On National AI Literacy Day, a new survey shows that AI may well transform education but fewer than one in five teachers have used the latest technology in the classroom.
School district websites are often the first point of contact for parents, students and the community. With technology advancing so quickly, however, too many of us are still using older sites.
"The churn that's happening in classrooms is now affecting everyone. It's affecting the ability of teachers to teach, teachers to set classroom norms, and kids to learn," Attendance Works Executive Director Hedy Chang says on this week's podcast.
It is tempting to think of these last ESSER funds as one-time expenditures to address limited, one-time needs. A better way to consider these funds would be as a down payment on sustainable strategies.
Whitehall City Schools' mascot is the Ram, which also serves as an acronym for one of Superintendent Sharee Wells' most important philosophies: Relationships always matter.
Solving today's challenge will require something more fundamental than either tech solutions or event planning: people working together to build close-knit school communities.
"We know that one of the most important things we can do to help our students learn is to make sure they come to school consistently and make our families and communities strong partners in this effort," writes U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
Sending families positive updates celebrating their child's good attendance, for instance, is something more parents would like to see, a new survey suggests.
.Four years after COVID-19 first hit American schools, we are—thankfully—well past the depths of the crisis. But for education, true recovery from the pandemic has been slow to come.
