Mastering Both #Math and #Space with the Cosmic Number Lines App

An accessible, engaging #iOS game, the Cosmic Number Lines App was designed for early elementary school #students who are #blind or #lowvision.
https://www.aph.org/blog/mastering-both-math-and-space-with-the-cosmic-number-lines-app/
#K12 #A11Y #Accessibility #STEM #STEAM

Hana’s Garden in Oxford dedicated to Hana St. Juliana, killed in 2021 https://www.allforgardening.com/1317979/hanas-garden-in-oxford-dedicated-to-hana-st-juliana-killed-in-2021/ #Abuse #breaking #BreakingNewsSocial #Dana #DanaNessel #death #DeathU0026Tragedy #garden #gardener #gardening #Gretchen #GretchenWhitmer #high #K12 #local #LocalNews #Marimo. #Nessel #Neutral #news #Overall #OverallNeutral #oxford #OxfordHighSchoolShooting #Primary #PrimaryU0026SecondarySchooling(K12) #school #schooling #Secondary #Shooting #Social #Tragedy #u0026 #violence #ViolenceU0026Abuse #Whitmer

New garden club takes root at Alliance Middle School https://www.allforgardening.com/1309612/new-garden-club-takes-root-at-alliance-middle-school/ #community #CommunityFoundations #content #County #Foundations #garden #K12 #local #LocalNews #Marimo. #news #oh #OHContentSharingStarkOnly #only #Overall #OverallPositive #positive #Primary #PrimaryU0026SecondarySchooling(K12) #schooling #Secondary #sharing #stark #StarkCounty #u0026

AI Literacy Framework for Primary & Secondary Education https://ailiteracyframework.org/ #AI #education #K12

Can't teach creativity, but can create conditions for it to blossom - brain's default network is daydreaming.

What teacher would have the courage to include a center for daydreaming during center time?!

We stress productivity, productivity, productivity in our classrooms. (But it would be very educationally sound to include daydreaming!!)

https://bigthink.com/business/ask-your-boss-can-we-have-a-daydreaming-workstation/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklynewsletter
#Education #Neuroscience #K12

#Oklahoma superintendent of #schools Ryan Walters injects Trumpism & Xianity into the state's public school curricula

A prominent voice in a growing mvmt to infuse #K12 w/#religion & MAGA, eg teaching #Election2020 was "stolen" & other discredited MAGA conspiracy theories.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oklahoma-schools-trump-education-ryan-walters-b2746714.html

Beloved music teacher Jesús Rodríguez gives final lesson, deciding to leave the US before his humanitarian parole is ended early by Trump

“Don’t leave us!” a student shouted. 4th & 5th-graders hugged each other, wiping away tears.

#K12 #Deportations #Immigration #Asylum

Gift:
https://wapo.st/3RL9OhK

#K12 #education #courts #DEI #GiftLink

"The judge, Landya B. McCafferty, said that the administration had not provided an adequately detailed definition of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and that its policy threatened to restrict free speech in the classroom while overstepping the executive branch’s legal authority over local schools."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/trump-public-school-funds-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE8.4ioL.Q7g0n8yUvUoE&smid=url-share

“There is this myth of the digital native, that because some people have grown up with digital devices, they are well equipped to make sense of the information that those devices provide,” says Joel Breakstone, who led the 2021 study. “The results were sobering.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/23/gen-z-media-tiktok-misinformation-00287561

Trump administration considering issuing #executiveorder to integrate #artificialintelligence into #K12 #education, according to a draft circulated by #WhiteHouse to several federal agencies, obtained by #WashingtonPost. Under the draft executive order federal agencies would be instructed 2 take steps 2 train students in using #AI and incorporate it into #teaching related tasks. The agencies would also be asked to partner w the #privatesector [surprise] to develop relevant programs in #schools

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Data Collection on School Kids

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/google-hit-with-privacy-suit-over-data-collection-on-school-kids

Nor for nothing, but this is the same issue some parents in Toronto and I tried to raise against Google years ago -- and Google told me that their relationship was with their clients -- the schools -- and the schools consented. It was up to the schools, they claimed, to seek parental consent.

@douglevin @funnymonkey @mkeierleber

#Trump administration refers #Maine to #DOJ over #TransgenderAthletes

by Brooke Migdon - 04/11/25

"The Department of Education on Friday referred a #TitleIX investigation into Maine schools to the #JusticeDepartment after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ sports.

" 'The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda [sic] over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,' said Craig Trainor, acting assistant Education secretary for [WHAT A JOKE] civil rights.

"The Education Department in its announcement said it will also initiate administrative proceedings to determine whether to terminate federal #K12 education funding for Maine’s state education department, including formula and discretionary grants.

"'The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department,' Trainor said. 'Governor [Janet] Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom — be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.'

"Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s teams."

Read more:
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5245248-maine-transgender-athletes-doj-hhs-education-department-trump-mills/

#TransgenderRights #FollowTheScience #Transphobia #TransErasure #ProtectTransYouth #MaineResists #TrumpIsABully #SeeYouInCourt #AbortionRights? #WomensRights? #ArrestingMiscarryingWomen? #TrumpDoesntGiveAShitAboutWomen

#SCOTUS #education #teachers #funding #grants #K12

Quoting:

Eight states, including California and New York, sued to stop the cuts, arguing that they would undermine both urban and rural school districts, requiring them to hire “long-term substitutes, teachers with emergency credentials and unlicensed teachers on waivers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/supreme-court-trump-teacher-grants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.kamp.0KXOmeYBe6pV&smid=url-share

#NYTimes #GiftLink #PublicSchools #K12 #Education

There's a deadline, and the Sec'y of Ed is still clueless as to what may constitute a "violation." She don't know art, she just knows what she likes:

"The memo included a certification letter that state and local school officials must sign and return to the department within 10 days, even as the administration has struggled to define which programs would violate its interpretation of civil rights laws."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/public-school-funding-trump-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.804.Py52.4jVmGvKpv5Ud&smid=url-share