Multimedia

Photos and videos from classrooms and school communities tell powerful stories of students' challenges and triumphs and the educators who help put them on a path to success.
School & District Management Video Meet the 2026 Superintendent of the Year
A Texas schools chief says his leadership is inspired by his own difficulties in school.
Student Well-Being & Movement Video How This District Is Shrinking Students’ Screen Time—After the School Day Ends
Engagement navigators in this district help students take advantage of the many available extracurriculars.
Artificial Intelligence Video Is the ‘AI Glow’ Starting to Wear Off? What to Expect in 2026
Artificial intelligence is now integrated into a wide variety of products and services that K-12 schools use, making it almost inescapable.
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Artificial Intelligence Video Reading Is Hard to Teach. Can AI Help?
Artificial intelligence might be able to drive cars, treat diseases, and train your front door to recognize your face. But can it help kids learn how to read?
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School Choice & Charters Video Private School Choice Is Growing. What Comes Next?
States are investing billions of dollars in public funds for families to use on private schooling.
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Reading & Literacy Video Why One School Is Leading the Return to Cursive
Georgia has joined 20-plus states returning cursive handwriting to elementary school classrooms.
Artificial Intelligence Video Is AI Good or Bad for Schools?
A growing number of educators are experimenting with generative AI. The challenge now is to share those lessons learned and best practices.
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Interactive Projects

School Climate & Safety Interactive School Shootings in 2021: How Many and Where
Education Week tracked K-12 school shootings in 2021 with injuries or deaths. See the number of incidents and where they occurred.
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Sign indicating school zone.
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School & District Management Interactive In-Person or Remote Learning: How the Biggest City School Districts Are Operating
Track how 75 of the largest school districts were providing learning to students in 2021 in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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States Interactive Where Teachers Are Eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine
Education Week tracked plans for vaccinating K-12 educators across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
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States Interactive DATA: 2020-21 State Dashboards on COVID-19 in Schools and Instructional Models
State data on COVID-19 cases in schools and information on the types of instructional models in use during the 2020-21 school year.
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Image shows the coronavirus along with data charts and numbers.
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Video Projects

School & District Management Video District Dilemmas – Solutions for Common District Leader Challenges
District leaders around the country share how they address some of the common challenges they experience.
Naomi Tolentino leads a meeting on student attendance at J.C. Harmon High School on Jan. 16, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas.
Naomi Tolentino leads a meeting on student attendance at J.C. Harmon High School on Jan. 16, 2025 in Kansas City, Kan.
Erin Woodiel for Education Week
Student Well-Being & Movement Series Get Active: Creative Ways to Integrate Movement and Learning
In this solutions-focused visual series, educators share their ideas for incorporating movement across grade levels and subject matter.
Beatrice Hesseltine, center, and her classmates in Alyssa Saunders’ kindergarten class take a movement break during class at Vergennes Union Elementary School in Vergennes, Vt., on Nov. 19, 2024.
Beatrice Hesseltine, center, and her classmates in Alyssa Saunders’ kindergarten class take a movement break during class at Vergennes Union Elementary School in Vergennes, Vt., on Nov. 19, 2024.
Jaclyn Borowski/Education Week
Teaching Video Teachers, Try This – A Video Series on Innovative Ideas for Educators
A place where teachers can find ideas and inspiration from fellow educators.
Dean Jermaine Weems (right) tells a story about fostering kittens to teachers and faculty during a Welcome Back training at CICS Bucktown on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022 in Chicago, Ill.
Dean Jermaine Weems (right) tells a story during a Welcome Back training at CICS Bucktown on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022 in Chicago, Ill.
Taylor Glascock for Education Week
Teaching Profession Video ‘It’s Not All Rainbows and Butterflies’: SEL in the Early Grades
A veteran teacher reflects on how the classroom (and the kids) have changed, and on what's needed to fix education.
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Photo Essays

  • Kimora Gantt, right, does homework while her brother Jason Gantt, 5, gets his hair cut by his father, Bobby Gantt. After struggling with homelessness, the family has found stability in a home they rent through a local housing authority in Tacoma, Wash.
    Kimora Gantt, right, does homework while her brother Jason Gantt, 5, gets his hair cut by his father, Bobby Gantt. After struggling with homelessness, the family has found stability in a home they rent through a local housing authority in Tacoma, Wash.
    Equity & Diversity Photo Essay A Home for Learning
    Education Week Photo Staff, December 10, 2014
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    Educator and K-12 memorabilia collector Richard Lodish is surrounded by some of the items at his home in Bethesda, Md. An old wooden school bell, at left, dates from the early 19th century; a D’nealian cursive handwriting chart is at center, and an oversize abacus at right. –Charles Borst/Education Week
    Educator and K-12 memorabilia collector Richard Lodish is surrounded by some of the items at his home in Bethesda, Md. An old wooden school bell, at left, dates from the early 19th century; a D’nealian cursive handwriting chart is at center, and an oversize abacus at right. –Charles Borst/Education Week
    Charles Borst/Education Week
    Education Photos A Collective Experience in K-12
    Education Week Staff, November 21, 2014
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    Village Leadership Academy student Eden Magana, at right, is introduced to a young girl near the Jimenoa Waterfall near La Joya, Jarabacoa.
    Village Leadership Academy student Eden Magana, at right, is introduced to a young girl near the Jimenoa Waterfall near La Joya, Jarabacoa.
    Alyssa Schukar for Education Week
    Federal Photo Essay Chicago Students Journey Through the Dominican Republic
    Education Week Photo Staff, July 25, 2014
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    U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility for unaccompanied children in Brownsville, Texas, earlier this month. The facility is one of many along the southern border of the United States tasked with processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1.
    U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility for unaccompanied children in Brownsville, Texas, earlier this month. The facility is one of many along the southern border of the United States tasked with processing the more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1.
    Eric Gay/AP
    Equity & Diversity Photo Essay Documenting the Immigrant-Children Influx
    Education Week Photo Staff, June 27, 2014
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    Friends Lauren Powell, left, and Ryleigh Fulcher fix their hats and hair in a mirror as they wait to file into the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind. for Henderson County High School’s 2014 Commencement.
    Friends Lauren Powell, left, and Ryleigh Fulcher fix their hats and hair in a mirror as they wait to file into the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind. for Henderson County High School’s 2014 Commencement.
    Darrin Phegley/The Gleaner via AP
    College & Workforce Readiness Photos Classes of 2014
    Education Week Photo Staff, June 18, 2014
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Our Visuals Team

Sandra M. Stevenson
Managing Editor, Visual and Immersive Experiences
Laura Baker
Deputy Managing Editor, Creative
Jaclyn Borowski
Director of Photography & Videography
Gina Tomko
Art Director
Kaylee Domzalski
Video Producer
Francis Sheehan
Contributing Designer
Vanessa Solis
Associate Design Director
Liz Yap
Designer