Salary Increases?

What is fair in Covid-19 times?  School districts across the US will be feeling the constraints of budgets in the coming school year.  When faced with financial strife, responsible corporations lookout for the entire company.  This means that executives often will make cuts to their own salaries and benefits to

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Learning in Covid-19

COVID-19 and School Funding: What to Expect and What You Can Do Author Michael Griffith This post is part of LPI's Learning in the Time of COVID-19 blog series, which explores evidence-based and equity-focused strategies and investments to address the current crisis and build long-term systems capacity. The numbers are staggering. In the

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Teaching Tolerance and Empathy

Written by: KIRSTEN COLE AND DIANDRA VERWAYNE Many parents and teachers of young children share Ellie’s concern that children should be shielded from learning explicitly about race and racial differences. Adults often worry that introducing these topics too early could be harmful (Husband 2010). Early childhood educators who wish to

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