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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...

Ensuring School Safety: Podcast #2 Emphasizes the Role of Strong Communication
More than two months since Parkland, and the debate over schools safety wages on--with students at the forefront.An important question for...

Post-Parkland: Students taking action on school safety.
If anything sets the Parkland, Fla., school shooting apart from other recent school tragedies, it’s the sustained effort of K-12 students to ...

5 Strategies for Reversing Declining Enrollments
Five Strategies for Increasing Student Enrollment Thirty-eight million dollars.That’s how much state funding Baltimore City Public Schools los...

Yet another walkout, providing another opportunity to involve students in discussions about safety
Students throughout the country are preparing to leave their classrooms Friday morning to participate in yet another national demonstration against...