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Education DIVE
Principals have just as much impact on student attendance as they do student achievement — especially in urban and high-poverty schools where unexcused absence rates can be almost twice as large as those in suburban and rural schools, a new study finds. Replacing a principal whose prior schools have had poor attendance with one whose past schools had high attendance rates decreases absenteeism among all students by an average of 0.8 percentage points — or 1.4 days less during a 180-day school year, finds Brendan Bartanen, an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Toni Faddis, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "When I was a new principal, at the end of each day I could usually be found puzzling over that particular day's dilemma. Looking back, I'm sure there wasn't a true dilemma every single day — but at the time it sure seemed like it. Besides being challenged by the people-centered situations that occur on every school campus, I also felt inundated — barely afloat in a tidal wave of tasks, meetings, and community members who all wanted to talk to me."
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Forbes (commentary)
The use of isolation as a behavior management technique in schools is under renewed scrutiny, amid claims it can damage the mental health of students. Concern over the use of isolation — in particular over the use of booths where children who are removed from the classroom have no contact with their peers and have to face the wall — has been rising, provoking furious spats on social media, as well as attracting national media coverage.
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Education Week
Shanna Peeples was a veteran teacher with a long list of accolades, association memberships, and strong relationships with students and colleagues. But it wasn't until she received national recognition as the 2015 Teacher of the Year — an honor that brought her to the White House and across the country as a spokesperson for the teaching profession — that she finally felt secure in her job. That's because Peeples is a lesbian and taught in Texas, one of nearly 30 states with no explicit employment-discrimination protections for LGBTQ workers, including teachers.
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Inc. (commentary)
Michelle Van Slyke, a contributor for Inc., writes: "I love January. There is no better time than the start of a new year to reflect and reassess personal and professional goals. I am a firm believer that we should constantly be finding new ways to achieve what we set out to do. The most dangerous thing for a leader to be is complacent. Complacent goals, dreams, and aspirations will not grow a leader but rather diminish motivation and creativity. Challenge yourself this year with these tips to help you reach your goals in 2020."
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 Experts recommend seven to nine hours of sleep nightly. In fact, according to the National Sleep Foundation, not getting enough sleep could negatively impact your immune system. That's in addition to other sleep-deprivation issues, such as a lack of focus and productivity. But even if you sleep the recommended number of hours each night, you may not be getting "good" sleep, especially if you're dreaming about work. A study by Healthy Sleep reveals that 79% of people have work-related dreams.
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Entrepreneur
We've all heard the saying, "Act now, apologize later." In fact, a lot of us might even live by that motto, believing that our intuitions know best and that if things don't pan out later, we can always apologize and make up for everything. But when action looks like over-promising, which later results in under-delivering, an apology might not cut it.
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Now in English or Spanish, Benchmark Workshops combine mini-lessons with culturally responsive texts, collaborative conversations, social-emotional learning, and small-group instruction. Engage diverse K-5 students in developing literacy, communication skills, and content knowledge, using innovative and effective resources that save teachers time and are easy to implement. FREE Sampler
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Fast Company
The 24/7 news cycle, chants of "fake news," and the spread of disinformation on social media had writer Judi Ketteler worried about the state of honesty in the world. Did it matter anymore? Then, came an interaction with a doctor she was interviewing for a project. He stated that his hospital did more of a particular procedure than any other in the region.
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Leadership Freak
Leaders are too concerned about doing everything right. Focus on showing up as your best self if you aspire to do things right.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Ron Carucci, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "Over the course of my career in organizational consulting, I've encountered a number of leaders who've gone for years, even decades, without feedback. This is partly due to the extent people will go to avoid difficult conversations. Study after study shows that more than 69% of us try to sidestep communicating negative information, and 37% won’t give critical feedback at all. As a result, many leaders remain clueless about how others experience them."
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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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Entrepreneur
Since it's the start of a new year, there's no better time then to think of ways to keep you and your team supercharged throughout the year. That may not be on the top of your to-do-list. But, doing so will boost efficiency, productivity, and morale. And, along the way, it will help you and your team to continue to grow and become more well-rounded individuals.
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The Lead Change Group
Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. There is an unprecedented need to effectively delegate to get everything done; however, there is a spectrum to delegation. At one end of the spectrum are task-based activities that team members are asked to perform, with little understanding of the context of that task; whilst at the other end of the spectrum, delegation becomes empowerment that ultimately morphs into Shared Leadership.
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Forbes
For many women, our desire to please, combined with a strong need to prove our value, serves us well in the early years of our careers. Many of us quickly develop a reputation for excellence and reliability. This reinforces our natural tendencies to work hard and produce high-quality results. As we progress, however, the skills and activities needed to advance our careers change. We may continue to be appreciated for the work we produce, but it won't propel us to higher levels of leadership. Unfortunately, transitioning away from the work that has put us on the map is not easy for many women.
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UPI
The Trump administration announced a rollback of regulations on school lunch standards, promising to put school officials "back in the driver's seat of their programs." Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue proposed two new rules he said would reduce food waste and paperwork. Critics warn, though, that the changes could result in the nation's children eating more foods high in calories, saturated fat and sodium.
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Education Week
The U.S. Department of Education plans a new initiative designed to help schools, educators, and students understand and apply education civil rights laws, the agency announced. The Outreach, Prevention, Education and Nondiscrimination, or OPEN Center, will have about five employees housed within the Education Department's office for civil rights. While the civil rights office has largely focused on investigating complaints that schools or districts have violated civil rights laws, the new center will focus on "proactive compliance" by providing technical assistance to schools and guidance to the public, an announcement said.
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The Hechinger Report
Advocates of disability rights are savoring the significance. For the first time in an election cycle, nearly every major U.S. presidential candidate has put forth policy plans that focus on the largest minority group in the United States: people with disabilities. One in 4 adults has a disability.
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eSchool News
Instead of a game of dodgeball, kids are playing Fortnite, and instead of assembling building-block castles, they've swapped to Minecraft and so forth. Digitalization is on its sharpest incline yet, and it has thrown the "old ways" out the window. But is it only children's playtime that has been altered by technology?
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eSchool News
Students exposed to coding and programming at an early age are well equipped to take on higher-level computer science courses in high school — and they also build essential skills for future opportunities in the technology world.
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We Are Teachers
You probably don't remember much about learning verb tenses except some confusing concepts like "future continuous perfect." Most children simply pick up verb tenses as they learn their native language, however, there are some skills students can use assistance with, like irregular verbs.
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eSchool News
Two-thirds of students in the U.S. are struggling with reading and the gap is widening, according to recent NAEP testing. Although insufficient decoding skills are typically thought to be the reason for weak comprehension skills among students, research has revealed that in many cases, an area of pronounced weakness for struggling readers is vocabulary.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
When we think about young learners, we think of elementary school children gathered on the carpet listening to a story being read aloud. But just like elementary kids, middle schoolers and children of all ages (adults included!) love to hear stories. They not only entertain us, they can also be powerful tools in teaching valuable social-emotional school skills, such as empathy, emotion management and impulse control.
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District Administration Magazine
Faced with a lack of school lab space and a need for more in-depth medical imaging, district leaders and science educators have been seeking alternatives to real animal dissections in class. Synthetic frogs and digital dissection tables are among the options that also help to accommodate students who opt out of dissecting real animals for ethical or religious reasons.
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Education World
The pressure for schools to improve student test scores is so intense that some are abandoning the childhood treasure of "recess" in lieu of more on-task time. Education World asked educators about recess practices at their schools and the importance of free time for kids to be kids. What might their responses tell you about the importance of recess at your school? Included: Tips for a safe and productive recess period.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Miriam Plotinsky, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "In many professional settings and in schools, slideshows have become so pervasive that a meeting, training, or class rarely goes by without their presence. I recently observed a teacher reading directly from slides while students looked on without discussion or questions. Reliance on slides not only stifles engagement, but it may also remove student voices and critical thinking processes from the lesson. While banning slideshows in schools is an unnecessarily drastic step to improving engagement, student and teacher focus may benefit from reducing slides and focusing on other forms of instruction. How can we walk back our dependence on slideshows?"
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The Brookings Institution
Few research methodologies have influenced contemporary educational research, policy, and practice as deeply as teacher value-added models. VAMs are used for many different purposes, from academic research on the long-run effects of teachers and factors related to teacher effectiveness to real-world decisions around teacher pay and retention. How these models are estimated depends on the purpose at hand and the data available, but they share the goal of using annual standardized tests to estimate each teacher's contribution to student achievement growth, net of students' prior year achievement and demographics.
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The Hill
The World Health Organization recommends that screen time shouldn’t exceed 60 minutes per day for 3- to 4-year-old children, but there isn’t a lot of research out there that helps us understand what screens are really doing to young brains. A few recent studies provide a good place to start.
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The 74
Nationally, as many as 3 out of 5 students enter school below grade level. The numbers are even higher for low-income students and children of color. To address this problem, some educators and policymakers advocate for more access to higher-quality instructional materials — grade-appropriate curriculum and content that are standards-aligned, coherent and easy for teachers and students to use.
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Language Magazine
The Education Commission of the States, an interstate compact on U.S. education policy, has released a new analysis of how states allocate funding for English Learners. Based on the analysis, 48 states and the District of Columbia provide funding specifically for ELs.
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Education Week
"Again," Isabel Rodriguez Santos said. Then she sighed. The veteran teacher in Puerto Rico was thinking about how she's felt the strong earthquakes that have hit the southern end of the island hardest and (among other disruptive and damaging consequences) closed public schools since Jan. 8. It's similar to her emotions during and in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, which devastated the island and upended the schools there. But this time, there's one unsettling difference.
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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
Save the date for our next #NAESPchat, where we'll discuss growing the capacity of assistant principals (APs). We'll offer tips on instructional and distributed leadership and using data to empower APs and transform schools. Join us on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. ET.
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