School leaders can build a practice of mindfulness to support themselves and their communities.

School districts are going to great lengths to keep students and families engaged and connected. But when it's not possible to get all online, they're turning back to an earlier device: the telephone.  

In the quick shift by colleges from in-person to online instruction in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the needs of students with disabilities can sometimes be overlooked.  

Districts are scrambling to get remote learning lessons in place. But over half of students live near the poverty line, 14% have a learning disability, and some struggle just to find Internet access.  

Schools are wrestling with how to handle grading in a remote learning environment when not all students have reliable access to teachers, online resources, and parents who can help them.

About 14% of U.S. public school students receive special education services. And as schools transition from the classroom to the computer, many of those students could get left behind.  

These fun-filled educational apps provide perfect brain food for children while schools are closed.

Teachers at a Shorewood, Ill., elementary school are recording themselves reading children's books to help promote reading and connect with students while schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Teachers in New York City are getting a crash course in virtual instruction as their schools move to online learning. Jane Paul, an elementary-school physical-education teacher in Brooklyn, says she plans to post videos that students can view at their convenience and recognizes that there will be challenges as students and teachers adopt remote learning.

School closures related to COVID-19 have forced classroom teachers into scrambling to become online educators. Here are some tips for making the imperfect transition during these extraordinary times.  

Transformational schools are those that adapt based on new research and tools and boost the "student creation of learning," according to Matthew Joseph, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment for Massachusetts' Leicester Public Schools. In this interview, he examines the qualities of transformational schools and how school leaders can achieve that status.

Despite having more tools than ever to communicate with each other -- from social media to email -- Jeremy Hyler, a middle-school English teacher in Michigan, says he notices that communication breakdowns among educators, parents and students are increasingly common. In this article, he shares how technology-based communication, where tone can often be misinterpreted, may…