Schools in Focus Podcast Featuring Sue Ann Highland PODCAST: Creating More Dynamic Learning Environments Dynamic learning environments are more active and engaging for students than the traditional, factory-era model in which students sit facing the front of the classroom while the teacher speaks. They are more likely to help students learn key 21st-century skills […]
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Timely Transition Tools for Back to School
As an Occupational Therapist (OT), I often make annual recommendations for back-to-school transition support for students with special needs. A friend’s recent social media post that spoke of the usual feelings of excitement normally emanating from her niece and nephew being replaced this year by uncertainty and anxiety prompted me to expand the concept […]
How to Design Safe Schools That Convey Confidence and Inspire Learning
It’s the worst nightmare of every student, parent, and educator: hearing the alarm or announcement that signifies a school lockdown. According to Education Week, there were 49 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in the United States in 2018 and 2019. That figure dropped to 10 in 2020, as nearly all schools shifted to […]
Environmentally Conscious Outdoor Learning Activities
I grew up in a farming community where the weather could make or break the yearly crops. At a young age, I quickly learned how stressful that livelihood was on a family. While I learned about the weather and its impacts on the harvest, I also had an opportunity to play in nature, examining […]
Promoting Creative Inclusive Practices in Schools
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, does not specifically define the term inclusion in the law itself. However, as Wrightslaw reference materials state, IDEA does require “school districts to place students in the least restrictive environment (LRE). LRE means that, to the maximum extent appropriate, school districts must educate students with disabilities […]
How to Make Hybrid Learning Successful
Many K-12 school systems nationwide have invested time and money in creating hybrid learning environments that combine face-to-face and online instruction for students who work best with each type of model. In some cases, the students who are learning online are doing so asynchronously, watching videos and completing classwork on their own time. In […]
Safe and Healthy Schools: What Can Schools Learn from Hospitals?
Schools must have a solution for disinfecting learning spaces that is effective and that stakeholders can fully trust during cold and flu season. Currently, the most popular strategies employed by schools are disinfecting surfaces with chemical sprays and using low-rated MERV filters to purify the air that people breathe. Yet, both methods have shortcomings […]
More Than a Stick: Open-Ended Materials in Early Childhood
As many of my blog readers know, I am the neighborhood “stalker”, watching my neighbor kids out my kitchen window on a regular basis. However, they also know I am a good “stalker”, watching children in a quest for knowledge about child behavior and looking for examples of early childhood theories I have studied […]
How Cooperative Purchasing Offers a Key Advantage for Schools
A growing number of K-12 school systems are turning to cooperative purchasing to fill their needs. Education buyers are finding that cooperative contracts give them the same great value as competitive bidding — without all the time and aggravation. What Is Cooperative Purchasing? The use of cooperative contracts reduces the cost of goods and […]
Investigation to Integration: Digging Deeper into STEAM in Early Childhood
When you hear the word “environment” it makes some people think immediately of the physical classroom space, but we believe there is more to it than that. In addition to the space, we consider materials part of that environment. We also thought of the environment in one other way: teaching strategies and curriculum. These […]
Learning Space Design Plays a Key Role in Supporting Tech Use. Here’s How.
The physical learning environments that students gather in must effectively support technology-rich instruction. (In fact, technology is one of six essential design elements that School Specialty has identified as critical for a modern learning space that supports 21st century learning, along with choice, comfort, versatility, connection and stimulation.) What does it mean for a […]
Block Play – What’s Really Going On?
Recently, I was asked to present to Pre-K teachers on the topic of block play. I wasn’t very enthusiastic about the topic because it made me think of things like math and engineering which are not my areas of strength. However, it was an assignment, so I began to do some research and what […]
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