This week's EdSure Top 5 seems interesting: I'll store this here until later. Click here to see the original article which I just pasted here. The second one - on homeschooling and virtual schooling and NOT brick and mortar, is the one that speaks most to me...
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1. How to Help Kids Overcome Their Fear of Math, According to
a Brain Scientist: Math gets
a bad rap. Kids are scared of it. It gives adults anxiety when we have to
calculate the tip at a restaurant. Some journalists (maybe even the one,
ahem, writing this) joke about becoming a writer to avoid it. But math
anxiety has a real, negative impact on students’ performance in school.
The good news? We talked to a cognitive scientist who says it doesn’t
have to be this way.
2. I Used to Struggle With Where to Send My Kids to School.
Now I Struggle With Sending Them at All: There are a number of reasons parents question school safety
for their children nowadays, not least of them the ever-present threat of
school shootings. Voices of Change fellow Matt Homrich-Knieling takes us
through his journey as a student, teacher and parent, detailing the ways
schooling has harmed him, and why that troubles his decision to send his
own kids to school at all.
3. Can a Group of MIT Professors Turn a White Paper Into a
New Kind of College?: A
group of MIT professors convened an online gathering in November to
brainstorm how to create a new kind of college from scratch to meet the
needs of today’s students. Discussion was lively, and at times,
surprisingly frank about the need for higher ed to make big changes.
4. Why Did We Stop Hearing About the Teachers Making Millions
on Teachers Pay Teachers?: Hundreds of teachers became unsuspecting millionaires
through Teachers Pay Teachers, and the company helped catapult countless
others into a different socioeconomic status entirely. But lately,
stories of these teacher millionaires have flown under the radar. Why did
the company stop showcasing teachers it helped push into the top 1
percent? We found out, from TPT and the teachers who use it, what success
on the platform really looks like.
5. When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to
Teachers?: Picking an edtech tool has an impact far
beyond the monetary cost to a district or school. And as a recent survey
has found, there’s a disconnect between how teachers and administrators
feel about the level of input classroom educators have in selecting the
tools they use. So we set out to find out: Is teacher voice missing when
it comes to deciding which edtech is best for classrooms?
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