The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. based education advocacy group. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In addition, the federal government’s Office of Educational Technology is working on policies to ensure safe and effective AI use, noting that “Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities” while safeguarding against potential risks.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course? What were your goals?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Suddenly, she says, no one seemed to care what she thought about the tech tools the school adopted. It was especially frustrating, considering she had spent five years helping teachers weave edtech into their lesson plans and had earned a doctorate in education technology before returning to teaching.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

That study could be used to help administrators overhaul their teachers’ schedules, the task force writes, and free them up from non-teaching tasks that eat away at time that could be spent collaborating with peers, reviewing their students’ learning data and generally making their lessons better. “I I work at least one day every weekend.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Both the federal Department of Education and ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) also offer information about quality resources on their respective websites. Technology is an accelerator,” said Richard Culatta, a former federal education technology official who now heads ISTE. “If

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Yet, in the United States, just over half of high schools actually teach it. We’re on a mission to close that education gap. And enjoy access to an educator portal with lesson plans, tutorials, activities and other resources.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. It’s about more than tests and grades.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

Excited for the opportunity to focus on their learning, teachers find their seats and start to chit chat about the lesson plans they’ve left for their students. This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district.

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Professional Development Advocacy Lesson Plan Teaching 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching,” says Elizabeth Neilson, a former high school English teacher who lives in Minneapolis. “I For Cami Heredia, a former high school English teacher turned technical recruiter, it was partly about the money and partly about the mental exhaustion. “I I wanted to be good at it.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

She’s always thinking through lesson plans and seating charts, even at the grocery store and in the shower. That creativity and commitment is commendable, Rivera notes, but it also means that sometimes people take educators’ hard work for granted. “I It was a huge celebration for all of us.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school. When I’m testing a game, I have no way of knowing if it's going to be blocked by the school’s servers,” Angie says. I’ve planned my class around a game, only to find that the website’s been blocked.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

Once he graduated, he would have less support than he did in high school. Once he graduated, he would have less support than he did in high school. Less modifications, less accommodations, less adults looking out for him, and I worried about that. Young people are tech savvy.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Generative AI has stormed into education. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Allen says his family couldn’t afford to send him to college when he finished high school, so he joined the Army and suffered an injury while serving in Afghanistan. In the Eduverse, teacher avatars will teleport around to digital edtech hubs, where they can learn new technology skills to add to their credential chains.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

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. Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A 2011 study by University of Massachusetts researchers had also found standardized test-score gains by students in two EL schools in Rochester, New York, compared with peers in other city schools. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Since then, I’ve transitioned through multiple roles in education, and even though I have years of experience behind me, I’m still juggling. In my current role as a special education teacher at a junior high school in New Orleans, I teach 24 neurodivergent students in three classes across two grades, and I’m a case manager for 14 students.

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Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 128

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

My friends and I spent our high school days on AsianAvenue.com , an affinity website for Asian Americans, to build community, yet we were perpetually exposed to the hypersexualization of Asian American women. The technology field can be a great equalizer when it comes to accessibility and creating a common language.

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Social Justice Lesson Plan Private School Cultures 98

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. At Rhodes, educators see a lot of good in the program.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. The Summit program was designed for high school students and expanded to middle schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The nonprofits both of which are more focused on advancing instruction than on indiscriminately promoting AI, notes Jin-Soo Huh, a partner at The Learning Accelerator conceived of the idea after seeing that generative AI was making ripples in education from its very earliest days. Its AI-leveraged, Kennelly clarifies.

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Education Charter School Civics Lesson Plan 113

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That was the last class I taught at the high school before moving into my new role as an assistant professor at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, where I teach a course for pre-service teachers on educational technology. My students developed a real respect for civic discourse and the skills for entering into it.

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Civics Educational Technology Lesson Plan High School 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

One 2021 study found tutoring led to strong math gains for even high school students , enabling those who started two years behind grade level to catch up. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind. Educators have a lot of work ahead of them.

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Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. But a flurry of other bills and laws restricting what educators can teach—or even say—about history, literature, race, sexuality and other topics are alive and well. I’ve taught high school English for years.

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Lesson Plan K-12 History Professional Development 120

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

“A space where teachers can share their methods and experiences drastically boosts educational outcomes,” says Anuradha Handa, principal of GD Goenka Public School, a private high school in Delhi. hours to 10 minutes.

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EdTech Tutoring Lesson Plan Professional Development 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

The research community urged schools to spend a big chunk of their roughly $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds on what is called “high-dosage” tutoring. Many schools embraced this sort of frequent tutoring. No school district should be paying for tutoring if kids aren’t showing up,” Epstein said.

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Tutoring EdTech Lesson Plan Elementary School 127

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Public School High School 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction. “We

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Middle School Educational Technology Tutoring Lesson Plan 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

It has produced remarkable results for students in almost 100 studies , but these programs are difficult for schools to launch and operate. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift They involve hiring and training tutors and coming up with tailored lesson plans for each child.

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Tutoring Lesson Plan Research High School 130

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Whatever the next/newest technology, from paper to AI, the relationship between students and teachers has always been central to learning. It’s a valid question that even my high school students ask. They observe teachers using AI for lesson planning, providing feedback and generating project ideas.

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Education Lesson Plan EdTech Critical Thinking 137

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

AI is a tool to lighten the load so teachers can focus on the more important things in education like building relationships with their students. He also encourages peers in his coaching capacity to explore AI in specific instructional tasks, such as differentiating lesson plans in a more timely fashion.

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