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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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How Spending Downtime With My Students Has Dramatically Reshaped My Teaching

ED Surge

Since then, I’ve transitioned through multiple roles in education, and even though I have years of experience behind me, I’m still juggling. In my current role as a special education teacher at a junior high school in New Orleans, I teach 24 neurodivergent students in three classes across two grades, and I’m a case manager for 14 students.

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