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Leaving on a jet plane? How to use federal funds for conference travel

Charles Hendrix -
As state and local school districts plan their budgets for the coming school year, administrators may be looking for ways to expand professional development opportunities.

DA surveys: 6 things school leaders say about the top instructional challenges

Matt Zalaznick -
Beyond recovering from the disruptions of the last two years, K-12 leaders are still grappling with a host of teaching challenges they faced prior to the pandemic. 

How school leaders can better predict which principals are going to leave

Matt Zalaznick -
The challenges of COVID may not only lead to increased principal turnover. They may also have soured some educators on the idea of moving up the K-12 ladder.

These 5 challenges are chipping away at the optimism of principals

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

The old model of K-12 professional development is out and ‘anytime, anywhere’ PD is in

Amy Dunkin -
Given staffing shortages, it's hard enough to keep schools open, let alone allow time for teachers to be out of the classroom for trainings. Technology is enabling us to flip this outdated model.

New nationwide call to action aims to help solve teacher shortages

Matt Zalaznick -
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.

How COVID increased the urgency to revamp K-12’s approach to grading

Matt Zalaznick -
Nearly one-third of students in grades three through 12 earned at last one F in their report cards while Santa Fe Public Schools was on remote instruction.

How K-12 leaders can help colleges diversify the principal pipeline

Matt Zalaznick -
Though the majority of students in K-12 schools are now of color, only about a fifth of their principals identify similarly—and just 2% are Black men.

A look at how 3 innovative principals are softening the pandemic’s blows

Matt Zalaznick -
School leaders have never had a greater opportunity to be superheroes than they do now as they steer the recovery from the pandemic and other turbulent events, Principal S. Kambar Khoshaba says.

PD isn’t a waste of time, plus 5 other myths about teacher development

Matt Zalaznick -
Here's why several of the most common criticisms of teacher professional development may not have a shred of evidence to support them. 

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