A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

Josh articulates how teachers have to be ready and willing to change the way they think about teaching to be able to effectively work with this new generation of learners. Education needs a revolution of ideas, pedagogy, and the very way in which we talk about teaching and learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. Forming partnerships are an extremely important aspect of educational leadership. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who teaches in another part of New Jersey.

Professional Development 269

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. And that was good enough for that time.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2013

Social Media is bad and has no place in education. It is a distraction to the teaching and learning process. Worse, teachers will spend countless hours “socializing” instead of educating. School administrators can use blogs as a powerful public relations tool in lieu of traditional newsletters and email blasts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

What can traditional colleges use from your model? Those are the programs that will lead our students to find jobs, and that's why they are coming to us. Most colleges can’t just get professors to volunteer, and I’m sure many of your professors can only do it because they have paid jobs at other colleges.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2012

Sal Khan says his system is out of sync with that of traditional education systems that have become indoctrinated over many years. It has its merits, as does the flipped learning approach that his videos are generally associate with, but more as an instructional supplement to enhance the teaching and learning process.

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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

JULY 19, 2023

EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

Additionally, features could be added where anyone with the app could touch specific areas of the image and receive detailed information about how certain forms of technology are used to enhance the teaching and learning process. Digital publishing tools will function to bridge the gap between websites and traditional apps.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her defiance was bold and vulnerable, a refusal to let fear or tradition dictate her path. 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. I remember thinking, is this what teaching is supposed to look like?

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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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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. Make them cheaper.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We should innovate to leverage emerging technology, getting data back at nearly the speed of teaching and learning. How can assessment data effectively inform instructional decisions and support professional development for educators? This allows everyone, including the learner, to make the best data-based decisions possible.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Let me begin by saying that I was absolutely honored that various members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) and the greater educational community reached out to me to address administrators looking to embrace social media, plan an educational technology conference at my school, and discuss leadership in the digital age.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback. Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Back then, remember your why felt like a genuine invitation to reconnect with the passion that first brought me to teaching; this made it easy to hold on to purpose and to find meaning in the day-to-day connections and small victories. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. The way you modeled how to avoid binary thinking has stayed with me into my adult years, and I have done my best to incorporate this discipline into my teaching. Let’s continue this tradition.”

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. Value One of the drawbacks to educational technology is the perceived lack of value it has in terms of student learning and achievement.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We look for the traditional comforts that elicit memories of the past, and search for something new to add to our tables. Our teaching pipeline is actively broken and rebuilding it will take decades. It is that time of year when we look for recipes that can fill our stomachs and warm our hearts. Where are you baking ?

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

But actually this tradition of thought goes way back at least to an ancient Chinese text. 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.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

During this school year we have collaboratively been a part of some integral reformations that in time will ultimately have a positive impact on teaching, learning, and achievement. Embracing the role of technology in education and successfully integrating it into daily instruction.

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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. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

She is teaching me how to properly introduce myself in our Lakota language, Lak?ótiyapi. Generally rooted in place-based knowledge, oral traditions and kinship, Indigenous Knowledge Systems reflect the unique experiences of each community, while sharing common traits. I repeat the syllables in a much slower and deliberate voice.

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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. But he wasn’t having much success using traditional streaming video. So I didn't want to be the one teaching on these videos. he wondered.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I I just could make a bigger difference in education,” he says. Education research wasn’t new to Wieman, who these days is an emeritus professor of physics and of education at Stanford University.

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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. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works like “Romeo and Juliet.” Unless you get them to get back into their own bodies, I think you lose a really important teaching moment.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. 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. How did that go?

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2023

Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. It’s worth taking a step back to look at how the largest providers of online education in the U.S. teach remote students. Instruction at WGU discards key elements found in traditional colleges, with no physical classrooms and no fixed course schedule.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When Steven Chan founded Goodnotes, he was a student at the time, and so his commitment to understanding the teaching and learning experiences of the community he built was essential to his mission, which is to revolutionize the way ideas are shaped and amplified. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

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