Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. The George Floyd murder really kicked off a completely different conversation where people have started to talk about what is culturally relevant, especially for kids who protested.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When I entered the world of education, it became painfully clear that I was part of a system built on the tenets of white supremacy. As a Black immigrant woman, I quickly discovered that the expectations for being an educator in the charter school world rested heavily on my evolution into a culturally neutral professional.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2022

Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit. There’s a body of literacy research that says kids who engage in a high volume of reading become stronger readers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. Read any state department of education, public school district or individual school mission statement and you will see a few similarities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Rita Mortenson, the educational technology coach for Verona Area High School in Wisconsin, uses Google Arts and Culture. Google Arts and Culture offers over 1,600 experiments and counting. In addition to the extensive collection of artworks and cultural artifacts, it offers some pretty cool immersive experiences.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

One student, Colleen, became agitated each time I mentioned that we would be reading each other’s writing. I also grapple with the cultural obsession with technology. It was validating to see students working so hard, and reading so carefully. Students would choose a random paper to read. The whole class did.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I’ve been reading popular management books and academic literature in pursuit of answers. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture? Is engagement kind of a necessary precondition for building culture?

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Literacy is the foundation of overall educational success. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

The 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows (from left to right): Melinda Medina, April Jackson, Nikita Khetan, Sofia Gonzalez, Daniel Clark and Patrice Wade As we close out another successful year of the fellowship, we are excited to see, read and learn what this new cohort of fellows has to say about the state of K-12 education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

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 Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation. Read more from EdSurge about Americans witnessing abuse online while tutoring Chinese students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

This is the second part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part one to learn how this teacher improved her student feedback system to increase student engagement. The culture around grading was still pretty toxic—even with the new resubmit policy. Are you going to resubmit your chemical changes model?"

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

So my first step toward empowering them to drive their learning was to include them in the process of figuring out how to rebuild the positive classroom culture we had lost.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2019

I’ve read dozens and dozens of books filled with characters I can relate to: white, middle class females. I’ve also read many novels that have stretched my mind, opened my heart and shown me what it’s like to live in someone else’s world. Up next on my reading stack: “Island Born” by Junot Diaz. “I I’m middle class.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. Jeff While it’s not strictly about education, I’ve become an even bigger fan this year of the Hidden Brain podcast , which explores the science of what makes us tick. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation. Read about 10 more finalists here !) Read about the three 2023 winners here.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

To highlight the importance of daily reading during the COVID-19 pandemic, Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is offering unlimited free access to myON digital books and news articles from February 1–7, 2021. The importance of reading materials at home cannot be overstated.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Read about the three 2023 winners here. With his transformative efforts, Mr. Hatcher has propelled Akron Public Schools to the forefront of educational excellence, becoming a shining example of how innovative education technologies can truly make a difference in students’ lives.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

The numbers show just how much students and educators have needed access to a culturally responsive language learning solution. One of those educators who used the program is Lynmara Coln, the director of Student Opportunity and Multilingual Services at Prince William County Schools in Virginia.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

Challenge #2: The need for training and support The necessity for comprehensive training around any new technology is seen as a given nowadays. Far from being a barrier to AI adoption, this requirement can actually catalyze the creation of a continuous learning culture among educators, equipping them with future-ready skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Read aloud: In preschool classrooms, read-aloud sessions play a vital role in daily learning. To support these skills, we need engaging tools that make learning to read enjoyable. Over the past five years, I have utilized an interactive whiteboard to enhance my read-aloud sessions. Technology and Young Children.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

I just worked with some third graders, and they had to explain why a characters traits in the book that we read helped them sell more lemonade than the brother sold. Technology can help students redefine what theyre learning by giving them creative ways to demonstrate understanding. Dont overthink it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2021

This initiative includes curriculum and two STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) educational technology platforms, KIBO and ScratchJr. Students use these tools as they explore themes in the Jewish holiday cycle while expressing their ideas and understanding through building, coding, and art activities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To highlight the importance of daily reading during the COVID-19 pandemic, Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is offering unlimited free access to myON digital books and news articles from February 1–7, 2021. The importance of reading materials at home cannot be overstated.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2022

As I read that description, I felt like shouting, “Yep! Toward the end of the first chapter, the authors describe a scene from Star Wars where C-3PO turns to R2-D2 as they’re under siege by a corridor full of stormtroopers and says, “We’re doomed.” You’ve got it!”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Especially relevant during periods of remote or hybrid learning, educational technology can grant students remote access to library resources before or after school, or in the event of an absence. This enables librarians to make recommendations for resources that align with students’ interests and learning preferences.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Library innovations in the 21 st century include building a space that students actually want to inhabi, whicht is imperative to facilitating their learning and curiosity when it comes to reading. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2018

And for the last five years, I’ve been a district administrator, including almost two years as chief digital officer overseeing IT and educational technology operations for a district of nearly 24,000 students. Future Ready Librarians recognize that technological and cultural forces are changing the way we read and access information.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The report released by GoGuardian , an education technology company supporting thousands of K-12 schools and over eight million students through powerful tools and research, captures field research from the GoGuardian Research and Insights team, with insights from more than 450 students, teachers, administrators and policy leaders across the U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This quote, which comes from Education Week’s aptly titled piece, Teachers Are Not OK, Even Though We Need Them to Be , is just one of numerous articles, reports and statements outlining the stress that educators are under, and the well-intentioned but flawed approach of asking educators to save themselves. So, what do we do?

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

Recently, I found myself in Barnes and Noble, captivated by a "Read with Pride" display in the Young Adult section. In those days, my reading experiences at school stalled my understanding of my emerging queer identity and limited my knowledge of others that might have shared my experiences. Who is missing from the stories?

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JUNE 14, 2022

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Having been an English teacher and also working with educators, there are some students who feel intimidated by heavy texts, or might be reluctant to read articles or books. They read a ton of them and get really engaged. A culture shift?

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