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Going Public: Leading for Equity in Polarized Times

A superintendent in a suburban district must decide how publicly to speak out for a new equity initiative in the face of community concern and a lawsuit initiated by parents opposed to the district’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work.

Going Public title over image of two handheld microphones

In Loco Parentis: The Ethics of Dismissal at Boarding School

A disciplinary committee at a small, prestigious, independent boarding school must decide the consequences of a student’s disciplinary infraction. To complicate matters, the student is facing challenging family circumstances, her family makes significant...

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Private Equity

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Mexican government closed all schools and transitioned to the distance-learning program. This led to a drop in private school enrollment, and private schools and families requested the government for financial...

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A Change of Plan?

An eighth-grade civics teacher in Massachusetts struggles to balance respecting student autonomy and creating a safe classroom community as students complete civic action projects about contentious political issues. 

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On the Merge

A school board member in a rural district must decide whether to vote to merge the district’s two high schools, thus closing down a beloved school with close community ties. What will best serve the students in her district? 

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First Rate

An elementary-school principal new to her district must decide how to evaluate a beloved veteran teacher who struggles with the instructional core. What makes for quality teaching—and how do we measure it? 

First Rate Dilemmas in Teacher Evaluation Title

What Would You Do?: Seeing Green

Snapshot: This second episode of a video podcast series, produced in partnership with the Ethical Schools podcast, includes a dramatized version of our case "Seeing Green" along with a discussion of the case led by Professor Meira Levinson. Should science...
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The (De)Merits of Discipline

Snapshot: A teacher in a charter school must decide how to respond when she witnesses a colleague harshly reprimanding a student in class; while her colleague’s behavior isn’t out of line with the school’s strict discipline code, she herself relies more...
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Keeping It Private: Challenges of Boarding School Mentorship

Snapshot: At an independent boarding school, a development officer who also serves as a mentor in the dorm must balance competing values as she decides what to do after witnessing her mentee engaged in sexual activity with a classmate. School policy...
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Remote Control: Blurred Boundaries in the Zoom Classroom

Snapshot: As schools across the United States rely on virtual instruction for some—or even all—instructional time, they continue to grapple with dilemmas initially raised during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this fictional case, members of a fourth-grade...
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