School districts extend Thanksgiving break and launch wellness days where staff and students can play frisbee, create art outdoors and visit a 'puppy station.'
Seeing students as the end-users and parents as the customers of an education system is a shift school marketing teams are making as competition grows.
Children become aware of race and can experience positive and negative emotions about their ethnic groups even before they start school, a report says.
The school has asked parents to keep their children home for 30 days if their child has received a Covid-19 vaccine dose, and cites false claims about the impact of the vaccines.
Student safety advocates say rising school shootings and gun violence are giving new urgency to Safe Schools Week, an annual national call-to-action that began on Monday.
Teachers and administrators are increasingly concerned that depression and isolation have convinced a significant number of students to "give up" on school, a new report has found.
As districts consider the federal relief funds, financial resources can be allocated to SEL professional development, SEL programs and practices, addressing the digital divide, and increasing access to meaningful relationships for students.
Even though educators have their work cut out for them to reduce chronic rates of absences this fall, this crisis does present an opportunity to make schools stronger and more conducive to learning.
