Hiring additional reading and math coaches, counsellors, school psychologists, and other support staff is a key strategy to meet students’ academic and social-emotional learning needs.
When school systems use federal funds for personnel expenditures, they must have a plan in place to track and report the time and effort that employees spend on grant-funded activities to protect current and future support funding. to students.
Join eSchool News and a panel of expertsincluding Kecia Ray, Ed.D, and Janet Hagood of Jefferson County Schools, to learn best practices and key strategies for completing this process in your own district.
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- Essential Guidelines for Hiring Staff Using Federal Funding
- Best Practices for Tracking Grant-Funded Activities
- Essential Steps to Meet Federal Funding Compliance Rules
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In pandemic and post-pandemic era education, teachers, school leaders and parents have been preoccupied with bringing children back to school and closing the achievement gap.
Most K-12 teachers or administrators can anecdotally describe the mental health and wellness challenges their students are currently facing. Statistically, it’s damning – more than a third (37%) of high school students report having had poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and 44% of them said they constantly felt sad. or desperate over the past year.
Blended and hybrid learning models were first introduced to extend personalized and flexible learning options to selected individuals or groups of students. But with the onset of the pandemic, the widespread adoption of blended and hybrid models suddenly became a necessity for all student populations.
Due to the pandemic, many students have fallen behind grade level expectations. Educators try to catch up with students in the most efficient way possible. It may seem like we are so far behind that we can never catch up, but by focusing on teaching students what they missed while continuing with grade level material, I believe we can help address learning gaps created over the past two years.
As an educator for over 27 years and a Digital Learning Specialist (Social Studies) for 7 years in Atlanta Public Schools, I have supported educators in my district and beyond as they integrate deliberately bringing technology into the classroom to promote 21st century engagement and skills. development.
The measurable success of recruiting students into STEM-based streams through a popular high school program known as FlexFactor led the Department of Defense to recently invest $5 million through its Manufacturing Engineering Training Program (MEEP).
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Hiring additional reading and math coaches, counsellors, school psychologists, and other support staff is a key strategy to meet students’ academic and social-emotional learning needs.
Columbus City Schools recently released a new strategic plan that details how we will achieve our mission over the next five years.
The skills required to succeed in the new economy were already changing. Now, COVID has accelerated these changes dramatically.
The significant negative impact of the pandemic on educators is no secret. Teacher burnout has never been higher, self-help techniques seem futile, violence against teachers is on the rise, and verbal abuse from parents is on the rise. Fears over learning loss and teacher resignation continue to dominate the news.
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