A group of educators has revived the nondigital adventure game as a fun way to teach students decision-making and critical-thinking skills, while they work collaboratively and creatively. What can you learn when your third-level cleric’s hunting party falls into the Cave of Unknowing and gets trapped between an angry fire giant and a deadly mist cast by an evil […]

Yonkers security director Brian Schulder follows these principles in keeping schools secure. LINK BACK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Day in the Life: Brian Schulder, security director, Yonkers Public Schools Matt Zalaznick is senior associate editor.

One of the most fertile areas for collaborative problem-solving between colleges and their K12 counterparts may be the mission they share: education. When edtech developers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania asked K12 teachers to wish for a superpower, the teachers imagined student data hovering in midair before their very eyes. Wish granted. Lumilo, the […]

Educators and administrators should ask themselves these questions to determine whether they’re respecting identities and cultures by learning students’ and staff members’ names. LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Making name pronunciation a priority in K12 education   Matt Zalaznick is senior associate editor.

Some students grow so accustomed to hearing their names mispronounced over and over again that they no longer correct the people who make the mistakes.

There’s an app that can help educators learn to pronounce names. With NameCoach, schools email students a link that invites them to record their names. Recordings and phonetic spellings can also be integrated into an LMS. LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Making name pronunciation a priority in K12 education NameCoach CEO Praveen Shanbhag says he was […]

More school districts now operate winter- and spring-break academies as a way for students to recover missing credits and to increase their chances of on-time graduation. Minneapolis Public Schools offers classes during vacations at about 20 high schools. Students can complete courses, retake classes they’ve failed or even get a jump-start on other work. The […]

Embedding language instruction into CTE programs can help close what some educators see as an “opportunity gap” faced by students learning English. And participating in the hands-on projects of CTE can be an effective way of accelerating language acquisition. In October 2017, 30 percent of the students in Boston Public Schools’ CTE programs qualified as […]