Neo LMS

JUNE 2, 2020

For many schools, it has been nearly two months of remote learning. Many schools around the world are facilitating remote learning for the remainder of this academic year and possibly longer, and we can take this as an opportunity to try new ideas. Read more: What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset?

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This blog series is designed to provide educators with examples from the classroom of how the H?para The group was enjoying visiting the supply table and problem solving how to move the hippo. This group has been successful in the past with reimagining how you might use different supplies in new ways. Not this day.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2023

These changes have influenced personal habits, from shopping preferences to social norms, and have also impacted how individuals view their professional lives, with many now valuing flexibility over stability. Naturally, everyone has a unique response to this question. How do you respond to unforeseen challenges?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

So, I pasted in responses, and I'll let you look at them and draw your own conclusions. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter For me, this eighty days of AI journey is about looking at every AI tool that might be helpful to teachers. So, as we teach with additional materials, it helps.

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Waterford

JULY 21, 2023

We like to say she wrote the book on family engagement in schools—because she did! I went to school to become a teacher. I taught for schools with Title I funding in Prince George’s County in Maryland, and family engagement was a huge part of what we did in our daily work. How do you build those relationships?

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2020

Returning to a school building for the first time since we were all jettisoned to emergency remote learning will be a stressful event All of this has us eager to be back in the same physical space as our students as soon as possible. This truth has exploded as we have waded through the realities of emergency remote learning.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 17, 2024

One of the biggest hurdles was not being able to physically gather together at their school campus. Despite being relocated to various host sites, the students were embraced by the community and local schools, providing them with a place to learn and grow together. I was just really filled with hope,” said Smith. “And The result?

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

So, whether you are mandated to be online with students all-day or have some flexibility when it comes to synchronous teaching, it is important to consider how much time your students spend watching the screen in proportion to using it as a tool for interaction. Read more: From normal to better: Using what we’ve learned to improve education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning? We also need innovation and creativity.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

Now let’s have a real conversation about what “school” is going to look like going forward. As governors and districts wrestle over new policies, all we know is that school will be very, very different. We’ve entered the age of responsibility. The best designs are born in the realities of those who use them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When this school year began, parents, teachers and students rejoiced over the long-awaited return to in-person instruction. But just when the pandemic appeared to be over, the Delta variant has caused districts to rethink their plans for bringing students and staff back to school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

As the pandemic continues to stumble its way across the country, colleges that had never considered setting up online programs are now exploring how to do it. Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies. Most haven’t a clue. You would never do that on campus,” Springer continued.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Early childhood care and education before pre-K or kindergarten has not traditionally been considered a public school system priority. But as school leaders tighten their budgets, they would be wise to invest money earlier, when the return on investment is highest. But the time to use those dollars is quickly running out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Towards the end of the unit, I asked students how their understanding of the topic has changed since the first lesson. Among all the feedback I received, one student’s response stood out: “Honestly, my opinion of climate change is that I am frustrated hearing about it. No teacher ever tells us what we can do about it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

More likely, her sudden aversion to feelings could have resulted from my school’s investment in a packaged SEL program. More likely, her sudden aversion to feelings could have resulted from my school’s investment in a packaged SEL program. The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

No matter if you are an Instructional Coach starting out in a new position, or a school district seeking to create and develop an Instructional Coaching Department, one of the first things that should be mapped out is the various relationships that each member of your school district will have with your coaches.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2022

These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. I’ve taught high school English for years. Both failed to pass their respective state legislatures.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2024

The teacher was Jen Manly, who had many titles but also many ideas about how educators can make group work better — and dare I say, enjoyable — for participants. There’s no neatly wrapped solution to tie up her essay — because her school hasn’t devised one. Not just the numbers, either, though there was plenty of interest in the data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The first week of school is different from all others. I’ve also included a few general back-to-school activities with a digital spin to get you back into school quickly and agilely. Build a puzzle to decorate class walls for Back to School night. Let students prepare how-tos to share with classmates.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

The problem may worsen this autumn, as many colleges are planning for online or hybrid instruction for the start of the new school year. The problem may worsen this autumn, as many colleges are planning for online or hybrid instruction for the start of the new school year. That’s been a goal at my institution.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2021

As communities across the country prepare for the upcoming school year, there is cause for long-awaited optimism. Many students will be returning to the classroom with different kinds of skills and relationships built during an incredibly difficult year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. And while it’s tempting to blame the pandemic for creating these challenges, the truth is that they existed long before schools transitioned to remote learning three years ago. Consider what principals take on when they agree to lead a school.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

After all, if a science student hasn’t spent time actually producing reactions in a lab, Austin says, “they’re probably not going to be taken seriously out in the public,” limiting their success in graduate school or in the job market. In fact, some medical schools even refuse to consider admitting students with online coursework or degrees.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

In this first blog post, we’ll address how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. Part two will discuss how edtech vendors can return the favor to develop great working relationships with educators. Rely on evidence to understand and communicate academic needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

Robin Golden drifted through high school without making much of an effort. After graduating in the spring of 1981, she planned to forgo college and head straight to the job market. Related: For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough. She earned a 3.8

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

Leadership has always been a bit messy, especially in schools, where leaders have always had to navigate ambiguity and complexity. Before the pandemic, strong leaders were often expected to focus their leadership on process, accountability and strategic planning that presented a very controlled picture of leadership.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

This is why evidence of a return on instruction (ROI) when integrating technology is critical. In a previous post I discussed in detail strategies to help ensure the effective use of technology to improve learning outcomes. These are all outcomes that any educator would (or should) openly embrace.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. This second part discusses how edtech vendors can return the favor to develop great working relationships with educators. Public schools by their nature share data publicly.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? How many did Natasha fold? How did we let it get to this? Sometimes, it’s a simple question. It’s heartbreaking.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

If you want to plan strategically for the future, you have to know where you’re starting from in the present. For CLX, that meant creating a city-wide catalogue of the landscape of out-of-school-time (OST) programs offering learning experiences with digital media tools and technology (DMTT) citywide.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 1, 2018

This June will mark one year since my coauthor Eric Sheninger and I released Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today with ASCD. I feel blessed to say that the response by school leaders has been overwhelming. Dynamic educators truly are the solution. – The Free Study Guide.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Right now schools are making—and, in some cases, already implementing— tough decisions about where learning should take place this fall. All of this effort may get schools to the starting line in the short-term, but schools need to be thinking about the long-term, too. Uncertain conditions demand creativity and innovation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Today, over 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Last summer, as the Monterey Peninsula district in California planned to go back to school, homeless students quickly became a major focus. How could they access learning opportunities like everyone else if school remained remote? What happened in Monterey could serve as a powerful lesson for other school systems.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Recent incidents, such as New Haven School System’s $6 million breach and Prince George County schools attack , highlight potential risks facing schools today. There is a critical need for robust cybersecurity measures for protection against attacks, inclusive of a comprehensive plan to keep hackers at bay.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The father, Paul Carr, is 47, and he’s pushing to finish a college degree he started right after high school but stopped pursuing when he found out his then-girlfriend was pregnant with their first child. Finishing a college degree is hard. That’s the case for one family outside of Detroit. These two have loads in common.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Dear Teachers, Last week, the two of us had a conversation about school leaders who would be leading and making decisions related to the spread of COVID-19. We have tried to be clear about our intent to share our thinking, since some schools have very different priorities than the ones we have been projecting.

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