Lori Motsch will lead the Illinois district when the current superintendent, Peggy Manville, will retire on June 30, 2020. Motsch most recently served as director of personnel for New Lenox District 122.
By combining a high-resolution camera and an ultra-fast scanner, IRIS' new camera scanners can speed up data collection by shortening the process of inputting official information, whilst preventing errors. They scan any type of document or book, without the need to cut and damage them.
Over 3,000 U.S. students attempt suicide each day, according to the CDC. Schools using Gaggle to review students' use of online tools, like G Suite, intervened in over 6,000 cases of possible suicide last year.
Students grow as readers when they have variety in their reading choices. That is why the Sora student reading app offers public library integration. In addition to digital titles from their school, children can add their public library for access to thousands of age-appropriate e-books and audiobooks.
Echo360 launched a new groups feature to enable smarter ways to share video for student learning. The video content management system now allows users to create ad hoc video repositories with controlled membership, allowing for seamless, secure video sharing.
With new on-demand video tutorials and live virtual training sessions from Scientific Learning Corp., both new and experienced Fast ForWord users can quickly gain the knowledge and skills to launch and maximize the effectiveness of their program implementation.
We need to shift away from thinking of discipline as the thing you do to punish a student who is acting out or to rein in a chaotic class. We need to implement approaches that prevent incidents from happening in the first place, like focusing on relationships, developing students' social and emotional skills, and refining what adults model in the face of conflict.
The new U.S. government AP is part of a nationwide push—both inside and outside schools—for high-school students to engage in civic debate and action. A civics revival is long overdue. As of 2018, only eight states required students to take a yearlong civics and government class.
Daniel Markovits, a Yale Law professor, dismantles the false promises of our so-called meritocracy in The Meritocracy Trap. "A sociological masterpiece—a damning indictment of parenting and schools, an unflattering portrait of a ruling class and the economy it invented. [A] brilliant critique,” says Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind.
The kits are the ideal way for classrooms, schools, libraries and districts to provide students with curated maker kits that are instructional, affordable, durable and fun. Available for pre-K through second grade and third through fifth grade, these unique kits are contained in handsome colored bins or colorful backpacks.
In many classrooms, the teacher's role is to talk and the student's role is to listen. Whose brain is doing most of the work? Authors Michael D. Toth and David A. Sousa present an alternative: a new model called student-led academic teaming where students collaborate, peer coach and peer teach.
The Newark Public Library will distribute about 45,000 library cards to all students and staff in the New Jersey school district as part of a new partnership with the schools.
The state's teacher workforce doesn't reflect the diversity of its classrooms. That's the main finding of a new report by New Jersey Policy Perspective. Two-thirds of New Jersey's teachers are white and female, but just 22 percent of students are.
Creating an accessible and visible medium to convey student opinions allows students to have their own say in how they feel about issues facing their school, community and country in a way that they would not be able to without having a student-led and student-centric forum.
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