Dayton Public Schools' Challenger Learning Center in Dayton, Ohio, is one of 44 centers around the globe aimed at engaging students in "hands-on exploration and discovery opportunities that strengthen knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."
Over the past decade, New Hampshire school districts have left unspent more than $10 million in federal aid for special education, at a time when many school administrators complain that the crushing costs of special needs programs are challenging local budgets.
Following success at the ballot box in November, Democratic legislators are again proposing legislation to allow New Hampshire school districts to bar people from carrying firearms onto school grounds, after a similar effort last year failed to clear a Republican-controlled Senate.
Embedding language instruction into CTE programs can help close what some educators see as an "opportunity gap" faced by students learning English. And participating in the hands-on projects of CTE can be an effective way of accelerating language acquisition. In October 2017, 30 percent of the students in Boston Public Schools' CTE programs qualified as […]
When Amy Arbogash took the reins of the technology department at Verona Area School District in Wisconsin in 2017, it was in the middle of a multiyear shift to personalized instruction. Students were developing their own learning plans during the rollout of a 1-to-1 iPad program. That is why the district gave Arbogash the title […]
The new Fordham Institute report, Is There a Gifted Gap?, gave me a lot of food for thought this week. Let's start with some important positives: Although gifted education research is in many ways thriving, attention to policy research has been woefully underdeveloped, and this study is a major contribution to filling that void. I've also […]
When Mark MacLean became superintendent of the Merrimack Valley and Andover School Districts in New Hampshire four years ago, he wanted to find an online solution for teacher evaluation that could also link to professional development. After some research with his leadership team, MacLean found TeachPoint, which offers a Professional Development Tracking Solution that also […]
Two years ago, Elizabeth Rincon was seeking to end the last-minute scramble to cull professional development for approximately 125 special education paraprofessionals on days when teachers had preplanned PD. "Principals had to either swiftly get something together for paraprofessionals in terms of PD or they would email me and I would have to quickly plan […]
Rose L. Colby's book Competency-Based Education introduces educators to a new model for anytime, anywhere schooling, and provides curriculum resources for redesigning the traditional structures of our schools. Colby, a competency-based learning and assessment specialist, says seat time doesn't equal learning. A system based on demonstrating competencies does more to prepare students for higher education […]
