Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to spend $600 million to raise the minimum new teacher salary to $47,500 from $37,636. Florida currently ranks 26th for starting teacher pay; the increase would place the state second.
Being a librarian is a labor of love, even if it means getting into "good trouble" for standing up for students' choice, right to read and access to technology in libraries, says K.C. Boyd, a featured speaker at DA's FETC in January and a library media specialist at Jefferson Middle School Academy in Washington, D.C.
Ridge Road Elementary School principal Patrick A. Stirk has been named as the next superintendent of North Haven Public Schools. He replaces Robert Cronin, who is retiring in March.
Educators look on the bright side (and the not-so-bright side) to predict where public schools will make the most progress and where they will fall short in 2019.
Some students grow so accustomed to hearing their names mispronounced over and over again that they no longer correct the people who make the mistakes.
Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, made headlines for their articulate arguments for gun control after a February shooting at their school left 17 dead. Their eloquence and activism did not come as a surprise to district leaders: Broward County Public Schools operates a systemwide debate program in more than two dozen […]
Last fall, a national problem arrived in Superintendent Richard Scaletta's corner of rural northwestern Pennsylvania. Principals in the General McLane School District began reporting unprecedented levels of misbehavior: students in frequent and severe distress, sometimes kicking, biting or throwing things.
Rose L. Colby's book Competency-Based Education introduces educators to a new model for anytime, anywhere schooling, and provides curriculum resources for redesigning the traditional structures of our schools. Colby, a competency-based learning and assessment specialist, says seat time doesn't equal learning. A system based on demonstrating competencies does more to prepare students for higher education […]
