The Wall School District is making history as the first district in South Dakota to bring in locally raised beef from area ranchers into their school lunch program. If the pilot program continues to go well, the district will bring the program back next fall.
Tim Hire, formerly Exeter USD's superintendent, will take over at the helm of the California district. He replaces Jim Vidak, who has served as the leader of Tulare County's education for seven terms.
The Kentucky Department of Education has released a K3 Dyslexia Toolkit that provides educators and families with a resource to help meet learning needs of students with dyslexia, or those who display characteristics of dyslexia. This 20-page document comes in response to the Ready to Read Act, which directed KDE to develop and share a toolkit that school districts and educators can use to help serve students with dyslexia.
The South Carolina State Board of Education has approved the Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2 editions of Discovery Education's Math Techbook for statewide use as a core instructional resource through its state adoption process.
Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) has partnered with Gale, a Cengage company, to provide more than 2,500 school, academic and public libraries throughout Ohio with free access to Gale digital resources through LCO and its partners, OhioLINK, OPLIN and InfOhio.
LA Makerspace and Imagination.org have merged with Two Bit Circus Foundation to unify their STEAM education efforts. Two Bit Circus Foundation currently operates in nearly half the schools of LAUSD while LA Makerspace has makerspace STEAM labs in 167 partner library branches.
ACT has acquired Knovation, Inc., a curator of K12 open educational resources. The Knovation assets included in the agreement are the Knovation Content Collection, the netTrekker application and the icurio digital curriculum application.
For the second year in a row, the growing mental health needs of young people topped the priorities of the nearly 340 district leaders who participated in DA's annual Outlook Survey.
Children with unique learning needs excel when their interests and skills drive specialized instruction that is delivered via assistive technology in an engaging and sensitive environment.
