To help school leaders comply with federal and state immigration laws and ensure that the undocumented students they serve have access to the same supports and educational opportunities as all students. Although it is difficult to get an accurate picture of the immigrant population in the United States, researchers estimate that 1.09 million undocumented children […]
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Student Profiling
As a result of the tragic shootings of recent years, many schools and communities have turned to student profiling in an effort to identify, at an early stage, those students who are most likely to initiate such violent acts. Profiling attempts to identify students likely to be violent based on traits, characteristics, and/or behavior (e.g., […]
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Activity 5: Sharing Student Information
Activity Guide As an educational leader, you realize how important effective communication is to crafting and maintaining a safe and secure school environment. This activity will give you and your staff an opportunity to read and evaluate a summative research report on a school response after a traumatic event has occurred. Use the findings and […]
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Are Your Students Digitally Literate?
During the buildup to last year’s election, the concepts of “fake news” and media literacy were everywhere. Educators wrestled with ways to teach students how to interpret the mass of information and to develop the critical-thinking skills required to winnow out the truth from the false, misleading, inaccurate, or satirical stories online. How do we […]
Prohibiting Student Protest Challenges the Very Purpose of School
By JoAnn Bartoletti The current controversy over athletes taking a knee during the national anthem has reignited the debate over appropriate student expression. In terms of student rights, there seems little to discuss. Courts have affirmed and reaffirmed that students do not check their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate, and speech cannot be curtailed unless […]
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Discipline: Perhaps the Greatest Gift to Students
Every aspect of the school day is mandated by outcomes. Standardized testing, IEPs, core curriculum standards all are funneled to one goal: marked educational improvement. We talk about educational vision to see beyond the day-to-day scope of operations within the school environment and to foreshadow the ultimate goals for our prospective schools. What about discipline? […]
10 High-Yield Actions to Improve Student Attendance
According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 6.5 million students nationwide—or 13 percent of all students—are chronically absent, defined as being absent 15 or more school days during the school year. This includes: More than 3 million high school students, or 18 percent of all high school students 22 percent of black and […]
Transgender Students
To acknowledge concerns related to marginalization and institutional bias associated with transgender students; state the association’s opposition to legislation and policies that discriminate against transgender students; and to provide recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers and school leaders on how to better support transgender students in the K-12 education system. According to the American […]
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Student Data Privacy
To provide policy recommendations to ensure the protection of student privacy and appropriate use of student data to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. Data-driven decision making has become a tenet of high-performing schools and is essential to transforming teaching and learning in the classroom. The Data Quality Campaign states that “data is one […]
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Title III—Language Instruction for English Learners and Immigrant Students
WHY TITLE III MATTERS Principals and school leaders should know about a competitive discretionary grant program run by the Department of Education called the National Professional Development Project that was originally authorized in No Child Left Behind. This grant program supports professional development activities to improve classroom instruction for English learners and assists educational personnel […]