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School & District Management
How Have School Leaders Responded to the Trump Shooting?
When a tragic national incident happens in the middle of the summer, do school officials feel compelled to respond?
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
‘We Cannot Stop a Bullet’: A Principal Demands Better Gun Laws
When guns are easily accessible, not even the Secret Service can prevent every threat. Why would we expect teachers to do better?
Student Well-Being
Opinion
What Does the Dangerous Political Climate Mean for Schools?
Educators and researchers offer advice for navigating political polarization in the classroom.
Student Well-Being
Pause Before You Post: A Social Media Guide for Educators in Tense Political Times
Here are 5 tips for educators and their students to avoid making harmful or false statements online that they later regret.
School & District Management
Where Is K-12 Enrollment Headed? Population Trends, by the Numbers
America's public schools will have fewer students in the coming years, but population changes vary widely by state.
Equity & Diversity
Should Schools Tell Parents When Students Change Pronouns? California Says No
The law bans schools from passing policies that require notifying parents if their child asks to change their gender identification.
School & District Management
How to Have a Hard Conversations With Your Teachers: 3 Tips for Principals
Here are three small steps that can ease the pain of a difficult conversation between a principal and teacher.
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1 / 6We’re trying to undo decades of old ways of thinking.
I want these kids to know: Just because you can’t sit down at a desk, read something, and get straight A’s, doesn’t mean that you don’t have something to offer this world.
I just want [students] to have all the opportunities regardless of where they live or the resources that their parents might provide to them.
It’s really about how we are aligning systems of support and enabling conditions around schools to best set them up for success. That’s really the bottom line.
Even when I was teaching, I really wanted to push the bounds of what school could be. I wanted it to be more like a home than a factory.
Technology nowadays, it’s a dime a dozen. You can throw whatever tech in there you want, but if people don’t care, if they don’t know how to use it, it’s a paperweight.
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Equity & Diversity Which Students Are Most Likely to Be Arrested in School?A student’s race, gender, and disability status all heavily factor into which students are arrested.
School & District Management What Do Superintendents Do in the Summer?In their own words, superintendents describe what keeps them busy while students are on break.
Student Well-Being Q&A Why Educators Need to Better Understand What Drives Kids' Cellphone AddictionsAs more school and day-to-day tasks are completed on smartphones and computers, teens struggle to manage their screen time.
Student Well-Being Q&A When Social Media and Cellphones Are Lifelines to Kids Who Feel DifferentLike it or not, social media is an important venue for teens to find community and hone their identities.
Student Well-Being Q&A ‘It’s OK to Not Be on Your Phone’: An 18-Year-Old on Teaching Cellphone EtiquetteWhether it's asking permission to take a photo of someone or dimming a screen in a movie theater, kids need lessons in cellphone etiquette.
School & District Management Principals' Unions Are on the Rise. What Are Their Demands?Across the country, principals are organizing for better working conditions.
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Spotlight on Secondary Intervention
This Spotlight will help you measure the connection between tutoring, attendance, better test scores, and more.
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School & District Management How Principals Are Outsourcing Their Busywork to AIPrincipals are chipping away at their administrative to-do lists with a little help from AI.
School Climate & Safety Roads Around Schools Are Unsafe, Principals Say. Here's What to Do About ItTraffic conditions aren't fully within school leaders' control. But there are still steps schools can take to help students arrive safely.
Budget & Finance Why Some Districts Rejected Cash to Buy Electric Buses—And Others Want MoreA handful of federal programs have been key to accelerating the adoption of electric school buses.
School Climate & Safety Video Should Teachers Carry Guns? How Two Principals Answer This QuestionOne has two armed school employees. The other thinks arming teachers is a bad idea.
School & District Management Opinion How to Let Your Values Guide You as a School LeaderHas your “why” become fuzzy? Here are four steps to keep principals motivated and moving forward.
School & District Management ‘Be Vocal Without Being Vicious’: Superintendents on Fighting for More FundingTwo superintendents talk about stepping into the political realm to call for more public school funding.
Teacher Aide: Uplift Atlas Middle School (24-25)
Dallas, TX, US
Teacher Aide: Uplift Atlas Middle School (24-25)
Dallas, TX, US