Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. Instead, coding is integrated to explore where it fits in “the broader idea of the liberal arts in the traditional Greek sense,” Anderson explains. In other words, coding isn’t just tacked on.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Explore and experiment in the hands-on Fiesta Studio–part creator space, part art lab. I’ll share how I used AI to teach, what I didn’t use, how quickly I rolled it out, and tips for success. Be sure to reserve time for the Creators Fiesta , a destination for creative discovery and hands-on making. What should we use?

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. ABOUT OPEN UP RESOURCES. ABOUT KIDDOM.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yet, in the art room, where images are the universal language, his talent shines, allowing his classmates to see his strengths, not just his struggles. The arts give students opportunities to express themselves, their ideas and their feelings in creative ways. In addition, I was placed in an art class.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Rita Mortenson, the educational technology coach for Verona Area High School in Wisconsin, uses Google Arts and Culture. Google Arts and Culture offers over 1,600 experiments and counting. In addition to the extensive collection of artworks and cultural artifacts, it offers some pretty cool immersive experiences.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

The development of Discovery Educations newest content is based on feedback from the companys school-based partners and makes teaching and learning even more relevant, interesting, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products. The new civics-focused series, Need toKnow Jr.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the Educational Technology Coach, I support the classroom teachers I serve by modeling innovative technology strategies, co-planning lessons, co-teaching, curating research and resources, analyzing student usage data, and many other strategies. Google Arts and Culture : I have been a fan of Google Arts and Culture for years.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Art Projects: In the visual arts, students often work on projects that require creativity, experimentation, and refinement. Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The consistent use of rubrics can help to promote higher levels of self-awareness, a culture of learning and growth, and ensure that assessments are accurate, transparent, and meaningful. Rubrics also provide students with feedback, helping them understand their strengths and areas where they need to improve.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For instruction that yields cultural literacy, we most often look to language arts and social sciences. With Google's Applied Digital Skills as his foundation, Hicks prioritizes culturally relevant teaching through the vehicle of computer science. We really need to make everyone’s culture part of the conversation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Developed by Urban Arts in collaboration with Minecraft Education , the program offers middle school teachers professional development, ongoing coaching and a 72-session curriculum built around game-based instruction. According to Amy Patterson, Chief Program Officer at Urban Arts, “We’re not just teaching video games.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2022

Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works like “Romeo and Juliet.” Wherefore art thou Romeo?” It’s such an embodied art form.” I think leaving the audience out is a big danger of virtual reality theater,” she says.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Mental health: Research shows that being creative through the arts helps heal the mind and body. Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? Makerspace PBL is all about culture,” he said. “Do Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” Why maker education?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Teachers’ jobs are about much more than teaching in the classroom or online. EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. These differences in learning are related to a student’s cultural background, family structure, social and economic status, communication and language, and social identity (Gay, 2002).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example, while studying engineering principles, teachers can incorporate art by challenging students to design aesthetically-pleasing yet functional structures, blending engineering and design thinking. Cross-disciplinary connections can help students see STEM from new perspectives and understand its relevance.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

However, as books like “ Brotopia ” by Emily Chang and “ Race after Technology ” by Ruha Benjamin indicate, the culture of tech companies can be misogynistic and racist and therefore unwelcoming to many people. I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. These differences in learning are related to a student’s cultural background, family structure, social and economic status, communication and language, and social identity (Gay, 2002).

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

As math educators, we can help those students by finding ways to relate their classroom learning to more recognizable cultural frames of reference that are authentic to the range of experiences in the room. We should teach—and students should learn—them simultaneously. In teaching math, we also can’t lose sight of early numeracy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. However, that would require us to recognize the art that goes into teaching in the first place.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The routine can be applied to various situations, from analyzing a piece of art to discussing a historical event. Students could discuss topics like the importance of friendship or how birthdays are celebrated differently in various cultures.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me. Teaching has consumed me.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2022

She is teaching me how to properly introduce myself in our Lakota language, Lak?ótiyapi. ótiyapi was at the center of our knowledge, our culture and our way of life as Lakota people. “Ee-chee-yah-pee,” she says in a slightly slower, but confident tone. I repeat the syllables in a much slower and deliberate voice. Ee.chee.yah.pee.”

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2024

Here are three scalable strategies our district has used to build and strengthen our team of classroom educators: “Grow your own” Untapped teaching talent is all around us. Local industry professionals are a powerful resource pool of work-based knowledge and skills, but require varying levels of preparation before teaching a class.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). The national teacher shortage is worse in nonmetropolitan places, and it’s most problematic in racially diverse and high-poverty rural schools. Hansen-Thomas also points to the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Part of a partnership with Sewickley Academy , near Pittsburgh, PA, this donation will foster cross-cultural collaboration between the schools. We look forward to giving our elementary school students the opportunity to engage with another culture,” said Beau Blaser, director of technology at Sewickley Academy.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

When I think about these three elements in the context of teaching, it becomes less shocking that so many teachers are unengaged. I know if I was asked to teach a canned curriculum, like so many teachers are forced to do, I would no longer be in this profession. My favorite part of teaching is designing curriculum.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2018

Arts, Culture & Design. It’s a realistic, adult-sized, wireless patient simulator that teaches students about airway, breathing, cardiac and circulation management. Students in the Arts, Culture and Design Academy recently toured the world-class facilities at Berklee College of Music in Boston. They are: STEM.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning. What activities can I use to help my grade students understand the cultural/historical context of ?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

During last year’s widespread remote schooling, teachers found greater flexibility—no commute, no hallway duty—and liked it, even if they didn’t like teaching virtually. Rather than a “special” class every day, they might devote one day every week for two 3-hour workshops in art, music, STEAM or phys ed.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

For 2025, schools and districts are focused on making learning more engaging for students, creating a more positive environment for educators, and transforming school culture to meet the diverse needs of the school community. In 2025, districts will continue to explore ways to cultivate a more positive job experience for teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

How can teachers keep any racial or cultural bias they might have out of their classrooms—and make sure every student feels equally valued? To tackle that question, we talked to Justin Reich, the host of a new podcast called TeachLab, which is about the art and craft of teaching. What makes it so complicated?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. The reality is, as much as I love teaching my content, I don’t have the capacity to do the individualized planning to support every child’s learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

This particular room has boxes of books, containers of art supplies, and furniture pushed against the wall. Traditional teaching methods are evolving. You smile and move on, never doubting that this room will be one of the most creative, functional, and beloved rooms in just a few short days. It always is. How will it get there?

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. . Plus, parents can help students build financial literacy skills for life by watching together a series of fun, engaging videos that teach students to earn, save, spend, and donate.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the midst of the second pandemic-disrupted year the field has flexed, adapted and evolved to encompass a myriad of teaching methods to a wide-ranging student population. 8: American Indian Stories: The Three Sisters By Booth Western Art Museum, for Grades 1-3. . – Distance learning has long been a part of the education landscape.

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