Across the country, educators are building on the innovations of the remote and hybrid learning eras to reach a new normal of more advanced use of educational technology.
Hard data around mental health is bringing educators' concerns about the severity of students' COVID-era struggles with anxiety, thoughts of suicide, and racism into stark relief.
Free- and reduced-price lunch, used for decades to set school funding levels and track other accountability measures, no longer serves as an accurate proxy for student poverty, researchers say.
About 1 in 5 people said students who lack internet access should return to in-person first but 49% opposed moving certain groups of children ahead of others.
Students have attended class in-person throughout 2020-21 in Wisconsin's Turtle Lake School District, a one-building, pre-K through 12 system with an enrollment of 170.
Public and charter system leaders are extending the reach of great teachers, leveraging co-teaching and creating more flexible, student-centric classrooms
Ward leads The Florida Council of 100, which spent two years developing a long-range strategic plan to prepare Florida's schools for the seismic shifts that will occur in the way students are taught.
Even before COVID and the shift to online learning, the traditional K-12 model of a teacher standing in front of classrooms was gradually becoming obsolete.
District leaders say online learning is the innovative practice most likely to persist even as students and teachers return to classrooms, the survey found.
