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By Emily Sturchio, Professional Learning Associate at NASSP In working with a number of assistant principals both as a high school teacher and as an associate for the NASSP professional learning team, I can tell you that APs are often the unsung heroes of a school. It is our nation’s...

By Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director, Learning Forward Every week, it seems, there are enticing new technology tools developed for educators, schools, and school systems. What is it that leads teachers to use such resources? Learning Forward recently concluded a study to understand the factors that drive teachers to embrace --...

As America struggles to recover from the recent school shootings in Parkland, Florida, where 17 lives were tragically and unexpectedly cut short, we find ourselves embroiled in the same responses that surface after all mass shootings. Vigils, memorials, and protests abound across our nation to try to make sense of...

School leaders are placing a high priority on cyber security and broadband/network capacity, according to the new 2018 K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report, released last week at the CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) annual conference. Also, continuing the trend of previous years, budget constraints remain a top challenge for...

By Nathan Monell, Executive Director, National PTA GRIEF. My heart is heavy with GRIEF and anger over the all-too-common school shootings that cause families to experience unbearable loss and tear our communities apart. The recent shooting in our own PTSA school in Parkland, Fla. brought it close to home once...

Today marks the beginning of Public Schools Week, which celebrates the great things happening in our nation’s public schools. Across the country, public elementary, middle and high school students are building robots and 3D-generated artificial limbs; creating original works of art; collaborating with local government officials to solve community problems...

By Greg Waples, Senior Manager of State Engagement and Outreach at NASSP Just over three weeks ago, we watched in horror as one of the worst school shootings in American history unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—17 students and educators were killed and another 14 were...

How does a person, family, community, and a nation respond to the violence that struck a high school in Florida? Just over two weeks after the tragedy occurred, it looks like we all go through a sense of shock that numbs us all to the core. Almost all in our...

After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, surviving students quickly organized and called for better school safety measures and more gun control, and political debates began. Learning First Alliance members have spent recent days offering sympathies and help for educators and students who were...

By Julie Stern This post was originally published on the Share My Lesson website. Has anyone else been having trouble sleeping since the school shooting in Florida? Every single life lost before its time is a tragedy. For many of us, this one feels… different. Perhaps it’s the fact that...