Holly Korbey
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Nashville, TN, United States
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Boys Are Falling Behind. What Can We Do About It?
Boys are underperforming in school, harming their future job prospects and potential for economic mobility. A new book argues it’s the system that needs fixing, not boys. → Read More
The Doctor Is In (Your Classroom)
As student mental health issues reach crisis proportions, schools and teachers are playing a larger role than ever providing support. Is it too big an ask? → Read More
The Doctor Is In (Your Classroom)
As student mental health issues reach crisis proportions, schools and teachers are playing a larger role than ever providing support. Is it too big an ask? → Read More
Music Training Can Be a Literacy Superpower
When kids study music—intensively and over long periods of time—they become better readers. Here’s what’s at play. → Read More
How Music Primes the Brain for Learning
To reap the benefits of music on learning, kids need consistent and abundant musical practice, according to the latest cognitive research. → Read More
Teaching civics’ soft skills: How do civics education and social-emotional learning overlap?
Educators and researchers hope that integrating some of the soft skills that are part of social and emotional learning practices can help civics education bridge some of the deep political rifts in this country. → Read More
How arts practices can be the foundation of teaching and learning
Applying the creative and iterative processes of art can be applied to more academic subjects to make learning feel more relevant to students. → Read More
How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic
Libraries have taken creative measures – such as hosting more conversations and camps online – in order to meet kids' needs during the pandemic. → Read More
Technology Tools That Can Help Dyslexic Students
Most dyslexic students don’t have a problem understanding information— so allowing them to record a class instead of painstakingly take notes, or to speak an essay into a tablet instead of writing it down can change the game completely. → Read More
How to Recognize Dyslexia in Children, Including English Language Learners
Because dyslexia’s symptoms and manifestations can change over time, families, teachers, and schools understandably struggle to identify dyslexia in children. Here are some tips for recognizing those signs in English speakers and multilingual students. → Read More
How Dyslexia is a Different Brain, Not a Disease
Students, parents, and teachers must understand that the dyslexic’s brain isn’t “broken” or deficient, just organized in a different way. And there is specialized reading instruction specifically for the different brain structure. → Read More
Want to save democracy? Start with your Little League.
Consider the smaller ways parents can play a key role in helping kids understand something crucial at this jittery time for democracy: their role as citizens. → Read More
Want better political discourse? Teach civics for the 21st century.
A growing number of Americans are losing faith in democratic government. We need to reinvent civics teaching before it is too late. → Read More
Kids don't have to love reading to read great books
A couple of days ago, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed and saw a plea from filmmaker Scott Derrickson about reading in school. He wrote: Dear middle school and high school lit teachers, your job isn’t actually to teach kids literature, but to help them fall in love with reading. Giving them classic, high art non-page turners only inoculates them against wanting to read in the future. I’d… → Read More
Digital Text is Changing How Kids Read—Just Not in the Way That You Think
Technology is increasing the number of words kids see, but the way they interact with digital text may create challenges to reading deeply. → Read More
Schools Respond to the Rise of Student Vaping
Easy to conceal in hoodies and hands, vaping takes a foothold among youth. Schools look for solutions. → Read More
A History in Which We Can All See Ourselves
Educators are finding ways to tell a richer history of America—responding to the demands of an increasingly diverse student body. → Read More
The Power of Being Seen
How well do you know your students? In a Nevada school, a simple strategy pushes teachers to look beyond the lessons. → Read More
Will Virtual Reality Drive Deeper Learning?
As an ever-growing array of virtual reality tools hits schools, educators wonder if the technology lives up to its hype. → Read More
Want to Improve a District? Let Teachers Collaborate
A Connecticut superintendent put teachers and students at the forefront of all decisions and transformed a district. → Read More