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Students, Teachers ‘Deserve Better Than a Return to Normal’ in the 2021-22 School Year

No matter what the 2021-22 school year brings, Lauren Partma is confident she’ll be able to handle it. Partma, a history and English teacher at McKinley School of the Arts in Pasadena, Calif., learned a valuable lesson from all she experienced as an educator over the past year-and-a-half. “Not let the little things bother me […]

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One Year Later: From Shutdown Stress to Academic Success, Teachers and Students Navigated ‘Whirlwind’ Year Together

As Stephanie Knox followed the news early last spring, she sensed that COVID-19 would probably force schools to close their doors for a long period of time.  “Two weeks,” said Knox, the principal at Prairie Heights Middle School in Evans, Colo. “I remember thinking that was a long time back then.”  This was March 2020, […]