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Tech Tip: Choosing digital tools for a virtual classroom
For both virtual and in-person teachers, the right digital tools will focus on student needs to enhance and support learning outcomes.
Education
Edtech
Teacher experience should drive edtech design, research says
Researcher explains how a teacher-led process led to certification for edtech tools.
Edtech
Tech Tip: Individualized AI coaching provides helpful PD
Donna McDaniel of Keller Independent School District in Texas was one of the first teachers in the world to use artificial intelligence-driven coaching for professional learning. Here’s what she thought.
Updates
Extra Credit: S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G, Supreme Court, sex ed in the 1920s?
SmartBrief's Extra Credit pays homage to academic/arts achievers, extolls the value of clubs and notes that sex ed wars will never end.
Educational Leadership
Change or sustain? Balancing mindsets for what works, what doesn’t
If we seek improvement, should nothing stay the same? Fred Ende shares how he meshes the mentality of change with the mentality for staying the same.
Edtech
Tech Tip: Technology sparks creative learning, boosts skills
Technology offers new way for students to engage with content and can help nurture student self-expression, creativity and collaboration.
Educational Leadership
Learn the new language of transformational leadership
Learning to be a transformational rather than a transactional leader requires learning a whole new language and approach.
Sponsored
4 ways to improve learning recovery for students with special needs
Address the immediate needs of students with special needs through assessment, family engagement
Updates
Extra Credit: School resegregation, expelled principal, FAFSA data blunder
Extra Credit: Resegregation, FAFSA data blunder, expelled teacher
Voice of the Educator
Empower girls to explore STEM careers in 4 steps
Experiences, aptitude scores can encourage female students to close the STEM gender gap.
Insights
The power of conversations can transform students’ future
To help students plan for what comes after high school, they need to have thoughtful conversations with supportive adults.
Educational Leadership
Lessons from higher ed on organizational strategy
Learn about the 4 pillars of organizational strategy that TCS Education System relies on and what higher education -- and any organization -- can learn from them.
Voice of the Educator
Delivering learning gains with virtual reality
Bringing virtual reality into the classroom engages students and helps them demonstrate learning gains as subject-matter experts.
Updates
Extra Credit: Why are teachers debilitated, students fined, schools sustainable?
Extra Credit: What's keeping 20% of teachers from working? Why are students being fined hundreds of dollars? Which schools are sustainable?
Voice of the Educator
High-impact tutoring FAQs for school districts
Why and how to implement high-impact tutoring to aid in grade-level gains
Voice of the Educator
E-zines can improve students’ writing, expression
Scrappy paper and digital publications help students find their personal voice, collaborate with classmates and learn from peer feedback.
Updates
Special education technology can allow inclusion, advances
Schools increasingly use innovative technology to help special-education students.
Updates
Education Extra Credit: Adult inattention, naughty math, guns and schools
Adult inattention, naughty math, guns and schools
Voice of the Educator
Technology and education: Turning distraction into productivity
How some schools are getting students to earn personal technology time.
Educational Leadership
Getting better at one of the hardest parts of teaching: Formative assessment
PD brings a common surgical and football tactic to classroom teachers.
Edtech
Building K-5 computer science curriculum out of a summer program
A technology integration specialist shares how her district added a new area of study — without breaking the bank.
Updates
Extra Credit: Teacher tip jars, state laws and a pandemic report card
Read Extra Credit to find out about teacher raises, possible jail time, state laws and a volunteer digital push for Ukraine.
Educational Leadership
Leadership lessons learned from reconnecting
A long time away from others in education offers reassessment of interactions
Updates
Cardona: “We are at the doorstep of a new chapter in American education”
Education in America is on the cusp of change, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said at ASCD’s recent annual conference. He urges educators to use this moment for a bold reset — or risk succumbing to complacency.
Insights
Teacher diversity: Bold steps toward solutions that work
Addressing the urgent need to recruit and retain teachers of color
Voice of the Educator
Trends in the math classroom: Number talks
Number talks help children with mental math, different strategies
Updates
Education Extra Credit: From AP and censoring to different wavelengths and a stellar program
Read about a social listening analysis, censoring and AP access, and some gifts for music, math/science and art teachers.
Updates
Rebooting Title IX: The view of a plaintiff in Alexander v. Yale
Pioneering plaintiff Olivarius: How we should continue to improve Title IX
Insights
Digital storytelling: Lessen student anxiety, aid SEL
Combatting student anxiety with digital storytelling
Sponsored
Supporting academic integrity in the classroom – and in life
How can schools better teach academic integrity as a life skill?
Updates
Education Extra Credit: History minefield, antiquated assessments and billboard recruitment
Education Extra Credit this week looks at history lessons, assessments, STEM inequity and off-campus safety.
Voice of the Educator
How to get the biggest value from your SEL platform
4 hallmarks of an effective social-emotional learning program for teachers and students.
Educational Leadership
5 ways we made our schools better
Accreditation gave our schools the tools to ensure top-notch education
Insights
The key to better edtech is better feedback
Scaling up our edtech feedback will make teachers' jobs easier.
Updates
Education Extra Credit: K-12 and higher ed striving to be better
This week's roundup of thought-provoking education extras asks us all to strive for something better.
Voice of the Educator
How U. of West Alabama nursing program achieved 100% NCLEX pass rate
Mentorships, scholarships and mandatory test prep paved the way to a perfect NCLEX score.
Voice of the Educator
Meet SEL challenges with technology, play and hugs
An animatronic dog helps students master SEL skills.
Updates
Extra Credit: Immigrant teachers, classroom comedians, giving students voice
Take a break with Education Extra Credit and read our roundup of topics from funny teachers to weary ones and beyond.
Insights
Teachers are burned out. Here’s how you can support them
Eight ways we can offer authentic, meaningful support to teachers daily.
Edtech
Top 5 tech tools to maximize reading fluency
Students can increase reading fluency in several ways with apps
Updates
SmartBrief’s Education Extra Credit
From citizen-ready students to the STEM teacher shortage to education in prison, this week's Education Extra Credit rounds up fascinating, curious or fun bits of news.