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JUNE 26, 2019

But the artist and writer isn’t so sure that he agrees with Sir Ken Robinson, the education thought leader whose video “ Do Schools Kill Creativity ?” I’m of the belief system that your online identity is genuine, is real, is authentic and is part of your holistic identity. yes its the school board. mr president?

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AUGUST 18, 2021

[by LightField Studios / Shutterstock] The unusual school, work and home conditions that so many Americans have faced during the pandemic have given researchers new opportunities to study the causes and consequences of family stressors and behaviors. As schools started to reopen, the team wondered whether they’d find the reverse effects.

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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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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. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history. Addressing the complexity and scale of these challenges requires school and district leaders to make critical choices.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2015

“Sixteen years ago, Dan Dolgin and I started this organization because we both were deeply concerned about education in our country and the need to ensure that the paths Dan and I both had as students, and which provided us with such opportunities, should be open to everyone – no matter their zip code,” said Ellen C. 2015 ILA Honorees.

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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. Murray City School District (UT) was awarded with the 2025 Community Leadership Award for Digital Access.

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MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

BOSTON (October 1, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has released its “Educator Perceptions of Teaching and Learning in Fall 2021,” a research brief exploring educators’ expectations for the 2021-2022 academic year. The focus groups also answered questions about student and teacher readiness.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Schools are becoming increasingly unsafe for our nation’s students — physically, socially and emotionally. There were 46 school shootings in 2022. high school students. Most parents support SEL , want SEL programming in their children’s schools and believe SEL is an important tool for their children’s future.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

The incredible research by Carol Dweck and her colleagues on the power of mindset in learning has become pervasive in education. The concept of growth mindset shows that contrary to popular belief, people aren’t born smart. This is why growth mindset is not working in schools—at least, not yet.

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. We have all experienced the same phenomena of being dehumanized in our work as educators. Another teacher, Maria, confessed she was angry and bitter by the end of last school year.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. I am excited to share my knowledge of incorporating technology into the classroom and hope that it provides you with the support and inspiration you need. Technology and Young Children.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2020

A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm at Harvard Business School Online, after a rocky year-long stint as the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. So what are her plans for this upstart wing of the august school? So what are her plans for this upstart wing of the august school?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina. And since the beginning of this school year, he’s taught first grade in Fulton County Schools, in northern Georgia. “I Entering education as a profession at all is sometimes a tough sell.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. School was once thought of as a safe place for students and educators, but many students, staff and families have lost a sense of safety and security. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This concept derives out of the belief that constant betterment can only be achieved when certain needs are mastered. It should come as no surprise that education technology has revolutionized and changed the way teachers teach and students learn. With new innovations, devices continue to go beyond “basic level” education tools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction. The Hype Has Left the Building The tech landscape at my school was far from unique before the pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

One night when I was in graduate school, I stayed up late talking with a friend. The words rang in my ears, and I thought of my grad school friend. Social and emotional learning (SEL) has an important role to play in that education. from Jamaica, and the Caribbean traditions that shaped my experience growing up Black in America.

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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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JANUARY 28, 2020

Not so long ago, students did most of their learning at school, and maybe while doing homework or during trips to the museum. For young people today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise,” says Julie, Evans, the CEO of education nonprofit Project Tomorrow. “For But that doesn’t mean learning stops when they leave school.”

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values. The day before, during what would be the last P.E.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Which is why a child who plays sports at school, or a kid that's in a debate team with a caring educator, will do better in their academics than someone who is isolated from that.” Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This is unacceptable, to say the least, and it is the fault of schools and educators that math learning in the Black community is not prioritized. Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics.

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APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. As far as the school system was concerned, this was the group destined for low-level achievement.

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APRIL 23, 2021

This historic mistrust of powerful institutions—particularly public health institutions—directly impacts school reopening efforts during the pandemic. In February, the CDC issued guidelines on school reopenings that do not require teachers to be vaccinated. The classes are run by our staff members and have been wildly successful.

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MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2021

Minneapolis June 22, 2021 – Edmentum (edmentum.com ), a global pioneer in education technology, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Apex Learning, a Seattle-based industry leader in digital curriculum and virtual learning with over 20 years of deep expertise providing high-quality, rigorous, and teacher-centered programs.

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MARCH 15, 2023

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year.

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OCTOBER 29, 2017

CoSN is the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders, providing them with management, community building and tools to transform their schools and districts. Its core beliefs are: Technology is a critical tool to personalize learning.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

I teach at the only all-girls school in the state of Minnesota. We are also a devoted Catholic community, founded by the Visitation Sisters to educate young women in virtue, intellect, mind and heart. Luckily, the school board felt his proposal for “Women and Society” aligned with this push, and the course was approved.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Like many who are now teachers, I succeeded as a student in school, and I approached teaching with the same research-based mindset, implementing all the strategies I could find. I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

As fall begins in earnest, schools are in full swing. Students and teachers are settling into their schedules, with the newness of the school year giving way to routines. But around this time, something happens that instructional technology administrators are familiar with. Edtech developers take feedback from schools seriously.

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