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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...