There is some good news but more not-so-good news in a pair of wide-ranging reports on how students across the U.S. are faring academically and civically this fall.
The Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union on Vermont's Canadian border took the extra step of letting high school students help craft its portrait of a graduate."
AI training in colleges of education is not keeping pace with the technology, leaving student teachers unequipped to get the most out of artificial intelligence when they arrive in their classrooms.
After former superintendent Matt Wayne's resignation last week, San Francisco USD moved quickly to hire Maria Su, who had been the executive director of the city's Department of Children, Youth and Their Families for the last 15 years.
The "cost of conflict" is weighing heavily on K12 budgets just as districts are losing COVID relief funding, states are tightening spending, and enrollment is falling in some regions.
Guthrie Public Schools had failed on nine straight bond elections before Superintendent Mike Simpson arrived more than a decade ago. Simpson just passed his third straight bond since 2014, with nearly three-quarters of the vote.
The former principal and current executive director of leadership development at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina is considered a trusted advisor to teachers and staff who lean on her to collaborate and motivate them.
The human element outlasts any federal relief program or obsolete hardware, and it's the most important component of any district's safety strategy, says one administrator.
