eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. We call these differences “variability” and we embrace it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

There’s always something new I discover to help me better live out my beliefs about teaching. As conversations began about how I might make the greatest contribution, I quickly identified the sense of meaning and purpose I get out of addressing questions that people have about teaching through my Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2024

So she applied and got accepted to the high school’s “Associate of Arts Degree Pathway,” which essentially turns junior and senior year of high school into a two-year college curriculum. This is the fifth episode of a podcast series we’re calling Doubting College , where we’re exploring: What happened to the public belief in college?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

After a semester where I threw out the syllabus, I was left with an inspiring question: How can I make my future courses more practical and still keep the academic writing and the academic requirements intact? Through their work with KIBO, the pre-service teachers discovered they already had more STEAM skills than they had initially realized.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Recently, Liu Huang answered questions from EdSurge via email, addressing a range of questions about her background, concerns over student privacy and the kinds of projects she’s most interested in funding. Learning from teachers about the practice and art of teaching is the area I’m most excited about.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

To help us dig into these questions, we invited three experts with rich perspectives for this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast: Shalin Jyotishi, a senior advisor of education, labor, and the future of work at New America. The idea that “college is a scam” has become something of a meme on social media platforms like YouTube.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. These meetings are a space for collaboration, where parents can share their insights, ask questions, and work with educators to create a tailored approach to support their childs growth.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I recognized I was credentialed in teaching students English language arts, but didn’t have a credential in communicating effectively with adults. The faculty must work together to make this difference, and communication at the level of impact implies a sense of trust and belief in the competence of the others who work with you.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2016

Are you asking candidates the right questions? Just as a sculptor can take a rough block of granite and turn it into a piece of art, the leader of a 21st century organization must take a 20th century organization and sculpt it into its modern equivalent — an organization prepared to leverage technology to enhance education.

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Technology Blended Learning eLearning Teaching Philosophy 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On the contrary, trustees may already question the academic wisdom of shrinking from the digital economy when nearly all of industry underwent virtual transformation long ago. They may wonder whether Ivy academic officers are not bold enough to take their proper place among the leaders of the academic digital age.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

Ajima launched the National Hispanic Heritage Month Maker Challenge , calling on ELL, Art, and Spanish educators and students around the country to create digitally fabricated art pieces and share them. For me,” Ajima says, “the question is how do we take these things and create communities of Making?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

His guiding belief is that “modern video games have the potential to be taught as humanely and deeply as any traditional text.” According to Fallon, “Students are living, shaping and immersed within a modular, meme-soaked, multimedia world, and video games are a dominant art form within that world.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” To stimulate peer-to-peer interaction, each course at Western Governors offers students a chat function where they post questions and where faculty and other students respond. It turns out he was right.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Reasons to Assess A key question is why assess student SEL? What to Assess The next question is what, exactly, to assess. Self-control has elements of thinking, doing, and self-beliefs. That’s a nice problem to have, and it’s only going to get worse (better?). An assessment report that no one looks at won’t help anyone.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

I posed this question in the office—and got a hung jury. Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google To get a broader perspective, I also posed this question to professionals from different industries, working in film, writing, teaching, museums and technology companies big and small. Does creativity check those boxes?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. I was thinking a lot about this kind of work and related to the question of how does physical absence affect other students in the classroom? If so, what’s driving the trend?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

As the reality sinks in that the shift to online education will continue indefinitely—and some of it permanently—now is a particularly good time to re-examine our beliefs about effective teaching. If we can’t provide testable and falsifiable answers to these questions, then we have a sharp limit on how much we can improve our teaching.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

It started last summer, when I participated in Adjacent Academies , a new experiential learning program for college students that combines technical skills training with liberal arts. I used to struggle with this question a lot, until I realized the answer is clear: build. Build Something You Care About School is just the beginning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Sue Ann Nogle and her secondary English Language Arts team kicked the projects off in English 9 at Oakdale High School in collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs) from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). This collaboration proved critical to our success; Fulton staff shared resources, heard our ideas, and offered suggestions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. We should all have our personal mission and belief system, I know what I want to do and I’m not going to be sheepish about that. We should be ok with it.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

We try to ask authentic questions—of technology, of industry, and of ourselves. Mendoza and Magiera echoed that belief when we spoke later. Nicol Howard, assistant professor and Master of Arts in Education Learning and Teaching Program coordinator, University of Redlands School of Education, Redlands, Calif.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The question is a philosophical one, as some people argue that a theory called Baumol’s cost disease, which states that some labor-intensive sectors do not reduce labor costs even when new technology comes in, explains why the cost of college keeps going up faster than other areas of the economy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It was not the belief that technology has yet to be harnessed to its highest potential that surprised me. Seamlessly integrating into lessons, tools like PollEverywhere invite students to quickly share their interests, knowledge, questions and even hopes around a content area in real time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We’ll hear from Kelly Maxwell, assistant dean for undergraduate education in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, which offers semester-long courses called “intergroup dialogues ” on subjects that tend to provoke strong feelings, including class, sexual orientation and racial identity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We recently held an online discussion to explore that question as part of our monthly EdSurge Live series. So if you really challenge students to think, and challenge their assumptions, and their most preciously-held beliefs, then they're going to be unhappy. After all, higher education is rarely praised for its ability to change.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The question was, how? The Power of Assessment Digging through Jason’s files and coming up empty reinforced my belief that, if we had a true district-wide RTI framework with a uniform approach to assessment, we would have uncovered Jason’s needs sooner. Our system, that we governed as administrators, failed him. We had to do better.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

Connecting Entangled Group’s activities, best summed up as consulting plus business-building and investing, is the company’s underlying belief that “society has transferred to a knowledge economy, but our education system has not caught up with that transition,” Freedman declares.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

But not everyone who can read words and comprehend them sees herself as a reader—someone who seeks information through text, who can get lost in a story, who conjures up visual imagery while savoring a poem, who satisfies her curiosity by diving down the rabbit hole of her latest question/interest/passion.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After finishing this round, students will have about 10 minutes to engage in discussion questions with their drawing partners (see Debriefing section). After they finish the final round, students can then engage in another series of discussion questions: How well do you think you accommodated each other in this round?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Schools are hiring for these positions with hopes that the data they collect from online educational tools will inform decisions about classroom instruction, staff development, operational efficacy, funding, community engagement—and almost any other question public school stakeholders care to ask.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

What’s missing are the general-education curriculum and traditional liberal arts courses. Increasingly, students are going to college with the belief that it's a pathway to a better job. One of the things that you decided to leave out of MissionU is the liberal arts. Let me speak to the question that you've asked.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

As for getting to the $60,000 figure, Hise says, “It was part science, part art.” The last reason came from a belief among district leadership that it’s critical to care for the people doing the work in order to see the work improve. “We Amstutz, the former principal, says it raises a lot of questions for her and makes her head spin.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After finishing this round, students will have about 10 minutes to engage in discussion questions with their drawing partners (see Debriefing section). After they finish the final round, students can then engage in another series of discussion questions: How well do you think you accommodated each other in this round?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We think about beliefs and practices—getting kids more of what they need when they need it,” Greenberg states. At Navigator charter school Hollister Prep, 85 percent of Latino students scored proficient in English Language Arts (ELA) on the state assessment, compared to 37 percent of Latino students in the rest of the district.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The belief is that writing affords students extended opportunities to think about, manipulate, and transform ideas and reflect on their existing knowledge, beliefs, and confusions,” says Troia. I’m eager to hear thoughts on these essential questions related to your writing instruction and the use of digital writing tools: .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

But overall the question that everyone wanted to address was the same: How does a company achieve scale? By customizing curricula for Teach For America’s Memphis region, Words Liive was able to partner with the teacher recruitment organization on their upcoming cultural arts integration trainings using Words Liive’s new platform.

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