eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Mike Daugherty of Chagrin Falls Exempted Village School District (OH) is this years winner. Mike has been a tireless volunteer and an invaluable leader in Ohios educational technology community. Watch a video highlighting Murray City School Districts accomplishments here.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Yet, these researchers have also shown that these beliefs are malleable. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

What if you gathered a group of high school students, gave them fancy microphones and some training, and challenged them to make an investigative podcast about the issues they cared about the most?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. As education, technology and nonprofit leaders, we must adopt successful strategies, prioritize and move forward.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, in 2020, Bettina Love published a framework and guiding questions for creating classrooms that affirm Black, Latino and Indigenous children, which I’ve used to broaden my own understanding of how to create the conditions where love and acceptance flourish within our school’s culture.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. These are exactly the goals that Adam has tried to achieve through edtech during his 24-year teaching career.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

"[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.". But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At an information session about applying to college held at Central High School at the start of this school year, students listened as Tory Park, a career and college readiness coordinator, gave advice on how to narrow down a list of where to apply. PAUL, Minn. — I’ll probably just do it for my parents’ sake.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It might seem strange to squeeze in lessons on coping with trauma or resolving political disputes in between frog dissections and persuasive essay writing, but students today say they want to be as prepared socially and emotionally as they are academically when they leave high school.

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

In senior year of high school, my football team once came back from being down 0-34 at halftime to win the Central Valley championship, 35-34, in overtime. These days, I’m a community health educator. To me, it’s a belief that with hard work, faith, and community, anything is possible.

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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.” For the past 25 years, CASEL and others have shown how SEL improves kids’ school performance and future life outcomes.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. Perhaps all this is for the best.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Duke University, for example, added an additional supplemental essay prompt that reads, “We believe a wide range of personal perspectives, beliefs, and lived experiences are essential to making Duke a vibrant and meaningful living and learning community,” and invites students to share more in this context.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. There is little incentive for schools and districts to include technology courses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

Spence is also the founder of the nonprofit Make It Movement , whose goal is to encourage young people to seek college or other high-quality educational options after high school. And how is that shaping the choices young people are making about their futures?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college. And the University of Arizona, Tucson, another public school, now teaches a version of LS 30. High schools in general seem reluctant to change, Garfinkel says, because of college entrance requirements.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. Equally important, they’re never using “technology for technology’s sake.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Raise your hand if this description sounds familiar.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

To him, the offline and online worlds fused to form one space, as he described to Harper’s Bazaar in 2018: “It’s kind of funny—when I was in high school, I was way more comfortable talking to people on MSN or AIM than I was in person. And as far as Ken Robinson’s belief goes that schools kill creativity?

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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. Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

In 2015, fewer than 10 girls of any race took the AP Computer Science exam in ten states, and not a single African-American student took the exam in nine states, including Mississippi, where 50 percent of high school graduates are African-American. We know confidence is not borne in a vacuum.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Today, schools and districts are making social-emotional development a priority, and with good reason. Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. We have found that the real key to changing a student's mindset is to couple beliefs with strategies.”

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Comparing the lifetime potential earning power of college graduates with those who complete high school only, a U.S. Census Bureau report calculates that over a working life, a college degree is worth nearly twice a high school diploma—or $2.1 million for a high school graduate. million by contrast with $1.2

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

When “ Disrupting Class ” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. Using technology effectively in the classroom has been the focus of decades of research.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2023

The company does not keep a customer list nor does it collect emails, the policy elaborates, out of a belief that companies tend to misuse it. King argues that data exchanges make it easier for teachers to try out new tech products in the classroom because they reduce the need for a school’s IT department to help serve as gatekeeper.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Our new partnership with FocalPointK12 is consistent with our deeply held belief that this multi-layered challenge must be met with innovative partnerships. So, partnering with EdisonLearing was an easy decision based on the depth and breadth of the 170+ middle and high school courses that provide high-quality virtual and blended solutions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

That’s in part because the framework prioritized alternatives to calculus and also recommended delaying Algebra I, an onramp course to high school math and a critical juncture in the race to calculus, until ninth grade for most students. Euler’s method to 20 amazing High School students with varying levels of mathematics background!

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But there’s also a solid foundation of evidence available that schools of education can use to inform their teacher preparation programs. And the ISTE Standards for Educators , from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE is the parent organization of EdSurge). Are you kidding me?”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Even more, for teachers of color, some of which have experienced the historical oppression of people and educational systems in this country, we must recognize and contend with our identities as settlers on the Indigenous lands of North America. This feeling heightened my desire to emphasize belonging between myself and my students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

High school English teacher John Fallon is what you might call an early adopter. His guiding belief is that “modern video games have the potential to be taught as humanely and deeply as any traditional text.” Exploring New Worlds Narrative digital games aren’t just for high school students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

The teachers and counselors in my school have been working harder than ever it seems, but despite our best efforts, the effects of the past two years are palpable. In some of the schools in our district, we have seen regression in academic test scores, significant learning loss and an increase in students dropping out of high school.

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