What students want adults to know
Educators Rising students share what they wish adults understood about students’ lives today and how that would change their schools.
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Tag: Spring 2025
The declining appeal of a teaching career
The public answers the question: Would you like to have a child of your take up teaching in the public schools as a career?
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What TikTok can teach educators
Kids are learning on TikTok. Leaders also should be learning from it—not from the content but from how it engages students.
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Browsing: Understanding today’s students
Recent research, discussion questions, quotes, and more articles on understanding today’s students.
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Matched, manageable, and moving
Early literacy programs must match students’ needs, be feasible for teachers to manage, and move students forward.
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Our students are asking for help
Editor-in-Chief Kathleen Vail shares highlights from the spring 2025 issue of Kappan on Understanding Today’s Students.
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PDK Prestige Membership honors the best of the best educators
PDK’s newest membership offers free resources to educators who’ve received “of the year” awards.
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The power of partnership for principal development
A Massachusetts school district and nonprofit came together to create a learning community for principals.
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Today’s students want, deserve, and need to become bilingual and biliterate
A future teacher’s experiences and insights highlight the critical role of bilingual education in shaping both individual lives and society at large.
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Book recommendation: Open up, education!
The book by Adam Haigler and Ben Owens offers a bold and practical vision for creating more engaging and aspirational schools.
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Article recommendation: When young readers get stuck
This article helps educators notice the complexities of readers’ skills and plan for the most effective ways to nudge students forward.
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From the CEO: Education priorities now and in the future
While paradigms are liable to swing back and forth from time to time, our choices about how to move forward should always focus on the needs of students.
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