by Janet Anderson The Bates Elementary School is the winner of EdVestors’ 2016 School on the Move Prize. When the Bates first became a full-inclusion school in 2014, the leaders and teachers started with the typical definition of educating students with significant disabilities alongside their typically developing peers,
READ MOREby Marinell Rousmaniere At the kickoff event for Boston STEM Week Superintendent Tommy Chang told students: “STEM occupations are growing at a rate stronger than non-STEM jobs. STEM-related jobs also pay much higher. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workers complete such a critical role . . . and we want to
READ MOREBy Alexander Kalamaroff Of all the resources a school can have, the most valuable (alongside money) is time—time for teachers to plan, to grade, to make calls home, to observe each other’s classrooms, and to think big picture about what instruction means at our schools. Yet there is never enough time in any given school
READ MOREby Emily Bozentka It may not surprise you to hear that when budget cuts hit schools, arts education is often the first to go. That No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB) focus on math and English Language Arts (ELA) test scores negatively impacted students’ access to courses in the arts, especially for students of color and low-income
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