Highly engaged STEM classrooms shared several common characteristics. Students were actively building, testing, revising, collaborating, and solving authentic problems.
For schools grappling with engagement and attendance, the implication is straightforward: ask if connection is being built into the daily experience of your districts' students.
School officers across the state turned to heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, The New York Times investigation shows.
The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.
A few months ago, an elementary interventionist told me her district had tightened student screen time limits. She was trying to ensure students completed their Tier 2 math intervention within the new 45-minute weekly cap. The intervention required logging in to one platform for lessons, then another for progress monitoring. Literacy ran on yet another. […]
Bill would require parental consent before a public elementary or middle school can update a student’s pronouns, gender markers or preferred name on records in order to receive federal funding.
Tiffany McMaster takes the helm in Washoe County Public Schools, Anthony Jarrett is promoted at North Side ISD and Dyann Mack is named superintendent in Harford County Schools.
