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Education DIVE
With the average tenure for both principals and superintendents around three to four years, the challenges that come with top K-12 administrative positions are many. But success bears perhaps the greatest impact on the civic and economic success of local communities, states and the nation at large when students leave high school and enter college and careers.
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Education Executive
Our schools are full of amazing people doing some incredibly inspiring things every day. We all love to share these stories with everyone we know, and schools are better equipped than ever to communicate effectively with audiences beyond the classroom. Our use of technology has transformed the way we impart information; social media has been adopted, to some degree, by the majority of schools and parents are using apps and e-newsletters to engage with their schools on a level our predecessors could never have imagined.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 American and British educators are divided into two opposing camps over the best way to teach children to read: the "whole language" camp and the "phonics" camp. Both methods have been taught for over a century, but since 1955 the two camps have become stridently opposed to a degree that justifies the popular title for the dispute: "the reading wars." Below is a brief review of this curious battle of angry academics and legislators, along with my answers to three cogent questions: What does each group propose? Why do they distrust and dislike each other so much? And, finally, is there any hope of a truce?
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District Administration Magazine
At the end of the 2017-18 school year, Wichita Falls ISD leaders put the final touches on a new belief system, incorporating new approaches — and proper staff training — to help us meet the physical, mental, emotional and social needs of our 14,000 students throughout 26 campuses in Texas. Central to our beliefs: Everyone deserves the resources they need to be successful, and we believe a culture of safety and support is essential to learning.
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Edutopia
If our schools are to address the severe life disruptions and trauma that are occurring in our student populations, we need to be authentically trauma responsive and advocates of social and emotional learning. That is a path to improving our students' learning outcomes and competencies — unless students feel safe and known in school, they do not learn.
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District Administration Magazine
To better understand the current phone technology landscape in K-12, District Administration partnered with ENA to develop and deploy a survey of school administrators exploring types of phone systems, the most significant problems experienced in districts and how confident administrators are in the reliability of their phone systems.
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Inc.
Worrying usually stems from a desire to control the outcome and the environment. And the more you try to control things, the more anxious you're likely to become. While it is healthy to acknowledge that you do have control over some things in your life — like your effort and your attitude — it's not healthy to think that you're solely responsible for every outcome you encounter.
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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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Forbes
An interview is similar to a game of poker. Players look for "tells" and keep their cards closely guarded. A job interview is a negotiation, a game of "cat and mouse" between a company and a candidate. As a candidate, you share your best material and remain vigilant in hiding your least flattering moments. You can't expect a company to behave differently. Hiring managers need to convince you to choose their company over competitors.
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Leadership Freak
Leadership is already challenging. Don't make it harder than it needs to be. Ego confuses fatigue with importance. The challenges of leaders require the intentional practice of self-care. Superman and Wonder Woman only exist in the comics. Burning the candle at both ends makes you less than you could be. Fools limit their potential with constant fatigue.
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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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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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Fast Company
Applying for your next big career opportunity requires a lot of work. You need to reach out to your network, arrange informational meetings, talk to recruiters, submit résumés, prepare talking points and ace the preliminary interview.
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Inc.
Google "my boss is" and you get fill-in-the-blanks like "toxic," "unbearable," "crazy," and "abusive." (You also get an array of words not fit to print.) Even if you've never had a truly terrible boss, chances are you've worked for someone who wasn't nearly as good as that person thought he or she was. And according to organizational psychologist and former lecturer at Harvard and Stanford, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, statistically that person is far more likely to be a man than a woman.
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Harvard Business Review
There's a lot to be said for playing to your strengths, but when you suffer a career setback, it's rarely because of something you're doing well. Psychologists Eric Nelson and Robert Hogan have noted that it's the dysfunctional habits that "interfere with the leader's capacity to build and maintain high-performing teams."
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Education Week
A few days ago, the National Education Association released its legislative report card for the first session of the 116th Congress. This is something the nation's largest teachers' union — in fact, the NEA is the largest labor union of any kind in the U.S. — does on a regular basis. But with a presidential election putting an especially big charge into education politics, let's take a look at the grades the NEA has handed out.
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EdTech Magazine
For K–12 schools and districts, the work of preventing cyberattacks and staying knowledgeable about cybersecurity does not rest with IT teams alone. District leaders, for example, lead efforts to build school culture around cybersecurity. They also can support the work of their IT professionals.
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EdSurge
Women make up the majority of the K-12 education workforce but are chronically underrepresented in leadership roles. That's especially true in IT leadership, where women hold just about a third of all positions, according to recent survey data from the Consortium for School Networking, with some indication that the ratio is actually skewing more male. An earlier survey found women typically earn less money and are given less prestigious titles than men, despite having greater overall education attainment.
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Tech&Learning
Microsoft has cast a look into the future of education as it looks to prepare the classrooms of tomorrow with the technology they need to thrive. The computing giant has revealed new research at BETT 2020 today that examines just what the teachers of 2030 will require in terms of technological needs. With millennials and Generation Z set to make up a significant proportion of the teaching workforce by 2030, the needs of students and teachers alike are set to change, and Microsoft wants to be in pole position.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
There was little to no representation in science and math for Jena Olson as a young girl, and that mattered. She loved both subjects and thought about becoming a doctor, but couldn't really see herself as a "science person" back then. As an adult, she's been working to change that for other children.
"Looking back on it now, I realize that it probably had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't have many female role models in those areas", she says.
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EdTech Magazine
As the number of English language learners in today's classrooms continues to grow, educators must consider new ways to facilitate their learning. English language learners, or ELLs, are the fastest-growing group of K–12 students in U.S. public schools. They currently make up 10 percent of the total public school enrollment, according to research by the National Center for Education Statistics. By 2025, that percentage is expected to rise to 25%, making nearly 1 in 4 public school students an ELL.
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We Are Teachers
It probably comes as no surprise that teachers want more emphasis placed on independent reading. According to the International Literacy Association's 2020 What's Hot in Literacy Report, 70% of educators say there isn't enough time set aside for this task. If we all believe in the importance of independent reading, why are we failing to make it a priority?
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MindShift
Eight seconds — that's the latest estimate of the length of the human attention span. The push to cover more material in the same amount of classroom time also provides a challenge, especially when teachers are told that the skills (like critical thinking and creativity) their students will need in order to compete in the 21st century are ones that take time to develop. For educators working with a new generation raised in a world of rapid information exchange, it may seem difficult to hold students' attention when it comes time for extended observation.
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eSchool News
Creativity and play are children's work. They build confidence, encourage risk taking, and ultimately shape the soft skills young people need to negotiate school and careers. But, as children get older, their playfulness and creative spirit wane. They aren't so keen on trying new things and are often afraid of failing when they do.
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Edutopia
The wide scope of topics typically covered in intermediate to high-level world language classes requires students to master a lot of meaningful new terms. Given the time constraints students face and the virtually endless number of relevant lexical items, teachers often struggle to integrate vocabulary-developing activities into their daily practice. The problem becomes even more serious when we consider that for vocabulary instruction to be effective it needs to be not just explicit and engaging but frequent — which means running up against those time constraints repeatedly.
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Education World
All over the U.S., schools, school systems, and entire districts are implementing proficiency-based learning. As of summer 2019, 17 states have legislated comprehensive education policies in support of PBL, and another 13 are considered "developing" states, with flexible policies that allow schools the option to transition their teaching style to proficiency-based.
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District Administration Magazine
A recent study by the National Center for Research on Gifted Education found that students from underserved populations — including African American, Latinx, English language learners, and students who received free or reduced-price lunch — were between one-quarter and one-half as likely to be identified for gifted programs as their more affluent peers. These findings were also reported for large urban districts where the vast majority of students are from minority and low-income populations.
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We Are Teachers
eaching is important, and it's high stakes. We care deeply about our students and their futures, and we want to give them every tool we can to ensure their success. For me, that love translates to a determination to do things right. Because if I fail, it's not just me who suffers.
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Language Magazine
Think about how many of us focus our attention on ELs by poring over data about their progress learning English, comparing their performance on standardized tests and rates of graduation with non-EL peers, and lamenting what we perceive as THE problem: that our ELs are not learning English fast enough. And how many of us then find ourselves responding to what we believe students don’t possess (English) as opposed to what they do or have developed as a result of being reared in a language and culture other than U.S. English?
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We Are Teachers
What's the best way to teach multiplication? The answer is different for every student. That's why we were excited to see so many great ideas being shared on our WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group on Facebook. Here are 30 of our favorite fun, hands-on ways to teach multiplication to your elementary school students.
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Fox Business
The states with the most educated people are concentrated in the Mid Atlantic and some of the least educated populations live in states in the Deep South, according to a study personal finance website WalletHub. WalletHub analyzed how many people 25 years old and older have completed certain educational benchmarks, like bachelor's degrees, and the quality of that education throughout the 50 states, to come up with its ranking for the most and least educated states in 2020. But the list could provide insights for states on how to spend education dollars, according to WalletHub experts.
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U.S. News & World Report
The 50 most economically segregated school district borders in the country – borders that isolate communities with high rates of poverty from their wealthier neighbors – are clustered in just 13 states concentrated in the Rust Belt and Deep South swaths of the U.S. The findings are part of an update to EdBuild's "Fault Lines" report, published three years ago, which measures economic segregation along school district borders by comparing the proportion of school-aged children in the districts on either side who live below the poverty line.
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University of Exeter via Science Daily
Children with mental health needs require urgent support from primary school onwards to avoid exclusion, which can be both cause and effect of poor mental health, new research concludes. The research, led by the University of Exeter, and published in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, concluded that a swift response is needed, finding that young people with mental health difficulties were more likely to be excluded and also suffer ill-effects from exclusion.
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Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Support for proficiency-based learning in Vermont is strong in theory, but less so in practice. That disconnect was highlighted at the Vermont Board of Education's inquiry into proficiency-based learning held at Rutland High School recently.
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MindShift
Parents, educators and clinicians are seeing an alarming increase in mental health problems among young people. Various national surveys show the rates of depression, anxiety and suicide on the rise, but what to do about it is less clear. In July of 2019, Oregon passed a bill that allows students to take excused absences for mental health related issues. Students advocated for the bill, saying it would reduce stigma about mental health issues and encourage young people to seek the treatment they need.
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eSchool News
Sadly, the latest NAEP results have dropped significantly since 2017. Despite years of widely-available early literacy tools, average reading scores for fourth and eighth graders in the United States are headed in the wrong direction. At Mountain View Whisman School District in California, we have an inherent appreciation of literacy education challenges, given our highly diverse population. Our students range from highly-advanced to students who struggle to reach grade-level performance.
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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's and 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 Board of Directors to review in March.
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NAESP
The NAESP 2020 Pre-K-8 Principals Conference, July 12-14 in Louisville, Kentucky, is the only national elementary and middle-level conference focused on what principals should know and be able to do to drive student success. We've lined up topnotch keynote speakers — Ruby Payne and Baruti Kafele.
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