In this blog post teachers at Bedford Academy share how they’ve prioritised teacher wellbeing and improved staff retention. How are you managing staff wellbeing? To manage wellbeing effectively, it can’t be an add on, it needs to be part of your school culture. One of my top tips for supporting staff wellbeing is to look … Read more
Story Circles is a methodology being discussed and adopted by champions of intercultural learning and was a topic being discussed at the recent NAFSA conference. Darla Deardorff, a research fellow at Duke University, is one such global education leader who has been instrumental in the initiative, authoring The Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles. She explained, … Read more
“Choosing to only offer classroom bachelor’s programs will not force students seeking online study to choose between an online program and your classroom program. Rather, they will be driven to another online program elsewhere, possibly of lesser quality than you could offer.” – Emily Wood, EdD, Vice President of Instructional Design, RNL. Dr. Emily Wood … Read more
It’s late September, and your teenage daughter won’t stop moaning about soccer. A natural athlete, she has always been one of the best on the field. But the sport feels different now that she’s in high school; she’s not scoring like she used to and hasn’t connected with the coach. Whether she has plateaued as … Read more
by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Education is a dynamic field, constantly evolving with new insights and innovative approaches but sometimes those practices aren’t rooted in research and evidence. Incorporating evidence-based teaching methods allows educators to provide their students with more effective learning experiences, resulting in improved outcomes. Aside from the challenge of limited … Read more
Janine Ashman, Director of Learning and Unlocking Excellence English Hub Lead at St. Peter’s primary school in Somerset tells us about how using a phonics scheme has improved learners’ reading skills. Reading at the heart of our curriculum At St Peter’s, we believe that developing children as expert and enthusiastic life-long readers is a fundamental … Read more
How can teachers help students apply familiar information to an unfamiliar context? This research provides a thorough examination of cognitive training and its potential for achieving both near and far transfer effects – the transfer and applicaiton of knowledge. Supporting knowledge transfer Published by Sala et al., (2019), this research presents a detailed analysis of … Read more
The move, which the president has said would free up money for education among other advantages, has proved divisive across the country, with labour unions furious at the 50-year subsidy’s cut. People across Nigeria were seen lining up at petrol stations to try and get as much as possible before the prices went up at … Read more
According to a 2021 RNL survey of more than 100 graduate marketing leaders, between 2019 and 2021 the average digital marketing spend doubled. This reality was not surprising. Given the expected and continuing shortfalls in traditional undergraduate enrollment, institutions continue to pivot to the graduate populations to replace the lost revenue from the declines of … Read more
“The moment I landed there, they took me downstairs, took all my clothes off, and threw a bunch of green stuff all over me,” Neconie said. He described his time here as an experience marked by abuse — both emotional and physical — and said that certain teachers would routinely beat students for acting up … Read more