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FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Here are a few from our teacher-authors: Autumn Hillis , science teacher at Williamson County Schools in Tennessee. Jon Hanover , founder of Roots Elementary School in Colorado. Kathy Curran , academic technology coordinator at North Allegheny School District in Pennsylvania.

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JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that every student should question their gender. I was caught off guard.

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MAY 27, 2025

Vulnerability and Mental Health in Educational Leadership These fellows reflected early and often on what it means to be vulnerable as an education leader and how challenges have impacted their mental health. This narrow role was exhausting and disingenuous.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. Tick tick tick.my I thought so. Probably not.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students?

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MARCH 17, 2025

It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city. Its a question that scores of district leaders across the country are now asking themselves.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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JUNE 17, 2021

We try a new combination of words, changing our search from a question, cutting it down to just an essential few words, hoping the results will give us information to a burning question. The Brainstorm After modeling for students, have them develop their own burning questions.

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MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. What motivates them? What worries them?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have many great memories from elementary school, but my favorite memories revolve around field trips. While traditional field trips continue to offer opportunities to create memorable learning environments for students of all ages, a new wave of technologies have created new, virtual field trip (VFT) experiences.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.” The agency connected participants with K-12 education experts before coding ever began. It was middle school that experienced a gap. Census Bureau.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2017

Over 20 million educators and students actively use it to teach and learn together, as do administrators who oversee how this tool is used across classrooms and developers who are building educational technology for the next generation. I can assign different levels of questions or quantities of assignments,” says Dalzell.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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APRIL 16, 2020

Chrissy Romano Arrabito teaches second grade at an elementary school in Hackensack, N.J., The school is located just a few miles outside New York City, the epicenter of the crisis in the U.S., I am not ‘work, work, work’ 24/7,” she said, emphasizing that she doesn’t want to condone that pace of work for other educators either.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

“This didn’t mean things didn’t excite us or concepts weren’t intriguing but each one was questioned with how does this help us to achieve our why and is this the best possible way of getting to it,” Bretag told Education Dive. To help stay mindful, here are five questions education leaders should ask during a classroom redesign.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

2) Video - Personalizing Learning at Oregon High School Learn how Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin uses technology to personalize the learning experience. Then we explore the most common blended learning models—Rotation Model and Flex Model—as well as tips for how to implement them successfully.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As a parent, Laura knows the value of a teacher who truly cares about each individual student and that is exactly how she chooses to impact students’ lives and educational journeys—by making those connections, whether students are 38 miles or 1,038 miles away. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our districts, Imagine Schools and Carbondale Elementary School District #95 (CES), might not seem to have much in common at first glance. Sixteen of our schools and approximately 5,000 students agreed to participate. Helping” students to answer test questions does not really help them at all.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

As an example, one student highlighted the long-term significance of the era by annotating a photo of a 6-year-old African American girl walking into a historically white elementary school in 1957 with a recent video clip of that same girl — now an elderly woman — reflecting on her experience.

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MARCH 28, 2023

In a new series called Future Teachers, we try to answer that question. First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. As she struggles to answer the question, two other students begin to whisper questions in her ear. As she struggles to answer the question, two other students begin to whisper questions in her ear.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” That means evaluating the curriculum’s illustrations, questioning the story lines, looking at the narratives laid out and the lifestyles depicted to scan for bias. “It didn’t sit well with us.”

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Learning Schools Multiple Choice Questions Distance Learning 213

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To understand how self-monitoring devices might impact education, first we need a definition of these technologies. According to Rich Voithofer, associate professor of educational technology at Ohio State University, wearables are an “intimate two-way interface between ourselves and the world.” to 11 p.m., Rich Voithofer.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

Educators using Google Classroom can check out Google’s accessibility tools slide deck , which directs users to settings built into Chromebooks and within educational applications. . Teachers can also find tips online, such as CDW•G K–12 Education Strategist David Andrade’s blog, “ Educational Technology Guy.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In a four-week unit on Albert Camus’ “The Stranger,” his senior year English students helped design guiding questions and themes, decided on daily and weekly assignments, determined how assessment and evaluation would be conducted, led each day’s discussion, and held each other accountable to mutually agreed-upon expectations.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston Elementary School in Dallas reopened its school building to PreK-5 students with simultaneous learning in the fall after months of remote learning. “I Breakout room captains are students who can alert the teacher if there is a question or an issue.

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Hybrid Learning Teachers Multiple Choice Questions Learning 218

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And how do educators share best practices across the region? In 2013, Fulton set out to answer those questions by launching their Vanguard Team , a group of 25 passionate educators who were on the forefront of technology integration and innovation. When we get kids thinking creatively, it unleashes a joy of learning.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended learning “can provide educators and students with a wealth of actionable insights on student learning, needs and preferences, empowering them to deliver the right learning resources at the right time for the right students,” according to the Consortium for School Networking’s Tech Enablers 2019 report.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In my classroom, Genius Hour means students get to use at least one hour of their class time each week to explore their own questions, create projects, and share with others. First, the students must generate a question that cannot be answered by a simple Google search.

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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. That raises provocative questions for U.S. But they will. But they will.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added. And the limited research that is out there is hardly prescriptive.

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JULY 10, 2024

By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. I think about these questions each day as I prepare my students to pursue a career in education, and over the years, I’ve found that incorporating CTE skills into teaching helps students have a deeper learning experience.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2022

Another platform, Mygrants , allows learners to access skills training and build new competencies while developing credit through digital cash transfers performed at a low cost by blockchain technologies. As students answer questions, they collect points and receive formative feedback to develop critical-thinking skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

While the EAD roadmap is not a curriculum, it does provide thematic questions anchored both in history and civics, which educators can use to guide curricular and pedagogical decisions. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For the past two and a half years, we’ve been exploring this question at Michigan State University. Our work, along with findings from the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund ’s collaboration with innovative New York City schools indicate that integrating computational thinking into core curriculum, could provide one path.

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MAY 8, 2024

Since spring 2021, our journey has been exciting as we introduce upper elementary educators to the intersection of computer science and Minecraft Education. These resources not only guide educators through the learning process but also enable us to gather feedback for ongoing improvement and immediate support.

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