eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Barrow Elementary School, we have a project which takes all these things into account. Flipgrid is the video discussion platform that students use to record a video of themselves reading their persuasive essay. Some students are talented writers, so they shine in the persuasive writing. At the David C.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

That’s the premise of the Voices of Change Writing Fellowship, which EdSurge kicked off last year. We brought together a group of diverse educator writers from across the country—representing a wide range of identities, experiences, backgrounds and perspectives—to share their experiences navigating the school year. You deserve that.

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Teachers Writing Coaching Essay 196

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some of his writing stretched my thinking in new directions. Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay.

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Science English Education Language 161

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. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Math 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Why Early Childhood Teachers Require a Unique Approach to Tech Coaching By Debbie Tannenbaum I have found that there are many ways to empower even the youngest students to get creative with digital tools, writes Debbie Tannenbaum, a school-based technology coach, in an essay.

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Education Coaching Essay Elementary School 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. What might it mean for their writing to explore how current competitors are now on equal footing with their former colonizers?

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

We spent time brainstorming a list of feelings students had about high school, the hardships, the exciting moments, and everything in between. For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation. As I became more comfortable, I began designing my own projects.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

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. Many teachers at the event weren’t actively worried about being replaced by bots.

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Teachers Education Instructors Language 217

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A The set-up has to be something most of your readers will recognize, so that they’ll get the joke,” she writes. I find her cartoons , which are often an interpretation of human nature and behavior, fascinating and witty.

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Reading Essay History Science 170

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Joyce Carol Oates Says Teaching Creative Writing Is Like Training Boxers Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has a passion for working with students, but it’s one she has trouble putting into words. Students are already figuring out they can use it to write their essays, and educators are pondering how to adapt.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 139

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Websites: Digital Wish and Adopt a Classroom Adopt a Classroom is similar to DonorsChoose, but instead of picking a particular project, teachers write an essay describing their classrooms and list some things they would like. The submission period starts September 1st, and only teachers working in Title 1 K-5 schools may apply.

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Technology Teachers Essay Art 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

“Innovations that commoditize some elements of teacher expertise also supply the tools to raise the effectiveness of both non-experts and expert teachers to new heights and to adapt to the new priorities of a 21st-century workforce and education system,” writes Arnett. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores.

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Teachers Teaching Assistants Intelligence Math 153

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

by Jacquelyn Whiting When a group of tenth graders turned in essays using politically slanted sources, media specialist Jacquline Whiting knew it was time for a lesson on the dangers of bias confirmation. If the technology does not offer a clear benefit, I’m not going to look into it any further,” she writes. Happy New Year!

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Exams Counselling Motivation Essay 122

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

With tools such as Wakelet, ELL students can write in their native language and teachers can translate on their own. While any instruction planning is a form of design, librarians for elementary school audiences, for example, must diligently design engaging storytime lessons to help prompt students to develop listening and literacy skills.

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

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. When students would be writing a whole page of text, I would be lucky to get a sentence in. Excruciating.

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Disabilities Lecturing Learning Disabilities Learning 125

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

A college-level course, with a few middle school games About 10% of Californias high school students took a community college class in the 2021-22 school year, according to an analysis by professors at UC Davis using the most recent data. She picked intellectual property law. A lot of people say Im assertive, she said.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 98

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. Consider paragraphs.

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Essay English Writing Art 147

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about.

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Essay Education Culture Elementary School 167

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Picture a high school student who balances his studies with a variety of other responsibilities and activities. Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. Maybe he works at a part-time job when the school day ends, showing his diligence and drive.

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Skills Learning Testing High School 217