No one is more aware of the drivers behind distractions than students themselves, and empowering them to develop re-engagement strategies creates ownership and encourages them to hold themselves and their peers accountable.
If your teachers are isolating from colleagues or expressing sentiments like "just tell me what you want me to do" and "it doesn't matter," you have a de-professionalization problem.
The Mars Area, Penn Crest and Laurel school districts, as well as two teachers, several board members and parents, filed a lawsuit Monday trying to stop the Shapiro administration from implementing "culturally relevant and sustaining education," also known as CRSE, in every school district in Pennsylvania.
"Leaders in government and beyond must redouble efforts to end, once and for all, the scourge of gun violence in and around our schools," wrote U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
District Administration even went so far as to ask ChatGPT to write a "believable" phishing email targeting a school. Needless to say, the program didn't hesitate.
In other superintendent shifts, a big city school board scoffs at three finalists chosen by its search firm while a state superintendent is urging a district to change course on a new hire.
The dress code at the Charter Day School, a supposedly nonsectarian, publicly funded K-8 charter school in North Carolina, requires that female students wear skirts, jumpers, or "skorts." The school's founder justifies the dress code by explaining that girls are "fragile vessels."
