N. Hollywood High out-hacks the hackers for a big victory
The professional hackers were no match for North Hollywood High. The valley school won the Cyberpatriot National Championship over the weekend in National Harbor, MD, defending its precious digital real estate against experienced hackers to outlast a field of 621 teams. The championship, sponsored by the Air Force Association (AFA), is a cyber defense competition that test students’ abilities to
California special ed teacher receives a special award
The California Teacher Corps, the statewide organization representing California’s alternative certification programs, today honored Allan Hallis with the 2014 Michael McKibbin Outstanding Educator of the Year Award during its fourth annual conference in Sacramento. “You work really hard in the profession, so it’s nice to have some of that hard work be recognized by colleagues you admire,” Hallis
Long Beach teachers score (near) top marks in starting pay
Via The Orange County Register | By Lauren Williams A Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates for teaching reforms listed Long Beach as the No. 2 district in the nation with the highest salary for beginning teachers. The National Council on Teacher Quality published a list of the districts with the highest paid starting and end-of-career teaching positions on Wednesday. In Long Beach, starting
Teachers have ‘amazing’ response to centralized Grants HQ
Just two week after The Los Angeles Fund for Public Education (LA Fund) launched a new program, Grants HQ, that puts hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money at the fingertips of more than 30,000 LAUSD educators, the response has been “amazing.” Now, teachers who want to enrich the education of their students, anything from obtaining new equipment to offering specialized courses, can search
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Morning Read: CA teachers visit parents and students at home
Teachers make house calls to improve performance Parent-teacher interaction at most schools centers around annual conferences where mom or dad come to the classroom and sit for an hour listening to an educator talk about how their child is performing. More and more, however, districts across the nation are seeing great gains in student achievement by employing a different model of family engagemen
3-29-14 This Week in LA - School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD
LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District):CA Academic Decathlon champ — and a WW I whiz, as wellThe champs, including Melissa Cheng, second from left LA Unified’s El Camino Real Charter won the 35th Annual California Academic Decathlon last week, locking in its 11th state title and a chance to claim a seventh national title at the U.S. Academic De