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District Administration Magazine
During two decades of teaching, Andrea Giunta wasn't sure what she would find a day after a substitute teacher was in her classroom. Sometimes substitutes taught the lesson plan she left, and students produced high-quality work. Sometimes the lesson plan was followed only partially, but she felt she had to reteach the material once she returned. One time, a young substitute ignored her lesson plan and played his guitar all day. As a bilingual teacher in the Denver, Tempe and Phoenix districts, she learned to get to know substitute teachers and call them personally to step in for her. When she ran for vice president of the National Education Association, Giunta asked a recently retired teacher to fill in for her each time she visited lawmakers and worked on policy.
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Education Week
A new study of educators in five states finds that the Common Core State Standards have fostered significant instructional changes in U.S. classrooms. But the research offers less clarity on specific strategies that boost student achievement under the standards. The study, conducted by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, used a random-sampling survey to capture the experiences of 1,500 English and mathematics teachers in grades 4 through 8, as well as 142 principals. The researchers then linked those surveys with student test results.
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NPR
President Barack Obama wants kids to learn to code. So much so, he's pledged billions of dollars to teach them. "Now we have to make sure all our kids are equipped for the jobs of the future – which means not just being able to work with computers, but developing the analytical and coding skills to power our innovation economy," he said in his radio address on Jan. 30. And adults are looking to learn, too. Coding academies, or "boot camps," are cropping up across the country, promising to teach students to code in a few months or even a few weeks. But computers are not just about coding. There's also a lot of theory — and science — behind technology. And those theoretical concepts form the basis of much of computer science education in colleges and universities.
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By: Howard Margolis
 "Mom, I can't do it. I won't do it," Amir sobbed. "I'm dumb, I'm stupid, I'm confused." Sadly, struggling readers often make comments like this. Unfortunately and unknowingly, school personnel and parents often fuel the struggles propelling these beliefs. So, what's sustaining and intensifying the readers' struggles? Often, it's the absence of critical instructional ingredients, ones that educational marketers don't promote. The reason is straightforward: They're free.
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MindShift
A group of 10- and 11-year-olds giggle as professional cellist Frederic Rosselet flexes his wrist as if he's made of rubber. "Really flexible in your wrist," he tells the students. "It's your arm basically that does the work." The cello students at Downer Elementary School in San Pablo, Calif., drag their bows across their cello’s strings, following Rosselet's wrist-shaking lead.
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EdSurge
Guided reading has become increasingly popular, and for good reason; it works. The opportunity to work with children in small groups, instruct in a way that's laser focused on students' level of development, and directly address individual challenges allows educators to go beyond one-size-fits-all teaching approaches and set a more solid foundation for overall literacy.
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National Center for Science Education via Science Daily
How is climate change being taught in American schools? Is it being taught at all? And how are teachers addressing climate change denial in their classrooms, schools, and school districts? Until today's release of NCSE's comprehensive nationwide survey, no one knew.
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Education DIVE
In a video released by the U.S. Department of Education, acting Secretary of Education Dr. John B. King Jr. discussed ways states can get rid of poor quality, redundant, and "unhelpful" testing. The YouTube clip, announced via press release, came alongside a written letter setting guidelines for states to implement President Barack Obama's Testing Action Plan. The department also opened "office hours" for states and districts that felt the need for additional feedback or consultation on scaling back testing.
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By: Kelly Sharp
 Dr. Carter G. Woodson established Black History Month in February, coinciding with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. It originally launched as Negro History Week in 1926, and evolved into a month-long celebration in 1976. During a time when history excluded the existence of African-Americans, the event was created to showcase their achievements. Black History Month remains just as important today, with the same original agenda: education.
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EdTech Magazine
How does your school district's bandwidth spending compare with its neighbors? A new online tool offers a transparent view of public-school Internet usage and how much district leaders are spending. EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit dedicated to helping public schools upgrade their Internet access, recently launched Compare & Connect K–12, a website that shows the bandwidth price and usage of more than 13,500 U.S. school districts.
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U.S. News & World Report
Rural schools face unique challenges that other schools don't, and for that reason many struggle with graduating students who are well-prepared to succeed beyond high school and help ignite the often already struggling economies in their rural communities. But when it comes to policy recommendations and state and federal programs, rural schools are often overlooked despite the fact that 29 percent of all public schools in the U.S. are located in rural areas — more than in cities or towns, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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Choose from 87 digital, conceptual K-8 science units, with STEM, in grade-level bands, to meet evolving standards. Email for free sample and details: rseela@seelascience.com MORE
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The New York Times
Over the past few decades, cognitive scientists have found that small alterations in how people study can accelerate and deepen learning, improving retention and comprehension in a range of subjects, including math, science and foreign languages. The findings come almost entirely from controlled laboratory experiments of individual students, but they are reliable enough that software developers, government-backed researchers and various other innovators are racing to bring them to classrooms, boardrooms, academies — every real-world constituency, it seems, except one that could benefit most: people with learning disabilities.
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Education Week
A group of education organizations is challenging school leaders around the country to spend one day shadowing individual students so they can develop greater empathy for their charges' experiences. Participants in the Shadow a Student Challenge sign up to follow one child for a full day during the week of Feb. 29 to March 4, eating lunch with them, attending classes, and maybe even riding the bus with them.
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Transform your recess transitions from chaos to cooperation. Get tools and techniques to reduce conflicts and keep your students active on the playground. www.playworks.org
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King's College London via Science Daily
Personality characteristics — especially conscientiousness — have previously been shown to have a significant but moderate influence on academic achievement. However, a new study suggests that "grit", defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, adds little to the prediction of school achievement.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
By: Bambi Majumdar
 The new year started out with school districts campaigning for funds and state governments announcing budget hikes for the same. Nothing new in that except for the unprecedented manner in which multiple states are announcing these hikes simultaneously. Much has been said about budget cuts and administrative apathy in the last few years, but it seems 2016 will see a more positive stance from those involved. A good example is Florida.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Near the A.W. Beattie Career Center in McCandless, five graduate students from China live in two apartments. Each day, they walk to Beattie, where they use video cameras to teach Chinese classes to middle and high school students throughout the region. The program is one of many in the county that uses a regional computer network coordinated by the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. Starting this summer, the programs will use a new Regional Wide Area Network — one that will provide those services cheaper and faster.
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The Atlantic
Charlotte, North Carolina, became a national model for school desegregation in the 1970s, busing students to balance the racial composition of its schools. Decades later, Charlotte is a city where no racial or ethnic group constitutes a majority of residents — whites (45 percent), blacks (35 percent), and Latinos (13 percent) top the city's multicultural mix. And within this diverse and fast-growing urban metropolis, the city's students are once again segregated by race and class, with levels reminiscent of the pre-1970s era.
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NAESP
Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman has conducted extensive research on the impact of emotionally intelligent leadership. In the latest edition of NAESP Radio, he sat down with NAESP Executive Director Gail Connelly to highlight what every principal needs to know about this essential component of the principalship. Listen to this interview at www.naesp.org/radio.
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NAESP (Commentary)
New Jersey Principal Wendy Crawford writes: "When I first became a principal 21 years ago, one of the first trainings I attended was on observation. It involved scripting a lesson. We were taught that you could only comment on what you actually saw during the observation and that any commendations or recommendations at the bottom of the form had to relate directly to the script portion at the top of the document."
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