It’s awards season at ASBJ. The Magna Awards program has been recognizing innovative school district programs for more than 25 years. These winning programs represent the enormous efforts of school leaders and district staff to reinvent and rethink education for students, staff, and communities. Also in this issue: rural schools work to bring mental health services to their students; how project-based learning teaches essential life skills; lessons from the Supreme Court’s 2021 term; and more.

In a new five-part report series, “Educational Equity for Rural Students: Out of the Pandemic, but Still Out of the Loop,” NSBA’s Center for Public Education (CEP) examines the growing diversity of rural students, and the urgent need to fix the digital divide and support rural student well-being.