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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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

SAN MATEO, California and NEW YORK, New York — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, announced that it has acquired TPT (otherwise known as Teachers Pay Teachers), which offers the world’s largest catalog of educator-created content and tools for digital instruction.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2023

You would think after almost four years of the forced migration to remote learning and the new ways to connect and teach thanks to edtech, teachers would be ready to accept these tools as an essential part of their work.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

. – School Specialty , a leading provider of learning environments and supplies to the pre-K–12 education market, today announced the 2024 winners of its annual Crystal Apple Awards, which celebrate teachers who embody inspiration, leadership, and passion in teaching. and Canada.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2024

The Classroom Education Plan© (CEP) supports teachers and coaches helping them to improve their core instructional practice. We developed CEP to create equity for both teacher and student learning. Schools will be able to award teachers up to 36 job-embedded continuing education credits!

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

Lumio by SMART Technologies, a cloud-based learning platform that enhances engagement on student devices, recently announced a new feature for its Spark plan. 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. About 20 percent of those positions remained unfilled when the school year started. Sign up for our newsletters.

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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. But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative?

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

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. Through its new analysis , TalkingPoints set out to find what educators and parents were most commonly talking about via messaging and the tone of those conversations.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But there’s another potential consequence of the rising number of students missing class: Teachers enjoy their jobs less. For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. For public sector education jobs, the recovery in employment from the COVID-19 crisis was slow.

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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

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

JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder The study, “ Do Teachers Perceive Absent Students Differently? Why does that matter? If true, this would carry some implications.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2024

In the two decades that Jennifer Merriman has been in education, she’s seen a tendency in the field to solve problems by piling more tasks onto teachers who are already straining under the weight of their workloads. Zooming in on only teachers, they had the highest rate of burnout among all school workers at 52 percent.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Yourway Learning , a leader in AI-supported educational solutions, announced last week the launch of its$1 million, donor-funded Nationwide AI Grant Initiative. This bold program is dedicated to close instructional equity gaps, reduce teacher burnout, and unlock new opportunities for personalized, research-backed learning.

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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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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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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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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

Now, district leaders are reassessing those tools to identify redundancies, reduce costs and prioritize what actually works for students and teachers. Cot, assistant director of educational technology for the Massachusetts education department. Something sustainable for both teachers and students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I first realized I wanted to be a teacher around the same time I received my first mental health diagnosis. Instead of seeking help, I would isolate myself and create self-destructive narratives about how awful of a teacher I was. To make matters worse, I had a mentor teacher who made sure I knew I wasnt doing a good job.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year. This is the area of development where many teachers report seeing the steepest decline.

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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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Titled “Equipping Classrooms for Better Teaching and Learning: Smart Solutions and AI Technology,” the November event was part of the latest installment of CDW’s series of education technology webinars. Wendy Jones, an education strategist…

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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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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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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 3, 2025

Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out. In early care and education, on the other hand, there is no such infrastructure. These teachers also insulated the program from the disruption of staff absences. Your mental health is taking a toll.

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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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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

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. Others might have a barrier when it comes to technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The survey asked educators who either manage or use technology about the use and benefits of education technology in their schools. Educators were asked about the challenges they encounter and whether more funding or training or another support would improve the effectiveness of education technology.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The survey of more than 1,100 educators from across North America highlights back-to-school excitement, challenges, student engagement, and technology usage. As educators welcome students back to their classrooms for the 2023-2024 school year, they are continuing to embrace education technology.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

With time-saving technology strategies, school librarians can find ways to connect with their school’s teachers and students on a deeper level, forming relationships and helping with research and skill development. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom? Hybrid classes offer numerous benefits.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Iredell-Statesville Schools allows some use among teachers, but not students.” “The Santa Fe school board unveiled a plan last week to guide teachers on using AI in the classroom, including a pilot program to provide up to 1,000 students with AI tutoring software,” according to reporting in the Santa Fe New Mexican. .

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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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