An analysis of school district response plans to COVID reveals strong, replicable practices from reopening and recovery plans that other systems can model, even where schools have already opened.
It should now. Making preparations to avoid confusion during any emergency—including a pandemic—is critical, says Mike Raisor, the former COO for Jefferson County Public Schools, whose plan was designed to get the district up and running within 12 hours.
Coronavirus closed schools in New York City, which will move to distance learning, while LAUSD calls for community resource centers to provide childcare. ACT reschedules national test.
In this case, Jefferson County Public Schools selects MySchoolBucks to accept and process credit and debit card payments in person and online. Sponsored content by Heartland School Solutions.
New residents were ready to pay rent on affordable teacher housing the day that Buncombe County Schools in North Carolina opened its teacher housing community.
Technology is transforming libraries into makerspaces and robotics labs, and spaces where librarians can provide students with social-emotional support.
Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to spend $600 million to raise the minimum new teacher salary to $47,500 from $37,636. Florida currently ranks 26th for starting teacher pay; the increase would place the state second.
Today, more than 101,000 K-12 students at Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, use online databases by Gale, a Cengage Company. Sponsored content by Gale, a Cengage Company.
K.C. Boyd, library media specialist at Jefferson Middle School Academy and featured speaker at DA's FETC 2020, tells how she created a wide-ranging, multi-platform social media presence that promotes the school and its programs.