What Is Background Knowledge? (Plus 21 Ways To Build It)
Reading is easier when you know more.
Let’s Talk About When Cars Need to Stop for School Buses
A refresher course on the rules of the road involving stopped school buses.
Celebrating Juneteenth by Emancipating History
The author, his father, and his brother in Morgantown, Miss. (Photo courtesy of Jesse Hagopian) Several years ago my dad, Gerald Lenoir, discovered the plantation where our family was enslaved. Through his extensive genealogical research, he determined that my great-great-grandfather Thomas H. Lenoir was born into slavery on the Lenoir Plantation in Morgantown, Miss., in …
When to Stop for School Buses: Downloadable Rules for Every State
We collected school bus-related traffic laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and developed these downloadable diagrams.
Teach Your Students How To Write Like a Scientist With These Sentence-Starter Posters
Science notebooks just got a whole lot easier.
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Why 60,000 Education Workers Walked Off the Job In Los Angeles
Purple for Power? Los Angeles teachers wearing their “Red for Ed” shirts and SIEU 99 members (in purple) at a solidarity rally in downtown Los Angeles on March 15, 2023. (Ted Soqui / SIPA USA via AP Photo) Los Angeles, Calif.—On March 21, the 25,000 custodians, cafeteria workers, campus aides, bus drivers, teaching assistants, special …
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Ensuring Safety and Equity: Defending the Practice of Removing Disruptive Students
Allowing students who disrupt and threaten others to remain in classroom disproportionately affects students who do not disrupt or threaten others. Offenders of such acts are not victims. Removing them should be down on the list of options, but an option, nonetheless. Look at the image accompanying this article. Now, you are a school administrator, …
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Charter Schools Find Quiet Support in a World Focused on Private School Choice
As Republicans and Democrats fight over private school choice, charter schools are left in the middle.
Kindergarten Age: When Should Kids Start School?
It’s a tricky question.
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