School employees and school resource officers can’t physically restrain students in a way that impacts their ability to breathe or voice distress—including holds that put students face down on the ground.
As Texas schools face new security and safety requirements, a former U.S. Secret Service agent has been put in charge of making sure the state's more than 8,000 campuses are in compliance. In the days after the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Governor Greg Abbott called on the state's education department to create a new position, Chief of School Safety and Security.
A Tulsa-area school district is in its second week of bomb threats after Walters shared a Libs of TikTok post about a school librarian on social media.
"AI is not magic," a new report from the National Association of Elementary School Principals reads. "Magic is mysterious and cannot be understood or controlled. AI is neither of these things. The more we seek to understand the concepts behind AI, the better we will be able to control it and use it for constructive purposes in education."
There are few superintendents who aren't losing sleep over staffing their classrooms with enough teachers, and now there's a clearer picture of how the shortages are adding even more pressure to the teachers who are still working.
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 20 at 2 pm ET <br><br> In this 20-minute DA Ed Talk, former administrator and instructional technology leader Dr. Colleen Cannon-Ruffo will share some practical and effective strategies for how district leaders can support and motivate teachers to create more joyful classrooms that increase student engagement.
These past few school years have been tough for our students, educators, and families overall. From COVID learning disruptions to teacher shortages and persisting school safety issues. Our nation wants to make sure students are "on track" and set up for success, but that can be hard to do when their safety is often put into question.
Reading apps allow educators to drop entire libraries into students' hands, inviting them to read in print, on their phones while traveling, and through their headphones when being active.