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Due to the pandemic, school districts have been forced to find new creative ways to engage families who have been left out of decision making.  Jessica Rigby, assistant professor at the ���ߺ��� and her team interviewed 13 leaders from 7 Puget Sound school districts to hear about solutions that were productive, anti-racist and high quality.  The  interviewed Rigby and others about this trend in the way school districts work.

College-going rates for low-income and first-generation high school students in Seattle area schools are rising thanks to the efforts of the , which is partnering with the ���ߺ��� to improve college access.

Faculty members David Knight and Meredith Honig were quoted in an article recently published in The Seattle Times about how schools have responded to Gov. Inslee's school reopening order. While nearly all school districts in Washington state have complied with Gov. Inslee's order to reopen schools, some students are getting much more in-person time than others. Knight, an assistant professor of education finance and policy, commented on the variety in schedules and responses to Inslee's order and highlighted that the imbalance is concerning. Honig, director of the District Leadership Design Lab and professor of education policy, organizations and leadership, emphasized the need for data that includes race and class when studying in-personal learning as well as measures that can speak to the quality of the time spent in the classroom.

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Associate professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy Ann Ishimaru was featured in an article by The Seattle Times titled “How a tumultuous school year for Seattle students sparked a movement to demand change.” In the article, Ann discusses how young people have long organized for change and there has been an upsurge in student activism since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While students have been making their voices heard about COVID safety, they’ve also been a part of (and even started) other national movements in schools.

Professor discusses how dogs can be of benefit to children in school classrooms and her scholarship on animal-assisted interventions for children of trauma.

Professor comments on teacher preparation provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act.

and co-authored the lead chapter in the 2016 AACTE Outstanding Book, Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation: Meeting New Challenges for Accountability.

Column references a partnership between the UW ���ߺ��� and teachers in Bellevue School District to create .

A new of the UW ���ߺ��� will aim to better educate and equip teachers, especially non-Native teachers, to work with Native students.