Yonkers security director Brian Schulder follows these principles in keeping schools secure. LINK BACK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Day in the Life: Brian Schulder, security director, Yonkers Public Schools Matt Zalaznick is senior associate editor.
One of the most fertile areas for collaborative problem-solving between colleges and their K12 counterparts may be the mission they share: education. When edtech developers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania asked K12 teachers to wish for a superpower, the teachers imagined student data hovering in midair before their very eyes. Wish granted. Lumilo, the […]
Educators and administrators should ask themselves these questions to determine whether they’re respecting identities and cultures by learning students’ and staff members’ names. LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Making name pronunciation a priority in K12 education Matt Zalaznick is senior associate editor.
Some students grow so accustomed to hearing their names mispronounced over and over again that they no longer correct the people who make the mistakes.
There’s an app that can help educators learn to pronounce names. With NameCoach, schools email students a link that invites them to record their names. Recordings and phonetic spellings can also be integrated into an LMS. LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Making name pronunciation a priority in K12 education NameCoach CEO Praveen Shanbhag says he was […]
More school districts now operate winter- and spring-break academies as a way for students to recover missing credits and to increase their chances of on-time graduation. Minneapolis Public Schools offers classes during vacations at about 20 high schools. Students can complete courses, retake classes they’ve failed or even get a jump-start on other work. The […]
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 […]
A report by the nonprofit Advocates for Children of New York found that English language learners were underrepresented in New York City CTE programs. At-risk students who complete these programs have a higher chance of graduating. For the 2016-17 school year, the report found: ELLs made up about 9 percent of the students at the […]
Something as simple and as inexpensive as a few minutes of deep breathing can help children better control their emotions—and their behavior. But this only works if students practice mindfulness daily, and at McKinley-Brighton Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, they do—for 30 minutes at the start of each day of summer school. “When you […]
What does mindfulness look like as elementary students age? Betsy Hanger, an instructor with the nonprofit Mindful Schools who works as a community mentor in several Los Angeles USD classrooms, describes two scenarios: Kindergarten: Children in a mindfulness circle take three deep breaths. The teacher guides them in imagining they are dolphins riding waves. Students […]
