ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Thats what led us down this road, honestly.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focused platform, PupilPath, which are used by New York’s public school system. public schools in that time.

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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. Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2025

A recent poll suggests that nearly half of Americas school districts are led by a superintendent who is considering stepping down in the next two to three years; one in five principals leaves the job each year. We have a crisis in K-12 educational leadership one that receives little attention.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 17, 2021

These models were never meant for K-12 education, and there is no definitive playbook available as things seem to be in a constant state of flux during the pandemic. To this end, I hit the ground running to begin the new year by traveling to Oklahoma to work with Sapulpa Public Schools.

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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. Pete Just is the generative AI project director for the Consortium for School Networking, a professional association for K-12 edtech leaders.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Unsurprisingly, this exerts different pressures on teachers than public schools. Not everyone in the school uses this approach, either.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Image credit: [link] Fast forward to 2014 and one would think that all schools would be in a position to provide Internet access to students like we were able to for the past five years. The typical K–12 public school has the same internet access as the average home, only with 200 times more users.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. We need to remember that a principal presides over an entire school, meaning that their impact extends far beyond students and teachers, reaching exponentially more people. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The push for equity among PTAs in those cities hit sometimes fierce resistance before advocates found ways to calm fears that wealthy parents might disinvest from — or leave — public schools. Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Less than a quarter of public schools in the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year. It had about 76,800 students at the end of 2023-24.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. I find comfort in metaphors. They help me find clarity when faced with challenges.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens of the AI Learning Framework.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Common Core for the not-so-common learner: English language arts strategies grades K-5. References Dove, M.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

In each case and thousands of others, surveillance software powered by artificial intelligence immediately alerted Vancouver Public Schools staff in Washington state. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. It was then that I saw the ingrained sense of worth that society has etched into our public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Koehler, the center’s 38-year-old executive director, usually focuses on strategy, but on this August day, she wanted to help her team — and the students it serves — get through the crush of office visits and calls that comes every year as families scramble at the last-minute for spots in the city’s schools. How can I help you?”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

That has not been our experience as parents and school committee membersin the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which is often singled out as an example of math success. She is a parent to two SFUSD K-12 alumni and an electrical engineer. She served on their school’s PTA and Student Site Council.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

She thought she could help repair a disconnect between what some worry is happening in public schools and what she knows actually happens. Understanding the Reality of Public Education During her more than twenty years teaching government at the general and AP levels, Messick has certainly seen changes. This surprised voters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation and inequality in K-12 education. At Pillager Public School District, 100 miles northwest of Braham in another rural town, eighth grade Algebra I has played out much the same way. Related: Widen your perspective. Not all districts dislike the policy.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

Sasha Behm, grades 6-8 Computer Science and Yoga teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida. Zelia Capitao-Tavares, grades 4-5 teacher and Technology Coach at Toronto District School Board, Ontario. Valerie Crawford-Meyer, grades 6-8 Computer Science teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. For private edtech companies, it’s slightly more complicated.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

From work to school to home, digital technology is everywhere. Public school students’ computer use must move beyond consuming information and performing routine tasks like reading, writing and presenting. Education leaders must also find ways to help teachers address challenges to inclusivity and equity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

While private high schools can often afford to employ staff like Ward who are devoted exclusively to helping students plan for college and their futures, these jobs are rare at public schools. At a public school,” said Ward, “you might be lucky to meet with some students once for half an hour or 45 minutes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. For them, there’s obviously a leak somewhere in the school-to-jobs pipeline. Federal data shows that K-12 schools with high percentages of Hispanic students offer fewer STEM courses than schools with lower proportions of Hispanic kids.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Even before the pandemic began, more than 1 in 3 high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. It finds that most states are far off recommended ratios of school counselors and psychologists to students in K-12 schools. Even as new ideas rollout, challenges remain.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Low science and math proficiency in Nevada’s public school system indicates there are inherent and structural inequities that exist. Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al.,

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Building STEM Literacy at a Large Florida School District Broward County Public Schools is the sixth-largest school district in the United States, serving over 250,000 students across 326 schools and education centers in the Fort Lauderdale area. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools. Why has this happened, and how does it affect black male students in their K-12 academic journeys? Board, there were 82,000 black teachers in American public schools. We need more black male teachers in public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Leveraging such changes long term could be a matter of public school survival. The district put $1.6

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. schools in recent years. This plays out in all facets of society, but seeps into classrooms, school hallways, staff meetings and principals’ offices.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom? Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession.

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