Despite Progress, Women Superintendents Face Steep Path to Gender Parity
Male superintendents outnumber their female counterparts, and women often enter the role in times of crisis.
Tips for Surviving Your First Year as a School Administrator (Opinion)
Here are five ways to adjust to the new role of school leader, from a second-year administrator.
A School Without Bells or Report Cards. Can It Fly? (Opinion)
Students at one private school earn “learning credits” rather than traditional grades. What does that look like?
50 Unique SEL Questions for Middle and High School Kids (Free Slides)
What is one thing that you like about yourself?
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Ensuring Safety and Equity: Defending the Practice of Removing Disruptive Students
Allowing students who disrupt and threaten others to remain in classroom disproportionately affects students who do not disrupt or threaten others. Offenders of such acts are not victims. Removing them should be down on the list of options, but an option, nonetheless. Look at the image accompanying this article. Now, you are a school administrator, …
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Teach Your Students How To Write Like a Scientist With These Sentence-Starter Posters
Science notebooks just got a whole lot easier.
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Why 60,000 Education Workers Walked Off the Job In Los Angeles
Purple for Power? Los Angeles teachers wearing their “Red for Ed” shirts and SIEU 99 members (in purple) at a solidarity rally in downtown Los Angeles on March 15, 2023. (Ted Soqui / SIPA USA via AP Photo) Los Angeles, Calif.—On March 21, the 25,000 custodians, cafeteria workers, campus aides, bus drivers, teaching assistants, special …
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The Movement That Made Brandon Johnson Mayor of Chicago
Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson celebrates with supporters after defeating Paul Vallas after the mayoral runoff election late Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (Paul Beaty / AP Photo) Chicago, Ill.—Anyone who doubts the power of organized labor to reshape the world should look to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and its allies’ electing one of their own …
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103 Fantastic Fall Activities Kids Will Love
Get your cozy on!
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Researchers Used AI to Rezone School Districts. Here’s What They Found
The experiment created more diverse schools, while cutting students’ travel time.