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A Call to Action: We Must Do Better for Our Children, Our Students

k12 Digest

As the primary author of the Safe and Sound Schools Comprehensive Framework for Safety Planning and Development, she provides practical guidance across six key pillars: emergency management, community engagement, physical safety, mental and behavioral health, school climate, and overall wellness.

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New Nationwide Data Shows Significant Increase in Alerts on Self-Harm, Harm to Others and the Presence of Weapons on K–12 Campuses

eSchool News

This week, the latest mass shooting happened on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, another unsettling event almost five years to the date since 17 lives were taken at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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Back by Popular Demand: SHP Donates $10,000 to Students Across Ohio

eSchool News

Cincinnati – Architecture, interior design, and engineering firm SHP is awarding $1,000 scholarships to 10 high school students. The honors were announced during a reception at the 2022 Ohio School Board Association’s (OSBA) annual Capital Conference in November.

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How to Prepare Students for Jobs in the Self-Driving-Car-Industry

Edsurge

That painfully obvious pun is actually one of the truest things you can say about this nascent, multidisciplinary enterprise, and it also encapsulates the challenge educators who want to prepare their students to work in this industry are facing today. Take it in high school if you can,” he says. Change your oil.

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

Edsurge

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

Edsurge

As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. By high school, with only one semester of arts education required in our state, average yearly instructional time drops to 33 hours a year.

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Gale and Utah State Library Partner to Provide Residents Free Access to New Digital Resources

eSchool News

Gale In Context student databases : 7 multidisciplinary, multi-source type databases covering elementary, middle, high school, environmental studies, biographical info, science and a wide range of viewpoints on todays social issues.