Education

Words from a high school English teacher in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

Currently, students can learn American Sign Language, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Yup’ik.

Two Anchorage schools combine to provide holiday meals to local families

With limited social opportunities for students, Airport Heights Elementary School is hosting online after-school programs to keep kids engaged during the ongoing pandemic.

ASD offers a school board boot camp to community members interested in running for a school board seat

ASD present their new five year goals and guardrails to the community for discussion

Due to rising COVID-19 cases, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will be moving all schools currently doing in-person learning to at-home learning until Nov. 30.

A pair of Alaska schools are among the 367 schools nationwide to be honored by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.

The Anchorage School Board meeting on Monday evening included both discussions and decisions on several hot-button topics.

The district originally said last week they expected kindergarten students to return to the classroom as soon as Nov. 30.

ASD partnered with Gaggle over the summer to ensure that students are not accessing or exposed to inappropriate content or engaging in any destructive online behavior when using the District network or computers.

The discussion will occur at the Board's Nov. 16 meeting.

MSBSD says teachers will reach out to students with more information.

While members will be able to discuss impacts on the Municipality, the ability to affect the plans lies with the School Board, Superintendent, and the Mayor.

UAAVotes helps students become informed on all candidates and ballot measures before casting their votes

High schoolers got to check out what UAA has to offer without even leaving their homes.

Aliy Zirkle started Husky Homeroom to give Alaska a little consistency and reliability amid online learning frustrations

Schools announced the closures due to COVID-19; contact tracing in process.

A majority of teachers in the Anchorage School district are not too keen on returning to classrooms with COVID-19 cases still on the rise

The school district will bring back students in phases, starting on Nov. 16

The school district says it will need help from community and athletes in following protocols in order to keep sports from shutting down.

Renovations to get Gruening Middle School are underway

The school board may have more than on seat to fill in the very near future.

Emotions were tense at the meeting Tuesday night as man describe the emotional and mental toll of online learning.

The Anchorage School District announces they will postpone their plans on bringing students back to classrooms. A rise in COVID-19 cases will keep students learning online

The University of Alaska system continues to grapple with its next steps as it seeks to close a multi-million dollar budget gap.

ASD to answer community questions on plans to return students to classroom learning starting on October, 19th, 2020

Eagle River Elementary is under construction and is on schedule to return online in 2021 after the November 2018 earthquake delivered a knockout blow

Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz comments during the first community COVID briefing of the fall, that the community must double down on efforts to prevent the spread of COVID if students are going to be allowed to return to school buildings

Structure and consistency have been hallmarks of my classroom culture. My students thrive in an environment where expectations are made clear to them and the criteria for their success are known from the onset.