District leaders are having to change menus daily as food suppliers are forced to substitute products, putting pressure on students with allergies to check ingredients.
When improperly designed, teacher mentoring programs can turn into a simple "buddy system" instead of a rigorous learning opportunity for first-time educators, a new report has found.
What started as a $5 million pilot project to rescue Cleveland kids from "failing schools" is now a statewide voucher system serving 69,000 children that could cost taxpayers more than $628 million for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Gamification, play and fun are how English teacher and instructional coach John Meehan, an FETC 2022 featured speaker, is reaching new levels of engagement with his students.
The report is a devastating account of how the former principal of Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts and three other administrators fabricated courses and approved students for graduation when they had failed to legitimately pass classes.
"Ultimately, I feel that I have lost my way, and it began to consume me," Superintendent Purnell said, according to the Enterprise. "I have become tired. Tired of disappointing myself, my family, my friends, my colleagues."
It is critical that K-12 leaders do all they can to celebrate the success their teachers and students have had with online and digital tools, FETC featured speaker Ann McMullan says.
DA Leadership Institute member Rick Surrency faces one challenge that many of his fellow superintendents don't: running for re-election every four years.
Fines arts programs had subsisted on a shoestring budget in Grand Rapids Public Schools but now its leaders will spend ESSER funds to buy art supplies, instruments and tickets to music festivals.
Department of Education offers new guidance on using American Rescue Plan and other ESSER funds to upgrade building ventilation systems to block COVID.
