Opinion

There's a metric quietly climbing inside almost every K-12 central office in the country: purchase order volume.

A few months ago, an elementary interventionist told me her district had tightened student screen time limits. She was trying to ensure students completed their Tier 2 math intervention within the new 45-minute weekly cap. The intervention required logging in to one platform for lessons, then another for progress monitoring. Literacy ran on yet another. […]

Tools are in the building, use is already underway, and the guidance that would make that use purposeful and protected is just not in place.

Dstricts are holding onto documents, files and records that schools are not legally required to maintain and that create high costs and significant risk should a security breach occur.

New law was passed to remove classroom distractions that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate negative mental health impacts from excessive screen time and social media use.

Dual credit is often viewed as early exposure to college. Its real value is building momentum toward a certificate, degree or successful transfer.