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4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

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Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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Editor’s Picks 2015, No. four: 4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

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Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

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Too often when we think of daily schedules, we tend to think about their impact on secondary school. But students in elementary school experience some of the most important growth in relationship building, knowledge, skill development and sense of self.

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Double Shift: 6 Stories of Teachers With Side Hustles

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But whether they live in Illinois, New Hampshire, Missouri or elsewhere, they each concede that despite their education and certifications, their teacher salary alone is not enough to afford them the lifestyle they had hoped to one day attain. Spencer makes $45,000 as a special education teacher at an elementary school.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

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The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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How a Local Tech Meetup Turned My Classroom Into a Startup

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In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. We have a coding class being taught alongside physical education, music and art. Teachers are now “facilitators,” classrooms are “studios,’ and students are “learners.”

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New for This Year’s Back-to-School Shopping List: Face Masks

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At the Starkville Oktibbeha School District in Starkville, Miss., face masks are featured on the school supply lists for every grade at every school in the district, from Pre-K to high school. The school supply list of an elementary school in the Starkville Oktibbeha School District.