5 Ways I’ve Leveraged AI in my English Classroom
Mary Martin, Ed.D., English Language Arts Teacher, Platte County High School, MO, wrote this essay for eSchool News. ChatGPT stormed into our media, our lives, and our classrooms, and it’s a mess–but my students and I are jumping right in. As a teacher who strives to help students uncover their interests and stretch their imaginations,…
Chicago Dashboard Tracks How Youth Are Faring in Every Corner of the City
The tool paints perhaps the most comprehensive picture to date of how kids in each community are doing in school, in finding work and financially, according to WBEZ Chicago. By clicking around the dashboard, one can see that in Albany Park on the North Side, about 45% of children age 5 and under live in…
Innovative Teaching Models Can Solve Teacher Shortage
The teacher shortage is real — and has been growing over the last decade, according to an article in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Shortages vary across schools, districts, regions, grades and subject matter. They are most severe in schools that serve larger numbers of students from low-income families and students of color and in subjects…
Good Teaching Requires these 11 Skills
Twelve years ago, when I left a career as a lawyer to become a history teacher, my vision of what a “good teacher” looked like was shaped in part by movies which depict teachers who overcome institutional dysfunction to connect with students and inspire them to achieve their potential; writes Catherine Friesen in Chalkbeat New York….
Technology Innovation Gives K–12 Teachers the Power to Teach from Anywhere
Bourbon County lies in the heart of Kentucky’s renowned horse country and has a lot to offer its 2,400 students spread out across six schools, according to an article in EdTech. It has a 95.4% graduation rate, a gifted and talented program, arts and athletics programs and classes for college-bound students. However, when neighboring Fayette…
Michigan Schools Help Build Awareness for Cardiac Arrest Emergencies
“For them to have the necessary training, seconds save lives,” Scott Lasby told WILX News 10. Time that Scott Lasby hoped for when his son Skylar went into cardiac arrest in 2019. “If anybody knew the drills, the procedure to do this, it means a difference between life and death,” said Lasby. Lasby says while…
Suspensions and Bullying Plunged as Many Students Learned Remotely
The number of students who were suspended or arrested at school fell dramatically during the first full school year of the pandemic, new federal data show, according to Chalkbeat Chicago. And though disparities in who got suspended or arrested at school persisted along lines of race and disability, in some cases, those gaps narrowed considerably,…
Harnessing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
A New York superintendent writes in K-12 Dive that AI, if used correctly, has the potential to provide more personalized, engaging learning for students. Jared Bloom is superintendent of the Franklin Square Union Free School District in New York and a member of the Institute for Education Innovation, a national school superintendent think tank. Says Bloom:…
A Strategic Plan for Innovation
The culmination of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) strategic planning work for 2023-2030 resulted in the development of four pillars that identify what FCPS must do well to reach the plans’ goals. The Four Pillars serve as the foundation of strategic planning and define the capabilities to strengthen the effectiveness of instructional programs and Division-wide…
Traditional Instruction Gets Turned on Its Head
One Stone is a student-driven private high school near the heart of downtown Boise, ID. The school is part four-year high school, part educational R&D lab, part design-and-advertising agency — that turns virtually every high school tradition on its head, according to an article in The74. Teachers are called “coaches,” and students not only guide the…
