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4 signs that your school needs a media center upgrade

Elements like soft and flexible seating can transform a media center into a space that engages the whole school community.

3 ways AI can impact educational outcomes positively and ethically

Cheating aside, let’s employ AI in ethical ways and enable our schools to spend more time on experiential learning, career exploration, skills development and other meaningful activities.

Iterative learning: Why our schools need to abandon compliance

Educators must adopt an approach that frees students to try, fail and learn from that failure, tweak what they’re doing and try again. This will empower students to learn and relearn for the rest of their lives.

4 ways this district is fostering student success with small group instruction

Regardless of whether students are behind grade level or excelling, the synergy between small-group instruction and technology has the power to enhance engagement and complement teachers’ pedagogy.

How Township High School District 214 is embedding entrepreneurship

It’s true what they say: a traditional four-year college education isn’t for everyone. But virtually every kid who walks the hallways of Township High School District 214’s six schools will get a job at some point in their lives.

7 lessons from 15 top superintendents for the 2023-24 school year

With every decision feeling more divisive, technology evolving at hyperspeed, and the needs of school communities getting greater, leaders today have to adapt, innovate, and communicate in fundamentally different ways.

3 ways to design virtual learning experiences that boost math scores

Most teachers understand that math learning recovery depends on data-informed, student-centered instruction. But without the right technology, it’s a methodology that’s difficult to deliver.

Navigating learning loss: How to help parents support education at home

Students across the country are still struggling. This makes it all the more essential for parents to play an important, active role in their child's academic journey.

Neither administrators or teachers are doing well: It’s time we support each other

What if boosting student achievement has more to do with teachers bringing their best selves to school rather than what they do in the classroom?

How edtech allows teachers to leave one-size-fits-all education behind

Now is the time to start utilizing the vast technologies available at our fingertips (pun intended) because each student is diverse, unique and learns differently than their peers.

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