eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

The Home Depot and Discovery Education joined forces to help STEAM-power classrooms and homes across the country as students prepare for the careers of tomorrow through Science Fair Central. Mortenson, an Instructional Coach at Verona Area High School in the Verona Area School District.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof. Your leadership leads to student buy-in, which then spawns culture. Culture transcends; it lingers around long after the bell rings. Partners are also accountable to each other.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

How educators respond to this next pandemic –students’ anxiety and stress–will certainly remain a critically important priority for school administrators, counselors and psychologists in 2021. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2018

School has always been a place to train students for their eventual adult lives. Cultural norms have long dictated the foundation they need to ­survive in ­society and the workforce — reading, writing, math and science. . Public Schools showcases its students’ STEM successes at its annual Tinker Fair. . DeQueen (Ark.)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You may have seen the photos of stadiums packed to the gills with crazed fans or photos of young high school- and college-aged players hoisting sparkling trophies high into the air as they pull in million-dollar prize purses. These tournaments and leagues are the evolution of decades of player and fan culture.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. That's a massive effect. In fact, we do this as parents.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. This year, in Indiana, sixth graders will take an inaugural civics course in the spring semester.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

Today, I teach marketing at the same high school I attended. In 2012, as a new teacher, I recognized what I believed to be a lack of positive campus culture. Many students referred to the school as “ratchet Round Rock.” Only 9 percent of students and 4 percent of teachers are Black district-wide.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Allowing them access to the books–and characters–they are interested in is imperative to building a culture of reading in schools. This is why youll see many of these books available in online book fairs, through vendors and bookstores, and in a basket next to the potty.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. high school students. America’s young people are feeling the weight of it all.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They were asked to agree or disagree with statements about college and career plans, how they’re faring in school and with their mental health, among other topics. Amongst the high school seniors, most reported having applied to trade school, community college or a university along with federal financial aid.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2022

She sees a direct link between access to high-quality early childhood education and efforts to improve graduation rates among Native American high school students. “If Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

At Westgate Community School, a K-12 school in Thornton, Colo., I became assistant principal in 2018, but served as dean of culture at Westgate for three years prior. I was originally hired in 2015, to support the only counselor at our school, which served 500 students at the time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

The goal was to use this VR simulation with German high school students so that they could better understand the experiences of their new Syrian classmates. We wanted them to better empathize with them so as to ease cultural clashes and facilitate integration. How has AWS EdStart helped your company to succeed in education?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A nascent, Rhode Island-based organization called Diversity Talks wants to change that by giving K-12 school districts and higher education institutions student-led professional development on approaching culturally sensitive topics. LaQuanda Carpenter, principal of Lee A.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country. That’s not to say schools fly entirely blind. Schools can keep track of which students are paired with what teachers. explained Schwartz.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The modern university has roots before the 18th century, but a lot of it is shaped from that kind of culture, basically of optimism, that you could study the world and improve it by studying it.” It’s very easy to do a service learning experience but not learn that we don’t have free and fair elections in some parts of this country.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

The goal is to help colleges weigh the cultural and socioeconomic background of students as they review their applications. The fairness of the college admissions process has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, after federal prosecutors charged nearly 50 people with crimes in connection to an admissions-fraud scheme.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

University recruiters who never visit your high school. There’s a lot that needs to change in higher education to make it mostly fair and more effective,” Tough said in an interview with EdSurge. “As Guidance counselors who only steer you toward community college. Relatives who are ambivalent or even hostile about your goals.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

We defined digital learning as all these instances where students are learning outside of the time and place constraints that you see in a traditional school in a traditional. Trick now that sometimes takes the form of a fully online school, but that’s actually fairly rare. How are those things applied in a remote setup?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture. But is that true, and if so what would it look like? Still, the change was working, according to Nguyen and Iwasaki.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. So when they experience success, it really motivates them to continue. Chaidez wants to go further.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Last week we looked at how algorithms have changed the culture of low wage and service work in recent years. I think that's a completely fair concern,” she says, adding that her company does not work with either McDonald’s or Amazon, another company Guendelsberger spoke about. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. I figured that what gave me joy in elementary school would do the same for my students. Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With schools and testing centers closed across the country, COVID-19 has prevented at least one million students in the high school class of 2021 from taking the ACT or SAT exams. In fact, doing otherwise has never seriously been considered by the public research institution, says Mike Drish, director of first-year admissions.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. We're working with educators and talking about school culture and safety and nurturing, and what do thriving schools look like?

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Yet, these days the issue seems more complicated, as political debates frame equity policies as in conflict with ideals of fairness and tradition. I've seen a lot of districts adopt courses on ethnic studies in communities of color, but what you're saying is taking these types of cultural pedagogies to all communities.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Du Bois, the need to prove that Black people are capable of the heights of cultural excellence was a large part of the reason for the focus on education. Board, part of the reason that actually eroded the system was a cultural rejection of Black excellence in education by at least part of the establishment. And so there is an interest.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Also by the NEA , this site includes Middle School lesson plans on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and anti-slavery, background resources, interactive maps, games, quizzes, video, and audio. Activities for High School. More activities. Google explores Presidents. Learn about each President. President for a Day!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We bought a high school four years ago. But initially when I first came into the school district, you know, everything’s about timing. We had the right board, good atmosphere, the culture we needed to work on, and we started an initiative to write our strategic plan. But guess what, Kevin? I forgot my lunch.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Iowa has the top high school graduation rate in the country. These, personnel sharing arrangements, and other successes are a testament to the hard work of our educators, school systems, and communities. Midwest educators are doubly nice, both because of the culture of where we live and because of our profession.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

–Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. In 2021, we learned to adjust one’s mindsets, to recognize and appreciate cultural needs, and the impact of social and emotional well-being.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

Why do cultures develop stereotypes? Do you feel like this is fair? Should students have the same rights and privileges in schools that adults have in society? What are examples of non-verbal communication that we use in American culture? What is an example of a cultural norm in the United States? Why or why not?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

They hired me over the phone to teach fifth grade, and I moved there, and so that was definite eye opening and a bit of a culture shock, but also the most memorable experiences I’ve ever had in teaching. I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2022

You can also have a member of these programs talk to students during tours, open houses, and student organization fairs. A study from the Community College Research Center found 88% of dual-enrolled students go on to continue college coursework after high school. -->. Spotlight: Holyoke Community College.

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