As technology continues to evolve, it’s not surprising that apps are starting to be incorporated into daily classroom activities. With more than 80,000 apps considered ‘educational’ in Apple’s…
When it comes to schools' and districts' ability to implement new technology tools and programs, cost and shrinking budgets are consistently identified as top barriers to implementation. And…
The Barrow Peace Prize is a cross-curricular project that allows 2nd-grade students to consider the character traits of peace and extend their voices to a global audience. Named…
What is flipped learning? You might wonder why we're asking, because the phrase is pretty universally known. But while the term is recognizable, definitions vary--and the wrong idea…
Google's Chrome OS is spreading throughout U.S. classrooms and is becoming an increasingly popular choice for computers, while Apple's iOS platform holds the lead on mobile devices, according…
One of the bright spots at this year’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference has been how many developers are not just iterating on the tried-and-true…
After much discussion, deliberation, and thoughtful review of reams of data, the team agreed that investing in the growth of YSCD’s teachers had to be the central pillar…
Is there anything a teacher hates more than to look out across his or her classroom and see a group of tired, uninterested, and unmotivated students? Teachers are…
In 2015, researcher John Hattie updated his seminal research Visible Learning. Hailed as “teaching’s Holy Grail,”1 Hattie synthesized 15 years of research on more than 800 meta-analysis about…
As the administrator for multilingual programs at Beaverton Public Schools in Beaverton, OR, I oversee 5,000 English language learners (ELLs) speaking more than 95 different languages. We are…
In most classrooms, the teacher supplies the questions that students must answer. Rothstein’s example shows how powerful learning can be when educators have students come up with their…
This year's ISTE Conference was all about technology-charged learning--and from the keynotes and sessions to the fast-paced exhibit hall, the conference's more than 20,000 attendees (15,000 educators plus…
Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to facilitate learning. We talk about writing as a product for assessment, a subject where…