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Volume 16  |  Issue 15  |  April 08, 2021

Respond & Reimagine: Planning for Reopening

A return to in-person learning must be done alongside classrooms that teach positive creativity, strategic plans that involve all members of the community, support for teachers, and a hard look at what students who have been marginalized by traditional school structures really need.


Features

A Return to In-Person Learning Isn't Enough for Students of Color

Selena A. Carrión

Reopening schools without targeted and sustainable changes is a Band-Aid on a system that has long ignored the needs of marginalized students.

Teaching for Positive Creativity

Robert J. Sternberg and Sareh Karami

To confront the challenges facing the world today, students need to be creative in ways that critically evaluate an idea's constructiveness.

Planning Strategically for a Post-COVID World

Isobel Stevenson

When students, parents, and educators unite behind ideas for what the future might hold, the possibilities are endless.


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Three Pandemic Lessons for Teachers to Carry Forward

Erik Powell

In a recent survey, teachers share the lessons they'll take away from a year of pandemic learning: the importance of flexible, inspired teaching.

Q&A: Key Lessons from the Nation's Top Principal

Sarah McKibben

School leaders should understand their "purpose" and be willing to push back, says Richard Gordon, the 2021 National Principal of the Year.

Getting the Endings Right

Matthew R. Kay

A psychological theory on the power of endings offers lessons for educators, especially this year.

'An Anonymous Teacher Speaks' Captures This Year's Traumatic Reality

Kate Stoltzfus

One educator is collecting anonymous stories about teaching experiences during the pandemic.

Beyond #PoliceFreeSchools: Converting Calls for Change into Lasting Reform

Meg Caven

We must challenge systemwide and centuries-old reliance on surveillance and domination as a means of establishing order in American public schools.

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