Bad weather used to be the main reason schools closed until COVID, and until social media—the latter of which is now closing classrooms far more regularly than is the pandemic.
Nearly one-third of students in grades three through 12 earned at last one F in their report cards while Santa Fe Public Schools was on remote instruction.
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Now more than ever, students need to express themselves and be active participants in real-world, project-based learning, which requires educators to think about teaching in new ways. These changes come from the top, but district leaders face their own challenges in finding and implementing new strategies and best practices across the curriculum.
I knew that it was not enough to say, "Hey, we sent the message." Our responsibility is to know that the message is delivered and that it gets looked at.
Preparing students for constructive, committed, informed engagement in our democracy is the most important moral imperative facing school administrators today.
