Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. Indeed, presidents and sports stars choose exactly this photo op when visiting schools. What Is Fair Use? In the U.S.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

And, even more important, which of these emerging technologies address the chief problems you are trying to solve in your school or school district? Each year the New Media Consortium (NMC) and CoSN—the Consortium for School Networking — jointly create the Horizon Report. Rethinking How Schools Work.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2018

From local Edcamps in your backyard to glitzy conferences dotting the globe, these convenings showcase exciting changes happening in schools and classrooms (and humbling lessons learned along the way). And they’re all united around a common interest: exploring how education will evolve in ways that better serve all learners.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

The RAI for Educators course is designed for K-12 and promises to revolutionize how they think of and implement artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. Educators need an understanding of what AI is and is not. With this exceptionally valuable resource, educators get to learn about AI, by engaging with AI in a demystified manner.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2022

When I first began attending school, my teachers often seated me in the back of the classroom. That meant I didn’t just attend school in Florida, but also in the states that we traveled to, such as Indiana and Michigan. For this reason, it is important to review and ensure that hiring practices are fair, reasonable and equitable.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

Every year, around the country, high school students get their hands dirty with science projects—chemistry labs, robotics, that model of a volcano. But one school just outside of Washington, D.C., And that's just one example of how extraordinary this school is. And that's just one example of how extraordinary this school is.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. These shifting attitudes were evident in March at Central High School here, at a daylong event dubbed the “ Opportunity Fair. I don't know if I'm going to go to college right after I get out of high school,” said one junior. PAUL, Minn.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Specifically, researchers at Opportunity Insights found that relationships with higher-income students dramatically improved low-income students’ chances of upward mobility in adulthood, even more than traditional success metrics like school quality. That’s not to say schools fly entirely blind. Who’s in your community?

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Schools are becoming increasingly unsafe for our nation’s students — physically, socially and emotionally. There were 46 school shootings in 2022. high school students. Most parents support SEL , want SEL programming in their children’s schools and believe SEL is an important tool for their children’s future.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – Renaissance , the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is honored to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the community reading initiative Read on myON , a first-of-its-kind partnership between Renaissance and Hillsborough County Public Schools. Bloomington, Minn.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2016

And, even more important, which of these emerging technologies address the chief problems you are trying to solve in your school or school district? Each year the New Media Consortium (NMC) and CoSN—the Consortium for School Networking — jointly create the Horizon Report. Rethinking How Schools Work.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Following an abrupt shift to remote learning this past spring, school and district administrators have had their fair share of summer homework as they prepare for a technology-first fall term. Maximize the tools you have. In fact, a 2020 report that surveyed 1,200 U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

Level Data is a privately-held SaaS Company working with over 1,200 school districts and more than 5 million students using their data validation, data integration and reporting products. State submission specialists at school districts are under significant pressure to secure all the funding they possibly can to bolster their local budgets.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

The FCC has the authority right now to extend the reach of broadband and close the Homework Gap so we connect millions of children who desperately need to get online for school. Over fifty million students have been sent home from school as a result of the response to coronavirus nationwide. It’s a tall order.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At my district’s high schools, personalized learning is fairly easy to see. Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. This document helped standardize what good teaching looks like at elementary, middle and high school levels.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. It’s a valid question that even my high school students ask.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most schools in the U.S. boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far. Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. It’s that those tasks are only a very small part of what Eva Stone views as a significant role within a school. The school often can step in and help. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2021

“We’re meeting everyone where they are, to serve the needs of everyone at all levels,” says Karen Santos Rogers, associate dean of Trinity’s School of Education. s early childhood educators, most of whom don’t fit the profile of a typical American University student. Courtesy of Martha’s Table. In contrast, the D.C.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2021

Nothing has illustrated that shift more clearly than the pandemic, which forced school, work and most everything else to become virtual practically overnight. She opened her home to them and started a “Homework House,” where neighborhood children were welcome to enter her home and attend school every day during lockdown.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Districts went into the 2021-2022 school year with plans to help students catch up in the subjects where they had lost ground during the pandemic. But problems stalled those efforts at virtually every step, according to a new report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther was my student five years ago at my former school, where I taught in an accelerated learning pilot program designed to service students in danger of aging out of high school due to their age at enrollment. schools for less than two years. My roster is also much larger than it was in the pilot program at my prior school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

public schools. It’s one of the most pressing issues facing superintendents today, according to leaders at the AASA, the School Superintendents Association, as well as one of the most glaring findings from this year’s superintendent salary survey. That, and the fact that superintendents are overwhelmingly white. It’s a very hot topic.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Palmdale School District Superintendent Dr. Raúl Maldonado discusses the district’s “Palmdale Promise” initiative, focusing on technological equity and early literacy. I’m the content director for East School News, and I’m happy you found us. We bought a high school four years ago.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Podcast Episode Episode Description In this episode, I talk with Dr. Brandee Ramirez about what it takes to lead AI implementation across a school district. But, we always spent a lot of time at my grandma’s house, and we played school all the time. And the school district’s hiring them. Dr. Brandee Ramirez Oh, wow.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her. Its a treat.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

It started with an underwhelming science fair—the type we’re all familiar with: students standing next to handmade posters, listlessly describing their projects, usually alone. In a traditional school, subjects aren’t integrated. Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, Calif., Not your typical science fair . Make it cheap.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Call to mind some of the dominant narratives about school innovation and chances are a fairly predictable picture emerges. It’s not hard to conjure up a charter school launched anew in California or perhaps Chicago with students working through personalized learning playlists in colorful and modular furniture—and plenty of technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This weekend, EdSurge caught up with John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and affiliate professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and a keynote speaker at the Learning and the Brain conference last week in San Francisco. in terms of the school, and that's about half of what I would do.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. Today, we use FH Gizmos to expose Fair Haven students to entrepreneurship. In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In school, subjects are traditionally taught in silos.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

As a whole, STEM fields experience significant gender imbalances and makerspaces are no exception—despite being a relatively recent adoption for many schools. And while gender parity among students was observed in early grades, participation by girls dropped 25 percent between 8th grade and high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s the start of the second week of the school year and my son’s virtual first grade orientation is scheduled for 10:15 a.m. Many of the teachers at my school are also parents navigating this overwhelming struggle. The dual role of educator and parent is a precarious balance to maintain and often feels impossible. and 3 p.m.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

College career fairs look like an awkward high school dance: Students circle around company booths, unsure whether to stop and drop off a resume. One company is making a business out of helping student associations and companies connect beyond the walls of tri-folds and stacks of resumes at career fairs.

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