Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

It cannot fully understand subtle aspects like culture, values or emotional nuances (Hwang and Wu 2024). Aileen Wanli Lam is a Senior Lecturer and technology enthusiast at the National University of Singapore. She is fascinated by education technology and enjoys conversations about the latest industry developments.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

This simple act of showing our work invited others to do the same, fostering a culture of continuous learning and a place where feedback wasnt just collected, but acted upon. We invited diverse perspectives into curriculum design, which led to unexpected partnerships and richer learning experiences. What will we adjust?

Learning 105

Learning Participation Feedback Curriculum Design 105

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

He is committed to creating inclusive, academically rigorous and emotionally safe environments, with a particular focus on how technology influences student development and school culture. It’s helped build a collective culture of awareness and responsibility around digital safety.

Middle School 88

Middle School Middle School Schools Students 88

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Now, a dozen students from six families are suing the department for sidelining books, curriculum and cultural awareness events that conflict with the presidents goal of excising gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion from public life. These changes are causing irreparable harm to DoDEA students.

Schools 114

Schools History Students Culture 114

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

It’s almost like we’re educators making the curriculum in school: There’s a level of expertise that we bring. GBH’s Pai believes younger parents especially, who have grown up with screens, have less understanding of what makes for high-quality programming. “As

Fairness 185

Fairness Study Laboratory Evaluation 185

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. It creates a lot more work for educators, Futrell says. The changes are quite alarming, Gillis says.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 178

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

There, administrators recently partnered with Carnegie Mellon to pioneer the development and pilot testing of the nation’s first coherent K-12 curriculum on computational thinking. Montour School District and Carnegie Mellon created research consortium with three other area districts called the LearnLab.

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Learning STEM Motivation Culture 321

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Yet, making this vision a reality requires more than new tools or curriculum; it calls for bold leadership, a willingness to take risks and a commitment to incremental, meaningful change. Ryan, president of McGraw Hill School Group , has spent two decades in education technology and previously worked in education policy and as a U.S.

Beliefs 105

Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 105

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Vendors are facing pressure to comply with legislation in states where the right to receive information through school curriculums and library collections is vulnerable. And it also doesn’t necessarily go away if our culture changes in three to four years.”

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

Rather than focus on raising my students’ awareness of the dangers of living in an online world, I try to change the negative culture which has come along with the anonymity provided by the Internet (I’m looking at you, Youtube comment sections). Rather the question is: How are we as educators using these tools?

Internet 199

Internet Students Curriculum Feedback 199

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Of course, curriculum is only a small part of what’s needed to create culturally-responsive classrooms.

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Textbooks Culture Curriculum Feedback 165

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’ve spent the past few years as an instructional coach showing teachers how to integrate technology into the curriculum. During that time, I’ve learned that for teachers to truly embrace digital innovation in the classroom, they will need to be supported by a culture that fully embraces educational technology.

Culture 217

Culture Coaching Education Students 217

Edsurge

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.

Culture 194

Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 194

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. As a teacher, it filters through my relationships with students and into the curriculum I curate. How do we, as educators, empower ourselves to affirm Indigenous knowledge as foundational to our practice and move closer to a pedagogy of justice and gratitude in our curriculum?

Culture 209

Culture Teaching History Social Studies 209

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people.

Culture 208

Culture Instructors History Education 208

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To help better preserve and share the teachings of his Native culture, he decided to try the latest in high tech tools — virtual reality. So for the past year, Ten Brink has been trying the approach, taking a 360-degree camera out in the field to capture key cultural practices. he wondered. How do you put somebody in that space?”

Culture 190

Culture Teaching Coaching Science 190

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

For instruction that yields cultural literacy, we most often look to language arts and social sciences. With Google's Applied Digital Skills as his foundation, Hicks prioritizes culturally relevant teaching through the vehicle of computer science. We really need to make everyone’s culture part of the conversation.

Culture 171

Culture Skills History Science 171

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's.

Culture 212

Culture Counselling Schools Students 212

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

culturally relevant textbooks? Six Massachusetts colleges and universities, alongside the state’s Department of Higher Education, are testing their hypothesis that free, culturally relevant textbooks can improve student performance. some of the principles being stripped out of the curriculum are why we’re here,” she says. “We

Textbooks 187

Textbooks Culture Students Participation 187

eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

During that time, I have enjoyed working with the staff, students, parents, and community members to thoughtfully integrate technology into the classrooms. In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. Google Arts and Culture : I have been a fan of Google Arts and Culture for years.

Art 327

Art Students Culture Coaching 327

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

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. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

Math 217

Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A group of Virginia parents demanded to review their school’s online social-emotional learning curriculum, convinced the school was hiding something. From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars.

Culture 184

Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 184

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

As workplaces, schools can intentionally structure systems and provide resources that decrease some of these barriers, such as addressing the scarcity of dedicated services and supporting educators through convoluted insurance hurdles that make it even harder to seek professional help. Guys, I took email off my phone,” she told her staff.

Culture 187

Culture Education Schools Communication 187

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. How would you describe how these culture wars have loomed larger at schools in recent years? Initially it was around critical race theory, and then it expanded to other concerns. So the podcast I created is a place to do that.

Culture 199

Culture Elementary School Elementary School Schools 199

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

For any educational institution, adopting the best curriculum available is one of the most important precursors to ensuring the highest-quality teaching and most effective learning. The current analog curriculum procurement process is outdated and inefficient. The process must be made less complex.

Curriculum 150

Curriculum Beliefs Culture Intelligence 150

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

When the district’s prescribed curriculum included only novels written by white male authors featuring white male protagonists, I supplemented with short stories, advertising campaigns and podcasts by youth of color, women and LGBTQ folks. Department of Education’s most recent survey, about 80 percent of all public school teachers are white.

Culture 166

Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 166

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

Curriculum 173

Curriculum Culture Students Art 173

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Virginia, like so many places, has culture wars dominating discourse about public education, which has taken attention away from school, educator, and student needs. It’s no surprise that education ended up being the hot-button campaign issue in Virginia’s recent governor’s race. Culture wars are getting worse.

Culture 158

Culture Schools History Attention 158

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2021

Universities striving for greater equity may offer implicit bias tests, DEI seminars or curriculum reviews. That’s the creative solution more colleges are turning to as they try to make their cultures more inclusive for people who find themselves marginalized within academia. Or, they might put on a play. We’re actors. We’re fresh.”

Culture 167

Culture Syllabus Discussions Study 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Black sees endless opportunities to introduce AI across the curriculum to students of all ages and backgrounds. As the program—a collaboration between ISTE and General Motors —wraps up its third year of professional learning opportunities and support for educators, she says, “this is really the end of the beginning of the work.”

Curriculum 218

Curriculum Intelligence Languages Language 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.” “In

Culture 161

Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 161

eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2021

(Waltham, MA) June 10, 2021 – KinderLab Robotics today announced a partnership with the David Lear Sulman Computing, Science, and Engineering Fund , which is offering the Limudei Code-Esh Curriculum (LCE) for Jewish day schools and Jewish supplemental schools. Coding truly is the new literacy of the 21 st century.”.

Education 265

Education Art Learning Schools 265

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

Education 319

Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319

eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

31, 2022 – 7 Mindsets, the leading provider of online social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum and professional development to schools and districts nationwide, recently announced the addition of three executives to its senior leadership team. ATLANTA – Jan. For more information go to [link] and follow 7 Mindsets on Twitter @7Mindsets.

Communication 246

Communication History Curriculum Culture 246

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

District leaders, school administrators and educators need sustained support to effectively and respectfully implement the shifts behind a curricular mandate like this. In Illinois, individual districts are ultimately responsible for creating an implementation plan and revising or developing curriculum, but that’s a lot of pressure.

Curriculum 161

Curriculum History Social Studies Accessibility 161

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

High-Quality Professional Learning Content : Access to an exceptional digital collection of PD resources from Jimmy Casas and ConnectEDD authors to support the professional learning needs of districts and educators. Starting in January 2025, 36 PD titles by Jimmy Casas from ConnectEDD Publishing will be available on the Gale eBooks platform.

Culture 254

Culture Knowledge Coaching Intelligence 254

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today it has been selected for the GSV (Global Silicon Valley) 150, a list of the world’s most transformative private companies in education. Not only do we embrace change, we create it.

Learning 305

Learning Intelligence Evaluation Culture 305