37 middle and elementary school leaders made NAESP's 2023 National Distinguished Principals list for driving academic growth during years of disruption, diversifying their staff and improving outreach to non-English speaking families.
"The toll of the book banning movement is getting worse," Suzanne Nossel, Chief Executive Officer of PEN America said in a statement. "...opponents of free expression are pushing harder than ever to exert their power over students as a whole."
Pandemic relief funds have been a game changer for districts desperate for the resources necessary to continue high-quality instruction amid teacher shortages and other issues. But leaders' spending habits will change once these funds run dry, a new survey suggests.
"The volume and pace of these proposals represents a startling uptick in this ideological attack on public education," reads a new report from PEN America.
The role of the traditional K12 principal is now viewed through an entirely new lens, says Scott Gengler, principal at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota. It's up to leaders to protect the narrative that truly reflects the good work happening in their schools.
"We in leadership need to think differently about what our users—educators, support staff, parents—need out of data," said Ryan Gravette, director of information and technology at the Idaho Digital Learning Acadamy in Idaho.
Superintendent Kirt Hartzler makes a bold claim about Union Public Schools that would fill any leader with pride or envy: "We truly are a high-poverty yet high-performing school district."
Assuring the community that the Colchester School District is spending money wisely—and carefully—has been one of Superintendent Amy Minor's top priorities from the day she took office.
3- to 4-year-olds not in school, 4th-grade reading proficiency, 8th-grade math proficiency, and on-time high school graduation rates are all contributing indicators in this state-by-state ranking on education in this new report from The Annie E. Casey Foundation.
When we talk about discipline in a general sense, we’re talking about tools that any individual uses to correct student behavior. Now, there are a lot of different ways in which student behavior can be corrected. In general, school discipline has been characterized in one way, shape, or form as exclusionary discipline.
