Beverly Emory, former superintendent of Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools, is heading up a new program at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Benjy Fenske was selected to replace current superintendent Steve Carvajal, who is resigning at the end of the current school year. Fenske currently serves as the Missouri district's director of elementary education. He has worked in the district for more than 20 years.
In just four years, Johnson Elementary School in Scottsburg, Ind., improved its school grade from a C to an A. Principal Chris Routt says the change was a conscious decision backed by conviction.
Pink Elementary and the rest of Frisco ISD's 42 elementary schools are finding new ways to get kids moving and keep them healthy. That means yoga classes, martial arts lessons, vegetable “try days” in the cafeteria and more.
Schools and teachers benefit in a variety of ways when teachers work together. A small but growing body of evidence suggests a positive relationship between teacher collaboration and student achievement.
St. Louis is one of two cities in Missouri where charter schools can operate, Kansas City being the other. There is a lot of opposition to expanding charter schools beyond those borders for many reasons, including fear of financial hardship for public school districts and lack of accountability.
School leaders can address the challenges of data literacy by providing professional development opportunities to share the conceptual framework for data literacy, and expose teachers and staff to various forms of assessment and analysis of data.
Today's student must learn to code. Yet, many districts struggle to implement comprehensive coding programs that work for students in various schools and grades, and that keep up with advancing technology.
Adding coding to the curriculum offers a new way to engage students in learning. Here are some ideas for connecting coding to the elementary curriculum.
Teachers are proving vulnerable to disconnects between state and federal law that send conflicting messages about the use of medical marijuana. And district officials are in between a rock and a hard place: Under the Drug-Free Workplace Act, any employer that receives federal funding must operate a drug-free workplace, or risk losing that funding.
