This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
Education DIVE
With districts continuing to report shortages of teachers in multiple subject areas, a pair of new reports delves into the methods that schools are using to fill teaching positions, suggesting that smarter recruitment strategies and less reliance on whether the candidate is "likable" could not only help schools find teachers, but also keep them.
READ MORE
eSchool News
It's no secret that Americans experienced more than our fair share of natural disasters in recent months. Wildfires razed entire neighborhoods in California. Hurricane Maria decimated entire regions of Puerto Rico. The event that impacted my world was Hurricane Harvey. The deadly storm dealt its mighty blow right as the new school year got underway.
READ MORE
By: Mark S. Miller (commentary)
 Scholars have written numerous articles on leadership. Many of these articles center on the traits of a leader, actions or responses of a leader or even why some consider one individual a great leader over another. Was it their time in history — being in the right place at the right time? Was it their extensive training, or lack thereof, that enabled them to persevere through the challenges they faced? Or was it plain old "good luck" that helped them through?
READ MORE
|
Promoted by
|
|
|
|
 |
Leadership Freak
4 principles of energy: #1. People have energy. Lousy organizations drain it. #2. Energy flows toward meaningful action. When people lose energy, they're doing things that aren't fulfilling. #3. Energy increases with clarity and forward movement. Sustained confusion drains. #4. Leaders impact energy. Successful leaders protect, nurture, and ignite energy inside others. Foolish leaders suck the life out of people.
READ MORE
Entrepreneur (commentary)
Lucas Miller, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "As part of my job, I regularly work with people who own and run their own businesses. Many of these people are what you might call 'thought leaders,' highly respected in their fields. They're movers and shakers. And starting a few years ago, they all started saying the same thing: We're firing our millennial employees."
READ MORE
 |
|
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.
|
|
Harvard Business Review
The modern workplace is awash in meetings, many of which are terrible. As a result, people mostly hate going to meetings. The problem is this: The whole point of meetings is to have discussions that you can’t have any other way. And yet most meetings are devoid of real debate.
READ MORE
Education Week
Teacher-prep programs should take a page from minority-serving institutions. BranchEd founder Cassandra Herring explains why. The essay is one of 10 from leading experts on some of the most relevant issues facing K-12 education in a new Education Week special report.
READ MORE
The Atlantic
One of the more radical transformations in public education today begins with a simple greeting each morning among second-graders. "Good morning, Mahlet," says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School in SeaTac, Washington. "Good morning, Liliana," the second student responds. The exercise continues briskly until all 23 students seated in a circle have been recognized; then the children stand and greet three classmates each with handshakes and solid eye contact.
READ MORE
|
|
The Atlantic
Is a "war on teachers" driving them out of the classroom? In many states, teachers and their unions have made that case, noting that it's become tougher to earn tenure, bargaining rights have been diminished, and more of their evaluations are based on test scores. A new study tries to find out whether the two — recent policy changes and teacher turnover — are really linked. Its findings make it the latest in a handful of recent studies to suggest that the weakening of teachers unions and job protections hits already - struggling schools the hardest.
READ MORE
By: Michelle R. Matisons (commentary)
 The flu season is here again, in case you have not heard. This year there are special concerns related to the voraciousness of this particular strain, the limits of the available flu vaccine and a medical supplies shortage caused by Hurricane Maria's shutdown of Puerto Rico's power grid. According to the CDC, this year's flu season began early and almost simultaneously in 46 states, then it spread rapidly. The South reports some of the highest flu numbers.
READ MORE
|
Promoted by
|
|
|
|
 |
By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 NPR recently released its predictions for U.S. education as we start 2018. If they come true, our nation's education system will be undergoing some serious changes. One of the first things they predicted is the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which has protected 800,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation. If these immigrants are deported, K-12 schools will see a massive exodus of students.
READ MORE
Education Week
The School Improvement Grant program may be toast, thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act, which scrapped dozens of education programs. But that doesn't mean the money is gone. Some states still have SIG dollars, which last went out in fiscal year 2016, available to spend. So what can they do with that money? States and districts essentially have two options, according to a letter sent to states this week from Jason Botel, the acting assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education.
READ MORE
District Administration Magazine
Rose L. Colby's book Competency-Based Education introduces educators to a new model for anytime, anywhere schooling, and provides curriculum resources for redesigning the traditional structures of our schools. Colby, a competency-based learning and assessment specialist, says seat time doesn't equal learning. A system based on demonstrating competencies does more to prepare students for higher education and the job market.
READ MORE
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Sarah Tantillo, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Recently, while conducting an observation, I saw a teacher direct students to sit in pairs and read an article together. I kept waiting for further directions, but none came. Students scattered happily to various corners of the room to sit side by side. Some of them read. Some of them took turns reading. Some of them chatted. And there was no telling how long this would go on because the teacher wasn’t using a timer."
READ MORE
EdSurge
After politics and religion, few issues are as contentious as standardized tests. Opinions run the gamut. To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. For others, they remain the best way to compare students objectively and hold schools accountable.
READ MORE
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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.
Read more
|
|
|
|
|
MindShift (commentary)
Maanvi Singh, a contributor for MindShift, writes: "Quick, think of a physicist. If you're anything like me, you probably didn't have to think very hard before the names Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton popped up. But what if I asked you to think of a female physicist? What about a black, female physicist? You may have to think a bit harder about that. For years, mainstream accounts of history have largely ignored or forgotten the scientific contributions of women and people of color."
READ MORE
Education Next
The work of teaching is changing. For much of the 20th century, most teachers worked alone behind classroom doors, with little interaction with their colleagues. In recent years, however, teacher collaboration has emerged as an important strategy to drive improvement, informed by research showing how on-the-job interactions can boost teacher development and effectiveness. Schools across the United States are adjusting their professional cultures and workplace practices in response, creating formal opportunities for teachers to learn from one another and work together through shared planning periods, teacher leadership roles, and professional learning communities.
READ MORE
Edutopia
As educational partners, teachers and parents (or guardians) share responsibility for the success of children. Keeping open lines of communication is essential to maintaining a relationship of transparency and trust. Parents expect and deserve honest feedback about their children's progress.
READ MORE
|
|
Education World
The school year is coming to an end, and teachers are rushing to complete their lessons and finish the year on a high note. EducationWorld offers a number of end-of-year resources to help provide classroom closure.
READ MORE
Edutopia
Good, solid literacy instruction is the right of every student and the responsibility of all educators. School leaders recognize the need for literacy instruction to become a schoolwide priority—in all courses, not just English and the humanities.
READ MORE
Education Week
Democrats are lining up behind an effort in the Senate to restore what's known as "net neutrality" to the internet, even if the odds are heavily against it. Recently, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to toss aside the two-year-old policy, which was intended to prevent internet service providers from blocking or slowing down content. The move, led by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, is supported by those who say it will allow providers to create more and better content without jeopardizing fair access to various sites.
READ MORE
 |
|
No more notes! Office dashboard with convenient app for parents. Reduces classroom interruptions. Automatically compiles customized end-of-day lists. Easy setup. Try our FREE PILOT today!
|
|
|
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
|
Don't be left behind. Click here to see what else you missed.
|
EdTech Magazine
Students in Minnesota who live nearly an hour from a big city log plenty of time on buses, whether they’re traveling to away games with the hockey team or going on field trips with the science club. Eastern Carver County Schools in Chaska, Minn., wanted to make those long bus rides more productive and help teachers put that otherwise wasted time to good use. But to do that they needed to put the internet on wheels.
READ MORE
eSchool News
In any rush of new technology there comes fresh opportunities for learning and growth that were never possible before. We've seen this in the past two decades with blended learning, which combines digital media with traditional classroom methods to engage students like never before. In all of the excitement to use technology, however, the real purpose of blended learning is often lost. Collaborating on a Google Doc is fun and convenient, but blended learning should be more than that.
READ MORE
PBS Newshour
Too often, low-income, black and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission said inequities are caused by the fact that schools are most funded with state and local tax dollars. More than 92 percent of funding comes from nonfederal sources, according to the Education Department.
READ MORE
Education Week
Even as recently as 1980, home schooling was illegal in a majority of states — and didn't become lawful nationwide until 1993. But once seen as a fringe practice of families on the extreme right and left — religious conservatives and hippies — homeschooling today is viewed as a small, but integral part of the education ecosystem in the United States and a pillar of the school choice movement.
READ MORE
Houston Chronicle
An arbitrary special education enrollment target set by the Texas Education Agency led school districts to delay or deny special education services to students across the state, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education. For more than a decade, TEA judged a school district's' performance based in part on the percentage of students receiving special education services. The
READ MORE
NAESP
The work of a principal is never done. You do it all, and you love it. But even principals require support. We want to keep you in the know about how your Association is serving you while you serve kids. Here are five things you need to know about NAESP.
READ MORE
NAESP
Don't miss a unique opportunity to advance your career and strengthen the leadership skills of new principals. Your knowledge and expertise is critical to ensure the success of the next generation of school leaders. As with any career, mentors offer guidance and support to help others become highly effective leaders. Take the time to invest in yourself, your career, and the principal profession as a Certified National Principal Mentor.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
