eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2022

The pandemic has augmented concerns about learning loss, leading many schools and districts to examine their summer learning programs and help students strengthen progress in various academic areas. Here’s how seven educators are tackling summer learning in fun and engaging ways for their students. Accelerating Learning Through Fun. At Brooklyn Preschool of Science, our six-week summer session is geared for 2- to 4-year-olds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

You’ve been teaching for five years and love what you’re doing. You consider yourself darn lucky to be working with colleagues that are friends and a boss who always puts your needs first. Most of the teachers at your school have been there years — even decades — and you have no doubt that, too, will be you. So, you don’t bother to keep your resume up-to-date or expand your teaching skills other than what is required for your position.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

By Allen Drennan The use of secure and advanced digital tools is critical for schools, colleges, government agencies and other learning institutions to create effective and engaging learning experiences. A multi-functional platform that incorporates the core segments of a virtual learning foundation offers multiple benefits to not only learners, but instructors and administrators.

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Hapara

JUNE 17, 2022

This year’s ISTELive 22 conference theme is “Empowering Educators. Elevating Equity,” which has encouraged the team at H?para to think about how we can operationalize that aspiration now and into the future. One of the most inspiring ways to do this is using project based learning (PBL). PBL is a teaching methodology that engages students using a sustained inquiry-based approach.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

By Charles Sosnik I remember hearing this question spoken in an interview about five years ago, and it almost knocked me out of my chair. Having grown up in public school, attended a state institution of higher learning and written about the traditional public school world for a large chunk of my career, my visceral response to this question was a resounding, Yes, of course, why would you even ask such an absurd question.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2022

Following the murder of George Floyd two years ago, we saw a national mobilization that challenged the beliefs and institutions that sanctioned the behavior of his murderer and accomplices. Yet despite nationwide protests, financial commitments from corporate America, legislative pushes, and bias training —police killings and the disproportionate burden borne by Black Americans has not changed.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

JUNE 17, 2022

The Rule of One! Only Put In Once in Google Sheets!! Here is how to handle if you need something twice or more in a spreadsheet. The post For Goodness Sake Only Put In Once in Google Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Report, Your host LeiLani Cauthen discusses the teacher shortage, what teachers were doing during the lockdowns, video conference call fatigue, the face of consumerized learning and the consumer awakening. The perfect storm of these things plus the “short form versus long form” learning issue is discussed as influencing what schools need to think about post pandemic.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2022

More than 80 percent of teachers say they are spending more time than ever on social-emotional learning (SEL), according to a new survey. Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) released its State of Education May 2022 Report , which surveyed over 2,000 U.S. educators to understand their perspectives on the state of students’ well-being and social-emotional health, the ways in which schools are handling these needs, the role of social-emotional learning ( SEL ) in the classroom, and the overall health of th

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techlearning

JUNE 17, 2022

Prezi is a powerful presentation system that uses lots of media types making it very versatile as a teaching tool.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2022

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., June 17, 2022— The Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) recently presented Ayana Askew, a 2022 graduate of Virginia’s Norfolk Public Schools, with the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Scholarship for Educational Courage and Justice. Sponsored by Curriculum Associates, the $10,000 college scholarship will be used by Askew to pursue a degree in English at Spelman College in Atlanta.

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MindSpark

JUNE 17, 2022

by Kiki Huckaby Every once in a while you come across a book that changes the way you think about a specific circumstance, situation, or event, but it is even more profound when you come across a book that profoundly changes the way in which you think about the world. Adam Grant’s book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know , did just that for me.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2022

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. As plans for the next school year are being developed and finalized, the role and management of educational technologies remain key considerations, even with the return to on-site learning. Ways to optimize school districts’ evolving use of edtech systems, based in part on lessons learned during the pandemic, were discussed during the edLeader Panel, “ Leadership Change within IT During the Digital Era.” Adapting to Hyper Change.

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