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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Effective school leaders are like thermostats
MiddleWeb (commentary)
DeAnna Miller, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I recently attended a webinar hosted by the Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools on Ethical Leadership. The presenter, Dr. Ed Nichols, gave a lot of insight into what is and isn't ethical leadership and how it differs from transformational leadership. His message really resonated with me as he talked about creating a personal mission statement and being a thermostat instead of a thermometer (more on this later). So I decided to do a little more research."
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5 ways schools hope to fight COVID-19 learning loss
The Hechinger Report
A deluge of data released late last year confirmed what has long been suspected: The coronavirus pandemic caused widespread learning loss while also amplifying gaps across racial and socioeconomic lines. The situation is especially concerning among younger children: one analysis of reading level data by Amplify Education, Inc., which creates curriculum, assessment and intervention products, found children in first and second grade experienced the most dramatic drops in grade level reading scores compared to previous years.
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16 steps to stronger teacher support and system-level change
District Administration Magazine
The transition out of COVID can be as transformative for schools and educators as was the spring 2020 shutdown and shift to online learning, a new report finds. Some 16 steps district leaders can take to strengthen teacher support and initiate system-level change are detailed in an analysis released Tuesday by a Colorado-based think tank, Keystone Policy Center, and a nonprofit advocacy organization, the Public Education & Business Coalition.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Anxiety's spiking: Here's how to help our students
By Howard Margolis
 COVID-19 has caused untold numbers of America's students (and family members, teachers, and school support staff) to suffer mild to severe anxiety. Some will be helped by the passage of time and new coping skills. Some won't. For those who won't, especially those who suffer from severe anxiety, who intensely fear the future, it's a crisis. It's also a crisis for their families, their teachers, and America writ large. We can lament that, "The pandemic's horrible. Anxiety's a natural outcome." Or, we can face the problem. We can ask and answer this question: How can we help affected students help themselves?
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State leaders: Districts should tap coronavirus aid to improve air quality
Chalkbeat
School districts should jump at the opportunity for a state-subsidized inspection of air quality systems and strongly consider using upcoming federal COVID-19 aid to make upgrades this year, state leaders said. Many Michigan schools lack heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems capable of filtering COVID-19 from the air, Chalkbeat reported last week. Earlier in the pandemic, federal officials estimated that 41% of schools nationwide needed HVAC system upgrades.
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More counselors, summer school and other bold ideas to help students catch up
MindShift
It's been 11 months since schools first shut down across the country and around the world. And most students in the U.S. are still experiencing disruptions to their learning — going into the classroom only a few days a week or not at all. To respond to this disruption, education leaders are calling for a reinvention of public education on the order of the Marshall Plan, the massive U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after the devastations of World War II.
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Weekly COVID-19 cases in children continue to drop
Medscape
Despite a drop in the number of weekly COVID-19 cases, children made up a larger share of cases for the fourth consecutive week, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.
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Survey: 1 in 5 educators have been vaccinated
Education Week
About one-fifth of teachers who belong to the nation's largest teachers' union have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus, and another 18 percent have scheduled their first shots.
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Why establishing high expectations is a quality of good leadership
Entrepreneur
Eighteen classes of schoolchildren were tested for their IQs. The results weren't shown to students or parents. Instead, their teachers were simply given a list of which ones scored highest, along with these instructions: Do not treat these students differently than the others. What happened next may have taken place in a classroom, but it can light a path for our own adult careers. Here were the results — originally produced in this study in 1965 but repeated many times over: After eight months, all the students were given another IQ test.
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3 time management myths messing with your productivity
Fast Company
As a world of busy people, we are obsessed with time management. We spend a great deal of time and effort seeking out systems and tinkering with tools that promise to help us squeeze in more work in fewer hours. Although some systems and tools have merit, they are perpetuating several time management myths. We need to unpack these myths and start doing what works. Time is ticking.
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Why leaders need to focus on 'flipping the eye'
Inc.
When discussing the topic of leadership, one of the first words that tends to come to mind is "vision." But what does it mean to have a "leadership vision" — or to be a "visionary leader"? Often it has to do with having a picture in your mind's eye that is different from — and better than — the current reality. And it's about realizing that who you are and how you lead are inseparable from the lens through which you view the world.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Biden's goal for school reopenings suddenly became more attainable
U.S. News & World Report
President Joe Biden pledged to reopen the majority of elementary and middle schools for in-person learning in the first 100 days of his administration. Now, the White House has clarified that it considers a school open if it offers students in-person instruction at least one day a week — a much lower threshold than his initial pitch suggested.
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Many contact tracing studies show that it is 20 times easier to get infected indoors than outdoors. Therefore improving ventilation can help a single infected person not end up infecting everyone else. Aranet4 warns when the air quality has become unhealthy and you should take care of the airflow in the room.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Share professional development opportunity with technology leaders
District Administration Magazine
During the pandemic, it has been evident how high-performing technology departments lead and support the digital transformation occurring in every K-12 school system. But technology leadership keeps changing. DA's National Technology Leadership Academy will train your top technology trailblazers to successfully navigate the new landscape and help prepare all students to be global digital citizens.
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How to tell whether VDI or app virtualization is right for your school
EdTech Magazine
With distance learning increasing the demand for IT user support, many K–12 schools are embracing technologies to simplify and streamline their operations — particularly virtual desktop infrastructure and application virtualization. What's more, the value of these tools extends into the post-pandemic classroom.
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7 tips for breakout room success
Edutopia
Whether you use Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, having students in shared small groups can foster a deeper level of connection and communication, but depending on your class, the age of the students, and the content, it can be a scary moment to release control and trust the space. After all, one teacher cannot be everywhere, and if we are, are we really able to focus and offer support?
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Technology transformation: From avoidance to advocacy
By Angela Cleveland
 What did you want to be when you grew up? As a child, did you dream of being an astronaut, a doctor, or a teacher? How closely does your childhood dream connect with your current career? As my life went on, I thought I could follow my career goals and wouldn't need to use technology if I pursued a career as a school counselor. I felt like I finally landed in the right spot. I dove into school counseling and loved the work I was doing with my students. But, I soon faced some professional challenges that made me question how I could continue to meet the needs of my students.
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What role will hybrid learning play in the future of K-12 education?
EdTech Magazine
Faced with ongoing and unpredictable pandemic challenges, K–12 schools have been forced to get creative — finding new ways to facilitate learning at a distance, sustain student engagement and deliver consistent success. It's been no easy task. Data collected by Education Week highlights the continually changing, state-by-state nature of the U.S. COVID-19 response: Some school districts have been ordered open, others remain completely closed and many are left to find a functional balance between in-person and virtual learning on their own.
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Why schools are vulnerable to ransomware attacks
TechRepublic
Preventing ransomware and other attacks is challenging enough if you work for a large corporation with the means to educate your employees and spend the necessary money on cybersecurity. But if you're at a smaller organization, such as a school, with a tiny budget and limited security training, combating cyberattacks is all the more difficult. Plus, the abrupt shift to remote learning has opened up another area through which schools can be targeted.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
10 teaching resources for Black History Month
eSchool News
During Black History Month, educators are encouraged to go beyond surface-level teaching and delve into the difficult–and often uncomfortable–experiences of Black people in the U.S. and around the world. In the middle of civil rights campaigns and protests calling for racial equality, educators can take this opportunity to talk with students of all ages about the realities surrounding racism, equal rights, privilege, and bias. Perhaps one of the most important "do's" is this: Don't limit your teaching of Black history to the month of February.
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Teaching students to self-advocate during distance learning
Edutopia
Moving our learning experiences from the school building to our homes involved more than packing up our books and devices — the very context and demands of learning shifted. While there are incredible examples of innovative and determined teachers overcoming the struggles of distance learning, there remain some lasting hurdles, the most pressing of which is teachers' limited ability to gauge understanding.
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What does COVID-19 learning loss actually mean?
Education Week
Educators throughout the globe are concerned about students' learning loss as a result of the constraints the pandemic has placed on teachers and students. Interestingly, there has been limited discussion on specifically what is being lost. Exactly what knowledge and skills have been lost? In some states, there are no statewide curricula.
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3 tips to use teachers' life experiences to create original curriculum
eSchool News
When a school is fortunate to have exceptional teachers with diverse backgrounds, those teachers can draw on their experiences and interests to create a strong, engaging, and original curriculum. Our school, Laurel School, is one such school. Laurel School is a nationally recognized independent K-12 day school for girls, and it includes a co-ed pre-primary as well. The curriculum is shaped in part by a diverse staff with unique interests and a creative mentality for turning those interests into special opportunities for our learners. The curriculum reflects research on the power of growth mindset, best practices for girls, and proven approaches for introducing girls to the fascinating world of STEM and STEAM professions.
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New tools will measure impact of play on child development
THE Journal
An international effort is setting out to come up with new ways to help educators and others measure the impact of play on learning and child development. According to the organizers, the tools will be "open source, user friendly, cost effective and designed to be adopted across contexts by local governments, researchers, civil society and other stakeholders." The focus will be on children aged zero to 12, and the toolkit will include resources to support training, piloting, contextualization and analysis.
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4 ways to co-assess ELS with colleagues
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Tan Huynh, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I look back at the field of language education and feel so proud of how far we have come. We have gone... 'from pull-out interventions that segregate language learners...' 'to remedial intensive English programs that prevent students from accessing grade-level content...' 'to push-in services that devalue language specialists as skilled experts...' 'to finally arriving at co-teaching where language educators play a key role in designing instruction alongside general classroom teachers.' Bes of all, we now have an expanded and refined understanding that teacher collaboration encompasses more than just co-teaching. It also includes co-planning, co-reflecting, and co-assessing with our skilled colleagues."
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Poll: Students unhappy with remote and hybrid learning
CommonWealth Magazine
A NEW POLL released confirmed what many students have been saying all along: High school students far prefer to be learning in person than to be in a remote or even a hybrid model. And in many cases, the students for whom remote learning is most challenging — low-income, black and Hispanic students — are also those most likely to be learning fully remotely.
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School gardens linked with kids eating more vegetables
University of Texas at Austin via Science Daily
Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but nutrition researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found one way: school gardens and lessons on using what's grown in them. Researchers worked with 16 elementary schools across Central Texas to install vegetable gardens and teach classes to students and parents about nutrition and cooking.
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.IN THE STATES
Chicago mayor touts deal with union to reopen schools
The Associated Press
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot touted a preliminary agreement with the teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols, potentially averting a strike in the nation's third-largest school district. Some students could return to classrooms as soon as Thursday, with the reopening of school phased-in by grade. Also, the city agreed to vaccinate 1,500 teachers and staff weekly at vaccination sites dedicated to Chicago Public Schools. The possible deal — which still requires approval from the Chicago Teachers Union — also includes metrics that would trigger school closings when cases spike.
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Atlanta school system considers mandatory summer school for kids who fell behind due to coronavirus
CNN
Atlanta Public Schools is considering mandatory summer school aimed at helping students who suffered setbacks in their learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a top district official. The plan, proposed Feb. 1 at an Atlanta Board of Education meeting, has not been decided upon yet, but would focus on the unfinished learning dating back to March 2020 when schools first closed, Superintendent Lisa Herring said.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Highlighting key considerations for monitoring reading progress and using literacy assessment
NAESP
As a follow up to November 19th's session "Leading for Literacy: Highlighting Key Considerations for Literacy Screening and Assessment," join David Fainstein, M.A, and Lauren Artizi Ph.D., from the Lead for Literacy Center as they discuss types of progress monitoring data that inform reading instruction and review the quality indicators of useful data and assessments. They will share the purpose and process for monitoring students' reading progress in both traditional and virtual settings and highlight important components of data-based decision making using school teaming structures.
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Feeling the burn
NAESP
Teachers go into the profession to effect change. To make a difference. To help students. Most new public educators never guess how human the job really is, though, and 50 percent will leave their positions within five years. What makes the fire fizzle out so fast?
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