Being bold and speaking out against educational inequity will require courageous conversations

Parents, staff, and children experience intense emotions when young children leave or return to a caregiver’s program. Staff can provide emotional support to ensure that these daily separations and reunions help develop a young child’s skills at making positive transitions.

The author describes her district’s approach to crafting a long-term strategy for dealing with school reopenings and transforming traditional education to apply the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This article highlights important actions for district leaders working to ensure their ESSER investments meet all students' needs, as well as concrete examples of equitable investments.

This brief highlights important actions for district leaders working to ensure their ESSER investments meet all students' needs as well as concrete examples of equitable investments.

This overview lays out a long-term “Build Toward” vision for key strategies district and school leaders are prioritizing to support K-3 literacy this fall, identifies “Do Now” steps, and highlights the resource shifts needed to make them a sustainable reality.

This article reinforces the concept of teaching and learning that is holistic in its approach to addressing students’ physical development, well-being, social and emotional learning, and academic/cognitive development. It provides examples of neuroscience and related research that confirms the importance of this pedagogical approach.

The authors reinforce the power of a school’s mission focusing on helping learners become knowledgeable, responsible, socially skilled, healthy, caring, and contributing citizens. They analyze why school-based prevention and youth development programs frequently fail to achieve these important aims.

Excellent early childhood programs require aligned program structures reinforced by a coherent and effective approach to governance. Effective governance fosters systemic thinking that respects the inherent holistic development and program needs of young children.

This overview lays out a long-term Build Toward vision for key strategies district and school leaders are prioritizing in high schools this fall, identifies Do Now steps, and highlights the resource shifts needed to make them a sustainable reality.q