Education

2022 EdTech SmartBrief Reader's Choice Awards

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Edtech 2022: SmartBrief Readers’ Choice Awards

The votes are in! From classroom management to security and safety to social-emotional learning, your favorite education technology platforms and solutions.

Education

Finding your place in the new education reality

After a chaotic years, educators should recharge and ensure their needs -- and their students' -- are being met in this new education reality.

Education

Using video coaching for teachers — and coaches too

Capturing and sharing videos helps both teachers and instructional coaches feel safe to take risks and improve their practice.

Educational Leadership

Administrators need to give teachers real mental health support now

Educators need social and emotional development opportunities for their own well-being, as well as that of their students.

Insights

Providing literacy intervention, support within MTSS

A multitiered system of supports uses a team approach that includes parents and special education teachers who together help students progress.

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Extra Credit: Success skills, civics assessments, prison dorms

Find out more about some intriguing, bonus education topics curated for SmartBrief readers.

Education

How teachers can better support foster youths in the classroom

When educators think about all students, the list becomes extensive: students of color, students with disabilities, English language learners, etc. How often do we think about education for foster youths?

Educational Leadership

4 ways to accelerate learning this year

Edtech data can help accelerate learning more precisely and successfully. A superintendent shares her district's has done it.

Educational Leadership

Stigma-free CTE makes all students problem-solvers

Earlier exposure to career and technical education could benefit all students, while a reshaping of CTE would greatly help students who choose those pathways. First, though, we need to change the negative perceptions around CTE.

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Extra Credit: Resilience in Ukraine, frustration in US

Teachers and students -- both refugees and those still in Ukraine -- show remarkable resilience and determination to stay in school. In the US, a mass shooting at a Texas schools prompts frustration at a problem that seems to be getting worse.

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Educational Leadership

Build a positive partnership with parents of students with disabilities

Program specialist Alina Davis shares 4 ways to work more effectively with parents on IEPs.

Education

After-school programs, teachers can partner on students’ SEL

Social-emotional learning expert Carlyn Andrew shares 3 ways educators and after-school programs can work better together.

Insights

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

4 ways to improve learning recovery for students with special needs

Address the immediate needs of students with special needs through assessment, family engagement

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Special education technology can allow inclusion, advances

Schools increasingly use innovative technology to help special-education students.

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Education Extra Credit: Adult inattention, naughty math, guns and schools

Adult inattention, naughty math, guns and schools

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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.

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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.

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Educational Leadership

Leadership lessons learned from reconnecting

A long time away from others in education offers reassessment of interactions

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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.