Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. “If you were an object, what object would you be?” He remembered one who identified as a fruit.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

As the seminal punk band so adequately expressed for millions of teens across the country, no one represents the concept of authority better than their teachers and administrators. In most classrooms, the management boils down to, “I’m the teacher, so I’m in charge.” I’m the fun teacher! Naturally, this bummed me out.

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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 113

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

I think a lot of the teachers and parents don’t know, either.” It’s a fairly new technology; there are a lot of mysteries and questions around it for families who don’t use the tool very much,” Rubin says. They just want a way where they can follow some guidance provided by educators.”

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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Education Essay Culture Math 118

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” In “Teacher in the Machine,” Trumbore traces edtech’s beginnings to three professors at distinct schools: Suppes, who founded the Computer Curriculum Corp.

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Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

The Department for Education (DfE) has just released updated guidance for AI , opening the door for schools to embrace artificial intelligence in ways that they feel could transform the educational landscape. At the same time they have released some free training materials to support teachers to use AI safely and effectively.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? Understanding these dynamics could reshape your perspective on what effective education looks like today. This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world. Often, this means finding a central theme, problem, or question that ties everything together.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

To learn more, EdSurge spoke with three members of Olney Independent School District (OISD) in Texas: Alyssa Betts , district emergent bilingual coordinator; Veronica Fobbs , seventh grade science teacher; and Elianis T., Elianis: Before using the tool, I couldnt ask questions or talk to other students in the classroom. an EB student.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

It’s probably better to invest in training for professors and teachers,” Torney said, “and also creating some frameworks for universities to message to students how they can and can’t use AI, rather than trying to use a surveillance methodology to detect AI in student writing.” The Center for Democracy & Technology, a D.C.-based

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

John talks about the surprising ways schools are using digital platforms for everything from dropout recovery to career education. And of course, we touch upon the potential revolutionary impact of AI on educational content. And I think there’s no question that when you think. Have a listen, OK?

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2025

We are staying ahead of them, with a robust security posture that will scale as education technology evolves. When teachers deliver live instruction, they only access the student data they need—such as a student’s first and last name, IEP status, or participation data—within secure, role-based systems. Nothing more.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2025

Only five states (Alabama, Hawaii, Michigan, Mississippi and Rhode Island) meet all 10 of NIEERs recommended benchmarks for high-quality preschool programs, which include class size, teacher qualifications and program assessments. And 21 states only meet five or fewer of the benchmarks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

Fast forward 13 years, and she is one of a growing number of teachers who have been tasked with expanding what is now essentially seen as an important additional early grade level across the entire California school system. “I Even if there’s enough TK teachers today, there’s shortages across the board.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

The framework was developed with input from district subject matter experts (including computer science, math and science teachers) and external partners. These factors influenced the types of questions used. To support automatic scoring, the team included multiple-choice and Likert scale questions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The order promotes appropriate integration of AI into education to ensure the United States remains a global leader in this technological revolution. The directives primary aims are teaching students and training teachers to use AI in order to improve education outcomes. Holcomb-McCoy asks.

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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

As educators and industry leaders, we must ask: What do students and their teachers need to prepare for a future that is still unfolding? How can we ensure that all students develop the computing skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven workforce?

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Science Education Ethics Students 109

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps?

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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 99

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

The questions arise as one prominent chain of Montessori-inspired schools shrinks rapidly. With a dipping economy, a fight about school voucher options and confusion about what the “Montessori” term even means, is Montessori still the “it” trend in the preschool world?

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Education Schools Study Teaching Methods 140

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

I had this question of when you utilize these measures in groups with different characteristics. She eventually took that question to Northwestern University, where she is now building out her own artificial intelligence technology system that could potentially quell the issue.

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Languages Language Intelligence Testing 139

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Dr. Joe Mancuso and Sean Ryan about how schools can move toward personalized learning with the help of technology. Once we had a shared vision, our teachers and leaders built it from the inside out.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

But here at EdSurge, we believe the teachers who taught those ‘90s kids deserve a walk down memory lane, too. We know we still have Google and everything, but posing direct questions to you just made so much more sense. 2017 Equivalent: Modern teachers are incorporating multimedia on the daily these days, it seems. Ask Jeeves.

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Teachers Gamification Internet Math 289

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Since the program launched, a patchwork of legislation across several states criminalizes teachers to varying degrees for what they say about sexual orientation, gender identity or racial ideology in an educational context. Limits of Privacy The types of censorship librarians are experiencing is also true of teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

For students and teachers, fear threatens to derail learning. Although federal investments boosted schools mental health services in recent years, districts find themselves in a tough spot, with key federal grants used by schools to supply mental health services thrown into question.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

I remember from teaching, and also from being a student, that some of our best teachers were not necessarily the ones that were tied to one resource, but they used a lot of different things and they mixed and matched and were able to curate things. My personal opinion, I think of open education resources as being free like a puppy.

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Internet Textbooks Confidentiality Discussions 330

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

So when cyberbullying does happen, some teachers’ instinct is to shut it down, filter everything, or head back to the comforting pre-internet world when everyone treated each other with kindness and never spread any rumors about their classmates. Rather the question is: How are we as educators using these tools?

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Internet Students Curriculum Feedback 200

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I know is a great resource, but I don’t think teachers are even aware of it. Teachers aren’t able to take on “another thing” so anything we share with them has to solve problems they already have. Teachers aren’t able to take on “another thing” so anything we share with them has to solve problems they already have.

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Questions Curriculum Coaching Communication 304

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. Ann David: What about teacher and student relationships?

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Questions Ethics Education Fairness 208

eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

The company has launched Gale In Context: For Educators’ new Learning Center , an on-demand professional learning hub for finding, organizing and learning how to teach – virtually or in-person – using the content created within For Educators. Easy to access answers to the most commonly-asked questions and more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Megan Schlagel, a high school math teacher in St. is an award-winning educator who is dedicated to the continuous improvement of her teaching practices. This includes the use of AI-powered teacher coaching via the AI Coach by Edthena platform. Admittedly, even as a mentor teacher, I was nervous to record myself.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When I ask teachers, “How would you describe a successful online or blended learning course? ” Most teachers include some form of the word “engagement” in their answers. So, it makes sense that teachers are frustrated when they feel like students are not engaging. What would that look like?”

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Learning Spaces Student Engagement Learning Students 545

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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Feedback Blended Learning Writing Communication 546

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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Teachers Participation Course Design Discussions 212

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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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Technology Teachers 191

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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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 208

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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