eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

We can see that AI can augment teaching, but the human touch remains irreplaceable in fostering empathy, creativity, and critical thinking,” Angeles said. With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Developed by Urban Arts in collaboration with Minecraft Education , the program offers middle school teachers professional development, ongoing coaching and a 72-session curriculum built around game-based instruction.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Session tracks focus on topics and insights relevant to various K-12 leadership titles: district leaders, school leaders, classroom leaders, IT leaders, coach leaders, inclusion leaders, esports leaders, and library leaders. Running Jan. Here’s a look at just a few of the sessions on tap: 1. January 15; 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.;

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new. From there we have an open critical thinking discussion on how our findings and current evidence present synergy, learning gaps, or discrepancy. Meredith Butulis comes from a background in education, business, physical therapy, and wellness/fitness coaching.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

“As always, high-quality and timely professional development will be important this coming school year and the use of technology can help coaches and administrators deliver this to teachers. Courtney Groskin, Learning Coach, St. Vrain Valley School District.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Many students face challenges not due to a lack of intelligence but because they struggle with organization, time management, and emotional regulation. To address this, AEF integrates executive functioning coaching into daily instruction. AEF takes a proactive approach to emotional support through its Get A Grip (GAG) program.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Now, educators are trying to navigate the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the field. Gina DiTullio holds a doctorate in Executive Leadership from the St.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a transformative force. Schools are faced with a critical decision: embrace AI’s potential or risk falling behind. Building an AI-Ready Team A key step in AI integration is the formation of an AI task force or committee.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

For startups, this represents an opportunity to change the trajectory of education through the thoughtful and equitable use of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to power solutions and solve some of education’s greatest challenges. The platform houses the UK’s largest hub of support funds, scholarships, and grants for students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching. –Patty Hagan, Teaching and Learning Coach, St.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has presented districts everywhere with new teaching and learning opportunities. This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. This year at St. Happy new school year!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Training educators is top of mind for leaders like Daniel-Hardy, though the Gulfport district hasn’t launched any formal coaching yet. “We Ready or Not To coach or coax educators into using generative AI tools, there is a consensus among the trainers that it first needs to be demystified. Dembo refutes this claim right out the gate.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new. From there we have an open critical thinking discussion on how our findings and current evidence present synergy, learning gaps, or discrepancy. Meredith Butulis comes from a background in education, business, physical therapy, and wellness/fitness coaching.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Like many of our colleagues, the emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence sites initially created a mild panic. Students regularly shared they were not interested in using a generative intelligence site to complete their work—they were not ready to trust AI with their learning, and more specifically, course grades.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

How can educators prepare students for an evolving future influenced by artificial intelligence? Taylor: The head coach and I were familiar with Homecourt. The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills. It can look at footwork and dribbling to provide feedback.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Artificial intelligence holds significant potential to address key challenges in education, particularly in enhancing student engagement and facilitating personalized learning. As an instructional coach, my monthly focus is introducing educators to incorporate AI tools into their teaching practices seamlessly.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ChatGPT does have major limitations: its limited knowledge base only pulls from data prior to September 2021; it has no personal experiences or emotions to draw from; it may generate inaccurate information; and it does not have the ability to critically think and/or analyze information.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2022

This approach helps teachers reflect deeply and hold evidence-based discussions with coaches and colleagues. Individual coaching can be a great addition to a district’s PD plan, but this is a resource-intensive approach. New teachers get frequent support by sharing short videos with coaches through Teams by Swivl.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Vrain , we’ve implemented artificial intelligence to provide teachers with extra support and to deliver high-quality, meaningful, and relevant professional learning opportunities. Courtney Groskin, Instructional Learning Coach, St.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

One thing that's come up a few times—and something you presented about—is the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, and how both will affect our current students’ job prospects in the not-too-distant future. A lot of people are worried that automation and artificial intelligence will take away jobs. What is your take on this?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Technology plays a pivotal role in facilitating personalized learning, particularly through the application of data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI). These are critically important factors in today’s educational environment. This increases motivation and engagement by instilling a sense of ownership and agency.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As the chief technology officer and assistant dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Paul Kim spends more time than most pondering how artificial intelligence (AI) can impact education. He believes most educators don’t think about it enough, and those who do worry too much about it. That’s where AI comes into play.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As we think about this work, it’s crucial to shift the conversation from merely tracking student attendance to focusing on how students are showing up: how they engage with complex problems, interact with their peers, and connect with adults. — Jonah M. Schenker, Ed.D., This year at St.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When it attempted to apply artificial intelligence algorithms to sort resumes, it found that the software had a thing against women and only put forward men as worthy candidates. First, observation, then confusion, then critical thinking, then problem-solving, then ethics and then judgment.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

As a leader, Michelle is committed to mentoring, coaching, and fostering a positive learning environment. I was inspired to become an educator by teachers and sports coaches who guided me throughout my education. While evaluations are important, an overemphasis on standardized testing often limits creativity and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. — Russ Davis, Founder and CEO, SchoolStatus Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The program is delivered through an all-inclusive tuition model, where students pay between $125 and $150 per month, allowing them access to their courses and e-textbooks and to a full suite of academic support services that includes free tutoring, writing help and coaching. We also have RightTime Coaching?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

Over the course of 15 weeks, Siyed coached eight girls with absolutely no robotics experience. She’s using her program to encourage Muslim girls to embrace STEM while helping the world understand that Muslim girls can be strong, intelligent and successful career women. That forced them to do that critical thinking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2025

Use AI to enhance learning, not replace critical thinking or human interaction. The challenge is knowing when to trust the technology and when to step back and think for yourself. Those searching for the best AI for language learning can use languatalk.com and enjoy personalized coaching complemented by world-class AI.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2023

As educators, we know the potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has for our profession. For higher ed, this means fostering critical thinking and soft-skills development in students to ensure that they are prepared for the unknown challenges of tomorrow. We need guardrails for the electric bike.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

The goal here is critical thinking.” Developing Emotional Intelligence Kognito’s use of animated virtual agents instead of actors is different, but the general idea is similar. Users often work in small groups and choose from a list of pre-populated text responses, which shapes how the scenario’s next event unfolds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Henry Ford said: “Thinking is the hardest work in the world, which is why so few engage in it.” ” Common Core asks that students ‘independently discern’ In fact, critical thinking skills are implicit in almost all of the core literacy skills and mathematical practices. As Laurence J.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Their teaching philosophy revolves around fostering communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity, while elevating student choice and voice in the classroom. By integrating YouScience into their curriculum, they have helped students explore their aptitudes and envision future career pathways.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In addition to resources in the Distance Learning Support Playbook , teachers can access an array of expanded professional learning opportunities such as webinars, training videos, and virtual coaching designed to help navigate remote learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Doctor Ramirez earned her doctorate in educational leadership from USC with a focus on instructional coaching and technology integration. She has worked with almost every age level of student in a variety of capacities as a teacher, as a coach. We followed the coaching cycle. And the school district’s hiring them.

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