Key points: Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a crucial component of education, helping students develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal skills. SEL is essential for students of all ages, improving academic performance, enhancing emotional well-being, and fostering better relationships with peers …

Mobile devices and smart objects are connecting to the same school networks, but they have very different security needs. This report explores how K-12 leaders are managing this challenge. Source link

Key points: When discussing public school employee compensation packages, the conversations often center around salaries. A recent Pew Research Center survey found only 15 percent of teachers are extremely or very satisfied with their pay. Further, recent NEA studies concluded …

Protect Student and Faculty Data from Classroom to Cloud Moderated by Kevin Hogan, eSchool News, Content Director The need for robust backup solutions in education has never been more urgent. …

  Oral language is the heart of learning yet often remains overlooked. This whitepaper explores key research highlighting the critical role of oral language to reading and well-being and strategies for promoting language development in early education. …

Keeping K-12 schools safe from cyberattacks has become a growing concern for educational institutions, especially as these attacks increase in sophistication and frequency nationwide. This past September, a school district in Detroit was hit with a cyberattack that closed its …

Key points: Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they don’t. In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in …

Key points: I have worked in many different states and in many different learning environments throughout my 19-year career as an educator. For the past 13 years I have been honored to teach at Agora Cyber Charter School. Established in …

Key points: Effective parent-educator communication is crucial for a successful school year for the student, the parents or caregivers, and the teacher. Strong parent communication ensures that both parties can collaborate as a team throughout the year for the child’s …

Some years ago, when I was still working as a teacher, I had a student come to me in a state of distress. Like many young people her age, she was having trouble fitting in. Everything from her hair to …