The use of Twitter to share news and to congratulate individuals or teams, or to remind of meetings or events has become a part of many educational leaders' work of the day. Many, if not most students and parents are 'on' Twitter. It has become a favored way to communicate quickly and briefly. At first a vehicle for young people to speak to each other in brief terms, it has been swept up by adults and businesses. Its use was welcomed and used for good. The use of social media helped school…

SEO is search engine optimisation. Using this technique, a website's ranking in search engines (such as Google) can be improved.

I noticed there are very few businesses aware of SEO. So, I thought being an SEO professional, I should write an article making users aware of SEO.

I started working as an SEO consultant for SEO Brisbane around 2 years back. I learnt most of the SEO online and then gained…

What students in poverty really need from educators

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Sarah McKibben

Our Difference is Our Strength

Amy Andersen, NBCTFebruary 6, 2018

Everyone should know the Berys Dixon story....Schoolteacher does what she’s told until one day she realizes she’s been lying to her parents. The method she was teaching does not work. She does her own research, finds her own answers, and for the first time helps most of her children to read.

This woman is so down-to-earth, so straightforward, so honest (I think we can assume) that even a professor of…

How many of you tuned into 'Sixty Minutes' on Sunday night in anticipation of the Stormy Daniels interview? It didn't happen. But, if you stayed with the show, you saw the interview segment with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. She had visited Stoneman Douglas High School this past week (though we haven't heard that she spoke with any of the students) and she will be somewhere at the table of decision makers about school safety federal policy. The interview did little to change minds…

HOW TO SURVIVE AN AMBUSH AFTER THE MEETING

Your team just made an important decision. You think everyone left…

Guns in schools that are not on the hips of police officers strikes us as a very dangerous idea. There are several reasons why. First, however, let us say in no uncertain terms, the safety of the children is paramount. Educators are fully aware of the responsibility they have from drop off to pick up. We have written about that before, actually as recently as last week. It is a responsibility educators take seriously and carry every minute of their working lives. …

Do Our “Least Restrictive Environments” Help Kids?

BY ELIZABETH STEIN · PUBLISHED 02/20/2018