Giving Compass' Take:

• Authors writing for Education Dive, list six K-12 education trends to watch for in 2019, ranging from improvements to school climate to creating more professional development opportunities. 

• Philanthropists and entrepreneurs are coming to the forefront to finance needs in this sector (such as investing in early childhood education.) Are there other opportunities within the education space where donors can provide capital?

• Read about the three ongoing trends in education data. 

In the past year, the remainder of states finalized their Every Student Succeeds Act accountability plans, the Trump administration's Federal Commission on School Safety held a number of listening sessions and issued its final recommendations, and schools continued rethinking approaches around expanding career-based educational opportunities for students as well as their own approaches to professional development.

Using that as prologue, 2019 is guaranteed to bring the next steps taken on all these fronts — from addressing the role of school climate and culture in safety to embracing new leadership models and teacher agency.  Here are the six trends administrators should keep on their radar in the coming year.

  1. Improvements in school climate and culture
  2. Public investment in early childhood education
  3. Expansion of leadership models 
  4. Efforts to boost teacher agency and bottom-up leadership
  5. Inspiring change through accountability
  6. Creating more professional development opportunities

Read the full article about K-12 trends in 2019 by Jessica Campisi, Roger Riddell, and Linda Jacobson at Education Dive