A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

As the opening of this post explains, personalized learning is not a trend or fad but the future of education if we are serious about student growth and achievement. While the book dives deep into theory, research, strategies, and success stories, we wanted to share some insights in a presentation format.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. Research shows that approximately 1.27 Understanding and addressing fluency has become increasingly urgent for educators, administrators and parents alike. The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 11, 2015

Other important outcomes on behalf of the student include increasing productivity, conducting better research, becoming more digitally literate, and developing into a digitally responsible citizen. BYOD educational technology ICLE mobile learning mobile learning devices Professional Development'

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

It’s the same technology behind ChatGPT , the free tool causing alarm in schools and colleges around the country because of how easily students can use it to cheat. But even as some educators raise concerns, others see potential for new AI technology to reduce teacher workloads or help bring teaching materials to life in new ways.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. Using data from the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Some of those characteristics are consistent with careers in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura.

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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. The DPA doesn’t just look at technology and innovation.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while many of the studies showed gains for learners in some cases, the researchers concluded that flipped learning isn’t living up to its promise. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully. The hype is convincing — it’s seductive — but the implementation of the hype is not,” he said. “It

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2024

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. What research substantiates your product or service?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. This got me thinking about what might be missing to ensure efficacy.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In many cases, they’ve grown up with access to incredibly immersive technology practically since birth. As a result, it can be difficult at times to compete for attention using traditional teaching methods like whiteboards, worksheets, and extended direct instruction.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). According to recent research , while English-learner populations are growing in rural places, rural multilingual learners are less likely to receive instruction in their native languages.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. “The

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. from the MIT Media Lab and has been working on design of educational materials for more than a decade, said it’s not that edtech companies don’t do any testing.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

There is a really wonderful organization called the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization that offers tons of resources and holds lots of webinars and in-person events and trainings for teachers to teach philosophically. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

They had an idea, though, for how they could set up a unique set of guardrails that would make a new kind of teaching tool that could help students get more of their ideas into their assignments and spend less time thinking about formatting sentences. They have been building tools together to help teach writing for decades.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed. What might educators glean from the findings?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. Jami Rhue Its differentiating.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In theory, educational software could be a cheaper alternative. What if you were to marry humans with technology?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The potential of generative AI is both promising and profound, but it raises critical questions: How can this transformative technology be harnessed not only to educate but to empower inclusively and equitably? To learn more about Goodnotes research-based initiatives or to join our mission, find us at www.goodnotes.com/research

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging in research and design work with communities of researchers, practitioners and edtech product developers has led us to define several principles we believe will assist in building learning technology that is attuned to the needs of diverse students and educators, based on modern learning principles and designed for broad adoption and scale.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. And the University of Arizona, Tucson, another public school, now teaches a version of LS 30.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

A college probably wouldn’t hire a teaching assistant who tends to lie to students about course content or deadlines. So despite the recent buzz about how new AI software like ChatGPT could serve as a helper in classes, there’s widespread concern about the tendency of the technology to simply make up facts. How is it going?

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