Date & Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET <br><br> In this 30-minute Ed Talk, leaders will explore a practical "playbook" for designing tutoring as a school improvement and turnaround strategy to accelerate growth in underperforming schools by aligning scheduling and dosage, instructional materials, progress monitoring, and communication across instructional teams within an MTSS framework.
American teenagers spend more than right hours a day on screens, increasingly on short-form content like TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Meanwhile, only 17% of 13-year-olds read for fun almost daily, down from 35% in 1984.
Hawaiʻi is expected to see the greatest decline in high school graduates in the nation over the next several years, raising concerns from lawmakers and Department of Education officials about the future of small schools in shrinking communities.
By shifting school culture—through free meals, basic-need supports, staff training and a growth mindset—Sevastopol, a one-building rural K12 district in Door County, eliminated its achievement gap on Wisconsin’s Forward Exam by 2025.
Date & Time: Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET <br><br> In this 30-minute Ed Talk, learn how to align transportation systems with classroom and schoolwide practices to support social-emotional development, reduce behavioral incidents, and create a more consistent student experience—setting students up for a stronger start to the instructional day.
