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Using AI in Service of Strong Pedagogical Practice

Catlin Tucker

Despite my optimism about the benefits of AI in education, the buzz online is focused on the exciting new AI-powered education tools and not on the transformative impact those tools could have on how we design and facilitate learning experiences to meet the needs of diverse groups of students.

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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

We were collecting data from a variety of assessments, but the interventions we were using just weren’t showing that students were making consistent progress as readers. We were primarily using a reading workshop and balanced literacy model to teach reading.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

Edsurge

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Public Schools created a design lab , which invited principals, teachers and staff to workshop solutions to problems. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. In 2018, D.C.

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The Failure of Fast Education

Edsurge

Some are day-long or week-long workshops. And most of these programs are compelling because they are relatively affordable (by comparison to traditional degrees), short, and promise a clear path to employment. They’ve presented strategic work to their boss’s boss’s boss, and had the meeting go sideways to the point of shouting.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

While there are limits to comparisons between the two educational approaches — special education is legally mandated and personalized learning is a loosely defined pedagogical philosophy that takes many forms — some of the cracks that have appeared in personalized learning are not unlike those facing special education.

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Text-based tips may help parents and preschoolers learn

The Hechinger Report

After a full day’s work managing children’s reading programs and parenting workshops, she returns home to her own two-year-old daughter, Katelynn. “We In fact, language skills advanced most among kids who started the program with the lowest scores in a literacy assessment. In fact, both Loeb and Kalil make that comparison.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. By comparison, so few students made the cut in Puerto Rico in either grade that year that the percentages rounded to zero.