"Lack of support" is the challenge that many in the education world are now zeroing in on to prevent large-scale teacher attrition in the coming years.
A Middle Tennessee school district is highlighted in a national study conducted by the Secret Service for preemptive measures taken to stop a student from coming on campus with a gun.
Developing reading comprehension skills in the early grades has been long seen as one of the keys–if not the key–to students' future academic success. What has not been as clear are the best ways to build that capacity.
Treating teachers more like other workforce professionals would go a long way to easing the staffing constraints now challenging district leaders, particularly in STEM subjects and special education.
It's not enough simply to add more leaders of color. School systems also must ensure that administrators of color do not feel like outsiders in our schools–otherwise, we will have only addressed the "diversity" part of DEI.
Members of the class of 2023 are facing a challenge not shared by younger students–they have less time to bounce back academically before they graduate.
Interim exams that support immediate instructional decisions have become a key tool for measuring unfinished learning as districts work to recover from the pandemic.
A report published by the National Center for Learning Disabilities in 2017 revealed that 1 in 5 students are neurodiverse. Simmi Goomer, chief learning and impact officer at Eye to Eye, shared how district leaders can address this fact and meet the needs of these students.
