Intelitek made several updates to CoderZ, its online learning environment where students in grades 5-12 learn STEM by coding real and virtual 3D robots. Additions include the Cyber Robotics 101 course and a new heatmap tool. Smart Blocks allows users to create functions/subroutines using a Blockly visual code editor. Following the recent success of its […]
Walpole school system’s assistant superintendent, Bridget Gough, has been picked as the Massachusetts district’s new superintendent, replacing retiring Superintendent Lincoln Lynch. Gough has worked within the Walpole schools for the past 26 years. School Committee members selected Walpole Assistant Superintendent Bridget Gough as the district’s new leader after an interview session Monday night. Gough, who […]
Kilgore ISD’s board of trustees picked Andy Baker as its lone finalist to succeed interim Superintendent Mike Morrison. Baker is currently the superintendent at Edgewood ISD. The Kilgore ISD board of trustees has unanimously named an East Texas school chief as its lone finalist to succeed interim Superintendent Mike Morrison. After an executive session lasting […]
Wyoming schools would be required to create a comprehensive safety plan and conduct nationally recognized, proactive security training under a bill advanced by a state legislative committee last week, a measure that represents lawmakers’ primary attempt to better safeguard schools from active shooters. Wyoming schools would be required to create a comprehensive safety plan and […]
In August, Woodbrook Elementary School in Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia completed a renovation and expansion that features much larger classrooms to facilitate multiage learning. Each family at Woodbrook can choose whether to place their child in a traditional, single-grade classroom or in a multiage classroom with two grade levels combined. With the new, […]
YONKERS, N.Y.—Brian Schulder, the security and safety director at Yonkers Public Schools, considers himself an educator, first and foremost. He's not some hardened, former city beat cop or detective—he's spent a majority of his 20-plus years in this large urban district teaching and coaching. "I think being an educator lets me see things from a perspective […]
Currently, there is a push in the U.S. to incorporate internet information classes into primary and secondary school curriculum. The movement aims to make fact-checking seem like second nature to individuals at an early age so they will be less vulnerable to agenda-driven information sources throughout their life
Dyslexia legislation is important so that students are not left to "wait to fail" before receiving screening, diagnosis and evidence-based instruction. New legislation in Massachusetts now requires the state education department to issue guidelines about screening procedures and protocols for students that show neurological learning disability indicators.
LRP Media Group, parent company of District Administration, has acquired Atlantic Research Partners' National Superintendents Academy. The first cohort of the superintendent training program will launch in February 2019, with subsequent academies to be announced later, says Robert Avossa, senior vice president and publisher, education products, for LRP. "We are excited to launch DA's National […]
There are a variety of steps that administrators can take to create a data-driven district culture that will help teachers use the right data in the right way to address the diverse learning needs of students and lead powerful learning outcomes across schools. This web seminar focused on ways to create a data-driven culture. The […]
