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Georgia superintendent wins top educator award for improved student achievement

By Steven Blackburn

Noris Price received the Georgia School Superintendents Association's President Award for her work on student achievement, improvements to Baldwin County School District buildings, and the launch of a Montessori Academy. Superintendent Noris Price of Baldwin County School District has overseen a 10 percent increase in student scores on the College and Career Performance Index and three straight years of […]

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October 17, 2018

Teaching K12 students to become experts

Recently, I reread Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, and I was struck by how he viewed success in the United States. We forget that much of individual success is built on hard work with a focus on what we enjoy doing. We see successful people and call them "lucky." Gladwell's stories about success impacted me as an […]

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October 16, 2018

Celebrating diversity starts in the classroom

Why is it important that social-emotional issues and unconscious biases are addressed? All of us have biases. It doesn't matter who you are. But self-awareness becomes critical, particularly in schools. Anybody who interacts with students has responsibilities toward their social and emotional wellness, not only their academic instruction. There's a lot of power, not only […]

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October 15, 2018

Fidelity testing strengthens school safety measures

American schools have become increasingly data-driven in many important ways. School officials often rely on measurement and data for long-term strategic planning, budgeting and curriculum selection. However, they often do not evaluate school safety with the same level of care and accuracy. In providing oversight for security, climate and emergency preparedness assessments for more than […]

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October 14, 2018

ROI on SEL

Many educators have accepted that SEL curricula can have a positive impact on everything from student mental and physical well-being to academics, attendance and graduation rates. In fact, a February 2015 study from the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, concluded that, on average, every dollar invested in SEL programming […]

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October 14, 2018

SEL samples

Questions from three leading assessments. Panorama Social Emotional Learning Survey The rating scale ranges from "almost never" to "almost always." Student perception assessment Self-efficacy: How confident are you that you can learn all the material presented in your classes? Growth mindset: In school, how possible is it for you to change your level of intelligence? […]

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October 14, 2018

Vendors discuss the keys to and challenges of SEL assessments

How can district leaders guarantee that they will get accurate and actionable results from SEL assessments? What are the biggest challenges? "You need to ensure that you have a consistent behavior that you're measuring throughout the whole school. You don't want pockets of teachers measuring one thing and other teachers measuring something else." —Stefan Kohler, […]

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October 14, 2018

SEL checkups at school

Their surroundings may be idyllic, but educators in one Cape Cod district found themselves confronting the struggles experienced by systems across the nation. Barnstable Public Schools (5,300 students) had over several years seen an uptick in at-risk students and children with complex needs. This, along with promising research from organizations such as the Collaborative for […]

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Georgia superintendent wins top educator award for improved student achievement

Districts nationwide address elevated lead levels in school water

3 steps to increase the rigor of your K12 assessments

Student Success Stories

Teaching K12 students to become experts

Celebrating diversity starts in the classroom

Fidelity testing strengthens school safety measures

ROI on SEL

SEL samples

Vendors discuss the keys to and challenges of SEL assessments

SEL checkups at school