Credit: Sarah Tully/EdSource This is the fourth in a series of stories on the challenges impacting California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to all 4-year-olds by 2025. Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds has been promoted as a way to increase declining enrollment and provide universal preschool. However, a major obstacle is that some districts lack … Read more
HMH Classcraft™, an adaptive learning company, has introduced a new AI Summarization tool that allows teachers to quickly assess student comprehension and adjust instruction accordingly. This tool, powered by generative AI, analyzes open text responses from students working in small groups or individually, providing educators with a summary of student performance and feedback recommendations. Using … Read more
In 2010, I worked at Boude Storey Middle School in the South Oak Cliff community, one of Dallas’s most impoverished areas. Like all other campuses, we had a special education classroom for our nonverbal students. A young lady named “Laci” was in that class. Every time I would pass her in the hallways, she would … Read more