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The Top Issues for District Leaders in 2023 COVID-19 continued to take its toll on districts, on top of students’ urgent academic and mental health needs. Divisive political debates overtook school board meetings and staffing shortages hamstrung some schools’ operations. Districts facing talent shortages and supply chain problems struggled to spend a windfall of federal…

What Makes for Valuable Feedback? Teachers Weigh In Ann Hlabangana-Clay has been an instructional leader, coach, and presenter serving students and adult learners in Delaware and Pennsylvania for 28 years. She is host of the Coaching You Through All Things Education Podcast: As an educator for 28 years, I have had many supervisors, principals, teacher…

Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School This sentiment remains relevant for Black people today, as K-12 schools continue to grapple with how to best (or even at all) integrate Black history into social studies and language arts curricula. Too often, this essential content is relegated to metaphorically “eat in the kitchen” by only being…

Africana Studies Can Save Education—and the World Ismael Jimenez is the director of social studies curriculum for the Philadelphia public school district and an adjunct professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education Urban Teacher Apprentice Program. He has been teaching Philadelphia public schools’ required African American history course for more than a…

The Five Questions for Building Your Black History Program 1. Who will go on this journey with you? As school and district leaders begin to think about building Black history programs, careful consideration will have to go into selecting a planning committee. Leaders need to work collaboratively. Your committee should be composed of diverse people…

10 Concrete Ways Teachers Can Hone Their Craft I would strongly recommend that educators improve their craft by becoming as familiar as they can with the instructional strategies used by ELL teachers, including providing scaffolds like writing frames, graphic organizers, and question and conversation starters; looking at students through the lens of assets and not…

How Much Faith Should Educators Have in High-Dosage Tutoring? When you’ve been around as long as I have, one gets all manner of intriguing questions. While I usually respond to such queries in private, some seem likely to be of broader interest. So, in “Ask Rick,” I occasionally take up reader queries. If you’d like…

What’s the Right Mindset for Teaching English Learners? A Teacher Explains Marlena Young-Jones, an ESL teacher at West Elementary in Russellville, Ala., works with a class of students late last year. The district’s investment in professional development and supports for English learners sends a strong signal about their importance, she says. Tamika Moore for Education…

What Makes for Valuable Feedback? Teachers Weigh In I’m with Ann and Keisha, who discuss the value of student feedback. You can learn about my experiences at My Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers). Ann Hlabangana-Clay has been an instructional leader, coach, and presenter serving students and adult learners in Delaware and Pennsylvania…

What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack? Education Week is the #1 source of high-quality news and insights on K-12 education. Sign up for our EdWeek Update newsletter to get stories like this delivered to your inbox daily. Is “critical race theory” a way of understanding how American racism has shaped…