Blog: High School
Reclaim Your Sanity and Your Time: 5 Lessons on Using AI as a Teacher’s Productivity Tool
The thought of using AI can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be that scary. In this post, we talk about Mariah Warren’s tips at the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference on how teachers can use AI to make the most of their time.
6 Things School Leaders Should Consider When Considering an Esports Program
Esports are an ever-growing field, and because of this, many schools are considering adding one to their academic programs. If you are a school leader who wants to see some benefits of one of these programs, then this post, filled with insights from Jill Ranucci, is a great place to start.
5 Tips to Improve Literacy in Every Classroom
Literacy is an important component of every classroom. However, it can be hard to get students to want to engage. In this post, we offer six different tips that Scott Warren gave at the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference on how to improve literacy in every classroom.
How One CTE Center Elevated English and Boosted Student Success
How can you work in English credits at a career and technology center? We look at how Northland Career Center, a 2024 Pacesetter School Award winner, did just that.
From Struggle to Success: How a School Leader Transformed His School
What can you do as a school leader to make a difference for your teachers, staff and students? We look at five lessons in leadership we learned at the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference.
5 Lessons on School Leadership I Learned at the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference
What can you do as a school leader to make a difference for your teachers, staff and students? We look at five lessons in leadership we learned at the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference.
From Laughter to Learning: 6 Lessons From the Ron Clark Academy’s Michael Bonner
Wish you were still at the 2024 Making Schools Work Conference? We can’t provide a time machine, but we can help: Check out our coverage of the opening session in this post!
From Hands-On to Mind-On: How to Move to Active Learning in Only Four Steps
How can you get students engaged in the learning with hands-on projects while also making sure they understand what they are learning? Try active listening!
Project-ing Your Teaching: 10 Steps to Beginning a Project-Based Learning Unit in Your Class
Have you been wanting to try project-based learning in your classroom but have no idea where to start? This 10-step guide will tell you what you need to know to create your first PBL unit!
Combining Education With Job Skills: Tips From the 2023 Making Schools Work Opening Address
In his opening address at the 2023 Making Schools Work Conference, Adam Welcome talks about how the changing economy means we need some changes to the way we teach.
Job experience and skills are more important than ever, and what those job skills will be are changing too. In this post, we give you insights into his opening address.
Navigating the Road of E-learning
The last two weeks have certainly required flexibility, innovation and problem-solving for educators not just in SREB states but across the nation and the world. Those of us at SREB who support teachers and district- and school-based coaches have been flooded with emails, texts and phone calls asking for help. In an effort to support all of you from afar, we offer some tips and strategies for how you can navigate the road of e-learning.
Virtual Labs for STEM and CTE Teachers and Students
We know that this is a challenging time for teachers across the country. Many of you have been plunged into the world of virtual learning without a lot of time to prepare. Following sudden school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you’ve had to move quickly to shift your carefully planned lessons online so your students can continue learning at home. And those of you who are STEM and career and technical education teachers in particular face unique challenges as you work to adapt hands-on learning experiences to a virtual format.
A Path to College and Career
Stepping Stones for States
A thriving economy and a workforce prepared for it will increasingly demand that more adults earn postsecondary credentials. Ensuring that students successfully move from middle grades into high school, then into college or technical education programs, is critical if states hope to boost their adult educational attainment levels.
Small-Town School, A Pacesetter
Georgia Schools Sets Pace Nationally for HSTW
A small-town high school has become one of Georgia’s highest-performing schools, with graduation rates comparable to those in North Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs.
Unlike schools in many upscale suburbs, Camden County High School in Kingsland, about 35 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida, draws 45 percent of its 2,500 students from low-income families. The school is among many across the country that have used SREB’s High Schools That Work school improvement framework — newly updated, but first introduced more than 30 years ago.
SREB States Lead the Nation in High School Graduation Rates
Graduation rates are up again in states across the nation – and SREB states lead the pack once again in data released this week by the United States Department of Education.
Graduation rates climbed in 11 of the 16 SREB states between the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years. Ten SREB states tied or exceeded the national rate. Three of the SREB states were on the list of top 10 states: Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas.
