Howard Dvorsky

Establishing a Proactive Defense Against Evolving Cyber Threats

Here are six good starting points for K-12 districts that want to improve their cybersecurity mitigation strategies and take a more proactive approach to mitigating risk.

In North Carolina, a Sea of Oxygen Bubbles — Spreading Across the State’s School Districts 

Lexington Senior High School, thirty miles south of Winston-Salem, is the proud home of the Yellow Jackets.  Built in 1953, it’s surrounded by small neighborhood houses with well-kept yards. An armada of yellow school buses line up daily outside its doors, while inside, a network of double-loaded hallways host rigid rows of lockers — one for each of its 900 students. It is, in other words, a textb...[Read More]

Career Education Is Having a Moment. Here’s How It’s Adapting for Future Jobs

Career and Technical Education (CTE) is at a turning point. What once lived on the margins of academic planning is now front and center in national conversations around workforce development, education equity and student well-being. As a former CTE educator and now working on CTE at Pearson, I’ve watched this evolution up close. Districts aren’t just experimenting with a few technology or agricult...[Read More]

Exploding Chromebooks? How to Counter the Latest TikTok Trend

The social media challenge has kids damaging school-issued devices.

Why Evidence Is Everything in An AI World

The writer Annie Dillard is often attributed with the quote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” For Dillard, the beauty is in the details, and so is the learning. Social media and algorithms have led to the curation and proliferation of our best and most optimized moments, a form of personal propaganda that says, “We spend our days well, we spend our lives well,  do you...[Read More]

Most Teachers Are Satisfied With Their Workplace, but They’re Still Burned Out

As the education world grapples with a post-pandemic academic recovery that has stalled in some regions, a new research paper is taking the measure of key players in students’ success: their teachers. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Researchers are looking at whether teachers have what they need to thrive in “Teaching for Tomorrow: Educators on the Future of Their Profession,” pa...[Read More]

10 Video Games To Get Started With Game-Based Learning

Games can serve as platforms for lessons in math, science or just about anything — even if they weren’t designed to be educational. Source

Boise School District Boosts Information Literacy with Gale In Context Databases

Students in Idaho’s Boise School District are learning how to analyze and think critically about the information they read through the use of Gale In Context.

Reports Point to Domain Controllers as Prime Ransomware Targets

A recent report from Microsoft reinforces warns of the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on the persistent threat of AD compromise.

Clusters in Action: Building Pathway Ecosystems That Work

Behind the scenes, this framework isn’t just theory. It’s motion. It is the heartbeat of projects like: Maritime|253 Skills Center (Launching Fall 2026) Tacoma Flex Jobs 253 And the integration of Social Capital and Mentorship into the DNA of our student experience We are not just changing what students learn. We are changing what’s possible by putting each student behind the wheel of the future t...[Read More]

14 Games For Game-Based Learning By Grade Level

Good candidates for game-based learning games include Portal 2, Civilization VI, Democracy 4, and Assassin’s Creed Museum Tour. Source

Shifting Focus From Ideas To The Effects Of Those Ideas

The quality of an idea and the collective quality of the effects of that idea are two very different things. Source

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