Public speaking and teachers first a superintendent’s motto

Project based learning gaining STEAM as educators get creative.

A perception problem in public education

Combining federal flexibility with personalized learning in competency education

Music education driving STEM to new heights with STEAM

National voice for district Superintendents pens letter to President-Elect Trump

The importance of librarians in leadership positions

Culturally diverse learning environments benefit teachers

Education finance changes coming with new administration taking over D.C.?

Educators finding new methods to engage students with Google Doc approach

administrators aren’t doing them simply to follow compliance exercises and they don’t want to dismiss teachers.

It’s clear that teaching a strengths-based version of SEL into schools won’t succeed by putting more posters on the walls of classrooms.

As school systems become more globally competent and teachers become more knowledgeable and gain comfort with infusing global competence into the classrooms, students are expected to expand their knowledge incrementally as well.

I fondly remember the day I received my first driver’s license—and the newly found sense of independence it offered. But I also recall the realization that my freedom came with a trade-off: the huge liability of operating a vehicle. The weight of that responsibility was felt as I paid my insurance premiums, navigated a near-miss with another car in a parking lot, and of course, minded the speed limit. I

Dr. Thomas Armstrong,  ASCD author of The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students, as well as, numerous other publications, sat down to discuss the intersection of education with mental health and the effects of teaching methods on the adolescent brain. Dr. Armstrong stresses the need for a better-balanced approach to education that concentrates on both the emotional brain and the reasoning mind.