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California schools confront human trafficking

By Adam Galvan

New California laws make the state first in the nation to adopt human trafficking and sexual abuse prevention education and training for students and teachers. The California Healthy Youth Act, passed in 2016, requires districts to provide comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education, including lessons on sex trafficking. In 2017, the governor amended the […]

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Schools have an eye on access

Charter school offers partnership model others can replicate

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March 15, 2018

How schools can prevent trauma during emergency exercises

School leaders everywhere have experienced parent, staff and student anxiety about school safety following the tragic attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. While these emotionally charged climates are understandable, making knee-jerk decisions with a “do something, do anything, do it now” mantra can lead to high-risk, high-liability actions that administrators and […]

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March 13, 2018

District designs K12 model to better serve special populations

Striving to ensure the implementation of best practices that support all learners is critical to academic achievement for diverse populations. Dearborn Schools is committed to ensuring that all students reach academic success. With a population of 20,907 of which 50 percent are English learners (several refugees and newcomer students), 8 percent special education and approximately […]

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March 12, 2018

K12 educator attendance incentives

For the past two years, leaders at Muhlenberg South Middle School in Greenville, Kentucky, have been working to decrease the number of teacher absences as part of a wider effort to improve school culture. Although this has occurred during a financial crisis in which all Muhlenberg County School District staff took a 10 percent pay […]

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March 09, 2018

Florida school shooting underscores need for new PD

After February’s deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, there was no shortage of suggestions for improving school security, ranging from adding more guards to arming teachers. One area not widely addressed, however, is how to prepare teachers and administrators psychologically for dealing with a crisis. For example, although teachers […]

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March 08, 2018

Time for schools to flunk failure

We pretty much understand rocket science, says Doug Green. That is, we understand the complex math and physics that propel objects into space. “The human brain, however, which is the learning playground for students and teachers, is much more complex and less understood.” An educator since 1970—as an elementary principal, district computer director, K12 science […]

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March 07, 2018

Homework overhaul in schools

Many elementary school students in Marion County Public Schools spend more than 20 minutes per night reading with family members. Parents in the central Florida district also report their children feel less stressed this school year.

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March 05, 2018

Leading system providers on K12 visitor management

What issues do your K-12 visitor management system clients want to address? “Surprisingly, there are more tardies/early dismissals and staff check-ins than visitors in most schools. For example, in 2017, in 4,500 user schools, the Ident-A-Kid system logged an average of 2,020 tardies/early releases and 1,830 staff check-ins per year, per school, and only 960 […]

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California schools confront human trafficking

Schools have an eye on access

Charter school offers partnership model others can replicate

Student Success Stories

How schools can prevent trauma during emergency exercises

District designs K12 model to better serve special populations

K12 educator attendance incentives

Florida school shooting underscores need for new PD

Time for schools to flunk failure

Homework overhaul in schools

Leading system providers on K12 visitor management