Academic Development, Educational Technologies and Teaching

Teaching Empathy Is Powerful. This Film Made It Possible.

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2019

The report posits the need to focus on social-emotional and academic development when educating children. And it characterizes social-emotional learning as the missing piece of education.

Teaching

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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge Independent was created in 2016 as a way to change that by providing college and university students a platform to share their ideas, concerns, excitement and frustrations with the way technology shapes teaching and learning in higher education. You can find the full report here , and a snapshot of highlights below.

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Social Emotional Learning Should Not Be the Next Target in America’s Culture Wars

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A politician in the Midwest recently told a state committee that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids about feelings or emotions. From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars.

Culture

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How Learning a New Language Is Helping Me Connect With My Students

Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

As a newcomer specialist, I teach students who have been in the United States for less than a year. There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. In February, along with 14 other monolingual teachers from my district, I enrolled.

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Edtech Startup Ello Gives Back to Local DC Hospitals Including MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Children’s National Hospital

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Elizabeth brings a wealth of experience and expertise to Ello and the company is making significant strides in the field of education technology. Her research has included a focus on parent stress and support, cognitive and academic development, and language and literacy acquisition, particularly for children with hearing loss.

Disabilities

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3 Practical Resources to Help Teachers Integrate SEL and Academics

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

They told me that while there is a lot of talk about social-emotional learning (SEL), the guidance educators receive about integrating SEL into academics is more theoretical than practical. Review and revise the teaching plan—based on where the students struggled and where the teacher spent the most teaching time.

Teachers

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The Future of Education Depends on Social Emotional Learning: Here’s Why

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

In fact, core development abilities such as conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness, and agreeableness can be as or even more important than cognitive intelligence in determining future employment. Principals, specifically, are eager for the expertise, training and support necessary to effectively implement new programming.

Education

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The Benefits of Preschool Last Into Adulthood. Let’s Make High-Quality Pre-K Available to All

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

High-quality Pre-K programs are widely recognized for their positive effect on the social, emotional and academic development of young children. They develop more advanced language, pre-math and social skills , and make an easier adjustment to kindergarten. And the benefits of Pre-K last into adulthood.

Languages

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AmeriCorps Provides Vital Support to Nearly 12,000 Schools—So Why Cut It?

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

In addition, one in ten public schools, and one in four high-need public schools, leverages AmeriCorps programs like City Year, Playworks, Reading Corps and Teach For America to accelerate student achievement. Nearly 12,000 public schools—both traditional and charter—along with parochial schools receive support from national service programs.

Schools

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Early Learning Faces Obstacles and Inequities—Here's How Edtech Can Help

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

We learned that while technology is less accessible in early childhood centers compared to K-12 settings, early childhood practitioners are quite comfortable using technology. as a classroom management tool, especially in observation and assessment documentation—allowing educators to spend more time focused on quality instruction.

Learning

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Integrating SEL, Equity and Trauma Work for Multiplied Success

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

Zaretta Hammond, in her book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , describes how these biases put students of color at a learning disadvantage and backs it up with neuroscience. Outside, they’re more likely than white students to suffer socially and financially.

Culture

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Research Uncovers An Important Link Between SEL and Course Outcomes

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Here are some of Moulton's recommended resources: Recommendations from the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. Along with preventing course failures, what are the broader implications of gathering SEL data in schools? Interested in learning more about SEL? EdNext podcast. Transforming_Ed.

Failure

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SEL Can Help Special Educators Address Rapidly Evolving Remote Learning Requirements

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

A third challenge resulting from the pandemic has been how teachers should address the rapidly evolving requirements for remote learning—from what goals to teach to, to logging instructional hours, addressing absenteeism and cataloging evidence of learning—for their students with special education needs.

Special Education

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.” That project explored the opportunities and barriers for educators and decision-makers looking to thread SEL throughout their work.

Learning

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Social Emotional Learning Should Not Be the Next Target in America’s Culture Wars

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3 Practical Resources to Help Teachers Integrate SEL and Academics

The Future of Education Depends on Social Emotional Learning: Here’s Why

The Benefits of Preschool Last Into Adulthood. Let’s Make High-Quality Pre-K Available to All

AmeriCorps Provides Vital Support to Nearly 12,000 Schools—So Why Cut It?

Early Learning Faces Obstacles and Inequities—Here's How Edtech Can Help

Integrating SEL, Equity and Trauma Work for Multiplied Success

Research Uncovers An Important Link Between SEL and Course Outcomes

SEL Can Help Special Educators Address Rapidly Evolving Remote Learning Requirements

Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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