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School Leaders Now (commentary)
When teachers go on strike, principals are left in the building and in the lurch. You're caught in the middle — you want to support your teachers, but you work for the district. So, how can you walk the line and support teachers without taking sides?
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The Atlantic
At 10:21 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2018, Lake Brantley High School, in Florida, initiated a "code red" lockdown. "This is not a drill," a voice announced over the PA system. At the same moment, teachers received a text message warning of an active shooter on campus. Fearful students took shelter in classrooms. Many sobbed hysterically, others vomited or fainted, and some sent farewell notes to parents. A later announcement prompted a stampede in the cafeteria, as students fled the building and jumped over fences to escape. Parents flooded 911 with frantic calls.
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Entrepreneur
The holidays are over: 'Tis the season for turnover. Employees often start thinking about new opportunities around the end of the calendar year, but it's in the first quarter of the new year that turnover tends to spike. Workers' reasons for leaving vary, of course: Some are seasonal team members, while others want to reinvent themselves with a new role.
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Leadership Freak
Nearly 80 percent of people who feel disrespected are less committed. Those who aren't committed find fault. Those who are committed find a way. It might feel good to 'put people in their place,' but the consequences of disrespect aren't worth the pleasures of feeling superior.
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Entrepreneur
Nobody is born with limitless self-confidence. If someone seems to have incredible self-confidence, it's because he or she has worked on building it for years. Self-confidence is something that you learn to build up because the challenging world of business, and life in general, can deflate it.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 New year, new you — that applies just as strongly in your work life as it does in your personal life. As a manager, you want to set a good example for your team members who take their cues from your work style and philosophy. Are you making this happen? If not, it's easier than you think to break bad habits that may be holding you back from doing your best work — and inspiring your staff to do their best work. Check out the following list of common behaviors you'll want to change.
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Harvard Business Review
We know that diversity matters. In addition to being the right thing to strive for, having a diverse workforce helps companies acquire and retain the best talent, build employee engagement, increase innovation and improve business performance. Yet corporate diversity still lags, especially at the top levels, which continue to be dominated by white, heterosexual men.
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Fast Company
If you're a business owner, chances are you're always busy. You're multitasking, working long hours, and you worry that if you slow down, you'll never get everything done. But research has proven that task-switching make us less efficient — not more. This kind of behavior can account for up to a 40 percent loss in your productive time.
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HR DIVE
Addressing attrition is especially critical in an employee-driven labor market, where even the slightest disappointment — including one bad day — can compel workers to look elsewhere for better job opportunities. Although money isn't the sole reason for leaving a job, it remains the top motivator for starting a job search or accepting an offer. The trend in compensation is towards greater transparency, which is due in part to the proliferation of sites like Glassdoor as well as pressure to mitigate pay disparities based on race and gender.
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Fast Company
To be a successful leader, you need to be a great delegator. After all, you can't do everything yourself when you have large-scale company goals to meet. But to do it properly, you need to have the right mind-set — otherwise, it can backfire very quickly and jeopardize the success of your team. In my experience, there are two common obstacles that leaders need to overcome.
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Leadership Freak
Progress is like learning to walk. You stumble forward, then you skin your knee. There's no quick fix to the challenges of leadership. And thinking there is makes stumbling harder. The path forward is iterative. Proposed solutions don't magically work on the first try, or the tenth. A desire for easy solutions invites disappointment.
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Fast Company (commentary)
Martha Tesema-Shine, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "'Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.' That saying — one of the many by the great unknown — has been floating around on the internet for as long as I've been googling 'inspiring quotes' (a long, long time). It sums up an ideal situation: Find a job that aligns with your values and it won't feel like a job at all. Sounds amazing — in theory. But it wasn't until recently that I realized I had blindly followed the wisdom of this mysterious person without recognizing that it didn't necessarily work for me."
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Education Week
In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to "pass school choice for America's children." That's a pretty vague statement — which means that if Congress even sneezes in the direction of choice, Trump and his team may be able to claim victory on it. But lawmakers have already rejected Trump's pitches for a new $1 billion competitive grant that would pay for vouchers and more.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
It's hard not to love good clear data that helps us do our jobs better. And we're always searching for tools to help us gather that data, right? Well, the editors at School Leaders Now were wowed when they learned about CatchOn, a cool program that provides great data for managing school apps. They were so impressed that they just had to share.
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EdSurge
There's a lot of amazing ed tech software out there these days, but is it actually being used effectively to make classrooms more productive? Many school districts across the U.S. are not getting the most from their edtech investments.
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EdScoop
A report published last week ranking states on how well they protect student privacy has been criticized for not being a comprehensive account of state policies, but its author said the report is "exactly what we want it to be." The State Student Privacy Report Card — published by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and the Network for Public Education — says its grades provide a snapshot of states' progress on student data privacy legislation to inform parents, student advocates and legislators.
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eSchool News/Tracey Smith
A principal takes a closer look at what it takes for students and staff to be happy at school, and how to build a stronger community. As educators, one of the biggest challenges we face is learning how to put our health and happiness first. My first thought was that I needed to put the students’ well-being first, but I discovered that I needed to start with my staff instead. If we didn’t find out what educators are passionate about and connect them back into this building, we knew they would quickly burn out.
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Education DIVE
Context — the understanding of how something connects to a whole — is never more crucial of a concept than within the sphere of K-12 education. Students need to be shown that what they're learning is more important than getting a higher score on a standardized exam. Administrators and curriculum designers who fail to help students understand not just the what of their lessons, but the why, are in danger of their pupils tuning out during class time.
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MindShift
The types of skills required to care for and advocate for oneself and others — self-regulation, responsibility, empathy and discipline, among others — are becoming increasingly central to the work of schools and teachers, and increasingly relevant to the lifelong success of students. More and more, educators are recognizing that these skills — often called "social and emotional" skills — are inextricably intertwined with the academic skills. Nine out of 10 teachers believe that social emotional skills can and should be taught.
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MiddleWeb
Suspension has been a commonly used disciplinary method in schools. Unfortunately, it also has no positive impact on students. What’s worse, these same children often develop a dislike for authority figures. This is a perpetual cycle that has to stop to help students stay in school, develop positive relationships with adults in positions of authority, and achieve greater success.
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Edutopia
If it takes a village to raise a child, then the village elders had better work well together, especially when it comes to raising children with different home languages. Thankfully, more and more districts are encouraging content and English language teachers to join forces to support their multilingual students. There are certain things ELTs can do to cultivate these dynamic relationships, and also things we should avoid doing.
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EdSurge
Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called "How Humans Learn." But as Eyler warns readers at the outset, he's not a scientist himself, but a humanist with a PhD in medieval studies. And that's what makes the book such an interesting and unusual take on what is becoming a hot topic.
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Ohio State University via Science Daily
The time parents spend with their children has a powerful effect on their educational achievement, according to a large study with a novel approach. Researchers analyzed data on children in Israel who lost a parent through death or divorce.
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HealthDay News via Psychiatry Advisor
Higher childhood blood lead levels are associated with more psychopathy during the life course, according to a study published online Jan. 23 in JAMA Psychiatry. Aaron Reuben, from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study based on a population-representative birth cohort of individuals born between April 1, 1972, and March 31, 1973. Participants were followed through age 38 years in December 2012. Adult mental health disorder symptoms were examined as the primary outcome as assessed through a clinical interview at 18, 21, 26, 32 and 38 years.
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Education DIVE
While increasing student knowledge and achievement make up one of the main goals of education, preparing students for the workplace and for success in managing their lives is equally important and benefits society as well as the students themselves. The workplace has always required skills such as teamwork, cooperation and self-regulation, and these noncognitive skills are still valued by employers who seek a stable, reliable and dependable workforce. And skills such as adaptability are even more important in today's workplace than before because it is constantly changing.
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Chalkbeat
Tennessee's least effective principals are more likely to work in schools with students who are lower-achieving and live in poverty, according to new research. And the pattern exists in both urban and rural districts. The findings are outlined in a research brief by the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, which is looking closely at school leadership through a partnership between the state's education department and Vanderbilt University's Peabody College.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 The Los Angeles teachers' strike — settled in January — was 1) an expensive waste of time or 2) changed the course of education in America. Take your pick. Your choice may depend more on your political views in general than the underlying facts. Here are the two opposing views and an attempt to determine an underlying reality that both sides might grudgingly agree on.
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District Administration Magazine
In Finland, education is a national priority. It caters to working families and receives plenty of funding, with more than 55 percent in federal dollars. Free meals, health care and outside-of-class child care are available to all students, who start formal schooling at age 7. Formal schooling begins after state-sponsored compulsory kindergarten that features outdoor play and exploration.
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Develop a plan to expand statewide access to school breakfast and receive a $50,000 implementation grant from No Kid Hungry. Proposals due March 6th.
To learn more, refer to the RFP.
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NAESP
Don't miss a unique opportunity to advance your career and strengthen the leadership skills of new principals. Your knowledge and expertise is critical to ensure the success of the next generation of school leaders. As with any career, mentors offer guidance and support to help others become highly effective leaders. Take the time to invest in yourself, your career and the principal profession as a Certified National Principal Mentor.
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NAESP
One rainy day during the Revolutionary War, a rider on horseback came across a group of soldiers attempting to move a heavy piece of timber. The corporal in charge was shouting encouragement to "heave" repeatedly, but the soldiers couldn't get the beam to budge. After watching their lack of success, the rider asked the corporal why he wasn’t helping, to which the corporal replied, "Don't you realize that I am the corporal, sir?"
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