Leaderboard
From the Editor: Two years after
ASBJ Editor-in-Chief Kathleen Vail provides an overview of this month's issue.
Leadership Matters: Challenges we all share
NSBA Executive Director and CEO John Heim emphasizes NSBA’s focus on the common challenges shared by all school boards.
President’s Perspective: We are unstoppable
NSBA 2022-23 President Frank Henderson sees strength in unifying around issues that directly impact children’s education.
Features
Vital Connections: Lack of internet access hits rural schools and communities
In communities like Anadarko, Oklahoma, the lack of broadband infrastructure has only exacerbated long-standing issues faced by Native American students in rural communities.
Mental Health to the Forefront
Oklahoma students open up about their mental-wellness challenges
Funding for Broadband: Tips for getting the most out of federal connectivity aid
A roundup of federal broadband funding targeting the homework gap.
Homework Gap Insights: Kajeet’s Homework Gap Grant applications reveal recent trends
Accurately determining connectivity needs, tracking progress, ensuring mobile connectivity options, and accessing funding sources are among high priorities cited by schools and districts working to close education's digital divide.
The Penguin Project: Inclusive theater program creates a sense of belonging
A 2022 Magna Award Silver Prize winner excels with a program that puts special needs students center stage.
Newsmaker: The inclusion of Asian American studies in schools becomes a reality
As violence against Asian Americans grows, the need for schools to provide an accurate, representative, and inclusive account of the Asian American community becomes more important than ever.
Book review: Permission to Feel
By learning to “identify, express, and harness our feelings, even the most challenging ones, we can use those emotions to help us create positive, satisfying lives,” says Marc Brackett's best-selling book, Permission to Feel.
Q&A: Daymond John, the ‘People’s Shark,’ on education lessons learned
ABC’s “Shark Tank” investor and NSBA Annual Conference keynote speaker Daymond John recalls the importance of a high school 'co-op' program and teachers who showed patience and support.
Soundboard
The heightened politicization of education has been unfortunate for everyone, says Marques Ivey, a County Court judge who previously served as a local school board member and as a National PTA leader.
Industry 4.0: Help prepare students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Current high school curricula lag behind the technological advances of the newest industrial revolution and its need for workers prepared to work with higher levels of automation, intelligent systems, and big data.
Engaging Children with an Open Heart: Time to challenge conventional norms to help students
Equity reform requires innovation as well as a back-to-basics understanding of what humans need to become the best versions of themselves.