Life & Career Development Skills
When Tammy ThompsonKapp was Principal of Lapham Elementary School in Wisconsin, she and her staff struggled to help students who came to school hungry, tired or coping with mental health issues. With tears in...
Design credit: Erin Horlacher. Full sized image here. Source Information: 1820s; 1898; 1960; 1916; 1921; 1929 / 1929; Late 40s – early 50s; Late 50s – early 70s / Late 50s – early 70s;...
The stigma of red ink aside, traditional approaches to grading may stifle student progress and frustrate teachers. Lacking consistency and susceptible to both human error and unconscious bias, the grading methods of yesteryear have...
This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It’s Time to Reinvest. From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the...
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have long supported teachers in their career development, but with the help of technology, they’re now transforming education itself. Research shows that well-developed PLCs have a positive impact on both...
Is edtech at the head of your class? Technology plays a key role in the teaching and learning taking place in classrooms around the world today. But without proper planning, these educational tools may...
A critical component of any student’s educational journey is learning how to be better organized, complete tasks independently and persevere when an assignment is difficult. We’ve all seen (or even been) that woefully disorganized...
As fall begins in earnest, schools are in full swing. Students and teachers are settling into their schedules, with the newness of the school year giving way to routines. But around this time, something...
In 2015, as Arkansas implemented new learning standards and an end-of-year test, educators at Paragould School District received discouraging news: Their test scores were significantly below the state average. For example, just 27 percent...
While there’s no exact formula for a seamless digital transformation, certain school districts are providing examples of how to take this on while keeping learners at the center of everything. Student agency is a...
Her voice cracking with emotion, first-grade teacher Candy Mobley recalls the day in 2014 when her school district’s one-to-one program launched. “Their faces were so happy—it was like Christmas. I could have cried. Some...
When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. That’s arguably the case for U.S. smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet...
Cristian watched with excitement across the picnic table as Chef Bruce formed blue balls of cornmeal and pressed them between two stainless steel paddles. “I know how to do that!” he exclaimed with excitement....
Teachers and administrators don’t always see eye to eye, but a recent report from Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) shows they’re aligned on one very important point: differentiation is essential for student achievement. Survey respondents...
Kristin Leong is the definition of a multi-faceted educator. She’s held a variety of roles in which she “educated” her audiences—from her stint as a middle school humanities teacher, to her days as Town...
Douglas Gotel understands trauma and its crushing consequences; when he was 21, his 11-year-old cousin was murdered. He recalls feeling helpless watching his cousin’s mother suffer, in anguish without access to a grief therapist...
The start of a school year means a new seating chart for each classroom—full of students that the teacher likely hasn’t met. Without knowing the students, how does a teacher know where to assign...
When “Disrupting Class” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or...
In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. It was called, simply and descriptively, design thinking. Unlike some education...
