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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Lesson Plan Professional Development Tutoring Educational Technology 85

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.

History 107

History Teaching Artifacts K-12 107

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.

Teaching 98

Teaching Museum Lesson Plan Education 98

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.

Teaching 103

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 103

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.

Teaching 123

Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 123

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.

Civics 140

Civics Educational Technology Lesson Plan High School 140

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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Artifacts Lesson Plan Educational Technology History 126

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.

Primary Sources 132

Primary Sources Lesson Plan Professional Development EdTech 132

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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K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring High School 83

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.

Lesson Plan 141

Lesson Plan Museum History Teaching 141

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.

Education 142

Education EdTech Teaching Lesson Plan 142

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.

High School 127

High School Museum Education History 127

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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EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Lesson Plan 123

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.”.

Middle School 131

Middle School Educational Technology Tutoring Lesson Plan 131

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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Lesson Plan K-12 History Professional Development 116

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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K-12 Education Geography Lesson Plan 99

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every year educators create outstanding lesson plans to help students learn, understand and uncover their passions. Starting this week, educators can win great prizes by simply submitting their best projects, lesson plans, curricula and tutorials to the 2012 Educators’ Choice Awards.

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Education Lesson Plan Educational Technology Teaching 170

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.,

K-12 145

K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring Educational Technology 145

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.

EdTech 120

EdTech Middle School Educational Technology Lesson Plan 120

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.

Education 138

Education Middle School Global Connections K-12 138

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?

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Economics 130

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.

K-12 93

K-12 EdTech Government Human Rights 93

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

As Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE), I have worked with a fantastic team to develop services and tools to help districts, schools, and organizations across the world transform teaching, learning, and leadership. One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA).

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Archiving Artifacts Leadership Cultures 334

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.

Lesson Plan 107

Lesson Plan Social Studies Teaching Research 107

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Image credit: https://media.licdn.com/ Worlds of Learning provides a framework that allows any educator to earn micro-credentials for free through learning about a range of technology tools and applications and then putting what they learn into practice in their own teaching. Users submit “proof” to her that they have done so.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Professional Development Educational Technology 218

ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

They’re going to figure it out before we figure it out,” says Tracy Daniel-Hardy, director of technology at the Gulfport School District in Mississippi. The district-level machinery, as well as school leaders, are more hopeful that educators will see this value quickly and adopt AI tools into their teaching process.

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EdTech Professional Development Lesson Plan Critical Thinking 98

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.

Professional Development 145

Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School Research 145

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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EdTech K-12 Lesson Plan Private School 128

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

My teaching workweek was practically full-time, but I had two other jobs. I first got into teaching because I loved kids and I loved books. It was fulfilling to come up with educational activities and to see the impact it had on the children I worked with. So teaching three courses is about 30 hours of work per week.

Lesson Plan 103

Lesson Plan Social Justice Pedagogy Teaching 103

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

Middle School 140

Middle School Teaching Lesson Plan History 140

ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Now, we're ready to help teachers seamlessly create lesson plans and send them out to all students — even those who don't have broadband. We will package all of that content, whether it's an ebook or an educational video, along with the notes from the lesson plan and send it where it needs to go.

K-12 103

K-12 Lesson Plan Library Government 103

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.

Lesson Plan 123

Lesson Plan Professional Development Teaching Humanities 123

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since I was fortunate enough to have a week-long spring break before school resumed, I decided to try a new approach in my lesson planning and utilize student feedback to develop a thoughtful, interactive, and critical unit on environmental justice.

Pedagogy 98

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching Research 98

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

Many schools used ESSER funding for: New learning materials Educational technology Improved and repaired physical facilities Student mental health resources Expanded summer school and after-school programs Can I Still Use ESSER Funds? School stimulus funds: EANS, ESSER, CARES & ClassWallet: Educational Funding Deadlines.

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K-12 Charter School Social Studies Government 52

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 27, 2012

The Adobe Education Exchange is a central location for educators to meet, share, discuss, and collaborate on topics of interest to the Adobe education community. There are numerous benefits associated with becoming a member of the Adobe Education Exchange. Connect and collaborate with innovative educators in your field.

Lesson Plan 172

Lesson Plan Educational Technology High School Teaching 172

ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Hau shared that K-12 educators are using the technology to improve efficiency in a number of ways, including to draft individualized education programs (IEPs), create templates for communicating with parents and administrators, and in some cases, to support building lesson plans.

K-12 136

K-12 Education Museum Library 136

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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Professional Development Advocacy Lesson Plan Teaching 136