Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The top benefits of the Wolfram Language are that it has a low floor for getting started, its syntax is easy to learn, and it has a wide range of use cases applicable to mathematics, language arts, history, science, art and many other subjects. It’s a particularly great platform for integrating computer science into other subjects of study.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. The schoolhouse door was barred for them because they didn’t have internet access. Kids should see characters in the texts that they read that are diverse.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. It’s free to schools. elementary schools have signed up for accounts. But they will. Consumers pay about $80 a year for the library. But they will.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2009, when I began my first of teaching, I taught in a school without walls. I was at Malcolm X Elementary School (MXES), an imposing cement box centrally located in Washington DC’s most violent and poorest neighborhood. By the early 1980s, everyone was re-building walls within their schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But before all of that, I had to turn to history for a deeper understanding of how we got here. Turning to History When I started this work, it felt critical to understand why there are so few Black teachers in American public schools. I never lived in a majority-Black neighborhood or attended a majority-Black school.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Monica Burns first started working with educational technology in 2011 when she was teaching at a New York City school that was becoming a magnet school. The school received federal funding that included money for classroom technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The story by John Woodrow Cox follows 10-year-old Uvalde survivor Caitlyne Gonzales as she seeks to heal from the horrors of the May massacre she witnessed in her elementary school classroom. Do you love history? If you said yes to either, you should definitely check out Puppet History. Do you love puppets?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. As the COVID pandemic raged, leaving children out of schools and away from regular routines and social interactions, the fire only magnified the disruption. We take a close look at two of them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. History and not be getting your calculus grade right now. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

With the new investment, MEL wants to expand to 5,000 schools worldwide, Philippov says. He declined to say how many schools he’s sold to so far. Educational customers listed on the company website include Mercury Mine Elementary School in Phoenix, Oakland Academy in Portage, Mich.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

I was raised in Round Rock, Texas, the only Black student in my elementary school. I remember how hard my parents fought to get me and my brother into accelerated math, how my mother was the only parent of color on the school’s steering committee, and yet I was brought up to believe that race didn’t matter.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School. Linda EdgecombGolden Grove Elementary School students using Reading Plus.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2023

I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. In it, he discussed why he advocated for sad scenes to be included in his picture book " Love ", which I’d brought with me to school that day. But current events continued to weigh on me. D killin’ the vibe again.” I thought I was commiserating with them.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2022

Few principals would dispute that the last three school years have been the most taxing of their career. Some would even go so far as to say they have been the most difficult in the history of U.S. Part of that was retirement, but part of it was they were just burnt out. They couldn’t work in that world of gray,” Callan explained.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

One Word PD Reflections, Image Credit: Weaver Elementary School When three hours had passed, we had a hard time getting the staff to leave. With a devotion to embracing the ideals of its namesake, our school has had a history of academic excellence through community relationships and involvement. Bettie Weaver.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

On my school tours, I see second- and third-grade students who are not interested in giving a report or reading a book out loud. And they’re learning history without even knowing it. About 8000 students in our middle and high school 1:1 take-home laptop program use Minecraft.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. With experience teaching in elementary, middle and high schools, I can attest to the trend that students do seem less motivated and engaged as they progress through school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

One pair of kids from his class ended up comparing the person with the most toes in history to the person with the fewest toes. These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

Mrs. Rich was a teacher who supported extracurricular programs, such as the school- and district-wide speech and spelling bee competitions, at my elementary school. She worked tirelessly for hours after school with 4th to 6th grade students preparing for those competitions. Mike Teng, CEO, Swing Education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Current Grade School year (2021-2022) Last Full, Cohesive, COVID-Free Grade (2018-19) 12th9th11th8th10th7th9th6th8th5th7th4th6th3rd5th2nd4th1st3rdK2ndPK1st- One of us, Glenn, teaches 10th grade history, and the last time his students had a non-mask wearing, COVID free school year was in seventh grade.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I embarrassed myself early enough into the game to recognize I needed to do what I always did in elementary school gym class: fade into the background until no one noticed I was sitting on the bench. And how might individual players’ personal histories contribute to their athletic strategy and performance?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Like a true educator, I answered the call despite my nerves. Why I Didn’t Want to Be a School Leader When I was a student, I never saw my administrators smile. In elementary school, my principal was infamous for knocking on classroom doors and calling kids into her office. But this isn’t standard.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So So a vast majority of the elementary schools in South Carolina did not have a single Black male teacher,” Jones says. By mandating school desegregation, Brown v. Board aimed to alleviate racial inequality in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. While there is no single profile, most school shooters were victims of bullying.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

One can easily imagine an Epic Rap Battle of History between the Luddites and Futurists on this very topic. And nowhere is that seemingly innocuous question more likely to ruffle feathers than in the realm of education. An 8th grade World History teacher at Prescott South Middle School in Cookeville, Tenn.,

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Googler of the Day’ But just because company reps are keeping quiet doesn’t mean that educators are. Rayna Freedman is a 5th-grade teacher at Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, Mass. This past school year, she started piloting a Google Home in her classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. Algebra 1 — In 2018, 19.8%

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Asphalt Green’s model is strikingly similar to another program being sold to schools across the country: Peaceful Playgrounds. In the 1990s, Melinda Bossenmeyer was an elementary school principal in California who did not like recess.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Name : Sarah Cardoza Age: 29 Location : Eagle River, Alaska College : University of Alaska Fairbanks Area of study : History and secondary education Hometown : Homer, Alaska EdSurge: What is your earliest memory of a teacher? History] class my senior year of high school, and my teacher was fantastic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amani Ghusein Ghusein, who teaches science to grades 3 through 8 at Dawes Elementary School, caught the surprise announcement made on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that cryptocurrency and finance company Ripple had made a huge donation to fund every project on education crowdfunding site DonorsChoose. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). In 2021, AACTE conducted a landscape analysis examining the history of these assessments and found that their impact on teachers of color has been profound and persistent for decades.

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