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School Leaders Now
So much of a site administrator's work is responding to what's happening right in front of them right now. Sometimes long-term and strategic thinking and planning the school master schedule can seem like something for the back burner. However, waiting too long to get started is a mistake.
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Education Week
All school leaders know the speed and the number of issues that define our daily world. They are non-stop. For some of us, that feels like an assault eventually while for others it keeps our adrenaline pumping and our attention sharp. The ever accompanying role function is the demand for decisions and responses. The coveted car ride or gym time becomes our think time. Because we know there is potentially criticism about what could have done better. That comes from others and it comes from within us, ourselves.
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Entrepreneur
For leaders and corporations to excel, team members need to feel supported and inspired by the two all-important leadership ingredients of Help and Hope. It is imperative to long-term success that leaders get involved in the day-to-day grind with their team members so they are present to the ongoing needs for support and direction. When team members feel our presence on the sidelines of their career path, they feel supported and more confident about the underlying reasons they are working so hard for us. The net of it, is people stay in careers and under leaders when they feel their efforts are valued.
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Harvard Business Review
In 2016 John Stumpf, then the CEO of Wells Fargo, was called before Congress to explain a massive scandal. For more than four hours, Stumpf fielded a range of questions about why the bank, which had over $1.8 trillion in assets, had created 2 million false accounts, and, after the fraud was discovered, fired 5,300 employees as a way of redirecting the blame. The recordings of the hearing are a shocking but illustrative case study of how leaders are at risk of being corrupted by power.
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Forbes (commentary)
Carmine Gallo, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "A remarkable new study of top performers finds that great leaders are great communicators. And they are great communicators because they’re great at simplifying. I recently sat down with UC Berkeley management professor and former Harvard Business School professor, Morten Hansen, to talk about his new book, Great at Work. The book is the culmination of a 5-year study of 5,000 business professionals in the U.S."
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Does your current curriculum lack rigor and engagement? Are your teachers struggling with rigor, relevance, and engagement in their lessons while teaching the standards? Are your teachers more comfortable using worksheets? MorningStahr products, tools, and consulting will support the rigor, relevance, and engagement that is missing for student success.
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Entrepreneur
Having a new hire is exciting; it's a chance to bring a fresh spark into the office. But, for that new hire, personally, the first day is stressful. He or she is an outsider trying to fit in while processing large amounts of information.
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The Lead Change Group
As a leader runs an organization, it is important to hire people who have the domain knowledge of the business that they are in. These people are called subject matter experts. They know the ins and outs of the business, and can help your organization traverse the landscape and develop new products or services that can help you increase your market share. Like a typical lifecycle, when an SME leaves the firm, the organization suffers some form of loss of knowledge. Depending on the extent of the loss, the firm might lose its competitive advantage. The question to be answered is: how does an organization retain knowledge or share knowledge?
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Inc.
When it comes to choosing a leadership philosophy that will turn employees into loyal and committed high-performers, who will then win over loyal and committed customers time and time again, you can't beat Servant Leadership. In fact, the research and case studies are overwhelmingly in its favor. But to call it by what legendary leadership expert Ken Blanchard, author of "The One Minute Manager" and a gazillion other books, once called it may be a stretch for some.
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The Brookings Institution
Most education reform efforts focus on what teachers are doing — professional development, new curricula, bonuses and incentives to raise scores, and so on. All are based on the belief that teachers can teach more effectively if their skills can be improved, their tools can be better and their efforts can be more energetic.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Operational excellence is essential for success in any business. Yet it does not get the attention strategy does, even though we all know it is critical. It is just feels a little cooler to talk about strategic impact than the nuts and bolts of management. Without good management, though, strategic plans could not be implemented, and their impact could not be measured. Here are three steps to take to start giving the fundamentals a little more focus.
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CNN
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education confirmed on Monday that the department is no longer investigating civil rights complaints from transgender students banned from using bathrooms conforming with their gender identity.
The development reverses 2016 guidance by the Obama administration that directed public school students to use the bathroom that matched their gender identity. The Obama administration's position was that Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools, protects transgender students.
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School Leaders Now
Is your school looking to make its next move with display technology? Maybe your interactive whiteboards are getting older or collecting dust. The good news is, display technology has come a long way since the heyday of whiteboards. Now the race is on between interactive projectors and flat screens, both of which have more meaningful potential when it comes to learning and instruction.
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THE Journal
Middle schoolers did better with science lessons when they could learn online, watching videos, playing educational games, running virtual experiments and collaborating with classmates. Under-achievers did especially well, with access to pop-up vocabulary definitions, interactive diagrams, digital note-taking, watching videos with captions and access to text-to-speech that allowed them to hear information read aloud to them.
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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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Education Week (commentary)
Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers, a contributor for Education Week, writes: "We need only to remember Wells Fargo, the Enron scandal and the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2007-2010 or the sexual harassment and rape charges in the past few months or look locally at the dark underbelly of human behavior. Humans knowingly cheating humans, face to face, one on one and in a large scale. It has happened and will happen again. There are human beings willing to cheat and hurt others. Now, truth and trust are further shaken by the invisibility that the Internet allows."
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Edutopia
Professional development is a mainstay in all schools. Some is offered by colleagues sharing best practices, some by district personnel or outside vendors. Having PD sessions during the school day is tricky. If PD is given at the beginning of the day, it’s typically prior to classes starting. Teachers are usually eyeing the clock, eager to get to their classrooms and prepare for the morning. If it's given at the end of the day, teachers are again eyeing the clock, exhausted and ready to shift to their evening routine. So what can the teacher leader do to support their colleagues' early morning or after-school PD learning?
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EdTech Magazine
Education has shifted dramatically in recent decades — from an emphasis on fact memorization through "drill and kill" and "sage on the stage" teaching styles to a focus on higher-order thinking and future-ready skills such as critical thinking and problem solving. Along the way, schools have raced to incorporate technology, first through stand-alone computer labs, and then through one-to-one device initiatives and massive networking upgrades. But in many cases, the K–12 classroom itself has remained stubbornly static, with students sitting in rows of desks and a teacher delivering instruction at a whiteboard or projector screen at the front of the room.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Reassessments are a growing trend in classrooms across our country, and my school is not unique in its use of this grading reform practice. Proponents of these types of grading practices subscribe to the belief that grades need to be a true and accurate measure of what students know and are able to do. However, not all agree about the effectiveness of a reassessment strategy, as some question whether offering reassessments makes kids less resilient.
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eSchool News
Who hasn't sent a text or email to the wrong person? Who hasn't posted something online they later regretted or seen something in their feed that made them uncomfortable? These are difficult moments for people, no matter their age, and it's natural to be unsure what to do. But the most common advice young people get about social media is usually limited to "Think before you send" and "Once you post something, it's always there." These clichés may be true, but they don't help young people address the situation they're in.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Brooke MacKenzie, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "I'm a learning specialist at an independent school in New York City, and the students I work with in small pullout groups have all been identified as needing extra reading support. Last school year, I noticed that the students in my first grade reading group all seemed to have one thing in common: They were painfully shy and hesitated to participate or take risks."
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School Leaders Now
When is the right time to talk to kids about mental health? A few years ago, the answer might have been never. However, with more kids struggling with mental health issues, today's students are ready to learn about mental health from a young age. Elementary principals and counselors may want to put all six of the following picture books about mental health in your office so teachers and kids can read them. They'll also see that you walk your talk when it comes to mental health.
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New York Post
They may not get into the city's best public schools, but they're gonna die trying. Parents are so desperate to get their children into coveted public middle and high schools that they are sending them in sick — even with dangerous flu symptoms — because absences count when it comes to admissions, an advocacy group said. While city education officials publicly tell parents to keep their kids home, they allow many of the schools to set their own admissions policies — which can put much more weight on attendance than actual school performance, according to Community Education Council 2 in Manhattan.
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NAESP
How are you creating learners outside of the classroom & outside of your school? Join NAESP and our digital ambassadors this month to discuss ways principals can leverage afterschool learning. Share afterschool program options available to you, and learn what others are doing. This chat takes place Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 9 p.m. EST. Use hashtag #NAESPChat to participate.
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NAESP
Celebrate achievement in your school with the President's Education Awards Program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with NAESP and the National Association of Secondary School Principals, PEAP offers principals a way to recognize and honor students' dedication to learning.
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