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

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. Jami Rhue Its differentiating.

Library

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan

5 Steps Toward Building Successful Digital Communities Infused With Rigor and Relevance

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2016

BYOD enhances learning, increases productivity, allows students to grow their research skills, and gives teachers the chance to teach appropriate digital responsibility. Ambitious, successful teaching and learning have become inherently intertwined with the digital world.

Artifacts

Artifacts Research Skills Teaching Research

Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Pushing students to get involved in research early can also amplify inequities among those who don’t have access to expensive research programs or opportunities at elite institutions. That’s not to say that teaching research skills in high school is bad, though.

High School

High School Research Research Skills Private School

Stop Taking Grading Home

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

This paper took them about 3 weeks to write from the time they started their research to when they finished their final draft and works cited page. I have more time and energy to invest in the aspects of teaching that I really love, like lesson design. We spent a significant amount of class time working on these papers.

Research Skills

Research Skills Research Teaching

3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

For students to hone these critical research skills, they need to practice conducting online research. Teachers using StudySync can take the Building Background activities in the First Read lessons and create collaborative research assignments for students learning remotely. If so, could that create bias?

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Research Skills Research Teaching

How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Students addressed their own climate anxiety by applying their research skills in designing climate solutions and writing defending arguments to local politicians.

Project-Based Learning

Project-Based Learning Pedagogy K-12 Research Skills

Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There were specific reading and writing standards related to information-seeking and research skills. We were able to peg correlations to topics that are much more specific to what librarians teach. What types of things came out of the interview process?

Library

Library Museum Social Justice K-12

Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Our organization has a unique opportunity to engage non-traditional learners in acquiring the digital skills they need.”. UAMEZ recently launched an innovative digital ministry called Tech Team, where volunteers teach the practical application of digital skills during weekly worship.

Artifacts

Artifacts Research Skills Economics Tradition

Can Colleges Reach Beyond Campus to Foster ‘Digital Equity’ in Communities?

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There are also big needs in cutting technology costs, teaching people digital literacy and technical skills, and producing online tools and publishing materials that are relevant and helpful to people from diverse backgrounds and different neighborhoods. Just having access doesn’t matter unless you can afford it.”

Government

Government Research Skills Humanities Research

Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

Library

Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy

Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Lawrence Seaway and Power Project” that I had joined with an environmental historian to teach. Our first-year programs examine fundamental human questions; promote collaborative learning; and develop reading, writing, speaking and research skills. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Economics

Economics History Humanities Critical Thinking

Celebrating Black Joy

C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images. I needed to change the way I was teaching. Simply put, teaching the struggles of Black folks is not radical or progressive. for that matter.

Heritage

Heritage American History Pedagogy History

Psychology as a school subject - what are the benefits?

Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Why would we teach learners about the external world – history, geography, chemistry, and so forth – but never teach them about what is happening in their own minds, or those of others? Are there any schools that don’t already teach learners about addiction, about relationships, about learning, about peer pressure…?

Psychology

Psychology Geography Social Science Research Skills

At These Colleges, Students Begin Serious Research Their First Year

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The First-year Research Immersion is a sequence of three course-based research experiences at three universities: University of Texas at Austin , University of Maryland and Binghamton University, where I teach science.

Research

Research Tradition Research Skills Teaching

Three Ways to Help Teachers Use Research

Digital Promise

JULY 20, 2015

As we talked with educators at our Research Summit and in our League of Innovative Schools , we heard a recurring theme: teachers (and innovation) thrive in a “culture of data” where research use is encouraged, and staff are given opportunities to build their research skills. Benefits of a Research Culture.

Research

Research Research Skills Cultures Professional Development

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

5 Steps Toward Building Successful Digital Communities Infused With Rigor and Relevance

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

Stop Taking Grading Home

3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment

Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Can Colleges Reach Beyond Campus to Foster ‘Digital Equity’ in Communities?

Come for the computers, stay for the books

Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

Celebrating Black Joy

Psychology as a school subject - what are the benefits?

At These Colleges, Students Begin Serious Research Their First Year

Three Ways to Help Teachers Use Research

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