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Renewed Concerns About Teen Suicide: New Season of '13 Reasons Why'
Season two of the popular, but controversial, Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” was released on Friday, just as a real-life tragedy played out in San...
Influencing Teacher Learning: 5 Strategies to Teach the Teacher
The evidence is clear: When teachers learn, they are more successful in helping students learn.Every school leader wants to support teacher lea...
After Santa Fe: School Districts Face Growing Inevitability
In the weeks following the Parkland school shooting, a group of students from Santa Fe High School in Texas joined a national walkout to call for a...
Report: Almost All Teachers Foot the Bill for School Supplies
It’s become a familiar scene over the past few months.Schools close, as teachers in red shirts descend on the state capital holding signs and l...
Money Matters: Effective Communication on School Budget Challenges
You’ve probably heard it said in education that we deal with a parent’s two most treasured assets: their children and their tax dollars. That’s why...
Report: Big-District Superintendents Serve Longer Than Expected
Superintendent tenures, especially at the nation’s largest districts, are notoriously challenging--and notoriously brief.The common understandi...
Teacher Appreciation: Start with the Power of Listening
As historian Henry Adams put it, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”We all have that one teacher whose ...
A Clearer View of School Customer Service: Strategies for Improvement
When you sign-in to your Let’s Talk! account later this week, life may look a little different.Don’t worry. We’re sprucing up the joint.Sta...
On National School Principals' Day, schools celebrate great leadership
The shifting education landscape has changed the nature of work of virtually everyone in America’s K-12 schools--from teachers to district superint...