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Florida principal awarded national Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership, her school named No. 1 in state

Steven Blackburn | November 26, 2018

Nongongoma Majova-Seane has led Stanton College Preparatory School to rank in the top 10 percent of U.S. schools. Nongongoma Majova-Seane is principal of Stanton College Preparatory School, which has been named the No. 1 Florida high school for three consecutive years and continues to rank in the top 10 percent of U.S. schools. Majova-Seane has boosted reading […]

Why civics education is making a comeback

November 26, 2018

Civics—a mainstay in public schools for generations, but widely sidelined in recent years—is making a comeback. At the federal level, pending Senate legislation would require federal grant recipients to teach the U.S. Constitution—vital for students to understand the "fundamental principles and values on which our system is based" says Chuck Quigley, executive director for the […]

Gaining edtech grants

November 25, 2018

Districts increasingly look outside of existing budgets to supply IT teams with the apps, technology and professional development today's K12 environment demands. Leaders who are solving this funding puzzle turn frequently to regional and national grant opportunities. "On the one hand, it's the best of times, and on the other, it's the worst of times" […]

Pushing back against so many K12 tests

JD Solomon | November 25, 2018

In her book, After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform (The New Press, 2018), Andrea Gabor shows how corporate philanthropists have hurt, rather than helped, public education. From limiting the ability of teachers to do their job, to making poor-quality test results bellwethers of effective teaching, this influence has alienated […]

Click for funding

November 25, 2018

The following links can help you get started seeking edtech grants. Local service clubs Rotary International: rotary.org/en Kiwanis International Service Club: kiwanis.org Sertoma Inc.: sertoma.org Lions Clubs International: lionsclubs.org Junior Chamber International (Jaycees): jciusa.org Crowdfunding and online charity Get Ed Funding: getedfunding.com DonorsChoose: donorschoose.org Adopt-A-Classroom: AdoptAClassroom.org GoFundMe Education: gofundme.com/education Pledge Cents: pledgecents.com Main article: Gaining […]

A financial feast for K12 schools

November 20, 2018

Today's school district food-service directors often find that joining purchasing cooperatives saves them at least 5 percent in food costs. Co-ops also save time by handling the request-for-proposal process and assisting with compliance reporting in the wake of increased federal nutrition requirements. In addition, co-ops track vendor performance and offer forums for sharing best practices. […]

Strength in numbers for charter schools

November 20, 2018

The New Orleans-based Healthy School Food Collaborative grew out of the challenges charter schools in Louisiana faced while recovering from Hurricane Katrina. At the time, James Graham was working as director of operations for KIPP, a charter management organization running eight schools in the city. In the wake of the storm, the state looked to […]

Savings snapshots

Adam Galvan | November 20, 2018

Here are the prices that Texas-based School Purchasing Alliance members pay for a case of food versus what they would pay if they were not part of the co-op. LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: A financial feast for K12 schools David Raths is a Philadelphia-based writer who regularly covers edtech.

Breaking the age barrier in K12 schools

Nancy Mann Jackson | November 19, 2018

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, […]

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