Equipping students with the skills to enter the workforce and attracting and retaining good teachers should lead the next president's public school priorities, Americans say.
Last school year, we witnessed a 31% increase in incidents of gunfire on school grounds compared to the year prior, Everytown for Gun Safety research reveals.
The use of rigorous logic and disciplined methods to apply effective solutions to difficult problems is an essential skill of public education leadership. The higher up you go in the org chart, the more people you need to involve in the problem-solving process.
If you can begin science instruction with a phenomenon that exists in students' lives and inspires questions and curiosity, they won't ask why the lesson is important.
Interactions with large language models feel conversational, which often causes users to assume that the technology "knows" or "understands" the particular topic at hand. However, this can make LLMs appear more "authoritative" than they are, a report contends.
Whole-group and small-group instruction are essential parts of a literacy block in an elementary classroom, providing opportunities to deliver core instruction to all students, while also enabling differentiated instruction to better support each individual student. In this white paper, experienced Literacy Coach Hannah Irion-Frake describes some best practices for literacy instruction, addressing areas including: Grouping […]
Recent research has identified the most effective strategies to improve reading among students in grades 4–9 who have reading difficulties. The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently distilled some of this research into practical recommendations educators can use when providing reading interventions. In this recent webinar, Dr. Anita Archer reviews the recommendations, […]
As we begin the new school year, I encourage you to focus on how you can apply the insights from learning science to support the educators in your buildings.
