DA guest columnists Oksana Hagerty and Nicki Nance provide 10 strategies for educators and parents to consider implementing during school closures. Hagerty and Nance are from Beacon College, which is dedicated to educating primarily neurodivergent students.

From Starting Up to Advanced Level and Emerging Trends, the newly launched event features more than 50 sessions for all levels of participants.

DA guest columnists Matthew X. Joseph and Christine Ravesi-Weinstein offer strategies for continuing learning opportunities and addressing student wellness—for the first week out and beyond. Joseph, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment at Leicester Public Schools, is a featured speaker at FETC.

Here are three K-12 districts being honored as Districts of Distinction runners-up for developing innovative programs that target at-risk students.