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What teachers and sports coaches can learn from each other

Ariana Fine | February 12, 2019

Coaches have skills that can help kids develop experiences outside of the classroom; teachers know how kids learn and connect with information. Both have complementary benefits that can help how kids learn. Tying learning and teaching to a performance, and giving more feedback are two things teachers can utilize.

Metric Zoom to help schools delve deeper into data

Ariana Fine | February 12, 2019

Schoolzilla, a Public Benefit Company that empowers school systems to use data to run great schools, today announced an exciting new enhancement to Mosaic District Progress Monitoring, a multiple measures dashboard to help school leaders make daily progress on their most important goals. The new feature, Metric Zoom, extends Mosaic’s analytical capabilities by allowing deeper […]

The benefits of teacher collaboration

Carla Thomas McClure | February 11, 2019

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.

Code to consistency in K12 schools

Nancy Mann Jackson | February 10, 2019

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.

Coding curriculum: What coding looks like in the classroom

Nancy Mann Jackson | February 11, 2019

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.

Helping school systems dig deeper into their data

Ariana Fine | February 11, 2019

Mosaic District Progress Monitoring's new feature, Metric Zoom, extends Mosaic's analytical capabilities by allowing deeper drill-downs into a school system's data. Leaders will be able to view up to five years of data, compare and filter results, and more.

At these schools, later start times get an A-plus for students needing more sleep

February 11, 2019

A new study at Seattle School District high schools has found that later start times are associated with more sleep and better performance for students. They are among hundreds of U.S. schools that have pushed back start times, following the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidance to delay the start of middle and high school classes until 8:30 a.m. Still, fewer than 1 in 5 schools comply.

Teaching to the drug test

February 11, 2019

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.

Making personal stories from professional athletes part of curriculum

Ariana Fine | February 08, 2019

StudySync announced its content partnership with The Players' Tribune. Through the partnership, StudySync is incorporating first-person narratives from a set of international athletes into its core StudySync ELA curriculum, as well as its Blasts assignments.

Proposed Boston schools budget would overhaul science instruction

Ariana Fine | February 07, 2019

Interim Superintendent Laura Perille is proposing a $1.14 billion budget for the next school year, a modest increase that would allow the Boston school system to overhaul science instruction in the lower grades and provide more funding for low-performing schools.

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