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What to expect from an online diploma?

Posted on28 November, 20183 December, 2018Leave a comment

If you’ve ever wanted to get ahead in your career and your industry, you may have considered completing an online Diploma. Diplomas are beneficial because they are specialised, short in length and are a recognised qualification. Anyone can benefit from completing a diploma online course – from young students who have just finished K-12 Read More …

AP Government Review Resources – Kahoots and Quizlets from C-SPAN Classroom

AP exam season will be here soon. As they have done for the last five years, C-SPAN Classroom will be hosting a live Cram for the Exam session on May 4th. It’s free and open to any student who is taking the AP Government exam. That’s not the only AP Government review resource that C-SPAN Read More …

Create Individualized Spelling Games Through Flippity Spelling Words

Flippity’s Spelling Words is a free Google Sheets template that you can use to create individualized spelling games for your students. To do this you simply have to make a list of words that you want each of your students to practice. You’ll then put those lists under your students’ names in a Google Sheets Read More …

Year 6 pupils spend Easter at school cramming for Sats

Children at hundreds of primary schools in England are being asked to attend Sats revision classes over the Easter holidays, a teaching union official has revealed, warning that it was part of a disturbing trend. Darren Northcott, the NASUWT national officer for education, said revision classes for primary school pupils were unheard of five years Read More …

‘Upskirting’ pictures of teachers are being taken by pupils as young as 11, union boss warns

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Seven-year-old boy threatened to stab pregnant teacher in stomach as union warns of rise in pupil violence

Source: Education

Female teachers need protection from sexual harassment, says union

Female teachers are not being protected against “upskirting” videos and other forms of online sexual harassment by pupils, the leader of one of the UK’s main teaching unions has said, calling for schools and governments to take the issue more seriously. Chris Keates, the general secretary of the NASUWT, said her organisation had found multiple Read More …

Kentucky School District Awarded Additional Funds to Support Recovery Efforts Following Tragic School Shooting Last Year

Benton, Kentucky – U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, alongside Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, announced today that Marshall County School District (MCSD) in Kentucky has been awarded a second Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant totaling $460,064. This grant will assist MCSD in its continued recovery efforts following the Jan. 23, 2018, shooting that took the lives Read More …

Best of the Web – The TLA Edition

Greetings from the Austin, Texas airport where I’m waiting for a flight home after a great three days at the TLA annual conference. I gave three presentations and ran two workshops during the conference. The last of my presentations ended just a couple of hours ago. The room was packed (I was worried about the Read More …

How to Make Your Own Mobile App

On Tuesday morning I published a post about great service called Glide that enables anyone who can make a Google Sheet to make his or her own mobile app. Judging by the volume of emails and Twitter DMs that I received, a lot of people are interested in using Glide . I made the following Read More …

Florida Teen Who Threatened Colorado Schools Reportedly Found Dead

Florida Teen Who Threatened Colorado Schools Reportedly Found Dead By David Ovalle, Miami Herald (Fla.) Authorities in Colorado have found the 18-year-old Miami Beach High student who traveled to Colorado, bought a shotgun and threatened violence against schools days before the anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High, according to media reports. According to Read More …