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Begin the year differently to create success for your struggling students
Susan Winebrenner EducationDo you recall from a recent school year how you started it with high hopes that this would be the year for learning success for certain students? If you made that happen, please congratulate yourself. If it didn't happen, you might find some helpful suggestions in this article.
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The importance of branding your school
Brian Stack EducationThis summer, have you gotten to share a Coke with Melinda yet? How about with Alisha? For the fourth summer in a row, Coca-Cola is hedging their bets that by putting your name or your friend's name right on their bottle, you'll drink more Coca-Cola than if they don't.
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Schools across the US fighting to stamp out bullying
Bambi Majumdar EducationTo combat a particular aspect of bullying, the Minnesota Department of Education made news with its recent announcement that it will provide the region's schools with a transgender "toolkit." The district's advisory council on bullying prevention and intervention efforts has approved a set of "tools" to create and support inclusive environments for transgender and gender-nonconforming students.
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Finding the proper place for the arts in education: Dance
Sheilamary Koch EducationDance, defined as movements of the body that are expressive rather than purely functional, has existed as long as we have. Using the body to express feelings, sensations and emotions is the oldest form of human communication — uniting communities, emulating and honoring natural cycles, celebrating harvests and hunts, and signaling rites of passage.
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Diversity leads to language challenges at community colleges
Douglas Magrath EducationCommunity colleges serve a vital function in higher education. As discussed in a previous article, the mission of a community college is to be readily accessible and to offer quality programs, state-of-the art facilities and first-class faculty to help students achieve their educational, career and life goals.
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Rise of campus-grown fresh produce
Bambi Majumdar Food & BeverageLast month, the Virginia Department of Education allocated roughly $100,000 toward multiple farm-to-school programs in the region. Received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the fund will be distributed evenly among eight projects that will focus on getting locally grown fresh produce to schools.
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Finding the proper place for the arts in education: Visual arts
Sheilamary Koch EducationWorks of art — whether abstract or literal depictions of reality — expand the mind. Nonverbal by nature, visual art erases barriers allowing communication to flow unhindered by nationality or language. Both creating and viewing art are ways of spending time that cause no harm and make life as a human meaningful. It follows that young people should have significant exposure to visual art as part of their education.
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Co-planning for effective English language development
Erick Herrmann EducationTeaching is a challenging profession. We are expected, as teachers, to meet the needs of all of our students, including those who are performing above grade level, those performing below grade level and everyone in between. We also have to take into account those students who are talented and gifted, students with special needs and students who are learning English as an additional language. Some of our students may fit into multiple categories as well, such as having special needs and learning English as an additional language.
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Solving the problem of student motivation
Howard Margolis EducationTo achieve excellence, most students must be highly motivated to achieve. Unfortunately, many students with learning problems, such as learning disabilities and cognitive impairment, appear unmotivated to learn what teachers are teaching. This can become the most difficult and vexing instructional problem that teachers, parents and support personnel face.
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How teaching becomes the test in New Hampshire
Brian Stack EducationLast week, Christian Science Monitor's Stacy Teicher Khadaroo wrote about how New Hampshire teachers have developed new ways to measure deeper learning. In her article, Khadaroo highlighted schools like Concord High School that have students simulating real-world experiences through enriching learning experiences. Known as performance tasks, these experiences become both the teaching and the testing at both the local and state level.
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