Curriculum & Instruction

Linda Cliatt-Wayman is the turnaround queen. As the principal who changed two low-performing and violent Philadelphia high schools into safe spaces focused on learning, Wayman developed a program of high expectations for students and staff, and intense professional development. In 2013, after serving as an assistant superintendent for the School District of Philadelphia, she took […]

Digital library content spans fiction, nonfiction, test prep, professional development materials and more. Overdrive’s catalog has 4 million ebooks, audiobooks and videos, and is used by 17,000 schools worldwide, says David Burleigh, the company’s director of brand. Schools pick which titles they want access to, how many copies they want and for how long to […]

Steven Yates has a message for would-be school librarians. “If you’re coming to this because you like to read and you want to manage a collection of books, then you showed up about 30 years too late to the profession” says Yates, a former high school librarian who teaches in the school library media certification […]

Curious to know what you can and cannot teach in a religious studies class in primary, middle, and secondary schools? You can find a few resources below. The First Amendment Center offers an extensive collection of papers, books and other materials for educators to know what they can and cannot do, by law, in public […]

With U.S. businesses of all sizes competing on the global stage, foreign language classes—and the teachers who teach them—are vanishing from K12 schools. Only about 10 percent of the U.S. population speaks a language other than English proficiently, and just 15 percent of public elementary schools offer language instruction, according to The American Academy of […]

Perhaps one of the more confusing aspects of teaching about religion is the question of whether students can pray in public schools. The answer is yes, within established guidelines. According to the American Civil Liberties Union: Link to main story: Schools are teaching, not preaching Students have the right to pray individually or in groups, […]