A new approach to discipline is forgoing traditional punishment in favor of interventions that better support a child who has gotten in trouble.

Effective this year, Indiana high schools must offer an ethnic studies elective at least once a year. The course is aimed at providing Hoosier students a chance to broaden their scope of cultural patterns and lifestyles within the United States.

Pency Engmawii, 28, graduated from the Excel Center in May 2017. Now, she’s back as an aide in her old class, and she’s using her own unique experience as a refugee from Myanmar, also known as Burma, to mentor and tutor other students who are new to the English language.

This Indianapolis Public Schools teacher is using music to help students who are new to the United States acclimate to a new environment.

The aim of Educators' Village was to provide affordable housing to teachers, who often make low salaries that prompt them to leave teching, while revitalizing a neighborhood. But despite dozens of people applying to purchase the homes, only one teacher has bought a house in the village.

This Indianapolis teacher talks about how his diagnosis with dyslexia at a young age helped him become the educator he always aspired to be.

Trinity Sanders, 14, is one of 150 Indianapolis students spending six weeks this summer at Horizons, an academic camp program for students from low-income families, whose summer learning loss can be steeper than that of their more affluent peers.

“That’s science. That’s the nature of it,” said Kraig Kitts, a science teacher at Center Grove High School. “Sometimes we don’t know. As teachers, we have a lot of pressures that everything works, every time, 100 percent.”

“It is very bittersweet,” Arlington principal Stan Law said. “You always have to embrace change because it’s a constant, but at the same time, when you pour sweat and tears into building something we built here at Arlington, you hate to see it end so soon. ”

Most students don’t graduate from virtual charter schools. But supporters note that for some students, including the 497 who graduated from Connections on Monday, online schools do work.