LaGrange School District 102 recently began piloting a free version of the CrisisGo safety platform through Sourcewell, a government agency that provides cooperative-contract purchasing solutions nationally. Sponsored content by Sourcewell.
Educational equity encompasses various concepts and broad themes. It is helpful to view these themes through a focused lens of why, how and what. While all three questions are important, understanding why there is a need to reach each learner is at the core of the work.
K.C. Boyd, library media specialist at Jefferson Middle School Academy and featured speaker at DA's FETC 2020, tells how she created a wide-ranging, multi-platform social media presence that promotes the school and its programs.
In the future, expect science fairs and STEM nights to continue to move toward project-based problem-solving. As technology evolves and global communication grows, educators may begin to incorporate virtual exchange into their programs.
Many of us have supported the movement of flipped classrooms and flipped learning. It changes the pedagogy by turning traditional instruction upside down. Flipped classrooms move the independent work associated with homework to the classroom and the direct instruction associated with class to home. We can also flip our leadership and culture. How can traditional […]
When teacher Carol Behel surveyed parents of her elementary school English language learners, an overwhelming majority said they didn't know how to help their children with reading or math assignments.
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.
More than a decade after Response-to-Intervention and Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports took root on campuses across the country, multi-tier strategies have become the standard for identifying and assisting struggling students. Yet, the way educators use these and similar systems continues to evolve. Educators now understand far more about the neuroscience of learning and are […]
