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Special Education Q&A Why Inclusive Classrooms Benefit Every Student, Not Just Those With Disabilities
Inclusive practices improve outcomes for all students and require deep system change.
Evie Blad
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English Learners Q&A Mentors Can Prevent English Learners From Dropping Out. Here’s How
A mentorship program helps this rural district graduate more English learners and Hispanic students.
Lauraine Langreo
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4 min read
College & Workforce Readiness Leader To Learn From A Superintendent’s Vision Turned an Oil Site Into a Career Launchpad
A Houston-area superintendent turned a bankrupt industrial site into a CTE powerhouse and revenue source for her district.
Arianna Prothero
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Teaching Profession San Francisco Teachers Strike Over Wages and Health Benefits
About 6,000 teachers in San Francisco went on strike, the city's first such walkout in nearly 50 years.
The Associated Press
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English teacher Tadd Scott plays the drum as teachers and SFUSD staff join a city-wide protest to demand a fair contract while at Mission High School , Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, in San Francisco.
English teacher Tadd Scott plays the drum as teachers and SFUSD staff join a city-wide protest to demand a fair contract while at Mission High School in San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2026.
Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP
Teaching Profession K-12 Budgets Are Tightening. Teacher-Leadership Roles Are at Risk
The positions expanded with pandemic-aid funding. With money tighter, how can districts keep them?
Sarah D. Sparks
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Teachers utilize a team teaching model, known as the Next Education Workforce Model, at Stevenson Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz., on Jan 30, 2025.
Teachers utilize a team-teaching model that spreads out teacher expertise and facilitates collaboration at Stevenson Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz., on Jan 30, 2025. Some of those models depend on having coaches and interventionists—positions that risk getting cut during lean budget times.
Adriana Zehbrauskas for Education Week
Teaching Opinion How Can Educators Teach in These Turbulent Times?
To quell the anxiety of the chaos, make your teaching more human, not more heroic.
Larry Ferlazzo
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Conceptual illustration of classroom conversations and fragmented education elements coming together to form a cohesive picture of a book of classroom knowledge.
Sonia Pulido for Education Week
Special Education Leader To Learn From How Nashville Dismantled Segregated Classrooms for Students With Disabilities
Nashville overhauled special education to prioritize inclusion, and changed school culture.
Evie Blad
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8 min read
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - JANUARY 14: Debra McAdams, Executive Director, Department of Exceptional Education at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools visits Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School Of The Arts in Nashville.
Debra McAdams, executive director of the department of exceptional education at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, visits Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School of the Arts in Nashville, Tenn., on Jan. 14, 2026.
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  • Tomball ISD Superintendent Dr. Martha Salazar-Zamora poses for a portrait in a warehouse where aviation students can work on planes at the CTE center on January 13, 2026, in Tomball, Texas.
    Martha Salazar-Zamora, the superintendent of Texas' Tomball Independent School District, purchased an abandoned industrial site that now houses her district's expansive career-and-technical education program.
    Danielle Villasana for Education Week
    College & Workforce Readiness Q&A One Superintendent on How CTE Prepares Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs
    A Texas superintendent shares how her district has tackled common problems in growing career and technical education programs.
    Arianna Prothero, February 9, 2026
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    Elizabeth Stringer-Nunley, English Learner lead for Galax City Public Schools, works a jigsaw puzzle with students at Galax High School on Monday Jan. 12, 2026.
    Elizabeth Stringer-Nunley, English-learner lead for Galax City Public Schools, works a jigsaw puzzle with students at Galax High School on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026.
    Kate Medley for Education Week
    English Learners Leader To Learn From How One Rural District Used College Students to Keep English Learners in School
    This leader's mentorship program with a local university has helped rural English learners at risk of dropping out.
    Lauraine Langreo, February 9, 2026
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    MINNEAPOLIS, MN, January 22, 2026: Ninth grade teacher Tracy Byrd helps a student with her final essay on the last day of the semester at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, MN.
    Ninth grade teacher Tracy Byrd helps a student with her final essay on the last day of the semester at Washburn High School in Minneapolis on Jan. 22, 2026. Bryd, the 2025 Minnesota Teacher of the Year, has leaned on his network of state teachers of the year for support amid the challenges of increased immigration enforcement in the state.
    Caroline Yang for Education Week
    Teaching Profession How Teachers Across the Country Support Each Other in Times of Crisis
    One Minnesota teacher received a touching display of support from a colleague 1,200 miles away.
    Elizabeth Heubeck, February 6, 2026
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    Copies of the Bible are displayed Aug. 12, 2024, at the Bixby High School library in Bixby, Okla. Proposed social studies standards under former Oklahoma state Superintendent Ryan Walters included Bible stories and called for students to identify "discrepancies" in the 2020 presidential election won by former President Joe Biden.
    AP Photo/Joey Johnson
    Social Studies Bible Tales, Election Denial Aren't in Okla.'s Proposed Social Studies Standards
    The proposed new standards do not include several concepts championed by former state Superintendent Ryan Walters.
    Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, Tulsa World, February 5, 2026
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    Wallenberg after receiving a Shakespearean educator award.
    Wallenberg after receiving a Shakespearean educator award.
    Brandon Mitchell
    Teaching Profession How the Nation's Top Teachers Prevent Burnout
    Finalists for Teacher of the Year give tips on keeping your sanity and enthusiasm in the classroom.
    Sarah D. Sparks, February 4, 2026
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    The United States Capitol building as a bookcase filled with red, white, and blue policy books in a Washington DC landscape.
    Luca D'Urbino for Education Week
    Teaching Opinion Schools Still Miss Instructional Basics. How to Change That
    Veteran educator and author Mike Schmoker calls out what he sees as classroom "malpractice."
    Rick Hess, February 3, 2026
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Student Well-Being & Movement Spotlight Spotlight on The Science of Self-Regulation: The Missing Foundation of Academic Success
This Spotlight focuses on ways to build students’ self-management skills, a foundational predictor of academic success.
Reading & Literacy Quiz Quiz Yourself: Is Your Literacy Plan on Track?
Where does your literacy strategy and goals stand? Is it going well, or does it need a little retooling?
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This Spotlight examines how successful PD is increasingly driven by teacher leadership, collaboration, and intentional district design.
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Answer questions on the science of reading alignment in your district, including classroom materials, achievement data, and regulations.
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