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Using Restorative Circles to Build Accountability and Empathy
Guest post by Heberto Hinojosa, Jr. In Texas and many other states across the country, school districts are abandoning or limiting the use of traditional exclusionary discipline practices such as...
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Graduation: How Do We Get Students There?
Guest post by Ginni McDonald Graduation is something every student should have the opportunity to experience. Aside from the indisputable benefits of a high school diploma, the preparations for...
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Safe Schools: Are You Ready?
Guest post by Jeff Simon Many are concerned about the growing reports of school safety incidents. According to the Educator’s School Safety Network, U.S. schools experienced 745 bomb threats in the...
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When Tragedy Strikes: Tips for Coping with Student Deaths
Guest post by Paula Callan It’s the crisis response plan we as school administrators pray we never have to implement: The sudden loss of a student. But when tragedy strikes, it’s up to school...
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Keeping Our Eye on the Ball
Guest post by Danny Steele Dear Principal: I suspect you’re tired. It is easy to get discouraged. Some principals may even be disillusioned. As Tim Messick noted, “Job descriptions are written in such...
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Blanket Forts and The Future of Learning
Guest post by Paul Hermes The value of unique knowledge and expertise is declining significantly due to the proliferation of accessible digital technology. This phenomenon has happened in history...
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A Call for Celebration! National School Breakfast Week
Guest post by Alison Maurice, MSW, child nutrition policy analyst, Food Research & Action Center Why celebrate the 2017 National School Breakfast Week? School breakfast not only fights hunger and...
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Less is More: Shifting to a Trimester Schedule
Guest post by Britton Hart We had a problem at Emporia High School—failure rates were going up but the time and money available to address student needs stayed the same. For several years, there had...
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My Day on Capitol Hill
Recently, members of NASSP’s Student Leadership Advisory Committee visited Capitol Hill to meet with their respective members of Congress and participate in education-focused advocacy. The Student...
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Roundabouts—The Direction for Learning
Guest post by Paul Hermes In the early morning hours of a Wednesday in October while on my way to work, I exited off the interstate. As I reached the bottom of the off ramp, I breezed through a...
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Positive School Culture: Make It the Principle
Guest post by Lizzie Sider Lizzie Sider is an 18-year-old singer/songwriter born and raised in Boca Raton, FL. She is also the founder of the bully prevention foundation Nobody Has The Power To Ruin...
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100%: Fantasy or Reality?
Guest post by Margaret Calvert As school leaders, we define success in numerous ways. Higher attendance rates. Improved reading and math proficiency. Increased achievement on assessments. But the...
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STEM: Developing Students’ Skills for Future Success
Guest post by Mary Anne Moran Do you ever stop and wonder what the traditional high school experience is preparing our students for? Are we preparing students for life beyond the high school or college...
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Guest post by Sarah Goodrum Research on violence prevention in schools focuses on building positive climates and sharing information. A positive climate increases students’ willingness to report...
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Instructional Collaborators: Guiding Teachers to Continuous Improvement
Guest post by Melissa D. Hensley Throughout my tenure as a middle and high school principal, the consistent request from teachers has been for ongoing, non-evaluative feedback about their pedagogical...
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21st-Century Learning Conferences: Innovating Authentic Learning
What if you turned off the bells in your school and threw away the traditional schedule for the day? What would you do for an entire day with students? How would students want to spend their time...
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Making the Most of a Principal’s Time, Tasks, and Professional Development
Guest post by Donald Gately I read with great interest the letter from NASSP Executive Director JoAnn Bartoletti in this January’s issue of Principal Leadership. She references a report issued recently...
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Fostering a Supportive School Community for Muslim Student Voices
Guest post by Holly Ripley As school leaders, we are often expected to provide answers and guidance in times of uncertainty and transition. But what happens when we do not know the answers? I learned...
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The Power of a Personalized Culture
There is a great deal of attention and focus in education today surrounding the idea of providing personalized instruction to every student. Providing instruction specific to each individual student...
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Support Learning With the Breakfast After the Bell Toolkit
Guest post by Alison Maurice Nationally, on an average school day in the 2015–16 school year, 12.1 million low-income students participated in school breakfast, an increase of nearly 433,000 children...
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