Education conference season has started. In this episode, we look at conferences and explore ways to get the most out of attending them.

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Harvey Alvy served as a practicing principal for 14 years in both elementary and secondary schools. Harvey’s international school leadership experiences ranged from New Delhi, to Israel, and Singapore. He was selected as a NAESP National Distinguished Principal and is a founding member of the Principals’ Training Center for International Schools. Harvey is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Washington University, where he received the Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence and held the William C. Shreeve Endowed Professorship in School Leadership. His most recent book is Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance (ASCD, 2017). He has co-authored, with Pam Robbins, Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success, The Principal’s Companion, The New Principal’s Fieldbook, and If I Only Knew: Success Strategies for Navigating the Principalship. With Jane Liu, Harvey co-authored a Mandarin book for Chinese school principals, The Principal Management Handbook: The American Principal’s Approach to Successful Administration.

As we close this school year, most of us now see the pandemic in the rearview mirror.  How did the pandemic change education?  What evolved? What stuck? what faded?  What Worked?

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Ed Chat Archive: http://edchat.pbworks.com/Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

The pandemic is technically behind us, and most schooling has returned to face-to-face instruction. What has not returned to normal is student attendance.  An NPR study of 21 school districts found widespread, chronic absenteeism nationwide, leaving many teachers wondering, "Where are my students?"

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Monte Syrie is a high school ELA teacher in Washington state. A 27-year veteran, he writes extensively about his experiences in the classroom on his blog (www.letschangeeducation.com) and in his recently published book, better: A Teacher's Journey.

Robin Hicks is a teacher of students who are learning in confinement.