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School Leaders Now
No one gets into education for the accolades, the applause, or the gratitude of their peers. We do this work because we believe in the transformative power of schools. But, it’s important to work on self improvement on a daily basis. Once in awhile, a well-meaning person reaches out with six terrifying words: You are doing an amazing job.
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Education World
We get it. Coffee is a magical bean. What else can have you skipping to your classroom at 6 in the morning after a long, cold night of grading midterms on the living room floor? And if you're in the education profession, they'll peer-pressure you all day: "Wanna cup of coffee? I just made coffee! Who needs a refill?" You've never seen the coffee pot in the teacher lounge go wanting for company. And why not? That little cup of liquid enlightenment has been linked to lowering the risk of diabetes, depression and even some cancers.
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Harvard Business Review
Working as part of a remote team, with colleagues spread out in different locations, is increasingly common and surprisingly challenging. Absent non-verbal cues, it's often difficult to gauge how your relationship is going. If something does start to derail your relationship, you don't have the benefit of informal office interactions to build rapport and re-establish trust. Small irritants that aren't addressed can fester into resentment and eventually impact your work. Don't let concerns with your remote teammates grow bigger than they need to be. There are a few techniques you can use to deliver feedback that will get the relationship back on track.
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Inc.
Consumers today have high expectations for experiences. Just look at what's happening to scheduled TV viewership. Netflix now automatically provides recommendations for what to watch using predictive analytics, letting users control their own experiences by making specific choices and providing feedback through the ratings system. But there was also a time when looking at TV Guide magazine was the only way to decide what to watch.
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Forbes
Decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions as one is forced to engage in more and more decision-making. If you’ve ever planned an event, re-designed a home or purchased a new car, you probably remember the exhaustion and indifference that eventually resulted from being faced with so many choices.
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The NIGHTLOCK® Lockdown uses the strength of the floor to withstand tremendous force, and works on any outward- and inward-swinging doors. The NIGHTLOCK unit is installed at floor level, and remains out of reach to anyone attempting to enter by breaking window glass on conventional classroom and office doors.
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School Leaders Now
Q. "I'm excited about January because I think it's a really good time to plan for next year. What things should I be looking at during my principal planning time?" A. I love starting fresh in January. The holidays are over, and we have three months of basically uninterrupted instructional time ahead of us. Oh sure, there are a few days off in February, and if you're in the North, there are always snow days. But basically, it's a great time for sustained teaching and learning. And planning.
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Wall Street Journal
At least 26 public-school districts across the U.S. agreed this year to at least $37 million in settlements stemming from allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault of students, teachers or other employees, according to a tally of payouts by The Wall Street Journal. The 26 settlements were reached in states from California to Connecticut and ranged from $30,000 to $8.25 million. They came during a year of higher-profile incidents involving allegations of sexual misconduct, including assault, by prominent men in politics, media and entertainment.
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Training Industry Magazine
Potential is not a destination. It is a strategy. In physics, potential energy is energy that is stored in an object relative to its position to something else. A boulder at the top of a hill has potential energy because of its position at the top of a hill. Once it rolls down the hill, the potential energy is lost. As learning professionals, it is important for us to understand this concept as we develop leaders and turn their potential into results for our organizations. In the quest for turning high-potential employees into leaders who actually realize their potential, it is important to consider three things.
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Education DIVE
While professional development options have expanded for K-12 educators in recent years to include more individualized approaches, those working with young children are still largely experiencing "lecture-style" trainings, the report says.
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eSchool News
Rapid modernization surrounding teacher policies has largely slowed in the past two years, with few states initiating new actions to improve policies guiding teacher selection, preparation, evaluation, and retention, according to a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality. Florida and Louisiana are this year's top-performing states, each earning a B+, according to NCTQ's biannual 2017 State Teacher Policy Yearbook. Overall, however, the 2017 Yearbook finds that state grades have mostly stagnated, with more state grades decreasing than at any other time in the Yearbook’s 10-year history. No state has ever earned an A.
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MindShift
Observing a group of students conversing deeply as a team, checking resources on a Chromebook, presenting solutions to a problem in a project, or responding to open ended questions, you might ask yourself: What the heck is going on? Is this learning? In times past, this was an easy question to answer. Traditional, recognizable elements of education, such as lectures, worksheets, spelling tests, writing, and standardized tests were prominent. There was also a shared mental model of what learning meant.
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Solve all your school’s moving and storage needs with one versatile solution.
For educational institutions across North America, PODS® is the smart solution for maximizing campus space, managing storage and transportation costs, and reducing the risk of damage and loss.
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Matific takes a unique approach to teaching K to 6 math using hands-on
and interactive mini-games, called episodes. These immersive bite-sized
apps for tablets and personal computers are based on a modular and progressive spiral learning system.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 I hit a wall of frustration last week when I was doing some walk-through classroom observations in my school. Fellow principals can probably relate with what I am about to say. I spent a little under an hour in one classroom hallway, and in that time I made it into six different classrooms. In five of the six classroom visits, I saw the exact same thing: The teacher was lecturing from the front of the room, and students were seated at their desks taking notes.
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Edutopia
Under pressure from an unprecedented constellation of forces — from state lawmakers to prestigious private schools and college admissions offices — the ubiquitous one-page high school transcript lined with A–F letter grades may soon be a relic of the past.
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U.S. News & World Report
As states cement education plans for their schools under the federal K-12 law, the Department of Education is working furiously to assess them amid mounting concerns about states' commitment to following the law, their proposals to ensure historically disadvantaged students have access to quality education, and the department's capacity — and in some cases, lack of desire — to police it all.
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Des Moines Register
It's cold. So cold that waiting for the school bus might not just be an inconvenience, it could be dangerous. That has parents downloading apps that allow them to track their children's buses and minimize the time little ones are spending at the bus stop. Several metro districts are offering the apps. Johnston parents use SafeStop, while Ankeny parents use BusTracker.
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eSchool News
Cost remains the biggest hurdle for schools trying to increase broadband connectivity speeds for students, according to CoSN's 2017 Annual Infrastructure Survey. The majority of school districts — 85 percent, to be exact — meet the Federal Communications Commission's short-term goal for broadband connectivity of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students, according to the survey. The survey collected feedback from 445 large, small, urban and rural school district leaders nationwide and examines the current state of technology infrastructure in U.S. K-12 districts.
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Kickboard via District Administration Magazine
Which student behaviors have the greatest impact in creating a safe, supportive learning environment? An analysis of more than 152 million student behavior instances collected over seven years by educators in 645 schools has enabled researchers to identify the most essential behaviors in creating a positive school culture. The behaviors are categorized in a new compendium called the Positive School Culture Inventory. In a new white paper titled, "The Positive School Culture Inventory: Purpose, Rationale, and Development," school climate experts Kent Peterson and Tom Hierck describe how schools can use this inventory to measurably improve school culture outcomes.
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Edutopia
Dysgraphia is a language-based learning difference that affects a student's ability to produce written language. In the early grades, students with dysgraphia may have difficulty with consistent letter formation, word spacing, punctuation and capitalization. In later grades, they may have difficulty with writing fluency, floating margins and legible writing.
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EdSurge
Education eats good ideas. It boils down its best levers for change into cliches and shells of ideas. The complex is turned into checklists and clickbait. Modern classroom design is sitting on this precipice. As more teachers and leaders race for tables on wheels and bouncy chairs in the name of flexible seating, the heart of this transformational change is ripped out of our hands.
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The Washington Post
In Buffalo, where the average low temperature in January is 19 degrees, public schools are closing Friday, and Saturday programming is canceled. Why? It's going to be cold. Very, very cold. How cold is too cold to keep schools open? The question is being raised, at least in the Northeast, where a "bomb cyclone" is sending temperatures way below zero.
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eSchool News
From shifts in school choice to student assessments to online learning, the educational landscape is constantly evolving. This coming year, districts will continue to face many challenges and opportunities that will impact students, staff, and school systems as a whole.
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TIME
Rates of autism spectrum disorder among children in the U.S. remained stable from 2014 to 2016, according to new research — a change from previous studies that found steady increases over the past two decades. The new research letter, published in JAMA, looked at survey responses from a nationally representative sample of more than 30,000 children, ages 3 to 17, and their families. From 2014 to 2016, adults in each household were asked if a doctor had ever told them that their child had autism, Asperger's disorder, pervasive developmental disorder or autism spectrum disorder. Data from the study was then adjusted to account for differences in people's age, gender and ethnicity.
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HealthDay News via UPI
Preschoolers with asthma may have worse symptoms if they're overweight. Compared to those with a healthy weight, heavy kids with untreated asthma had 37 more days with symptoms a year, according to a new report. The study findings show that "early life weight gain does worsen the severity of asthma in the youngest patients," said study leader and lung specialist Dr. Jason Lang.
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NAESP
We are excited to announce the online-education pioneer Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy as a keynote speaker at the NAESP Pre-K–8 Principals Conference. With over 3,000 instructional videos, 300 exercises, and 3,700,000 unique users per month, Khan Academy is changing the educational landscape. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the Khan Academy site to utilize this fresh approach to learning and technology integration. Visit www.naespconference.org for more information.
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NAESP
Being a connected educator has never been easier or more important than it is right now. Nearly every aspect of school leadership, from relationship-building to instructional improvement, depends on effective connections. Join Jimmy Casas, former principal, noted author, and international speaker and learn ways to sharpen your skills to reach leadership targets as well as school goals and objectives.
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