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School Leaders Now
As principals, we all face similar challenges on the job: building school climate, maintaining staff morale, and keeping up with advancements in curriculum in pedagogy, just to name a few. But there is one challenge we hardly ever talk about — the isolation. It's lonely at the top.
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eSchool News
"How was your winter holiday?" "What are your resolutions for 2018?" "How are you today?" Lots of eager ears are awaiting your responses. Or are they? And are you interested in answering those questions? Questioning is big.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Julia Felton, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "Recently as I prepared for delivering a Leading Through Change programme I thought I would research the different leadership models that exist. Boy, was that a bad idea, as there are a plethora of models all extolling some different perspective. Nothing right or wrong with any of them, but the challenge is that they all focus on something outside the leader. In essence, they forget that the leader is an integral part of the situation and that a leadership style is not something you can simply adopt. It must be something that comes from within. "
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Leadership Freak
People aren't engaged because the questions they hear are dull. If you're on my team, you're committed to constant improvement. Meetings always include, "What can we do better next time?" I have a Feeler on my team. It's safe to ask him: What should we do? What’s working? What could be better?
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School Leaders Now
As a principal, you are in a position to normalize conversations that are often taboo — like talking about mental health. That's not to say it's an easy thing to do. It's not. Mental illness and mental health concerns affect a large number of Americans, including your students and your staff. There's the teacher dealing with her own anxiety and OCD, the student who's home life is unstable because her mom is bipolar. When you work in a large community, it doesn't take long to realize just how common mental illness can be.
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Inc.
Let's say you're about to introduce a program that requires managers to be involved — perhaps a revised performance management process or a new way to calculate employees' year-end bonuses. Or perhaps you're be planning a big change — like restructuring the organization — that will affect both managers and their team members. The question is this: How do you make sure that managers are comfortable with what's changing? And that they're prepared to communicate about the change with their team members?
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The Press Democrat
It was during a conversation with a pediatrician that Rebekah Rocha realized how much attention her 9-year-old middle child was receiving while her two other children struggled coping with their sister's disability. Born with cri-du-chat syndrome, a rare genetic disorder also known as chromosome 5p minus syndrome that affects a child’s intellectual and physical development, her daughter requires frequent doctor visits and behavioral therapy. That puts a strain on family life, particularly for her 12-year-old son, Jerry.
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Education World
With the busy-ness of the school year, we as educators often forget to celebrate our work. Sure, we might periodically "lift up" best practice at a staff meeting, or have a momentary chance to share a lesson that went particularly well. But we don't always celebrate the small things. Today, Education World takes a moment to honor the "real MVPs" in the school building that make a difficult job or a stressful day oh-so-much the better. They are the quiet heroes of the day.
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THE Journal
It's five years into the launch of 100Kin10, the organization that's focused on getting 100,000 K-12 teachers prepared to teach on science, technology, engineering and math topics in the nation's schools. Right now, the non-profit has hit slightly more than 40 percent of its goal with five years to go. Recently, the organization offered several predictions for the new year, which included an emphasis on school culture, the use of "emergency credentials" to fill STEM hiring gaps and more political engagement to make sure the current administration doesn't forsake a national interest in science altogether.
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THE Journal
Nearly all educators and policymakers, 97 percent and 96 percent, respectively, say that it's important for students to learn creative problem-solving skills in school, according to a new international survey from Adobe. But approximately two-thirds — 69 percent of educators and 60 percent of policymakers — say that current curricula do not emphasize creative problem solving enough.
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eSchool News
Today's K-12 schools are facing a complex web of needs, technologies, and regulations. Digital transformation has led to an expectation by students and faculty of constant connectivity to their school's web assets. In response, schools have been incorporating programs that allow for more devices and a more web-focused curriculum. These services are critical, but they come at a great cost. Paying for internet access and securing the network do not come cheap.
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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.
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District Administration Magazine
For most school districts, internet filters are crucial for complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act, which requires restricting students from accessing inappropriate online content. Filtering also allows districts to manage limited bandwidth
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EdTech Magazine
For Fulton County Schools, a 90-mile-long and incredibly diverse school district near Atlanta, a rollout of one-to-one devices at middle and high schools meant dispersing a wide variety of tools — from Chromebooks to tablets — that fit each school's specific need. The scale and variety of operating systems created a unique challenge.
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eSchool News
It has been almost three years since the launch of the United States Department of Education's #GoOpen movement. If you are late to the #GoOpen party, it is the commitment to expand and accelerate the use of openly licensed educational resources in schools across the country. The commitment, in a nutshell, is to replace at least one textbook with open educational resources within one year, share in a community of practice with other school districts, and share the resources created with a Creative Commons license.
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MindShift
Tending toddlers can require endless reserves of energy. Just ask Huyen Le, supervisor of a family resource center in San Jose, California. After a full day’s work managing children’s reading programs and parenting workshops, she returns home to her own two-year-old daughter, Katelynn.
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Education Week
Since the Trump administration announced last fall it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allots protections and work permits to people brought to the country illegally as children, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants have been waiting to find out: Would Congress come up with a way to help them?
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EdScoop
Researchers, educators, parents, teachers and youth advocates across the country increasingly agree that learning and practicing social and emotional skills in tandem with academics is crucial to K-12 student success.
That's according to a report issued this week by The Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development. The report marks the commission's mid-way mark in its effort to explore "how to make social, emotional, and academic development part of the fabric of every school" and offer a road map "toward a future where every child receives the comprehensive support needed to succeed in school, in our evolving 21st century workplace, and in life."
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Education DIVE
Just one out of every five children in the United States take the opportunity to learn a foreign language during their K-12 years. Yet a second language not only impacts career choices — taught early enough, it can help students pick up new languages throughout their lives.
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Universitaet Tubingen via Science Daily
Experts have argued that the specific needs of gifted children are often neglected, resulting in a shriveling of their abilities and potential. Consequently, they call for the implementation of programs that specifically aim to promote gifted children.
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Edutiopa
When we talk about social skills and social and emotional learning, an important element is understanding the nuances of language, as well as the the context, the situation, we are in with others. Communication in the English language is not simple, even for native speakers. So when it comes to deciphering tough language, asking groups of students to work together to analyze puns can be both challenging and an enjoyable way to build language and literacy skills.
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The Washington Post
It is a full five months into the school year, and Isabel Echavarria, a junior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, hasn't used her locker once. She's not even sure she has one. Sean Radley, a sophomore at Tesoro High in Southern California, thinks there may be one book in his locker, but he rarely visits it. Nekko Jones and Dwayne Burrell, freshmen at Cardozo Education Campus in Washington, were assigned lockers at the beginning of the year, but neither knows where his is.
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The Atlantic
Having just earned a teaching degree from Pennsylvania's Millersville University, Rian Reed set out in 2011 to find a position working with special-needs students. Born and raised in a suburb outside of Philadelphia, she had built an enviable academic record, earning induction into the National Honor Society in high school and speaking at her university commencement. She sought to use her leadership skills and creativity in a classroom in her own community. So Reed, a biracial woman who identifies as black, applied to work in her hometown school district.
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eSchool News
A focus on high-quality principals in Chicago Public Schools could serve as a best-practice model for districts across the nation, according to data indicating improved student performance and principal retention. Over the past four years, as the number of strong principals in Chicago's public schools has increased, so have student outcomes. District leaders have identified increases in both reading and math scores for elementary school students and have seen significant improvements in freshman on-track and graduation rates at the high school level.
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NAESP
Timothy Kosters, principal of Lead-Deadwood Elementary School in Deadwood, South Dakota has been elected as the new Zone 7 Director to the NAESP Board of Directors. Kosters will join the Board officially August 1, 2018 and complete the term of office ending July 31, 2021.
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NAESP
Just in time for summer planning, NAESP is pleased to launch a new portal to help Pre-K–8 principals and other educators develop quality afterschool and summer learning programs that will increase opportunities for all students. Because learning doesn't end with the school day — or year — take the time now to access resources and information to help inform and support your afterschool and summer initiatives. From getting started to finding funding to improving quality, the portal is a one-stop-shop to becoming an expert on learning beyond the school day. Learn more at afterschool.naesp.org.
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