The leader of Alabama's Hoover City Schools spends her ‘downtime' felling trees, clearing brush and repairing mechanical equipment on her 40-acre farm.
Student teachers at Grove City College in Pennsylvania participate in virtual co-op programs in which they are paired with and mentored online by a professional classroom teacher.
Schoolwide music instruction is having a big impact in raising test scores as K-12 leaders make the case for more robust programs in lower-income districts.
Trauma-informed practices can guide educators in creating safe environments, adjusting harmful disciplinary policies and helping students become more resilient.
San Gabriel USD's Music Immersion Experience—the 2019 Districts of Distinction grand prize honoree—teaches every first-grader the violin, and test scores are improving.
Some experts continue to question whether lockdown drills designed to prepare students for active shooters and other emergencies do more harm than good.
The key to the effectiveness of any ed tech tool, including robots for children with autism, lies in whether students transfer the skills they've learned from schoolwork into their daily lives.
School mascots that community members find offensive are being replaced. However, some school board members are choosing to stick with problematic mascots—even staking their political lives on the nicknames.
Many health experts are cautious about laying blame when tragedies occur. But most specialists agree that school personnel, in contact with students for a large part of the day, can be a key resource in providing help.
