Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. I was a senior in high school when the pandemic started.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In “ The Convergence of K-12 and Higher Education: Policies and Programs in a Changing Era ,” two education professors point out potential benefits of taking a more holistic view to American education (in a volume that collects essays from other academics). There was a time when universities were held in the highest possible regard.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

The panelists were: Aisha Douglas, an academic dean at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, where she focuses on teacher development and curriculum adaptation in the humanities. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Here’s what Grant Smith, a K-8 computer science teacher trainer and consultant, had to say. “Oh,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A I was struck by the tight argumentation in the recent Vox essay, “ The incredible shrinking future of college ,” written by New America’s Kevin Carey.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Our English programs are often centered around what we deem worthy—classic, can’t-leave-high-school-without-reading titles. In elementary school, we often insist that students have a chapter book with them at all times.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

First up is Mimi Kasner, principal at Francis Scott Key Elementary School in San Francisco. I did not have to rewrite my essays, and from that point on I fell in love with technology, how amazing it is that it can help people to be efficient and also do beautiful work. I actually changed my career pathway.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. So when they experience success, it really motivates them to continue. Chaidez wants to go further.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

I went to a small high school there in the city, and yeah, that's a little bit about me. You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

12 Narrative Elementary Writing Prompts Like any writing skill, students build the ability to narrate over time. By providing increasingly complex narrative prompts throughout elementary school, you can help prepare them for writing prompts for middle school , high school, and real-world writing situations theyll come across.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Lee High School in Baytown, Texas.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. On the other hand, only one-fourth (25%) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 48% trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools. Virgin Islands.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. XQ Institute, which is partnering with the Carnegie Foundation and whose CEO sits on the foundation’s board , recently notched a victory in Rhode Island by eliminating school seat time requirements.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Adults and elders in the refugee community guide the story narratives, while high school art students created the graphics. They are also working with local libraries to train parents on how to use school systems to access things such as student-performance and behavior reports on a regular basis. She is African.

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