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Students Find Their Voice During Read Across America
It’s Read Across America week.In classrooms across the country, students, teachers, and special guests are celebrating the fun and importance o...
Why Every School District Needs a Customer Service Mindset
The rise of education technology, along with the expansion of school choice and other competing brands of education, are redefining how K-12 admini...
School Funding Reality: Levels Remain Recession-Era Despite Recovery
It’s been ten years since the height--or, better, the depths--of the Great Recession.In an attempt to survive the downward economic spiral of t...
Turning School Climate Surveys into Action: Practical Steps
[caption id="attachment_15791" align="alignright" width="250"] Dr. Jim Angelo, assistant superintendent for instruction, Frederick County Public Sc...
Recruiting Future Teachers: 'Schools within Schools' Approach
America’s schools need more teachers.Recent research from the Department of Education shows that every state in the country is experiencing a K...
Encouraging Student Activism After Parkland: Balancing Safety and Advocacy
In the wake of the shooting tragedy in Parkland, Fla., a familiar question has emerged: Will anything change?The pattern is, by now, tragicall...
Screen Time Warnings: Addressing Child Technology Use in Schools
The time of ”no phones in class” may be coming to an end.Despite lingering concerns among some educators that smartphones and other portable c...
SEL as Culture: Nashville Schools Go Beyond Strategy
Once considered an experimental approach by some, many educators and school leaders are now looking to social-emotional learning as a means to tran...
Study: More Screen Time Linked to Increased Teen Depression
Is social media harming our children?It’s a question researchers, educators, and parents alike have been wrestling with since our cultural obse...