussed various new design concepts for how to apply AI in education. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

People should always play a leading role in education, and AI systems should not replace teachers, ever. Educators, AI, and the Future of Learning Webinars. How can educators be sure their students’ data is safe, and that AI systems don’t act with bias? as teams, in whole class lessons, individual work).

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. What Does That Mean For Higher Education? How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Image credit: [link] Many of my teachers had specific activities planned for Digital Learning Day. Most schools and educators that suffered the same fate as us were probably demoralized by the fact that all of their planning was for naught. Digital Learning Day educational technology New Milford High School'

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The second installment in Digital Promise Global’s Making Learning Personal For All series, “ Research and The Promise of Personalized Learning ” explores advances in the learning sciences that underscore key Learner Factors that must be considered in order to better support students based on their unique learning needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

The pivot to emergency remote learning differed greatly from what is considered high-quality online education, said Deb Adair, executive director of Quality Matters, a nonprofit that seeks to measure and guarantee quality in online courses.?Top-notch Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Now its a cognitive science argument that a core curriculum is also good for our brains and facilitates learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

As a result, students tend to grow up feeling as if learning is a stressful chore while playing is a reward. Let them play But in recent years, educators have begun to rethink this separation. In partnership with Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative, the nonprofit Remake Learning, where I serve as executive director, is granting $1.5

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Since those years in the classroom, my role at the Friday Institute has centered on providing all students with the learning environments they need to be successful. Educators must purposefully cultivate both sides of learner agency. There are tons of resources about learning sciences. Retrieved from [link].

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress , nearly 1 in 4 fourth graders and 39 percent of eighth graders scored below basic, the tests lowest category. By their standard, only 15 percent of undergraduate elementary education programs earned an A for adequately covering both math content and pedagogy.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A solid early education serves as a cornerstone for a child's future. However, many young children have limited access to high-quality educational opportunities because of socioeconomic factors and technological barriers. He aspired to make high-quality education financially viable and scalable for a broader system.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2021

We just need two things: great instructional materials designed for the latest research in science education, and transformative professional learning to advance instructional practice and get the most out of the materials. That was 2010, and A Framework for K-12 Science Education was out for public review.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This type of project reflects the best intentions of the Next Generation Science Standards , which encourage teachers to enable students to learn science by doing. Unlike math, science is disparate,” Roberts said. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. How the last recession affected higher education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2020

As schools rapidly shift instruction to a learn-from-home situation, we’re thinking about how to integrate core learning sciences principles in this new context: What do we know improves learning? How can they effectively promote collaborative learning in today’s socially distanced teaching environment?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Many educators are asking, “How do I find the tools that we can leverage to achieve our vision for the 2021-22 school year?”. Public education is seeing an unprecedented investment from the CARES Act and CRRSA to support equitable instruction and learning acceleration.

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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2022

As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. Click each image to see the excerpts and videos.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Even so, some educators are trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in the metaverse. This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” So you do see potential in this technology for educators?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A theme here at Proof Points is that many things that go on at schools are at odds with the conclusions of rigorous education research. Teachers ought to be learning more about what the last 50 years of rigorous, well-designed research has uncovered, confirmed or refuted when they start their profession. Future of Learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

For more than 35 years, Jean-Claude Brizard has worked in education as a teacher, school leader, superintendent, chief executive, funder, and education advocate. He brings that deep experience to his new role as President and CEO of Digital Promise, at a time when the need for innovation in education is especially critical.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. These educational practices can be powerful tools for information retrieval. lectures)” (p.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

This catalytic investment will support Digital Promise as it pushes for bold solutions that can create equitable educational experiences to help prepare all learners for holistic, lifelong success. Digital Promise has received a $20 million gift, the single largest unrestricted gift in the organization’s history, from MacKenzie Scott.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Katie Brown, Founder and Chief Education Officer, EnGen. Over the past three years, Digital Promise has engaged educators, districts, students, and product developers in conversations to identify a crucial signal of edtech excellence: a design basis in learning sciences research.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975, 67, 776–783. Habgood, M.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

The five selected partners are: Developing educator-industry partnerships. Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC). Industry : Nonprofit Education Service Agency; K-12 Educator Professional Development. Tennessee State University’s (TSU) Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Back to school isn’t just a transition for students; it’s an adjustment for parents, who are met with presentations from principals and teachers that feature a variety of education terms. The Research Map is a hub for learning sciences research. A Tool to Decipher Education Jargon. Luckily, there’s the Research Map.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. NGSS is going to give us a reason to teach science.”.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best. With this unique innovation in standards, states and school districts have been challenged to identify high-quality materials aligned with this new model of science learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

When it comes to AI in education, one edtech company stands out as a sage leader and trailblazing pioneer. Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. It's not yet another tool that educators and students access.

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