K12 teacher strikes pose challenges for administrators
Alison DeNisco

Administrators in states with or without collective bargaining agreements must find ways to listen to teacher concerns and involve them in school decision-making. When a strike looms, superintendents should create a strategy for communicating accurate information to students and parents quickly about school closures. Read more>>

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Students are pushing themselves to unhealthy limits
PBS Newshour

Students push themselves daily to unhealthy and unsustainable limits, often to get ahead, seek approval or both. This behavior is having a harmful impact on student stress, depression and anxiety. Teachers can help by giving frequent low-stakes assessments and allowing for full-credit retakes. Read more>>

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"The Girl Who Smiled Beads is a sharp reminder that history does, in fact, repeat itself, and that introspection and advocacy are the best ways to change the world in which we live both personally and globally," says Suzanne Hamilton, a seventh- and eighth-grade language arts teachers at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School. Request a free review copy. Read more>>

Time to fight our epidemic of violence
Houston Chronicle

It’s time to take a hard and serious look at primary prevention of violence. Have challenging conversations with young people about how they are responsible for their actions. Fund more programs that support emotional and social learning. Implement them in our classrooms as educators are doing in some of the country’s largest school districts. Read more>>

Education inequity is holding back American potential
The Hill

As teachers perform the heroic work of educating children, they make dozens of quick judgments about their students. Unfortunately, research shows these snap judgments are often influenced by stereotypes and unconscious biases, which can have a lasting impact on how students see themselves and their ability to learn. Read more>>

To become a nation of equal learners, we must be a nation of readers
The Hechinger Report

Not only does advanced reading still offer the best, most sophisticated access to information, it also offers a crucial way to develop our minds. And the scenario is more dire than even many educators know: As robots replace people in all forms of repetitive work, education’s mandate grows: we must get better at thinking. Read more>>
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