Category: study online
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Teaching the Complicated Legacies of the Founding Fathers
Teaching the Complicated Legacies of the Founding Fathers Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements and seek to identify common ground on some of education’s thorniest questions. I thought readers might…
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You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level
You Can Teach About Climate Change in Every Subject and Grade Level. Here’s How That line of thinking hasn’t caught on with all teachers, though: When a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey asked why they haven’t addressed climate change or issues related to it with students, 26 percent of teachers said they can’t think…
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How to Get Rid of Discipline Disparities for Students of Color
How to Get Rid of Discipline Disparities for Students of Color What are strategies schools can implement to reduce and eliminate disparities in discipline affecting students of color? Racial and gender disparities, as well as the damages associated with them, in school disciplinary proceedings have been broadly documented for decades. The issues surrounding the disproportionality…
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19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom
19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom ‘ChatGPT Can Be a useful tool’ Susan Barber teaches at Midtown High School in Atlanta, serves as the College Board adviser for AP Literature and on the NCTE Secondary Steering Committee, and works as a teacher consultant. You can find her cheering teachers on at MuchAdoAboutTeaching.com or…
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Should Students Be Allowed to Eat in Class
Should Students Be Allowed to Eat in Class? Here’s What Teachers Have to Say Our students often seem like they are always hungry—some due to their families’ economic conditions, some because they got up too late to eat breakfast, and some because their growing bodies just need to eat a lot. I’m a high school…
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How to Become a Better Teacher. Here’s What Teachers Have to Say
How to Become a Better Teacher. Here’s What Teachers Have to Say Aisha Christa Atkinson, M.S., is a high school educator with nearly 10 years of teaching, curriculum design, and instructional-leadership experience in secondary English/language arts and English as a second language. You can connect with Aisha on Instagram or Twitter at @TheLitSensei and by…
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The Growth of Hispanic Students and English Learners
The Growth of Hispanic Students and English Learners Nationwide—in Charts Dalia Gerardo, a bilingual teacher, works with her 2nd grade students at West Elementary, in Russellville, Ala., on Dec. 9, 2022. Gerardo’s classroom features bilingual signs that support her English learners—and encourage monolingual English speakers to engage with Spanish. Tamika Moore for Education Week The…
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You’re a New Teacher. It Can Be Messy But Also Thrilling
You’re a New Teacher. It Can Be Messy But Also Thrilling 1. As the saying goes, “Work smarter, not harder.”: I used to stay at school late every day and come in on the weekends to create worksheet packets and game sets for each rotation. I should have trusted my students more and given them…
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Pursue School Improvement Through Persuasion, Not Vilification
Pursue School Improvement Through Persuasion, Not Vilification I’m working on my new book (tentatively titled The Great School Rethink). It’ll be out next spring from Harvard Education Press and aims to help educational leaders meet the challenges of the post-pandemic landscape. To the surprise of none of my regular readers, I suggest that doing this…
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The Pandemic May Have Eased, But There’s No Going Back for Districts
The Pandemic May Have Eased, But There’s No Going Back for Districts Diana Laufenberg is a former teacher who currently serves as the executive director of Inquiry Schools, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting schools to become more inquiry-driven and project-based. She currently lives near the family farm where she grew up in rural Wisconsin:…