Leadership 360
Leadership experts in the K-12 field Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers wrote about challenges and possibilities for administrators in the 21st century. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Improving Teacher Practice Through The Evaluation Process
When encouragement and support are the partners of observation and evaluation, the process is worth the time it take.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Why a Racially Diverse Faculty Matters
The absence of role models imposes unconscious limitations on the career options children imagine.
Special Education
Opinion
I'm The 'I' in IEP, But I Need My Teachers, Too
Guest blogger Jacob Lewis writes, "If teachers knew what kids like me need from them, more students would benefit from it than they might think."
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Teaching History: A Leadership Lesson From the 4th of July
Curriculum is the developmental ecosystem of learning opportunities, strategically placed by teachers working together.
Education
Opinion
School Leaders Need Coaches, Too
The assumption that educational leaders do not need coaching reduces the capacity of the learning environment.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Cyberbullying, the Future, and FLOTUS
It is not the technology doing harm; it is the human using it. Social media itself is a neutral tool or capacity, its use for good or harm is in the hands of human beings at this point.
School & District Management
Opinion
The Leader Behind Two Students and a Master Schedule Solution
Guest blogger Michelle Hagen, "We have some very talented young adults that walk through our doors everyday. If given the opportunity to develop their potential, our students may likely have the answers to many troublesome questions."
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Searching for the Invisible, Forgotten Students
Keeping students at the center, considering those invisible ones while reflecting on the mission statement that includes 'all' students, one can find motivation to challenge the way things are done, and find new ways to make 'all' students a reality.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Educational Dangers of Shrinking Attention Spans
A tension needs to be held between the shrinking capacity to focus and the need to strengthen an attention 'muscle'.
School & District Management
Opinion
3 Challenges for Educational Leaders: Free Speech, Truth, and Courage
Without courage, truth won't be told, schools won't change, students will continue to achieve based upon expectations that are limiting, gaps will remain, and systems will go along, but the children...what of them?
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Working With Parents to Make 'Outside-the-Box' Learners Successful
Guest blogger Amanda Morin says, "When administrators encourage collaboration and give all teachers access to professional development in meeting the needs of all the learners in their classrooms, everybody is set up for success."
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Adolescent Suicide: An Urgent Call for School and Community Leaders
It has become a coming of age ritual for too many children as they find their way through name-calling and bullying while learning how to navigate the world of emotions.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Sexism in the Senate. Sexism in Schools.
A continuing conversation about beliefs and behaviors regarding how girls and boys, women and men are perceived and treated in the school environment is needed.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Two Views on Welcoming Students and Parents
We offer public schools to every child so they can develop intellect, character and gain self-worth. Let's prepare over the summer so we can begin the next school year by welcoming all students equally and making school their learning home.