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Top 10 Support Resources for K-12 Schools on EBSCO Connect
Looking for materials to support teaching and learning with EBSCO resources in the K-12 classroom? EBSCO Connect offers lesson plans, scavenger hunts, tutorials and more.
How to Connect With Other Teachers in the Social Age
With new media, shifting standards, and evolving pedagogies, teachers need a community to find and give support. They need to be able to exchange ideas.
How Can High-Poverty Schools Connect With Students?
In high-poverty schools, it's critical to establish caring relationships, supporting students through advisory programs, create smaller learning environments, and encourage participation in extracurricular activities.
How to fix our crumbling schools
U.S. school infrastructure is failing. Time to find a new funding scheme.
22 Hilarious Tweets From Parents Who Are Really Ready For School To Start
For Adults, Lifelong Learning Happens The Old Fashioned Way
Even after high school or college, Americans keep on learning. While online tools make this easier than ever, a new study finds the vast majority of adults prefer taking classes in physical places.
How Teachers Can Benefit From Virtual Learning Communities
Virtual learning communities can be a way for educators to connect, collaborate, and improve both their individual and collective practice, Jessica Cuthbertson writes.
How to keep children from skipping school
Beyond data, mentors can add a human touch and build relationships with at-risk students.
8 Reasons Why School Secretaries Deserve More Credit
It's not Administrative Assistant's Day. You didn't forget the flowers. Even though it's not a national day to say thanks to the secretary, there are at least 8 reasons why you should do it today anyway.
What Happens When an Ex-Google Executive Creates a School System?
Max Ventilla used to run a team that personalized your search results—now he wants to do the same for kids' education.
Ask, Listen, Do: How to Find Out What Kids Need From School
How can teachers make their classrooms truly child-centered? Justin Minkel shares some strategies on how to figure out students’ individual needs—starting with asking them.
It's Time to Reframe How We Think About Education and Health
Kids spend more time at school than anywhere outside their homes, making schools where we have the greatest chance of improving kids' health trajectory through physical, social and emotional development.
How Can Schools Tap Into Parent Power For the Good of Students?
A program pays teachers to visit students at home and meet with their family. The home visits have helped parents become better-informed advocates for their kids and stronger allies with teachers.
Innovative Practices are Connecting Youth with Education
Education is an important part of a child’s success. Good education connects young people with the tools they need to be empowered…
How Teachers Are Turning to Social Media to Extend Learning
Teachers are expanding the school day and enhancing learning through social media.
A virtual tour of blended-learning schools, so others can see how it’s done
When teachers want to try something new in the classroom, it helps if they can see what it looks like in action. They could ask another teacher down the hall. Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. But too often, these aspiring innovators …
How One Middle School Cut Discipline Referrals By 98 Percent in Just One Year
Redland revitalized the overall school climate by responding to the unique needs of middle schoolers.
How does your state use open educational resources?
Colleges and universities are looking beyond current textbook options to find bigger savings for students. The result is a dramatic shift toward open educational resources.
Start the School Year Right With These Tips and Resources
With busy mornings, exhausting school days, after school activities and homework, back to school time can be a major adjustment for the whole family.
Back to School: A Few Resources to Help Answer Your Back to School Questions
Whether you are headed back to school, back online to school, or some hybrid of the two, we have a few resources to help you chart a successful path.
