Traditionally, when educators discuss disproportionality, they focus on the overrepresentation of minority students within special education. Realistically, if...
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Trail Ridge Middle School (TRMS), a STEM focus school in Longmont, Colorado, is a one-to-one iPad® school serving a diverse student population.
TRMS wanted...
Ana T. Torres-Ayala, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Academic Success Center; and Professors Ruthmae Sears, Ph.D., Fran Hopf, Ph.D., and Casey Williams, University...
When I first started teaching, I ran a “4 x 4 classroom.” My students read four “big” books a year (one per quarter), and they wrote four “big”...
International Day of Friendship is coming up, and we have created a few beautiful new resources you can use with your class to celebrate.
Create a Garden of...
During numerous conversations with parents, we’ve noticed something that went beyond a coincidence of anecdotes. When parents had more than one child...
Kalonymous Kalman Shapira was an influential Polish Rabbi murdered by the Nazis in the Trawniki concentration camp. Before the war, Rabbi Shapira published a...
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Earlier this summer, the beloved writer Neil Gaiman was a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote The View from the Cheap Seats.
At one...
Parents, you can send your kids to charter schools and still be a good person. The same goes for parents who homeschool or send their kids to private schools...
San Antonians made a bold choice last November, voting by a comfortable margin to support Mayor Julián Castro’s Pre-K 4 SA initiative. Elaine Mendoza...
