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3 ways schools can embrace Pokémon Go
You see it on the news almost daily. Footage of some kid (or some adult) wandering across the street, holding a smartphone, arms open wide, reachin...
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To make the right hire, hire the right way
It’s a fact of public school life: Senior staff turnover happens.
In urban school districts, the average superintendent tenure is 3 years, and tha...
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School leaders: Take a ‘leadership selfie’
Let’s be clear: Education is not a business—at least it shouldn’t be.
Our public schools serve an important purpose—maybe the most important purpo...
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Why students need to be nagged more
“Do your homework.” “Get good grades.” “Think about your future.”
We all remember the chorus of demands our parents and teachers heaped on us grow...
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5 Ways to master the art of community engagement in schools
Do me a favor. Pull your strategic plan down off the shelf and flip to the section on community engagement. When you wrote this months ago, everyth...
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When it comes to community engagement, these are the only two questions that matter
You spend more time than you'd care to admit thinking about how to engage your community. Listening and responding to parents and teachers is criti...
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School board members, are you keeping your promises?
Every school board member makes promises. Promises to change the way students learn. Promises to be more transparent about how the district spends ...
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Don't look now, but your last school district crisis was totally avoidable
Imagine: You're the head of a large urban school district. The Education Department hands down a new policy directive. You act swiftly and with the...
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When teachers miss school, students miss out
Remember when you were in high school? On the rare occasion that you had a substitute teacher, what happened in class that day?
When I was in high...