Google has unveiled "transformation reports" to give educators data on how often various Google offerings are actually used and for which specific tasks. This is important because a study last year by BrightBytes found the majority of software licenses purchased by schools went unused and another study by LearnTrials revealed just 9% of education-technology tools…

Join Myron Dueck, author of the ASCD best-selling book, "Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn," for a thought-provoking webinar from the ASCD archive that will inspire you to look at how you might improve your grading and assessment practices.

Staff and students in a Michigan school district were asked to sign an anti-bullying pledge as part of an initiative aimed at addressing bullying this year. The program includes weekly lessons on compassion, respect and self-control, among other virtues.

For teachers to persevere through challenges, they need a community of peers, ongoing professional development, and on-demand support.

Students ages 6 to 8 who learned in a classroom setting with a robot named NAO showed more improvement than peers who didn't learn alongside the robot, according to researchers from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. The researchers said they think the robot made students less afraid of reaching the wrong answer and helped…

De vill utbilda internationella utbildningsaktivister och har hittat en väg till det genom kursen ”Att utveckla skolan” som gått på export till Sydafrika, Nya Zeeland och Hongkong. För de blivande musiklärarna i Malmö har kursen lett till en internationalisering på hemmaplan.

As educators find ways to integrate artificial intelligence in the classroom, some question whether it will help to level the playing field in education, write Andre Perry and Nicol Turner-Lee. They consider steps that AI developers must take to ensure racial equity in the technology.

Joanne Van Boxtel and Heather Taylor Wizikowski of California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, share tools and evidence-based practices that can help new special education teachers be successful in their work. (webb-radio)

School administrators should improve their own leadership, collaboration and communication skills to grow their capacity to support teachers, writes Richard DelMoro, superintendent of the Enlarged City School District in Middletown, N.Y. In this blog post, he shares several ways his own district helped improve how its administrators lead.

By infusing learning with activities that connect students to the Earth, educators can do their part for environmental stewardship and progress toward a healthier planet.

School improvement relies on stable leadership and positive school culture, among other factors, according to MGT, a management company that oversees schools in a Colorado district. Principal Deana Valadez-Barnes, who joined her school three years ago after a period of leadership turnover, says in her first meeting with parents she was asked what made her…

Two separate research papers show that gaps in math ability can be exacerbated if students are not working on grade-level material during middle-school years, write Joel Rose, CEO of New Classrooms Innovation Partners, and Daniel Weisberg, CEO of TNTP. Policymakers must be aware of the tension between too much and not enough grade-level work, they…