In Juliana Santos’ fourth-grade class in Framingham, Massachusetts, her Portuguese immersion students at Potter Road Elementary School are learning about similes and metaphors.
As staffing shortages persist in 2023, administrators must evaluate the situation specific to their institution and incorporate solutions that would offer the greatest benefit to their teachers and students.
In just two years as superintendent of Ankeny Community School District in Iowa, Erick Pruitt has led his team in producing a five-year strategic plan, a profile of a graduate and a DEI framework.
A teacher charged with neglect told the 7-year-old special education student during lunch that if he vomited, he would need to eat whatever he threw up, police in Indiana said.
Lamira Samson and her son, Jeremiah, have to make a choice several times a week: They can walk a mile out of the way around the sprawling train parked in their path to school, stay home or try to climb over the train, risking severe injury or death.
While there have been no reports of injuries or shots fired, this disturbing trend is yet another safety threat administrators must account for as they work to harden their schools against mass shooters.
This sentiment is yet more evidence for administrators that excessive workloads and lack of resources are driving teachers to their breaking point, according to the annual "Voices from the Classroom" survey.
Something remarkable is happening at Nora Forester Elementary School in San Antonio, Texas, in teacher Patrice Bravo's STEM lab — a wonderland of technicolor gears, tools and laboratory doo-dads, all overseen by STEM's playful patron saint: Albert Einstein, poking out his tongue from a poster on the back wall.
