Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me. Because contrary to popular belief, not every Black child is navigating poverty, violence or a broken home. Teaching has always come naturally to me.

Schools 148

Schools Beliefs Culture Testing 148

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities.

Active Learning 66

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 66

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.

Education 116

Education Essay Culture Math 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Dr. Maria Montessori’s belief was in child-directed learning. There are simple coding games that teach sequencing and logic in a way that mirrors Montessori’s step-by-step learning approach. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

Technology 115

Technology Education Attention Beliefs 115

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. As much as the sentiment of students standing up to the powers that be warms my punk rock heart, it’s hard to balance my beliefs in authority with the need to always be the leader in control at the front of the classroom. history in an urban St.

Multiple Choice Questions 113

Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 113

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. His work is grounded in a belief that great design and strategy should serve access, equity, and outcomes. However, it also raises critical ethical, operational, and strategic challenges.

Ethics 118

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 118

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Critical thinking isnt something we teach once, says Ms.

Schools 209

Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 209

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

No matter what subject you teach, spend time showing students how to take notes, how to study for tests and quizzes, and how to balance their time between homework and other after-school activities. This belief can build an affective filter for the student, keeping them from believing that they can succeed in a classroom setting.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Teacher Mood

MAY 25, 2025

A few will guide you in planning proactive routines that make your teaching day smoother and your students more successful. Pick one area of your teaching practice that you want to improve and focus your energy there. Teaching is a deeply personal joband after a hard year, its easy to carry self-doubt into your summer.

Schools 69

Schools Classroom Management Beliefs Grades 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. His work is grounded in a belief that great design and strategy should serve access, equity, and outcomes. However, it also raises critical ethical, operational, and strategic challenges.

Ethics 75

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 75

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. Language spotlight: Ask students to teach the class a word or short phrase from their home language.

Languages 52

Languages Language Participation Writing 52

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Instead of relying on rigid teaching methods, AEF Schools tailor their curriculum to each student, ensuring academic progress while strengthening executive functioning, social skills, and real-world problem-solving abilities. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

Skills 137

Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

Beliefs 106

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 106

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning.

Coaching 134

Coaching Math Achievement Grades 134

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases. When educators connect these societal patterns to classroom dynamics, they begin to view equity not as a trend, but as a necessary lens for teaching and leadership.

Confidentiality 213

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases. When educators connect these societal patterns to classroom dynamics, they begin to view equity not as a trend, but as a necessary lens for teaching and leadership.

Confidentiality 130

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

Summer is a great time to reset your personal pedagogy to an education-friendly mindset and catch up on what’s been changing in the ed world while you were teaching eight ten hours a day. The Happy Teacher Habits by Michael Linsin What do daffodils, baseball announcing, and Tina Fey have to do with teaching?

Reading 96

Reading Education Classroom Management Intelligence 96

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

For most schools, shifting from traditional teaching models to truly personalized learning means reimagining classroom roles, embracing new instructional strategies, and supporting teachers and students through an ongoing process of innovation. education system from scratch; it evolved through good intentions and shared beliefs.

Beliefs 106

Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to allow parents to pull their children out of classroom discussions around books covering LGBTQ+ and other themes that may conflict with their religious beliefs could embolden efforts to restrict more titles. Brooklyn’s program gives readers between 13 and 21 anywhere in the country the ability to opt in.

Accessibility 211

Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2017

The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. When I showed examples of how teachers around the country were challenging students to design and find solutions to their own problems, she immediately saw the benefit of shifting her thinking.

Beliefs 276

Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 276

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2020

Culturally responsive teaching before COVID-19 and after should focus on keeping students’ cultural norms and beliefs in mind and putting time into relating to students who have different life experiences, languages, and values than your own.

English 361

English Culture Teaching Beliefs 361

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2022

Should you start teaching with Minecraft and Roblox? That doesn’t necessarily make for a great teaching tool right off the bat, but the engagement is there,” said Matthew Kreutter, a product manager for Connected Camps , during an ISTE Live22 session. “Why Minecraft? Why Roblox?

Teaching 301

Teaching Beliefs Student Engagement Learning Tools 301

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.

Teaching 314

Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 314

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. By implementing this hands-on approach, I hoped that the students would not only deepen their own STEAM understanding, but also gain the confidence and inspiration to effectively teach these critical subjects to their future students.

Teaching 269

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 269

eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

The belief that lowering reading expectations benefits struggling readers not only hurts students’ competency but under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is against the law. By building these skills, students start to develop their neuro-networks and move to the learning area of the brain.

Disabilities 257

Disabilities Teaching Beliefs Schools 257

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

She tapped into my untapped potential, fostering a profound sense of self-belief and cultivating my passion for learning. We also leverage DESSA data for professional development (PD) to encourage more modern teaching practices that nurture stronger connections between teachers and students.

Teaching 288

Teaching Students English History 288

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Luhtala suggests that political belief polarization may emerge because of people’s conflicting confirmation and desirability biases, which leads them to interpret new evidence as a confirmation of one’s own existing beliefs and theories. The problem.

Beliefs 363

Beliefs Schools High School High School 363

eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Understand Learning Beliefs. To develop collective teacher efficacy, it’s important for educators to take time to dig into their own learning beliefs by answering questions such as: What are your beliefs about learning? What are the steps you take to learn something new? How do you learn best? Develop a Plan for Success.

Beliefs 314

Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 314

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

Teaching them to be aware of their racial identity would allow them to better understand the privileges that accompany that identity, and to see how those privileges shape their lives and relationships. We are doing white children a disservice by teaching them to think of themselves as not possessing race within a racialized society.

Teaching 218

Teaching Beliefs Culture Learning 218

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.

Teaching 217

Teaching Beliefs Education Culture 217

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. However, to make significant and sustainable long-term changes in education, our perceptions of what teaching and learning “look” like have to fundamentally shift to avoid stagnation and make progress. The teacher is the expert.

Mental Models 541

Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

However, this belief is often misguided or a direct result of imperfect execution by school systems that struggle to adapt to a virtual format.

Beliefs 335

Beliefs Education Special Education Students 335

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.” The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning.

Teaching 195

Teaching Art Beliefs English 195

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2020

This belief caused me to start The Glimpse Group , a diversified VR and AR platform company made up of 9 unique software and services subsidiaries. At Fordham I teach Exploring Entrepreneurship, a class where students learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur, along with the critical elements of starting a company.

Beliefs 318

Beliefs Lecturing Study Teaching 318

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

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. To help cut down on this kind of behavior, I teach them to present their beliefs using facts and appropriate word choice.

Beliefs 268

Beliefs Instructors Culture Communication 268

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

They are distant during class, uninterested in engaging with the material, and their beliefs confirmed every time they get a question wrong – “I can’t do math.” How can teachers combat this belief? Picture this: a student enters your classroom, a negative attitude at the ready.

Culture 295

Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 295