Opinion

What has slipped through the cracks during many school board meetings is that improving school safety does not require districts and schools to spend enormous sums to provide a safer and more orderly learning environment.

Transitioning to teaching online can leave many educators feeling unprepared. Here's how to make the shift to teaching from behind the computer screen.

Professional learning, development and growth is an established practice across all professions and disciplines. In education, the stakes might even be higher. Not only do educators need to keep pace with the latest practices and technologies, but they also need to model what they demand from their students: lifelong learning. If we ask most educators […]

We have a county system of public schools here in West Virginia, but I am not the only superintendent in Morgan County. There is also the parks superintendent, serving two state parks, and there is a mine superintendent, leading the sand mine at U.S. Silica. Hoping to move closer to family, I started looking for […]

While there are other significant concerns about potential dangers created with many current options-based active shooter training approaches, I find the running option to be perhaps the most dangerous as presently taught.

Like much of America, on the 20th anniversary of Columbine I'm thinking about school safety. And as an educator, I feel that the national conversation about gun control, lock-down drills, and the role of policy, miss the obvious central character: the student.