How to Create a Learning Culture for Your School’s Teachers

While creating a learning environment is essential for students, it’s also necessary for teachers. It is often an arduous task, with teachers being so busy and having small budgets. Over the past year, they’ve had to adapt and learn on their feet as they switched to online learning. So how do schools create time and space for teacher learning?

Discover Ways to Achieve Hands-On Learning in Distance-Learning Environments

Micah Copeland, Elementary Principal at North Carolina Cyber Academy (NCCA), knows that the biggest success of virtual education is the genuine relationships between teachers and students.

How to Boost Teacher Morale During COVID-19

Teaching is a challenging enough profession without an unprecedented pandemic making things more difficult for faculty, staff and students alike. How do you boost teacher morale during COVID-19 — a pandemic that’s gone on longer than anyone expected? To answer that question, host Shelby Skrhak sat down with Dr. Andra Penny for this episode of the Education Technology Podcast, brought to you by Istation.

The Keys to Successful Blended Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Combining classroom and online learning has become critical in this new era of education. Are educators at your school or district maximizing this collaboration between teacher and technology?

Discover Effective, Equitable Solutions for English Learners

In a normal school year, teaching English learners (ELs) comes with its own set of unique challenges. Now with students learning at home, in school, or a combination of both, EL educators must stay focused on student growth yet remain flexible enough to meet evolving needs.

Learn How to Differentiate Learning Opportunities at School and Home

How to Perform Instructional Interventions While Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic

When we return to school in the fall, educators might be leading school-wide interventions instead of individual instructional interventions used in the past. We know we will need to gauge where each student is and what they need to catch up. Many students may not have gotten the hands-on learning they needed to master objectives taught in the final quarter of the school year.

3 Essentials for a Successful Re-Entry Plan

Educational leaders crafting back-to-school plans during COVID-19 face murky waters ahead. While there’s never a one-size-fits-all approach due to the diverse needs of any school or district, challenges created by the coronavirus require leaders to be extra flexible this year. 

Help Teachers Build Students’ SEL Skills with Blended Learning

Strong social-emotional learning (SEL) skills help students manage stress, make responsible decisions, maintain healthy self-esteem, and much more. With unexpected school closures, students face a fresh set of SEL challenges as they shift to distance learning.

Research Is Critical When it Comes to Reading Education

Based on sound evidence and comprehensive research, Istation is powered by the science of reading and covers the National Reading Panel’s “Big Five” foundational essentials: phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.