Playing Music on the Wall

At Gates Mills Elementary School, students are playing music on the wall. The walls are not actually walls, as they are only about a few feet square. They contain items such as trash cans, frying pans, spatulas, pipes, and plastic baskets. While these items are not...

New Incentives Attracting Teachers in Rural Districts

To solve a teacher shortage, there are new incentives attracting teachers in rural districts. Sparsely populated McCormick County South Carolina faces the challenge of a remote location in a state where numerous teachers leave their jobs each year. One solution is to...

Blended Learning is Found to be Effective

In the Greely-Evans School District 6, blended learning is found to be effective at enabling students to partially control when, where and how they learn.  The district implemented blended learning six years ago, mixing online instruction and technology with...