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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How school leaders can frame tough decisions
Edutopia
The pandemic has provided school leaders with multiple opportunities to make quick decisions that have lasting impact on student learning, teacher well-being and family engagement. It's easy to feel lost and overwhelmed in the face of that responsibility, but it's critical to maintain our grounding and move forward in a clear direction.
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Pandemic teacher shortages imperil in-person schooling
The New York Times
As exposure to the coronavirus forced thousands of teachers across the United States to stay home and quarantine this winter, administrators in the Washoe County School District, which serves 62,000 students in western Nevada, pulled out all the stops to try to continue in-person instruction for students. They exhausted the district's regular supply of substitute instructors. They asked teachers to use their planning periods to cover classes for quarantining colleagues. Some schools tapped principals, librarians, guidance counselors and other staff members to teach classes or monitor lunch and recess. The superintendent even filled in for an absent teacher.
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3 ways our school support students' mental health during COVID
eSchool News
While COVID-19 has brought health concerns for people of all ages, it has especially brought concern for children's emotional well-being and students' mental health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken steps to educate the public on social, emotional and mental well-being as trauma at a developmental stage could have long-term consequences. At the International School of Indiana, our staff follows a few tips and strategies to best support students' mental health in the classroom during COVID-19.
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School enrollment decline threatens lasting funding damage for districts
K-12 DIVE
As many state legislative sessions get underway this month, Michael Leachman, vice president for state fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, warned states could sharply cut funding. According to a report released in December by the National Association of State Budget Officers, K-12 saw the largest decrease in state funding for fiscal year 2021 when compared to other state programs.
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The lessons learned online that will shape education after the pandemic
EdSurge
Last year presented many challenges and accelerated a number of shifts that were already underway in K-12 education. Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.
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A case study of how laying a foundation of continuous improvement allows for rapid response to student learning
The 74
This past year, the pandemic disrupted our educational systems in ways that we couldn't have predicted. The immediate closure of school buildings and rapid shift to online learning demanded that teachers pivot quickly to meet changing and emerging student needs. At WHEELS, a public pre-K-12 district school in New York City, grade-level teaching teams turned to a strategy they had been honing over several years — continuous improvement.
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Where families are feeling pandemic impacts the worst
Education Week
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare some of the educational and resource inequities facing families across the country in a host of areas, from access to technology and time for home-based learning to the literal bread-and-butter issues of household finances and food for the table.
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3 tips to cultivate meaningful parent engagement
eSchool News
With the onset of COVID-19, parents have stepped-up and continued to play an active role in their children’s daily education activities. Teachers, schools and districts have put their best foot forward to ensure students are learning but still struggle with meaningful parent engagement, which has proven critical to a child's ongoing success in the classroom.
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New report shows 4 ways states can innovate and improve their exams — Even without joining ESSA pilot program
The 74
The U.S. Department of Education approved proposals from Georgia and North Carolina to pilot innovative models of student testing. When the Every Student Succeeds Act authorized its special program for innovative assessments, many states expressed excitement and interest. But more than a year and a half after the Department of Education started accepting applications, Georgia and North Carolina are only the third and fourth states to take advantage of the program. Does that mean that innovative assessments are dead in the water?
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How to keep your cool in high-stress situations
Harvard Business Review
A CEO called one of us (Robert) for help. The company she was leading was on the cusp of a huge opportunity related to a new technology. But she was stymied and stuck.
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How leaders are made wise and why we often remain foolish
Leadership Freak
"How often must I tell you that we are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but by the responsibilities of our future." Any fool can reflect on the past. But leaders take responsibility for the future. What you are doing today is more important than what happened to you yesterday.
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Humble leadership: 5 dimensions for a new style of people management
Entrepreneur
In a world that promotes outward success, humility is one of the most difficult human virtues to achieve and develop, the most in the world of organizations of any kind. It all starts from recognizing one's own limitations and weaknesses, and acting on the basis of that knowledge in a serene, calm, assertive and focused way to visualize one's own and others' essential needs, and know how to handle them.
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Make better decisions: slow down if the lion isn't coming
Forbes
Decisions go badly if one neglects the crucial first question in any decision-making process: Should I speed up, or should I slow down? The case for speeding up is easier to make. Without the mental agility to make split second decisions, for example, currency and stock traders miss opportunities. And so too for the rest of us: Business and life opportunities are arising and slipping away more quickly nowadays than in decades past.
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Lessons from leaders: Similarities and differences of great leaders
Training Industry Magazine
The leadership development industry has long relied on two things: Leaders: the people whom an organization can consistently count on to achieve significant results, through the efforts of others, in a manner that bonds those others, as well as the leader, with the results. Access: the researchers and authors who gain an audience with those leaders and ask them a series of questions about the results they achieved and the methods they employed to achieve them.
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4 things every business can do in 2021 to hire inclusively
Inc.
The start of the new year is a great time to reflect on the successes and shortcomings of your business, as well as strategize your top-level priorities for the year ahead. With the past year seeing an optimistic rise in discussion about inclusive hiring, it's no wonder why upending age-old recruitment processes is one of the most prevalent goals for the new year. But for resource strapped hiring managers, what does this really look like? How can we collectively make our outreach, interviews and offers more inclusive to attract a diverse range of applicants?
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Covid-19 spreads indoors via microscopic droplets in the air. Therefore, increasing the rate of ventilation in your classrooms is critical.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Biden expected to make narrowing digital divide an 'early, urgent priority' to help students during pandemic
The 74
With millions of students still lacking reliable internet to complete their assignments and interact with teachers, the Biden administration is expected to take multiple steps to address the digital divide, according to sources who have participated in conversations with the transition team. Bart Epstein, CEO of the nonprofit EdTech Evidence Exchange, said he understands naming a new director for the Office of Educational Technology to be “an early, urgent priority” for the administration.
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Biden nominates Marten to be deputy secretary of US Education Department
District Administration Magazine
President Joe Biden has named Cindy Marten as his nominee for deputy secretary of the U.S. Education Department. The San Diego (Calif.) Unified School District superintendent's nomination follows the nomination of Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona for education secretary. Marten, who worked 17 years as a classroom teacher, has also served as a literacy specialist and school-level administrator over her career spanning more than 30 years. She has served as district superintendent since 2013.
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Prior to COVID-19, states cut $600B in ed funding since Great Recession
K-12 DIVE
The dual reports highlight the perilous financial situation schools across the U.S. faced prior to the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. According to "Making the Grade," for example, 15 states also have "regressive" systems for K-12 funding that allocate less funding to high-poverty districts than those with lower poverty rates — an issue that can cause even more strife if, for example, the same formulas are used to disburse emergency COVID-19 relief funds to schools.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Ways to simplify cybersecurity systems in K-12 schools
EdTech Magazine
If there's one principle to remember about cybersecurity, it's that complexity is its greatest enemy. Complex systems are hard, if not impossible, to secure. They also result in significant confusion, not only for IT and cybersecurity professionals, but also for those who are most affected by cybersecurity programs — students and their families.
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Why a multiscreen classroom is the next big thing
eSchool News
Hybrid-remote learning provides the flexibility and freedom schools, parents and students need in the current pandemic. However, moving a traditional classroom that's built for face-to-face delivery to a hybrid-remote environment where instructors are teaching to both students in the classroom and online, often simultaneously, will take more than simply a laptop and a video conferencing application. With only these basic tools, remote students may be positioned to fail while teachers are burdened with an unnatural way to teach and a heavier workload. Enter the multiscreen classroom.
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FETC 2021: This year's gathering reflects shift to virtual and hybrid education
EdTech Magazine
The 41st annual edition of the Future of Education Technology Conference promises to look a lot different than the prior 40. This will be the first virtual edition of the event, running Jan. 26-29, which gives educators and administrators a look at the latest trends in educational technology that can enable teachers and administrators to better do their jobs.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Homework and independent assignments: Avoiding problems, encouraging success
By Howard Margolis
 Many struggling learners "hate" homework and in-class assignments that they need to complete by themselves. Why? Academics confuses, frustrates, and overwhelms them. Their struggles humiliate them. Expectations of failure send shutters down their spines. Ask yourself: Day after day, would you want your success to depend on confusing and frustrating work that overwhelms you, that you fail at, that leaves you feeling incompetent and worthless? I doubt it. Even in this era of remote instruction, where direct, in-person instruction is often rare, where struggling learners must often work alone, and where it's often difficult for them to get the help they need, teachers and support staff can improve this situation.
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6 ways to teach SEL skills remotely
District Administration Magazine
This year, schools may be offering social-emotional skills training to students with disabilities, such as autism, in separate virtual groups. However, if staff are spread thin, or students need additional opportunities to generalize skills, it may be useful to find ways to integrate social-emotional learning into other virtual encounters during the day. This will help to ensure students who have social-emotional goals in their IEPs can work on their skills.
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What you say matters
Teaching Channel
Ever get that unsettling feeling after you have said something that didn't sit right with your audience? Or experienced a time when you just said something and received a strong reaction that you didn't intend?
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6 ways to build community in online classrooms
MindShift
As a longtime theater and English teacher, Leah Calote is intentional about cultivating an environment where students can take risks. "Doing artistic things is so vulnerable," she said. "You can't really feel comfortable creating things in a space that you don't feel safe." But creating that space remotely is new territory. Since the coronavirus outbreak began last spring, Calote has studied the work of theater companies and literature teachers, engaged with other educators on Twitter and taken online improv classes herself — all in search of ideas to help her students connect.
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Top tips for great cross-curricular coding
eSchool News
How and where our students learn has radically changed over the last 10 months. Students are in a multitude of educational environments that have challenged the entire school community. As educators, we cannot predict what the future holds, but we understand the importance of developing core skills such as collaboration, effective communication and problem solving in our students today.
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How England implemented its computer science education program
The Brookings Institution
Computer science education helps students acquire skills such as computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. It has been linked with higher rates of college enrollment (Brown & Brown, 2020; Salehi et al., 2020), and a recent randomized control trial showed that lessons in computational thinking improved student response inhibition, planning, and coding skills (Arfé et al., 2020). Since these skills take preeminence in the rapidly changing 21st century, CS education promises to significantly enhance student preparedness for the future of work and active citizenship.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Appearance, social norms keep students off Zoom cameras
Cornell University via Science Daily
Researchers surveyed 312 students found that while some students had concerns about the lack of privacy or their home environment, 41% of the 276 respondents cited their appearance, as their reason not to switch on their cameras on zoom.
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Study: On-camera instructors boost remote learning
K-12 DIVE
School closures turned pedagogy on its head as the novel coronavirus set in, forcing instructors to rethink how they delivered lessons. Ten months later, many teachers are still instructing remotely and some best practices have emerged. So far, there is no single best way identified for teaching remotely, but maintaining connections seems to be key, administractors and instructors say. And being visible on camera during the lesson is one way to keep kids connected.
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.IN THE STATES
.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Create a cultural shift
NAESP
Issues of racism and institutional barriers to success for Black people are finally getting national attention as a result of the senseless murders of Black men and women throughout the country, particularly George Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020. The fact that Black students, teachers and leaders have died a silent death in American schools for decades without a commitment to improvement can no longer be overlooked.
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