Project-Based Learning for the Virtual Classroom
Project-based learning (PBL) may not be the first thing that teachers consider when planning for remote or hybrid lessons. However, ...
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New Preschool Program in Oregon is a Model for the Nation—But Challenges Remain
By Mary King and Lisa Dodson In November 2020, voters in Multnomah County, home to the city of Portland, resoundingly approved the ...
Zoom Differentiation and Accommodations
Though virtual learning is seemingly becoming less commonplace across the country, it's still certainly around and likely will be for ...
Why America Needs More African American Teachers – and How to Recruit and Retain Them
Calls to increase the number of teachers of color, specifically African American teachers, have intensified over the past decade. Educators ...
Executive Functioning and Distance Learning: Part II
Distance learning has been hard on everyone, but even more so for families dealing with the challenges associated with executive ...
Easy Strategies and Accommodations for Behavioral and Mental Health Needs in Learning Enviorments
The numerous accommodations and modifications that teachers make for students often amount to a lengthy list. These adjustments can involve ...
Distance Learning with Multiple Children
Distance learning is tedious. Between the emails, Zoom meetings, various portals teachers utilize, and the individual workload of every class, ...
How Real Is Zoom Fatigue
Distance learning is now the norm, at least for the remainder of this school year and for summer school. Now ...
Dealing with School Drama at Home, Part I
While the middle and high school years are most notably fraught with drama, elementary-aged children are also seeing their fair ...
Want to Help Your Teens? Make Their Lives Predictable
Establishing consistent routines at home for your teen may generate pushback, but it could also set him or her up ...
Serving Consciously and The Art of Language
How often do you really pay attention to your choice of words as you express yourself? Do you believe in ...
How to Provide the Full-Service Community-Supported Public Schools We Need
All students have potential, but access to support and opportunity is not equally distributed. As a high school principal for ...
Four Ways Neurodiversity Holds the Key to the Future of Special Education
For ages, special education has been developing on its own, together with the development of ordinary education. It emphasizes ...
Virtual Crisis Intervention: Wave of the Future?
Crisis intervention, once primarily delivered over the phone is increasingly being delivered through the computer and via text. Social Workers ...
Building Abroad: Local Teen’s Passion Impacts Young Minds in Jamaica
Rafe Cochran and his parents, Diahann and Jay Cochran, stand in front of the new Runaway Bay All-Age School he ...
Teaching Self-Advocacy at Home Pt. I
Self-advocacy is an essential skill for children to master, not only for their education, but for basic functioning and socialization ...
What Schools Can Do To Reduce Risky Behaviors and Suicides Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
A high school English teacher in New Mexico told me about one of his students who had difficulty focusing in ...
Teachers Aren’t Receiving the Support They Need, but You Can Help
Better school funding, better pay, and better benefits, these are a few of the demands fueling teachers’ recent strikes and walkouts across ...
CSWE Receives $7M Behavioral Health Grant for Doctoral and Master’s Students
Photo Credit: WellCare The Council on Social Work Education(CSWE) has received a 5-year, $7.1 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental ...
Emergency Drills in School: Info for Parents
It may seem fairly obvious, but, like most procedures, a school’s method for evacuation in the case of a fire ...
