Kansas educators were working on a school redesign project focused on personalized learning, soft skills and community partnerships when the coronavirus closed schools.
DA guest columnists Matthew X. Joseph and Christine Ravesi-Weinstein offer strategies for continuing learning opportunities and addressing student wellness—for the first week out and beyond. Joseph, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment at Leicester Public Schools, is a featured speaker at FETC.
A previous Districts of Distinction honoree continues to expand the TK-5 student mindfulness and social-emotional learning curriculum that DA recognized in 2016.
DA guest columnist Stacy Young shares tips on helping students make a seamless transition from a face-to-face to a virtual learning environment using ed tech.
Learning games should not only boost engagement, but also support productive struggle for students—and progress tracking for educators, says DA guest columnist Alesha Arp.
In North Dakota, the phrase "You don't have to recover from a good start" drives Superintendent Kirsten Baesler as she works to expand online preschool to rural communities.
Prevention is key to reducing student use of e-cigarettes, say DA guest columnists Melinda Ickes, Jim Pauly and Beth Magner of the University of Kentucky. Here are four strategies.
Districts of Distinction honoree Poway USD created a PD and in-class coaching program that transformed ed tech use. Teachers can be cooking dinner at home at the same time they're helping students in Google Suite.
