Salida Union School District (Calif.) K8 district with four schools and 2,400 students 22 Dual Duty Tech Tub2 Teaching Easels for 2,000 Dell 3189 convertible flip touchscreens for grades 1 through 7 and Toshiba 2s for eighth grade Recently allowed students in grades 6 through 8 to take computers home Started with Toshiba 2 Chromebooks […]

How can district leaders guarantee that they will get accurate and actionable results from SEL assessments? What are the biggest challenges? "You need to ensure that you have a consistent behavior that you're measuring throughout the whole school. You don't want pockets of teachers measuring one thing and other teachers measuring something else." —Stefan Kohler, […]

To give students experience flying larger drones, educators at Duval High School near Washington, D.C., got creative. Federal Aviation Administration security restrictions limit unmanned aeronautic flights over sensitive locations. "We are building an addition to the school that will allow us to fly drones inside" says Christina Howland, coordinator of the four-year Aerospace Engineering and […]

I read recently that experts in any field do not often make the best teachers. It was the opposite of the old “those who can’t do, teach” and the writer, Adam Grant in the New York Times, was suggesting that, often, “those who can do, can’t teach.” That took me back to April 1972, when […]