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Education DIVE
Running a school, let alone an entire district, is no walk in the park. You're essentially accountable for guiding the effective preparation of your community's entire next generation for success in life, civic engagement and the workplace. It's a role that ultimately has one of the largest impacts on both the civic and economic success of your community or those your students move onto beyond high school.
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eSchool News
Feeling unmotivated is a common challenge. Our motivation is what drives us to meet our goals and losing that sense of determination can leave us feeling confused and frustrated. There are many reasons for motivation depletion — it can be circumstantial, environmental, emotional, mental, etc. However, rediscovering your spark doesn't have to be difficult — sometimes we just need to make simple adjustments in order to find it.
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Education Week
The last time Los Angeles teachers went on strike 30 years ago, Gary Garcia was a young, newly married teacher on the picket line demanding higher salaries. Recently, Garcia, now the principal of John Marshall High School, was playing a different role, running a school building while the teachers joined thousands of their colleagues on strike over demands for smaller class sizes, additional school counselors, nurses and librarians and higher wages.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 After decades of largely ineffective attempts by American teachers to raise salaries and improve teaching conditions, American teachers have changed their ways. In 2018, they were organizing, striking, or simply leaving the profession. Until recently, polarized state governments have been unable or unwilling to address the problem. Parents are often unaware of the seriousness of the crisis, which could leave many American students without access to an effective education.
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Harvard Business Review
For too long, the American education system failed too many kids, including far too many poor kids and kids of color, without enough public notice or accountability. To combat this, leaders of all political persuasions championed the use of testing to measure progress and drive better results. Measurement has become so common that in school districts from coast to coast you can now find calendars marked "Data Days," when teachers are expected to spend time not on teaching, but on analyzing data like end-of-year and mid-year exams, interim assessments, science and social studies and teacher-created and computer-adaptive tests, surveys, attendance and behavior notes. It's been this way for more than 30 years, and it's time to try a different approach.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 We've all been there: a day filled with looming deadlines, uncooperative team members, and unexpected disasters cropping up. It's easy to let frustration overwhelm you — but if you do, you'll lose control of your perspective, making you susceptible to lashing out at your team and making you a less productive manager. The good news: science has your back. Use these five simple research-based steps to cut your frustration and regain your perspective.
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Leadership Freak
One question and one commitment have the power to enhance well-being in others. But first, take a look the five elements of well-being from a Gallup study that represents 98 percent of the world's population.
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Training Industry Magazine
Everyone wants to be thought of as a good manager. However, as there are so many different skills to learn, being a good boss is no easy feat.
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By: Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 We often talk about the traits of great leaders. Harvard Business Review, Inc. magazine, Psychology Today, and numerous best-selling books often share the latest research on leadership. Great organizations sustain themselves with great leaders at every level when they employ the right practices. But what happens in organizations with bad leaders? There is a misconception that just because someone has the title of leader and a great product that they are good at leading people. Here are three behaviors that bad leaders do so well, their employees end up hating them, retiring in place or just quit.
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Inc.
It's human nature to want to be liked. While there is nothing wrong with this desire, it may be hurting your ability to lead others effectively. Take Susan, a young manager of a mid-sized company, for example. The friendships she formed with her team were real and included lunches, discussions about personal lives, and even after-work drinks. While at first, these close relationships proved to bring the team success, the performance of the team quickly began to erode. The reason: Susan couldn't turn off the "friend" label which made it extremely difficult to challenge, coach and hold her team accountable.
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HR DIVE
The O.C. Tanner poll may have found that employees' faking sick doesn't happen often, but that doesn't mean employers should ignore the phenomenon entirely. Employers can intervene by regularly gauging workers' satisfaction through internal polling. Hidden dissatisfaction among workers could turn into chronic absenteeism, which, in turn, can lower productivity and lead to burnout.
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Entrepreneur
Alexander Maasik, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "I have always played the mediator role in the relationships in my life. From breaking up playground feuds or acting as an impromptu therapist between couples during high school, it was no wonder I ended up studying internal communications. From both my life experiences and my studies, my biggest take away was that for communication to work, everyone needs to know what is expected of them and, more importantly, why those expectations exist."
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Leadership Freak
Chances are you're a lousy listener — even though you think you're good at it. The problem is, 96 percent believe they are good listeners according to Accenture. But a Scientific American article states, "... studies show that people wildly overestimate how good they are at listening." You can emphasize "wildly", if you ask me.
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Education Week
It's hard to find agreement on many big issues in education. But one position that's pretty popular — shared by people as different as Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — is the belief that children's education and opportunities shouldn't be determined by their ZIP code. So what's the best way of loosening, or breaking, geography's impact on K-12?
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EdSurge
Open educational resources hit a turning point in 2018. For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving. But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem. While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality.
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eSchool News
Today, education is far more flexible and collaborative than a generation ago, and technology is key in enabling teachers to quickly adapt lesson plans to suit the moment's activity. Having multiple screens that a teacher or student can wirelessly project to, along with the ability to switch between sources in seconds, means that teachers aren't tied to the front of the classroom any more. They are free to roam around to small groups, to see what students are working on simultaneously, and to call attention to particularly high-quality work or ideas that challenge and stimulate.
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Education World
Each January many schools celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by bringing to life his words and his dream. Learn what some schools, including three that bear his name, do to keep the meaning of this holiday foremost in the minds of their students.
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By Sharona Sommer, CPC (commentary)
 What does it really mean to enable versus support your student? Generally speaking, enabling refers to the practice of over-helping, as in rescuing your student from uncomfortable or challenging situations without considering if they are able to handle it themselves. When you support your student, you provide space for them to learn from their mistakes and build the necessary coping skills to handle life's twists and turns. It is your job as parents and caregivers to provide positive encouragement along the path to independence but not to pave the road for them before they get there.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Pete Barnes, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "For teachers who love nature, hiking a trail, canoeing a local lake, or birdwatching in the woods are peaceful and rejuvenating ways to escape civilization. As a teacher, I want to share my passion for the outdoors with my students. Many students (and the parents or guardians who sign the permission slips) have reservations about experiences outdoors. While students spend time outside at ball fields, playgrounds and backyards, many have little experience in more natural settings, and this inexperience can create fear."
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 In a recent National Association of Secondary School Principals blog, 2018 New York State Assistant Principal of the Year Terry Adamec wrote about how she developed small learning communities (academies) at her school as a way to help all of her students find a place. These communities "encourage students to get involved in not only their daily education plan but extracurricular activities linked to the academy as well." According to Adamec, the small learning community model at her school resulted in three main benefits.
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eSchool News
Just a little more than half (55 percent) of teachers in a recent survey say their schools translate parent correspondence into other languages, despite federal data showing that almost 5 million U.S. students are English language learners. The survey from communication app ClassDojo highlights the communication challenges teachers and families face each day due to language barriers. Of the teachers who say their school does translate communications, 36 percent say they rely on a teacher who speaks the language to do it, and 16 percent use a professional translation service.
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MindShift
Educators all over the world are thinking creatively about ways to transform the traditional education system into an experience that will propel students forward into the world ready to take on its complex challenges. Competency-based education has piqued the interest of many communities because of its promise to make learning a more personal experience for students. In a competency-based model, children move through school based on their ability to demonstrate proficiency in skills and content, not by how many hours they spent sitting in class.
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THE Journal
With 20 new governors assuming office, a new Center for American Progress report outlines the ways that governors can act quickly when it comes to creating new education policies. The report highlights 11 possible actions for governors to take during their few months in office.
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Healio
Findings from a prospective cohort study of more than 30,000 children showed that more than 40% started school with vulnerabilities in social-emotional functioning tied to emerging mental health conditions. Prior longitudinal studies have demonstrated that early symptoms of internalizing and externalizing conditions, especially depression and conduct problems, are linked to earlier onset and greater severity of the same conditions later, according to Kimberly C. Thomson, PhD, of the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health, and colleagues.
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EdScoop
To enable students to develop new technology skills that will help them get jobs, the Carson City School District in Nevada is prioritizing professional and student training. The concept of preparing students early for careers in technology and building their digital literacy is a growing trend in K-12 education and has become a major priority that district technology leaders face today.
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NAESP
Elementary and middle-level principals work tirelessly on behalf of our nation's students. Principals' perspectives on how Pre-K–8 education should function is summarized in the NAESP Platform. NAESP's advocacy staff works to shape Congress' and the U.S. Department of Education's policies based on the belief statements included in the platform document. The platform is reviewed and updated annually and submitted to the NAESP Board of Directors to review in March.
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NAESP
Every school stakeholder hopes that students arrive each day with a hunger to learn. However, far too many students miss out on a morning meal, resulting in hunger for food, not knowledge. When schools make breakfast part of the school day, just like lunch, students succeed. Absenteeism and behavior disruptions decline and students' academic outcomes increase. Most importantly, teachers and principals report a new sense of community that is created as students eat a calm morning meal together. Learn how other principals have lead the charge to increase access to school breakfast by making it part of the school day. Register for this webinar, which takes place Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 3-4 p.m. ET.
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