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In the business world, there’s a leadership concept about the modern decisionmaking environment called VUCA. It’s a funny-sounding acronym that was around long before the pandemic, but it has become especially hot over the past year. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
District and school leaders do not use the acronym regularly and many are unaware of it. But nearly all district and school leaders are immersed in it more than ever, and it is beginning to show up in high level education circles.
Naperville Unit District 203 gets grant from National Superintendents Organization to bolster SEL Programs
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Policy Hackathon: How to get schoolkids back on track
Pretty much every student lost ground this year. POLITICO brought together a roundtable of education leaders from across the country to come up with smart strategies for catching them up.
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What happens when reading, writing and rithmetic all happen in the same room, on the same Zoom, minus breaks for recess or lunch with friends? A year into the coronavirus pandemic, we’re finding out.
Most of the results, sadly, aren’t good.
Already, educators say they are seeing the damage. By last fall, in math, white students were about one to three months behind and students of color were about three to five months behind where they were in previous school years. Everyone is about a month and a half behind in reading. And once testing resumes in earnest, that lag is likely to have grown worse.
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