Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

These skills will serve them long after they leave school. These activities can also be used to encourage collaboration and communication as students work with peers, which can result in the development of interpersonal skills.

History

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise. My daughter in high school needs explicit instruction.

Students

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. That’s been changing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtually every school and teacher were thrust into the edtech landscape. Louis, Missouri.

Teachers

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

K–12 Schools Work to Incorporate Computer Science into Curriculums. When asked to imagine what data analysis in schools might look like, many might picture a classroom full of students huddled around computer screens, inputting numbers into spreadsheets and running simulations until their eyes water. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

Science

eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As a physical education teacher in an underserved community, finding ways to connect with my classes during the pandemic and a time of remote learning was challenging.

Problem-Based Learning

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Each grab-and-go unit stores everything to get started quickly, including wireless microphones for both the teacher and students and a battery that lasts a whole school day. Lightspeed’s Mobile PA overcomes these barriers by engaging students with exceptional audio quality, durability and ease-of-use.

Mobile Devices

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As the skills expected of today’s graduates change rapidly, school districts have to overhaul their thinking on what it means to be “college and career ready.” We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors.

Disabilities

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From a small corner to a full room, sensory spaces are increasingly being implemented in schools, homes, business, and public places such as stadiums and airports. Since COVID, I have also seen an uptick in schools that are creating quiet sensory spaces for their educational staff.

Students

eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2019

Standardized testing is making its way throughout American schools, and with it, nerves are ramping up. These strategies are quick, easily adaptable to any school setting, and work with all age groups. Given that students sit for most of their school day, this is effective even during a non-testing day.

Testing

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

If we can move beyond the industrial model and engage in place-based education that connects to the community outside the school, teachers can still be experts, but they can also be facilitators who open the door to a world of potential partners with their own areas of expertise. How will we prepare students for state assessments?

Education

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students who do successfully navigate their schooling emerge with only a specific (and often narrow) skillset that may or may not match their strengths or interests.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. A university developed a course that meshes physics lessons with martial arts. Its all about learning through physical activity. Start small.

Technology

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2023

To create a business model that is highly customizable and capable of finding and pursuing demand, edtech companies must build a data-driven ecosystem that can accompany learners through every stage of their lives—from preschool through high school and throughout their professional lives, leisure time and retirement.

Secondary Education

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2018

Presently, I’m a school librarian at North High School in Downers Grove, Ill., where I have the good fortune to be one of three full-time librarians in a school that serves 2,200 students. Use your “librarian reference interview” skills to listen, ask questions, and offer suggestions. Keep the tech simple.

Physical Education

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Schools Face Barriers to VR Adoption in the Classroom. And VR exercise games are getting sedentary students moving in physical education classes. “AR And yet, despite all of VR’s exciting potential applications within education , schools face real barriers in implementing this technology as a core part of their curriculum.

Schools

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Measuring and assessing such work in a way that keeps kids inspired is another matter, though, and schools aren’t known for being good at it. For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. There’s lots of ways kids can express their understanding.

Testing

eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2015

The 2015 TEAMS Award is open to K-12 educators and library media specialists. A new contest from Gale and Library Media Connection will award prizes and library resources to schools that share collaboration success stories between library media personnel and educators. and Canada. The deadline is June 30.

Education

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Many educators see that augmented reality “takes what is real and enhances or overlays information to get more out of exploring our world,” said David Loveland and Jim Wasserman, teachers at The Parish Episcopal School in Dallas. “Unfortunately, too much of our education system is structured like virtual reality.

Fairness

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 1, 2022

Learning during the pandemic benefited from what many schools had already started to build: Wi-Fi-enabled environments with top-notch connectivity that could support all users, from students working in the classroom to physical education teachers out on the field.

Accessibility

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Although it’s not the program that ed-tech advocates had hoped for, many expressed cautious optimism that a section of ESSA under Title IV (“21 st Century Schools”) could help schools use technology tools to transform teaching and learning. States then would pass these funds on to their local school systems.

Counselling

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. Extend: Encourage them to consider how life might be different if they were living in that foreign country during a different era or season.

Metacognitive Skills

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Video Games as Physical Education. Many K–12 teachers and schools have begun to introduce exercise-friendly VR games in the classroom or at school events. . Many K–12 teachers and schools have begun to introduce exercise-friendly VR games in the classroom or at school events. .

Disabilities

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Since Chinese authorities closed schools to control the spread of coronavirus, the Ministry of Education has called for students to learn at home. 19, Zeng, an art teacher at a primary school in the northeastern city of Qingdao, started a livestream art class via DingTalk, a communication app. My mom is going crazy.

Art

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Rice recently joined two other online learning researchers on an EdSurge-ISTE webinar , focused on how existing research on online learning can help teachers navigate the emergency remote instruction that’s been in place since schools closed in March. Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus.

Online Learning

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Here’s what they had to say: As many school districts remain virtual or use a hybrid model, teachers are doing everything they can to help students succeed in a distance learning environment, but at some point they will hit a wall and need help. This may assist with mitigating learning loss. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

Hybrid Learning

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Here’s what they had to say: As many school districts remain virtual or use a hybrid model, teachers are doing everything they can to help students succeed in a distance learning environment, but at some point they will hit a wall and need help. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers.

Distance Learning

EdTech Magazine

MAY 3, 2019

While K–12 schools are working to guarantee their data is secure , educational IT experts are raising concerns over the safety and accessibility of physical IT infrastructure in schools. . Below are suggestions for optimizing technology space and storage in schools. Fri, 05/03/2019 - 14:54. by Katelyn Sweeney.

Laboratory

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

When school buildings close, districts have to think strategically about how they’ll continue teaching students beyond classroom walls — especially in times of a crisis. But teaching those types of subjects from a distance can be hard for some educators if they’re doing it for the first time. In Gwinnett County, Ga.,

Art

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 21, 2020

When school buildings close, districts have to think strategically about how they’ll continue teaching students beyond classroom walls — especially in times of a crisis. But teaching those types of subjects from a distance can be hard for some educators if they’re doing it for the first time. In Gwinnett County, Ga.,

Art

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Educators and parents need to figure out ways to work around the devices and get kids moving. In this conversation, she breaks down the various scenarios schools face when trying to get students up, out, about and goes into some other ideas about how technology can encourage activity, not sap them from it. We have an active blog.

Activities

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

The 2023 K-12 Hero Awards program is dedicated to recognizing the country’s best examples of K-12 success using innovative education technologies. Education professionals across K-12 departments are eligible for nomination, including IT, curriculum, instruction, and administration. LeCleir-Salas also gave high marks to S.P.I.R.E.’s

Math

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Once available, teachers, administrators (from schools, districts, or states), institutions, or anyone with high-quality, relevant K-12 resources will be able to publish to Amazon Inspire.”. Amazon Inspire remains in beta (but now in a form that educators can browse). That review system apparently still isn’t ready for prime time.

Social Studies

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. It’s one of the first things we ask for when we visit schools around the world.

Science

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

As the skills expected of today’s graduates change rapidly, school districts have to overhaul their thinking on what it means to be “college and career ready.” We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors.

High School

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

STEM

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

Education

eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2016

The principal at my school led professional development sessions on blended learning during two days at the start of this academic year. Demonstrating belief in the models for all, rather than just being for school students. For example Art may have a different method of implementing blended learning to Physical Education or Chemistry.

Blended Learning