eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

Students are in a multitude of educational environments that have challenged the entire school community. As educators, we cannot predict what the future holds, but we understand the importance of developing core skills such as collaboration, effective communication, and problem solving in our students today.

Physical Education

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

These skills will serve them long after they leave school. Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning.

History

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

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

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. These findings have put a fire underneath educators and K–12 organizations to refocus efforts to teach computer science skills. “We At Excel Public Charter School in Kent, Wash., eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 09/19/2018 - 12:15.

Science

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

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 1, 2021

And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID? 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.

Distance Learning

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

MAY 13, 2020

Teaching online requires a real shift in thinking about your role as a teacher, from having students who are a captive audience to trying to teach students who are scattered in time and place, and distractions,” Rice says. Not necessarily how long they engage with them, but how consistent they are.”

Online Learning

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

It’s fair to say that augmented reality has moved from a cool technology that might be neat for students to try to a credible teaching tool that fits just as easily in K-12 classrooms as it does in higher education. “Unfortunately, too much of our education system is structured like virtual reality.

Fairness

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. When I was teaching the early years [i.e.,

Testing

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

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Below are profiles of six such teachers, each of whom has at least one additional job during the school year. On top of teaching third and fourth graders full time, Robinson also works 10 hours per week as a school custodian, which brings in about $600 extra per month. We all know we’re going to have to do more [than teach].

Teachers

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on the K-12 edtech predictions educators and experts had for 2021–were they right? Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories.

Hybrid Learning

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

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

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

APRIL 12, 2016

” It is a significant shift in the teaching and learning paradigm. The principal at my school led professional development sessions on blended learning during two days at the start of this academic year. A significant portion of the training should focus on how to change the teaching and learning paradigm. Thus, it should.

Blended Learning

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

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Education experts were raising questions and expressing concerns about teaching shortages long before COVID-19 came into the picture, but the pandemic exacerbated the issue. Many schools and districts, including mine, scrambled to find quick fixes to keep the doors open during the height of the pandemic and in its wake.

Teachers

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Letting any teacher share their teaching materials is a key promise of the service, but it is also one that sparked controversy last year, after several people. Amazon Inspire remains in beta (but now in a form that educators can browse). label next to it. uploaded materials without the permission of the authors.

Social Studies

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

APRIL 18, 2024

. “We are excited to offer these innovative tools to our partner schools, enabling teachers to create more engaging and effective learning environments.” “This AI technology enables educators to bring lessons to life in ways previously unimaginable,” Pranav Mehta, CTO and Co-Founder of Prof Jim, said.

Education

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2016

What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other? Two experiments at two very different California schools aimed to find out. Image courtesy of Alpha Public Schools. It’s also a lab school for.

Learning

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 29, 2021

To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning. However, one critical content area, Career Technical Education (CTE), has yet to be aligned with other content standards and frameworks. CTE Gets a Bad Rap All U.S.

Interdisciplinary

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Don Murphy How did a mid-sized New York school district solve some of its most pressing professional development (PD) issues with one tool? or ‘When you keep me after school to do PD, I’m missing my son’s soccer match.’ Or, 'When you keep me after school to do PD, I'm missing my son's soccer match.

Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2019

Technology is a natural education fit in everything from math to Spanish to literacy. The one corner of K-12 learning that is not so obvious is PE — Physical Education. In that class, we think of physical stuff — not digital — like running and exercising. But kids love technology’s apps and software.

Teachers

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Blum, professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of “I Love Learning; I Hate School: An Anthropology of College,” and a contributor to the forthcoming book, “Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead).”. Blum: I've been teaching over 30 years, so I've had a lot of time to evolve.

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