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How to Build a More Effective School Board AJ Crabill has been training school board members since 2016 with the Texas Education Agency and the Council of the Great City Schools. He’s now out with a new book, Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How YoursCan Become Effective. Winner of the Education Commission…

Here’s What Students Think About Using AI in the Classroom Now, it’s time to hear what some students think about the topic. As part of a two-week unit on artificial intelligence finishing this school year in my IB Theory of Knowledge classes, students wrote short paragraphs answering this prompt from Facing History: What impact do…

What Teachers Get Wrong About Creativity Creativity flourishes when you give students the freedom to explore, within limits. I answered questions about this topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: If you ask people whether or not creativity is important, they’ll say it is. So why does it seem like society prioritizes…

 How to Fix Classroom Misbehavior Asaf Mazar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. What can I do when a student keeps misbehaving even after they repeatedly promise to improve? It’s not easy for students to change ingrained habits. Here’s something I wrote related to the topic for…

Existential Questions for Educators Right Now. Do We Even Matter? Does What We Do Matter?PJ Caposey is an award-winning educator, keynote speaker, consultant, and author of eight books who currently serves as the superintendent of schools for the nationally recognized Meridian CUSD 223 school district in northwest Illinois. You can find PJ on most social…

Creating This New Position Could Save Schools Money. Here’s How School districts could collectively save millions of dollars by hiring administrators who focus on energy savings and sustainability initiatives. That’s a key takeaway from a new report on sustainability directors and environment managers, emerging K-12 professions whose responsibilities can include tackling the escalating effects of…

Use Knowledge-Building Curriculum to Boost Literacy Do you remember alphabet soup? As I child, I’d spend more time arranging and rearranging letters in the tomato mess than eating any of the letters. The combinations were endless, the fun was priceless, and dare I say, the learning was wondrous. If you’re a literacy teacher in America…

How Teachers Are Using Artificial Intelligence in Classes Today In early January, shortly after the debut of ChatGPT, I shared a three-part series where educators wrote about how they had begun using it with their students. Now that a few months have passed, educators share in today’s post (and in a future Part Two) how…

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Continues to Spur More Extreme Versions Nationwide Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis displays the signed Parental Rights in Education, the so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, flanked by elementary school students during a news conference last March at Classical Preparatory School in Shady Hills, Fla. Forty two bills have been introduced…