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AUGUST 5, 2024

From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.” Third, school districts could consider teacher motivations as part of their hiring process.

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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 209

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MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. That’s the only way to get around this.”

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

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JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” Investors have plowed over $2 billion since 2010 into startups addressing the US K-12 edtech market. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Instead I’m encouraging them to think of those essays as an important step in a more authentic process.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

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JUNE 20, 2017

I did not know how to use headers, footers or page number in Microsoft Word, so I got five points off every essay for an entire semester. For classrooms that expect students to collaborate online and write long essays, lacking these resources puts them at an academic disadvantage. Need help teaching students tech basics?

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Essay Education Students Internet 167

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MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. To what end?

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi.

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Counselling Essay Students Study 210

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. In high school, her teachers often graded students’ notes from the textbook to ensure they were doing the reading, Martens says. That was one of my favorite classes.”

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 199

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? What aspects of curriculum or community might get us there?

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Essay Intelligence Knowledge Writing 144

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AUGUST 23, 2022

During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. Throughout the year, John went from barely writing a sentence to crafting five-paragraph essays with the support of that tool.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

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MAY 31, 2023

Riley Mulcahy, founder of the RILEY Project , provides a unique perspective as a former student and current administrative assistant at Compass High School. Compass High teachers aim to provide a personalized learning environment for every student as much as possible.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 212

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

middle and high schools can’t even try ChatGPT without a parent sign-off, even if their schools or teachers want to embrace the technology. In my eighteen years of working in education … I’ve never encountered a platform that requires such a bizarre consent letter. That means most students in U.S.

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Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 195

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It Some [teachers] have students who have written full essays on their phones.”

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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 213

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! And at first, our school blocked its use. What were your goals?

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? What aspects of curriculum or community might get us there?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The AtomicMind Foundation Scholar Program will provide comprehensive support throughout a student’s college admissions journey, starting as early as the freshman year of high school. Essay crafting. ? Navigating relevant relationships and communications at the high school and college levels. ? Interview coaching.

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Coaching Counselling Essay Students 130

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It might seem strange to squeeze in lessons on coping with trauma or resolving political disputes in between frog dissections and persuasive essay writing, but students today say they want to be as prepared socially and emotionally as they are academically when they leave high school.

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

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JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s not a mastery-based standard and it hasn’t been given the same weight as crafting a clear argument in an essay or explaining the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. In an essay penned in 1935, which has become one of the anchor texts I’ve drawn from throughout my career, W.E.B.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 196

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Technically, today wasn’t Nick Hom’s first day of school. But it was the first day he and his classmates were united in the newly-built campus of Design Tech High School , a free public charter school founded in 2014. Students, parents, educators and Oracle employees gathered today in Redwood City, Calif.

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MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. Perhaps all this is for the best.

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

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JUNE 17, 2024

But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative? Instead, I’m challenging us as educators to keep thinking about what we gain and lose as we pursue intentional AI use. What is the cost?

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 201

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JULY 6, 2023

It’s the next step,” says Shelly Ruff, a former fifth grade teacher who found out her teenage son has used ChatGPT to write his essays. For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock.

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Reading Essay Lecturing Writing 150

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? Here’s what Sal Khan, founder of CEO of Khan Academy, had to say. "Oh,

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Technology Teachers Essay Learning 161

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Even so, students spend much of their time in an environment where authorship is not held in high regard. In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. Writing a good essay requires a great deal of analyzing and thinking outside the box.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 124

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JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Here's What Does.

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 113

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Here’s what Philip Hickman, superintendent at Columbus Municipal School District , had to say.

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Essay Textbooks Intelligence Learning Outcomes 143

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! education technology agenda. Much work remains to be done to realize the full potential of education technology.

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Education Coaching Essay Evaluation 147

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JUNE 29, 2021

It sounds at first like a typical assignment for a high school English class. Students at Belmont Hill School are asked to think of someone they encounter in their daily lives who might need a financial boost and record a short video essay about them and why they’re important in their lives.

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Assignments Essay Students English 174

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 199

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Throughout the spring, Jain, then a junior at San Marino High School in Southern California, worked with a research scientist in France to explore these problems. He credits a high school teacher with getting him hooked on physics. When is this behavior socially acceptable? But he’s working toward it.

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Essay Intelligence High School High School 180

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C. What should teenagers do after high school in these changing times? To find out, EdSurge interviewed high school students from around the U.S. As a Student, I Couldn’t Afford a College Sweatshirt. As a Professor, I Keep That in Mind.

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Education Exams Instructors Essay 179

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. While educators are engaged in long-winded conversations about how these tests don’t accurately reflect student success, kids are losing out every day. I was wrong.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 135

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? What aspects of curriculum or community might get us there?

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Essay Culture Reading Questions 140