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Leading Through Windows and Mirrors

A Principal's Reflections

Culture is everything. Both of these attributes are integral in developing relationships that underpin culture and are also necessary for leading change. 2017), "Toward more practical measurement of teamwork skills", Journal of Workplace Learning, 29 (2): 124-133. Annual Review of Psychology. Brock, S.E., McAliney, P.J.,

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. Counselor burnout is real.)

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school

The Hechinger Report

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. Duckworth’s own research is currently delving deeper into passion, trying to understand how people develop it.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. The coronavirus pandemic has compounded long-standing mental health struggles, exposing more students to the trauma of personal and familial illness, financial hardship, displacement and psychological harm.

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The latest group to get special attention from college admissions offices: men

The Hechinger Report

The trend is especially acute for Black men, with about 138,000 fewer Black men enrolled in college last year than in 2017. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. Women now make up about 58 percent of U.S.

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OPINION: It’s time to change the way students are disciplined in school

The Hechinger Report

The 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions found that Black students lose up to four times more days of instruction to suspensions than their white peers. My charge was a simple method of improving the culture and climate through parent awareness and support.