With the myriad of challenges facing current and future educators, schools cannot overlook the importance of having a workforce strategy in place. How that plan is developed and what it includes was discussed during the edLeader Panel, “Building Leader Capability and Capacity in Workforce Strategy: Addressing Attraction, Retention, and Educator Wellbeing.”
Work-based learning is providing a way for school and district leaders to increase the relevance and value of secondary education, while also offering opportunities for the practice and application of new skills in supportive environments.
Teachers face many challenges in the classroom, with one of the biggest being how to work with students with IEPs and disabilities. During the edLeader Panel “Honoring All Learners: An Asset-Based Approach,” experts discussed classroom inclusion, asset-based perspectives, and helping students thrive.
Due to an increase in teacher shortages around the country, the need to hire highly qualified teachers, especially teachers of color, is challenging school district leaders to rethink and revamp their recruitment and retainment efforts.
Assessing student knowledge does not need to happen just at the end of the year—a practice that delivers data too late to enhance teaching and learning. Instead, assessing student progress throughout the year can substantially grow academic success.
Literacy is essential for all jobs—whether you need to know how to read and write a service proposal, report card comments, or a case study. But students don’t often make that connection—they see their classwork as something assigned to them and that they need to get through rather than as something that can help them with their future goals. When kids understand the why behind their education, it takes on new meaning for them.
edWeb.net turned 15 in 2023! It’s been an incredible journey for the company and for me personally, as the founder. So many things have changed in the past 15 years. I was inspired to create edWeb.net when I saw what my daughter and her friends were doing on Facebook back in 2007. I saw… read more →
Here is edWeb’s list of the top 2023 edWebinars and edLeader Panels of the year! Each year edWeb presents over 400 new programs on the most timely topics in K-12 education. This year, programs on reading, especially the Science of Reading, were the most popular. Artificial intelligence is our newest, popular topic on edWeb.
Most educators had not seen evidence of human trafficking happening in their schools, according to an audience poll conducted during the edLeader Panel “Human Trafficking Prevention Education in Schools.” Yet 90 percent of the high schools reviewed in a recent San Diego County study found evidence of local trafficking, according to Monica Dominguez, Coordinator of School Counseling for Socorro Independent School District (TX).
In 2018, Ector County Independent School District (TX) faced severe challenges. It was the lowest-achieving large school district in Texas, with a D rating, due to a teacher shortage, but by implementing high-impact tutoring programs with partners, things have turned around.