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The article discusses the challenges school leaders face with time management and suggests strategies for improved efficiency and work-life balance including prioritizing tasks, effective delegation, and focusing on personal health and values to ensure leaders are both productive and balanced. 

The article underscores the necessity of mental health support for educators, drawing on the author’s innovative role at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a social worker assisting both students and staff. 

A school counselor recognized symptoms of compassion fatigue—a state of emotional and physical exhaustion from caring deeply for others—leading to a career change and research into the condition among educators. 

States and districts have a finite amount of money for educators, and often not enough to meet the needs of schools. Given these constraints, can states get creative about compensating teachers? 

The Teacher Salary Project Is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to raising awareness around the impact of underpaying and under-valuing educators. They are committed to ensuring teaching becomes the prestigious, desirable, financially viable, and professionally exciting job it needs to be. Click below to lean more about their feature film, American Teacher.

Usable Knowledge was founded to connect research to practice, making education research and well-vetted strategies accessible to a wide audience: teachers and principals, district leaders, policymakers, university faculty and higher ed professionals, nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, members of the media, and parents. They’re a digital publication based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, produced for educators everywhere.  Their goal is to create rigorously reported, credible, and useful content that responds to the challenges that educators face today. 

“This working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child explains how protective factors in a child’s social environment and body interact to produce resilience, and discusses strategies that promote healthy development in the face of trauma.” 

The article reports significant post-pandemic academic recovery in K-12 students, aided by federal ESSER funding. However, poorer districts still lag, highlighting the need for ongoing efforts and strategic use of remaining funds.

The article underscores the value of arts education in children’s development, emphasizing its role in enhancing communication, emotional intelligence, and academic achievement. Despite budget constraints, arts programs contribute to student engagement, stress reduction, and social-emotional learning, making school more appealing. 

Reading this article by Alison Gopnik in The Wall Street Journal requires a subscription. It describes a study that clearly showed the effects of using language about "doing science" rather than "becoming a scientist."  The phrase “doing science” encouraged more young people, especially girls and minorities, to see themselves as capable of doing science and keeping them interested in the field.

A Gallup and Walton Family Foundation report highlights a gender gap in STEM interest among Gen Z, with girls feeling less confident and supported than boys despite equal opportunities in education. 

"There has been an ongoing effort in recent years by some school districts and organizations to create opportunities for STEM learning both inside and outside of the classroom, with equity and access at the forefront of the conversation."

"A new study finds one key to promoting STEM education, and to making students feel capable of working on STEM subjects outside of the classroom, is to find ways to make classrooms feel more inclusive."