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.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yes, the golden years when we swap lesson plans for travel plans and staff meetings for… well, absolutely anything we want. ” “Why did the retiree go back to school? He was taking notes for his upcoming role as a film critic in the ‘School of Life’!”

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EdNews Daily

MAY 7, 2019

Our prediction for what will happen as these two things meet head-on is that teacher jobs are going to change dramatically. million-or-so K-12 teaching jobs will eventually change roughly as follows: 50 percent as Teacher-Guides/Planners. A portion of this work may be outside support services contracted with schools or districts.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 3, 2020

Contrary to my own public activism and advocacy, I propose that we move the nation’s largest public school system into a completely online endeavor forever and a day. I’m jealous of the way they speak, walk, and work as if they’ve got their theory of online schooling fully figured out. With no exceptions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Griffin Middle School in Smyrna, Georgia. To achieve efficacy, games should engage students and support the curriculum standards of any given school, district, and state—while also being easy to integrate into a classroom. Each game teaches a single standard, so a teacher knows what to launch for her class. What Not To Do.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 18, 2019

Just once I’d like to hear of an administrator who told a teacher: “Tell me what you need to ensure that every student is your class can learn; it’s my job to find the resources — money, personnel, testing, materials — and to then provide them so that you, their teacher, can teach.”. Catherine makes an excellent point. Filter away.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. But for thousands of so-called international schools in Asia, many of which follow American curriculum and employ American teachers, it’s already daily life. Some schools were better prepared. Here in the U.S.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

It also got me thinking about how much boring time educators spend in meetings and “PD” when they could be doing something more authentic. I'm going to bet we can all recall a meeting or boring PD we had to endure. Those meetings that drag on, and on, and on. Many meetings are just information transfer.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. In fact, in 2019, UNESCO estimated that 258 million children — about one in six of the school-age population — were not in school.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 4, 2015

During a multi-day workshop I was running in one of my schools a few years ago, we had teachers divide up in to curriculum teams to investigate and find resources for a unit of study they felt they were weak in. I had no idea it's popularity (nor did I know it was blocked in our schools). But then we had a problem. A Pinterest Party!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 30, 2015

How–And Why–We Flipped Our Teacher Staff Meetings. Staff Meeting. The one thing sure to not be tackled is the true task of schools – changing a teacher’s practice and improving student learning. What if teachers could go to staff meetings and be actively collaborating?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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techlearning

MAY 15, 2018

Pro tip: If you want to make a group of teachers laugh, show them this image: You can even change “staff meeting” to “PD session” and get the same results. Professional Development/Learning is to teachers what school is for many students. It’s also kinda cool to say school sucks. it’s almost cliche. Valid point.

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Hubbli

APRIL 13, 2021

School newsletters remain the most common tool that administrators use to keep parents up to date. So as an example, let’s say you’re working with a parent committee and you want to schedule a meeting, or let’s say you want to reschedule a meeting. She was trying to just reschedule a meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Diop is a senior at Broome Street Academy and takes advantage of the services offered through the school’s nonprofit partner, The Door. Dental checkups are one of the many non-academic activities the 17-year-old senior does at school in between anthropology, English 12, and economics. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Mikaela Johnson, with her mother, Ashley Johnson, faces uncertain high school plans because of the coronavirus pandemic and her family’s unstable housing situation. The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

They hear that this type of instruction is boring and that they’ll lose students’ attention. Particularly as schools emphasize “21st century skills” that prepare students for the modern workplace, teachers are being asked to innovate in their classrooms. Noelani Davis, math teacher, Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. Alternative schools can vary widely, and some have been criticized for warehousing difficult cases and using harsh discipline.

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Learning in Hand

APRIL 5, 2017

Big Idea #1 Technology is integrated well when it is used as a tool to enhance teaching and learning. “If If technology is an event in your school, you’re doing it wrong!” Big Idea #2 Technology is integrated well when instruction is modified to meet the needs of the digital age learner. School is catching up.” -A.J.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

One morning in May, an almost 2-year-old with dark-blond hair named Marin arrived at “school” around 8:30 a.m., In Marin’s case, that was because of an “accident” she had had on the way to school—an accident that now meant changing out of one of her favorite pairs of pants into leopard-print leggings she didn’t like nearly so well.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Nell Scharff Panero taught high school English for 13 years before going back to school to get her Ph.D. As a teacher she was often frustrated that she didn’t have more concrete tools to teach writing. Some people can make it, but how do we learn more about how we can teach it better, so everyone does better?”

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eSchool News

MAY 18, 2017

When I was coming up in the business, I used to cover town council and school board meetings. It’s amazing; even then you could go to any town council or school board meeting anywhere and find remarkable similarities. What the school board thinks doesn’t matter. Education Bigger than Politics.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 7, 2016

” My response was, “Maybe we have to be less boring?” Look around your staff meetings; how many educators (paid to be there) are disinterested? Someone asked me a question similar to this; “What do we do about kids that are distracted by devices in the classroom?” Notice anything missing?

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MindShift

AUGUST 21, 2020

.” McLaren says her daughter went from loving school to dreading it. But this spring, when the nation’s schools were forced to teach remotely, many of those children were left behind, and some vital services — including physical, occupational and speech therapies — simply stopped. And we need to talk about that.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Senior Hernan Hernandez, 17 (left), and junior Ray Garcia, 15 (right), hope to design a new skateboarding course at Vista High School. It’s part of a big shift to gear the school more toward students’ interests. Hernan, an avid skateboarder, was bored in gym class. Vista High School and Barela leapt at the opportunity.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2018

“We’re in Iowa, these are not things you deal with,” said Shawn Cornally, co-founder of Iowa BIG, a project-based school that came into being after the flood. “So Over 100 adults strapped on backpacks and went back to school — walking in the shoes of students. Iowa BIG is far from a traditional school, but it is public.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. They are still behind .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 20, 2019

And, she’s been teaching for 25 years, so she also has a lot of expertise. We’re going to explore ways she can streamline her lesson planning process and avoid time-wasters to meet her goal of leaving by 4 P.M. She’s wondering: Isn’t it supposed to get easier and faster by some point? on Fridays. . But it’s the reality.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Jelin McChristian, 19, is pursuing his GED since leaving Jim Hill High School. McChristian went to school in the Jim Hill feeder pattern in Jackson Public Schools, like most all kids in Jackson’s Washington Addition neighborhood, where school is close enough to walk to. He liked school but said it bored him.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

During my third year of teaching, I struggled to envision what rigorous learning looks, sounds and feels like without joy. In my classes, Radical Black Joy not only sustained us in our learning, but it became necessary to create liberatory spaces for students and transform relationships within the school community.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Consortium for School Networking, CoSN, has taken up the mantle for the K-12 version. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. The Promise of “Free”.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

schools face meeting students’ mental health needs. Department of Education, 6,743 children who were enrolled in district-provided pre-K in 2013-14 received one or more out-of-school suspensions. The boy with orange socks acts out when he’s bored, so she suggests giving him a front seat at circle time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sheryl Javier graduated from Bronx Arena in July 2016, after 8 years of high school. This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. In the 1990s, Cesene was a teacher in Los Angeles, California, teaching students English.

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