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Revisiting School Safety Misconceptions: 7 Clarifications
On Tuesday, school districts on both sides of the country were rocked by violence.At Riverside Unified School District near Los Angeles, the fa...
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Confronting the Scary Truth About Bullying This Halloween
It’s the last day of National Bullying Prevention Month. But that doesn’t mean the struggle to stamp out harassment in your schools ends today....
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Transforming Feedback into Action: Employee Engagement in Fairfax County
As high teacher attrition rates continue to be a chronic problem for school districts across the country, school leaders are searching for ways to ...
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Unity Day: School Districts Target Bullying Prevention
Classrooms across the country were filled with students and staff dressed in orange yesterday. But it had nothing to do with Halloween.As Natio...
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DC Schools Progress: Leaders Share Challenges and Plans
Big city school leaders are placing a premium on equity to ensure all students in their districts have a chance to succeed.A recent discussion ...
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Big City Leaders on Making Equity a Reality
We have a lot of work to do to shrink the achievement gap in schools.That was the consensus among leaders from some of the largest urban school...
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Parental Involvement: Key to Boosting Student Performance
Could the secret to boosting student performance be as easy as sending a text message?Not quite, but new research suggests that better-informin...
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Helping Teachers: Schools Addressing the ‘Cost of Caring’
I have a lot of teacher friends.When I ask them how work is going, I usually get the mixed-bag response of excitement about their students and ...
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Curious About Teacher Departures? Simply Ask.
Why do teachers leave?It’s a fundamental question school districts have struggled with for years.But with the annual teacher attrition rate...