Baldwin-Whitehall School District's Day of Caring 2019 connected students and staff with three Pittsburgh-area communities. Here are strategies for holding your own school community engagement event.
The LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group are supporting a project that will help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille. The customized LEGO Braille Bricks will be molded with the same number of studs used for individual letters and numbers in the Braille alphabet, while remaining compatible with the LEGO System in Play.
The argument for getting student voice into decision making can be heard in discussions around the country. What if we combined student voice with design thinking, and then allowed students the same platform for improvement that we provide adults? The Student Innovation Team (SIT) concept does just that.
Merit Network, in partnership with Michigan State University's Quello Center and Measurement Lab, is addressing the digital divide in Michigan with access and availability data collection, and infrastructure investment and societal impact investigation and education. Three districts will pilot the Michigan Moonshot broadband data collection project.
PowerGistics' open-concept design provides secure device storage in a small footprint and allows teachers to easily see devices and their charging status. Sponsored content by PowerGistics.
You've all read the effectiveness research that vendors include to show the value of their curricular products and programs, but not all curriculum evaluation studies are created equal.
Practitioners at the UDL-IRN Summit last month shared ways to add "zhoosh," or excitement, to blended and online learning with universal design for learning's three principles.
Research shows that when students are engaged in a lesson, they learn and retain more. Ivan Kaltman, a school-based occupational therapist and former fourth-grade teacher, worked with many disadvantaged students who were far behind in reading. Since traditional methods didn't work for them, Kaltman developed a digital adventure game to help with reading, cognitive skills […]
