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District designs K12 model to better serve special populations

Adam Galvan | March 12, 2018

Striving to ensure the implementation of best practices that support all learners is critical to academic achievement for diverse populations. Dearborn Schools is committed to ensuring that all students reach academic success. With a population of 20,907 of which 50 percent are English learners (several refugees and newcomer students), 8 percent special education and approximately […]

K12 educator attendance incentives

Nancy Mann Jackson | March 11, 2018

For the past two years, leaders at Muhlenberg South Middle School in Greenville, Kentucky, have been working to decrease the number of teacher absences as part of a wider effort to improve school culture. Although this has occurred during a financial crisis in which all Muhlenberg County School District staff took a 10 percent pay […]

Florida school shooting underscores need for new PD

Ray Bendici | March 08, 2018

After February's deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, there was no shortage of suggestions for improving school security, ranging from adding more guards to arming teachers. One area not widely addressed, however, is how to prepare teachers and administrators psychologically for dealing with a crisis. For example, although teachers […]

Shifts in K-12 Mathematics: Moving to College and Career Readiness

msdc | March 07, 2018

To understand the shift in assessments and how college and career readiness is measured.

Building algebraic thinking in elementary classrooms

msdc | March 08, 2018

Investing in a strong elementary math curriculum pays off in increased high school performance

Time for schools to flunk failure

JD Solomon | March 07, 2018

We pretty much understand rocket science, says Doug Green. That is, we understand the complex math and physics that propel objects into space. "The human brain, however, which is the learning playground for students and teachers, is much more complex and less understood." An educator since 1970—as an elementary principal, district computer director, K12 science […]