A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

States that do not have their own online course consortia can become a member of the VHS Collaborative or use Educere (K-12 solution). There is no excuse not to secure funds to better meet the needs of all learners or those with specialized interests.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. We didnt want to do it overnight, Hume said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. Consider that the annual cost of K-12 special education is nearly three times that of “general education”: $26,000 vs. $9,000 per student in California, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

School leaders and teachers struggle to find the right education technology to suit their needs. Education technology makers can’t figure out exactly what schools need – or if their products can work as intended. They review pitches from education technology companies that want to work with them.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion commitment to bridge the digital divide by providing free internet and Wi-Fi hotspots for five years to disadvantaged K-12 students. T-Mobile partners with school districts to identify pathways to sustainable and scalable technology and connectivity planning. In 2020, T-Mobile launched Project 10Million, a $10.7

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

Tom Darling, Transfr’s director of strategic initiatives, has worked in workforce development for 20 years, from the K-12 level through community college and beyond.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

Sodani, director of the Institute for Innovation in Education at the university’s School of Education. It seems to be making a difference for both the tutors and the K-12 students. For example, aspiring educators can tutor K-12 students through Dallas Independent School District for about $20 an hour.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In K-12 settings, USB SEL programs have demonstrated success in improving the social and emotional states of our youth, while also boosting school climate and safety. We looked at the impact of more than 250 distinct USB SEL programs on 12 student domains, as well as intervention quality, content, skills and SEL implementation.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

What this makes abundantly clear is that the future of education depends directly on our commitment to the success of new teachers. From field placement to the critical first three years, K-12 schools and teacher prep programs must implement proven strategies to improve the quantity and quality of support that new teachers receive.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

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. During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri.

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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. Pre-K student Elena Wagner earned a badge for knowing her ABCs.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Fast forward a couple years and the Urban Institute has transformed their original idea into Data4Kids , a series of “data stories” that educators can use to teach data science concepts in their classrooms. It’s part of a broader effort “to show that you don’t have to be a certain type of person to work with data,” Bowen explains.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years. Good for Everyone?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Thomas is vice president of strategic initiatives and community engagement at the Community College of Philadelphia, and he connects K-12 students to college opportunities that help them earn associate degrees or industry credentials and secure jobs as paraprofessionals. Why would they want to go back to that?” Thomas asks.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based K-12 education content and technology provider, has finished its sale to Veritas Capital, an investing firm which markets itself as seeking to improve education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But UCLA professors felt that the traditional math curriculum was uninspiring to students and that the classes offered few useful examples from actual biology, according to a presentation prepared by members of the university that EdSurge reviewed. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education. The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. The foundation has been putting money towards math education for some time, even winding down its language arts investments to do so. million in committed dollars, to date—funds Zearn, a nonprofit that runs a K-8 digital math platform.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

. — Danielle Caldwell It’s a bitter contradiction that spans the field: The job is a difficult one to do into old age, yet few who stick with it are able to set aside enough money to enjoy a traditional retirement. “It In fact, in K-12 public schools, pension plans are often an attractive benefit of working in the profession.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that K-12 workers have the highest rate of burnout in the American workforce, with more than 44 percent of K-12 workers in the U.S. I was grieving for those who left, as I prepared to be one of the ones who stayed. I’m still grieving. I know the gravity of what it means to leave all too well.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. That teachers’ confidence or anxiety about using the technology impacted their thoughts about AI. As part of his role at the center, Aguilar conducted research into how teachers think about AI in classrooms.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

However, although virtual reality and simulation tools can indeed be costly, they also have the potential to be especially useful at the very same institutions that lack resources for traditional teaching equipment that is even more expensive, like advanced science labs or workforce-training technology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Esports offers incredible benefits for student engagement, community and skill building, and pathways to higher education and job opportunities. In the United States, there are over 15,000 esports teams in K-12 schools, and many esports teams and programs emphasize access to students with disabilities.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. Nevertheless, classical learning does periodically pop up in reactionary contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. We now have the potential to make a once-in-a-generation investment in our schools.

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K-12 Middle School Educational Technology Government 102

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

Location, Location, Location AwesomeSTEAM has inspired some enthusiasm, with a K-12 teacher in Canada even offering to translate the project into French. Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds.

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Digital Resources Library K-12 Middle School 120

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Johnson: We have an obligation to think about transforming traditional assignments into something more interactive and problem-solving-based.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Our classrooms are tech-enabled and not tech-dependent — leveraging technology impactfully to enhance our students' learning experiences overall and build additional bridges between students, teachers, leaders and even content. Daniel Gauna We want to see technology leveraged beyond the traditional classroom approach.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. I'll say it's also been a bit of a transition internally at Khan Academy because it is a new muscle that we've been building.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Department of Education will help school districts rapidly measure the results of education technology. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, wrote last week. A new tool from the U.S. It will be available to schools in January.

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Education Educational Technology Tradition Research 103

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

She supports students in exploring their gifts and interests through projects and encourages educators to start by substituting a traditional assignment with an opportunity to create. Katie Fielding Instructional Technology Coordinator Arlington Public Schools, VA Not every student is going to go to college.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

It's about ensuring that edtech investments support educators, giving them the tools to meaningfully impact student learning outcomes. 1 Bust Your Assumptions: Assess Your Current State A technology refresh is not just about keeping up with the latest trends or adding the latest features.

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