Howard Dvorsky

When Molly Lane was a school social worker, walking down the hall with colleagues sometimes turned into impromptu therapy sessions. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. It became clear, she says, that the school system wasn’t doing enough to support teachers’ mental health. Those experiences led her to open Teacher Talk, a therapy practice that caters to the needs of educators. “Peopl...[Read More]

Two teachers and a researcher discuss how educators are experimenting with AI during an Education Week K-12 Essentials Forum.

By: Nick Lundberg Our district has a rich history of delivering meaningful professional development for teachers and we continue to seek innovative ways to meet the diverse needs of all teachers. Instructional coaches have been invaluable to this learning, especially when they have led teachers to reflect on their practice and apply new learning. Overwhelmingly, teachers would say that the most im...[Read More]

According to a recent CoSN survey, most school districts (61%) do not have dedicated funding to keep networks and data secure, instead relying on general funds to pay for cybersecurity efforts.

School administrators detail how they got staff, students, and parents to believe in new, stricter cellphone policies.

Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. The court heard oral arguments for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond at the end of April, less than a month before issuing its decision. Arising out of a contested charter grant issued to an openly religious...[Read More]

This summer, Microsoft is expanding availability of its Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot products for students aged 13 and older. Administrators will be able to grant access for students based on their institution’s plans and preferences, the company announced in a blog post.

If you’ve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know learning is personal. Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Personalized learning is about meeting kids where they are — helping each one move forward at their own pace, in their own way. Yet, making this vision a real...[Read More]

This Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy helps teachers evaluate and design digital tasks like ChatGPT use, blogging, podcasting, and more. The post A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks appeared first on TeachThought.

126 Digital Learning Verbs Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re enthusiastic supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.) Put simply, learning taxonomies help us think about how learning happens. Even if they’re ‘not good’ as we’ve often seen the DOK framework described, they still highlight… The post 12...[Read More]

When Marisha Speights first started as a speech language pathologist in preschools serving affluent families in Nashville, Tennessee, she used the typical screening and assessment measures that she believed — and was taught — worked well. But when she was placed in Jackson, Mississippi, at preschools that served poorer families, she found the tests were no longer working. “It was, ‘I don’t think t...[Read More]

A recent Varonis data security report notes that excessive permissions and AI-driven risks are leaving cloud environments dangerously exposed.