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Teacher coaching boosts early childhood education
Melissa Nicefaro

Coaching has surfaced as a key quality improvement strategy for early childhood instruction, according to a recent report by Bellwether Education Partners.

Assessment, Guidance, Professional Development
Lessons from Stoneman Douglas: How debate education drives activism and achievement
Alison DeNisco
FINDING THEIR VOICES—Students from the New Haven Urban Debate League in Connecticut are among those across the nation who have been learning the speaking and presentation skills necessary for productive public engagement.

A number of schools nationwide are committed to teaching skills coaches say will last a lifetime, including how to maintain eye contact and ask meaningful questions.

Business Partnerships, Equity, Research, Language Arts, Soft skills
Getting teachers comfortable with technology
Sam Frenzel
Sam Frenzel is a writer for Teach.com based in upstate New York. He covers topics including education policy, teacher welfare and classroom technology.

Many teachers are forced into using technology they are unfamiliar or uncomfortable using. Administrators should do all they can to help teachers overcome this. Here are four keys to supporting and engaging teachers.

Standards, Testing, Gamification, Professional Development, Technology
Strategies for resolving employee issues in K12
Carol Patton

All districts face employee issues. Some have learned better than others how to address problems early, before they erupt.

Guidance, Human Resources, Professional Development
How K12 is outwitting anxiety
Deborah Yaffe
the best medicine—A “laughter yoga” session reduces student stress in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District in New Jersey. The district has also provided PD to show teachers how to conduct meditation and breathing exercises to ease their own and students’ anxiety.

Across the country, districts are grappling with rising levels of student anxiety attributed to everything from academic pressures to larger social forces. 

Testing, Student Conduct, Health & Wellness, Professional Development, Social-Emotional Learning
Schools harness learning power
Ray Bendici
Source: U.S. Department of Energy / Source: Orlando Utilities Commission

Faced with tight budgets and the expanding use of electricity-hungry technology, districts are turning to energy efficiency solutions that don’t sacrifice learning power.

Budget, Business Partnerships, Maintenance, 1 to 1, Infrastructure
04/2018
A school district expands an ESL initiative
Steven Blackburn
EXTRA SUPPORT—At the ESL academy, high school ELLs get after-school help with homework and other study support. Teachers from all disciplines are available while students work independently, in teams or in small groups.

A combination of grants and community outreach allowed Piscataway Township Schools to adopt a “cradle to career” approach to serve its large—and rapidly growing—population of ELLs more effectively.

Grants, Parents, Equity, ELL, Professional Development
04/2018
Districts adopt better-aligned screening of prospective teachers that predict success
Ray Bendici

When hiring teachers, districts are more likely to select better candidates if they use screening tools designed to align closely with actual classroom experiences and expectations.

Evaluation, Human Resources, Teaching & Learning
04/2018
Charter school offers partnership model others can replicate
Michael Lauro
Michael Lauro is associate executive director of the Atlantis Charter School.

There is a disconnect between what students know when they leave high school and what they are expected to know when they enter college and the workplace. So, how do you prevent this disconnect?

Business Partnerships, Guidance, Charter Schools, College & Career, STEM
04/2018
How schools can prevent trauma during emergency exercises
Ken Trump
Ken Trump (ken@schoolsecurity.org) is the president of National School Safety and Security Services.

The emotionally charged climates following the tragic attack in Parkland, Florida are understandable, but making knee-jerk decisions with a “do something, do anything, do it now” mantra can lead to high-risk, high-liability actions.

Parents, Food Services, Transportation, Security, Professional Development
04/2018
District designs K12 model to better serve special populations
Rose Aldubaily and Glenn Maleyko
Rose Aldubaily is director of English learners and compensatory education, and Glenn Maleyko is superintendent of Dearborn Public Schools in Michigan.

Striving to ensure the implementation of best practices that support all learners is critical to academic achievement for diverse populations.

Common Core, At-Risk, ELL, Professional Development, Special Ed
04/2018
K12 educator attendance incentives
Nancy Mann Jackson

While teacher absenteeism is sometimes unavoidable, schools across the country are following varied strategies toward higher attendance.

Budget, Human Resources, Student Conduct, Professional Development
04/2018
Florida school shooting underscores need for new PD
Ray Bendici

After February’s deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, there was no shortage of suggestions for improving school security, ranging from adding more guards to arming teachers.

Parents, Security, Health & Wellness, Professional Development, Social-Emotional Learning
04/2018
Taking on teacher attrition
Hillary Scharton

If you’ve visited a classroom lately, you’ve likely noticed a remarkable difference in how teaching and learning happens. Computers and devices are staples in most classrooms, and you’re far more likely to find students working in groups than a teacher at the front of the room lecturing. Though the teacher continues to play a crucial role, how they do that has changed. Today’s teachers play more of a mentor role, facilitating and supporting students on their personal learning journeys; pushing them to discover and discuss, explore and experiment, and to fail fast and adapt.

Professional Development
03/2018
The New School Rules
Steven Wyman-Blackburn and Ray Bendici
The New School Rules is a book about pursuing education reform. It describes effective ways to build team trust and to lead faculty without micromanaging.

The New School Rules, a book about pursuing education reform, describes effective ways to build team trust and to lead faculty without micromanaging.

Assessment, Policy & Compliance, Reform, Professional Development
03/2018
K12 math instruction: Digital and physical
Steven Blackburn

Math instruction continues to move further into digital territory, but many lessons still depend on hands-on activities and nondigital materials, such as textbooks.

Teaching & Learning, Professional Development, STEM, 1 to 1, Products
03/2018
Takeaways from the 2018 ‘What’s Hot in Literacy’ education report
DA Staff
Takeaways from the 2018 ‘What’s Hot in Literacy’ report

More than 2,000 educators from 91 countries and territories responded to the most recent survey from the International Literacy Association, targeting the most important issues in literacy.

Teaching & Learning, Language Arts, Professional Development
03/2018
Heeding the voice of school experience
Elyse Doti Cohen and Matthew Pearson
Elyse Doti Cohen and Matthew Pearson have both served as teachers, assistant principals and principals in New York city public schools.

In 2014, the New York City Department of Education’s Office of Leadership created the New Principal Support (NPS) program to reduce turnover and help experienced principals grow.

Equity, Professional Development
03/2018
Real-world ‘rithmetic education
Elaina Loveland

Finding innovative ways to make math matter to students is key to improving competency in all grades.

Business Partnerships, Grants, Common Core, STEM, Makerspaces
03/2018
Transformative K12 tech
Shawna De La Rosa
BROADENING HORIZONS—Tech staff at Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District near Minneapolis coach teachers to help students use technology to bridge cultural barriers.

Instructional technology directors serve as classroom coaches and content experts in districts determined to use devices, digital learning and other technology to their full instructional potential.

Parents, Professional Development, Technology, 1 to 1, Infrastructure
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