ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2022

About one third of students of color said they did not have an adult at school with whom they could safely share their feelings. Many of our members have, given the workforce challenges, really tried to expand and increase… partnerships with schools.” Korematsu Discovery Academy and Esperanza Elementary School, within Oakland Unified.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

Geography 132

Geography Tutoring Elementary School Teaching 132

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Meanwhile, paras were nearly three times as effective as volunteer, non-professional tutors with struggling elementary school readers. But in the studies he reviewed, the paras typically had bachelor’s degrees —considerably more education than the job requires in most school districts.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Her research has found that both of these strategies were more effective than an entire day of remote classes followed by traditional homework. Some school districts in California are doing away with failing grades, choosing instead to give students an opportunity to retake tests or resubmit assignments.

Education 141

Education Elementary School High School Tradition 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students generally learn about moles, atoms, compounds and the intricacies of the periodic table in college, but Daniel Fried is convinced kids can learn complex biochemistry topics as early as elementary school. School desks neatly lined up in rows may soon be a relic of the past. Flexible design pushes desks aside.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Over the past decade, CTE schools have transformed into education spaces that commit to giving students a comprehensive experience that prepares them for the workforce, helping them cultivate strong skills in their chosen career path. For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation.

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High School Museum Education History 140

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 139

ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. As competitive coding is now one of the fastest-growing segments in esports, we want to empower educators to fully explore its potential in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching. schools spend more than $10 billion a year on educational technology. Now, with New York Gov.

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K-12 Library Elementary School Archiving 142

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

Education 109

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

This year, an anti-remediation sentiment has spread quickly among educators, who’ve adopted a mantra: “Accelerate, don’t remediate.” This comparison of the two approaches using education technology is promising, but more research is needed. What they mean by acceleration is fuzzy.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The best hint of an answer I've found is in elementary school education where I've seen several very good quality experiments where they have had little kids — like every 20 or 30 minutes — they'd have them get up and do some little physical activities to get their wiggles out,” he said. “I

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Attrition data for charter schools is outdated, but the most recent data reveals that the odds of a charter school teacher leaving the profession is substantially higher than a traditional public school teacher. Most teachers at my elementary school had been there nearly a decade by the time I started school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Of course, there were challenging moments brought about by remote learning, but there were also promising moments that could not have occurred in a traditional classroom. Parents didn't really have that insight into what was happening in the classroom until this happened.” She asked her students if they’d like to share their work.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. This is not a phenomenon that's unique to kids.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

So when schools called us during the summer of 2021, they often asked whether they should stick with the schedules they created for distance, hybrid or safer in-person learning or return to a more traditional format. Despite having students back in school and on campus, this school year remains complex and anything but normal.

Elementary School 110

Elementary School Professional Development Learning Science Research 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 126

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.

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Civics Psychology Humanities Learning Science 94

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” In eighth grade, only 19 percent of Oakland Unified School District students were grade-level proficient in math, compared to 29 percent of students statewide. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well. That's become harder to do.

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K-12 Pedagogy American History History 115

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Schools and districts are paying millions of dollars for access to these digital tools and services, sometimes using funds newly available to them through federal pandemic relief money. Paraprofessionals, the hall monitors, lunch monitors, everyone could be playing a role with those relationships,” Cipriano says.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 14, 2016

Joseph South , Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, described how technology can create confidence in students and can level the playing field for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Education Elementary School Public School Educational Technology 53

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 81

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Many EdClusters shared pain points but also creative approaches to sustaining their work.

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K-12 Government EdTech Economics 77

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

And while teachers, principals, district leaders and parents forced to shift to virtual learning are eager for an end to the emergency measures, many are already looking ahead and considering which education solutions have worked well, and what parts of public schooling should be permanently altered. Learning from Lockdown.

High School 141

High School Public School Tradition Tutoring 141

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Picture a high school student who balances his studies with a variety of other responsibilities and activities. Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. Maybe he works at a part-time job when the school day ends, showing his diligence and drive.

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K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 144

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Several teachers in New York started the effort around a decade ago, and Zearn is now used by a quarter of elementary school students and more than a million middle school students around the country, according to sign-on figures tracked by the group.

K-12 101

K-12 Middle School Tutoring Elementary School 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

The conference comes at a time when there is so little direction from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that her name rarely came up, although the travails of President Donald Trump certainly did. Related: Betsy DeVos likens education technology to letting a thousand flowers bloom.

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Charter School Elementary School Middle School Educational Technology 98

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Starting in elementary school, roughly half of the program’s students would be native Spanish speakers and the other half native English speakers. That has been the more traditional way of dealing with this ‘problem’ of there being students in our classrooms who are not English speakers.

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