A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

With the first month of the school year in the books, I am extremely pleased with how more staff members are embracing educational technology and effectively integrating a variety of tools into instruction. At New Milford High School we clearly articulate that technology is a powerful tool.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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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. For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching. Julie Sherlock She meant it, too. I wanted to be good at it.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Teach for Tomorrow’s Job Market Many parents want their children to study computer science. 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

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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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. I worry about losing more students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. I was always completing tasks for other people. It’s just a reality of the job.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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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. Another company, Class Technologies Inc., No glitz or gimmicks.”.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I had been teaching writing and English at this rural public PreK-12 school for nearly five years, but this year felt different. Applying This Strategy to My Work With Pre-Service Teachers Working with pre-service teachers is quite different from teaching high schoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. Others were meant to lessen teacher workload by helping with lesson planning or project ideas; several were designed to assist English language learners.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We offer self-contained and behavioral support classes for students with significant exceptionalities, which some of us teach in designated classrooms that have remained intact. I teach 25 students a day, providing a combination of push-in and pull-out support. One of those conditions is a safe, comfortable, consistent space to learn.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. How does augmented reality engage all students? It serves as a bridge for students to connect in the classroom.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2023

Are you using the technology to spark new learning interest, teach a new concept or reinforce a difficult one? For many teachers, it’s not just the learning curve of using new technology, it’s also the process of lesson planning. Questions arise like whether to modify existing lesson plans or create new ones.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. He started his career in education as a science teacher in St.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. However, as any teacher who has been forced to teach a scripted curriculum will tell you, rarely is it an effective course of action.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce. AI can teach kids content, but it doesn’t teach them how to apply it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans. As teachers, we teach students not subjects.

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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. The tools are coming fast, though.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Teachers were grasping at anything that could fulfill the “obligation” of using technology.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, I spoke with several teachers regarding their primary questions and reflections on using AI in teaching and learning. Keeping in mind these reflections, we can better understand how we move forward toward meaningful AI integration in education. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

After she took a position teaching 6th grade English, she says she faced a stark attitude change toward her edtech opinions. 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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That program also allows teachers and administrators to give substitutes access to lesson plans and homework, making them more than a babysitter, Daly indicated. Soon, the company built up enough infrastructure around its substitute teaching effort, that it began coordinating with school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is a fine line between “using AI as a tool” and “using AI to cheat,” and many educators are still determining where that line is. Related: How AI can teach kids to write – not just cheat In my view, banning tech that will become a critical part of everyday life is not the answer.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. 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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2022

It’s been almost a decade since I left the education frontlines. While I loved teaching, I don’t think I could go back today. But today, teaching doesn’t seem livable or lovable. But today, teaching doesn’t seem livable or lovable. It’s not the classroom or kids, it’s the working conditions.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

“It actually was a tangible piece of evidence to see what we were talking about when we say there is a lack of respect for educators — when you don’t even want to have them on a committee to talk about what would keep them in a classroom.” At school you teach and support students. At school you teach and support students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’ve supported teachers as they navigate frustration about rapidly changing curricular trends and assessment requirements, figure out where they stand on teaching reading , and — over the past few years — learn how to reach students during and after the height of the pandemic. Sometimes that means having more ownership over what they learn.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Dr. Ness about the skills needed for reading, the most effective way to teach them and how Learning Ally’s Excite Reading can help. Effective reading instruction needs to be explicit in that we’re naming whatever we’re teaching and helping kids understand how it contributes to their reading.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. That’s what makes a creative tool truly valuable in education. Take Adobe Express for Education , for example. That’s what makes a creative tool truly valuable in education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How can educators address the concern about students using AI to cheat?

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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. The adjustment has been difficult for our teachers too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. Legislators must begin regulating AI now.

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