by Andrea Payne | Oct 8, 2021 | Education News
Cultivating calmness and enabling students to develop coping skills through mindfulness exercises to overcome the stress and anxiety caused by the pandemic is a priority for educators and schools. Students and staff are still facing lingering concerns after battling a...
by Andrea Payne | Oct 1, 2021 | Legal Developments
Last week the federal government announced that it will investigate TEA because the state organization’s guidance prohibiting mask mandates may be “preventing school districts in the state from considering or meeting the needs of students with disabilities.” TEA’s...
by Andrea Payne | Sep 17, 2021 | Fresh Ideas, Product News
Everyone–parents, educators, and kids–are incredibly grateful that schools are “open” this year, despite the many interruptions from temporary closures and quarantines that COVID is still delivering. We’re all just so glad that the kids...
by Andrea Payne | Sep 10, 2021 | Education News
When I went to my very first new teacher orientation training in 2003, the assistant principal running the show advised all of us rookies to be careful when drinking adult beverages in restaurants. It’s just awkward to run into a kid and their family with a beer in...
by Andrea Payne | Sep 3, 2021 | Education News
COVID continues to expose the cracks in our societal structures. It is completely possible for us to just shuffle from year to year, trudging along within ineffective systems…until something unexpected pops up and demolishes that system, finally spotlighting the...
