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The national movement is accelerating the creation and sharing of open educational resources (OER) by educators.
In some districts, school safety relies on threat assessments that allow educators to intervene and ward off emergencies.
Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy and keynote speaker at the recent 2019 Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando, discusses how technology will impact education in the years ahead.
Administrators increasingly accept that boosting school safety may rely on realistic active shooter drills that can upset staff and students
More frequent and intense natural disasters require school leadership to address trauma and prepare for extended disruptions.
Albuquerque Public Schools, the Albuquerque Teachers Federation and the University of New Mexico’s College of Education launched a mentoring program in 2004 with nine tenets.
District leaders looking to enhance their teacher PD can find more information on the following K12 education programs.
Today’s mentoring programs go beyond the basics of helping new teachers acclimate to the classroom. The one-on-one coaching model can serve as a boot camp for new teachers and a reboot for veterans.
Whether school system leaders realize it or not, voice-activated, artificial intelligence devices such as Alexa and Google Home are becoming a part of classrooms. “I know of a lot of […]
Matthew Joseph led the first 1-to-1 device rollout in a public school in Massachusetts more than a decade ago, and also spent 11 years as an elementary school principal. Now […]
Today’s most progressive language instruction covers more than speech. Educators now work to build students’ fluency in the culture behind the words. Global competency, also called “interculturality” has emerged as […]
Resources: Native Knowledge 360¬∞ is the National Museum of the American Indian’s national initiative, which includes lesson plans for all grade levels. www.nmai.si.edu/nk360 American Indians In American Literature blog, written […]
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 2018 Nov. 16-18 New Orleans actfl.org LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: K12 curriculum roundup: More than words National Council for the Social Studies […]
When considering medical marijuana use on school grounds: Be prepared for debate and discussion. “The medicinal use of cannabis is a controversial subject that inspires strong feelings all around” says […]
As parents increasingly turn to marijuana to treat children with chronic health conditions and severe maladies such as seizures, school district administrators have had to establish rules for the drug’s […]
Districts increasingly look outside of existing budgets to supply IT teams with the apps, technology and professional development today’s K12 environment demands. Leaders who are solving this funding puzzle turn […]
OK, it’s not that easy, but the following links can help you get started seeking edtech grants. Local service clubs Rotary International: rotary.org/en Kiwanis International Service Club: kiwanis.org Sertoma Inc.: […]
An increasing number of educators use elements of the design-thinking process—empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test—to find solutions to and think analytically about the many ails plaguing the world around […]
Civics—a mainstay in public schools for generations, but widely sidelined in recent years—is making a comeback. At the federal level, pending Senate legislation would require federal grant recipients to teach […]
American Bar Association americanbar.org/groups/civics Civic Education Washington State civiced-wa.org Civics Renewal Network civicsrenewalnetwork.org Constitutional Rights Foundation crf-usa.org LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Civics education encourages K12 students to get involved Massachusetts […]
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