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4 ways to reclaim your love of teaching
If you feel like this year has been more stressful, more overwhelming, and more difficult to find the joy of teaching than ever before, you’re not alone. With pandemic protocols, political unrest, and increasing workloads and responsibilities ravishing the classroom, the heart of teaching can at times feel lost. It doesn’t have to be this […]
Why video creation encourages classroom innovation
Think about how students today communicate outside of school–so much of it is video-based, and if educators can meet students in that space, they’ll be able to create more engaging and impactful lessons. In the TikTok, Instagram Video and Snapchat era, video creation has also provided the perfect medium to encourage and empower intuitive content […]
Use SEL Day to establish year-round SEL strategies
Social and emotional skills are vital in both school, and the workplace. They can help children and adults build and maintain healthy relationships, develop a strong sense of self, manage stress, control their emotions, and more. CASEL has defined five competence areas that lead to social and emotional success for children and adults. Those competence […]
3 edtech trends to watch in 2022
It is impossible to exaggerate how much the edtech sector is growing – in fact, exploding might be a better word! The edtech market in the UK is now estimated to be £3.2bn following growth during 2020 of more than 70 percent. This phenomenal growth ensures that the sector is newsworthy, but what are the […]
Critical steps to bolster K-12 cybersecurity
This past August, the Center for Internet Security’s Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), which serves state and local governments, reported that it expects an increase of as much as 86 percent in cybersecurity incidents aimed at K-12 school systems over the course of the current school year. Attacks on schools had already dramatically […]
All about CTE: Why online votech is taking off
In this episode of Getting There: Innovations in Education, hosted by Kevin Hogan: 5 steps to building a robust online CTE program 4 ways to enrich CTE What’s next for online trade schools?
A fresh perspective on VR in special education
In early 2021, Spaulding Academy & Family Services applied for and received a technology grant from the Flutie Foundation for the purchase of virtual reality (VR) headsets. We are a small, nonprofit special education school serving students with a wide range of abilities, including many who are on the Autism Spectrum and/or have limited mobility, and it was very […]
How our district established a unified communication platform
With 3,300 students across three different schools, our district was using a variety of diverse applications for school-to-home communications. They all handled separate aspects of our teacher-parent communications, but they weren’t cohesive. We started looking for a new solution in 2019 that would consolidate the multiple, disparate tools into one platform and then quickly kicked […]
3 major challenges teachers are juggling in the pandemic
Student behavior and social-emotional health remain the top challenge for teachers this year, according to a recent survey from the nonprofit Leanlab Education. Leanlab surveyed more than 240 teachers in its report, Tell Us How You Really Feel: A Survey of Teacher Sentiment, to better understand the main challenges and successes teachers are facing almost […]
Why active learning environments are key to student engagement
Technology’s pivotal role in education can’t be denied, and it will remain a constant in classrooms. Many schools are turning to active learning environments to effectively use technology to help engage students in learning. When students are engaged in their learning via active learning environments, they absorb more content and they intuitively explore concepts at […]
