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Cybercriminals come for schools — and schools aren’t ready

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

eSchool News

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5

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Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US

The Hechinger Report

And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance. James, 12, has autism and struggled first with online learning and then with a hybrid model. They encouraged him to return, and he did.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

edWeb.net

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. ” Regina Trout, kindergarten teacher at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown, N.Y.

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