Ideas For School Improvement

Here is a Method Guaranteed to Enagage Students and Inspire Teachers

A new found interest in the idea of a flipped classroom has made a number of folks including the readers at DRPFConsults.com to finally start to think about the method and to ask questions about it. What is a flipped classroom? A flipped classroom is the reverse or opposite of the conventional classroom, where kids receive their lectures in the form of online videos that [...]

5 Critical Hot Topics for Special Education Advancement

Although there are some additional special concerns, the hot topics for special education are much like topics in any educational setting. The teachers, administrators, and parents want the students to work up to their potential and succeed, no matter what their special needs are. Qualified Teachers Always a subject of great concern is the quality of teachers. It takes a really special person to be [...]

2 Rs of Extended School Year Program

The debate over the extended school year program in the US is multifaceted, and the term extended school year itself can be defined in a number of different ways. However, all of the various extended school year (ESY) programs do provide education in excess of a standard 180 day academic year. In terms of the legal arguments for an extended school year program, the issues [...]

How Professional Learning Communities in Education Lower Teacher Attrition Rates

How does the worst performing school in the district – one with high poverty rates, high student transfer rates, and the largest number of ESL learners – transform itself into a school which exceeds district, state, and national averages? How did Westside Elementary School in Springville, Utah improve across the board, even pulling significant increases in language arts and math scores among those students with [...]

Keeping Students Motivated in School

Keeping students motivated in school is an ongoing issue in education. Two-thirds of high school students say they’re bored in class every day. We all have days when we zone out or would rather be anywhere else (yes, even the teachers), but every single day more than half of students are bored? Because the material isn’t interesting, not relevant to them, not challenging, or too [...]

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