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Mastering Community Engagement: 5 Ways for Schools to Excel
Do me a favor. Pull your strategic plan down off the shelf and flip to the section on community engagement. When you wrote this months ago, everyth...
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Community Engagement: Answering the Two Essential Questions
You spend more time than you'd care to admit thinking about how to engage your community. Listening and responding to parents and teachers is criti...
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School Board Members: Are You Keeping Your Promises?
Every school board member makes promises. Promises to change the way students learn. Promises to be more transparent about how the district spends ...
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Don't look now, but your last school district crisis was totally avoidable
Imagine: You're the head of a large urban school district. The Education Department hands down a new policy directive. You act swiftly and with the...
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When Teachers Miss School, Students Miss Out: Impact Assessment
Remember when you were in high school? On the rare occasion that you had a substitute teacher, what happened in class that day?When I was in hi...
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When Violence Strikes, Schools Can Lead: Crisis Response
Last week, the country once again found itself embroiled in controversy and tragedy.When videos emerged in the aftermath of two separate but eq...
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Time to Focus on Poverty in Schools: An Urgent Call
One in five school-age children live in poverty, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.That means that for every four stude...
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Making the Most of Summer: 5 Ways to Maximize the Break
“Summertime and the living’s easy…”Students aren’t in school during the summer, why would teachers, or administrators be?Are you kidding me...
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What's Lacking in Teacher PD? Insights from Students
Quality professional development. Education leaders liken it to a Holy Grail of sorts—one of those elusive benefits that administrators have sought...