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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How is COVID-19 changing school discipline?
K-12 DIVE
Before March 2020, inequitable school discipline practices were a major concern for advocates and educators alike. "There was a real discipline crisis" for students with disabilities and students of color, said Wendy Tucker, senior director of policy for the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools and a former member of the Tennessee State Board of Education.
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Paras and remote learning data collection
District Administration Magazine
As many schools continue with remote and hybrid learning, the importance of good data collection is paramount. Being able to keep records of student progress during this time can help educators ascertain the impact of virtual learning on a student and help districts down the road if parents decide to pursue legal action for compensatory education.
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States roll out vaccines for teachers: What you need to know
Tech & Learning
President Joe Biden initially pledged to reopen a majority of schools during his first 100 days in office but recently refocused the goal for K-8 schools. He has said teachers should be eligible for vaccinations as soon as possible after those who are at highest risk, according to the Associated Press. Educators in New York began receiving their first doses of coronavirus vaccine, and other states are expected to begin vaccinating faculty and staff at schools and colleges in the coming weeks and months.
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Why billions in food aid hasn't gotten to needy families
NPR
When schools shut down in the spring, that raised immediate worries about the nearly 30 million children who depend on school food. Those worries were essentially borne out, with researchers reporting a large rise in child hunger. According to a report from Feeding America, 1 in 4 households with children experienced food insecurity in 2020. "These are just levels that we've never seen before," says Diane Schanzenbach, an economist at Northwestern University.
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5 ways to remotely engage families of students in special education
eSchool News (commentary)
Rachael Storey, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "First things first: educators, you deserve a standing ovation for switching your classrooms to remote learning almost overnight this past spring. While you continue to have significant challenges facing you as remote learning continues in many districts, I have no doubt that you will all rise to the challenge and work to create amazing virtual special education learning environments. As you conceptualize your 'return from break' plan, I encourage you to explore the power of supporting families in order to better reach all students."
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'I've tried everything': Pandemic worsens child mental health crisis
NPR
A bag of Doritos, that's all Princess wanted. Her mom calls her Princess, but her real name is Lindsey. She's 17 and lives with her mom, Sandra, a nurse, outside of Atlanta. On May 17, 2020, a Sunday, Lindsey decided she didn't want breakfast; she wanted Doritos. So she left home and walked to Family Dollar, taking her pants off on the way, while her mom followed on the phone with police.
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Can you provide a quality preschool education over Zoom?
EdSurge
Before the pandemic snarled daily routines around the world, Aria Jones' 3- and 4-year-old students had a reliable schedule down pat in their Washington, D.C., preschool. They'd have breakfast at 8 a.m., come together for a morning meeting and then spend an hour in the library or doing dramatic play before nap time and a hard stop at 3 p.m. It was a pretty structured day.
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7 reasons humility is a highly desired leadership trait
Fast Company
When we think of great leaders, humility may not always be the first word we'd use to describe them. Many bigger-than-life executives such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates would likely be described first as visionary, bold or charismatic. Yet, if we look more closely, there are also leaders (such as, say, Richard Branson) who are often described as humble and laid-back.
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What should you do when team members aren't pulling their weight?
Entrepreneur
If you're in a leadership position, you will have to assemble a team of diverse personalities and skillsets. Even if you're flying solo, you may have to work with freelancers or contractors occasionally. Regardless of your exact situation, if there's a weak link, that definitely can cause bottlenecks and hamper productivity. Even worse? It can damage morale, as 47% of employees have stated that lazy employees are their No. 1 pet peeve.
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5 ways to improve this key component of emotional intelligence
Fast Company
Most of us recognize the importance of self-awareness. If you've ever worked with someone who lacked it, you know only too well: They act impulsively, communicate poorly and are wholly unaware of their blind spots. But self-awareness isn’t the end of the story. To be a good leader, you must also possess another key, albeit less talked-about, component of emotional intelligence: social awareness.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Biden revokes Trump's 'patriotic education' order, will shield DACA
Education Week
President Joe Biden moved to "preserve and fortify" executive action that shields certain undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children, said in an executive order that laws that prohibit sex discrimination also prohibit discrimination against gender identity, and in another executive order initiated a government-wide push to emphasize racial equity on his first day as president.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Which tech takes the top spots for school districts?
EdTech Magazine
COVID-19 has upended traditional educational paradigms. And while Verjeana Jacobs, chief transformation officer for the National School Boards Association, says "it's unconscionable that we weren't prepared for this kind of transition," she notes that "it has given us an opportunity to think about education in nontraditional ways." For many K–12 schools, this meant a rapid adoption of distance learning frameworks powered by personal devices such as tablets, laptops and desktops.
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Best tablets for teachers
Tech & Learning
The best tablets for teachers can help to make lessons more engaging without sacrificing mobility. This means both for use in-class as well as during remote learning, in which a tablet can offer enough power and features to replace a laptop. Why go for a tablet over a laptop? It can be more affordable, lighter and more portable, easier to use, work with lots of peripherals such as a stylus pen, offer a great screen and feature cameras built-in.
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Student data privacy and 3rd party apps
Managed Methods
The spotlight is on privacy during the month of January, with Data Privacy Day falling on January 28, 2021. For educators and administrators alike, it's a month to focus on student data privacy issues and using data loss prevention methods to protect students whether they're in the classroom or learning remotely. District IT teams also need to address problems that relate to student data privacy and 3rd party apps.
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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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3 tech initiatives to prioritize in the virtual classroom
EdTech Magazine
Finding technology tools and solutions amid the challenging year that was 2020 often felt like Mission: Impossible at times for many school districts. There aren’t necessarily “wrong answers” when it comes to adding technology to the educational experience, but there are some initiatives that you should prioritize over others to achieve the most important outcomes for your students and educators.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
How to offer hands-on learning opportunities in hybrid environments
K-12 DIVE
Science lessons are greatly enhanced with hands-on learning opportunities, whether that's through group projects that involve collaboration or even individual assignments that tap into physical science labs at school. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult for students to gather together and work on assignments outside of a virtual environment, and it has challenged educators in getting tools to students.
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Making space: Teaching after trauma
Edutopia
When traumatic events such as the attack on the U.S. Capitol earlier this month occur, many educators feel compelled to somehow address them in class right away. But sometimes it's better to take a beat to process what has happened and how best to guide your students through it.
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Keeping story time alive in the pandemic
Edutopia (commentary)
Wendy Gustavel, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "I'm a school librarian who believes in the magical power of books. When the world turned upside down with the pandemic in March 2020, I felt my students could use a little magic. I asked myself, 'How can I use books to help students in grades pre-K to 5 navigate this uncharted territory?' I knew I could use literature with my students to explore and validate feelings and experiences, but I had never done this in a virtual space."
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6 ways to embrace the messiness of math education
eSchool News
Math is not easy to teach or learn. So, teachers use a variety of strategies to boost their students' numeracy skills as they progress through math education. But some of those approaches could be unproductive, contended Dr. Juli Dixon, Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Central Florida, in a recent edWebinar sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Mathematics. She described standard practices that can derail rather than support mathematical reasoning, and offered alternative methods that would benefit students far more.
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Daily silent reading in hybrid classrooms
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Marilyn Pryle, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "My district started the school year virtually, switched to hybrid in October, and we've remained hybrid ever since. At the beginning of the year, I wondered if I would be able to maintain an essential part of my classroom routine: reading silently for the first ten minutes of each class. In my model, students self-select their books and take part in a larger ongoing Book Club activity."
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50 would you rather scenarios for elementary students
We Are Teachers
Would you rather scenarios are a fun way to jumpstart student conversations. Use them for debates, writing prompts, brain boosts, classroom discussions, lessons on comparisons or even graph the results! No matter how you use them, they're sure to inspire some interesting answers. Here are 50 would you rather scenarios for elementary students. Want them all in one download? Just enter your email and we'll send it to you!
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Here's how I created a virtual class library
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Kathleen Palmieri, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Once upon a time, schools and classrooms offered libraries with a variety of books for students to borrow. Today, due to the pandemic, in most schools borrowing physical books has been put on hold for the foreseeable future. Book talks, read alouds and students presenting books are crucial to instilling a love of reading. I have found a few ways to share books and to help students find good books and present what they are reading in both asynchronous and synchronous settings."
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5 ways to be an innovative online instructor
eSchool News
In a landscape where online instruction has become more commonplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some educators face challenges associated with operating as an online instructor in a virtual environment. Even to those remote instruction veterans, there is certainly an element of frustration that can exist when it comes to finding unique ways to engage students as an online instructor.
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How to help students develop lifelong math skills
Tech & Learning
In our school district, 100% of students receive free lunch and 16% are English language learners. To support learning, all students have an iPad and all instructional staff have a MacBook Air and an iPad, which are the tools used in our mathematics classrooms.
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Helping our students identify as generalists
MiddleWeb
It's no surprise that information literacy is on teachers' minds these days. As each new piece of information, misinformation or disinformation dominates news headlines, teachers ask where and how to begin to address the challenge of helping young people make sense of their world.
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Begin from within
Language Magazine
Students will gain the benefits of a culturally competent teacher who is racially informed. If teachers recognize how oppression and systemic racism work and if they look through a racial lens in their work, they will understand that systemic racism impacts student lives and will start the lifelong journey to do the human work necessary to avoid perpetuating it in the classroom.
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Making space for student choice in preschool
Edutopia (commentary)
Oi Ling Hu, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "In my first year in a prekindergarten classroom, I was working as a substitute, and one day I was assigned to sit with a 4-year-old boy at arrival time to work on a packet of worksheets. The worksheets were about the letter of the week and had pictures of words that started with the letter. He was to write the letter over and over until the lines were all filled with the uppercase and lowercase letter."
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users
The Hechinger Report
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, "Goodbye Phone, Hello World." Some racked up considerably more hours. A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn't just pop up during adolescence.
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.IN THE STATES
Georgia educators identify problems associated with teaching during a pandemic
WABE
87% of Georgia teachers, who responded to a recent survey, say school shutdowns during the pandemic have had a negative effect on student learning. The Professional Association of Georgia Educators surveyed more than 6,000 educators across the state. More than 75% of those surveyed reported higher social-emotional needs among their students, including increased depression, anxiety and social isolation.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Implicit bias virtual training
NAESP
Unconscious and implicit racial biases can impact a school leader's ability to lead an equitable learning environment for all students. That is why on behalf of the NAESP Board of Directors, the NAESP National Task Force on Race and Equity, and the NAESP Center for Diversity Leadership, NAESP is inviting you to participate in a two-part, virtual training on implicit bias.
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