Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

She started the practice during COVID-19 lockdowns, when she couldn’t get to a library or coffee shop to work among other people as she had done in the past. I’m definitely a master procrastinator.” I’m an extrovert,” she says. She asked not to use her full name. “It It helped me stay focused,” she says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Meanwhile, a 2018 UK study found that secondary students aren’t selecting challenging books as they often do in primary grades—a choice that does not support sustained reading comprehension and has concerning implications for success at the college level. It can also be helpful to expand your definitions of what good content looks like.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H. We definitely need a shift.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. A lot of the definitions for personalized learning mention differentiation, being student-centered, and engaging students – goals Koufman-Frederick, a veteran Massachusetts educator and administrator, said teachers have always aspired to.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I prefer to use it instead of a computer because I have easier access to the tablet than the library computers. I downloaded the app when I received my school iPad from our Library Media Specialist ( @DebZemanLMS ), after seeing it on Self Service, an app store used in our district to make sure we download apps for education purposes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. What characteristics make them potentially disruptive?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. This is our routine every Monday.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

I’d venture to say that most of us could stand to learn a little more about ESSA and its potential for school libraries and the communities we serve. Deb’s presentation ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act: Implications for School Library Programs , shares critical background on the ESSA reauthorization and a plan for moving forward.

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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. Khan Academy has recently introduced more assessments, so that more of the exercises in their free library can be used in this way. So there you have it. What’s not to love?

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, performance has increased: standardized test scores, AP enrollment and achievement, graduation rates across all demographics, student attendance, and engagement, and post-secondary concurrent enrollment. The change in viewpoint is deeply respected.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H. We definitely need a shift.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The second, which is my path, is to make common cause with others who are working on solving the problem of the cost of attending a post-secondary institution, like Martha Kanter , Morely Winograd , and others making slow but steady progress eliminating tuition as a barrier to students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

But, even as the number of students declined, the schools still served a secondary purpose as community hubs — hubs that residents are intent on getting back. “ Research on the impact school closures have on children and communities isn’t definitive , but the effect appears to be increasingly negative for low-income children and communities.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 5, 2015

I’m fascinated by how much these themes resonate in the education and library worlds. Access and engagement: major themes for libraries, obviously, if somewhat controversial in post-secondary education. Anti-technology: we definitely experience that.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

We definitely want Newark students to feel like this is a place where they can come and succeed,” said Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers-Newark, which is playing a key role in the local drive to boost the share of city residents who hold college degrees and other post-secondary credentials from 12.2

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techieMusings

MARCH 29, 2015

In the Buncee library, there are a variety of well designed messages and quotes to jazz up any project. There are so many cool things to choose from in the Buncee library, that it was easy for students to just drag in everything that looked cool. The challenge of this part of this activity was keeping students focused on a theme.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Well, for starters, I mean, not that Wikipedia is the most reliable source, but it definitely helps in terms of kind of getting an overview of what the issue is here. I find Google a lot easier than going to the library website.” Imagine ways to innovate and inspire students to use the academic library. Connaway, L.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever. (Note: The template is linked near the bottom of the article.)

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Saving Socrates

JUNE 20, 2013

One of my favorite places in the whole wide world is Columbia Library. The library building in its current manifestation is perfect. How useful that is in everyday classes is definitely something that can be argued against. In fact, real solid accreditation of any university or secondary institution is conducted this way.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

So the following list of public education terms is useful not so much for the definitions, but for the credibility (or at least authority) of the definitions, as they are sourced from the Department of Education itself, in this case in regards to clarify Race to the Top language and meaning. To clarify your own misconceptions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I would definitely not give up on public schools,’’ she said. India will need some 3 million new primary school teachers by 2030 and over eight million secondary, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates. “If Back at GSSS Damodora, lecturer Ballani is more concerned about classroom space and equipment.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Verso only charges a premium option if you want access to a library of pre-made Activities (as of the publication of this entry, this upgrade costs $59 a year); otherwise, the platform is free. in Secondary Education Language Arts. It would be nice to see integrations such as Google Classroom which could pre-load a Class's roster.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. This contest was definitely an example of the latter. For the field of history learning there was a good mix of primary and secondary sources, not to mention a striking awareness of local history.

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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: November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Catalina Larrocoechea, 4, sits on a little yellow couch in the library area flipping through “The Three Snow Bears” by Jan Brett, which features an Alaskan Native Goldilocks tasting soup, trying on fur-lined winter boots and inadvisably falling asleep in a “just-right” bed in the bears’ igloo. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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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. How does your library manage digital collections? How does your library manage digital collections?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 14, 2018

One of the best definitions I’ve heard of trauma comes from researchers Rice and Groves (2005): trauma is an exceptional experience in which powerful and dangerous events overwhelm a person’s capacity to cope. Every child has a different capacity to cope, so this definition honors each child’s individual reactions and interpretations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Elijah Corbin Irving, a senior at Snowden International School in Boston, uses the American Student Assistance’s Boston Public Library College Planning Center as a resource. Murshea Tuor works on a project in science class at New York City’s Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. He writes and speaks about academic librarianship, learning technologies, library leadership, higher education, open and affordable learning, design thinking and user experience.

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iLearn Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Students can use the pre-selected images, choose an image from the My Simple Show library of images, or upload their own image or picture. Tips: My Simple Show has video guides that lead students through each step of the process…I definitely recommend watching these at least once as a class or for the first round of creation!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

We''re building new calendars for major conferences and events in the library, education, museum, and nontraditional education arenas--you can access these calendars through the top menu of the website. Secondary math teacher, Kyle Pearce, shares his most recent article on developing deeper thinking about mathematics among teen learners.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

So it definitely does not automatically improve student engagement or learning. I know you taught at the secondary level, I taught Pre-K to third, and this was true even with the littlest kids. That is definitely important work. ” And I think most kids enjoy tackling difficult and serious things.

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Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

It’s definitely vague. Thank goodness we have had one-to-one technology at the secondary level and classroom sets of devices, iPads and Google Chromebooks for years, so our teachers were very tech savvy, but it was just like, I just call it, going dark. Now, that’s one of those great education space phrases, right?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of the conference highlights included: The Madison Public Library system shared findings from the beta testing of The Observation Deck , an intriguing platform that captures multimedia evidence of how library experiences impact patrons. Great for a classroom or school library for students to check out, or for enrichment time.

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