A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2020

Successful remote learning is dependent on the consistent utilization of effective teaching strategies and pedagogy that empowers all kids to think and apply their thinking in relevant ways. The Rigor Relevance Framework is a fantastic tool for teachers to develop pedagogically sound tasks, both with and without technology.

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Pedagogy Social Justice K-12 EdTech 546

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Thanks to the successes of campaigns like the Hour of Code and this week’s Computer Science Education Week, educators, policymakers, and families around the country are realizing the value of coding and computer science in K-12 education. Supporting educators to teach computational thinking.

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K-12 Education Advocacy Professional Development 115

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Thats a good thing in Adams view, as shes more than a little confident that todays K-12 students will be using AI in some fashion when they eventually join the workforce. They can start with mastering spreadsheets, coding languages like Python or teaching students to use AI chatbots. The easy thing to do is develop a class.

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K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 113

Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

They included time constraints, fear, lack of professional development, not knowing how to integrate it into the curriculum, teacher overload, teacher resistance, flexibility, scale, and freedom. The post Creative Coding Across the K-12 Curriculum appeared first on Digital Promise.

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K-12 Professional Development Teaching Education 118

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. I believe this mindset shift is emblematic of the widening gulf between national professional organizations and local teacher communities.

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Professional Development K-12 Leadership Teaching 138

ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

But how prepared are K-12 districts to handle the thorny privacy and security issues that these tools raise? Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University.

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K-12 EdTech Human Rights Professional Development 130

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2013

As a trusted educational partner, Discovery Education has worked with thousands of educational leaders to transform teaching and learning. Educators will then utilize this knowledge to develop CCSS lesson plans and assessment tasks for immediate use in their ELA or content area classroom. Click HERE to register to attend.

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K-12 Education Professional Development Lesson Plan 217

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. To identify top challenges, we asked educators and education leaders to use a wiki survey crowdsourcing tool to answer the question: “Which is a bigger challenge in K-12 education?”

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K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Mancuso: When I entered the district in 2018, Eastern York already had innovative practices in place, such as K-5 coding and STEM initiatives. From their responses, we began developing a plan to set a new vision for the district. As superintendent, I wanted to explore these practices further. Calvert: We follow the data as a district.

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Professional Development K-12 Middle School Teaching 120

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Longtime micro-credential advocate Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative has released a variety of micro-credentials in their Teaching Students with Disabilities stack.

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Professional Development K-12 Project-Based Learning Civics 110

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 28, 2025

The Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes launched in March of 2020. Scholars say, for them, it is incredibly heartening to witness their work make its way into pre-K-12 classrooms; when their college students plead, Why did I have to wait until college to learn this?, Teaching the truth can be isolating and hard.

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History K-12 Professional Development Teaching 81

ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt.

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K-12 Tutoring Advocacy Private School 117

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Here are my observations and thoughts after touring three schools (K-12, 7-12, K-6) located throughout central Iowa: We need to prepare our students to be doers and creative thinkers who can compete with their peers globally for jobs that have yet to evolve. The latter two, I don’t even know how to do on Keynote.

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K-12 Elementary School Professional Development History 269

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Related: Widen your perspective.

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Government Professional Development K-12 Teaching 109

Edthena

JULY 9, 2021

Lots of things adjusted with distance teaching, but the changes to professional development for educators has actually helped it become more accessible. And one way the pandemic helped those in the teaching profession was by getting people more comfortable using and looking at video.

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Professional Development Leadership Teaching Education 98

Edthena

MARCH 18, 2022

Prioritize the teacher professional development that will most affect student outcomes. when ‘teacher professional development’ is put on their schedule? As a teacher professional development consultant, he is adamant about respecting teachers’ time. Give teachers time to practice what they’ve learned.

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Professional Development Teaching Education K-12 98

Edthena

JUNE 29, 2021

Just because summer is here doesn’t mean teacher professional development has to stop. Read on for how to plan your self-driven, at-home teacher professional development this season. Often, educators simply crave more choice and autonomy in their own teacher professional development. Fair enough.

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Professional Development EdTech Teaching Education 95

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Edtech and Professional Development.

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Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 140

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Boost curriculum and professional development: Schools can use funds to develop new curriculum materials or purchase new textbooks and other educational materials. Teachers can also use funds for professional development, including training on how to use new educational technology in the classroom.

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K-12 Professional Development Tutoring Educational Technology 98

ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

The Equity Factor in Early Numeracy Equity remains a top priority for many K-12 administrators. Technology can also play a pivotal role by blending gamification and pedagogy to sustain student interest while teaching key skills. Teacher training is another cornerstone of effective numeracy instruction.

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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Psychology 69

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As an educator creating antiracist classrooms, I have wrestled with how to teach children about race and race relations since far before our country’s recent racial reckoning. The place to start to enact change starts in the classroom with the development of our future leaders. Stereotypes can be perpetuated.

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Teaching Social Justice Education K-12 129

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy to students of all ages as a bill with the requirement heads to Gov. Spikes, director of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Northwestern University and co-founder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition. Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 134

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity. Teaching & Learning. Professional Development.

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K-12 Professional Development Tradition Teaching 143

Edthena

JULY 18, 2024

The Science of Reading is about using a research-based approach to teaching reading. In addition to leveraging the Digital Promise resources, Edthena then tapped into our extensive network of existing K-12 practitioners and literacy experts to implement the Science of Reading framework within the AI Coach platform.

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K-12 Professional Development Research Teaching 109

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She had her students put their devices away when they entered her classroom and continued teaching the same way she had for the last two decades. The inconvenient truth, however, is that it is not easy to come by high-impact professional development.

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Professional Development K-12 Educational Technology Social Studies 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

Although GRT has been around for some time, I believe that pre-K-12 educators haven’t reckoned with the degree to which some young people will defend “whiteness.” Therefore, I believe, the only way to combat racial violence is to teach young people to be “anti-racists,” which includes studying the history of U.S.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 112

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

The advancements in technology are reshaping how we teach and learn, bringing new opportunities and challenges. That’s why it’s so important to bring everyone together, including educators from both K-12 and higher education, edtech suppliers, non-profits and government organizations, to ensure the solutions we build benefit all.

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EdTech K-12 Education Government 122

Edthena

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hard to imagine what using artificial intelligence in teacher professional development could mean? But how can using AI in professional learning and development help support educators ? Adaptive learning drives teacher professional development. teacher professional development.

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Professional Development Charter School K-12 Teaching 52

Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

At the most basic level, design thinking can be described as a core set of skills in which students engage in hands-on activities that focus on building empathy, developing skills in prototyping, cultivating a bias toward action, encouraging ideations, and fostering active and creative problem solving. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al.,

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K-12 Professional Development Tradition Public School 133

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, states and school systems spend $18 billion annually on professional development for educators in the United States, and almost all teachers participate in some form of professional development. under which circumstances would they earn them.

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Professional Development K-12 Tradition Teaching 122

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

That tide includes bans on state funding for teaching DEI in schools, public colleges and state agencies. That’s why schools need to broaden the reach of DEI content and protect the instructors and faculty who are responsible for teaching it. Universities can offer professional development to faculty and staff.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Why has this happened, and how does it affect black male students in their K-12 academic journeys? Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. After the 1954 Brown v. Before Brown v.

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K-12 Sociology Advocacy Public School 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S.

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K-12 Education Professional Development American History 126

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. EdSurge: Why is data-driven decision-making important in K-12 education at the classroom and district levels?

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K-12 Professional Development Public School Middle School 111

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Aligning their efforts with the New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards and the Profile of a North Salem Graduate , the district has developed a Computational Thinking Pathway, which provides CT and CS learning opportunities for all students. The course first supports district leaders in assembling a leadership team.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Humanities 102

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Ocheze Joseph And these students aren’t just getting relevant teaching experience. It seems to be making a difference for both the tutors and the K-12 students. They’re also getting paid. They’re hooked.

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