ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

In a survey of more than 1,000 public school teachers done through Samsungs partners at DonorsChoose a whopping 96 percent said AI will become an intrinsic part of education within the next decade. They can start with mastering spreadsheets, coding languages like Python or teaching students to use AI chatbots.

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K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 113

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Take lesson planning, for example. Many of us recall the days when lesson plans were a labor of love or a big waste of time. We spent countless hours crafting detailed outlines, complete with objectives, activities, assessments, and even a backup plan in case of inclement weather. Yes, a plan is important.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I'm an educator.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 111

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S. The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S.

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Education Charter School Civics Lesson Plan 120

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't visit classrooms as frequently as I would have liked, and the feedback I provided in written reports could have done more to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom. This approach also provides a better understanding of teachers' changing role in the disruption age.

Leadership 542

Leadership K-12 Artifacts Lesson Plan 542

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Technology has transformed education, and Googles Notebook LM is a powerful AI tool that enhances lesson planning and student engagement. With features like content summarization, podcast generation, and streamlined lesson delivery, Notebook LM’s a must-have for teachers. Here’s how I teach them to use it: 4.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too?

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Teaching Education K-12 Lesson Plan 145

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult. I continued to struggle with the mechanics of teaching, especially the most essential part of being a teacher: presence. I left my student teaching year feeling genuinely broken. I reread my lesson plans before I teach.

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Lesson Plan Teaching Humanities Education 117

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While learning recovery remains a needed area of focus, virtually every educator I come in contact with explains that students are a year or two behind socially. Lesson planning/activities : While Daily Meeting is a great start, SEL should be emphasized across the curriculum.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Classroom Management Cultures 495

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. This will provide all teachers with consistent, concrete elements to focus on when developing lessons.

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Leadership Lesson Plan Archiving High School 358

TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Harnessing Kairos: Balancing Structured Time and Learning Velocity in K-12 Classrooms Time in education is about more than minutes on the clock or adhering to rigid schedules. Educational philosopher Shari Tishman describes this beautifully in her work, Slow Observation: The Art and Practice of Learning.

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Lesson Plan Critical Thinking K-12 Teaching 268

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

Here is a piece of my thinking that I shared: The why matters more than ever in the context of schools and education. The paragraph above represents the importance of making the educational experience relevant. If it is absent from any activity or lesson, many, if not all, students are less motivated to learn and ultimately achieve.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Cultures Teaching 388

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. By the end of that first semester, 10 of my colleagues had already left the program.

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Classroom Management Social Justice Lesson Plan Cultures 137

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 2, 2019

It is one of many examples that fall into what I call the “death trap” in education – that’s the way we have always done it. Correct me if I am wrong, but in education, teachers and administrators don’t receive zeros if they: Don’t arrive to work on time. turn in lesson plans, complete all observations/evaluations by a set date, etc.)

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Leadership Lesson Plan Cultures Tradition 419

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Confessions of a Teaching Parent. I remember when I first began teaching at the age of 22, my mentor teacher told me, “Teaching will make you a better parent and being a parent will make you a better teacher.” I’d love to learn from the wisdom of other educators.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Education 166

Studies Weekly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial Nov 07, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker : Manda Rensel, 1st Grade Teacher, PA Tell us why you love Studies Weekly! Manda's Story In Manda Rensels 25-year teaching career, she never enjoyed teaching history. The most valuable resources to her are the lesson plans.

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Social Studies Teaching Lesson Plan Classroom Management 52

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

The key to future-proofing education is to empower students to not only think, but to apply their thinking in relevant ways to demonstrate what has been learned. More often than not I do not see opportunities for student reflections through countless walk-throughs, lesson plan reviews, or audits of how digital tools are being used.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Critical Thinking Research 402

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2017

I think I refuted more hypotheses then validated, but the learning experience kept driving me to pursue eventual degrees and a teaching certificate in the sciences. Even though my science teaching days are long behind me, the scientific method has always stuck with me, as there are direct applications to leadership.

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Artifacts Lesson Plan Leadership High School 302

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This week’s newsletter comes to you from Caroline Preston, Hechinger’s managing editor, who writes our climate and education newsletter. Lessons can also be fun : Learning about flooding, for example, might involve water play, said Christie-Blick. You can sign up for the newsletter here. I’ll see you in two weeks!

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Lesson Plan Elementary School Humanities Teaching 119

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. When it came to the lesson plan piece, many of my colleagues and I in the Northeastern United States were educated in the Instructional Theory Into Practice Model (ITIP) developed by Madeline Hunter.

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Lesson Plan Project-Based Learning Classroom Management Research 363

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

Many difficult lessons were learned during the pandemic, and a few more are sure to materialize over the next couple of months. Even though educators have been challenged like never before, they faced adversity and stepped up to the plate admirably for their learners. Consider these questions from your lens.

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K-12 Pedagogy Classroom Management Public School 542

Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

When teaching US History, there is a strong focus on heroic individuals. MLK vs Malcolm X Lesson There is so much fascinating information to learn when studying MLK vs. Malcolm X. So, this lesson plan provides teachers with the necessary tools to educate students about the intricacies of the Civil Rights Era.

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Lesson Plan History Social Studies Teaching 246

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

On the contrary, I have seen this firsthand from some fantastic educators whose schools I have been blessed to work with on a long-term basis in the role of job-embedded coach. We should all want to do better in this area as the field of education needs more practical strategies that are weaved into the rhetoric. More on this later.

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Archiving Artifacts Leadership Pedagogy 357

Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Yes, a few had managed to write something about the French Revolution having multiple causes, but the lesson hadn’t quite paid off as he hoped. In this situation, Seb’s lesson plan is thwarted from the get-go by his preoccupation with the HOW rather than the WHAT and the WHY. Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School.

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Lesson Plan Pedagogy History Teaching 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “

Teaching 135

Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 135

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.

Education 144

Education EdTech Teaching Lesson Plan 144

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Teaching is tough. I, for one, would spend hours planning and grading in the evening, at night, and on weekends. In the schools I have the honor of coaching in, I see more and more evidence of co-planning and sharing of resources both within the school and across the district as a means to lessen the load.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching Research 300

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. But if we only do this check at the very end, after all the teaching is done, and we find that our students haven’t learned the material quite well enough, it’s too late to do anything about it. ” David-Lang says.

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Pedagogy Cultures Lesson Plan Library 289

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. Copyright © by International Center for Leadership in Education, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Archiving Artifacts Leadership Cultures 357

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Shortages are most common in the traditionally tricky subject areas of special education, math, science and foreign languages. As you’d expect, those newly minted teachers need additional training in order to provide their students with the high-quality education they deserve. Related: Widen your perspective.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Public School Tradition 123

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me.

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Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

ED Surge

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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High School Museum Education History 141

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

I shared how it’s simplistic nature, built on conversations with educators all over the world, led to new knowledge development, resource acquisition, exposure to innovative ideas and strategies, support, feedback, friendships, and spirited discussion. By contract all teachers had to teach five periods.

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Artifacts Professional Development Lesson Plan High School 315

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. 2011) Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners). September 2009) The Art and Science of Teaching / Six Steps to Better Vocabulary Instruction. Frayer Model References: Archer, A. Hughes, C. The Guilford Press. Urrutia, K., Buenger, A.,

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development History 52

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 9, 2020

He is the architect behind the educator movement “ Teach Hustle Inspire ,” and he wrote the bestselling book MC Means Move the Class: How to Spark Engagement and Motivation in Urban and Culturally Diverse Classrooms. Our assumptions were challenged, and we quickly realized that we did not want to teach the way we were taught.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Cultures Teaching 217

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching,” says Sherlock, now 62. Most educators have not left, and many never will. For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching.

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 132