teachers
Without cause — or explanation — a divided NIC board fires its president
Rick MacLennan’s five-year run as North Idaho College president abruptly ended last week. The college will now search for an interim president and a permanent successor, while paying MacLennan’s $222,000-a-year salary.
Time to stop living in alternate realities
At school, I am a broken record, “Mask on,” I remind my students. “Be sure to wash your hands.” But then, they go home and into the world. Football games, Family gatherings. Playdates and sleepovers, right? An alternate reality.
The tie that binds Idahoans together
It is completely true that money alone doesn’t solve problems—people do.
Victor principal: “I just try to identify the right thing to do and do it.”
Megan Christiansen made masks mandatory at her elementary school, bucking district and statewide decisions.
Tips for teachers in the wake of the Delta variant
By doing these things, you can make a difference in your students’ academic and emotional progress this school year.
Some districts do away with extra COVID leave for teachers
Some of Idaho’s biggest districts are no longer offering extra COVID-specific sick leave, while others across the state are using federal funds to keep providing the coverage.
Episode 24: A challenging start for West Ada’s Derek Bub
Derek Bub took over as West Ada School District superintendent on July 1 — just in time for the latest and most severe surge of the coronavirus to wreak havoc on school reopening plans. This week on the Kevin Richert Podcast, Bub explains his decision to reinstate a mask mandate, the politics of pandemic protocols…
When we don’t care about teachers, we don’t care about students
When school employees feel undervalued and unsafe, particularly by their own leadership and communities, they will start to opt themselves out of this career.
The start to this school year is unlike any other
I am exhausted, hurt, and sad that this may be my last year as a teacher.
Little pledges $10 million to combat substitute teacher shortages
The money comes with another targeted remedy: paid time off for Idaho’s executive branch agency employees to work as subs.