News: School Climate
Reviewing the Educational Challenges of 2022: The Need for Improvement in the Midst of Academic Gaps, Discipline and SEL Problems, School Shootings, and Continued Disproportionality
Blog summarizes and provides links to Blogs published during 2022. Twenty-two Blogs are organized in four themes: School Improvement and Staff Effectiveness; Social Skills Instruction and Social-Emoti...
Read Full ArticleHow to Create High-Performing, Collaborative Teams of Staff in Schools: No Woman/Man is an Island
Blog focuses on the importance and characteristics of high-performing, collaborative school teams and staff—emphasizing that many school leaders receive little training and coaching in this area. It s...
Read Full ArticleThe Three Keys to Closing Students’ Academic and Social-Emotional Gaps
Blog discusses the predominant academic and social, emotional, and behavioral challenges for students in our schools today, and describes (with links to a recent national radio interview and past Blog...
Read Full ArticleEmotionally Responding to a (Hurricane) Disaster: Short-Term, Long-Term, Adults, and Children
Blog shares personal experiences and professional reflections prompted by Hurricane Ian’s devastation in Fort Myers, Florida. Analysis focuses on student and adult emotional reactions, the response ph...
Read Full ArticleReflecting on My 50th High School Reunion and What I’ve Learned about Life and Life in Education
Through a original poem based on the 1972 hit song “American Pie,” this Blog provides some personal and historical reflections on the occasion of the author’s 50th High School class reunion, and his e...
Read Full ArticleThe Academic and Social-Emotional Impact of Multiple Moves on Students in Poverty
This Blog discusses the research and real academic, social, emotional, and other impacts of the multiple moves often experienced by students who live in poverty. Educators are encouraged to “seek firs...
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