Julian Ramos has a passion for sharing his love for dramatic art with the next generation, according to an article in EdSource. It’s key to engaging students in language, he believes, leading to self-discovery and
There is no consensus on what causes teacher burnout — or how to avoid it, according to an Education Week article. Certain personality traits — low levels of emotional stability and high levels of conscientiousness,
Sam Baule writes of three ways to engage students in productive struggle in an eSchool News column. Baule is a medical student at Marian University. “The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that nearly half of the teachers polled say that students showing little to no interest in learning is a “major problem” in their classrooms, according to
As schools abandon textbooks for online and other alternatives, teaching and learning suffer, writes Robert C. Thornett in Education Next. He teaches humane letters and rhetoric at Chandler Prep, a Great Hearts classical school in
A growing number of programs are transitioning from short, uneven practical teacher training in classrooms to residencies, apprenticeships and mentoring, according to an article in The 74. Residents do more of the day-to-day work of
“Learned helplessness” is the belief that even with effort, a student will not progress, can resist help, quickly surrender academically and display passive behaviors, said speakers at the recent Council for Exceptional Children’s annual convention, according
School District of Philadelphia (PA) Superintendent Tony Watlington is accelerating a post-pandemic learning recovery in the nation’s 8th largest school district (200,000+ students) with curriculum rollouts, facilities improvements and more agenda action items, according to
A recent article in Forbes magazine, written by Lutz Finger, a data scientist in residence at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management with extensive experience as a technologist and product manager, lists the meaningful changes
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