Edthena

MARCH 6, 2025

” The piece explores how AI-powered coaching tools, like the AI Coach platform by Edthena , are reshaping professional development by making coaching more accessible, scalable, and efficient. Thats the question explored in the recent Education Week article, “Can AI Effectively Coach Teachers?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Established learning theories, like behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism, are grounded in the idea that learning occurs inside the human brain. The explosion of artificial intelligence is a testament to the reality that knowledge can be created and stored outside of the human mind.

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Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

According to Dr. David Baker, Professional Development Coordinator for St. Impact of AI coaching on teacher performance AI Coach significantly amplified the district’s professional development capacity. Can AI coaching help districts provide timely instructional coaching for all teachers? By leveraging AI, St.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Webinar panelists Stacie Johnson , leader of professional development at Khan Academy, Pat Youngpradit , chief academic officer at Code.org and leader of TeachAI , and Brian Johnsrud , global head of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , each offered unique and valuable perspectives on the intersection of AI and creativity.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. She then informed me that it would be my first and last day at the school before I left to go to my classroom.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In schools, creativity can be harder to imagine in core subject areas like math and easier to associate with humanities and arts. During the pandemic, she saw creativity pushed away as schools scrambled to get the traditional core content out to students. However, creativity shouldn’t be reserved for just those content areas.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That means they have come from non-traditional educational backgrounds and that meant these new teachers were going to need more instructional coaching cycles than traditionally trained teachers. In fact, approximately 85 percent of its new teachers in recent years have been alternatively certified. Filling teacher vacancies is one challenge.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. While benefits like free lunch, an extra planning period, or professional development on self-care for teachers can be supportive, they can often feel like Band-Aids on top of a gaping wound.

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Charter School Professional Development Tradition Humanities 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead, teachers are constrained within a traditional school day with six or eight periods of an inflexible length. Research shows that teachers can more effectively personalize instruction when schools move away from traditional schedules. Pedagogical innovation also requires opportunities for planning and professional development.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The College of Education and Human Performance at the University of Central Florida strives to be at the forefront of innovation in teacher training and development. We know a key component of that is constant collaboration with our many district partners. If successful, they all earn the same degree.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It literally speaks to my soul, not only because it acknowledges my humanity but also in the way it pays homage to the intersections of Black and Queer artistry. These systems are not perfect; however, it is a process that gives teachers multiple opportunities to hone our craft as professional educators.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

embracing the maker movement as part of the Future Ready Librarians initiative, it was only natural to work with Digital Promise, a leader in national conversations about maker education and micro-credentials , to create an innovative professional learning tool for librarians. With teacher librarians across the U.S. Create More! Consume Less?

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Dr. Preece

JUNE 3, 2023

As a teacher in the early phase of your career, a lot of your professional development is naturally focused on your Geography and subject knowledge. You may drift towards an NPQLTD or NPQML/NPQSL – and the tradition for people in these spaces is to become less subject-specific in their CPD and personal focus.

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Geography Professional Development Leadership Tradition 40

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Now, over 200,000 students in 4,000 schools have ArcGIS Online accounts.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. However, in many districts, coaching is not yet established as a norm in PD efforts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

The challenge with screening for dyslexia is that if you’re only dependent on a human, you’re limited in terms of the resource,” says Martyn Farrows, CEO of SoapBox Labs, a voice tech company. I was looking for something that was backed by great research, had good tech support and would have professional development,” Van Fossan says.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). The Fellows participate in a 12-month, intensive professional development experience focused on learning differences. UDL and Opportunity Youth.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Professional Development Manager. When engaged and structured in a democratic way, I believe education can provide the cognitive tools and content to see the world from others’ perspectives and overcome what William James called ‘a certain blindness in human beings.’ Where do you see education moving in 2015?

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. The district’s human resources department plans to hire a staff member specifically to build this diverse pipeline of educators in the district. In Phoenix Union, hiring teachers without a traditional education degree isn’t brand new.

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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. Just think back to the last time you went to a professional development workshop. This is human nature. Think about that. This is not a phenomenon that's unique to kids.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts. While financial resources are not yet available, there is committed human capital to keep them going. Adam Fried Superintendent, Harrington Park School District.

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Cultures EdTech Professional Development High School 78

Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

The changing meanings and practices of citizenship, including the relationship between citizenship and identity, gender, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, racism and xenophobia, human rights, indigenous peoples, empires and imperialism, civic engagement, transnationality, welfare, and public policy.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Human Presence Students appreciated that GenAI could help in “making things more efficient” not just for themselves but for faculty too: “AI can support faculty in administrative tasks, allowing more time for teaching”; “AI could help streamline grading.” Students in a small group learning session at San Diego State University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

There are, of course, larger, longer term costs to consider, like the larger toll the traditional vehicle may take on the environment and the health of those living around it. Recruiting, hiring, retraining, retaining, developing, and replacing teachers is a costly cycle.

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Elementary School Tradition Professional Development Public School 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Using Basecamp software has pushed my accelerated students more than I expected, because they have so much to grab onto, more than I could ever provide in a traditional classroom.”. It still takes a very big human lift by the teacher to help them access entry points [different ways to engage with material]. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Tradition Educational Technology Professional Development Public School 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As part of a unit on the human digestive system, teams of students had engineered replicas using things like paint rollers, balloons, funnels and tissue boxes, and this was the day they would present their designs. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. and abroad. That somehow.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. Choose as many as you like.

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Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 99

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services defines affordable child care as no more than 10% of a family’s income; however, the Care Index reports that childcare costs account for as high as 19% of a family’s income in some states. This gives states more flexibility to fund existing childcare programs rather than create their own.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. The arts are the arts.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. I prefer the traditional system.”. In the end, the school switched back to a more traditional grading system.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 70

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

Teaching 52

Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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