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Student Success

High-dosage tutoring is working. Here’s how to make it work better

Matt Zalaznick -
A new analysis shares guidance on how leaders can best augment everyday classroom instruction with high-quality, high-dosage tutoring.

5 ways to support and elevate your special education teachers

Whitney Threewits -
Special education teachers and coordinators are pulled in a million directions, often doing the jobs of three people, working long hours and battling burnout.

Black students are most common targets as school hate crimes double

Matt Zalaznick -
Schools trailed only homes and roads as the most common locations for reported hate crimes over a five-year period that includes the pandemic, according to an FBI study that also looked at the ethnicity and religion of the victims.

Want a new way to retain teachers? Try behavior data

Erin Pinter -
Behavioral intervention is strengthened by data, and data is hard to come by when documentation is time-consuming and manual.

In-demand careers: Gender bias in K12 schools may be perpetuating a lack of exposure for students

Matt Zalaznick -
Students have the natural talent to fill the nation’s most in-demand careers in healthcare, manufacturing, technology and finance. Education leaders may, however, be concerned that not enough students are being exposed to these fields, according to YouScience's 2024 State of the Future U.S. Workforce report.

‘A good life for every student’: 2 new lessons schools are learning

Matt Zalaznick -
"Happiness, fulfillment and stability" were the words students and their families used to described their ideal K12 outcomes to education reform researchers.

Data and bullying: How to break down the problem

Joy Smithson -
Avoidance of the situation is the most common response to bullying, which often amplifies the negative repercussions of the behavior.

Want students to be more engaged? Don’t ban cellphones!

Matt Zalaznick -
Banning cellphones to increase student engagement is about effective as making a nuclear power plant safer by upgrading the shed where workers park their bicycles, an edtech thought leader warns.

How to create safe spaces for students on summer nights

Sean Duke -
Every weeknight, Tacoma's middle and high school students headed to schools and community centers for the Summer Late Nights program. They played video games with friends and participated in everything from music and dance to yoga and arts activities.

Where is teacher confidence headed? New surveys provide insight

Matt Zalaznick -
Teacher confidence hit rock bottom in 2022 but now appears to be on the rebound even as political divisiveness continues to roil K12.

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