Classroom & Curricula

After a school year when digital tools were vital for educational success, the AASL has announced the year's best.

As some schools are creating new programs to meet the crisis, In Tuscaloosa City (AL) Schools, where summer learning is part of the core educational strategy, an already successful summer program has expanded.

A coordinated effort to limit what teachers can teach about history, racism, sexism, and systemic oppression throughout history has educators concerned about their students, the impact on the library, and civic life in general.

Using primary sources with literature can help students explore a story using a unique, real-world perspective.

Photographs and poems can help students explore perspective and specific moments in time.

Over the past year across the country, educators have altered lesson plans and curricula to address racial injustice, historically and today.

Educators have used targeted intervention and innovative tech approaches and offered social-emotional support.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I am here to say it’s okay to quit sometimes. There should not be anything shameful in shifting your priorities, especially not a shift that could bolster your well being in another area. I am here to offer the possibility that you can change your mind.

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