@TeacherToolkit Ross Morrison McGill founded @TeacherToolkit in 2010, and today, he is one of the ‘most followed educators’on social media in the world. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the ‘500 Most Influential People in Britain’ by The Sunday Times as a result of… Read more about @TeacherToolkit Do you want to develop … Read more
The Education for All plan strives to “ensure that students not only gain access to education but also have the necessary support systems and resources to continue their studies successfully”. While the estimated 6.1 million children were out of school in 2014 is down from 13.46m in 2006, there is “still a long way to go”, the company said. … Read more
How can your institution optimize your strategies for enrollment growth? To focus on operating sustainably, we’ve seen multiple announcements of colleges and universities needing to make cuts to stay responsive and relevant. With enrollment rates eroding and costs skyrocketing, everything is being evaluated at these institutions to make them more resilient and better prepared to … Read more
Nationwide, nearly 2,600 health centers operated out of schools in 2017, the most recent year with available data — more than twice the number that existed two decades earlier. Some 6.3 million students in more than 10,000 schools had access to the centers, according to the School-Based Health Alliance. School-based health centers offer free services … Read more
How To Use Google Drive In The Classroom by TeachThought Staff How did they do it? Teachers back then…they created, distributed, and recorded everything on paper. They spent hours entering grades, calculating averages, and handwriting notes to be displayed on the board via now-antiquated overhead projectors. Modern technological innovations have revolutionized the possibilities for teachers … Read more
Jody Clarke is the deputy headteacher of Wood Green Academy, a secondary school in Wednesbury in the West Midlands. He shares advice for schools on optimising the benefits of tutoring by using a combination of school-led tutoring and academic mentors. We started using the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in Spring 2021 to provide tutoring, … Read more
@TeacherToolkit Ross Morrison McGill founded @TeacherToolkit in 2010, and today, he is one of the ‘most followed educators’on social media in the world. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the ‘500 Most Influential People in Britain’ by The Sunday Times as a result of… Read more about @TeacherToolkit How can schools learn good … Read more
The 17 private schools catering to some 3,300 students in the UK will join the parent organisation that educates over 75,000 students at 80+ schools on six continents. At the start of the 2022/23 academic year, Alpha Plus enrolled 3,335 school and nursery students. The latest transaction does not include the acquisition of the three colleges, which … Read more
This blog was co-written with Dan Preston. New research shows how income shapes the way families research colleges. There is continuing interest in the experiences of students from low-income families regarding college access, attendance, completion and success, and financial stability. Studies such as the World Economic Forum’s 2018 report found that it can take upwards … Read more
Schools operated as buildings that provided a sprawling array of services to students who lived in a geographic area. It made sense, but was also a lot to ask. After all, it’s hard for any organization to do many different things, much less do them all well. Advances in technology have made it so that … Read more