eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

She has worked at MPSD since 2019 and was previously with Kemper County School District (eight years) and Meridian Community College (eight years). La’Toya works as an adjunct instructor for Mississippi State University, teaching Digital Tools for Learning to future teachers. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The number of instructors on the platform grew from 1,000 before the outbreak to over 7,000 today, according to Outschool CEO Amir Nathoo. These informal classes, capped at 18 students, are led by instructors who set their own lesson plans, schedules and price. On average, Nathoo says instructors earn about $40 to $60 per hour.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. If anyone knows the importance of belonging, it’s Columbia University instructor Marcelle Mentor, who grew up as a Black child under apartheid in South Africa. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? The in-depth workshop or multi-day training can come later.) “It’s one of the easiest things to do to really understand what that environment looks like, feels like and behaves like,” says Kerry Rice, a professor at Boise State University who has studied effective online learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. We’re seeing more and more middle school students taking. 00:01:39 Speaker 1 But then why is computer science?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A number of instructors say it’s partly reconsidering how calculus, a crucial step toward STEM careers and often a “weed out” course in higher ed, is taught. A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. That was it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied. Though her study examined college mentoring programs, there was a clear connection for me. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

It was a bittersweet moment for Ashley Lamb-Sinclair as she walked away from her middle-school classroom for the final time last year, flicked the light switch off and locked the door behind her. In her mind, that platform would not only be a place for instructors to discover new ideas, but also keep those ideas there. “As

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

A study by Macquarie University in Australia and educational technology company Makers Empire confirms what’s easy for educators to observe — 3D lessons engage students , enabling them to learn advanced concepts and skills. PRODUCT REVIEW: Dremel DigiLab 3D45 3D printer offers simple and speedy creation. 3D Printing Engages Students.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

And yet, the program has graduated about 300 African American men from college education departments in South Carolina, more than doubling the number of Black men teaching in elementary and middle schools in the state. Some Black teachers also studied at universities in Northern states. Academically, they helped me out.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

Their Pennsylvania school district, Haverford, consistently places among the top districts in our state. Their middle school benefits from stable funding, high-quality teachers, and a strong IT department, all leading to discussions about AI in their sixth grade classrooms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Often there are lessons to be learned from the very act of teaching, whether it’s an instructor finding new ways to reach—or not reach—students, to watching students grow before your eyes to discovering what makes collaborative learning so successful. Teaching isn’t a simple one-way exchange. What surprised me the most were the end products.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2025

But it’s still really hard to attract math and science teachers for middle school and high school: “It’s almost impossible to find a physics teacher right now,” he says. Still, to the extent Aspire schools have been successful recruiting and keeping teachers, the chain is in a rare position.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Xiong Fanyan, who oversees instructional affairs at a middle school in Beijing, has recorded a short tutorial video and uploaded it to Tencent Video for his students to watch. Tang, a sophomore studying at a university in Hangzhou, near Shanghai, showed us the exercises of her PE class that was posted on DingTalk last week.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. You have to let go of some of the micromanagement,” Montero says in a study conducted by Pearson.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Both Ranson IB Middle School, also in North Carolina, and Franchise Schools threaded a fine needle by collapsing grade levels, increasing class sizes and (in Ranson’s case) reducing the number of teachers hired for a grade level. At Navigator, pay for part-time small-group instructors was as low as $15 per hour.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. At the middle school level, they function as a school within a school. The high school academies, which students apply for based on interest, operate more like universities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Stefany Gurgel, NC3 Master Instructor, Festo and Instructor, Jewish Leadership Academy In the last few years, we have seen a change in workforce needs–there is strong emphasis on skills-based education, technological proficiency, and adaptability.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This profile is the fourth in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. Bringing about change in schools is complex. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

I remember my advisers questioned my choices to study [computer science] so many times. And with some of the instructors that were already in their careers but also volunteering at Black Girls Code — who are software engineers at Adobe or Pinterest or whatever, right? Can you give an example of a comment or microaggression?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This app is well-suited for its purpose of SAT language prep, as well as useful for PSAT and GRE prep needs and general vocabulary building skills at a middle school and high school level. In an age when anyone can produce and sell an app, the fact that lessons are designed by Ivy League instructors is a plus. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum? So, [the instructor] was able to see just about everything we did. We are almost out of time.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al., While the other instructor mostly focused on breaking the subject up in a simplified way. Ellerbrock, C., Falbe, K., & Pomykal Franz, D.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

As an instructor of teacher education, I pitched a FYS related to teaching, but also hoping to engage students who weren’t necessarily interested in becoming a certified teacher. A hugely present issue when I proposed the course in spring of 2022 was the resurgence of book bans occurring in schools and libraries around the country.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Freemium — FreshGrade —Written by James , a Middle School teacher in British Columbia, Canada. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented FreshGrade?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

Type to Learn –fee, aligned between home and school. Typing Instructor –complete online program (fee). This integrates excellently with literacy and word study as well as spelling and vocabulary lessons. These include: QwertyTown –fee-based, well done. Type Kids –graduated program of touch typing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

As founding director of CASTLE (the Center for the Advanced Study of Tech­nology Leadership in Education), the nation’s only university center dedicated to the technology needs of school leaders, I have had the good fortune to work with administrators all over the world on digital leadership issues.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

According to a University of Colorado study, incorporating game elements into e-learning environments can boost engagement and performance by as much as 89 percent. Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. This creates a natural sense of progression.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Instructors help to create this climate by everything that they do, from the way they respond to student questions to the arrangement of the classroom chairs.”. Currently, few studies have looked deeply into the benefits of flexible classroom design. After Kelly Almer, an elementary school teacher for Littleton (Colo.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

When you ask people what the flipped classroom is, they automatically go to the videos,” says Ryan Hull, a Kansas middle school teacher who has been flipping his social studies classes for the past six years. “I It has become hard to pin down as it finally begins to shake off the stigma of an online video fad.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

PrepFlash takes some of the tediousness out of studying by writing flashcards for learners. Sutori] appealed to me from the very beginning… I studied literature in college, and had I had a tool like this, it would have changed the way I learned.” But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. Getting to middle school, where I had a counselor, Mrs. Bennett — God rest her soul — she was a Black woman who told me, “You really need to be in the advanced courses.” And I said, “Sure.” I took the test. [The

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