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What if you could hear from leaders in school systems all around the country? People who are finding innovative ways to solve problems and make strategic decisions as they work to hire, develop, retain and support teachers and staff? From superintendents to principals, from human resources to curriculum and instruction to special education, we’re talking with people who have something to say in K-12 – and we’re sharing those conversations here.
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Cash for Chromebooks: Budgeting Tips for the Technology Department from 2023-11-20T10:00:08
‘Tis the season: as we approach the end of the year, families are preparing to gather over festive meals, students will head home for winter break... and department heads in schools everywhere w...
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One School District’s Response to Declining Enrollment from 2023-11-13T10:00:10
Sam Kirk is the Director of Finance and Operations at Armstrong School District in western Pennsylvania. As industry has dwindled, student enrollment in the district has taken a hit as well. Listen
From Required to Inspired: Inside Culture Change in Professional Learning from 2023-10-30T09:00:11
In Hanover County Public Schools, there's a shift happening... something bubbling up from deep within the Curriculum & Instruction Department. Something exciting.
In the past, teacher...
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Flexible Pay Can Help Solve the Substitute Shortage from 2023-10-04T10:30:10
Portman Wills believes money is key to solving the substitute shortage — even if districts can’t raise substitute teacher wages.
Substitute teachers want to be in the classroom, teaching ...
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The State of Hiring in Education: A Conversation with AASPA Executive Director Kelly Coash-Johnson from 2023-09-28T12:49:53
In 2022, Kelly Coash-Johnson joined a w...
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The 20 Mile Radius: Why Distance Matters to K-12 Hiring and Retention from 2023-08-22T09:00:10
When trying to fill teaching positions, what can school districts do that goes beyond simply posting jobs in more locations? Dr. Jon Isaacson, Superintendent of Hillsboro R-III School District i...
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Is There a Teacher Shortage in the Northeast? from 2023-07-23T12:00:10
The teacher shortage has been in the news for years — but especially since 2020, nationwide concern has reached new levels.
But... Pennsylvania is not Florida. New York is not Texas. Ever...
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Eight KPIs Every School Business Official Should Track from 2023-01-04T20:18:30
“If you don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going.”
That’s what Derick Sibley, MBA, RTSBA, SFO, Director of Finance and Accounting at Pleasant Grove ISD in T...
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Deep in Data, Short on Time: Let Analytics Do Your Legwork from 2022-08-08T21:02:32
School districts collect a wealth of data — data that often lives in various disconnected systems or spreadsheets that make it difficult to understand and work with. While many K-12 leaders reco...
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School Business Officials and the Power of Analytics from 2022-07-15T20:30:11
School business officials have a crucial role to play for school districts. Not only are they in charge of balancing the budget for the school year, but they’re also tasked with anticipating fut...
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Analytics in Collective Bargaining from 2022-01-12T10:00:06
School district negotiations with teachers unions can be challenging. School business officials not only have multiple stakeholders to work with and keep informed — including the school board, a...
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No Substitute for Customer Service (2021) from 2021-11-17T19:00
When a teacher is out, a substitute to take over for the day isn’t a given. Many districts have a difficult time keeping a pool of substitutes that’s adequate to cover all vacancies. Today, we spea...
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No Substitute for Customer Service (2021) from 2021-11-17T19:00
Note: This episode was originally released in 2018, but with districts around the country facing a worsening substitute shortage in 2021, the story remains relevant today.
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How to Use Analytics in Schools from 2021-11-03T09:00:07
Schools are swimming in data — but there’s a difference between having data and using it to make better decisions. Since early 2020, most people have seen more charts and graphs than perhaps eve...
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Making School Happen from 2021-09-01T09:00:06
While most people might picture buses, crowded hallways, and teachers working in bustling classrooms, the behind-the-scenes work is just as vital. All the work that goes into making school happe...
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Evaluating Teachers Virtually from 2021-04-21T09:00:07
The concern about student learning loss is real. Reduced classroom time, learning over Zoom, technology challenges, difficult home situations, mental health concerns, and heightened inequities h...
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School Workforce Diversity from 2021-03-24T09:00:06
It’s no secret that when students have teachers of the same race or ethnicity, they tend to do better academically. Yet people of color make up a relatively small percentage of the teaching work...
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Caring for Students’ Mental Health During Virtual Learning from 2021-03-03T10:00:06
After nearly a year of remote learning, hand washing, and six-feet-apart staying, who’s doing not doing okay? The answer is… quite a few of us, kids and adults alike.
This week, Dr. Rosann...
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Kids With Speech and Language Service Needs from 2020-11-24T17:30
Leanne Sherred is co-founder of Expressable, a company that provides online speech language therapy services. In this conversation, Leanne shares what s...
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Equity for English Learners from 2020-10-21T19:28:17
School closures have been tough for everyone. Administrators, district leadership, teachers, and families raced to adapt to new teaching and learning conditions. Students faced an entirel...
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Are Schools Prepared for the Mental Health Crisis? from 2020-10-07T17:08:37
Over the past 10 years, anxiety disorders among adolescents has risen 17%. Serious depression has gone up 80%. Suicide attempts are startlingly common.[1] That’s the bad news.
The good new...
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Unsung Heroes from 2020-06-05T09:00:07
While schools are wrestling with how to re-open in the fall, Robin Cogan says there’s one perspective that is especially critical to consider: that of the school nurse. Robin is a school nurse i...
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School... at Home from 2020-03-27T09:00:21
Right now, schools are closed across the country, as we all try to stay safe and healthy. But we all know that for educators and for parents, this doesn’t mean more downtime on the couch.
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Observations&Conversations from 2020-03-13T09:00:13
“You could have a great conversation with somebody, you could talk about [teaching practice] and then, all of a sudden: ‘Okay, what was my rating?’ ‘Well, you got a ‘2’ in this area.’ And tha...
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Substitutes In the House from 2020-02-28T10:00:08
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System used to outsource their substitute teacher program. But in 2014, they decided to bring it back in house — no small thing for an office of just fou...
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Equity, Part 3: Special Education is an Equity Issue from 2020-02-14T10:00:18
Racial equality is an important factor in ensuring every student has access to the general education curriculum. But equity in special education goes deeper yet.
What does equity in specia...
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Equity, Part 2: Fifty Years Later from 2020-01-31T10:00:24
In Louisiana, 1969: “separate but equal” is a thing of the past – in theory. In practice, schools are largely still divided along racial lines. Eileen Sanchez was a white teacher who taught in t...
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Equity, Part 1: One District, Two Communities from 2020-01-17T10:00:16
Note: This episode is a rebroadcast, and originally aired on July 20, 2018.
A few miles east of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights University Heights School District serv...
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Lawsuits and Allergies and 504 Plans, Oh My! from 2019-12-20T10:00:02
DISCLAIMER: Frontline Education does not provide legal advice. Please consult your district’s legal counsel before taking action on anything discussed in this podcast.
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It’s All About Your People from 2019-12-06T10:00:27
Indian Hill Exempted Village School District is not large, but it has a great reputation and a culture of achievement.
Like any fruitful organization, the central pillar of that success is...
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The Data Speaks: Why Teacher Evaluations Are More Accurate Today from 2019-11-22T10:00:10
No Child Left Behind… Race to the Top… the Every Student Succeeds Act. All have had significant impact on teacher evaluations. Over time, have such laws led to an increase in the quality of teac...
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Mentor Teachers, Align! from 2019-11-08T10:00:06
In the early 2000’s, Greece Central School District in New York had 25 full-time mentor teachers. After the 2008 financial crisis, that number dropped down to one, plus a handful of part-time st...
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Be a Buffalo: Growing Leaders in School Systems from 2019-10-25T09:00:02
What is the single biggest thing that school leaders can do to impact student outcomes? According to Ted Neitzke, it’s to create the conditions that enable everybody in the school system to take...
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Working with Families in Special Education from 2019-10-11T09:00:17
As a parent, learning your child has a learning disability or other special need comes with a whirlwind of emotion. “Who will take care of them when I’m not here? How will I make sure they get t...
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Conflict&Leadership: Shattering the Status Quo from 2019-09-13T09:00:14
Paul O’Neill and Dennis Griffin, Jr. are principals in schools hundreds of miles apart — yet they regularly encourage and challenge each other through #EduGladiators, an online community of lear...
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Beating Teacher Burnout from 2019-08-30T09:00:24
Adam Brown, Ed.D. is an assistant principal for Virginia Beach City Public Schools. As a new teacher, there were days he wanted to call it quits — but he had great support, and got through those...
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How to Tell If Your Professional Development Is Working from 2019-08-16T09:00:12
Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., has spent decades in education, as a classroom teacher as well as working with adults in professional learning and program evaluation. Today, we ask Sheila about:
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Five Generations at Work from 2019-08-02T09:00:03
Ian? He’s of Generation X. Erin is squarely in the Millennial camp. Today on Field Trip, they explore the differences between the five different generations currently represented in the labor fo...
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Learning to See Dyslexia from 2019-07-19T09:00:02
Garland Independent School District serves thousands of dyslexic students. Dyslexia is a learning disability that has profound effects on students as th...
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Teacher Job Stress (and Why It Matters to Principals) from 2019-06-07T09:00:19
Teaching today is more demanding than ever — and whether or not that leads to stress and exhaustion is often up to the principal and how he or she leads the building.
Today we speak with ...
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How to Get Parents to Take an Active Role in Your School from 2019-05-24T10:00:08
From lunch-and-learns and chat-and-chews to food trucks and taking events out into the community, Hatboro-Horsham High School principal Dennis Williams means it when he says he wants to hear fro...
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Flood Recovery: Livingston Parish Revisited from 2019-05-10T10:00:02
In our interview, we asked Bruce Chaffin about:
- The 33″ of rain that Livingston Parish got in a 24-hour span, and the impact it had on the district
- The financial impact the... Listen
Ownership&Student Voice from 2019-04-26T09:00:04
Picture what happens happen when every staff member in your school or district – from substitutes to the superintendent – can articulate exactly how they are connected to your educational missio...
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Professional Development School from 2019-04-12T09:00:03
Kutztown Area School District needed more teachers. So along with several other districts, they offered education majors at nearby Kutztown University the chance to spend time in classrooms — at...
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English Learners&Restorative Dialogue from 2019-03-29T09:00
As the population of English learners grows across the country, Brazosport ISD in Texas is using restorative practices to support ELs’ growth in language, connect them to differing perspectives,...
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Rock Star Principals (Redux) from 2019-03-15T09:00
(Rebroadcast)
This week at Insights Summit 2019, our guests Nick Indeglio and Jon Ross are two of our keynote speake...
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Design Thinking at Halifax County High School from 2019-03-01T10:00
“If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.” That decidedly was not the refrain when teachers, staff, students and administration at Halifax County High School set out on a journey to re-imagine their sc...
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The Camera Doesn't Lie from 2019-02-15T10:03
When April Strong started teaching, she wanted to be the best. But it wasn’t until she started filming her own lessons and watching them back later at night that she was able to see exactly what...
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Cutting Edge&Rural from 2019-02-01T10:00
Graham Local Schools is a small, rural district in Ohio. Yet it’s found a way to offer progressive professional learning that’s making a difference in teachers’ and students’ lives.
In th...
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Not Your Father’s Labor Market from 2019-01-18T10:00
Teachers entering the workforce today are different from those who entered the profession a few decades ago: the perception of teaching as a career has changed. Millennials starting their career...
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Grow Your Own Teachers from 2019-01-04T10:00
When leaders at this school district wanted a teacher workforce that reflected the diversity of its student body, the answer was right in front of them.
Jason Olson, Director of Human Resour...
How to Do More with Less from 2018-12-21T10:00
The financial crisis in 2008 left many school districts scrambling to stay afloat, save jobs and move mountains for teachers and students. Here’s how one district overhauled their onboarding pro...
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Rocking the Paper Boat from 2018-12-07T10:00
Heather Stocking wanted to give her Human Resources team more time to be creative and strategic. That meant getting rid of a lot of their paperwork. Sounds great, right? But it wasn’t that simpl...
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Do Teacher Evaluations Make a Difference? from 2018-11-23T11:00
Over the summer of 2018, the RAND Corporation released a report on the results of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s I...
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Micro-credentials in Action from 2018-11-09T11:00
At the Weilenmann School of Discovery, competency-based learning has taken wing. This week, administrators and teachers share what they’re doing, and why professional learning has never been so ...
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The Rock Star Principals from 2018-10-26T09:00
Being a principal can be isolating. Here’s how two principals began to use podcasting, blogging and social media to connect with colleagues around the world — and the impact it had on their scho...
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Keeping Great Teachers from 2018-10-12T09:00
A large suburban school district. An 18% year-over-year teacher turnover rate. A superintendent who said, “We need to plug the hole in our bucket.” This is how one school district set out to giv...
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Culture Shift from 2018-09-28T09:00
How do you bring about culture change in a school district? How do you boost instructional rigor in spite of a tiny professional development budget? Dr. Melissa Varley, Superintendent of Florham...
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Resident Principals from 2018-08-31T09:00
It’s no secret: principals are vital to the success of a school. But what’s the best way to train those who want to step into that role? In the last few years, more schools have looked to a clin...
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Beyond Teacher Evaluations from 2018-08-17T09:00
A California school district in a high-poverty community sets out to revamp its teacher evaluation system… and finds itself going much further, exploring new ways to promote teacher leadership a...
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See Reality, Get Better from 2018-08-03T11:50
One of the best things teachers can do to improve their practice is to film themselves teaching, then replay and reflect. This week, we speak with well-known researcher and author Dr. Jim Knight...
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One District, Two Communities from 2018-07-20T11:45
How does a district strive for equity when it serves two distinct, racially-diverse communities?
A few miles east of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights University Heights School District serves...
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The Glasses We All Wear from 2018-06-22T09:00
What makes a leader? What makes some employees more likely to initiate projects and tackle problems in new and proactive ways? Why are some conversations so difficult to have in our teams? This ...
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Design Fellows from 2018-06-08T09:00
With an innovative approach to teacher leadership, Virginia Beach City Public Schools used design thinking to empower teachers to implement personalized learning in the classroom.
In this...
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The $15,000 Prize from 2018-05-25T09:00
A financial incentive to reduce the number of personal days teachers take? Here’s the story of one district’s efforts to save money and improve instruction.
Dr. Cecelia McLoon is the Huma...
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Turnaround from 2018-05-11T09:00
A new administrator, a new partnership and a lot of hard work. This is the story of Bonneville Elementary’s journey from underperformance to academic rigor and a renewed culture.
In 2014,...
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Coaching Differently from 2018-04-27T10:00
After a funding crisis at Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Texas, the district decided to try a different coaching model to build teacher capacity.
In this interview, ...
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Principals&Fishbowls from 2018-04-13T12:10
At Franklin Public Schools in Wisconsin, building the capacity of teachers means developing principals.
In this interview, Director of Teaching and Learning Christopher Reuter and princip...
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Collaboration Walks from 2018-03-30T08:00
Gresham-Barlow School District in Oregon has a fresh perspective on learning walks. Looking for a way to offer professional learning opportunities that promote teacher voice and teacher agency a...
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Tackling Teacher Turnover from 2018-03-16T11:55
San Marcos CISD near Austin, Texas set out to boost engagement, address the issue of teacher turnover and ultimately improve student outcomes. Here’s their data-driven approach.
In this i...
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“Already Whole”: Working with English Language Learners from 2018-03-02T12:46
How does a school district support culturally and linguistically diverse learners? Tere Masiarchin supports educators grappling with this question. She works at CESA (Cooperative Educational Ser...
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Hiring, Engaging&Growing Great Teachers from 2018-02-02T12:14
Branding their district, attracting great candidates and making sure all departments are aligned: how Blue Valley Schools upholds a stellar academic record and ensures they have an exemplary tea...
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Building a Culture of Professional Learning from 2018-01-19T12:35
Mary Kathryn Moeller and her team facilitate professional learning at Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma. In this interview, she discusses the big questions that shape their program, how they iter...
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Employee Wellness Programs in K-12 from 2018-01-05T13:52
Five years ago, Dr. Andy Koenigs was tasked with employee recruitment and retention at Emporia Public Schools in Kansas. Borrowing a strategy from the business world, he and his team launched an...
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Flood Recovery: Gamification and Reducing Teacher Absences from 2017-12-15T12:51
In August 2016, Livingston Parish, Louisiana was devastated by a flood. As Livingston Parish Public Schools grappled with the effects, the district looked for any possible way to save money to h...
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