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AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model. Here are a few.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it? As educators, we find ourselves at a moment of incredible power for our students. Our students can share their thoughts, observations, and opinions about history and create primary sources along the way. Unprecedented. Tatjana Soli, author Unimaginable.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

What do you remember from history class? To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

In fact, spaced repetition is the key to all learning of knowledge-heavy subjects, from preschool literacy and numeracy exercises through high school, corporate training, and beyond. And yet it remains the most underrated and underutilized learning principle in the history of education. Flattening the “Forgetting Curve”.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform.

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MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. History, World History, European History, U.S.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. Not yet convinced? 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Outside the Computer History Museum, where its 26th demo day was held, an autonomous tractor drove in circles next to a massive 3D printer assembling an office pod. Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge.

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MAY 7, 2018

As different as these students are in personality, they are equally thriving in a new program for English language learners in danger of aging-out of traditional high school. Called Accelerate to Graduate (A2G) this program is being piloted at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Ky, where I teach.

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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. in the 2020–2021 school year. Bloomington, Minn.

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JULY 4, 2022

As an Instructional Technology Coach in Georgetown County, South Carolina, I have the amazing opportunity to work closely with teachers and students as they use educational technology in meaningful ways. . It is clear that COVID-19 has changed how teachers use educational technologies to support teaching and learning.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchored to poured-in-place rubber child safe surfaces. There was, after all, no evidence from the history books, nor from the teaching, that offered evidence otherwise.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history. Improving students’ academic achievement and learning outcomes is a critical priority for K-12 schools.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

With a mission to enhance teaching practices and foster collaboration, Gale Community For Educators offers a platform that encourages literature, English, history, and civics high school teachers to connect, share ideas and access valuable resources. stay up to date with the latest educational trends.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. And some educators worry that as more companies offer chatbot stand-ins for historical figures, students will spend less time diving into the raw materials of history themselves to draw their own conclusions. “I

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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. The effect is further exacerbated in high school, where in many states, students encounter U.S. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2015

In addition to the honorees and guests, twelve students from The Young Women’s Leadership School were on hand to demonstrate the wide variety of high-quality digital learning activities within the CFY learning platform, PowerMyLearning , which is designed to support personalized instruction and student-driven learning.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

The 2023 K-12 Hero Awards program is dedicated to recognizing the country’s best examples of K-12 success using innovative education technologies. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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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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OCTOBER 22, 2020

For example, educators who wanted to support student collaboration relied on tools with features to support sharing and commenting or that allowed students’ work to be viewable to an entire class. I try to get them to create a History folder, have a system and name docs.” Students often drop files haphazardly.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. I fixated on the missed opportunity to honor the Indigenous histories and peoples of North America.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the end of each school year at Central High School, seniors grab a paint pen and write their post-graduation plans on a glass wall outside the counseling office. And I can’t afford this school without that offer.’” PAUL, Minn. — For many, that means announcing what college they’ve enrolled in.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Those are some of the emotions Mario Herrera’s high school students experienced as they learned about the African diaspora, as part of a two-year pilot for the College Board’s new curriculum on the subject. Cary Hunt, who teaches AP Seminar at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Ala., Frustrated. Determined.

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MARCH 9, 2021

That’s the argument made by our podcast guest this week, Todd Rose, who has researched the history of grades and standardized tests and argues for a new way to think about them. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, but recently left to focus on his own nonprofit, Populace.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In my 20 years as an educator, I have seen firsthand how service-learning engages students as they become leaders in their communities. History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

By its second year, more than 1,000 students were enrolling in the course, making it the fastest-growing course in campus history. Opportunities to teach data science at the high school level are also opening up. It is also being replicated by high schools in three other states.

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APRIL 29, 2021

However, one critical content area, Career Technical Education (CTE), has yet to be aligned with other content standards and frameworks. While content standards are generally written across grades K-12, career education is typically considered only a high school endeavor. CTE Gets a Bad Rap All U.S.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Even more, for teachers of color, some of which have experienced the historical oppression of people and educational systems in this country, we must recognize and contend with our identities as settlers on the Indigenous lands of North America. This feeling heightened my desire to emphasize belonging between myself and my students.

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MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It was an extreme example of the political strain public school teachers are under from parents and activists. When schools are already suffering from severe staffing shortages, it’s a dynamic that may have dire consequences. But the real trouble for schools may come when those teachers decide to leave.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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