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Education Week
As soon as they feel feverish or achy, teachers must juggle a tricky mix of considerations: Do I have enough sick time left to stay home right now? Will my principal be angry if I call in sick? Are my students at a crucial juncture in their learning, and how will they do with a substitute? Will my school even be able to find a sub, or will they impose on one of my colleagues to fill in for me? With a particularly nasty flu season bearing down on the country, many teachers are trying to navigate through those kinds of questions.
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District Administration Magazine (commentary)
Matthew X. Joseph, a contributor for District Administration Magazine, writes: "Before FETC 2019, my professional social media presence was exclusively on Twitter (@matthewxjoseph). That was until I had a conversation with a successful and reputable professional — Rita Oates, education consultant and former ed tech director for Miami-Dade County Public Schools — who told me I was missing out by not being on LinkedIn."
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The beginning of every new year spawns a flurry of predictions. This year's predictions in education mark a definite shift in direction. According to experts, education will be moving away from one-size-fits-all assessments and memorizing facts to learning how to make a difference. In the next decade, solving complex problems will be most important for students. Forbes predicts that, instead of an obsession with testing and ranking, cohort education will involve place-based learning experiences. Experiential learning will slowly become the new normal.
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Edutopia (comentary)
Katy Farber, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Years ago, a new teacher I was mentoring up and left the profession after two years. She was brilliant, enthusiastic and well-loved by colleagues, students and families, and she inspired me to write the book 'Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus.'"
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Harvard Business Review
Imagine that you recently started a role as a new manager. After a few months on the job, one of your direct reports stops by for a chat. You're not sure what he needs at first but as the conversation progresses you quickly realize that this is about a personal issue. He shares that he's the primary caretaker of his elderly parents, he finds the responsibility overwhelming and he's saddened to see their health deteriorate.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 Being a transformative leader — more than just a good leader — takes a lot of work. Many leaders try to emulate other successful leaders, and they often end up getting stuck in a rut. However, according to Doug Conant, building a sturdy and firm foundation is the key to enduring success as a leader. Conant is the founder of Conant Leadership and has served in the senior ranks of leadership for various companies over 20 years. He is also author of "The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights." We asked Conant to share some of his tips with MultiBriefs readers.
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Inc.
Writer Maya Angelou was only half right when she said that people won't remember what you said, but they'll always remember how you made them feel. True, unless you're talking about toxic things that careless leaders say. People will remember the exact words, and exactly how they made them feel — and it's not good.
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Entrepreneur
Do you find yourself overwhelmed with all the tasks that you have to get done in a day? Do you sometimes struggle to stay focused or figure out what to do next? Time management and staying focused are difficult tasks for most entrepreneurs and business owners. When your to-do list is through the roof, it's hard to figure out where to dedicate your time and energy.
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Fast Company
Energy is a form of power. When it's high, you feel like there's no task you can't tackle. When it's low, you feel scattered, burnt out, and overwhelmed. Implementing an energy-management strategy in your life will help you channel more of your drive toward your work goals. Here's how to focus less on filling slots in your calendar and more on filling yourself up with energy to get more done.
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Forbes
As the world becomes increasingly more complex and the pace of things speeds up, leaders and organizations are needing to become more and more adaptable to changing circumstances. While staying the course can be a healthy quality, an unwillingness to adapt can cause leaders and organizations to become stagnant or, in the worst-case scenario, to get disrupted.
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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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Education Week
When Congress passed a broad law on educating children with disabilities in 1975, it agreed to kick in federal dollars to help cover the excess costs of meeting students' individual education needs. In the time since, federal funding for what's now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has consistently fallen short of the target included in the law, leaving state and local officials on the hook.
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Education Next
The Common Core State Standards, released in 2010, were rapidly adopted by more than 40 states. Champions maintained that these rigorous standards would transform American education, but the initiative went on to encounter a bumpy path. A decade on, what are we to make of this ambitious effort? What kind of impact, if any, has it had on the quality of instruction and student learning — or is it too early to say?
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eSchool News
The technology-driven campus leverages the latest technology to better educate students and empower teachers. Devices such as iPads, iPods, Chromebooks, interactive whiteboards and different software for educators are just the tip of the iceberg — there's much, much more that connected devices, augmented reality and robotics can add to teaching methods.
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EdTech Magazine
Twenty or 30 years ago, the role of an IT director centered on maintaining devices and networks — a facilities role. But today, particularly in K–12 education, IT leaders play a much more integral part in maintaining technology used in school and districts, as well as supporting overall academic goals. For example, when a superintendent is asked about district cybersecurity, "The answer can no longer be, 'Go ask my IT guy,'" consultant Ann McMullan said at the 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference in Miami. "The superintendent has to be able to talk that talk convincingly and know what he's talking about or what she's talking about."
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 As our world becomes more and more digital, our classrooms continue to become transformed through technology. The curriculum binders in the back of the teacher's classroom have been replaced with a shared "drive." The whiteboard at the front of the room seldom has dry erase marking on it because students know their agenda, know that their notes will always live in the "cloud" and realize that the whiteboard is really a way for the teacher to project the Google Classroom on the wall. There is an app for everything — literally.
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eSchool News
In Phenix City, using AR and VR in the classroom has been an integral part of our STEM programming for the past four school years. Using engaging technology, our educators are bringing lessons and scientific applications to life for our students, exposing them to new worlds and opportunities, both academic and career.
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Edutopia
So often we find students in a stressed or anxious state of mind. The most telltale signs are inappropriate behaviors or outbursts, negative comments and anxiety-ridden movements such as fidgeting, leg shaking and fist clenching. These signals should raise immediate concern and indicate to educators that a response may be needed. The goal is to guide the student to a self-regulated mindset, but how does a teacher do that?
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EdSurge
Teachers, we're well aware of just how much you have to accomplish each day in the classroom and how little time there is to get it all done. While we're busy coming up with solutions to lighten your workload, we've also compiled some great advice from experts in the field to help you reclaim lost time and, in turn, better serve your students and yourself.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 "Growth mindset" theory in education proposes that minds are malleable: teachers can improve students' "intelligence, ability and performance" by encouraging them to believe their learning abilities aren't fixed, but are capable of growth. The theory is popular in education circles. Firsthand teacher accounts show dramatic learning improvements attributed to growth mindset. It also has its detractors. At least one well-designed study found little evidence the theory really does work in practice. Who's right?
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MindShift
Art's ability to flex our imaginations may be one of the reasons why we've been making art since we were cave-dwellers, says Kaimal. It might serve an evolutionary purpose. She has a theory that art-making helps us navigate problems that might arise in the future. She wrote about this in October in the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.
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Edutopia
A common practice — reading logs — may also sap a student's motivation to read, according to a 2012 study. When students were required to track the number of minutes they read, their interest and attitudes toward reading fell dramatically.
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EdSurge
It may have been the seventh time that the U.S. Department of Education hosted its annual ED Games Expo. But it was only the first that the event convened a room full of researchers, entrepreneurs and practitioners to showcase innovations in early childhood development and learning.
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center via Science Daily
A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons suggests that prenatal exposure to flame retardants may increase the risk of reading problems. The study was published in the January 2020 print edition of Environmental International.
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Reuters Health
Coaches who teach young male athletes about respectful relationship behaviors may be able to help prevent dating violence and aggressive behavior toward female peers, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers tested the effectiveness of Coaching Boys Into Men, a program that seeks to prevent dating violence and sexual assault by enlisting coaches to speak frankly with middle-school male athletes about how they should — and should not — treat the opposite sex.
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The Hechinger Report
Jill Barshay, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. His conclusion was that generic critical thinking skills don't translate from one subject to another but that subject-specific critical thinking skills can be explicitly taught as you go deep into a lesson, be it history or math, as students need to learn a lot of information to process it."
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EdSource
With the highest level of investment ever, and our K through 14 budget as you recall last year, the revised budget was $81.6 billion and this year it is $84 billion to our schools. That represents a 3.03% growth. We have seen growth in the state of California since 2011 by roughly $7,200 per pupil.
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Washington Times Herald
Bills that would protect teachers from being evaluated on their students’ standardized test results, as well as temporarily free school districts from being graded on them, are flying through the legislature.
On Monday, at the start of the second week of this year’s legislative session, both the House and Senate unanimously passed bills to ease teacher and school districts’ fears.
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Patch
Democrats opened the 2020 session of the Colorado General Assembly with pledges to invest more in education, in particular student mental health and school safety, and to keep working on "longer term school funding solutions."
But the topic got relatively little attention amid a broader agenda that includes ambitious proposals for paid family leave, college loan forgiveness, lowering health care costs, and expanding gun control that prompted Republican promises of opposition.
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NAESP
Principals come to NAESP for much-needed support in leading learning communities. Now NAESP members can access that support on-the-go through the NAESP App. Thousands of resources are available, including webinars, podcasts, publications, advocacy updates and more.
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NAESP
Elementary and middle-level principals strive toward a well-rounded, complete education for every student in their care. This includes the 7 million students with disabilities who receive services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. These students are entitled to a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment.
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