Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

When I ask educators if they have heard of the term “growth mindset,” many will raise their hands or nod they have. However, when I ask educators to define what it means to have a growth mindset, I often get blank stares or they struggle with putting it into words. Understand Learning Beliefs. This is an important first step.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When it comes to education experience, few can match the versatility and scope of Kaya Henderson. We caught up with Henderson last month to get the details, and hear her hopes for how this edtech venture can impact the greater education community at large. Public Schools for six years. I’m not trying to replace school.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a small rural district in Texas where 92 percent of students have families that are economically disadvantaged and where 68 percent of students are at risk, we place a big emphasis on social and emotional learning (SEL) and its value in the educational environment. Supports strong culture.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Often, these students don’t have access to the same level of resources that are available to general education students. While we have made great strides in how we support students receiving special education services, there are still equity gaps that exist in areas like college and career planning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And not long ago, legislation passed in the Indiana House , prohibiting teaching or assessments that may “affect the student’s attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent.” Every educator needs to be equipped and empowered to support kids in this way, and every student deserves this type of support.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Collective efficacy, the “collective self-perception that teachers in a given school make an educational difference to their students over and above the educational impact of their homes and communities,” (Tschannen-Moran & Barr, 2004, p. 190) presupposes that teachers collectively can make an educational difference.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

School districts nationwide are scrambling to fill open teaching vacancies, and this crisis has a profound effect on the quality of education that students receive. Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave. Improving teacher retention starts with building a positive and supportive school environment.

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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. This mindset and belief system could not be further from the truth. Math is joyful!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as educators, it’s our job to explain the varying viewpoints that make up our political discourse. And although I live in California, a left-leaning state, I teach students from across the state whose core beliefs fall all along the political spectrum. Here are three ways I build a culture of respect in my classroom.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

After the tragic loss of her daughter, Josephine, in the Sandy Hook School shooting, Michele turned her grief into action, dedicating her lifes work to protecting and educating school communities. As a teacher, I connected with the same love of learning that my family many of whom were educators before me had cherished for generations.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Key points: It is critical to monitor AI systems for bias and impact on student groups AI use guide helps students navigate AI in learning AI’s transformative role in accessibility For more news on AI and bias, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In the quickly evolving landscape of AI, education stands at the forefront.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In my view, education should inspire a passion for things beyond our immediate circle. Education shouldn’t be narrow. It will culturally enrich students Culture influences us all, and the mediums we participate in, but much of it is neglected in the traditional curriculum–particularly in Western countries.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

In our field, there is a false dichotomy that educators should focus on either SEL or academics, hence the unending pendulum swing in education. We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child. Growth mindset is now woven tightly into our school culture. Dweck, 2006).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

K-12 teachers, counselors, and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene, and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation, or community service opportunities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. I could pour even more energy into helping kids learn how to build community if AI helped them build their academic skills.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is: How do I empower our white teachers to be their most authentic selves while creating culturally responsive experiences for our students of color? What beliefs or values do you hold that may show up in unproductive ways during instruction? What came up for you as you read about the character’s experience or feelings?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

ANDERSON, S.C. –– Roylco, a leading innovator in manufacturing educational kids’ toys, proudly announces its recent accolade as “Best STEM Building Toy” in Good Housekeeping’s expert-rating “16 Best Building Toys for Kids, According to Experts.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

And it’s his work in the classroom that has led him to inspire educators and create communities of Makers around the world. He was motivated, in part, by the September opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington Mall, just 30 minutes away from Dominion High.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. AEF takes a different approach to education, one that meets students where they are and gives them the tools to succeed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

Without ignoring that much of what differentiates one school from another takes place below the surface, the desire to make schools look like high-tech office spaces might be just the latest demonstration that education has historically followed and reflected —rather than led—technological, political and economic change.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities in educational opportunity and employment, and it’s time for a new approach to connecting education and work to close the gaps. Due to this confluence of economic and societal factors, this is clearly a moment to rethink how education and the workforce interconnect.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. But with their careers and personal lives intertwined with the education sector, each of them stands to benefit or lose from the changes sweeping their country.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

While 89 percent of teachers reported in a recent survey that they believe generative AI will have an impact on teaching, recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal and The74 have rightly identified some of AI’s limitations in education, questioning the technology’s ability to serve as, for example, an effective tutor.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. How do you collect it? That’s where the data truly tells a story.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

While many of us agree that’s a step in the right direction, “whats” typically compartmentalize efforts and building tasks instead of culture. Education is the business of learning; we are not product-based, but instead, are people-, interest-, and demonstration-driven.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

There are four lies/misconceptions about struggling readers that have become embedded in school systems, said Terrie Noland, vice president of educator initiatives at Learning Ally, during a recent edWebinar. School leaders are just following along and are starting to believe them.” 4 lies we are told about struggling readers.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. That’s why, instead of punishment, educators might consider incidents of cheating as a teachable moment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

You have so much culture and tradition. The speaker asked participants to partner up and share stories about our personal experience of our race, within a cultural context. Social and emotional learning (SEL) has an important role to play in that education. “I’m jealous,” she said. I’m just plain old American.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. In elementary school, there’s frequent outreach.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

If you were fortunate enough to have music education in school, what were those classes like? Musicians and music educators alike say that learning music is so much more than just playing an instrument, or learning about your favorite artists. Did you listen to the classics and learn about the history of music?

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Last month, I joined Education Secretary Cardona to not only remember, but also to walk in the shoes of those who lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building 1200. To help schools create these cultures, CISA partnered with the U.S. This is simply unacceptable, and it must stop.

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