30 Smart Place Value Activities and Games for Elementary Math Students
Place value pool noodles? Genius!
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Assistant Principal Breaks up Fight, reporter questions if action will be taken against AP
In this video, I break down an incident where an assistant principal broke up a fight and the reporter questions if he will be disciplined. The reporter does not ask is the students will be disciplined. Did he violate policy? what is the policy? did he put him in a headlock? Judge for yourself.
A School Without Bells or Report Cards. Can It Fly? (Opinion)
Students at one private school earn “learning credits” rather than traditional grades. What does that look like?
Kindergarten Age: When Should Kids Start School?
It’s a tricky question.
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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.
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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Finding the Source of PCB Contamination in Schools Just Got Easier
Researchers say they have found a promising method to determine where in school buildings the PCB contamination is greatest.
Despite Progress, Women Superintendents Face Steep Path to Gender Parity
Male superintendents outnumber their female counterparts, and women often enter the role in times of crisis.
The Movement That Made Brandon Johnson Mayor of Chicago
Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson celebrates with supporters after defeating Paul Vallas after the mayoral runoff election late Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (Paul Beaty / AP Photo) Chicago, Ill.—Anyone who doubts the power of organized labor to reshape the world should look to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and its allies’ electing one of their own …
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