Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The New York City-based language company, founded in 2011, offers 10 language classes along with courses in interior design, mixing cocktails and French culture. VentureBeat called it a place to “teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture.” Scaling a culture school. Blended learning is the way to go for them, Rohrbach says.

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Culture STEM Art Languages 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Introduce edtech tools to enhance learning Integrating edtech tools is an effective way to capture (and keep) students’ attention and enhance learning. Even incorporating history, such as the evolution of technology or major scientific breakthroughs, can contextualize STEM subjects in ways that feel relatable and meaningful.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Virginia, like so many places, has culture wars dominating discourse about public education, which has taken attention away from school, educator, and student needs. Formal parent groups, like the PTA, and informal organizing groups, can establish and enforce a culture that upholds the dignity and worth of all people.

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Culture Schools History Attention 161

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Most projects in ACPS are tied to the local area, a region of the country rich with history and culture, and invite students to explore their own community. Students who are already having high-quality PBL experiences highlight what is possible and how we can better improve our own instructional practices.

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Learning History Attention Feedback 279

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. And he records the conversations.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

And in September 2024, history took a bold turn as Kiski welcomed young women into its ranks and opened a new chapter in its storied legacy. With a rich history, an eye on the future, and a commitment to academic and athletic achievement, Kiski continues to redefine what it means to be a boarding school in the 21st century.

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Schools History Art Culture 242

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In any case, interpretations can be subjective, idiosyncratic, cultural." Approaches described in a study from the Stanford History Education Group were referenced several times. In other words, information is subjective. But, Evan Smith asked, "Is it the same information if interpreted differently? DLNchat-ters debated the point.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

faced fewer barriers teaching outdoors than most teachers do, thanks to two decades of experience leading wilderness expeditions and teaching high school students everything from English to natural history to environmental ethics in outdoor classrooms in the Bolivian Andes, the Canadian Arctic, Utah’s canyons, and Colorado’s mountains.

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Ethics Writing History English 274

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals. What he suggests … is that we look at how myths operate as narratives — so we can design an intellectually vivid history curriculum,” Hendrickson writes in his blog post.

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Education Culture Writing History 208

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 200

eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

The goal is to foster a culture of continuous improvement and empower educators with the tools needed to support student success. 00:00:23 Speaker 2 So in the state of Missouri, we have a history of of using growth data to inform our accountability decisions. 00:00:45 Speaker 2 And that’s really where it’s at.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. As a teacher standing in front of an audience who simply cannot put their phones down, the diminishing attention span of my students takes a toll.

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Schools Students Culture History 195

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

After consulting with teachers in focus groups, HMH says it refashioned Carmen as a “global citizen” in response to requests for more material around social-emotional learning—which is to say the ambitious goal of teaching Americans geography has been somewhat scaled back in favor of lessons on community, world culture and responsibility.

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History Exams Culture Knowledge 166

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Curriculum History Social Studies Accessibility 161

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 145

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. Kids who are misbehaving are threatening to that.

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History Culture Science Fairness 212

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Pay close attention to the voice that sounds the least like your own. The African American history is embarrassingly summed up in one whole chapter. In some cases, educators are willing to teach based on a culturally relevant pedagogy but lack the adequate training. Authors’ note: There are multiple voices within this article.

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Students Culture History Learning Styles 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We think that we need to understand our own culture, our own forces, and try to come up with some theories about how we will change and how we must change. Maloney: Part of it is recognizing that higher ed has had a history of change throughout its entire existence. We also have an opportunity not to get mired in that long history.

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Education History Art Essay 212

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

She learned to pay attention to others and practiced kindness, empathy and gratitude. Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. Last year, I had two students come back to visit me.

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Teaching Beliefs Education Culture 217

k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

With nearly 100 years of history and a forward-thinking approach, Gulliver Prep stands alone as Miamis school of choice, preparing students for a dynamic and diverse world. These achievements reflect not just the talent of the athletes but the culture of dedication and excellence that defines Gulliver Prep.

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Art Schools Education Textbooks 205

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. We wanted them to better empathize with them so as to ease cultural clashes and facilitate integration. What was the driving force for you and your team to adopt VR?

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Textbooks History Fairness Study 217

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It is essentially a case of bureaucratic culture versus the app culture. That behavior seems to be headed for the history books. Today’s youth culture lives in apps—not for the sake of the technology itself, but for the rich social, psychological identity-driven mash-up that define a person, group, interactions and opinions.

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Culture Students Motivation Attention 153

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States.

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the Cold War era—to today’s renewed attention to civic education, new trends in American education are often rooted in deep concerns about the present and the future of the country. These efforts are ambitious.

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Teaching Ethics History Textbooks 129

Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2020

They wanted to integrate two branches of theater scholarship: history and performance. Clarity, landing sentences, really paying attention to the structure of a sentence, becomes important,” Nelson says. We were trying to encourage conversation and dialogue on the history and our current state of affairs,” Nelson says.

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History Art Activities Writing 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. The new NAEP scores have landed as conservatives push to expand private school choice, public schools grapple with budget cuts, culture war skirmishes persist, and chronic absenteeism remains at historically high levels.

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Math Students Reading Testing 262

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We had just finished exploring what community, civilization, culture and archaeology mean. They quickly thought about the geography and culture of their states and wrote down their estimate. I use my voice to grab the kids' attention. This was a perfect follow-up activity. He got me excited about U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

Before there were podcasts, there was pirate radio , rogue broadcasters flinging unusual sounds over borders and adding new music to cultures. Bryan Alexander Audio has a long history that is important for edtech folks to understand. It’s clear how varied and mainstream portable digital audio is today."

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2019

Historical fiction has its place, to be sure, but there’s a lot more to diverse history than the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison. In my experience, what kids (really all kids) want to see is their own face reflected in the characters on the page in front of them.

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Reading History Writing Fairness 167

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

Unfortunately, the culture is quite polarized at present, so many formerly ripe areas for humor, such as politics, are now off limits. Professors should evaluate the use of humor in their classes to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented students are not singled out or given unwanted attention. personal opinions.

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Beliefs History Culture Attention 115

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The truth is, when it comes to navigating the interpersonal conflicts that tend to arise in schools—shaped by trauma, cultural and racial tensions, and broken trust—there is no quick fix or 1-2-3 protocol to follow. This reference to a “Jap cook” gives me an opening to talk about the history of anti-Asian sentiment in the West.

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 161

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

At STAR, our challenge is to prepare our students for the 21st century while also honoring their unique cultural identity. The history is important to understand. government operated boarding schools in Native communities with the explicit purpose of destroying ties between students and their Native cultures.

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Culture History STEM Blended Learning 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

Unfortunately, the culture is quite polarized at present, so many formerly ripe areas for humor, such as politics, are now off limits. Professors should evaluate the use of humor in their classes to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented students are not singled out or given unwanted attention. personal opinions.

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Beliefs History Culture Attention 111

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. Place-based education may seem especially well-suited to a school like STAR, where the student body is uniquely tied to the land and local culture.

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Education Schools History Culture 129

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Educators were the ones that stood ready to adapt and support our children mentally and emotionally through one of the most challenging periods in history.” “The It’s become the perfect storm of teachers at a breaking point,” says Ferroni, who teaches high school history and cultural studies in New Jersey.

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Teachers History Writing High School 187