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SHELDON—Jodi Grant feels like she’s in the circus. Grant is an English, speech and theatre teacher at Sheldon High School. Since August, she’s been engaged in a juggling act of balancing distance learning with in-person instruction for her students. “You’re spinning plates and you have to keep all the plates going at the same time,” …

A day after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that mental health has become a serious problem due to the ongoing pandemic, New York City announced steps it is taking to tackle the mental wellbeing of the youth. Deputy Chancellor for School Climate and Wellness LaShawn Robinson, who leads the city’s DOE efforts to provide student support …

North Little Rock School District officials are exploring ways to give teachers a break during the week because the coronavirus pandemic workload is creating additional work for educators. The North Little Rock Reopening School Task Force on Tuesday discussed creating a proposal for a virtual-only full or half-day on Fridays beginning Oct. 20 to give …

ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – Our students, parents and teachers are about a month into the new school year and it’s becoming very clear what works, and what doesn’t. On Thursday night, parents and teachers in Roanoke County expressed their frustrations with the current re-opening plan. Hope Pritchard came to the meeting with a passionate plea. …

Sonia Jain has been in the teaching profession for over 25 years. After all these years, the 53-year-old found herself relearning many new teaching practices when lessons went online necessitated by the sudden imposition of a countrywide lockdown in March. Like most others from the teaching community, she was caught off-guard by the rapidly evolving …

The Everett Teachers Association (ETA) issues a statement last week backing the use of Everett Police officers in the City’s school buildings – primarily in Everett High School – thus breaking away from opposite positions made public by the American Federation of Teachers and the Boston Teachers Union (BTU). Everett Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley filed the …

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – While the first day of classes in Alachua County went smoothly for some students, internet connection and schedule change requests posed a problem for others. It’s an issue that falls on the shoulders of school district staff as they work to make Digital Academy and brick & mortar learning easy and …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that amid the coronavirus crisis, teachers not only have accepted this challenge but also turned it into an opportunity as they adapted to new technology and methods in education. “My dear countrymen, in a few days from now on September 5, we will celebrate Teachers Day. Whenever we …

GCSE students in England have achieved a record-breaking set of results, with a surge in the number of top marks handed to them after exams were cancelled due to coronavirus. Just over a quarter of pupils, 25.9%, were awarded grade 7 or higher – equivalent to an A or A* under the old system – …

Wednesday was back-to-school for students in Lewisville ISD. And with an online-only first day, it did not go as smoothly as some had hoped. Parents took to social media with technological headaches from trouble logging in to getting booted off the system to long wait times on the phone with IT. Some expressed anger, while …