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School Leaders Now (commentary)
"You know when a student does something wrong and you throw out a consequence that you really can't follow up on? Yeah, me too. I always wish for good, logical consequences to have on hand before the moment has passed. To be honest, I really want school-wide logical consequences that everyone can access. That's why I'm excited about this free logical consequences printable for regular behavior infractions. Print them, forward them, share them with your staff."
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Edutopia
After a class one day, Physique 57 fitness studio cofounder Tanya Becker explained to me her ongoing dedication to teaching, even while running a successful international business. "You're only as good as your last class," she said. "Otherwise, you lose your connection and relevance to the work." Becker's philosophy applies outside of the fitness world: School administrators who teach can maintain a connection with the work of learning.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Happy New Year! As we begin 2020 and look forward to what the new year will bring, let's take a look back at what our profession learned in the last year. From the over 25 articles that I wrote for MultiBriefs in 2019, the topics that seemed to have the highest reach with educators focused on topics such as competency-based/personalized learning; mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL); and school safety.
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School Leaders Now
Windowless, padded, closet-sized rooms. Kids sent to isolation for refusing to write. Time-out booths monitored by school staff who record cries from inside. Seclusion rooms seem like something from long ago. Often the rooms have deceptive names, like calm-down rooms, restorative rooms, or quiet rooms. But, schools across the country are still isolating students in response to any number of behaviors. Here's what one education leader learned about seclusion rooms and some possible alternatives.
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Harvard Business Review
Somewhere around the third week in December work in many offices starts to slow down. There are holiday parties. Customers and clients may be harder to reach. Energy and motivation wanes. And many of us sign off from work completely to spend the holidays with friends and family. And then January arrives, and it's time to get back in the swing of things. But, after being out for a week or two, it can be hard to snap back into work mode. If you're feeling sluggish and unmotivated, you're not alone.
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Fast Company
You have to constantly be learning and growing. That's not optional. The best companies are growing. What you do when you have 10 people will not work when you have 1,000 people. Therefore, you have to keep evolving all of the time.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Almost gone, thankfully, are the days of brutal panel interviews with trick questions and ridiculous, no-win scenarios. Instead, questions like: "What animal would you be and why?" are being replaced with thoughtful inquiry, genuine interest and bilateral communication. Welcome to the world of the collaborative interview.
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Now in English or Spanish, Benchmark Workshops combine mini-lessons with culturally responsive texts, collaborative conversations, social-emotional learning, and small-group instruction. Engage diverse K-5 students in developing literacy, communication skills, and content knowledge, using innovative and effective resources that save teachers time and are easy to implement. FREE Sampler
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Entrepreneur
There's a difference between being the head honcho at your company and being a leader. Great leadership transforms a good company into an amazing company. The good news is that everybody has the ability to improve their leadership ability. Great leaders are made not born. And at the end of the day, great leaders need to exemplify the actions they want to see.
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The Lead Change Group
The turning of the calendar page from one year to the next is an opportunity to start the new year with a clear and focused plan for your team or organization. Yet if you're like many leaders, you not only find it hard to establish a clear strategy for the year, you also find it difficult to keep all your team members aligned and moving forward to achieve the goals. If this predicament is familiar, you have the opportunity to clarify your leadership intent for the year.
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Forbes
New Year's resolutions are undoubtedly on the minds of millions of American employees hoping to kickstart new healthy habits both inside and outside of the workplace — and employers can play a role. The findings of a new comprehensive study conducted in partnership between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the University of Southern California reveal insights about how corporate wellbeing programs can help reinforce many of the healthy habits employees start as part of their New Year's resolutions.
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IRIS Center
 Supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Department of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the IRIS Center creates reliable, trustworthy online open educational resources covering a huge variety of the issues most important to educators in today’s classrooms. In this article, we’ll tell you a little about IRIS, our resources, and why for almost 18 years the IRIS Center has been hailed as one of the most proven and credible sources for information about evidenced-based instructional and behavioral practices.
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Inc.
Employers are slowly but surely adapting to the needs and interests of a younger workforce, and becoming increasingly sophisticated in their approach to technology and data-driven tools that engage Generation Z. Managers are exploring ways to help this generation gain confidence, reduce stress and problem solve. Diversity and inclusion is a larger focus for leaders, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because the positive impact on innovation, creativity and even profitability.
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Leadership Freak
"A team struggled with people leaving before the end of organizational meetings. You could simply tell people not to leave. I asked, 'How do you want people to feel at the end of the meeting?' I based my question on Daniel Kahneman's book, 'Thinking, Fast and Slow.' Kahneman explains that people remember peaks and ends. You can't control someone's peak experience, but you can control what happens at the end."
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Education Week
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Monday introduced a plan designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities, including children in the nation's public schools, and ensure equitable treatment for them. Warren's campaign released "Protecting the Rights and Equality of People with Disabilities" on Monday, providing more detail on her broader K-12 education plan and her pledge to commit an additional $20 billion in grant funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Act and expand the program to cover more services for children, ages 3 to 5.
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eSchool News
We asked ed tech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think ed tech is headed in 2020. Social-emotional learning will remain a big focus, along with edtech driving personalized learning experiences and the growing potential of artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
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Education Week
Facial recognition technology is on the rise in schools across the country, but a new report from the federal government suggests its accuracy can vary widely depending on race and gender. African-Americans and Asian-Americans can be between 10 and 100 times more likely to be misidentified by the technology than white people, and women are more likely to be falsely identified than men, says the National Institute of Science and Technology report, which tested nearly 200 systems with photos of more than 8 million people.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Chip Donohue, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "As I reflect on the intersection of child development, early learning and technology over the past 10 years, I am reminded of a decade of polarizing arguments for and against young children using technology. In particular, I remain discouraged by 10 years of continuing debates about screen time that miss the importance of content and context in determining what uses of technology are beneficial for young children."
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 HundrED.org, a Finnish nonprofit education organization, recently announced its top 100 K-12 innovations globally. The list includes some incredible and inspiring innovations that are available for free, are impactful and scalable, and are aimed at helping children learn and flourish. Why is this important? Because we live in the digital age of education and mere access to computers, the internet, and basic educational software will no longer cut it. We need innovative programs so students can get more involved in their classes.
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EdSurge
Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. But with that comes greater risks to personal privacy and potential for misuse. Those building, funding and using edtech tools must similarly wrestle with these concerns. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? If so, what new challenges have emerged? As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade.
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Tech & Learning
With so many STEM-related career opportunities in the 21st century, it's no wonder that STEM topics are considered a key part of learning in today's classrooms. Because of this, more and more students are learning coding and programming earlier than ever before. Fortunately, there are many cutting-edge web tools and apps that help teachers teach, and students learn, coding and programming skills.
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District Administration Magazine
Districts that educate larger percentages of low-income students are increasingly making an effort to provide more robust music education, according to The Hechinger Report. Music education in lower-income districts remains less robust and is offered less frequently. But more than half of the students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the "Best Communities for Music Education" award in 2019, according to The Hechinger Report.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Rita Platt, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Guess what? I'm learning to communicate with sign language! I started learning because I have a new student who is deaf and uses Signed Exact English as her main strategy for communication. I wanted to be sure that she had at least two people she could speak to directly, her interpreter and her principal (me)."
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eSchool News (commentary)
Michael Godsey, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "I'm going to confess, I did not bring podcasts into my English classroom with any intention of improving my students' literacy skills. The idea came from a more selfish place: My wife and I were enthralled by the first few episodes of Serial, and I wanted to share our excitement for the amazing story with my students. Like almost everybody, they were hooked by the pilot episode and begged me for more."
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Education DIVE
In 2016, a report by Bank of America demonstrated an alarming statistic: Only 16% of millennials age 18-26 were optimistic about their financial futures. In the same year, Fortune published an article stating two in three Americans can't pass a basic financial literacy test.
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Education World (commentary)
Miriam Plotinsky, a contributor for Education World, writes: "The other day, my daughter came home from school with a paper in her hands. Her teacher had offered the class a spelling pre-test, and those students who spelled the words correctly would not have to take the actual test a few days later. My daughter was excited about her own success, but then she got quiet. 'My friend got all the words right,' she said, 'but the teacher gave her a zero because she forgot to write down her name.'"
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The Hechinger Report
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to start the school year with all students "looping" into the rhythm of their classroom routines, with teachers already having a handle on every student's strengths, struggles and home issues? A scenario in which teachers have the opportunity to go back and re-teach a hard-to-grasp skill that students completely understood last year? Schools and teachers who embrace looping have these opportunities as well as the benefits of higher attendance, increased engagement, more instructional time, improved teacher retention and gains in student achievement.
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EdSource
Each year, thousands of children in California are removed from their homes and placed into foster care due to parental neglect, abuse or exploitation. During this time, they are considered to be wards or dependents of the court. While some children are reunited with their families in a matter of weeks, others may stay in foster care for years until they reach adulthood and age out of the system.
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EdScoop
After a ransomware attack, winter break at Richmond Community Schools in Michigan was extended through the end of the week as district personal work to remedy the issue and bring all services back online, officials announced. The malware hit district servers over the holiday break, according to the announcement, and crippled some of the district's critical systems, including heating, telephones, copiers and classroom technology. However, student and staff information does not appear to be compromised, officials say.
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NAESP
As much as parents might try to shield children from tragedies like school shootings and terrorist attacks, there's still a high chance their children will hear about them anyway — from the news or another student. And it's not always an accurate portrayal of events when they get their information from these sources.
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NAESP
You might have heard of GoFundMe. Well, this is just like that — except it specifically funds projects in schools. Teachers who need anything from an area rug for reading time or flexible seating options to laptops and basic classroom supplies can post their projects on a crowdfunding site. Donations from the community — and often nationwide — will pour in to help these teachers fund projects that improve the educational experience for students.
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