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What district leaders need from financial reporting

Nadia Poluhina -
A financial report can be technically correct and still fail to give district leaders what they need to make a decision.
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Great is not enough: 3 leadership lessons from NFL agent Nicole Lynn

Julia Rafal-Baer -
The lesson is not that women need one more assignment. It is that great work does not always speak for itself.
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Trust: How to overcome the governance bottleneck

Quintin Shepherd -
When trust is strong, the governing system carries more work; when it weakens, the funnel narrows, the work accumulates and everything behind it begins to slow.
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Career readiness now relies on meeting students where they scroll

Emily Gay -
When students explore possibilities on their own terms, counseling shifts from discussing basic options to building actionable postsecondary plans.
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Buy-in during change starts with predictable school communication

Tori Rush -
When a school introduces a new schedule, policy, program or communication process, leaders often focus on the decision itself, while families tend to experience that decision through the messages surrounding it.
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How to reduce K-12 food waste beyond the cafeteria trash bin

Fengmin Gong -
School districts spend a great deal of time thinking about food waste, but we may be focusing on the wrong part of the problem.
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What back-to-school AI policy is really telling cybersecurity leaders

Tiffany Shogren -
School districts are publishing two kinds of back-to-school documents: a supply list and an AI policy. The second one is getting a lot longer.
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How to make MTSS data serve as a roadmap

Erin Hornbeck -
Leadership sets the tone for whether MTSS becomes a meaningful system of support or a procedural checklist.
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Why school boards now need to think bigger and act boldly on careers

Luisa M. Zagottis-Britton -
Meaningful change requires school boards to listen deeply to their families, educators, and the community.
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How to debate screen time without abandoning edtech

Teddy Hartman -
Blanket restrictions treat all screen time as equivalent, and the research on how students actually use devices in school tells a more complicated story.
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Sometimes the best reply is showing up

Matthew X. Joseph -
Here’s a simple rule all leaders can use: Email for information. Call for clarification. Show up for connection.
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Everyone wants kids to learn civics. No one wants the backlash.

Lisa Chu -
The real test of America's 250th is whether we can build classrooms where students and educators feel empowered to have the hard conversations.
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Beyond fidelity: How to create better conditions for student engagement

Francesca Wasserman -
Student engagement may begin in classrooms, but the conditions that make it possible often begin in district leadership.
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It’s time to give students the coursework–and opportunity–they deserve

Dr. Janice K. Jackson and David Coleman -
The architecture of opportunity belongs to the people who run our schools. All it takes is la willingness to pick up the tools.
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These are the 3 clocks no one warned you about

Kim Wooden -
Attendance improves, instruction strengthens, and information becomes more meaningful when the first weeks of school are sequenced with intention.
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We stopped saying ‘you’re late.’ Here’s what happened with attendance.

Georgia Rhett -
Attendance is a question of belonging: Students come because their friends are there, a teacher knows their name and someone is glad to see them.
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K12’s biggest cybersecurity risk isn’t devices. It’s everything beyond.

Charlie Sander -
Schools that approach cybersecurity, instructional innovation and technology governance as interconnected priorities will always be better positioned to adapt to the future.
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5 best practices for family engagement in new programs

Diana Curtaz -
Family engagement around a new initiative should be considered a critical part of an initial rollout to help ensure success.
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What this horror movie taught me about K12 accountability

Quintin Shepherd -
Every year brings another measurement, another rating, another adjustment to the rules. The goalposts seem to shift just as people begin understanding where they were headed.
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What recent cyberattacks reveal about gaps in education’s defenses

Gary Barlet -
With the right containment strategy, a single breach does not have to become a systemwide crisis.
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Will AI create a new, steeper summer slide?

Janet Kang -
This new summer slide may mean not only that students forget what they’ve learned in terms of content, but also how to learn.
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Place-based learning: How to help students see themselves in history

Sheria McRae -
When students realize that history didn’t just happen somewhere else, they gain the confidence to make it their own and to rethink how they can impact the next 250 years of our nation’s existence.
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How to elevate college and career readiness in 3 steps

Megan Jensen -
Readiness requires deliberate decisions about what students are expected to learn, how they are supported, and how progress is measured.
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3 ways districts can benefit from the Education Freedom Tax Credit

Cecilia Retelle Zywicki -
This program has the potential to provide educational support for nine out of 10 American students regardless of whether they attend a public, private, or charter school.
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Kindness in K12 leadership: Why it gets better results

Daniel Ludvigson -
Taking the time to listen and then act requires resilience and patience. It isn’t a path of quick results and immediate change.
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Let’s treat AI like a district strategy, not a tech purchase

Dr. Danielle Bosanec -
District leaders should pay attention to both AI adoption and how educators are able to use the time it returns to them.
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Small IT teams: How to scale support without adding staff

Carl Hooker, Dana Castine and Braden Herring -
IT work isn’t really about devices or software or networks. It’s about protecting instructional time. It’s about ensuring access. It’s about creating environments where students and teachers can rely on the systems around them.
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Texans Try new tactic to remove Ten Commandments from schools

The New York Times -
A lawsuit filed by three parents argues that the displays violate a state religious freedom law and asks for them to be removed before school starts in August.
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Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it out

NPR -
To these teens, the stakes for getting ahead of AI are clear. They pointed out how adult leaders were slow to protect students from the risks of other tech developments.
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K12 professional learning: How to keep pace with priorities

Rob Buelow -
The question isn't whether professional learning should become more personalized. It's how districts can make that customization sustainable.
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How to prevent data loss as new AI models advance

Justin A. Lascsak -
Data loss prevention is a multi-pronged effort that involves both technology departments in general and each of us as end-users of computing devices.
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This is the AI driver’s ed our schools need now

Jean-Claude Brizard and Lorin Thomas-Tavel -
Students will need to know how to use AI productively if they hope to succeed in the job market, but new bans and regressive policies may prevent schools from teaching and modeling principles of responsible use.
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What 20 million print jobs taught us about student access

Mat Buttrey -
Across districts processing tens of millions of annual print jobs, I've learned that print hasn't disappeared—it has simply become less visible.
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What district leaders want from summer learning programs

Tom Hamilton -
Summer learning is a valuable time to help students explore interests, build confidence, and connect learning to future opportunities.
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This is why smart leaders continue to suffer

Quintin Shepherd -
The desire to prove ourselves can cause us to answer a question before we fully understand its depth, history, or complexity.
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