Restarting schools this year provides superintendents and their teams a historic opportunity to reinvent education by prioritizing equity to close persistent achievement gaps.
Engagement and equity issues need not hinder online learning this school year in the same way they disrupted K-12 education when COVID shut schools down in the spring.
With the SRO model getting a lot of criticism, school district officials may want to consider hiring safety coaches, while maintaining a partnership with law enforcement.
Research will be key this school year as school and district leaders set priorities and decide where to invest resources during the continuing COVID outbreak.
Here's how to provide students, families and staff healing opportunities as they return to school, whether it's back to school in person or through distance learning, including equity-focused SEL to support antiracism practices.
In shifting from hybrid learning to remote instruction, educators must support students who have been most harmed by COVID and racial injustice, a new report urges.
Students will need flexibility as they face a future of work that will operate increasingly as a gig economy and—since the COVID outbreak—a remote economy, says one K-12 expert.
In Chicago, students as young as elementary age learn to organize and build civic leadership skills within the district's 200 student voice committees.
