“I have had the pleasure to serve as an educator in Wisconsin’s Verona Area School District for over 30 years,” writes Rita Mortenson in eSchool News. Rita is the Educational Technology Coach for Verona Area
Writing in Education Week, Kelly Scott, in her eighth year as a secondary English teacher in Chesterfield, Va., offers four tips to ease the long-haul end-of-the-school-year blahs when you’re already feeling brain weary. Limit negative
Jackie Chaney conducts her second grade class at New Town Elementary School in Owings Mills, MD, with the finesse of a seasoned conductor: gaining her students’ attention at will, facilitating smooth transitions, and creating an
”The first thing that has positively shifted the tone of conversations we have in class is the decreasing stigma of mental health concerns,” says Caitlyn Homol, the International Baccalaureate, or IB, Teaching and Learning Coordinator
Students’ math scores have plummeted, national assessments show, and educators are working hard to turn math outcomes around, according to Education Week. It’s a challenge made harder by factors like math anxiety, students’ feelings of
“If I had a plan for doing well in 7th grade, it was this: memorize and regurgitate,” says Tenelle Porter, an assistant professor of psychology at Rowan University, writing in Education Week. “But my English
“Embracing new expectations.” That’s how Indiana Principal of the Year Danny Mendez describes his new staff’s response as he transitioned into the top spot at North Central High School in the Indianapolis-area Metropolitan School District
Academic resilience embodies the journey of students who persist and thrive academically despite the odds being stacked against them, according to Teacher magazine. About one in 9 socioeconomically disadvantaged students demonstrate this kind of academic
The Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township has been successfully using video for teacher professional learning for more than seven years, writes Dr. Stephanie Hofer, the interim superintendent at Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township
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