How to Get Businesses Interested in High School Internships
Businesses can build bridges between education and industry by offering work-based learning programs, while boosting their talent development strategies as well, according to a report by American Student Assistance, as reported in K-12 Dive. In a survey of 500 U.S. businesses, 86% of those with high school interns said their program aimed to strengthen their…
How to Assess Threats to Detect Violence Warning Signs
School leaders are spending time this summer reviewing safety data and preparing plans for the 2024-25 school year, according to an article in Forbes. Understanding measures in place and based on best practices is critical for school leaders and communities. Valuable school violence data is collected and analyzed through a variety of organizations. The School…
Creating and Sustaining a Positive School Climate
Staff and students at Yates Elementary in Schenectady, N.Y., rarely end a conversation without uttering two words: “Choose Kind,” according to Education Week. The phrase, written on signs throughout the school and spoken at the end of daily loudspeaker announcements, has become a motto for staff and students after nearly a decade of implementing social-emotional…
How to Creatively Engage Students with History
The subject of history can often evoke imagery of dusty tomes sitting in darkened basement stacks, according to an article in K-12 Dive. Educators can help students look at the numerous creative ways humans have documented history, seek out and examine artifacts of time in all their forms, and even consider how they will create…
Gaming for Better Student Outcomes
Playing video games is a huge part of daily teen life, and more schools are using gaming to reach disengaged students, according to Education Week. The vast majority (85 percent) of teens in the United States play video games, with 4 in 10 saying they play them at least once a day, according to a…
Boosting K-12 Teacher Morale
Public school teachers are stressed out by their work. They have a gloomy outlook on the problems students face and a dim view of K-12 education’s future, according to an article in Forbes. These views are chronicled in a new Pew Research Center survey of classroom teachers entitled What’s It Like To Be a Teacher…
Identify Struggling Middle School Students to Prevent High School Drop-Outs
“Kids in struggling communities and socially isolated neighborhoods far too often follow a predictable pattern: They miss some school, get in some trouble, and soon find themselves failing courses,” according to Robert Balfanz, a research professor at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education, and the co-founder…
Strategies to Motivate Students to Learn
Like most teachers, Dani Boepple devotes a lot of mental energy to devising ways to motivate and engage her students, according to an article in Education Week. Boepple teaches science at McDonald Middle School in the Dallas metro area, which serves mostly students from low-income families. Over the years, Boepple has honed multiple strategies and…
How Team Teaching Can Boost Teacher Retention
Giving teachers more control over their collaboration with peers may boost the effectiveness of teacher teams and encourage educators to stay in the classroom, according to Education Week. At Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz., special education teacher Kelly Owen and four colleagues organize freshman students’ schedules, lessons, and grouping for four of the six…
The Kids Are Alright: Let Them Be Free to Play
Kids are born to play. And when Peter Gray was young, adults made sure that’s exactly what they did, according to an article in The 74. Gray grew up in the 1950s, when children were expected to spend long hours between school and dinner unsupervised. Surveying the restrictions on children’s freedom today, he believes “we’re…
