Empowering everyday leaders
A curriculum that incorporates an expansive understanding of leadership opens doors for all students.
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Leadership takes practice
Giving students actual power, whether in the classroom or on the school board, is scary for a lot of adults.
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Invigorating principal/assistant principal relationships
Intellectual work, communicative collaboration, and shared inspiration can help principals and assistant principals see eye to eye.
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Principal unsure how to respond to teacher giving him the silent treatment
He knows this teacher is unhappy with his decisions, but wishes she'd handle her discontent more professionally.
Education is the way: Tony Thurmond
Interview with California’s state superintendent Tony Thurmond about student leadership, the teacher shortage, and his run for governor.
Policy, not politics
Jonathan Collins outlines the four major education policy questions to ask heading into the 2024 presidential election.
The Israel-Hamas war and U.S. classrooms
When it comes to student actions motivated by religion-based identity or ancestry, school leaders and judges alike face a fundamental question: What speech is protected by the First Amendment — and what’s a discipline-worthy transgression?
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The harm in assessment-backward practices
Many schools have adopted scripted curriculums and intervention programs to meet state requirements and to capitulate to ongoing political pressures to obtain the carrots (reward and growth designations) and avoid the sticks (demerits and sanctions).
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Learning to have difficult conversations as a school leader
Every school leader needs to develop the skill of being able to have hard conversations and manage conflict.
Students Speak Up
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The Grade
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Protest coverage critique, opposing views on ed media, & Peabody noms for 3 ed docs – Best Education Journalism of the Week (4/26/24)
📌 This edition includes some items that go back as far as April 12, since we were off last...