Alyssa Gallagher and Rosie Connor, authors of Embracing Messy Leadership: How the Experience of 20,000 School Can Transform You and Your School, discuss ways school leaders widen their strategic perspective and build on the human side of instructional improvement.

Summer learning has taken on greater urgency and new forms since the pandemic. Researcher Allison Crean Davis says summer programs, when intentionally designed and supported, can play a key role in boosting student learning and enrichment opportunities.

Mike Anderson, author of "Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher,” discusses how educators can put their own unique stamp on lessons even within highly structured curriculum programs—and why this is so important.

Huda Essa, the author of The Consciously Unbiased Educator, discusses how school leaders and educators can disrupt exclusionary practices in schools and utilize diversity as an asset to support greater student achievement.