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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

As I recently worked with leaders from Paterson Public Schools in New Jersey, during a coaching session, I asked them to take a few minutes, and each share something positive that came about as a result of the pandemic. Too often, we tend to dwell on overcoming hardships that we forget to celebrate both small and large wins.

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Teachers Believe That AI Is Here to Stay in Education. How It Should Be Taught Is Debatable.

ED Surge

In a survey of more than 1,000 public school teachers done through Samsungs partners at DonorsChoose a whopping 96 percent said AI will become an intrinsic part of education within the next decade. At the classroom level, teachers are on the same page.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer

ED Surge

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. I signed up for the same school multiple times and loved the environment.

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What teachers want from AI

The Hechinger Report

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. During the workshop, Karen Zutali, an English teacher who works in the Canton City School District in Ohio, created a chatbot to help English teachers design lesson plans and projects that integrate other subjects into lessons.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. So it's not replacing what you see. How does augmented reality engage all students?