Bartow County School System recently relocated Adairsville Elementary (60,000 square feet) to a 114,000-square-foot building to accommodate rising enrollment. The new facility stands two blocks away in the plot of the old Adairsville Middle/High School that the system demolished years ago. CHALLENGE: The district initially planned to salvage the old school's athletic track for community […]

As the Kahoot game-based learning platform has gained popularity, so have student attempts to hack into the program. Some students log in using fake names to bombard the teacher with distractions, to program bots to stop a quiz or to steal the answer key. Others post their classroom quiz PINs to online forums so other […]

A group of educators has revived the nondigital adventure game as a fun way to teach students decision-making and critical-thinking skills, while they work collaboratively and creatively. What can you learn when your third-level cleric's hunting party falls into the Cave of Unknowing and gets trapped between an angry fire giant and a deadly mist cast by an evil […]

Lack of resources. Tight deadlines. Inadequate training. These scenarios can trigger anxiety, frustration or other negative emotions at public schools. "I felt all of these things" says Chett Daniel, a former fourth-grade ELA teacher at Neosho School District in Missouri. Daniel quit teaching last year to launch his own consulting firm, K12 HR Solutions. "Often, […]