Professional learning, development and growth is an established practice across all professions and disciplines. In education, the stakes might even be higher. Not only do educators need to keep pace with the latest practices and technologies, but they also need to model what they demand from their students: lifelong learning. If we ask most educators […]
Use social media to build transparency and credibility for the work in your district, says Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent of Fall Creek School District in Wisconsin.
Today's focus on STEM projects seems irrevocably linked to makerspaces. Educators have seen students thrive when they experiment with tools and technology to create various objects.
Chip Layne (pictured) is moving from the state's Mammoth Spring School District to the Norfork School District, where he'll take the reins from retiring Superintendent Mike Seay.
Family problems, absences and poor grades can drive students to becoming a dropout. But what actually drives many teenagers to quit school, say experts, is a sense that nobody in the building cares about them.
Practitioners at the UDL-IRN Summit last month shared ways to add "zhoosh," or excitement, to blended and online learning with universal design for learning's three principles.
Parent Teacher Home Visits in Sacramento and other similar organizations are once again popularizing home visits, a practice commonplace in the 1960s. Each school year, the group facilitates at least two visits from school faculty members to a student’s home. During these exchanges, families and school staff discuss their goals and expectations for the student’s […]
Since Chicago Public Schools implemented the University of Chicago's Freshman OnTrack indicator, the percentage of ninth-graders who've stayed on track, or earned the appropriate number of credits to graduate, has increased from 57 to 82 percent. Among the other data points: On-track rates improved for all students, but especially for African-American males whose on-track rate […]
