When it was time to return to school in person for her junior year, Kimberly Higareda was resistant. She had gotten used to being at home, multitasking while attending her Zoom classes and having time ...

Our diversifying high school in northern Colorado is navigating community fractures through the implementation of restorative practices, approaches aimed at building relationships and responding to ...

Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A mix of mellow pop hits played in the background, and students at the ...

When assistant principal Heather Hilte arrived at Holabird Academy several years ago, she found the students defensive, reserved and unlikely to greet one another or the teachers in the morning. But ...

It’s a dry, hot day in south Phoenix, but my dimly lit classroom is cool and comfortable. Quick footsteps approach outside the door and two-dozen 8- and 9-year-olds return from recess, sweating and ...

As students return to class, schools everywhere are dealing with the ongoing consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: a growing achievement gap, youth mental health crises, even violence in the hallways ...

There’s a familiar, frustrating tension between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, there are yawning gaps between the views from ...

In the 2021 school year, nearly half of the state’s public and charter school districts over-suspended at least one demographic of students. Black students were disproportionately suspended in most of ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

I am compelled to defend Chris Kolb, the Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education member who relinquished his role as vice president after tweeting profanity at a state legislator. Despite ...

How did my words or actions make you feel? What do you wish I understood? What do you wish had happened instead? What do you need from us? Teachers and students sit in circles, share stories and ask ...

Author, professor and trailblazing activist Bell Hooks once said: "To build community requires vigilant awareness … rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of community." ...