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School Leaders Now
What makes a great principal? It’s a complex job that requires a myriad of skills but there are still some basic principles we can all agree on. Here are 10 ground rules that all principals, no matter which grade levels you lead.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Talent management and mentoring programs often focus on spotting potential leaders and developing their talent. While having a pipeline of leadership candidates is beneficial, these programs often overlook the importance of influencers. While good leaders are influencers, not all influencers are or want to be leaders. Yet their talents can have a significant impact on all levels of the organization. It is time to start nurturing and rewarding the talents of influencers.
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Forbes
The year has already begun but that isn't stopping me from making some small changes that will go a long way to becoming more organized. Many people use productivity and organization interchangeably perhaps because you need one to be good at the other. For me, it's easier to attack organization than think of how to be more productive.
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THE Journal
Nearly 60 percent of education workers have taken a "mental health day" to deal with work-related stress. That's according to a recent survey of 1,004 office workers and business decision-makers in the United States and Canada. The survey, conducted by KRC Research on behalf of Staples, asked employees about current trends in the workplace, including health, wellness and stress issues. About 9 percent of the survey respondents came from the education industry; the other industries represented were government/public sector, healthcare, industrial/manual labor, finance and tech.
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Entrepreneur
Tony Chatman, author of "The Force Multiplier", wrote the book as a way to address a gap in leadership in a more practical, and less theoretical, way that would be applicable to everyone — from first-time leaders to executives. Chatman argues that if first-time leaders have a solid foundation about what it means to be a leader, they can avoid a number of pitfalls when they become executives. He also defines a "force multiplier" as someone who brings out the best in others simply because of their presence. This, Chatman says, is what makes a leader indispensable.
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Leadership Freak
It's absurd to say we can't change people. The people in your story have changed you. You're who you are, in part, because of them. Influence is the power to produce change.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Ellen Snyder, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "As a millennial, I love to read about leadership. I love learning different leadership styles, hearing from different leadership gurus. However, I am not yet a leader. Well, not exactly. I have not been given a title. I don't manage a team. I don't have any mentees. By the normal understanding of being a "leader," I don't fit the mold."
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Education Week
School districts: Interested in having your local, state and federal funding follow children, so that kids with greater need have more money attached to them? Now's your chance. The U.S. Department of Education is officially opening up the "Weighted Student Funding Pilot" in the Every Student Succeeds Act. The department can allow up to 50 districts to participate initially, and ESSA leaves open the possibility of opening that up to more districts down the line.
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eSchool News
Effective parent-teacher communication is crucial in helping students learn. But, for busy teachers it can be challenging just to keep up. Can apps and other digital tools make it easier to keep everyone — parents and students — in the loop? Transparency and equity are key to managing any communication between home and school. Watch here to find a variety of tools and useful tips to help you better engage your parent audience.
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THE Journal
Has NAEP set the bar too high for American students? That's the implication in a new report from the National Superintendents Roundtable and Horace Mann League. According to "How High the Bar?" when results from "nation's report card" proficiency assessments are compared to results from two international assessments and the Common Core, researchers found that the proficiency benchmarks of the National Assessment of Educational Progress would knock out students in almost every country.
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eSchool News
As we enter a new year, education is a topic that continues to resonate well beyond the classroom into the core aspects of daily life, from home and family to the halls of politics and the corporate world. Since launching SXSW EDU several years ago with the aspiration to become the world's largest and most inclusive learning festival in the world, it's been exciting to see the event grow and evolve. As past speakers including philanthropist Bill Gates and Teacher's College, Columbia University professor Christopher Emdin both observed from the keynote stage, the growth of the event is a direct reflection of the public's deep passion and interest with teaching and learning — no surprise, when we acknowledge that education is the foundation on which everything is built!
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THE Journal
A report out from the National Education Policy Center questions the findings of a report on online programs for pre-K teachers from New America that THE Journal reported on in 2017. At the heart of its concerns: whether bachelor's degrees — let alone online ones — are really essential for the job or whether that'll raise wage levels.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Education Week recently released the first of what will be three reports entitled, "Quality Counts 2018: A Report Card for States and the Nation on K-12 Education." Now in its 22nd year, the publication "aims to illuminate what the high-performing states did well, how low-performers are approaching improvement, and lessons for boosting the quality of K-12 education overall." For the report, states were graded based on two indicators.
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Solve all your school’s moving and storage needs with one versatile solution.
For educational institutions across North America, PODS® is the smart solution for maximizing campus space, managing storage and transportation costs, and reducing the risk of damage and loss.
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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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The Hechinger Report
When there aren't enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators' help. We must help teachers get the training they need to be able to teach all of their students, including students with disabilities.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Educators often say that education is frustratingly isolating. And if you talk with them about collaboration, you quickly learn that they know it can be a powerful tool to improve teaching and learning — and many feel a growing expectation to collaborate. Reducing the isolation starts with the recognition that collaboration is a learned skill. Educators can begin to learn it by focusing on five key aspects.
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ADDitude Magazine
No child can succeed at school if he believes he is less smart or less capable than his peers. Follow these strategies to change your child's mindset and to promote his self-esteem. Together, they can unlock a lifetime of more positive learning.
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THE Journal
In spite of the push since the release in 2010 of the Common Core learning standards to get students to read more nonfiction, lift hasn't even reached 10 percent in most states. The only outliers were New Jersey and Vermont, where the gain was greater than 10 percent. And whereas the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading framework targets fourth, eighth and 12th graders to read an ever-growing proportion of non-fiction, in reality, they appear to read less with every passing grade.
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The New York Times
The academic gaps between groups of students — the poor and the middle class, or black and Hispanic children and their white and Asian peers — often are examined in broad strokes, across a district or an entire city. But a new analysis from the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School takes a closer look by mapping the achievement gaps within each public elementary school in New York City. The results reveal the challenges of integrating students across the system, and of integrating under one roof.
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No more notes! Office dashboard with convenient app for parents. Reduces classroom interruptions. Automatically compiles customized end-of-day lists. Easy setup. Try our FREE PILOT today!
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Edutopia
Assertiveness is a key concept in social and emotional learning and represents the middle ground between the extremes of aggression and passivity. When people behave aggressively, they prioritize their own needs and may use threats to get what they want. When people behave passively, they do things they don't want to do because they feel pressured or threatened by others.
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eSchool News
Current approaches to identifying students with reading disabilities are often problematic and ineffective, and will not lead students to academic success. However, there have been significant improvements in identification and screening that are allowing us to provide greater — and earlier — support. In "Cutting-Edge Research to Empower Schools to Support Students with Reading Disabilities," Rick Wagner, associate director for the Florida Center for Reading Research, discussed problems with current methods and how to better help students with these disabilities.
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Edutopia
Getting students to think about behaving badly helps them arrive at positive norms — and such reverse thinking may work in other situations as well.
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Teachers ask “do my students know and understand the standards?” Administrators ask “how many times have the priority standards been covered and have the students mastered them?” MorningStahr takes the guess work out of both by providing standard coverage charts and student reflection cards and journals.
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MindShift
Celebrated American author Ursula K. Le Guin — dubbed by the Library of Congress in 2000 as a "living legend" for her contributions to science fiction, who died in January at the age of 88 — had strong feelings about the imagination.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Michelle Russell, a contributor for MiddbleWEb, writes: "Recently, I was walking around the room helping students complete an assignment. One student was off task, looking at something on her phone. I asked the student to start working on the assignment. When she hesitated I said, 'Please put that away, it's not important right now.' She replied, 'Neither is this.'"
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PBS Newshour
In California, home to the largest number of undocumented students enrolled in public school, many are scared they may not reach graduation amid political uncertainty over DACA protections. But an increasing number of educators are getting training to become Dreamer advocates. Fernando Cienfuegos of Northview High School and NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs reports.
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NAESP
Social and emotional learning are critical elements to student success in school, work and life. However, many schools struggle with making these key components of the overall educational process. Join internationally known psychologist and New York Times Best Selling Author, Dr. Daniel Goleman, and discover the missing pieces that many students need. This webinar takes place Wednesday, Feb. 7, 3-4 p.m. EST.
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NAESP
Together with Crayola, NAESP offers a special opportunity to apply for a Champion Creatively Alive Children Grant. Your school could receive a $3,500 grant (a $2,500 check and $1,000 worth of Crayola products) to establish a creative leadership team and build the creative capacity of your professional learning community. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 22. (The Early Bird deadline is Monday, June 5. Early Bird applications will receive a Crayola product Classpack). For more information, visit www.naesp.org/crayola-grant.
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