The pandemic has altered the outlook of this year's high school seniors compared to what their pre-pandemic peers aspired to after graduation. The experience holds keys for K-12 educators as they help future graduates map out their plans.

K-12 leaders have been eager to learn more about the college-career-life readiness indicators that let Coxsackie-Athens Central School District students track their growth.

But as some CIOs and administrators have learned, it's not as simple as buying new instructional technology tools and installing them on your teachers' devices.

Regularly filling in as a substitute has given Terrell ISD Superintendent Georgeanne Warnock some critical perspectives on the big picture and the small details.