While principals in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are relieved to have teachers back in classrooms, administrators may still have some repair work to do over the next few weeks in helping teachers, classroom assistants and families move beyond the divisive words and feelings that are often prone to surfacing during a strike.
With the Denver Classroom Teachers Association in Colorado voting to strike — and the Chicago and Oakland, California, districts also facing the same possibility — more school leaders may soon be coming to work with no teachers, as well as considering ways to bring some cohesion back to their school communities when a strike is over.
