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Students and their families in the remote Rasht district of Tajikistan collect nuts and recycle scrap metal and paper to rent textbooks. The law requires students to rent books from [...]

One student generates about five pounds of waste in 180 days from simply drinking a carton of milk each day of the school year, according to the Carton Council, a [...]

Nearly half of Chicago Public Schools principals reported serious problems with rodents, roaches, filthy floors, overflowing garbage bins, missing supplies such as toilet paper and soap, and broken furniture since [...]

The article offers preview of the products, including School and District Apps by SchoolInfoApp, Parent Notices from TransACT, and Education Pro Color Poster Maker by Epson from Bright White Paper.

Information about several papers discussed at the District Administration Web Seminar Digest on October 17, 2017 is presented. Topics include the use of new technologies such as makerspaces, drones, and robotics to K12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. The web seminar featured several speakers including Kim Alexander, Salvatore Menzo, and Paula Love.

Jessica Cuthbertson's dental hygienist cleans the teeth of many unhappy teachers--exhausted, burned-out folks who feel pulled in too many directions and have too many papers to grade. Cuthbertson isn't one [...]

The article offers suggestions on how U.S school districts can save money. Topics discussed include reduction in special education staff through attrition by 10 percent in order to save the time that special education teachers spend in meetings and paper work, flexibility of federal grants that can help districts achieve budget goals and impact of financial crisis and depletion in government stimulus on per-pupil spending.

The article evaluates the Learniture Adjustable-Height Active Learning Stool, Cascade two-sided Whiteboard, and iC 30 compact cart from classroom equipment providers School Outfitters, Smith System, and LocknCharge.

Leadership is never more critical than when creating and sustaining a data-centric learning culture, as Lane Mills advises in a white paper (http://DAmag.me/416-1m) on how districts can access and integrate [...]

Nearly all Dallas ISD teachers had for years been meeting expectations, on paper, but student achievement data showed serious achievement gaps between white students and their black and Hispanic counterparts. [...]

A frustrated student cries out 'I can't do it.' A teacher redirects: 'You can't do it, yet.' This may be the simplest way to define 'growth mindset,' the increasingly popular [...]

When Upton High School in Wyoming switched from a traditional to a self-paced education model last year, Weston County School District Superintendent Summer Stephens' 15-year-old daughter reacted the way many [...]

One education researcher calls it 'the academic death penalty': A grade of zero on a 100-point scale, a mark that spells disaster for a students class average. 'It's such an [...]

Educators in a school district that conducts well-designed formative assessments should be able to accurately predict how students will perform on midterms, finals and high-stakes exams. A growing number of [...]

From providing a range of innovative initiatives, including social-emotional learning programs to giving English language learners quality support, 54 school districts have been named among DA's newest batch of Districts [...]

In four Utica Community elementary schools in metro Detroit, students as young as 10 manipulate and pull apart the organs of the body, build roller coasters, and design and test [...]

In rural eastern Kentucky, teacher Jill Armstrong connects her high school students not just with towering historical figures, but also with real-live teens from schools on the other side of [...]

As in years past, this new year will bring all sorts of new technology to schools. The question for educators is: To what degree do these technologies enhance education? 'Figuring [...]

This year, District Administrations Readers' Choice Top 100 Products features selections from more than 1,500 nominations that range from cutting-edge student information systems and cloud-based security to innovative gamification software [...]

How do you ensure students who excel at math remain engaged? Heidi Williams intended to solve that challenge by starting an after-school coding club while she was a gifted-and-talented teacher [...]

Todays more sophisticated visitor management systems allow K12 leaders to get a better handle on who's trying to enter (or leave) their buildings--including tardy students. Lobby kiosks can perform automated [...]

For the past two years, leaders at Muhlenberg South Middle School in Greenville, Kentucky, have been working to decrease the number of teacher absences as part of a wider effort [...]

Doug Johnson held the title of audiovisual director when he launched his career in school technology in 1991 Back then, teachers didn't have computers on their desks and technology needs [...]

Educators know that most dyslexic students will need interventions and accommodations throughout school, but best practices continue to evolve as more is learned about this reading disability. Addressing dyslexia should [...]

While detention remains a staple of student discipline across the country, many school leaders are looking at ways to modify the practice, or even replace it, with approaches that may [...]

The 3,000 students in rural Maine's Regional School Unit 19 begin compiling electronic portfolios of their schoolwork in pre-K, when the district issues every child a Google account. In the [...]

School leaderss want more autonomy on how they access and report data. They also have more assets to keep track of when they shift to 1-to-1 learning or other programs [...]

From testing problem-solving skills in the survivalist block-building adventure Minecraft to reinforcing science concepts in SimCityEDU, educators are integrating games in the classroom at an increasingly rapid rate. Game-Based Learning [...]

The number of districts and states rushing to stock an emergency antidote that can revive students suffering heroin overdoses shows the severe degree to which the nation's latest drug epidemic [...]

More than 33 conventional chemicals went into cleaning Columbia Public Schools in Missouri--14 alone for the bathrooms. The process grew so confusing that the district couldn't write a training manual. [...]

Selected from more than 2,100 nominations, the editors of District Administration magazine proudly present the 2015 Readers' Choice Top Products. This annual award program alerts superintendents and other senior school [...]

Hiring and retaining talented teachers can be a challenge in any district. But finding recent teaching college graduates who are ready to excel in the classroom their very first year [...]

How can districts use the Common Core-aligned assessments to improve education if the results won't be available until later this fall, after the current school year is well underway? That's [...]

Three times each year, middle school students in Birmingham, Michigan, take a 30-minute, timed writing assessment online. The test is done through Criterion, an ETS online writing evaluation service. Student [...]

As today's students find themselves deciding money matters long before adulthood, progressive districts are introducing financial literacy lessons in elementary and middle grades--with some requiring high school students to complete [...]

Once a month, Tim Mills, superintendent of Washington's Bellevue Public Schools, sits down for a one-on-one conversation with each member of his school board. Obeying parameters honed in a 16-year [...]

Computing devices embedded in jewelry and glasses. Microchips tattooed into skin and sewn into clothing. In one form or another, devices that gather data without any help from the user [...]

Continuing to recognize the best of the best, the editors of District Administration magazine are proud to present this year's 2014 Readers' Choice Top 100 Products, which were selected from [...]

A new bounty of academic data is guiding teachers as they adjust instruction in the hopes of boosting student achievement. Some districts are connecting 'data coaches' with the teachers' own [...]

When Danville Independent Schools in Kentucky overhauled its curriculum in 2009 to focus on 21st century skills, district leaders quickly realized they faced an assessment challenge: How would teachers objectively [...]

On the first Friday of every school year, the new kindergartners of Utah's Canyons School District look ahead to the future--far ahead. To mark Kindergarten College-Ready Day, the children make [...]

Using tablets, apps and YouTube videos, students at Greenwood Elementary School in the Wayzata Public Schools in Minnesota have added new virtual elements to paintings and other artwork, so their [...]

Xenia Community Schools in Ohio faced a crisis in 2012 that forced administrators to slash $10 million from its annual budget. 'One of the things we looked at was how [...]

Resistance and frustration over standardized assessments and learning standards may have reached critical mass. In October 2015, President Obama and the U.S. Department of Education released a testing action plan, [...]

3D printing at Mahtomedi High School in the outer Minneapolis suburbs has come a long way in four years. In 2011, the school first opened its fabrication laboratory, or FABLab, [...]

School visitors are no longer just writing their names in a notebook when they sign in. Districts are now scanning fingerprints and eyes to check if a visitor or contractor [...]

A District Administration Web Seminar Digest * Originally presented on November 7, 2017 Scheduling and managing special events at school district facilities can be complicated. Maintaining a schedule, understanding staffing [...]

Like so many others around the country, the Mahopac Central School District in New York scheduled teacher conference days throughout the year. And, like so many others, these conferences were [...]

Finding time to work with individual students to improve their writing skills is a challenge many English teachers face. The Booker T. Washington High School writing lab--the first of its [...]

What is Intel doing to help educators succeed in reimagining digital learning? Intel has a long history in education and has invested over $ 1 billion in education over the [...]