Let's Talk!: 69

focus on student voice
Blog 3 minutes | September 27, 2018

Shifting Communication: Focusing on Student Voice in Districts

We hear a lot these days about the importance of student voice. In a rapidly changing school environment, where personalized learning continues to ...

school transportation department
Blog 3 minutes | August 31, 2018

Restoring Faith and Trust: Driving Change in School Transportation

When parents drop their kids off at the bus stop each morning, they want to be assured of two things: 1) Their kids are safe and 2) They get to and...

customer service approach
Blog 3 minutes | August 2, 2018

Schools Aren't Businesses, But Customer Service Matters

In 2002, Jamie Robert Vollmer wrote an Education Week article called A Blueberry Story, detailing his experience delivering a speech to encourage t...

schools need stronger reporting
Blog 3 minutes | July 19, 2018

Preventing Violence: Strengthening Reporting Systems in Schools

When it comes to school shootings, it’s easy to feed into stereotypes. Loner; bullying victim; mentally ill. Such terms are often associated with o...

staff accountability
Blog 3 minutes | July 10, 2018

Let’s Talk!: Simplifying School Customer Service and Accountability

When you work in a K-12 school, you are always accountable, in some way, to the community you serve. This is true in the political sense–comm...

student safety
Blog 3 minutes | June 13, 2018

Crisis Levels: Suicide Rates and K-12 Students

Whenever someone takes his or her own life, it’s a tragedy. But when a well-known celebrity–who seems to have it all–commits suicide, t...

clearer view of school
Blog 3 minutes | May 7, 2018

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. Starting ...

Conceptual illustration for bullying, gossiping; aspersion, defamation, slander, libel, slur, detraction, on female girl and teen
Blog 3 minutes | March 20, 2018

Bullying in Schools: Is the Trend on the Decline?

Nearly 21 percent of middle and high school students reported being bullied in 2015, according to a new national report. Bullying is clearly a prob...

help with school safety
Blog 3 minutes | November 30, 2017

Enhancing School Safety: 4 Ways Let’s Talk! Can Assist

School safety is priority No. 1 for educators and families. No matter what happens outside, the expectation is that students and staff should be ab...

collaborative leadership
Blog 3 minutes | July 17, 2017

Update: Collaborative leadership–6 influences that matter most

Last week, former principal and education thought leader Peter DeWitt announced that he is retiring his regular Education Week blog Finding Common ...