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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
A year into COVID-19, school leaders are still adapting as uncertainty persists
K-12 DIVE
Nearly a year out from when the coronavirus pandemic initially disrupted K-12, school leaders are still grappling with daily decisions centered around how to best educate students — and how to do so safely. In a year like no other, there is no playbook, no historical references and no hard data on best practices. To assess the state of the situation, the National Association of Elementary School Principals surveyed principals in March, July and December to ask about coronavirus safety protocols, attendance issues, learning loss and more.
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3 ways schools can improve and maintain indoor air quality
District Administration Magazine
Every year, schools and families prepare to batten down the hatches for the impending cold and flu season. In the past 10 months, this has been compounded by COVID-19, raising additional concern and presenting a new set of challenges when it comes to keeping school staff and students healthy. While there are many safety factors to consider, creating and maintaining a clean indoor environment is essential for schools offering some level of in-person learning.
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A fuller picture of what a 'good' school is
Edutopia
Test scores are often touted as an objective way to measure how good a school is. And while this is true to a degree, they don't tell the whole story. For students who come from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds, schools that emphasize the social and emotional dimensions of learning — relationship-building, a sense of belonging, and grit, for example — may do a better job of improving long-term outcomes than schools that focus solely on high test scores.
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4 steps to safely reopen schools and save our nation
The Brookings Institution
President Joe Biden began his term in office calling for unity. To reach that end, some of his initial policies must create common ground to rebuild a society decimated by COVID-19, conspiracy theories, and white supremacy. Perhaps the only thing we can all agree on right now is that we must reopen schools safely — and as soon as possible.
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3 summer program strategies to address learning loss, support emotional health
K-12 DIVE
Interest in offering summer instruction and enrichment programming for greater numbers of students is building amid pressure for school systems to address students' learning loss and social-emotional health, said National Summer Learning Association CEO Aaron Dworkin. And although there are logistical and funding hurdles to running summer programs during a pandemic, districts are getting creative by testing out unique strategies, forming new partnerships and applying lessons learned during the school year to make virtual and hybrid learning equitable and fun, Dworkin said.
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COVID-19 pandemic pushes more parents to go all-in for home schooling
The Wall Street Journal
As parents grow increasingly frustrated with remote learning during the pandemic, some are deciding to pull their children out of school and try teaching on their own. In North Carolina, the state's home-school monitoring website crashed on the first day of enrollment, and more than 18,800 families filed to operate a home-school from July 1 to Jan. 22 — more than double the school-year before, according to the state Division of Non-Public Education. In Connecticut, the number of students who left public schools to be home-schooled jumped fivefold this school year, to 3,500. In Nebraska, the number of home-schooled students jumped 56%, to 13,426, according to state education officials.
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How the race between vaccinations and COVID variants affects school reopening
EdSurge
President Biden has made reopening K-12 schools as one of his top priorities for the first 100 days of his administration, or by the end of April. With COVID-19 vaccinations rolling out across the country, there's hope that that will happen. But there is also a sense of added urgency. New strains of the coronavirus are emerging, and vaccine distributions and administrations have run into hiccups.
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Valuable lessons for K-12 learned during the pandemic
EdTech Magazine
As part of the virtual TCEA 2021 conference that kicked off this week, three experts in educational technology discussed the biggest challenges for K–12 schools during the pandemic, the lessons they hope schools will remember and what advice they would share with district leaders.
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We are pediatricians. here's how to reopen schools safely
Education Week
The finding offered this week by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that schools have not been hotbeds of rapid on-campus transmission of COVID-19 or even of significant student-to-staff infection grabbed headlines and raised hope that we can get children back in class soon — a goal we as pediatricians share. While the poet Gertrude Stein famously wrote, "A rose is a rose is a rose," we need to be clear as a nation that when it comes to reopening schools safely, that safe is not safe is not safe.
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5 tactics school admins can use to support remote and hybrid learning
EdTech Magazine
The challenges of the past year for school teachers and administrators extend far beyond any one tool, tactic or subject matter concern. But together, those tools and tactics are key to helping solve the problems facing school districts around the country as they attempt to move forward with learning under unprecedented circumstances. That was the crux of the 2021 Future of Education Technology Conference that itself took place last week in a virtual environment for the first time.
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How the best leaders rethink and unlearn what they know
Inc.
Many first-time entrepreneurs share a similar narrative: They stumbled upon a problem in need of solving and, against all kinds of odds, worked like crazy to come up with the best solution to it. "I just had to figure it out!" they often say. "I felt like such an imposter!"
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Inclusive leadership: Making the parts more whole
Forbes
To unleash the power of all, it is critical to rise above our limiting mindsets, and even more importantly, to transcend constricted heart-sets. The human spirit, our deepest, most authentic humanity, cannot be denied or minimized by judgements that tend to restrict our collective worth. In the end, synergy supersedes separateness and eventually prevails; inclusion is the soul of synergy.
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4 key strategies for becoming a more powerful and trusted leader
The Lead Change Group
Power. The word itself evokes a reaction. What thoughts or feelings do you have when you think of power? Perhaps you picture an organizational chart where the boxes at the top are imbued with more power than those below. Maybe you imagine an iron fist, representative of a person who rules over others with absolute authority. Or perhaps the word power conjures up feelings of nervousness, anxiety or fear, based on negative experiences you've had in the past.
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Here's why a dose of intentional stress can supercharge your team
Fast Company (commenatry)
Brit Booth, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "To my team, I'm the queen of the eighth-inning surprise curveball. Let me explain. I’ve leveraged the power of well-timed disruption to help my people grow, and produce better work. Intentional stress is the type that you create, control and distribute. No, it isn't some Machiavellian mind game that pushes people to their breaking point. And it isn't about being a jerk, either. It's more the opposite — intentional stress is about setting people up for success."
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6 leadership best practices to empower your workforce
Entrepreneur
Leadership is an active, continual process. While certain people may be innately better at empowering and motivating others, leadership is a skill that can be developed — and one that needs thoughtful practice. At its most fundamental level, leadership is the ability to make situations and people better. The best leaders nurture and inspire their team to perform better and reach their greatest potential.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Ed Department investigating special ed failures during COVID-19
Disability Scoop
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating multiple school districts across the nation over concerns that they have failed to provide appropriate services to students with disabilities amid the coronavirus pandemic. The federal agency said that its Office for Civil Rights launched investigations this month looking at the Indiana Department of Education, the Seattle Public Schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia.
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Takeaways from Miguel Cardona's Senate confirmation hearing
Tech&Learning
Miguel Cardona testified before the Senate education committee. As expected, the testimony and confirmation process was mostly non-contentious. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the ranking Republican member of the committee, set a cordial tone during opening remarks. "I expect by the end of this hearing, I'll be able to support your nomination," Burr said. "And I will encourage all of my colleagues on my side to support you as well, and to move expeditiously to have you sworn in as the next Secretary of Education. I look forward to working with you."
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A free year of college and year-round school? new ideas for a new administration
EdSurge
It is with great enthusiasm, and relief, that so many educators looked forward to the arrival of the Biden Administration and the new U.S. Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona. With their leadership, the department will finally provide programs and funding for reopening schools across the country. And while the new administration has no bigger challenge than fighting COVID-19, we should also take a moment to consider the other critical challenges that American education faces.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Data reveals digital divide, despite COVID response
District Administration Magazine
More evidence of the digital divide is emerging as school leaders continue to balance in-person and remote instruction during COVID. After schools shut down in March, student and teacher engagement with digital tools recovered faster in more affluent school districts, says a year-end report by LearnPlatform, developer of an ed-tech effectiveness system used by states and districts.
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FCC takes one step closer to offering E-Rate funds for remote learning technology
Education Week
The Federal Communications Commission took the first step toward possibly reversing its longstanding position that funds from the federal E-Rate program can't be used to help with internet access in students' homes. The FCC is formally requesting comments on expanding the E-Rate program to help school districts more comprehensively address the digital divide that has kept millions of students from continuous instruction while learning from home during the pandemic.
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Attention to K-12 cybersecurity grows in nearly 100 bills introduced in 2020
K-12 DIVE
K-12 has become a top target for hackers in recent years due to the combination of high-value data available and the sometimes lax level of cybersecurity measures in place, commanding greater attention to the issue from lawmakers and policymakers. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic sent most schools into remote online instruction and created new risks, districts' technology adoption and the increasingly digital nature of classrooms were outpacing what budgets could allow when it comes to hiring personnel with cybersecurity expertise.
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E-Rate opens latest application window even as educators push for program expansion
THE Journal
The latest E-Rate application filing window has opened and will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Mar. 25, 2021. This will be the 24th year that the program, run by the Universal Service Administrative Company, has funded communications technology for schools and libraries. This year's program introduces a few tweaks, meant to address equity and streamline the application process. But what's left unfunded are some of the larger wishlist items put forward by the education sector to address the digital divide.
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Overcoming the digital divide: School districts create their own wireless networks
Tech&Learning
To close the digital divide school districts across the country have paid for internet for students and provided hotspot-enabled devices to students in need. But a number of school districts — from Rhode Island to California to Texas and in between — have gone a step further and used pandemic-related funding to invest in infrastructure to bypass internet carriers, in some cases becoming their own internet service providers. Some have laid down broadband cables while others are beaming connectivity into student's homes with cutting-edge technology.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Making the most of parent-teacher conferences during distance learning
Edutopia
Partnering with families is one of the most powerful ways to promote a sense of communal ownership in a child's learning experience. How we partner with families has evolved as we experienced remote and/or hybrid instruction. Maybe we've met our students' families through our email inboxes, or maybe there's been the luxury of an in-person meeting at the school yard or in years past.
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PE is what kids need to beat the 'COVID slide'
District Administration Magazine
In the midst of a pandemic, schools are doubling down on core subjects like reading and math to beat "the COVID slide." But in the effort to keep test scores up, we're at risk of de-prioritizing play. In fact, PE may be the subject kids need most during a continuing global health crisis. PE is often considered a low priority, a sentiment teachers feel is perpetuated by administrators, according to research in The Journal of School Nursing. Smart school leaders are taking steps to flip the hierarchy by empowering dynamic PE teachers with the time and resources to address the acute physical and mental health needs of students during lockdown.
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Kindergarten teachers want incoming students to focus on life skills, not academic ones
We Are Teachers
It's no surprise that academic rigor has become the main focus of kindergarten in the United States. Kindergarten teachers are expected to teach a total of 98 academic standards to their class of 20+ five-year-olds. Those 98 standards were written with the assumption that these five-year-olds are entering kindergarten with a mile long list of academic skills. But how do you even begin to teach academics to kids that haven't even learned to sit and listen to a story? It's critical that incoming kindergartners know life skills first.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Vocabulary tips and hints for English learners
By Douglas Magrath
Vocabulary learning is more than copying words and definitions. Students need to be actively involved in the process. Students may have a good vocabulary for getting around town and chatting with friends from the host country, but they may have difficulty with academic and course-specific vocabulary. Students often struggle with academic vocabulary, especially if their L1 is a non-European language. Vocabulary development is critical and should be integrated into all parts of the curriculum.
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New answers to old questions about special education
The Hechinger Report
The federal requirement for schools to provide extra services to children with disabilities has been around for more than 45 years. More than 7 million children, about 14% of all public school students, now receive services. Although it costs state, local and federal governments an estimated $90 billion a year, we know very little about whether special education services are actually helping students with disabilities learn more.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
.IN THE STATES
State superintendent: Extend the Michigan school year to combat pandemic learning loss
Chalkbeat
Michigan's top school official wants state lawmakers to increase the minimum number of days children are required to attend school. Michael Rice, state superintendent, said that the pandemic has exacerbated students' learning needs. With schools closed to slow the spread of COVID-19, thousands of students statewide spent much of the last 10 months learning online.
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Chicago schools reopening uncertain as union talks stall
The Associated Press
A plan to reopen Chicago schools remained in limbo as last-minute negotiations over COVID-19 safety measures with the teachers' union stalled Sunday, amplifying the possibility of a strike or lockout. Roughly 62,000 students and about 10,000 teachers and staff in K-8 were expected to start school Monday for the first time since last March, part of the district's gradual reopening plans during the pandemic.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Register for the 2021 NAESP National Leaders Conference
NAESP
NAESP's National Leaders Conference gathers elementary and middle-level principal leaders from across the country to build attendees' leadership skills, knowledge around how federal policies and programs impact principals and schools, and how to advocate on these issues. This year's NLC will be virtual, which provides an opportunity for all NAESP members to participate. Sessions will include discussions on how education funding will be impacted by COVID, education policy priorities in states, and what to expect on K-12 issues from the new Administration and Congress in 2021.
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The NAESP Principal Podcast episode one: "The Job Hunt"
NAESP
For principals, it can be lonely at the top. It's always a relief to hear from fellow educators who have been there, done that, and are doing more to advance their leadership. That's why NAESP is excited to share the inaugural episode of a new podcast developed specifically for pre-K–8 principals, the NAESP Principal Podcast. Join principals Dr. Rachael George and Adam Welcome as they discuss best practices, innovative strategies, and pressing topics with special guests from the education community.
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