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Students are being prevented from using creativity more and more because we want them to be able to produce the learning that is on the outside of the box (i.e., the state testing).

With generous support from Arts Council England, MusicFirst is currently being used in 35 schools in Hertfordshire, nearly half the secondary schools in the county.

If you are a teacher or parent, look at how your student or child reacts to any kind of failure.

While teachers, children, and parents are coming to terms with the new normal of education, another industry is booming — the private tutoring industry.

The Resilient Schools Project (RSP) partnership between FoS and Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC) is designed to assist schools and districts with developing an ongoing response to instruction disruptions during the 2020-21 school year and to achieve long-term goals related to school system innovation.

The pandemic will be with us through the winter and spring, but we can do better and it might be prudent for districts to preschedule specific schools ahead of time.

What is the difference between learning ability and learning capacity? While everyone has the ability to learn, we don’t all have the same capacity to learn.

COVID has shut down business as usual at most schools and students are learning in virtual classrooms a lot more than they used to.

Social and Emotional Learning – how the holidays can be a bittersweet mix of joy and grief and the importance of processing grief.