Steven Blackburn

Alabaster City Schools, a previous Districts of Distinction honoree, is keeping in continual contact with students at risk of not graduating.

Students at Glastonbury Public Schools, a previous Districts of Distinction honoree, are using district iPads to complete assignments from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite school closures, a Henry Hudson Regional School therapy dog named Hudson is still providing social-emotional support for students with special needs via a video-conferencing platform.

These four K-12 districts are being honored as Districts of Distinction runners-up for developing innovative career and technical education programs.

Here are four school administrators who either recently became a Superintendent of the Year or received another distinguished K-12 award.

Many schools—even districts—are adopting a year-round school schedule, where a single summer break is replaced by a series of shorter breaks.

More Latinx and other minority students are enrolling in high-rigor classes after an Illinois district created and implemented a multipronged program to improve accessibility.

Here are three K-12 districts being honored as Districts of Distinction runners-up for developing innovative programs that target at-risk students.

A program from a previous Districts of Distinction honoree that connects middle school students to introductory college-level work has grown significantly.

A previous Districts of Distinction honoree continues to expand the TK-5 student mindfulness and social-emotional learning curriculum that DA recognized in 2016.

American students struggle in math. One likely reason: U.S. high schools teach math differently than other countries.

Has your school incorporated acoustical treatments into the design of various spaces, such as classrooms or auditoriums? DA is compiling information about and images of spaces that utilize acoustic elements in a visually pleasing way for a photo-heavy feature that will appear in a future issue.

These Districts of Distinction runners-up are using innovative methods to improve curriculum and instruction in their school systems.

Police dog teams are familiar to all, and therapy dogs increasingly spend time in schools. Now, in some districts, security officers are patrolling their buildings with specially trained school dogs that can follow the sound and odor of gunfire and firearms to neutralize threats.

In other news, a superintendent helps his district earn an A-plus Fitch rating and another creates a successful master-based learning model.