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Students cope with anxiety while recovering credits

Adam Galvan | October 20, 2016

Educators in Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools intend to remove the obstacles that prevent students who have severe social anxiety from attending school, a phenomenon known as "school refusal behavior." The initiative, called Aspire, is housed at Quander Road School, a small district-run-and-funded therapeutic day program designed as an alternative setting for high school students […]

Districts tackle teacher shortages with higher salaries, mentoring

Adam Galvan | October 17, 2016

Facing a ballooning teacher shortage in recent years, Clark County School District in Nevada launched a social media and email recruiting strategy, sending messages to self-identified school teachers over LinkedIn and reaching more than 2.5 million on Facebook. "When you have a staffing crisis, you have to come up with something different to do" says […]

How saving for college becomes routine

Adam Galvan | October 12, 2016

Jay County—a rural district in Indiana—has the highest child poverty rate (35 percent) in the state. We've suffered like most of the rural areas. While our unemployment rate is just a little over 4 percent, there aren't a lot of high-paying jobs. Many of them are low-level manufacturing and agriculture jobs, so people are leaving […]

High schools create career connections

October 11, 2016

Atlanta's film industry has in recent years boomed to third place behind Los Angeles and New York City, and incoming studios noted a major skills gap when looking for videographers, scene constructors, prop creators and costume designers. Leaders of Fulton County Schools in Georgia responded. Three years ago, administrators met with studio executives to develop […]

Illinois lawmaker pushes to eliminate zero-tolerance discipline in schools

Ray Bendici | October 05, 2016

Illinois Sen. Kimberly Lightford sponsored a new state law that eliminates zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools. Designed to reduce the number of days students are restricted from classrooms for certain offenses, the legislation requires schools to explore other disciplinary options, such as counseling and extracurricular programs, before a student can be suspended more than three […]

Adapting mini-cars for special ed needs

Ariana Fine | September 26, 2016

A project for young children with physical challenges enabled a group of high school students in Howard County Public Schools' allied health and engineering academies to tailor motorized miniature cars to improve accessibility for some of the district's preschool students. "We wanted to empower our little ones to experience new things in school while creating […]

ESSA: What it changes for educators

Adam Galvan | September 20, 2016

By revamping the much-maligned No Child Left Behind law of 2001 with the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, the federal government gives states more control over their own school accountability standards. Under ESSA, lawmakers maintained annual NCLB testing. But teachers' unions had sought to eliminate the "highly qualified teachers" provision, which ESSA did. It's […]

Create your own school curriculum

Eva Sage-Gavin | September 20, 2016

When only 13 percent of sophomores at the Grandview School District in Washington passed the state math exams six years ago, administrators decided to develop their own curriculum. For instance, leaders had concluded the textbooks they purchased didn't adequately teach fractions and integers, leading to gaps in student learning. Grandview spent about $200,000 to hire […]

Clinton, Trump diverge on visions for K12

Adam Galvan | September 13, 2016

When the next president takes office in January, he or she will preside over major shifts in the K12 education landscape—from implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act and Common Core, to the rollout of nationwide STEM initiatives, to the simmering battles over charters, school choice and teachers unions. When the next president takes office […]

Aggressive allergy care in schools

September 11, 2016

Shortly after a teacher inadvertently gave almond biscotti to a student allergic to dairy and nuts, Deerfield Public Schools Superintendent Michael Lubelfeld convened the first of several meetings for parents of students with allergies. The goal: Review current policies and identify ways to improve practices to keep students with allergies safe and to protect those […]

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