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Panel Presentations: Connect Students with a Real Audience

Catlin Tucker

When I send home the parent survey (via Google Form) at the start of the school year, I always ask parents if they are interested in lending their expertise and time to be on a panel or assess student work. I find it interesting that most teachers at the secondary level do not ask parents to come into the classroom to help out.

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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

While there are still many challenges that remain, schools have an opportunity now to review their processes in order to make them more equitable.

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Three Questions to Center Equity in Your Edtech Procurement

Digital Promise

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation.

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Michigan Virtual survey highlights K-12 educators’ AI beliefs, needs

eSchool News

The survey looked at how educators in Michigan are using AI and how they are implementing AI in schools. The results of the survey are clear that additional work is needed to support awareness, research, training, and addressing concerns in the field.

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Research-backed Success with Social-Emotional Learning

Digital Promise

After taking a deep dive into the California Healthy Kids Survey , we saw alarming results—a trend of students with increased anxiety, students not feeling a sense of belonging, and an increase in chronic sadness. Data also shows an increase in chronic absenteeism resulting from anxiety, most notably at the secondary levels.

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Teacher resilience: 3 practices of teachers who toughed it out during remote learning

eSchool News

Our team of researchers, all former elementary and secondary teachers who are now teacher educators, saw this as a moment in educational history that had to be captured–and so we asked teachers these questions: What are your top 5 issues? Our survey was open from May 4-May 31, 2020.

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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

Edsurge

A recent survey of teachers in Washington, D.C. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations. One relatively easy option would be for elementary classes to have their normal classes 4 days a week.

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