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Do You Want Control or Cooperation?
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The essential question that every school leader and classroom leader must ask is "Do I want control or cooperation?" The answer to that question creates an intention that drives all future behavior. A school leader or classroom leader who seeks cooperation will think and
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Last Chance to Register for the 2010 NASSP Convention
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Featuring such education luminaries as Robert Marzano and Pedro Noguera and strands specific to middle level leaders,
assistant principals, and all school leaders looking to build their technology leadership, the 2010 NASSP Convention promises to further the professional growth of all attendees. Come a day early and attend the Breaking Ranks School Showcase or apply to attend the Mobile Learning Institute. Register by February 18 for advance registration savings!
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Using Cell Phones
for Instruction
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Learn from mobile-learning guru Elliot Soloway, principal Kipp Rogers, and others about how schools are enhancing instruction with the use of the cell phones students carry with them each day. With a generous grant from the Pearson Foundation, NASSP members can attend the Institute free of charge. A few spots remain, so apply today for this
pre-Convention learning opportunity on March 11 in Phoenix.
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Principal's Online School Law Guide
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Get a school law refresher in plain English with the Principal's Online School Law Guide, a series of multimedia presentations designed to give you quick information to guide your decisions. Watch the presentation and download the script for future
reference.
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NASSP Assistant Principals Center
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NASSP's AP Center focuses on enhancing assistant principals' job performance and their preparation for the principalship. AP Center programs consist of newly developed programs and adaptations of existing development programs and services. Be
sure to join the AP E-Mail Discussion List to share questions and knowledge with your colleagues across the nation. List is for NASSP members only.
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House Committee Approves Legislation on Seclusion and Restraint in Schools
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The House Education and Labor Committee approved legislation supported by NASSP that would establish minimum federal standards on the use of seclusion and restraint in schools similar to those currently in place for hospitals and non-medical community-based facilities.
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Xbox Chat Helps
Stop School Shooting
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Social media and video games may have more value than simple entertainment. They may be a valuable source of information and communications for school leaders. The Vancouver Sun reports that “A conversation a B.C. man had online with a stranger while playing an Xbox game raised some alarm bells, and the man’s quick
thinking may have averted a high school shooting in Texas, police say.” Participants in an Xbox Live chat session overheard another participant threatening friends and staff members at his school. One alert individual notified the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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The NASSP Principal's Update now available as an iPhone app
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NASSP
understands the need to deliver timely, relevant industry news to its members and other education professionals. In partnering with MultiBriefs to create the NASSP Principal’s Update, the association committed itself to doing just that. That partnership has now expanded to provide another convenient avenue to receive this information. The NASSP Principal’s Update is now part of the new MultiBriefs app, available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch in the App Store.
Simply
search "MultiBriefs" in the App Store and download the app free of charge. Once the MultiBriefs application is downloaded, you can add the NASSP feed. News is streamed into your iPhone or iPod Touch each week. And just like the e-mail news brief you've become accustomed to, you may share articles with your colleagues via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can even bookmark certain articles as favorites to revisit at a later date. As always, feedback is appreciated and is important to
the success of the app. Feel free to rate the application in the App Store.
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Schools Face Big Budget Holes as Stimulus Runs Out
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The nation's public schools are falling under severe financial stress as states slash education spending and drain federal stimulus money that staved off deep classroom cuts and widespread job losses. School districts have already suffered big budget cuts since the recession began two years ago, but experts say the cash crunch will get a lot worse as states run out of stimulus dollars.
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Duncan Offers 'Guiding Principles' for Rewriting NCLB
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Calling No Child Left Behind a "blunt instrument" that placed more emphasis on defining failure than encouraging success, Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Feb. 12 outlined the Obama administration's vision for rewriting the nation's
education law. Speaking to school superintendents during the American Association of School Administrators' National Conference on Education, Duncan identified three principles that will guide the administration’s approach toward rewriting NCLB: (1) higher standards, (2) rewarding excellence, and (3) a "smarter, tighter federal role" in ensuring that all students succeed.
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Experts Say Schools Need to Screen for Cheating
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Last week, Georgia officials said they
had found evidence that cheating might have occurred on standardized tests at one in five public elementary and middle schools around the state. What was extraordinary, however, was not so much the extent of the problem, but the decision of the state to screen for cheating at all. Using a computer scanner, the state used a simple, quick analysis to flag classes where an unusually high number of wrong answers were erased and corrected. The testing company generated the data at no charge.
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Teachers and Community Members Practice TLC with PLCs
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PLCs — groups of educators
and community members who work together toward common goals — are becoming more commonplace in schools as savvy teachers strive for constant improvement in everything from creating lesson plans to changing school culture. They can focus on any subject of interest: technology, improving reading scores, or project learning, for example. A group can be organized by subject, grade level, specialty, or any combination of topics that administrators believe need attention.
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In National First, Kentucky Adopts Common Standards
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Kentucky recently became the first state to adopt common academic standards that were drafted as part of a nationwide initiative to establish a widely shared and ambitious vision of student learning. With a unanimous vote last week, the Kentucky
board of education approved the substitution of the common standards in mathematics and English/language arts for the state’s own standards in those two subjects.
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High-achieving Disabled Teens Shatter Stereotypes
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It would be easy to define 18-year-olds TJ Hancock and Elise Thomas by their Down syndrome — or by their enviable accomplishments. TJ, whose friends call him "Teej," is a student body officer, manager of Jordan High's basketball team and president of the men's choir. Elise swims competitively for Skyline High School, volunteers at Red Butte Garden and is an accomplished skier. But these talented teens aren't outliers, say their parents and teachers. They embody
the culmination of a decades-old trend in special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, that education officials say has produced unexpected academic and social gains for countless students.
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Overcoming the Learning Curve
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Not a day goes by that Tim Zavacki isn't integrating technology into some part of the curriculum. A technology instructor at Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough, NJ, Zavacki teaches the 3-year-old Introduction to Technology class to a mixed group of students
in grades 9 through 12. One of his most recent projects was a photo essay that caught the attention of the New Jersey Technology Education Association, which gave Zavacki an Innovative Technology Educator Award for his efforts.
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Lawmakers Seek to Overhaul e-Rate
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A new House
bill seeks to overhaul the e-Rate, which provides telecommunications discounts to eligible schools and libraries, to make it a more useful tool in the federal government's National Broadband Plan. Introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and co-sponsored by Reps. Lois Capps and Doris Matsui, both California Democrats, the "e-Rate 2.0 Act of 2010" (H.R. 4619) would allow the e-Rate to help bridge the digital divide in students' homes, fund electronic books in schools, and adjust its coverage
for inflation.
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Some Classes, Homework Shifted to Internet as Snow Fell
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With the record snowfall, classrooms across the Washington area have been deserted for more than a week. But some teachers have moved their lessons onto the Internet and pressed on -- and they've been pleasantly surprised by the
results. At Albert Einstein High School, history teacher Patricia Lynch Carballo looked out the window a week ago and she knew she had to do something. Students around the world will take the International Baccalaureate's standardized history exam on the same day in May, and there's no chance for change. So she told her students to keep doing their reading, posted quizzes online and led an online discussion via a virtual bulletin board.
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