ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Drozda says schools dont necessarily need to rush into building AI classes or programs. The easy thing to do is develop a class.

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K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 113

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. 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. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 109

Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, high school students do not remember the day like teachers do due to their age. To ensure students understand the magnitude of this day, teachers must focus on teaching September 11th. With the 9/11 Lesson , students will be sure to understand the tragedy, heroism, and unity that occurred from this day.

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Teaching Lesson Plan History Social Studies 130

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

With all the many state mandates and district directed professional development, as well as time after school devoted to grading and lesson planning, in her mind and many others, time was not readily available. In the end we created our own Google 80/20 model at my school even though Google axed the program last year.

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Artifacts Professional Development Lesson Plan High School 315

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

I grew up in an area with a large Asian American population, including 25 percent of the students in my high school. This raises a necessary question: Who is going to teach these classes? When planning for this course, I met with a group of 12 peers from six different high schools.

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High School American History Social Studies Leadership 115

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Many teachers, already, are looking for ways to use AI to build lesson plans and improve student feedback, Huh says: We know its coming. The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S.

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Education Charter School Civics Lesson Plan 119

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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High School Tutoring Lesson Plan Education Policy 112

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me.

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Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

The same goes for teaching skills. However, educators don’t have time to search through random teaching videos online and determine which are actually helpful or the best to learn from. Up pops the exact teaching video they need to see CFUs implemented skillfully. Videos cannot be shared or embedded on any other site, either.

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Library Teaching Digital Resources Lesson Plan 105

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I can’t do this anymore,’” Sherlock recalls about that clarifying moment and the many difficult weeks that followed, traversing school hallways and hauling around musical instruments on crutches. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. Julie Sherlock She meant it, too.

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

We can do this by investing in, supporting and leveraging the unique role of educator preparation programs at minority-serving institutions, which have a long and successful track record of preparing diverse educators to persist and thrive in teaching. Related: Widen your perspective. Sign up for Hechinger’s weekly newsletter.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Public School Tradition 121

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. And enjoy access to an educator portal with lesson plans, tutorials, activities and other resources. Need a hand?

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Teaching Lesson Plan Library Professional Development 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

Students gather once a month at my high school for what we call “equity lunch chats” with teachers and administrators. Related: Teaching social studies in a polarized world It’s time we listened to our students and strengthened our curriculums to teach a balanced history that honors all cultures and narratives.

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History World Religions Inclusive Curriculum Heritage 138

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

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.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Public School High School 102

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 27, 2012

K12 and Higher Education faculty and staff can share and receive recognition for their teaching and learning resources and search for specific resources by subject, grade level, software product, and resource type. Find the best resources for preparing for new courses and projects or learning the skills you need to teach using Adobe software.

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Lesson Plan Educational Technology High School Teaching 177

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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. This meant that I needed to shift my lesson-planning time, but it really paid off.

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Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Involving children in this discussion could be an important part of building a sustainable future, especially as more states and cities officially integrate climate change into their teaching, as New Jersey has. When we complete our pilots, we plan to start releasing the lesson plans as open-source tools available to schools nationwide.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Education 115

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

High school students often combat social media trolling by leaping before they look, jumping into heated arguments online. A lesson plan offered on the organization’s website, for example, uses an investigation conducted by an NPR reporter to explore the intentions of the people who post hoaxes and other forms of disinformation.

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Teaching Psychology Lesson Plan High School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

In K-12 schools, students are facing an onslaught of emerging technologies — new developments arrive by the day — and yet we’re still teaching many of our core school subjects as if our daily lives are unchanged by these tools. The goal is not to create an army of professional data scientists straight out of high school.

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K-12 Civics Lesson Plan High School 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Going into student-teaching, I already had a lot of ideas, not only from my own tutoring experiences but from observations and conversations with many teachers during my two years of service. I had lesson-planning experience. And I knew how the approaches to teaching had evolved since I was a student.

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Tutoring Teaching Middle School Lesson Plan 117

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The campus of Paradise High School, which was damaged in the Camp Fire but survived. How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Teaching Charter School Psychology High School 117

ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Higher Academic Achievement: Longitudinal studies reveal a strong correlation between early math skills and academic performance through high school. Technology can also play a pivotal role by blending gamification and pedagogy to sustain student interest while teaching key skills.

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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Psychology 68

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While these issues can seem overwhelming to young students, exploring them within the context of their school can not only make lessons stick, but also encourage students’ sense of civic agency. It gives kids a chance to learn about climate change, but also learn about being positive forces for change for the better,” she said.

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Teaching Elementary School Civics Project-Based Learning 119

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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Educational Technology History World History Lesson Plan 200

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

The bot, called Khanmigo, told me I had answered a basic high school Algebra 2 problem involving negative exponents wrong. I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans. For basic high-school algebra, AI’s error rate fell from 25 percent to zero.

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Research Tutoring Lesson Plan High School 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Mercado had wanted to be a teacher ever since she’d spent time in high school working with preschool kids. Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Yet teachers are considered the most important factor in students’ success at school.

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Teaching Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 91

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 18, 2020

On the second night of class, I had an awesome discussion with a couple of high school teachers about the perpetual issue of forcing students to learn math that they likely will never use again in their life. The number of students who use technology appropriately in school or the number of students who don’t?

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Lesson Plan Leadership High School Cultures 144

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce. ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world.

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Professional Development EdTech 137

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. But a flurry of other bills and laws restricting what educators can teach—or even say—about history, literature, race, sexuality and other topics are alive and well. I’ve taught high school English for years.

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Lesson Plan K-12 History Professional Development 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

sat at my computer in the summer of 2013 pondering whether I’d be able to begin my student-teaching. I wondered whether spending four years learning to teach was worth the time and money, and whether my dreams of leading a classroom would ever come to pass. Related: Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?

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Teaching Economics Lesson Plan High School 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. A team of students from INCubatoredu, a high school entrepreneurship program based in Illinois, reworked their business Trashbots to make robotics and coding accessible and provide hands-on STEM education at home.

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Civics Digital Resources K-12 Lesson Plan 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As I begin the new school year, I make a list of all my priorities: Lesson planning, grading, classroom setup, data analysis and new teacher mentorship. The novel follows the twins Joshua and Christophe, who recently graduated high school. Building relationships with parents is at the top of the list.

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Cultures Advocacy Lesson Plan High School 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

How do you teach kids about science when there is so much scientific misinformation and conflict over the truth about coronavirus, vaccines and masks? Then they received training in how to teach the lessons in their classes so they could launch the series this school year. Subscribe today!

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Controversial Topics Lesson Plan Teaching Research 136