Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools teachers have in their “teaching toolbelts” for guiding learners toward mastery. Teachers must find ways to give feedback that are sustainable and effective. When done well, feedback can strengthen the relationship that online teachers have with their students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

This new offering integrates AI Assist, an advanced tool designed to save teachers time and elevate student engagement through AI-generated quiz-based activities and assessments. Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. She is the director of curriculum for NAF, a nonprofit that is trying to make education more career-focused. The burden does not only belong to math teachers, though.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2024

That’s what happened when we surveyed education technology leaders, and not the people you may think of when you hear that description. Instead, late last year and into the first portion of 2024, we surveyed information technology leaders in schools–the people in the IT departments who work to make technology work.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if why you choose to become a teacher determines how successful you will be in the role? What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom? Why, in spite of the headwinds, do they become teachers?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In that moment, even before I entered my teacher preparation program, I confronted a troubling reality: in education, there would always be scripts I’d be expected to follow. As a beginning teacher, however, it wasn’t my sexuality that initially cast a shadow over my work - it was the expectations embedded in yet another script.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I know that robust mental health and social-emotional support for students are non-negotiable in education and I applaud the new programs and resources designed to address this urgent challenge for our students. But what about the mental health of our educators? These are the kinds of questions my colleagues want to explore with me.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. Spierenburg also enjoys seeing this learner-centered approach, where teachers facilitate learning and nudge students forward.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It can reduce the onus on the teacher,” Miller says. In January 2022, a review of 17 research studies showed that young kids can learn from “guided play” as well as if they were being directly instructed by an adult or a teacher. Lego has used its signature building-block toys as a basis for play-based activity guides for teachers.

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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. This isn’t unusual: Students often get weird concepts of math, developing logical-seeming routes for answering questions, Barclay says.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2020

She was a classroom teacher for over twenty years and is currently a technology integration coach in the Pleasanton Unified School District. She has been working in the field of educational technology since 1998 when she earned her Masters Degree in Ed Tech Leadership. Lisa is the epitome of a life-long learner.

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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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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

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

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. Ellison’s “Invisible Man” resonates deeply with my experiences and those of many teachers of color face in education. Needless to say, I was not prepared for the unrealized stress.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Kohn is hardly the only teacher confronted with generative AI. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. Nevertheless, teachers are already deciding how — or even whether — to adopt these tools into the classroom. The main findings?

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

Ben is a kindergarten teacher in Salinas, California. He was awarded Teacher of the Year, Computer Using Educators (CUE) Blended and Online Educator of the Year, CUE’s Gold Disk Award, and KSBW’s Crystal Apple Award. Jenn is a first-grade teacher at Desert Sands Unified School District. I jumped at the chance!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2023

I provide staff development and training, and many of the teachers I work with are enthusiastic about trying new tools. For some, it’s the wow factor of using something novel or exciting; for others, it’s the allure of seeing their students highly engaged with new technologies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

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. Over time, I have heard my ninth grade students and preservice teachers say things like, “I have never been good at math” and “I am not a math person.”

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2024

The more I told them they had to leave and head back to their class, the more their voice rose as they declared they, “hate their teacher.” When these students arrived, they told me this teacher “sucks” and how mean that teacher was to them. All the teachers they were trying to avoid were white.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Don’t get me wrong, I support teachers putting themselves first in what feels increasingly like a thankless system. Much attention is given to teachers who leave, and rightfully so. While the teacher shortage varies state-to-state and across districts, it is concerning nonetheless. There is no bond like a teacher bond.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. Then again, we wondered, could an AI scoring and feedback system really help students as much as teachers could? Teachers have the ability to say, 'What were you trying to tell me?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these. I had so much I wanted to accomplish but I couldn’t get to the part I was most excited about: using technology to amplify learning. It makes sense.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. But certainly, it seems like teachers arent being set up for success. That has consequences.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When it comes to products that teachers are using to buoy student success, the stakes are high. That left us at EdSurge to ponder, how are edtech companies making sure their products are working best for teachers, the people responsible for weaving them into lessons each day?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2024

million followers) welcoming teachers to share their school supply lists, along with a bit of humanizing information like where they live and what they teach, in a Google form. A reader messaged me, and she said her daughter was a school teacher, and [the school] had given her no budget for classroom supplies. It feels good.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The national campaign comes at a time of concern about teacher shortages in many schools and districts. And it’s not just a problem today — there’s worry that the pipeline of new teachers being trained might be shrinking as well. So how are teacher prep programs responding?

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Key points: K-12 AI use will have a profound impact on the experiences and futures of education professionals Enhancing learning through AI and human educators Can assessments be used to eliminate inequities in education? The use of AI within the education sector isn’t without its challenges.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Education experts were raising questions and expressing concerns about teaching shortages long before COVID-19 came into the picture, but the pandemic exacerbated the issue. This experience gave me a glimpse inside the challenges facing substitute teachers and I’m convinced that things need to change.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 1998, I began my journey as an elementary teacher under the tutelage of my aunt and revered educator, Marva N. My mother was also a teacher, so I saw firsthand what it meant to be a passionate educator who is deeply committed to students. By the end of my fifth year of teaching, though, that excitement had changed.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number can be as high as 23 to 1 in states such as California ). One issue facing teachers is the seemingly never-ending stream of curriculum changes and standardization. So, what is the root of the problem, and what can we do about it?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2025

We really believe that that is something that starts in the classroom, so we want to make sure we're doing our part to ensure students have the skills to understand, use, and create with this emerging technology. At the classroom level, teachers are on the same page.

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