Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238112
Jonathan E. Collins
{"title":"Policy Solutions: We need a school board election holiday","authors":"Jonathan E. Collins","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238112","url":null,"abstract":"Voter turnout for school board elections is historically low, with tiny percentages deciding who governs schools. Columnist Jonathan E. Collins proposes a new federal holiday, School Board Election Day, to increase voter turnout and public involvement and interest in public schools. School board elections would be held on the same day nationally, and voters would be encouraged to visit schools not only to vote but to participate in forums and projects to benefit schools.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238104
Linda F. Nathan, Lydia Cochrane, Ayesha Hoda
{"title":"Big problems require big solutions","authors":"Linda F. Nathan, Lydia Cochrane, Ayesha Hoda","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238104","url":null,"abstract":"School leaders Lydia Cochrane and Ayesha Hoda have struggled to meet the increasingly complex needs of the students in their schools. As students’ needs increase, schools are asked to do more and more, while continuing to have strong academic results. Cochrane and Hoda believe the current system is untenable and needs to change. With Linda Nathan, they share a possible model schedule that could allow schools to meet more of students’ needs and describe schools that have experimented with alternate structures.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238103
Lisa Dover Kingsley, Jennifer Perry Cheatham
{"title":"Instructional design for innovation and reform","authors":"Lisa Dover Kingsley, Jennifer Perry Cheatham","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238103","url":null,"abstract":"Not enough attention is paid to the instructional design decisions that define students’ experiences. Lisa Dover Kingsley and Jennifer Perry Cheatham contend that while quality teaching is crucial, the structural decisions supporting meaningful engagement often go unexamined. Using innovations in North Kansas City, Missouri, as a throughline, they review key themes present in research on four elements of instructional design. They urge leaders to reconsider outdated and unexamined design practices with an equitable approach, centering the voices of students typically left out of such decisions. They offer practical shifts and entry points for leaders to consider as they build a more inclusive and effective instructional design.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140054163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238107
Andrew J. Wayne, Jordan Rickles, Mengli Song, Seth Brown, Michael S. Garet
{"title":"What a study of educator evaluation taught us about professional learning","authors":"Andrew J. Wayne, Jordan Rickles, Mengli Song, Seth Brown, Michael S. Garet","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238107","url":null,"abstract":"After years evaluating teacher professional learning programs, researchers Andrew J. Wayne, Jordan Rickles, Mengli Song, Seth Brown, and Michael S. Garet describe a study that changed their perspective. The study’s takeaways about the design of teacher professional learning are important for everyone who seeks to create systems to support teaching and learning. The findings call attention to the value of streamlined, high-quality programs for improving performance outcomes for teachers and students.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238109
Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane
{"title":"Parents’ rights, yes. But parent responsibilities, too","authors":"Frederick M. Hess, Michael Q. McShane","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238109","url":null,"abstract":"While there are plenty of people who decry the parents’ right push, viewing it as manufactured and mean-spirited, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane think it has been a healthy and overdue development. Yet while parents have rights, they also have a responsibility to send students to school ready to learn. Schools are ultimately reliant on parents being active partners in preparing their children to be responsible students and citizens. With clear communication and a willingness to listen, families and schools can form more productive partnerships to help students learn.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238115
Phyllis L. Fagell
{"title":"Career Confidential: Teacher overheard students complain about his breath","authors":"Phyllis L. Fagell","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238115","url":null,"abstract":"In Career Confidential, Phyllis Fagell offers workplace advice for teachers. In this issue, a teacher wonders how he should have reacted when he overheard students making fun of his breath.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238117
{"title":"PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238117","url":null,"abstract":"PDK International relies on scholarship application readers to help determine which applicants will receive scholarship funds. PDK member Bernadine Moldoch has been a scholarship reader for 11 years and sees it as a rewarding way to contribute to the profession after her retirement.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238108
Bo Yan, Thomas Aberli
{"title":"Moving beyond the ‘budget dance’","authors":"Bo Yan, Thomas Aberli","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238108","url":null,"abstract":"The annual budgeting process is a valuable opportunity for districts to systematically examine both resource use and programming. They can then use the findings to optimize resource use and improve program efficacy in ways that will lead to increased student achievement. Bo Yan and Thomas Aberli discuss three root causes for districts’ inability to accomplish the goals (reliance on problem-driven needs as the dominant factor of budgetary decisions, disconnect between financial management and performance management, as well as human nature). They propose a cycle-based approach to district budgeting that rests on differentiating investment from operation expenditures.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238119
{"title":"Poll Points: What does the public think about expanding time in school?","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238119","url":null,"abstract":"The PDK poll shows that a majority of Americans would support expanding the amount of time students spend in school, with more Americans preferring longer school years to longer school days. This infographic shows how the data breaks down by race, region, and type of community.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/00317217241238118
{"title":"Kappan call for manuscripts, 2024-25","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00317217241238118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241238118","url":null,"abstract":"Phi Delta Kappan is committed to publishing lively articles and commentary on a wide range of themes related to preK-12 education. Themes for 2024-25 include: public perception of schools, education for mastery, attendance and absenteeism, the math education students need, understanding today’s students, finding funding, addressing student learning, and the new generation of educators.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140053976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}