Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. Of the more than 1,000 grants terminated, 417 were specifically related to STEM education research and valued at more than $322 million.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2021

In my experience as an Educational Technology Specialist (ETS) and many years as a middle school teacher, one thing I have learned is that if students have a choice in demonstrating their knowledge and showcasing their skills, they are often more invested in the task or end product.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

When a Texas task force set out to draft a plan for attracting and keeping more teachers in the state’s schools, it ran into its first problem before work ever began. The group initially was composed of school district leaders and had no more than one teacher, recalls Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

Could better communication between schools and parents alleviate the problem? It partnered with Google for a massive, AI-powered analysis of 40 million messages in its app to find how parents and teachers are exchanging information. And other research has pointed to the importance of improving parent-teacher communication.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This includes new lab series for high school chemistry and biology, which are being offered at an introductory price for schools and districts through the end of the year, as well as new individual labs for high school physics, middle school physical science, and middle school life science.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. WASHINGTON — Curiosity and creativity were on display when dozens of top teachers from around the U.S. During their visit to the nation’s capital, the teachers toured the White House, visited the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It’s conference season—the time of the year when parents and teachers meet to discuss each student’s progress. In most schools, this is a private conversation between the child’s teacher and parent(s). The teacher offers an overview about the student’s performance, and then they explain the report card or other set of data.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why. In each profile, we hand the mic over to an aspiring educator, letting them explain, in their own words, what drew them into this career path and why they’ve stuck with it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A few years ago, Chrissy Romano-Arribito began to experience something that may sound familiar to a lot of teachers: burnout. Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. I want to feel seen for the many contributions I make in my classroom, school and community. I am in my classroom listening to Lofi beats, pondering what has been and what is to come.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work. Figure 1: Teacher v.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But where in the conversation are the people implementing those tools: the teachers? In a survey released earlier this year, the edtech company Clever found that 85 percent of administrators say teachers are involved in choosing tools. It’s his job to make sure edtech is successfully integrated into schools there. “If

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Penner is part of a group of researchers who shed new light on this problem after they were able to pinpoint how a small number of teachers in one California district effectively doubled the discipline gap between white and Black students. The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. It can reduce the onus on the teacher,” Miller says. That’s frustrating.”

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

And for many teachers, the ongoing collision of racial, economic and health crises provide a visceral backdrop to such lessons. Berry is the CEO of Composer , a civics education project that aims to help teachers find, combine and share resources to create engaging lesson plans for students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As a graduate student and teacher, I’m only known to my students from the collarbones up, so everything within the camera frame is appropriate, clean, and gives off that put-together vibe. Students and teachers are lonely, isolated, depressed. This semester I feel like a bad teacher, disconnected and struggling.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Teachers understand the literacy program now and it can support their students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2022

Shea Smith starts the middle-school digital media class he teaches with a ritual: He asks his students to open up their Chromebooks and answer a simple question, “How are you feeling today?” A second fill-in-the-blank question invites students to add if there is anything else they’d like to tell the teacher, though that’s optional.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

BOSTON In 2024, more than 2,600 districts, schools, and state departments purchased or renewed licenses to Lexia Aspire Professional Learning or the Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs. It tells teachers what were looking for. Its the door to everything.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

She’s held a variety of roles in which she “educated” her audiences—from her stint as a middle school humanities teacher, to her days as Town Hall Seattle’s Community Programs Curator and Residency Program Lead, to her work as the founder of a storytelling project that aims to close the cultural gaps that often separate students and teachers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. School was once thought of as a safe place for students and educators, but many students, staff and families have lost a sense of safety and security.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments. Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. Is there anything I can help you with?’

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The factors behind the continued dip in scores are multilayered, but teachers might tell you that the key reason why some students arent making progress is that parents arent making schoolwork a priority at home. Some parents may have difficulty understanding the classwork or whats happening in school because they arent fluent in English.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

walked into his first teacher education course at Clemson University, he experienced a shock. public school teachers (men overall compose 24 percent). It felt like a safe haven sometimes,” says Richard, a recent graduate of the program and a new fifth grade teacher. Where Did All the Black Male Teachers Go?

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. This fall, Martinez will become a bilingual teacher for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in Morgan Hill, a small city near San Jose, California, as part of the next Teach for America cohort.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2024

As a School and Community Engagement Manager, the greatest challenges I see aren’t that parents do not care or don’t have time to support their children. To me, it seems that parents are experiencing a lack of connection — with the school, teachers, and the material their students are learning. Therefore, I choose to be present.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

3M and Discovery Education announced 31 State Merit Winners in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

In spite of the difficult circumstances brought on by COVID-19, educators continue to wake up every day and teach their students, albeit from their homes instead of in classrooms, and remotely instead of face-to-face. For many teachers, a tough, sometimes thankless job has become even more complicated. So can teachers!”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether the 2020-21 school year is starting in the classroom or remotely, Follett is ensuring elementary and middle school students won’t be missing out on one of their favorite back-to-school traditions: the book fair. Price points to fit every budget.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. As with all emerging technologies, it is critical to understand how we relate to these technologies in order to best leverage them for student learning. argument coherence) for teachers.

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Edsurge

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. Over and over, he saw teachers resisting technology adoption because they didn’t want to look foolish trying something new in front of students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Last fall, after schools had closed and students were forced onto Zoom and Google Classroom in a rush, experts and educators around the world clamored to make a rather fine distinction: What they were doing wasn’t online learning, but rather emergency remote instruction.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We have a lot of qualitative data from coaches, teachers, and administrative staff explaining how students who were indifferent to their studies have turned around because of our esports program,” says Alvaro Brito, STEAM Administrator, Department of Educational Technology & Innovation for Compton Unified School District.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Teachers are becoming stars these days on TikTok, that social media platform for sharing short videos. Teacher TikTok is now something of a cultural phenomenon. And last week a teacher who went viral on the platform appeared on the prime-time special for the presidential inauguration. I just want to make you smile.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Despite students of color representing more than half the student population, Black males make up only two percent of the teacher workforce. For years, Black males have been underrepresented in PK-12 education. He would soon learn that this was a trend in many schools.

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Edsurge

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. Caleb Brown : My third grade teacher, Ms. When did you realize that you wanted to become a teacher yourself? But I did enjoy teaching.

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