Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

This post is a Noelle Gutierrez & Catlin Tucker collaboration. In today’s educational landscape, the emphasis on inclusion and creating the least restrictive environments for students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) has significantly reshaped classroom dynamics. This shift has led to the growing adoption of co-teaching models, where general and special education teachers collaborate to meet the diverse needs of their students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Key points: A creative and flexible approach makes the ELA classroom engaging 4 ways to encourage play in education How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum For more news on instructional trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As a former teacher and current teacher trainer, I have seen first-hand how challenging it can be to create English language arts (ELA) lessons that deeply engage students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2024

For the past couple of years, unrelenting change has come fast. Even while schools are stuck dealing with deep challenges, COVID-19 pandemic relief funding is running its course. Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream. These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

When it comes to student success, parent engagement is an often overlooked but key contributor. Decades of research, including Henderson and Mapp’s often-cited “A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,” affirm the importance of parent engagement, which leads to students being more likely to attend school, avoid disciplinary issues, achieve better grades and ultimately graduate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2024

I get thousands of visitors a day–over six million since I started. The most common reason why you-all drop by is for resources. I have lots of them–lesson plans, tips and tricks–but one area I have not enough depth is the experiences of fellow teachers: your personal teaching experiences your informed take on tech ed topics Education pedagogy If you’re interested in guest posting on this blog or start your own column, leave a comment below and I’ll be in touch.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Key points: Female students would benefit from targeted efforts to increase STEM options 3 free STEAM education resources to nurture student curiosity Putting the ‘E’ in integrative STEM instruction For more news on STEM learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Women play a crucial role in filling high-paying, in-demand STEM careers, but they account for just 34 percent of the STEM workforce , according to a new report from YouScience and Ford Next Generation Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2024

Hello! Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of tech ed professionals who work together to offer you tech tips, advice, pedagogic discussion, lesson plans, and anything else we can think of to help you integrate tech into your classroom. Our primary focus is to provide technology-in-education-related information for educators–teachers, administrators, homeschoolers, and parents.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Key points: Encouraging reading is a top priority, no matter how the material is presented Boycotting book fairs no more Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub I love a good classic. After all, I named my son Holden. But the definition of a classic in literature may be changing.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2024

As someone who views cooking and baking as hobbies, not chores, I follow a lot of food bloggers and recipe developers on social media. I subscribe to many of their newsletters. I, well, make and eat a lot of their food. Yet I’ve only come across one who devotes back-to-school season to easing the financial burden on educators. Deb Perelman, the best-selling author and food blogger behind Smitten Kitchen, has been running the Classroom Wishlist Project for three years now.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

When it comes to student success, parent engagement is an often overlooked but key contributor. Decades of research, including Henderson and Mapp’s often-cited “A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,” affirm the importance of parent engagement, which leads to students being more likely to attend school, avoid disciplinary issues, achieve better grades and ultimately graduate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 22, 2024

A lot of teacher-authors also read my WordDreams blog (for writers). In this column, I share the most popular post from the past month. AI in Writing I use AI judiciously and never without adult supervision. It is efficient if well directed, provides good summaries of articles on a factual level, and is fast if I’m not looking for clever, creative, complex, or any sort of conscience.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2024

This piece originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: Tutoring programs can be augmented with technology to be extremely cost-effective Enhancing learning through AI and human educators Newark Public Schools considers new AI tutor chatbot for districtwide use For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Imagine that you’re a tutor.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

“You go into your own world for a moment. 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. It makes me empathize with other people.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

Organizations across industries have more access to data than they’ve ever had before, but they’re still evolving when it comes to transforming that data into actionable insights. This transformation is especially crucial for customer experience strategies. In K–12 schools, CX doesn’t refer to customers in a traditional sense, but rather technology users such as teachers, students and families.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2024

In the past, I’ve gotten emails like this from teachers: I am a tech teacher, going on my fifth year in the lab. Each year I plan to be more organized than the last, and most often I revert back to the “way things were.” I’m determined to run the lab just like I think it should be! … Could you please elaborate on how you run your class?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Key points: Data centers need employees with specialized skills so they can hit the ground running 5 steps to boost CTE programs and fill workforce pipelines Concerns mount as high school graduates express career uncertainty For more news on career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub We often refer to the “silver tsunami” in the data center industry–a reference to the growing wave of older employees poised to retire and leave the workforce in the next five years or less.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. About nine months ago, Dara told me she was interested in bringing her mother and nephew from Syria to the United States, and she needed assistance. She had immigrated to Evanston, Illinois from Syria five years ago, along with her husband and five children and had a goal of reuniting with her family.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Listen to my interview with Megan Sumeracki ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Here’s a scenario you might be familiar with: A person — maybe you, maybe someone you know — studies for hours to prepare for a test.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 20, 2024

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are from members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, from tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate me

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Key points: It’s time to reimagine school-home communication through a modern, family-friendly lens Educator-parent communication doesn’t have to be a struggle School-home communication remains a challenge for many districts For more news on district outreach, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Can you point to that moment where a teacher said or did something that changed the course of your life?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on August 8, 2022 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I probably shouldn’t admit this, but when I was just beginning my teaching career, I had one clear goal on the first day of class: scare the living crap out of my students. I’m exaggerating, but only a little.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

K–12 schools expend a lot of resources to prevent cybersecurity breaches. Implementing effective security measures and training users on proper cyber hygiene is a good start to keeping attackers away from valuable student data. But all it takes is one person clicking on the wrong link for attackers to find a way to breach a school’s defenses. This is when cyber resilience — the ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from cyberthreats and incidents — becomes critical.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 22, 2024

As a child, having the ability to bounce back after something goes wrong is not always easy. While some kids naturally seem more resilient, many others struggle. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , anxiety disorders affect 31.9 percent of children aged 13 to 18. Young children who suffer from anxiety often find it harder to cope and recover when things are not going well.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

This story originally appeared on NVIDIA’s blog and is reposted here with permission. High school student Selin Alara Ornek is looking ahead–using machine learning and the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to create robot guide dogs for the visually impaired. The project, called IC4U , is one of seven robots Ornek has created to date, including a school aid robot, named BB4All , that can help prevent bullying with real-time notification and health-monitoring capabilitie

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

Recently, my family and I visited New Orleans where we enjoyed walking through its historical and distinct districts. We found ourselves in one area that was lined with antique shops on both sides of the street and that stretched for a few blocks. Each shop showcased various gold and crystal artifacts in their windows but after a while all the shops blurred together due to the similarity of its contents and décor.

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The Nerdy Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2024

I wanted to share a simple post at the start of the school year. This simple post has a very simple message, There is so much fear out there for teachers in the classroom. They are afraid to be who they really are. They are afraid to take that risk and do that lesson that they think can make important connections for their students.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 20, 2024

One classroom management strategy that has stood the test of time is the good old behavior chart. Behavior charts have long been controversial with people either praising them or criticizing them. Some argue they provide structure while others say they lead to negative behaviors and public shaming. Here we’ll explore the history of student behavior charts in education , and examine the pros and cons.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. That’s made improving attendance a rare point of bipartisan agreement. A new coalition announced a campaign on Wednesday calling on schools to cut their chronic absenteeism rates in half from the 2021-22 school year, when rates

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

Recently, my family and I visited New Orleans where we enjoyed walking through its historical and distinct districts. We found ourselves in one area that was lined with antique shops on both sides of the street and that stretched for a few blocks. Each shop showcased various gold and crystal artifacts in their windows but after a while all the shops blurred together due to the similarity of its contents and décor.

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Model Teaching

AUGUST 19, 2024

Unpack the principles and practices of sensory-friendly classrooms designed to support your prek-12 students with autism. Discover how small adjustments can make a significant impact in your prek-12 classroom! Explore practical tips, evidence-based insights, and relatable scenarios that will help you gain better insight on how best to support your students with autism.

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Resourceaholic

AUGUST 18, 2024

In this post I've summarised some of the big maths resource updates from the last twelve months. This is aimed at new maths teachers just starting their career (welcome!), experienced teachers who have just discovered my blog, and existing readers who've not had the chance to keep on top of the latest developments. I hope it's helpful!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Key points: Career planning can seem daunting to students 5 steps to boost CTE programs and fill workforce pipelines i Concerns mount as high school graduates express career uncertainty For more news on career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub For the last three years, I have worked as a digital integration specialist for Anderson School District 5 in South Carolina.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Note: This article used collaboration between the human author and the AI programs of ChatGPT, Copilot, and Meta AI. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era for community college education, presenting both exciting possibilities and complex challenges. While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate.

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Tim Manson

AUGUST 17, 2024

I have been doing a lot of thinking about homework recently. Homework is a divisive topic.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2024

MIAMI, FL – Achieve Miami’s Teacher Accelerator Program (TAP) is tackling South Florida’s teacher shortage head-on by creating a clear path to teaching for college seniors and career changers. Following its first year at the University of Miami in 2023, the education nonprofit expanded to Florida International University and Miami-Dade College, making TAP accessible to college seniors and graduates with a four-year degree.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education today announced a new curated collection of free dynamic digital resources that encourages students to follow their curiosity and explore the natural world. These resources are made available to all students, teachers, and caregivers in the United States at no cost through the Environmental Education Initiative. Powered by worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education , the Environmental Education Initiative is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to empower

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