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This digital-only issue seeks to shed greater light on the problem of educator burnout—and how to address it. Personal reflections welcome.
Deadline: CLOSED
Classroom management remains a central challenge—and opportunity—for educators. This issue will examine specific and big-picture approaches to improving classroom management, including how to build relationships and community, address both positive and problem behaviors, design conducive classroom spaces, and create supportive climates for learning and whole-child development.
As we learn more about what drives and supports students, social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a growing area of interest in K–12 education. But what does SEL look like in real-life schools? How are educators and schools integrating SEL into the curriculum, and what changes does this involve in instructional practice and support? What impact does SEL have, and how are schools measuring it?
This issue will explore the rise of job-embedded, teacher-led professional development—and the challenges and opportunities it presents to schools. We’ll look at how teachers are taking professional learning into their own hands through PLCs, Edcamps, microcredentialing, video study, and social media. What works in creating and supporting such practices in schools?
The arts hold tremendous potential to foster students’ creativity, improve academic performance, and boost social-emotional development. This issue will explore how schools can bring visual arts, music, theater, dance, creative writing, and other arts into the content areas and use the arts to engage marginalized students.
How does a school become a leader in innovation—one that takes advantage of advancements in digital technology in meaningful and fully integrated ways? This issue will explore how school leaders effectively implement new technology that deepens learning and better supports teachers.
Submit a manuscript for this issue.
Deadline: September 3, 2018
School leaders set the tone and direction for what happens in classrooms. How can they develop the skills, knowledge, and workload balance they need to understand teachers’ and students’ needs and effectively guide learning?
Deadline: October 1, 2018
As the nation marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education in 2019, this issue will examine race in America’s schools today. How can schools and educators work to fulfill the promise of Brown to dismantle segregation and inequity in education?
Deadline: November 1, 2018
The teenage years are unique, and today’s teens face new challenges as well as opportunities. This issue will explore how schools can work smarter to keep middle and high school students healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. What do today’s teens need most, in terms of both academic and social supports?
Deadline: December 3, 2018
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