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Reconceptualizing Assessment in the Service of Learning
One of Edmund W. Gordon’s early experiences in psychological assessment planted the idea of its potential to advance learning, and not just to measure and rank status. This is a tune that Dr. Gordon has hummed since that formative experience, elabora...[Read More]
Children Thrive When Teachers and Parents Act Like Allies
This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. It was the first week of school. I was scrolling one evening when a post stopped me cold. A parent of a kindergarten student was frustrated that she had emai...[Read More]
Brainly Introduces Guided Audio Sessions for Mindfulness and Mental Health
Learning platform Brainly has announced ClarityPods, a library of audio sessions designed to help improve students’ focus, emotional regulation, and self-belief.
Entrepreneurship: The New Core Curriculum
“Entrepreneurship is the job of the future” -Charles Fadel, Education for the Age of AI The traditional high school curriculum was designed for the 20th-century economy: memorize facts, follow instructions, and land a steady job at a large, stable c...[Read More]
Wi-Fi Hot Spot Lending Program Scrapped, Leaving Libraries Scrambling
For the last six years, patrons of the Brown County Public Library, nestled in rural Ohio, checked out portable Wi-Fi hot spots in droves. The 60 hot spots circulated more than 1,300 times a year, used by, for example, students logging into online sc...[Read More]
CoSN, SETDA, UDT Release Guidelines for Environmentally Responsible Technology Purchasing
CoSN and SETDA, in partnership with IT and telecommunications solution provider UDT, recently released a set of Sustainability Procurement Guidelines designed to help K-12 school and district leaders, procurement officers, and technology directors ma...[Read More]
5 Strategies For Incorporating Social Emotional Learning Into Your Classroom
These five strategies social emotional learning strategies will not only benefit students, but can also be beneficial to teachers, too. Source
Pizza Days and Chicken Wings: A Kitchen Manager’s Recipe for Connecting with Kids
Anyone who regularly cooks knows that feeling when you realize you’ve gotten in over your head. Maybe a pot of pasta is boiling over on the stove just as you’re supposed to be browning chicken in a pan and mixing around some vegetables roasting in th...[Read More]
Problems Become Possibilities: The Power of Educator Incubators
By: Darcy Bakkegard At a workshop this summer, Kalyn, a 24-year teaching veteran, turned to our group and said, “I’m losing my spark. I’m losing my fight in a community of no’s.” While your wording may be different, how many of you have echoed Kalyn...[Read More]
‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ Is Now Here: How a Teacher Used AI to Teach ‘Macbeth’
An English teacher paired lessons on Shakespeare’s classic play with instruction about AI.
‘AI Helped Us Understand Itself’: What Happened When AI Wrote a Course About AI
Careful AI prompting helped a computer science leader design a course about the technology.
How Chatbots Can Help Train Teachers
Tech that simulates conversations can support teachers with classroom management and lesson planning.