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K–12 Videoconferencing Offers New Opportunities for Understaffed School Districts

EdTech Magazine

In a Gallup survey of K–12 district superintendents, 67 percent of respondents said the number of new teacher candidates is decreasing; 39 percent said quality is also declining. With the teacher-to-student ratio increasing by 30 percent over the past three decades to 26.8 The number of teachers in the U.S. by Curtiss Strietelmeier.

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Getting up to Speed: Teacher Prep and Technology Integration

Ask a Tech Teacher

What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements. For a teacher, this translates into knowing what students use and understanding these platforms themselves.

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Purdue begins work to advance science of reading with $1.5M grant

eSchool News

In early fall, the faculty gathered to review the results of a survey that would allow them to assess how prepared alumni and preservice teachers felt about literacy. Six months in, the Purdue faculty have already made strides in their initial planning for revamping the curriculum.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. We don’t have eyes on our students.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

Edsurge

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful. It was phenomenal to see!”

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

Edsurge

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities.

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How Has the Pandemic Changed the Way Educators Think About Homework?

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He usually begins the academic year with lessons on written profiles, but in the fall of 2020, he felt that wouldn’t meet the moment. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief.

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