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Leadership

How are school leaders responding as COVID rises again in some districts?

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Neither mask mandates nor other precautions are returning to schools that are dealing with increasing new COVID cases in recent weeks.

These 5 challenges are chipping away at the optimism of principals

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Job satisfaction among principals is being hampered by the likelihood of ongoing, unsustainable workloads and too much time spent on administrative tasks.

7 new ways to stem a rash of new school attendance problems

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Transportation challenges, student health, school climate, mobility and poverty—long the leading causes of chronic absenteeism—also became much more severe during the pandemic.

How community schools are being rewarded for boosting vaccine confidence

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Community schools in multiple states will be the focus of renewed efforts to vaccinate more children and staff in underresourced cities and neighborhoods.

Why two educators say elevating student voice is key to building back better

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Student voice surged in importance pre-COVID as educators sought new ways to engage learners. Now, a growing number of districts is making student voice a key strategy in recovering from the pandemic.

Here’s what just replaced COVID as K-12 leaders’ top school safety concern

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Even as cases plunge, the pandemic is still keeping K-12 leaders up at night, but as of last month, it is no longer what they are worried about most.

New nationwide call to action aims to help solve teacher shortages

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The Biden Administration—calling teacher shortages one of education's most "critical challenges"—is urging district leaders, higher education and states to collaborate to move more student-teachers into classrooms to speed K-12's recovery from the pandemic.

6 problems that have made COVID recovery look like a game of ‘Whack-a-Mole’

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Go back in time with us for a moment. At the end of 2020-21, the big instructional challenge facing schools seemed obvious: help students rebound academically as quickly as possible.

More evidence that confidence in K-12 schools is slipping, this time over race

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A growing lack of confidence in K-12 principals—mainly among Republican voters—may only be the tip of the iceberg as yet more evidence of wider dissatisfaction with U.S. schools emerged Wednesday.

ESSER ideas: What would you do with $1 million? a leader asks principals

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More engaging summer school programs and the return of field trips were two key initiatives that emerged as Bibb County Schools decided how to spend the latest round of COVID relief funds.

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