eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). Department of Education in recent years. Concrete, community-supported goals for student outcomes should serve as the north star for district operational planning.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

I've been a resident of the Lone Star State for over two years now, and I can definitely vouch for the saying: Everything is bigger in Texas! 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! Teachers to Follow on Twitter (+ Teacher Experts).

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The education system is undergoing a huge shift in daily structures and processes as a result of the pandemic. Students and educators have been affected by the huge changes to daily life, including distancing from friends and wider support groups, and family members losing jobs or income. Each Skill Improves Other SEL Skills.

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Tech Helpful

MARCH 14, 2018

In September of this school year I became aware that the state of Tennessee had a STEM School Designation Process. Being a little over a year into implementing a STEAM curriculum at Chattanooga Christian Lower School, I decided to look at the criteria to discern what my state felt was "best practice" in regards to STEM education.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The education system is undergoing a huge shift in daily structures and processes as a result of the pandemic. Students and educators have been affected by the huge changes to daily life, including distancing from friends and wider support groups, and family members losing jobs or income. Each Skill Improves Other SEL Skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

According to LD Online , the formal definition of executive functioning is “a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers. Psychologists Gerard A.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Angela Peery has been an educator 31 years and has served as a secondary English teacher, secondary administrator, instructional coach, turnaround specialist, curriculum developer, and consultant. Kimberly” as she is known by many, has been an educator and literacy consultant for many years. Full Bio As Submitted.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked educators from around the country to share their most transformative edtech moments. Here's what some of our favorite educators had to say: . Michael Hernandez ( @cinehead ), Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator, 2015 PBS Digital Innovator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

We talked to educator Alyssa Lyons about how to bring real-world skills to your classroom with some powerful curriculum. Marketplaces: High School Investment Education. Pathways: Financing Higher Education. Welcome to the 10-minute teacher podcast hosted by author, educator, speaker, and mom, the Cool Cat Teacher, Vicki Davis.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: The Classroom 2.0 show is back!

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

I’m assuming it’s very different for elementary than secondary. Erin: I’m going to let Ross jump in in a second, but I just want to address here the piece about the secondary versus the elementary. So I thought that that was a really unique way to work PBL into a secondary classroom model.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Though the state definition of proficiency is changing, for years proficiency was measured by how many students reached a passing, or “basic” score on the math and English portion of state tests.). Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated.

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2016

There is a growing consensus among those who work in open education – including organizations like BC Campus , Creative Commons , the Hewlett Foundation , Lumen Learning , OpenStax , the Open Textbook Network , Rebus , and others – that the Creative Commons Attribution (BY) License is our preferred license. STEM discipline?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. National Geographic defines a geo-educator as any individual working to improve young peoples'' understanding of the world.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. Pane is among a wave of education watchers getting excited by the idea that technology may finally offer a solution to the historic constraints of one-to-many teaching. .”

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When there was a disagreement, students now use the ladder of inference to back up and think through the data they chose and the assumptions that stemmed from that data. She wanted to be sure she was provoking the same response from her high school English students at Dundas Valley Secondary School in Hamilton.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2018

I believe it really stems from our ability to actually understand the conceptual understanding behind the mathematics. Again, we’re not teaching that procedures are not important, because they definitely are. So I’ve learned a ton, getting to spend all kinds of time in elementary as well as secondary. Kyle: Absolutely.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Making Isn’t Just One Thing We heard from dozens of educators who echoed Kwan’s view over the course of a five month research project to illuminate the experiences and challenges of K-12 educators who incorporate making into their lessons.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my post I wrote, My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. My goal is to facilitate radical improvements in education for everyone in the world. As an educator, I like #OER as a tool for transforming learning.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

For example, your directions can provide sentence stems to model what a response or comment should sound like, and vocabulary suggestions are a reminder of both academic jargon that is appropriate to the content topic as well as discussion phrases that strengthen argumentation. Share with us your educator story. ?Thank

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Now, Sean, you’re currently working with iPads and some online formative assessments for STEM classrooms. Another thing that’s changed my perception a lot is teaching at American College of Education and Cal State San Marcos. With the papers they write, quite honestly, we borrow a lot in education. So thank you, Sean!

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Currently, we are in such an opportunistic time in education. Educators are adapting to different learning models – hybrid, remote, hyflex, and back to face-to-face; but with these different learning models, we cannot forget the learner’s voice, choice, and engagement with their learning. Let’s embrace that! Social studies?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. We get you talking about your educational experience, get you working with children.”.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

In the Guide to Capstone Education from the National Capstone Consortium there are a series of questions posed about technology and the role it should, could or might possibly play in a capstone course. In this post, I will address each of these questions based on the definition of a capstone course at my current place of employment.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

ANGELA: We are going to be debunking a lot of popular ideas in education that you and I have discussed at length over the last couple of years. So it definitely does not automatically improve student engagement or learning. That is definitely important work. And I think you and I both believe that that’s a myth.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

AJ has created an entire online community of educators discussing Genius Hour, as well as an editable Genius Hour journal and an online Genius Hour course for teachers , so he can also speak from that context–supporting hundreds of teachers as they try out these ideas. So teachers are doing an hour a week.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

AJ has created an entire online community of educators discussing Genius Hour, as well as an editable Genius Hour journal and an online Genius Hour course for teachers , so he can also speak from that context–supporting hundreds of teachers as they try out these ideas. So teachers are doing an hour a week.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Right now, and into 2023, what I am learning/making/reading revolves around some of the usual topics of teaching, higher education, and technology. I've learned over the years how to find energy, purpose, balance, and satisfaction as a higher education professional, even through the worst of the pandemic and up to now.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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