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Summer vacation can create scheduling challenges for many families and can cause students to lose ground they gained in the previous school year. To address this issue, Providence, RI is bringing together local government, non-profits, and the school system to create extensive after school and summer programming opportunities for middle schoolers. The article posits that there are three essential ingredients for change: collective leadership, taking advantage of current assets, and bringing in new resources.

Some OK Go videos are engaging enough to garner 21 million (and counting) views. Teachers are using the videos to bring to life concepts in math and science.

Summer is a wonderful time to reflect unencumbered about the year and your practice.  Here, Durfee shares strategies for how to get students to reflect on their work and learning during the year.  How can you help students reflect on their learning in order to strengthen it?

The way an assignment's always been done is not necessarily the best way to inspire students to find deeper insights and engage with the work.

The New York Times covered the student-led walkouts calling for gun reform. See images and video from the day and read more about the nationwide protest.

Katrina Schwartz shares how one principal is helping his middle school repair relationships between students and teachers and how that allows for more engaging instructional practices.

Some British playgrounds are being designed to help children take more risks and persevere through challenges. The implications for education are intriguing. How can the spaces we design for students support the work we are trying to do with them - both academically and with regard to the so-called "soft skills"? 

David Tow covers strategies for checking in on the mental wellbeing of students.

In this article from Edutopia, Emelina Minero gathers school design information from top K-12 architectural firms and presents five design principles that ran through her conversations. The article provides many more examples of how schools are designing spaces that support their educational efforts and priorities.

In this article, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Michael Murphy discuss the importance of having empathy as the central quality of a school, focusing on caring about and caring for all of its members. "When we set our compass 'due north' to empathy, we humanize our work in schools."

How do students acquire the skills they need to be able to take charge? Mindshift presents an excerpt from the book “Inquiry Mindsets: Nurturing the Dreams, Wonders, and Curiosities of Our Youngest Learners,” by Trevor MacKenzie with Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt. The authors discuss how teachers can support students as they guide them to greater and greater responsibility and autonomy in inquiry-based work.

Advice for schools responding to student activism in the wake of school shootings in Parkland, FL and many other cities and towns.

When the majority of public school students in the U.S. are black and brown, and the majority of principals are white, how are relationships built to cross the lines of race and socioeconomics? Listen to a conversation in the series, Walking the Talk.

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Seeing improvement and feeling competent are powerful intrinsic motivators. In this article, the author explores how teachers can nurture children's sense of improvement and accomplishment over the course of the school day.

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A student who is struggling needs to be seen not just as a struggling student but as a complex person with many strengths and ways to contribute. The Abundance Approach relies on knowing students well and developing trusting relationships with each of them.

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