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‎ The West Virginia Board of Education is exploring ways to improve working conditions for teachers who are emerging from the unprecedented drain of teaching during a pandemic -- and looking ahead at the way forward for their students who will need remediation. The board hopes to address issues like teacher shortages and burnout as classes return this fall and as educators assess the best plan to ensure that everyone in the classroom is supported. Board members last week heard plans from two counties in their monthly meeting on how they hope to assist students in catching up. They also rece...

The Hayden Board of Education on Monday responded to criticism from parents in the district who said they are worried the culture at the school has contributed to the school’s turnover rate among teachers. On April 12, several parents addressed the board in public comment, concerned by the number of resignations among staff in the district and the lack of attention to the issue by the board. “We have our own challenges that we have in general, and then we have exacerbated challenges which are the reality of the COVID situation,” Board President Brian Hoza said in regard to retaining sta...

Susan Cole, pioneering advocate for traumatized children in schools, dies at 72 By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated May 16, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Susan Cole.(Jessica Scranton) Susan Cole was already the state’s leading advocate for children whose learning abilities are hobbled by traumatic experiences when she took her work to a new level. Along with her five students at Harvard Law School’s Education Law Clinic, she began lobbying lawmakers to provide grants to Massachusetts school districts that set up trauma-sensitive environments. Facing difficult odds, they succe...

Virtual Learning Here to Stay at Dougherty County Schools For years, the Dougherty County School System has been staffing classrooms virtually with teachers from other locations through Elevate K-12. Nationwide teacher shortages bode well for the longevity of the program. May 13, 2021 •  shutterstock (TNS) — While there has been a lot of discussion about a shortage in the nursing field, the medical profession is not the only one that is suffering from a lack of qualified employees as the Baby Boom generation retires. Schools also are feeling the pinch...