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How 3 educators use tech to teach history
In honor of Black History Month and Presidents Day, we’ve asked three history teachers to share how they are using technology to engage students...
Education
Voice of the Educator
Coming to America: Preparing immigrant families for success
The story of the culture-shocked immigrant has been the inspiration for many lighthearted comedies, from “Coming to America” to “Spanglish.” But movies rarely paint...
Voice of the Educator
Harnessing the potential, possibilities of English learners
Many educators are using social media to spread the word about recent guidance and tools for English learners from the U.S. Departments of Education...
Education
It’s past time to move beyond No Child Left Behind: Addressing America’s teachers and principals
For more than a decade, states and schools throughout this country have worked within the narrow confines of the No Child Left Behind law....
Education
Meet keynote speakers at the California Charter Schools Association Conference
What if you could get inside the heads of students in the world’s education superpowers? What would you learn by following the school lives...
Career-Technical Education
How CTE prepares students for 21st century jobs
As part of SmartBrief Education’s coverage of Path to Workforce, we’ve teamed with the Association for Career and Technical Education to share CTE articles...
Voice of the Educator
Family literacy: One district’s approach to ELL instruction
With over 37,000 students, almost half of whom speak a language other than English at home, and 30% of whom qualify as English-language learners, Oakland...
Education
Educator innovation: Re-Making teaching and learning
Education Talk Radio recently helped SmartBrief Education shine a light on the Maker Movement and educator-bloggers Aaron Vanderwerff and Patrick Waters. Vanderwerff and Waters are...
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Tech Tip: Taking the Plunge With BYOD
Tech Tips is a content collaboration between SmartBrief Education and GreyED Solutions. Students and staff enter Meriden Public Schools with their personal mobile devices...
Career-Technical Education
Outlook: The state of Path to Workforce
Content series: SmartBrief Education brings you coverage of Path to Workforce. Find out what workforce, K-12 and higher-education leaders say about collaboration between education...
Voice of the Educator
2015: A year of buying into blame or a year of becoming better?
So 2015 is here. What is different? Not much. What is the same? Quite a bit. That being said, we have the opportunity to...
Voice of the Educator
3 benefits of next generation student assessment
“Next generation student assessment.” I’ve defined it elsewhere as the integration of new technology and better assessment techniques that allow teachers to know more...
Education
The use of data: Getting the whole picture
Education is a lot like baseball: They were both slow to embrace data as a tool for decision-making, but now accept it as an...
Voice of the Educator
Extraordinary schooling begins, ends with student work
Content series: Making the extraordinary ordinary This SmartBlog on Education content series written by education change-maker Josh Thomases will explore the possibilities and challenges...
Voice of the Educator
Student assessments: Junk in, junk out
Student assessment is one of the most important activities that happen in a teacher’s classroom. I’m not referring to the state accountability assessments that...
Voice of the Educator
PBL spotlight: Passion project serendipity
One thing I have learned in over 20 years of teaching middle school is to expect the unexpected. When the unexpected surpasses the original...
Voice of the Educator
Content series: Making the extraordinary ordinary
This SmartBlog on Education content series written by education change-maker Josh Thomases will explore the possibilities and challenges of making the extraordinary ordinary. It...
Education
Student assessment: Collecting the evidence
“Too many teachers are totally absorbed in the process of teaching, by which is meant the ‘delivery of information,’ and are barely concerned with...
Voice of the Educator
An open letter to parents
Welcome to 2015. This is an ideal time to take a step back together and reflect on our overall practice. We all know that...
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SmartBrief honors innovative bloggers: Meet this month’s winners
SmartBlog on Education’s monthly content award recognizes content written by educators, for educators that inspires readers to engage, innovate and discuss. SmartBrief Education editors...
Voice of the Educator
Finding diversity in a rural classroom
Reading Todd Finley’s recent article, Helping Diverse Learners Succeed, I was struck by the power of the argument concerning characteristics of the cultural deficit...
Education
Teaching resilience: Imagination
Samantha exhales and brings her hands to the sides of her forehead. Her thoughts begin a downward spiral. “I can only get so far...
Education
Ditching the desks in second grade
The layout and design of any space can impact the mood and productivity for the individuals intended to use the area. Prior to becoming...
Education
A reflection on connectedness
I think I have always been a connected educator even before “Al Gore invented the Internets.” I received journals in the mail, signed up...
Education
Your climate, your culture
The climate and the culture of your school are not the same thing. The culture of a school is represented by its shared beliefs,...
Education
10 steps technology directors can take to stay relevant
The role of the typical school district technology director has become obsolete. Speak with your average teacher in many school districts in the U.S.,...