Since he was five years old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose finds himself in the spotlight and has the chance to use his skills as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals.

In this program we'll learn how to put together an effective school restart plan along with the effective requirements for cleaning and disinfecting classrooms, schools and see a school day safety plan in action. This is a stressful and turbulent time. Many families are experiencing financial and emotional strains. Schools have quite a responsibility to educate minds in a complicated and ever-changing world.  It's a major challenge for schools to...

Filmmaker Denice Ann Evans draws heavily on the voices of students in this powerful and timely exploration of hookup culture on college campuses. Supplementing student testimony with analysis from experts and health professionals, the film's main concern is whether hookup culture is offering young people a new and potentially liberating set of sexual rules, or whether it's simply reinforcing traditional gender roles and blurring the line between consent...

Gerrie and Arthur Mason discover that their daughter, Maxie, is a drug-addict. Guessing their son Artie is responsible, they turn him out. Maxie flees, into the arms of her drug addict partner, but her parents find them and forcibly bring her home. A bad trip now leads the young girl to hospital. Her parents hear with amazement that her dealer is an exemplary student, Sandy, their respectable neighbors' son...

Educators and students at Dixon Elementary Public School keep art real in and outside the classroom. Students led by teacher Joy Parham connect history and today’s news in spoken word poetry inspired by the school’s museum-like art collection. Art happens.

In the year 1963 in Yokohama, an innocent romance blossoms between two high school students, Umi and Shun. As Japan recovers from World War II and prepares to host the 1964 Olympics, the mood contains both optimism and conflict as the younger generation struggles to escape the shackles of the past. While trying to save a dilapidated Meiji-era club house from demolition, the relationship flourishes. But a buried secret from their past emerges to cast...

Each year 3 million high school students in the U.S. take an SAT or ACT college entrance exam. For decades there have been questions about what exactly these tests measure and how predictive they are of academic promise or success.

The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show's Oscar,...

In this video, Max Brand confers individually with two different boys in this fifth grade classroom, one during writer's workshop, the other during reading workshop. Max demonstrates the key elements of successful literacy conferences with boys, plenty of wait time, homing in on specific text, and discussing reading or writing strategies the student is using. About the author: Max became a teacher because he loves to learn and teaching gives him...

Chicago, 1964: it2s the last weeks of high school for aspiring poet Preach and his best friend, Cochise, and they have a full slate of extracurricular activities: swinging dance parties, late-night joyrides, and the stumbling pursuit of romance. Of course, when you2re a young Black man in America, your coming-of-age story is far from complication-free. With Cooley High, director Michael Schultz and screenwriter Eric Monte who drew on his own experiences...