School Models

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    Students with disabilities learn real-world job skills in Brooklyn high school’s sewing lab

    The lab goes beyond stitching to impart students with soft skills like teamwork and time management.

    By Briana Mendez-Padilla • Nov. 27, 2024
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    Dive Awards

    The K-12 Dive Awards for 2024

    These leaders are achieving excellence through commitments to school culture and community, innovation, and wraparound services for students.

    By • Nov. 27, 2024
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    Trendline

    Top 5 stories from K-12 Dive

    K-12 Dive has gathered some a selection of our best coverage from 2024 so far as a one-stop resource on the trends to watch in the months ahead.

    By K-12 Dive staff
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    Dive Awards

    Superintendent of the Year: Tiffany Anderson, Topeka Public Schools

    Over the past eight years, Anderson has reimagined leadership structures, invested in teacher housing initiatives, and kept one foot in the classroom.

    By • Updated Nov. 26, 2024
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    High school students report challenges in accessing skilled trades training

    Training programs can’t keep up with demand, which may signal a need for employer investments, a report found.

    By Carolyn Crist • Nov. 25, 2024
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    Dive Awards

    Principal of the Year: Calvin Hooks, Hyde-Addison Elementary School

    The leader of the Washington, D.C., school credits DEI, anti-racist and belonging initiatives for high student performance.

    By • Nov. 25, 2024
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    Georgia unveils its newest private school choice program

    The Georgia Promise Scholarship is capped at 1% of public school funding and is expected to serve an estimated 21,000-22,000 students.

    By • Nov. 22, 2024
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    Open enrollment ‘increasingly’ school choice option

    Sixteen states have laws allowing open enrollment across school districts, and almost as many permit open enrollment within a district.

    By • Nov. 21, 2024
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    POP QUIZ

    Test yourself on this week’s K-12 news

    From demand for a cybersecurity pilot to the latest stats on school book bans, what did you learn from our recent stories?

    By • Nov. 15, 2024
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    Schools continue to play vital role in preventing student opioid-related deaths

    As early data shows a decline in teen opioid-related fatalities, advocates and researchers say continued and expanded prevention education is critical.

    By • Nov. 14, 2024
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    3 ways high schools are preparing students for this year’s FAFSA

    Last school year's delays to filling out the federal financial aid form are spurring early action to support the class of 2025.

    By • Updated Nov. 13, 2024
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    Sponsored by Digital Promise

    Growth and renewal through Inclusive Innovation

    Strengthening adolescent writing through student-designed writing groups developed with inclusive innovation.

    By Viki M. Young, Ph.D. • Nov. 11, 2024
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    Does your district offer middle school CTE? Here’s why it should.

    Career and technical education is for everyone. Here’s why schools should offer it in middle school.

    By Patrick Keeney, Sr. Director of CTE Product Management and Partnerships, McGraw Hill School • Nov. 11, 2024
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    How to use election outcome to teach about regulating emotions

    Student support experts recommend schools validate students' emotions and encourage respectful dialogue.

    By • Nov. 6, 2024
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    California State University pilots direct admissions program

    The 461,000-student system will inform certain public high school students in Riverside County that they’ve been automatically accepted to 10 campuses. 

    By Natalie Schwartz • Nov. 6, 2024
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    3 ways school leaders are promoting unity during a tense election

    School culture and student supports are key in administrators' messages to families ahead of 2024 election results.

    By • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Was districts’ ESSER spending effective? Federal watchdog says maybe.

    A GAO report says districts prioritized spending of COVID-19 emergency funds based on community input, financial need, state policies and other influences.

    By • Oct. 28, 2024
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    Tips to promote ‘zero waste’ on school campuses

    Environmental experts offer strategies for replacing disposables with “reusables” in school cafeterias.

    By Jacob Wallace • Oct. 25, 2024
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    Newly arrived English learners a positive for existing ELs

    A study on Delaware schools published by AERA found no adverse academic impacts for non-English learners with the arrival of new ELs.

    By • Oct. 23, 2024
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    Column // LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP

    How Philadelphia is accelerating learning recovery with an ambitious 5-year plan

    Propelled by impressive academic recovery metrics, Superintendent Tony Watlington has curriculum rollouts, facilities improvements and more on the agenda.

    By • Oct. 22, 2024
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    POP QUIZ

    Test yourself on this week’s K-12 news

    From cellphone bans to school staffing, what did you learn from our recent stories?

    By • Oct. 18, 2024
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    74% of schools had trouble filling teacher vacancies this school year

    However, the percentage saying they didn’t experience challenges filling vacant teaching and non-teaching roles rose, according to NCES data.

    By • Oct. 17, 2024
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    Opinion

    Optimizing charter opportunities for students with disabilities requires focused engagement

    Charters can harness their flexibility to overhaul models that hold back students with disabilities, writes the Center for Learning Equity’s executive director.

    By Lauren Morando Rhim • Oct. 17, 2024
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    A Massachusetts charter school prepares students for college success

    Veritas Prep Charter School provides students with companion courses to help them navigate college expectations like time management and self-advocacy.

    By • Oct. 16, 2024
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    More than 25% of charters shutter within 5 years

    A comprehensive study of data from more than 2 million U.S. Department of Education records found that by year 20, the average failure rate is 55%.

    By • Oct. 16, 2024
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    Adults back classroom cellphone bans but are less supportive of all-day limits

    Of those opposing classroom restrictions, 60% say parents should be able to reach their child when needed.

    By • Oct. 16, 2024