In collaboration with their local government and community partners, schools can take a proactive approach to crime prevention as a part of developing, implementing, and maintaining school emergency operations plans (EOPs) using the "Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (School Guide)" [ED571878]. In…

The rapid transition to online learning in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic was a challenging adjustment for instructors and students alike. Adapting to creative new ways to communicate by using TikTok videos helped bridge that divide between professor and students and provided students with a fun and relaxed way to keep up to date on all course…

Ensuring that students come to school prepared to learn involves comprehensive emergency management planning that supports students in all settings and at all times. This includes protecting students as they participate in online spaces. As Internet communication technology continues to advance, so do opportunities for criminals to entice,…

The Scottish Government has a strong commitment to strengthening children's human rights, with the aim of making Scotland 'the best place to grow up and bring up children'. The Education (Scotland) Act 2016 introduced a raft of measures to boost the rights of children with additional support needs (ASN). The programme for government in Scotland,…

Few teachers would have imagined at the onset of 2020 that the COVID pandemic would disrupt education for two or more years. For many around the world, the pandemic has been an enduring crisis in classrooms, affecting many facets beyond just learning spaces. But the pandemic also united many educators in their efforts to find solutions to the…

The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS) has created a list of resources on the role of K-12 transportation directors in school safety efforts. The list includes the following categories: (1) Preparing for Emergencies on School Buses--(a) Adversarial and Human-Caused Threats; and (b) Technological…

The exclusion of caregivers and other stakeholders from conversations about child care policy design exacerbates inequities in the sector. By design, women, people of color, parents, people without wealth or high incomes, and child care providers are severely underrepresented in positions of power, including the government positions that influence…

Digital technology has been an integral part of transforming educational resources for students in recent decades, however, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has focused education on infusion of digital technologies throughout programs to better meet students' needs. School districts have benefited from the American Rescue Plan Act funding and…

With the onset of COVID-19 and the continuing need to move both teaching and professional encounters online, novel approaches providing effective ways of doing both are gaining increasing attention. There was of course considerable work being done in virtual worlds long before COVID-19 became a factor, but now that it is becoming the norm for…

Parenting while attending college is challenging in the best of times, and the pandemic is making it even more difficult. Yet more than one in five college students, including disproportionately large numbers of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, tried to make it work. Emergency aid in the form of fast, flexible dollars delivered just in…

Emergency preparedness in schools is a process designed to protect students and staff from harm, minimize disruption, ensure the continuity of education for students, and develop and maintain a culture of safety. Utilizing their expertise in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation, school nurses provide valuable insights for the four…

Through a dialogical exchange about disasters, we explore the notion of "knowing" by drawing on our own experience and research about improvisation and disaster management. Locating our work within our positionalities as expatriate Filipino researchers of considerable distance/closeness from each other, we find, albeit serendipitously,…

Albert Einstein once remarked that the world was characterized by a proliferation of means and a confusion of goals. This certainly characterizes the state of global higher education today. The age of technology and the information society are sweeping educators towards a future dependent upon knowing how more than knowing what. Throughout the…

Higher education and its associated traditional institutions hold stock in the way that the United States develops. This is because higher education is deeply rooted in the experiences and decisions of most governmental authorities. What we are currently learning about COVID-19 is the lack of preparedness by both the United States and the system…

To understand the broader societal context for supporting the healthy development and well-being of infants and toddlers, the following excerpt from the "State of Babies Yearbook: 2022 Executive Summary" presents key findings on the status of America's families with young children. As of August 2022, the reconciliation bill proposed in…