MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! With over 5 million students currently enrolled in Texas public schools alone , the Twitterverse is rich with insights from state educational leadership. Tony Bonazzi @GISDMath.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A small classroom in Richton, Mississippi. But after the 2008 recession, local budget cuts forced class sizes to increase again, bumping the pupil-teacher ratio up to 16.1 There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Does everyone feel valued? Noguera, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Monsignor Tighe calls his educational profile and path “one of the most disjointed you will ever find.” In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. When I arrived in the Vatican around 2007-2008, everything was beginning to happen with digital communications.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

How Dave feels about leaving the classroom. What Dave would do differently if he was in the classroom now. Michael Matera talks about how to gamify your classroom in Explore Like a Pirate. (One he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. Review of Educational Research, 81(2), 201–233; Headden, S. Beginners in the classroom. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Co-sponsored by Aramark, VALIC and AASA, the 2016 National Superintendent of the Year will be announced at AASA’s National Conference on Education , Feb. Williamson has more than 30 years of service in public education, with the past nine years as superintendent of Hoke County Schools. 11-13, 2016, in Phoenix, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. Our goal was to provide every learner with the right content, at the right time, in the right way—regardless of grade level or arbitrary assignment to a classroom. Some of our students thrived in this model.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Classroom management skills is the topic of our blog post today! Classroom management is an art and a science that lies at the heart of effective teaching. It’s the invisible thread that weaves together student engagement, academic success, and the overall harmony of the classroom environment. MacSuga-Gage, Ph.D.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 6, 2012

Christine is a secondary certified math teacher, with Business Education certification and MSc as K12 certified Instructional Technology Specialist. In 2009 she became an Apple Distinguished Educator. She provides technology professional development district wide to administration, faculty, and staff.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Even as educators from around the world flock to Finland to discover its magic formula, Estonia, just a two-hour ferry ride away, has not aroused the same degree of interest. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Some of the very real challenges of life and the classroom are ill-?defined 2008; Desrosiers, Curtiss, Vine, & Klemanski, 2014). Used with permission of the publisher, W. cut answers.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Common Sense Education created this essential guide to help your district or school address the key topics E-rate recipients need to teach students, including internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyberbullying. What are the educational requirements for compliance? What are the educational requirements for compliance?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2016

In the fall of 2008, Ted Gonder was studying economics at the University of Chicago as the world economy melted down around him. “We The juxtaposition led Gonder and some classmates to start a financial education program for high school students in schools in low-income communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 8, 2021

I spent the first half of the summer working a lot — this is one of my primary busy seasons as an educational consultant — and we successfully kicked off another cohort of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program. Secondary teachers, you are going to especially love this, as I’ve got a bunch of high school teachers sharing ideas.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This guide will walk you through what you need to know about the importance and benefits of art in education. Then, we’ll cover what you can do to make art education part of your curriculum and a few educational art activities for young learners. Why Is Art Important in Education? Where Did the Arts Go?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, many schools and districts are still relying on individuals or looking for that magic program rather than developing educational systems that provide a high-quality, modern education for all students. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Artwork decorates the nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. The reception class for 4-year-olds was housed in the next classroom down.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the overall proportion of Americans with higher educations has been slowly increasing, the proportions who are Black, Native American or Hispanic — like Navejas — are falling further behind, or staying no better than level. Hispanics remain roughly 25 percentage points behind whites, a difference almost unchanged since 2008.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! She is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding. The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. But she wasn’t sure how she’d make it out of New Orleans until 2008, when she met a skinny white guy from Washington, D.C. Her uncle turned around in the front passenger seat.

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iLearn Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I had a great time helping other teachers learn how to use technology, and coming up with ideas for how they could integrate it into their classrooms. I took a year off, fully anticipating that this little experiment would not work and that I would be back in the classroom by 2010. In 2009, I left teaching for health reasons.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2016

But after a tobacco settlement left the state with additional education funding in 2008, the Springfield City School District (SCSD) made some needed infrastructure improvements. Fish was among many educators who dreamed of repurposing the school in a way that retained its educational mission. Photo/ Scott Marshall, SCSD.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Classroom facilitator. This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability. Key characteristics include real-time updates, quality data in and out, educator and school control of the data, and flexibility in reporting. Database analyst? Dr. Dean R.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges and universities prepare them. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? By Franklin Schargel.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Notes from the UNI Education Summit in Cedar Falls, Iowa a couple of weeks ago… Website. I’m glad there are so many educators here; I always feel safer in a room of teachers! He said, “You’ve had a wonderful education. The city department of education sent me out as a substitute. My first day was in kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

A majority of recessionary budget cuts to education have been restored. National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. See adjacent graph.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

. Despite the gridlock that has become synonymous with the nation’s capital, in 2008 Washington, D.C., Here are three key lessons: Lesson 1: Access to early childhood education sets students on a strong learning path. Related: More charter schools mean fewer early education options, research finds. It’s that simple.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 6, 2016

hosted by the National Writing Project, KQED and Educator Innovator partners—can productively bring the presidential election into classrooms to improve students’ argumentative writing and media literacy. A classroom consists of diverse students from every background. Creating a Safe Space.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Our first 2022 LearningRevolution.com mini-conference: " The Microschool Summit - Changing education, one small school at a time! " Education today has become large and focused on many things beyond the needs of learners, such as tests, curriculum and assessment. is being held online (and for free) this Thursday, May 19th, 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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