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Education Week
Every time there's a shooting in a school, many principals and district leaders feel the responsibility — and pressure — to take action to ensure that gun violence doesn't happen in their schools. But it's not always easy to find proven, research-based safety practices that work. It can be difficult to tap into experts who can help them make sense of state mandates and make good decisions about purchasing products that claim to keep schools safe. And it's not a given that they can connect with principals and district leaders who have developed successful local practices.
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MindShift
When policymakers and school leaders talk about improving schools, much of the focus is on test scores, teaching strategies, curriculum and other services consumed directly by students. Often less attention is paid to the culture of adult learning in a school building, but maybe it's time that changed. Harvard researchers have been studying the impact of what they call a "growth culture" on the effectiveness and productivity of companies. Now, they're expanding that work into schools.
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Education World
Instructional supervision is behind the curve when it comes to exploring how mindfulness can impact the field. While little research has been done regarding mindfulness within a supervision context, "several key supervision variables could be affected by mindfulness" (Wyatt, 2011, p. 6). In a study of 72 counselor education supervisors, Wyatt found that supervisor mindfulness was a "significant positive predictor" of a supervisor's perceptions of the supervisory relationship (p. 148). The study also revealed that a supervisee's mindfulness was a positive predictor of self-reported self-efficacy.
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EdSurge
Not so long ago, students did most of their learning at school and maybe while doing homework or during trips to the museum. Now, learning — like the internet — is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks.
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The Lead Change Group
All apex leaders create the climate and the culture for their team or teams by how they lead and how they relate to people, especially during change processes. Great leaders also understand that happy, healthy, contented and empowered staff are much more productive and effective, they facilitate more fulfilling workplaces and that delivers better outcomes for both themselves and their customers.
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Fast Company
Fielding questions is a crucial communication skill. It's important for job interviews, chats with your boss, dealing with clients and virtually every workplace situation. But too often we sabotage ourselves by opening our answer with meaningless words. Sometimes we utter these expressions to give ourselves time to think. Other times, we resort to these terms because we're afraid to pause. These empty expressions are often spoken unconsciously, but they undercut our ideas.
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Entrepreneur
Many employers assume that team members want a good paycheck, health insurance plan and generous vacation time. While those are all important elements of any job, most employees look for more than these traditional perks from their leaders. If you want to build and retain quality teams of talented people, you'll need to learn what matters most to them.
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Benchmark Advance engages diverse K-6 students in building literary and content-area knowledge through close reading and collaborative conversations. Foundational skills and use of text evidence are seamlessly integrated through a balanced literacy approach, as are resources for ELs. Fully equitable Spanish edition is also available. FREE Sampler
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Harvard Business Review
Project creep, slipping deadlines, and a to-do list that seems to get longer each day — these experiences are all too common in both life and work. With the new year resolution season upon us, many people are boldly trying to fulfill goals to "manage time better," "be more productive," and "focus on what matters." Development goals like these are indeed important to career success. Look no further than large-scale surveys that routinely find time management skills among the most desired workforce skills, but at the same time among the rarest skills to find.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 If you're driven and ambitious, you know that there's usually a trade-off in life. Typically, your health and relationships suffer in the process, and it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to sustain long-term success while protecting what matters the most. However, it's possible to have your cake and eat it, too. As a result of 25 years of extensive study and executive coaching, international leadership coach Janine Woodcock has developed a trademarked program for making smarter decisions and developing skills to gain liberation from the unrelenting pressures of success.
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Leadership Freak
You will never enjoy work until you stop blaming others for your dissatisfaction. One negative interaction erases many positive. Notice something good about a team member. But don't erase the good by mentioning the bad in the same interaction. "You're doing really great at XYZ, but you suck at ABC," only serves to erase an affirmation. People enjoy encouragement more than correction.
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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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Education DIVE
A Vermont bill that would make school meals free for all students is just one example of how anti-hunger advocates are pushing in the direction of universal school meals. Concerns over lunch shaming, unpaid meal debt and proposals from the Trump administration to tighten eligibility for nutrition programs are being met with efforts to cover meal costs for more children who don't already qualify for free meals.
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THE Journal
Even though the Federal Trade Commission held a workshop last October to examine "the future of the COPPA rule," we probably shouldn't expect any changes to it in 2020, according to the Future of Privacy Forum. In a December press briefing, Amelia Vance, the director of youth and education privacy projects, suggested that the process for updating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which was legislated in 1998 and went into effect in 2000, could require more time to sort out than the current FTC commission has — depending on how the presidential election swings in November.
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EdTech Magazine
How do you expand educational time without expanding school hours? The answer: turn the school bus into an extension of the classroom by enabling the fleet with wi-fi. It's a solution that a growing number of school districts are turning to, particularly those in rural areas where bus rides can add more than an hour to student commutes. These are often the same students suffering from the "homework gap" driven by unequal digital access: 18 percent of all students in rural areas have limited internet access, or no access at all, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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Tech&Learning
K-12 schools and districts face new budget shortfalls as demand increases for hardware, software, and infrastructure. As traditional sources of funding decrease, securing grants is a reasonable supplement to established funding. What follows is a list of grants available for K-12 schools and districts, including deadlines.
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Education Week
Teachers: Could you use an extra 13 hours in your work week, or for your personal life? That might be possible in the future, according to a report published by McKinsey & Company "How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact K-12 Teachers." The report estimates that 20% to 40% of the tasks teachers spend time on — grading, lesson planning, general administration — could be outsourced to technology.
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eSchool News
Digital equity remains a top hurdle to teaching and learning innovation in schools, while personalization and SEL will help accelerate innovation, according to a glimpse of CoSN's next Driving K-12 Innovation report. CoSN's Driving K-12 Innovation initiative is an ongoing effort to keep school IT leaders up-to-date on how new technologies impact different education stakeholders. The report and key findings will be available here in the coming months.
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We Are Teachers
Black history is American history, however, observing Black History Month in February gives us a chance to be intentional about learning this particular topic. While it's wonderful to recognize the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, there are many other connections we can make to the African American community. The following are some of our favorite Black History Month activities for the classroom that allow students to learn the history, discover the cultural impacts and follow movements through to present day.
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eSchool News
If you've been paying attention to education news lately, you've probably noticed that the conversation around technology in the classroom is shifting. When edtech first burst onto the scene almost three decades ago, access to more technology — devices, broadband — was everything. Educators, policymakers and parents all wanted to know how to get as many devices into the hands of students as soon as possible. How students leveraged technology to support learning would not become a primary focus for many years to come.
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Education World
With an estimated 75% of jobs over the next decade predicted to demand skills linked to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), it's more important than ever for educators to inspire and engage a love for these often challenging subjects. Check out these fun and engaging STEM activities that are simple to put into practice in the classroom.
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Edutopia
Podcasting offers an empowering way for students — even young ones — to express their ideas and connect with the world. It gives them opportunities to interview people, explain how to do something, teach on a topic, and many other possibilities. And the good news is that podcasting is easier than you may think. But having a growth mindset is important because your students' efforts might not be perfect the first time you try podcasting — you and your students need to be OK with that.
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Education Next
Maximizing the potential of all students is the stated goal of many schools. When some students have specialized needs, however, the best way forward isn't always clear. Consider students whose unique learning needs entitle them to special-education services or those who are English language learners. Schools invest significant time, resources, and attention in serving these populations, and federal and state governments pay for targeted services for these groups. This funding design assumes that additional education spending for special-education students and English learners should be focused on specific supports for only those students, such as specially trained teachers, curriculum, and counselors, instead of balanced between specialized supports and more general investments in overall school quality. Is that the most effective approach?
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We Are Teachers
Equity in education means removing barriers so that all students can reach their academic potential. As we work toward more inclusive classrooms, we must specifically target subject areas in which students with marginalized identities have traditionally experienced an opportunity gap. At the top of that list is the subject of science.
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
Researchers have found that 94% of middle school teachers experience high levels of stress, which could contribute to negative outcomes for students. Researchers say that reducing the burden of teaching experienced by so many teachers is critical to improve student success — both academically and behaviorally.
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Education DIVE
Among one of the major concerns highlighted by 100kin10 — a national network of organizations and agencies hoping to train and retain 100,000 STEM teachers by 2021 — was the lack of teachers of color overall, with the report noting people of color make up half of the student population but less than 20% of teachers. The gap is specifically pronounced in STEM.
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Education World
The benefits of kids partaking in sports can't be understated and in the age of the internet, it's arguably more important than ever to encourage physical activity in any way possible. The benefits of sport aren't just physical either — they encourage teamwork, learning how to adapt and overcome challenges and teach the importance of how to be a good sport. Yet there's no denying that many children, for many different reasons, struggle at partaking in sports. Some of the most common reasons for kids not liking sports are included below, along with some tips on what you can do to help.
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The New York Times
Just ask any parent — yellow school buses, with their classic look, signature smell and rumbling sound, remain largely unchanged from decades past. But with advances in technology, those old buses are beginning to reach the end of the line. A small but growing number of school districts are beginning to replace these older fossil fuel models with new electric buses. Motivated by evidence of the harmful effects of particulate emissions on both students' health and performance and in an effort to reduce fuel costs and save on maintenance, a few innovative districts are making the transition.
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Education DIVE
Lawmakers in Arizona will try again this year to repeal a 20-year-old law requiring English learners to be separated during the school day for explicit English language instruction — a model many say has left them trailing their peers in core subject areas. Arizona is also the only state in the country with such a law still on the books.
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Education DIVE
Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran cited the "flatlining" of results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — and in Florida's case, even a decline in student performance — as a catalyst for the change. "We want to produce students who are excellent thinkers and who are prepared for the world," Corcoran said, adding the state has "completely ripped apart" Common Core in its new standards.
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EdScoop
Officials in Virginia announced the launch of a new website that allows educators at all grade levels to share open educational resources. The platform, which the state calls #GoOpenVA, already includes 10,000 text-based, video and audio files, including content hosted by national OER websites along with content submitted directly by Virginia teachers. The platform is part of a budding statewide movement Virginia officials are promoting to encourage the use and propagation of free-to-use and unlicensed educational content, also known as open educational resources or OER.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals and the Nebraska Department of Education are pleased to announce the first Nebraska cohort to participate in the NAESP Pre-K–3 Leadership Academy®, an award-winning professional learning program that provides principals and other school leaders with a job-embedded experience in developmentally appropriate leadership practices. The program participants were recognized Jan. 8, 2020, during a meeting at La Vista Educational Service Unit 3 in La Vista, Nebraska.
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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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