5 Steps for Securing E-Rate Funding in 2012

The federal funding program is opening new doors and creating new challenges for education leaders.

By Sean Griffey • March 20, 2012

Pinterest for Educators?

Eric Sheninger principal of New Milford High School discusses the role of Pinterest in education

By Sean Griffey • March 19, 2012

You Just Attended an Awesome Conference. Now What?

Did you just attend a great conference?  Here are five tips to maximize your value from them.  

By Sean Griffey • March 15, 2012

Interactive game teaches elementary students economic concepts

Here’s a great interactive game to entice your elementary students to learn about concepts in economics. In the Bakery Shop game , students borrow money to open a shop, make decisions on what to bake..

By Sean Griffey • March 14, 2012

Tackling Truancy, Suspensions, and Stress

With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing -- and a new readiness to learn -- in a bold program of daily meditation.  Back in 1999, when Principal Jim Dierke was getting started at San Francisco's Visi...

By Sean Griffey • Feb. 29, 2012

Connecting Mobile Learning To The Cloud

In 2009 the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Laboratory (AADLC) signed a partnership agreement with the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) to create an iPhone iOS application 1.  The app, Revu4u (Review for You), is designed to help students pre...

By Sean Griffey • Feb. 28, 2012

Salaries Rise for Senior Administrators but Lag Behind Inflation

Their pay rose by 2 percent, with the bump bigger for those at private colleges than at public ones, according to CUPA-HR's annual report.

By Eli Dickinson • Feb. 27, 2012