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High school teaches social emotional skills
Hinsdale High School District 86 in Illinois is showing high-schoolers how to identify and measure their emotions, in hopes that the social and emotional skills can help them balance life and focus in school.
Ohio student travels to France to eulogize local WWII veteran at Normandy American Cemetery
When Springfield High School student Joshua Fox was selected to pay tribute to a soldier who died in the historic World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, he didn’t have to search far to find a local hero.
Dallas businessman proposes boarding complex for public school students
Randy Bowman knows the pressures of poverty. He was one of four children raised by a single mother in Dallas. Bowman has purchased land to build a dormitory facility for Dallas children who attend public schools “as a way to insulate kids from some of the chaotic and traumatic forces that can quickly derail academics.”
WA revises student discipline rules to focus on keeping kids in school
Washington state’s new school discipline rules will continue to shift schools away from suspensions and expulsions in favor of policies that keep kids in the building for minor offenses.
Montessori schools promote intrinsic reward of learning to develop creative, self-directed learners
Murray-LaSaine Elementary School Principal Meredith Wallace has no use for sticker charts or special recognition for perfect attendance. She’s also not a big fan of letter grades at her South Carolina school.
TX schools partner with Sandy Hook Promise to launch anonymous bullying reporting app
Students in Houston, Texas schools will soon have new, anonymous ways to report bullying, an effort spawned by a state law focused on fighting bullying online.
Literacy as a Tool for Humanity
Dr. Doretha Allen, NBCT, shares her love of Literacy and ways in which she extends that love to her students.
Social-emotional learning and achievement at Valor
Valor Collegiate Academies is crediting a sharp focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) for students’ astonishing academic success, which propelled its Tennessee schools to the top 1 percent of all middle schools in the state in its first year.
District fights violence with conversation
In Burien, Washington, elementary students begin their day with greetings, handshakes, eye contact, and polite questions. This activity is a cornerstone of the district’s impressive record of reducing discipline referrals—down 43% from 2014 to 2016—and suspensions and expulsions—down 70% in the same period.
Indiana votes to require ’employability skills’
Indiana’s State Board of Education recently voted to require students to demonstrate “employability skills” with service projects or receive college ready scores on entrance exams to graduate from high school.
Lack of courage at the heart of nation’s political crises
In a passionate piece in The Atlantic that criticizes all corners of our current political world, Eliot A. Cohen diagnoses us all as suffering from a character crisis. While there are many “forces and phenomena in play,” he writes, “it is character that remains the issue that confronts us in almost every story about national politics . . . “
Social-emotional learning and achievement at Valor
Valor Collegiate Academies is crediting a sharp focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) for students’ astonishing academic success, which propelled its Tennessee schools to the top 1 percent of all middle schools in the state in its first year.
