Educational Leadership
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
edtech
Educational Leadership
Do you have the school safety measures necessary for a safe learning space?
Prevention, preparedness and response are the three legs of the school safety stool. Technology offers helpful school safety measures.
Educational Leadership
How we improve instruction with video for coaching
Making video recording optional earned us buy-in, and using videos only for coaching has made it popular among administrators and teachers.
Insights
A new task for teachers: Developing curriculum
Developing curriculum as textbooks were pared back during the pandemic is another add-on to teachers' duties. Internet resources can help.
Education
Blending subjects: How I build historical context into science curriculum
Blending subjects helps students understand how they fit together and increases their interest in what may have been a non-favorite subject.
Edtech
How instructional audio can help re-engage students
Students farther than 6 feet from a teacher may have trouble hearing . Those in the back of the classroom can miss 30% of what's being said.
Edtech
How AI and VR will enhance language learning beyond 2023
AI chatbots, ML algorithms and VR exchange programs are educational tools set to make language learning easier.
Educational Leadership
Global ideas that show the power of an education servant leader
Involved individuals who practice education servant leadership often are the enthusiasts behind initiatives that benefit students.
Educational Leadership
5 ways to design more inclusive learning experiences for students
Using Universal Design for Learning when developing courses helps ensure inclusive learning for students in college as well as K-12.
Education
How to address shortage of speech-language pathologists in schools
4 ways schools can work to end the shortage of speech-language pathologists based in schools and help more students learn better.
Educational Leadership
AI dilemmas, voiceprints and AI tools for teachers
Don't stress over the possibility that students might cheat with ChatGPT. Instead of seeing AI dilemmas, recognize AI's many benefits.
Career-Technical Education
Broader, hands-on CTE helps engage students
It is our job as educators to engage students and help them explore career options as early as we can to set them up for success.
Education
Deepen student learning with virtual field trips: Tips from the field
Virtual field trips can make teachers' lessons more engaging by putting students in a different country or environment or even on a planet.
Education
Features that spell success for a teacher coaching cycle
Donna Spangler asserts that the teacher coaching cycle that involves an identify-learn-improve method works best.
Insights
5 ways online arts education access supports all students
Fom instruction to tools to field trips, online arts education access is an equalizer that can make a lifetime of difference for students.
Education
3 ways to enhance your district’s cybersecurity approach
Some of the most important cybersecurity features are the easiest to employ in your district's cybersecurity approach.
Education
Co-design: How educators can invite students to participate in their learning
Collaborating on lessons with students -- a process called co-design -- gives students greater interest and ownership in their learning.
Educational Leadership
Implement an online tutoring program with 5 best practices
Increase student achievement by implementing an online tutoring program. Outline your priorities and make sure you're thoroughly prepared.
Edtech
Getting my first-graders to see themselves in STEM
Digital libraries and videos can bring fun projects and well-rounded information. This is vital, as students need to see themselves in STEM.
Education
Problem-based learning leads STEM students to help community
Baltimore STEM students used problem-based learning to solve a community problem and win a national prize.
Education
How to implement a new literacy program in middle school
An Arkansas school district's literacy specialist explains five elements of kicking off a new literacy program in grades six and above.
Education
Video for professional development accelerates teacher growth, student learning
Formal or informal recording processes can help teachers see themselves in action and collaborate on video for professional development.
Insights
Education cybersecurity: How leaders should address rapid rise of ransomware
Ransomware for K-12 schools and colleges isn't a matter of if, but when. Cybersecurity expert Allen Jenkins explains the repercussions and solutions.
Education
3 ways to engage elementary students in space education
Interactive, hands-on learning helps draw elementary-school students into space education, explains STEM specialist Nicollette LeTellier.
Education
Robotics and values can be part of the same lessons
A STEAM education expert explains how coding can help us teach students generosity, perseverance and collaboration.
Edtech
Digital productivity solutions in higher ed offer student, staff relief
Never-ending, confusing paperwork generated in higher education can be tamed with digital productivity solutions.
Edtech
Strategies to help K-2 students progress from special ed to general ed
Combine technology, individualized instruction and small-group teaching on students' path from special ed students to general ed classes.
Edtech
How using a digital house system strengthened the school-home connection
Our school's digital house system to manage student groups has been a fun and informative way to keep in touch with families.
Edtech
How teachers can infuse classes with joyful learning
Sharing your own enthusiasm and encouraging students to fail and try again can bring joyful learning to STEM classes.
Educational Leadership
Leveraging latest research for education technology tools teachers need
Don't toss untested edtech into the classroom. It's better if all stakeholders partner to create research-based education technology tools.
Edtech
Staying the course: Lessons learned from digital learning
Active, engaging digital learning opportunities put students in control of their own learning. Quality, not quantity, makes a difference.
Education
How a special ed learning platform helps students with dyslexia
Technology that keeps assignments. homework and student progress in one place and gives instant feedback has helped students with dyslexia.
Educational Leadership
Negative social media and coffeehouses: Distraction, focus or both?
Educators can help students focus using internet coffeehouse sounds and can counter fake, negative social media photos with the real thing.
Education
Scale student behavior support through SEL
A Montana district curriculum and special education director shares 3 lessons learned from measuring the success of SEL and student behavior.
Education
Listen for a loud classroom to find the most-engaged students
Introducing edtech activities can turn up the volume, but a loud classroom is a sign of engaged, eagerly learning students.
Education
Are you giving your English learners the right resources?
When you allow the fear of a test to determine how you deliver instruction to English learners, you’re going to get it wrong, educator says.
Insights
Fintech payment innovations could reshape higher ed
Today’s fintech landscape is driving a greater need for payment innovations in education software at the collegiate level.
Education
Teaching computer science without (much) coding
Teaching computer science can be intimidating for teachers with no background in it. But what students really need is context, support and guidance.
Insights
Creating deeper, wider paths to digital equity
An edtech expert and educators share the ways they use technology to create more digital equity for students and families.
Edtech
The need for content creation literacy
Just as information literacy was important when the internet was new, schools must help students understand responsible content creation now.
Education
AI education roadmap: Kindergarten to career
Introduce AI in kindergarten and nurturing a passion for it throughout K-12 to create tomorrow's innovators.
Education
How to create STEM opportunities for students with disabilities
The Catalyst program in North Carolina helps high-school students with disabilities learn about and train for STEM jobs and position them for STEM college degrees.