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Essential steps to develop a district safety plan

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The best way to achieve this is to assemble a multidisciplinary team that meets on a monthly basis. School personnel – administrators, educators, counselors, and legal counsel. Community representatives – students, parents, and community leaders.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust. Another recent graduate, a talented, multidisciplinary artist, was recently featured in one of the most prominent art spaces in the city — and is currently publishing his first magazine.

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Getting the Excel and Photoshop Kids to Play Together: A Conversation with Georg Petschnigg of FiftyThree

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What follows has been lightly edited for clarity.when you look at the big and interesting challenges of the future, they will require multidisciplinary teams and multidisciplinary organizations to figure out the tools that people need to work together. You mentioned the multidisciplinary organization. Georg Petschnigg.

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Student-to-Counselor Ratios are Dangerously High. Here’s How Two Districts Are Tackling It.

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Students have always needed counseling services that go well beyond the college and career development that has become standard fare in American high schools. Across the country, districts small and large are working to bring that ratio down and to bolster their counseling and support services for students.