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Ken Cook, BSME, MBA, CPD, is Director of National School Safety and Advocacy, Allegion U.S. In addition to leading Allegion’s efforts in assisting school districts, Cook serves on the Advisory Council ...

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Dan Tynan is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He has won numerous journalism awards and his work has appeared in more than 70 publications, several of them not yet dead. A frog appears to ...

If your upper elementary students understand the task but still struggle to begin, these ideas can help them take that first step with confidence.