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How schools can prevent trauma during emergency exercises

By Ken Trump

School leaders everywhere have experienced parent, staff and student anxiety about school safety following the tragic attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. While these emotionally charged climates are understandable, making knee-jerk decisions with a “do something, do anything, do it now” mantra can lead to high-risk, high-liability actions that administrators and […]

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Less time tracking buses, more time serving students.

Tools for K12 educational leaders to leverage data to develop future-focused strategies

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January 24, 2018

Districts give new life to old school buses

Repurposing buses no longer suitable for daily transportation has provided schools with mobile makerspaces, traveling caf©s and bookmobiles. The practice allows for extended use of an asset and adds a mobile dimension to programs that districts cannot always find space for in traditional classrooms. Cheatham County Schools in Ashland, Tennessee, is in the process of […]

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January 15, 2018

Travel alerts for K12

When done right, international travel exposes students to a diversity of people and perspectives, teaching them to communicate and relate with others.

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October 24, 2017

School districts cut bus costs by going electric

Districts in Minnesota and California are participating in pilot programs that provide all-electric, zero-emissions buses that should cost much less to power and maintain. Schmitty & Sons, a transportation company in Lakeville, Minnesota, partnered with a local wholesale power supplier and utility co-op to put the Midwest’s first all-electric school bus into service. The 71-passenger […]

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September 27, 2017

Houston-area school districts grapple with hurricane disruptions

School officials in more than 200 southeastern Texas districts were struggling early last month to recover from Hurricane Harvey and ensure that more than 1 million students who were disrupted by the storm could begin the school year in safe and functional classrooms. At press time, most districts impacted by Harvey-related flooding had delayed school […]

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September 20, 2017

How school administrators can benefit from contracting student bus transportation

Why is contracting a beneficial option for school districts and communities? Contracting allows education professionals to focus on their core responsibility, which is educating young people, not running a complicated logistics operation. Every day contractors safely and efficiently transport millions of children to and from school—it’s their core mission and focus and they are good […]

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September 15, 2017

Bus tracking and GPS devices for schools

A wave of new GPS systems not only tracks buses in real time, but allows administrators to map routes, films drivers for future training purposes and provides data on how well vehicles are functioning. The technology also promises safer rides for students and provides peace-of-mind for parents, who can download apps to find out where […]

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May 11, 2017

Design an adaptive learning ecosystem

Years ago, educators at Fremont Middle School in Illinois provided students with engaging projects. Students sat on floors and gathered in hallways, vestibules and staircases, says Joan Shanahan, Fremont School District’s technology integration specialist. But not until the 2015-16 school year did teachers have designated areas where students could work on assignments comfortably or have […]

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