While many people who are receiving various awards have been refusing to meet with President Trump at the Whitehouse due to major disagreements on policy, the National Teacher of the Year, Mandy Manning saw the meeting as an opportunity. Manning teaches at Ferris High School in Spokane, Washington. She is passionate about her students, and she brought that passion with her to the Whitehouse.

First of all, Manning has a manila envelope ready to hand to President Trump. The envelope contained letters from her students and the community. This is significant because Manning teaches at the Ferris High Schools Newcomer Center. The Newcomer Center specifically teaches refugee and immigrant students. Manning teache English and Math to these students. Considering the steps President Trump has taken to eliminate programs allowing refugees and immigrants to enter the United States, the letters had a serious point to make. She wants President Trump to know the difficult circumstances her students came from, and how much they simply want to give back to the United States for the hope they have been given.

In addition to the letters, Manning made sure her wardrobe spoke as well. On her classic black dress, Manning wore badges supporting the Women’s March and the LGBTQ community. During her time at the Whitehouse, Manning also got to meet with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as well as Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta. Manning will have many more opportunities to advocate for her students, and others like them, as she will speak at more than 150 events throughout the year as part of her National Teacher of the Year duties.

In the Prussian model of education – what we see today in the United States, more or less, and virtually every country’s system of education on the face of planet Earth – students, from the time they first enter school until they leave its doors, are grouped together by age, rather than by skill.

While this strategy largely works for keeping everyone stimulated, there will invariably be some students that are incredibly ahead of the pack, able to complete work without having to be taught the mechanisms behind solving such problems, with others so far behind that it doesn’t seem like they can catch up.

This is the most important example of why self-paced education is a necessity for people reaching their full potential, as a relatively large group of people – those of any age, adults or toddlers – are highly unlikely to reach their full potential all at the same time.

As such, many educational institutions have turned to using models of education that allow students to learn on their own times. However, too many of these programs have shortfalls – much like everything else on planet Earth – though they can be remedied by following a few rules, found in a study published by District Administration.

Kids that aren’t motivated can be paired with teachers in one-on-one settings that serve both them and their schools as mentors, and also give them right-then, right-there instruction immediately following them running into any potential problems they don’t understand.

Since traditional schools take kids out of their homes – you know, where they’re fed, and all – for seven, eight, or even more hours per day, they’re required to feed them both breakfast and lunch.

Traditionally, meals at school have been viewed as breaks from class as it’s regularly scheduled, rather than a time to learn. However, one educator broke this mold and found resoundingly great results from it.

Ryan Wheeler, a fifth-grade public school teacher, formed a group at lunch with a few of his male students in the hopes of forming a bond between them, as well as trying to help them have more fun while reading.

Mr. Wheeler would bring up various topics to discuss at the table, particularly through a fun book called “Rules of a Knight,” which helped teach those kids basic social norms and regularities, helping them boost both their academic minds and their social senses and abilities to be polite.

Wheeler went on to write in the journal Edutopia that those boys ended up growing closer to one another, and their confidence in the classroom boosted just as much.

As long as students of any grade level have enough time to break during the day, it’s OK to provide them with work during breakfast or lunch. Most students eat lunch together, whereas breakfasts are usually eaten on kids’ own times, so such strategies that were employed by Ryan Wheeler should typically only be kicked into action when all of a class eats together.

Cigarettes are known to cause irritated throats, yellow or rotten teeth, bad breath, reduced athletic ability, and – of course – cancer of every shape, size, and severity. In an attempt to reduce the number of smokers, somebody, somewhere created a portable, handheld vaporizer intended to both reduce smoking and increase healthiness…

… even though not smoking or vaporizing is most certainly safer than vaporizing whatever it may be.

Whether you’ve smoked a cigarette yourself or not, imagine trying to smoke one in school, or at least be around somebody trying to get away with smoking in school. The smoke disperses everywhere, the stench clings to all nearby fabric, and whoever tries to get away with it almost certainly doesn’t get away.

Vaping, on the other hand, is far easier to get away with. Not only do they not require lighters, don’t have that stand-out cigarette look, but they also don’t have a lingering smell.

Unfortunately, this has led many schoolkids, both seniors, about to graduate, and their not-even-yet-teenage counterparts.

School administrators are hoping to reduce the on-campus consumption of vaporizers by getting rid of USB thumb drives – vapes like the JUUL closely mimic USB drives, believe it or not – and better monitoring students’ behaviors in bathrooms, and even closing bathrooms off entirely except during designated times.

Further, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has actively been pushing the United States federal government to raise the minimum age for buying vaping products, which could reduce their in-school use.

Arguably one of the worst parts of both work and school is – you guessed it – having to wake up early in the morning to get ready, find transport to school or work, engage in either one of such activities, let alone actually arriving at where you’re slated to spend the entity of your day at, then having to do homework, listen to long lectures, read lengthy passages of books, and whatever else that would be loads more enjoyable if either one of these responsiblities started just an hour or two later.

School researchers have found that going to school later in the day, especially for young public school students provides them with countless benefits that otherwise wouldn’t be available unless schools did, in fact, start school later in the day so they can have more time to sleep and get ready – or do whatever it is they want to without being forced to prepare themselves for school at the crack of dawn.

New research released just last week found that both high and middle schoolers should be considered in terms of starting school later. Those researchers that conducted the aforementioned study found that schools that started at 8:00 a.m. as compared to their counterparts that went to school earlier in the morning, specifically 7:23 a.m.

Kids that started later even just by 33 minutes were found much less likely to fall asleep or find themselves are being drowsy during the day, which made students both happier and d