Math Teacher: These Are “My Tech Essentials” for Formative Assessments

A seventh-grade math educator shares the tools she uses for student assessments in small groups.

School Leaders Reveal the Common Sense Keys to ELL Success

Two educational leaders share their districts’ strategies for supporting ELLs; specifically by meeting ELLs where they are.

4 Reasons to Incorporate Video PD in Your Classroom

Have you ever found yourself saying, “I just wish you could have seen and heard the student’s conversations for yourself?” Video PD is changing the way teachers engage in peer-to-peer collaboration, and how schools conduct teacher assessments.

How to Integrate New Technology

n this article, three school leaders share their best practices for helping teachers start on the right foot when implementing new technology and pedagogy.

Trailblazing Companies in EdTech: Lightspeed Technologies

Lightspeed is focused on helping educators effectively use classroom audio systems to enhance instruction and improve student achievement.

ELL Specialist: These Are “My Tech Essentials”

As a Future Ready district, we use technology to engage students in every lesson, while providing resources to bridge the gap between their native language and English.

Elementary School Deploys Classroom Mics to Boost Confidence of Students

A Southern California school has added technology that enhances "audio clarity" in its classrooms. New River Elementary School in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District has implemented microphones that hang around the necks of teachers and students to amplify their voices through a flat panel speaker.

3 Visions of Truly Inclusive Education

In their mission to prepare every student for college or a career, today’s K-12 schools have to support not just high achievers, but students with emotional disturbances, language issues, and hearing challenges. Here are three educators whose creative solutions are making “readiness for all” a reality.

How a Principal Inspired an Innovative Classroom Audio System

During my career as a school leader, I often had companies try to convince me to buy their products. For the most part, when I would say yes or no to what they offered, that would be the end of it. Once, though, my colleagues and I went beyond being purchasers and became partners in the product-development process.

How a Makerspace Brought Our School Together on a Budget

About five years ago, my school, Mountain View Elementary in Simi Valley, CA, was on the verge of closing down due to declining enrollment.