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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Janice Choiniere, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "After forty-one years of teaching in multiple schools and under five different principals, I can say confidently that the success of a school hinges on the tone set by the school leader. The climate and atmosphere a principal creates are integral to a thriving body of staff and students. John Maxwell once said, 'Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.' In four decades of working in schools, I've experienced principals who create a positive atmosphere and empower the people around them."
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Education Week
2018 has been a fascinating year in education research. If support for federal education studies at times seemed a bit touch-and-go this year because of funding threats and White House plans to merge agencies, there were still plenty of meaty findings for practitioners. In fact, of all the research stories reported this year, readers were most interested in a look at how more than 90,000 principals guide improvement in their schools. Some of the findings are likely common knowledge — effective school leaders set high expectations for students and staff alike and support teams of teachers working to hone instruction — but it also offered some surprising tidbits, such as the need for principals to make sure parents opt out, rather than opt into parent engagement.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jessica Cabeen, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "'The moment you want to retreat is the exact moment you have to reach in.' As an administrator, I use this mantra when the work feels too difficult or the feedback seems too tough, to remind myself that the challenge is also a moment of opportunity. For some school leaders, it is counterintuitive to think that they might need to ask for help. But in order to thrive, it's vital that school leaders reach out and create pathways for support. How do they seek support?"
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Education Next (commentary)
Frederick Hess, a contributor for Education Next, writes: "As we bid adieu to 2018 and look forward to another year of tranquility and comity, it's time for my annual prognostications. Now, some have noted that my soothsaying is mostly renowned for its record of unfailing inaccuracy, but I shall soldier on undaunted by the sniping of those bean-counting naysayers."
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School Leaders Now
Imagine if each school day every teacher arrived with a contagious, optimistic attitude. Research suggests that positive emotions can help solve problems, reinforce resilience, strengthen relationships and even improve educational outcomes. An important aspect of effective leadership is creating and supporting environments that cultivate optimism. Here are four practical strategies for creating a positive and optimistic school culture.
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Fortune
Frustrated by little pay and better opportunities elsewhere, public school teachers and education employees in the United States are quitting their jobs at the fastest rate on record. During the first 10 months of the year, public educators, including teachers, community college faculty members, and school psychologists, quit their positions at a rate of 83 per 10,000, Labor Department figures obtained by The Wall Street Journal show.
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Education Week
Principals told us repeatedly in 2018 that they wanted actionable information they could use in their buildings to help students and staff. They were busy. They didn't have time to read long articles. They wanted tips on how to address challenges their students were facing — from vaping on campus, school shootings, to students' social-and-emotional needs. But they also needed help managing the incredibly long hours that they put in each day and working with difficult staff members.
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District Administration Magazine
Parents can now pay with checks using school transaction systems and can download apps that send push notifications for new or overdue fees. While most platforms schedule payments or store receipt and balance information, some systems allow multiple people to make payments for a student instead of limiting transactions to one person. One portal provides access to private online communities to chat with other members.
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Forbes
Awareness is the ability to recognize and understand personal moods, emotions and drives and their effects on others. Individuals with high awareness are able to channel their energy confidently so that successful results will happen. To impactfully connect, communicate and understand others there is an initial need to develop the level of awareness that allows us to be clear on our feelings, thinking process and judgments.
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Entrepreneur
Startup culture is all about disruption. It's perfectly normal for one person to work two or even three jobs within a year, bouncing from one organization to another in the hope of finding the right fit. It is hard when the time comes to cut ties with a longtime employee. When an employee finds that fit, though, the bonds they form with their coworkers and leaders become as strong as those of a family. Teams lift one another up in the bad times and celebrate together in the good, all in pursuit of a shared vision.
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The Lead Change Group
Dec. 21, 2018, marked the winter solstice and the darkest day of the year. This is the power of the pause, a time when the earth hunkers down, when plants draw deep into the earth and shelter under mounds of dirt while drawing strength for bursting forth in spring. What a powerful metaphor for all of us. Indeed, as we tread the threshold of a new year — after frantically closing off what remains to be done before the calendar flips and beginning to eagerly anticipate what will come over the next twelve months — we would be well advised to follow Mother Nature.
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Leadership Freak
2018 would have been better if you spent more time giving power and less time creating dependency. Misguided leaders create dependency.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Anne Rubin, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "As a teacher and school administrator, before I had my own children, I threw around the term 'helicopter parent' far too often. This term perfectly captured my experience with parents up to that point. Parents seemed to always be hovering around my students. They would email me asking if a paper turned in just the day before had been graded yet. Parents would help their kids craft emails asking me for extensions on assignments, and their over-editing would make their children sound like tiny Fortune 500 CEOs."
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Inc. (commentary)
Marcel Schwantes, a contributor for Inc., writes: "While standing in line at a busy coffee shop on my way to work, someone that knows I coach executives and managers asked one of those "drive by" philosophical questions that can't be answered before ordering a venti flat white. What's the secret to great management of people? he asked. Seriously? I thought. My next thought was to give this individual — a manager — something to process that would make him feel really uncomfortable, as it has so many others."
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Education Week
Happy New Year! It's 2019, which means that the Every Student Succeeds Act is more than three years old, and finally having an impact on school districts. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have been on the job for almost two years, with no major school choice initiative in sight. And Democrats are about to take over the U.S. House of Representatives.
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EdSurge
Education and cutting-edge technologies are core to the many programs at NYC Media Lab, where we lead university-corporate partnerships, communications and events. The goal is to merge engineering and design research happening at the city's universities with resources and opportunities from the media and technology industry — to develop new prototypes, explore applied R&D projects, launch new companies and encourage the latest thinking.
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eSchool News
eSchool News asked 49 ed tech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their thoughts about what will happen in 2019. In addition to the usual suspects — more augmented reality and virtual reality apps — a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning and interoperability become part of the mainstream. There are also a lot of predictions about improving safety and security.
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There is something going on in the back of the room. Two students are fighting over a piece of paper. The paper rips. Shouting begins. All of your students suddenly turn their attention to the back and you feel out of control. There's just five minutes left and you still have to cover one more important point in your lesson. In this scenario, many teachers may have a similar response to Sandy, a teacher who faced this scenario during a workshop for a research project.
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MindShift
Whether you're a Gryffindor, a Hufflepuff, a Ravenclaw, a Slytherin or a muggle still hoping your Hogwarts letter will arrive by owl, it is undeniable that the Harry Potter fandom has had a lasting impact throughout the world. September marked the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone's U.S. release. NPR asked teachers then to tell us how the book has changed the way they teach.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Cheryl Mizerny, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I began my career as a special education teacher for students with 'learning disabilities and emotional impairments' (the terms used at that time). Teaching special education was incredibly rewarding, but discouraging at the same time. It broke my heart to see students with so much potential become disenfranchised and grow to hate school. No matter how hard they tried, they were seldom successful in their general education classes."
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NPR
Jack Silva didn't know anything about how children learn to read. What he did know is that a lot of students in his district were struggling. Silva is the chief academic officer for Bethlehem, Pa., public schools. In 2015, only 56 percent of third-graders were scoring proficient on the state reading test. That year, he set out to do something about that. "It was really looking yourself in the mirror and saying, 'Which 4 in 10 students don't deserve to learn to read?' " he recalls.
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Gallup
The state of education in America is rapidly evolving due to technological advancements and curriculum reform. Perhaps the biggest challenge that the nation's K-12 school districts are facing during this transformation is finding and keeping talented teachers. Sixty-one percent of superintendents struggle with recruiting and retaining good teachers. Education leaders can look at their culture, their employee engagement and the success of their principals to shape what happens within their walls. We help K-12 schools focus on what they naturally do best using our strengths-based approach.
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The Washington Post
The midterm elections were good for supporters of expanding early-childhood education, with the majority of newly elected governors expressing support for programs targeted at teaching and caring for young people. Though there may be widespread support on the need for early-childhood education programs, there is no consensus over what those programs should focus on and look like.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Experts state that an overwhelming majority of our youth who commit suicide, over 90 percent, suffer from depression or other diagnosable forms of mental illness. Students who have some kind of mental illness are less likely to succeed in school as well. With such ominous statistics staring us in the face, it is high time we have straight talk with our children about mental health. New York and Virginia have become the first states to mandate that schools include mental health education in their curriculums. It is a step in the right direction, and other states should follow suit.
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NAESP
What if I told you that there was something you could do that would decrease teachers' stress levels and help reduce their anxiety? And what if I told you that it doesn't involve you reading a book, watching a video, or sitting through any professional development?
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NAESP
If you could make parents cry tears of happiness, students smile, and build a positive school culture by doing something that takes 10 minutes a day and costs nothing, would you do it? If you answered "Yes," you're in luck, because you can do all of those things by making what I refer to as a "Good News Call of the Day."
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