Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction. Math As Humanities?

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

The study, which examines the Denver and New York City school districts, has the potential to significantly improve the way school quality is measured. Angrist and Pathak are both professors in the MIT Department of Economics and co-founders of MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research group that often examines school performance.

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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. Over the next year, we will see this momentum continue, as more schools realize the benefits and implement solutions to enable this. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Administrators are managing and supporting not just their students, but their faculty as well, even as they are dealing with new initiatives, new federal laws, new local regulations, new testing mandates, and more. All the disruption caused by COVID in recent years is a good example of how I/O Psychology can help schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Cook Center is among the first awardees to receive EIR funds for a project with an exclusive focus on mental health and suicide prevention as keys to improving school climate and learning. Though only two years old, the Cook Center’s model has already been adopted by 229 districts and 3,617 schools, offering more than 2.4

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (Office of Edtech, for short) issued a Request for Proposal for a better way to help schools evaluate edtech tools before making a purchase and. “[We Anyone interested in giving it a test run and leave feedback can do so TKTK.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

A student might not remember their score on a math test, but they likely vividly recall that time they shot the winning basket that sent their team to the state championship. Tech as a tool to facilitate movement-based learning Using technology to support learning is a core priority at West Baton Rouge Parish Schools. Start small.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

If a college baseball coach wants to improve the hitting average of his team, what should he do in batting practice? Some of my most brilliant students have grappled to comprehend concepts, to remember processes and to perform well on tests. Every spring, I start gauging the amount of time I have remaining until the tests arrive.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

New York’s Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) is part of a network of Montessori-inspired middle schools, inheriting fifteen former students of AltSchool and its proprietary learning management system. One-on-one coaching will continue over the phone, he explains, as we are still waiting for his mentee to call.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

As a middle school teacher and an esports coach, I’ve tried numerous keyboards over the years. Logitech G Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Has Responsive Switches For this review, I tested… After reviewing the Logitech G Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, I’m definitely a fan.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

With price packages that range from from 499 rupees (about $7) a month to 1,499 rupees (about $20) for two years, EduRev offers videos, notes and practice tests on subjects that range from business and programming to engineering and economics. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. I don’t remember middle school ever being like this, and the fact that it was mostly students of color gave me pause. Do my titles of husband, father, teacher or coach even matter?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. A passing score on a statewide high school assessment, for example, could automatically trigger a student’s admission to public community colleges without remediation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

These are the tough questions I asked myself when taking over as superintendent of Maury County Schools in Tennessee in August 2015. For the first time in a long time, this district shifted its focus from state test scores and data to the kids and what they should be able to do to be truly college and/or career ready—the way it should be.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In our middle school, it is a student-run, online school startup that functions just like Amazon. In the middle school, FH Gizmos online employees had to figure out how much to charge for 3D prints, such as a replica of Hogwarts or YouTube play button.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture. Another student cried when they didn’t get stickers on their test, even though they tried their best.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Imagine you are a mountaineer. I figured it out!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. On the opposite end of the Lone Star State in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Principal Anabel Ibarra likewise developed a plan for culture change at Bowie Middle School.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. Cofounder Byju Raveendran built a reputation as a compelling and successful tutor, helping students gear up to take India’s Common Admission Test, the entrance exam for the country’s top graduate management schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers also found that teachers who were white, early in their careers, and teaching at middle schools to be “the ones who engage more in extensive referring,” the study says. “I We think it's very possible that new teachers are coached to follow a procedure around what happens with student discipline,” Penner explains. “A

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Then, they can develop their interest in taking other STEM courses as they continue in middle school and high school. Having that support of the whole group on the ISTE platform, connecting with other groups and team leaders, and especially having Steven Jones as our coach helped me a lot. My team supported me a lot.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

We dont hold our schools accountable to a high standard of excellence beyond standardized testing and uniform learning standards. When I think about students' wellness needs, I think about two young, amazing Black boys, Rob and Nas, whom I had the chance to work with as a math teacher and basketball coach.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2018

Arcadia, which has a three-year contract with the platform, will be paying approximately $5,000 per teacher in exchange for the use of AltSchool’s personalized learning platform, class coaching, IT support and professional development opportunities. The company also ran a chain of micro-schools that they used as labs to test their platform.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Math class at Renton's Dimmitt Middle School | Credit: Renton Public Schools. The committee included Dorr, the head of infrastructure, the district webmaster, teachers, literacy coaches, the district CTO, and parents. And the district has gotten email addresses and Office 365 into the hands of every student.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. We came from diverse school districts—urban, suburban, and rural—spanning several states. I stepped out of my traditional teacher role, serving also as a coaching facilitator. The Hero of Middle School. How We Did It.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc. This lab includes various STEM products, modular seating, and curriculum.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. It’s important to follow up with people and monitor progress.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

It was a bittersweet moment for Ashley Lamb-Sinclair as she walked away from her middle-school classroom for the final time last year, flicked the light switch off and locked the door behind her. For the next three months, Lamb-Sinclair did discovery testing for her new online platform with Gates Foundation support.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She pushed me to test and measure the quantitative and qualitative data I was gathering. In her research, she found a noteworthy amount of attention paid to coaching mentors, but an absence of training provided to mentees. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether through formal writing workshops, personal coaching, or informal mentorships, engaging with those who have walked the path before can provide invaluable insights, constructive feedback, and a supportive network that can help navigate the challenges and obstacles that inevitably arise along the way.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Plus, he adds, its common for tracking to focus on narrow factors such as test scores that don't account for discrepancies in opportunities to learn math that accrue throughout a students academic career. But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We have even developed an open-source A/B testing platform that allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of content changes we make in our software. What makes Carnegie Learning exceptional when it comes to professional learning, implementation and coaching? We're looking at how reading affects mathematics outcomes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Over the summer, I took a new position as an instructional technology coach for Decatur City Schools. Teachers exploring and learning at the Spark Lab, Image Credit: Faith Plunkett Dr. Michael Douglas, superintendent of Decatur City Schools, and Elam, were both extremely supportive and helped fund the project.

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