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Rethinking Focus for School Improvement: Developing Effective Leaders
Are we undervaluing a critical component of school leadership?In today's movement to transform school districts to meet the needs of all child...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Teacher Movement Emerges in AZ and CO
Six days after a statewide teacher strike began, Arizona teachers are set to return to their classrooms Friday.Arizona teachers will return hav...

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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...

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Digital Self-Harm: Examining the Trend of Students Cyberbullying Themselves
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.Fueled by changing hormones, the stress of adolescence, and the emotional effects of bullying, a young teen...

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Instagram Changes: Impact on Let’s Talk! Users
Before Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress in early April, Facebook and its other popular social media platforms, in...
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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...

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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 keep s...