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Abby Spegman

Admin & Management

Strategies for mastering school schedules

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As a math teacher at Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx, Sheldon Vleck didn't give much thought to the master schedule. "I never...
Curriculum & Instruction

Student-centered scheduling

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San Diego USD sets guidelines for master scheduling, including: Prioritizing English learners and students with IEPs to ensure on-time graduation Assigning teacher prep time to enable...
Admin & Management

List of master scheduling software providers

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Online resources: Abl: https://ablschools.com/ Rediker: https://www.rediker.com/solutions/student-information-system/scheduling USA Scheduler: http://unbouncepages.com/usa-scheduler-software-capterra/ Prime Timetable: http://www.primetimetable.com/#intro%26id%3D09c6044a-1a05-4f99-b9a6-fa7f3cc8a0f9 Asc Timetables: https://www.asctimetables.com/ LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Strategies for mastering school schedules Abby Spegman is a freelance writer based...
Curriculum & Instruction

Design thinking in education

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Advocates of design thinking in education know what you've heard. "Its hard to look at design thinking and not see it as a buzzword"...
Curriculum & Instruction

5 phases of design thinking

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Empathize: Gather information from users In action: Fourth-graders in Colorado solicited ideas from local residents to help their city redesign a local park. Define: Frame...
Admin & Management

K12 students code beyond computers

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How do you ensure students who excel at math remain engaged? Heidi Williams intended to solve that challenge by starting an after-school coding club...
Admin & Management

Travel alerts for K12

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When done right, international travel exposes students to a diversity of people and perspectives, teaching them to communicate and relate with others.
Admin & Management

Big leap for school libraries

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Steven Yates has a message for would-be school librarians. "If you're coming to this because you like to read and you want to manage...
Curriculum & Instruction

Going digital

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Digital library content spans fiction, nonfiction, test prep, professional development materials and more. Overdrive's catalog has 4 million ebooks, audiobooks and videos, and is used...
Admin & Management

K12 fundraising fairness

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The PTA at an elementary school on New York's Upper East Side raised nearly $1 million in one school year—about $1,260 per student. In a...
Admin & Management

Global recruitment in education

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Longtime Superintendent Bill Harrison started recruiting teachers from abroad in 1997 in the face of a shortage in North Carolina. "We thought international teachers would...
Admin & Management

Visas by the numbers

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About 13,000 overseas-trained teachers worked in the U.S. on H-1B and J-1 visas in 2012, down from a peak of nearly 20,000 in 2009,...
Admin & Management

When school lunch goes unpaid

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Lunch shaming is the sort of term that never existed until this past spring, when it was seemingly everywhere. It refers to cafeteria policies...
Admin & Management

Making school wellness programs work

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When Polk County Public Schools started its wellness program back in the late 1980s, the district hoped to get employees moving with weekend fun...
Admin & Management

Problem-solving and design thinking drive K12 tech school

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Ken Montgomery knows what his school looks like to outsiders. "We have people who come in and say, 'Oh, we could never do that,'"...
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