Teach More, Hover Less with Miriam Plotinsky

Lisa R. Parker

Miriam Plotinsky is an instructional specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, and the author of Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom. She joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about what drove her to write the book. In a thought-provoking conversation about the […]

Dominican University: Serving Latine Students in the Midwest

Lisa R. Parker

By: Verónica Gutiérrez, MBA’22, Dominican University, River Forest IL and Marcela Reales Visbal, Activity Director for Title V, Part B – Promoting Post-Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans, Dominican University, River Forest IL “I had never heard of the term HSI until I came to Dominican University”, said Verónica Gutiérrez, a […]

A cyberattack illuminates the shaky state of student privacy

Lisa R. Parker

By Natasha Singer, The New York Situations Corporation The software that lots of university districts use to observe students’ development can document extremely private facts on young children: “Intellectual incapacity.” “Emotional Disturbance.” “Homeless.” “Disruptive.” “Defiance.” “Perpetrator.” “Excessive Speaking.” “Should go to tutoring.” Now these programs are coming less than heightened […]