Lessons In Leadership: How a first-year principal navigated pandemic disruption
Like many of his peers, David Brown’s first year as a principal was far from ordinary. Where the school leader at Hillcrest Heights Elementary — a pre-K to 5 school serving just over 400 students in Prince George’s County, Maryland — initially set out to...
How colleges are helping Latinx students cope with the pandemic
Jose Salazar doesn’t like to ask for help. An introvert, he finds just talking to people to be draining. But when Salazar lost his job waiting tables in mid-March for, as he tells it, not being “bubbly enough,” and his landlord told him he had to...
How the pandemic is shifting school comms strategies for English learners
Delayed openings in many districts mean students and their families may have only a few days or weeks of the new school year in the books. Already, parent, teacher and administrator frustration is understandably widespread due to the unpredictability of the pandemic...