Category: higher education

 How Teacher Confidence and Emotional Regulation Can Drive Student Success Houston Kraft is a speaker and kindness advocate who has spoken at over 700 schools or events internationally. Jenni Donohoo works in school divisions across North America supporting high-quality professional learning designed to improve outcomes for all students, and is the Director of the Jenni…

How AI and Other Tech Tools Might be Used to Strengthen Family-School Partnerships One of the many challenges highlighted by the pandemic has been the lack of communication between so many parents and educators, fueling frustration on both sides. Well, back in 2018, I chatted with Heejae Lim, the founder and CEO of Talking Points,…

It’s the End of School Year. You’re Tired. What’s a Teacher to Do? Jenny Grant Rankin most recently taught at Columbia University and has lectured at institutions like the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. She has a Ph.D. in education and writes books for educators like First Aid for Teacher Burnout: How You…

Could the Nation’s Largest District Afford to Double Teacher Pay and Triple Counseling? I find that when you tell someone a school costs $38,000, they usually picture a ritzy private school with lots of bells and whistles. Well, last month, the Citizens Budget Commission reported that New York City’s public schools will spend $38,000 per…

It’s the End of School Year. You’re Tired. What’s a Teacher to Do? Jenny Grant Rankin most recently taught at Columbia University and has lectured at institutions like the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. She has a Ph.D. in education and writes books for educators like First Aid for Teacher Burnout: How You…

chools Can Transform Student Mental Health. Here’s How One District Leader Did It As the nation undergoes what the U.S. surgeon general has called a youth mental health crisis, school districts face an uphill climb finding enough qualified staff to help students. The Boston district was one of a small number of school systems that…

To End Discipline Disparities Affecting Students of Color, Challenge the Status Quo What are strategies schools can implement to reduce and eliminate disparities in discipline affecting students of color? This series serves as a sort of “Part Two” to a previous series guest-edited by Terri N. Watson, Ph.D. Those responses specifically focused on discipline disparities…

 Sage Advice From Veteran Teachers to Those New to the Classroom Meghann Seril, a national-board-certified teacher, serves as a 3rd grade teacher, new teacher mentor, and Teach Plus national senior research fellow. She was selected as a 2022 Los Angeles Unified school district teacher of the year: When I first started teaching, I had lots…

To Combat Learning Loss, Schools Need to Overhaul the Industrial-Age Paradigm The devastating picture presented by the National Assessment of Educational Progress has occasioned a lot of discussion about what it’ll take to overcome two years of pandemic disruption, which followed a decade of stagnant academic achievement. Well, Joel Rose, the CEO and co-founder of…

8 Ways COVID Has Changed Some Teachers Forever One is the increased use of technology in my instruction. I do think I used it too much last year (and I believe students agreed). However, I’m confident that I’ll reach an equilibrium in the coming months and years that will balance providing students with enough non-screen…