A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 4, 2024

Let’s now dive into the most popular myths that hold educators back when it comes to personalization. Myth 1: Technology is needed to personalize Years ago, almost every educational technology company jumped on the personalized learning bandwagon and hailed it as a holy grail for improving outcomes.

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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. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself. In 2000, the National Reading Panel, a group of experts assembled by Congress to explore the scientific basis for teaching reading, identified reading fluency as essential for teaching reading.

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2024

Moving the Needle Toward Conceptual Understanding Teaching for conceptual understanding is easier said than done, as it requires deep content knowledge and the ability to make connections between student responses and concepts in real time.

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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). Department of Education’s “ Newcomer Tool Kit ,” a resource for rural educators looking to support recent-immigrant students and families. Hansen-Thomas also points to the U.S.

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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

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

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

APRIL 23, 2024

Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It's hard to teach math, period.

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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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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.

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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 8, 2024

And the tools serve as a particular lifeline for neurodivergent students, who suddenly have access to services that can help them get organized and support their reading comprehension, teaching experts say. From a teaching, learning standpoint, that's pretty concerning to me,” he says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education. To help better preserve and share the teachings of his Native culture, he decided to try the latest in high tech tools — virtual reality. he wondered.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Perhaps it is because the virtues of Mexican and Indigenous spiritualities in Texas and Minnesota, where I’ve split my whole life, are so universal that it’s hard to not be drawn to their teachings and practices. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. The concept of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is another one that instructors might benefit from thinking about.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My colleagues, friends and family often praise my relentless pursuit of excellence, especially in my teaching career. My journey into teaching was born from a deep-seated curiosity about the transformative power of education and a drive for social justice. Teaching them is an immense privilege, one that I do not take lightly.

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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. McNabb, an assistant director of teaching and learning engagement at Virginia Tech. “If But one group is often left out of the design process: students.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching as Transformation That spark carried me into student teaching in Townsville, Queensland, Australia where I was pushed to grow in ways I hadnt expected. Teaching while still learning to manage a classroom and create cohesive, engaging lessons in a new environment was humbling and daunting.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. Or they prefer reading and literacy over math.

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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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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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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.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And he hasn’t had to abandon teaching. I just get to do the fun part now: teach,” he shares. “I With my minor being computer science, I focused a lot on how to use technology in the classroom, how to do things that we would not be able to do otherwise. I provide teachers with training on how to use that technology.

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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. One of these tools is the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA).

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined. All three of these historic royals have been the subject of “Gen Z Teaches History,” a viral video series created by Lauren Cella, who teaches 10th grade history. And they're like, ‘No, Miss, they do.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. She asked, “But what about your career?”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Hear more from both Rogoff and Ten Brink on the pros and cons of chatbots in teaching on this week’s EdSurge Podcast. “If you can capture a student’s imagination, and for them to be interested in discovering the stories of American history or any other history, then I think you have a lifelong learner.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult. I continued to struggle with the mechanics of teaching, especially the most essential part of being a teacher: presence. I left my student teaching year feeling genuinely broken. I reread my lesson plans before I teach.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google. As a physics teacher, I am supposed to teach Newtons Laws of motion and how electricity works.

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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.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

I hope that making my story of invisibility visible to those who may understand my struggle will help fellow educators of color feel seen, heard, valued, and, more importantly, retained in the classroom. Who Am I in Education? Soon after, I began my first summer professional development at a school in the neighborhood I grew up in.

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