An artist's touch has helped the first-year program excel through promoting, marketing, and educating. And it's doing well on the gaming side, too, with a national champion.
When online learning students in Ulysses Public Schools can't access a website, they use software to send an immediate request for approval to the district's IT team.
Former principal Linda Cliatt-Wayman's formula for turning around low-performing schools includes professional bravery and ensuring students know their actions have consequences.
Social-emotional learning for the coming school year actually began in July with professional development in Naperville School District 203 in the Chicago suburbs.
In rural North Texas, closing school buildings sped up Sunray ISD's journey toward student-driven instruction freed from the strictures of standardized tests.
Gilmer County Schools in West Virginia has used $220,000 in state grants to create STEAM labs that transformed its K-5 and 7-12 buildings into West Virginia "model tech schools."
Tornados, hurricanes and other natural disasters can provide some social-emotional learning guidance as schools reopen in the "uncharted territory" of the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
These Districts of Distinction runners-up are paying for AP tests and dual-credit classes, expanding summer programs for all students and providing more opportunities for students through construction projects.
