NAESP Executive Director Gail Connelly believes that in addition to school safety, the Sandy Hook tragedy has raised much larger issues about student mental health issues and the glaring need for more coordinated community and school services available to principals who need them to help their students and families. Read Full Post >
A round-up of resources and book titles on K-12 school safety and coping with grief and tragedies in schools. Read Full Post >
I'd like all of us, before we write, opine, or declaim, to take care that we accord the lost children of Newtown the dignity they deserve. Read Full Post >
There seems something wrong, even six days later, to be talking about the politics of the massacre in Connecticut. Read Full Post >
I've been avoiding commenting on the events in Connecticut last week because it feels like incredible hubris to think I have any words or thoughts adequate to this tragedy. But in the face of the tragic deaths of 20 children and 6 adults, I keep coming back to the words of another child who died in ... Read Full Post >
In the wake of the tragedy at Newtown, ASCA Executive Director Kwok-Sze Wong reminds us that the United States has the highest number of guns per capita in the world - and the highest rate of untreated or undertreated mental illness. Read Full Post >
Let's re-affirm our conviction that public schools, whether they be in the leafy suburbs, northern woods or gritty urban centers, are places of hope and caring. Let's sing songs of joy and peace. Read Full Post >
I think it is time for us to acknowledge that we won't find safety through security alone. Read Full Post >
Gifted Education Specialist Tamara Fisher pens a poignant letter to troubled bright kids who may be contemplating the worst. Read Full Post >
If teachers have to wonder if their students have guns, their instruction invariably suffers. Read Full Post >
