Curriculum & Instruction

More school districts now operate winter- and spring-break academies as a way for students to recover missing credits and to increase their chances of on-time graduation. Minneapolis Public Schools offers classes during vacations at about 20 high schools. Students can complete courses, retake classes they’ve failed or even get a jump-start on other work. The […]

CASEL offers tools that provide guidance and support for districts and schools to implement high-quality, evidence-based SEL. casel.org/resources-support LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Social-emotional learning: Won’t you be my model?

With $20 million in voter-approved “innovation” funds as part of a $576.5 million bond issue, the Boulder Valley School District’s schools were tasked with integrating technology in curricula and rethinking innovative spaces. Examples include a makerspace, digital music studio and even mobile technology stations. Each school in the Colorado district received a stipend—from $200,000 for […]

A group of researchers and computer scientists is building an artificial intelligence system that can analyze instruction via speech recognition and natural language processing, says Sean Kelly, a sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Developers want to replicate, as closely as possible, the feedback that a content expert might give to a […]

The recent success of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred Rogers and his groundbreaking children’s television program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, has educators returning to the program’s social-emotional lessons. The recent success of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred Rogers and his groundbreaking children’s television program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, has educators returning to […]

Embedding language instruction into CTE programs can help close what some educators see as an “opportunity gap” faced by students learning English. And participating in the hands-on projects of CTE can be an effective way of accelerating language acquisition. In October 2017, 30 percent of the students in Boston Public Schools’ CTE programs qualified as […]