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Superintendent Trent North of Georgia talks about working with students who come from poverty, the school’s police force and navigating polarizing times.
Redesigning hiring practices and using his insight as a parent of elementary- and high-school students helps Superintendent of the Year finalist Kevin McGowan make strides in his New York district.
Superintendent of the Year finalist PJ Caposey talks with SmartBrief about fixing broken systems, winning tough battles for funding and focusing just on what matters .
Read more about 6 Young Scientist Challenge finalists and their projects.
Students who became finalists in last year's 3M Young Scientist Challenge tell when they first caught the STEM bug and how it's become a passion.
6 of 9 finalists in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge say hands-on activities that aim to solve real-world problems are the best way to get students interested in STEM.
Matthew Hillmann, superintendent at Northfield Public Schools in Minnesota, shares his philosophy of education leadership.
Schools are facing a crossroads: Will classrooms shift to a more personalized approach to learning? Or will they maintain the status quo of whole-class,...
Old education strategies won't work in 2023. Research indicates that personalizing learning is the path to student success.
Chef and humanitarian Jose Andres addressed ACTFL members from Ukraine, sharing the importance of learning world languages.
Sandy Husk and Richard Culatta talk to SmartBrief about the nuances of blending ASCD’s professional development, leadership and whole-child focus with ISTE’s deep insights and expertise in education technology.
Teaching students valuable interaction skills at school can have a ripple effect that leads to productive citizens and a safe community.
Building connections with students, staff, peers has been a person and professional management tool for Principal Donna Hayward.
Principal David Arencibia, a finalist for the NASSP 2023 Principal of the Year, can't stress high standards enough.
Principal John Briquelet is a finalist for the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ 2023 Principal of the Year. Read what matters most to him.
Productive struggle is another term for developing grit. Two experts share why it's important and how to make it happen.
Should we pay reparations through education? Can you count the reasons teachers are frustrated? Letter-writing pays positive dividends.
Learning recovery can be challenging for students and teachers alike. Experts at a webinar offered insights, ideas.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of “The 1619 Project" considers efforts to ban books as an assault on freedom.
Counseling before higher education can keep adults from bad career fits and wasted money. Also in Extra Credit: New studies on tutoring.
Is the parents’ rights movement harming students? Does your district do ability assessments? Read about these and more in Extra Credit.
Learn how hula hoops teach a sex-ed -- and life -- fundamental, the difference between slow and fast thinking, and whether “normal” is worth returning to.
Does your school need a culture shift? Three educators share how to create a better education experience for academics, emotions and safety.
Turn education on its head with achievement teams that use student assessment data to improve teaching rather than judge students' abilities.
Lots of problems in education haven’t changed at all in the past few years, but several sources offer different ideas.
Are schools a waste of time? Can we build enough student-adult trust in schools? Read these and more quick takes in Education Extra Credit.
The latest Education Extra Credit shares articles about college, trust in teachers, great ideas and other topics.
Coming back to school after time away can affect how parents view teachers. What can educators do to improve parent interventions?
Student behavior issues are increasing. Our SmartSummit explored what teachers can do to help students succeed -- now and in the future.
Educators can look for red flags in student behavior to try to get ahead of social-emotional problems as school resumes.
Institute's materials help teachers support students as they learn to talk across differences with constructive dialogue techniques.
Helping worn-out students and teachers. Broadening cultural education. Read about these and more in the latest Education Extra Credit.
Will a Gender Support Plan help students limited by Florida's Parental Rights in Education law? Are sneaker giveaways a fix to chronic absenteeism?
Performance-based funding for colleges has frustrating results. A scrappy teachers’ union shows what teamwork is. Girls in Afghanistan go to secret schools against Taliban orders.
Education Extra Credit features views on Title IX, ideas for transforming education and wishes for a whole lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
What does restorative justice done right look like? How different are 1619 Project and 1776 Report curricula in actual classrooms? Learn more in Extra Credit.
Photo: These green shoes were the only way doctors could identify 10-year-old Uvalde, Texas, shooting victim Maite Yuleana Rodriguez. Extra Credit is a...
The votes are in! From classroom management to security and safety to social-emotional learning, your favorite education technology platforms and solutions.
Find out more about some intriguing, bonus education topics curated for SmartBrief readers.
Teachers and students -- both refugees and those still in Ukraine -- show remarkable resilience and determination to stay in school. In the US, a mass shooting at a Texas schools prompts frustration at a problem that seems to be getting worse.
SmartBrief's Extra Credit pays homage to academic/arts achievers, extolls the value of clubs and notes that sex ed wars will never end.
Extra Credit: Resegregation, FAFSA data blunder, expelled teacher