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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Cardona: Creating environments where teachers can thrive is key to keeping good educators
Chalkbeat
Retaining teachers like Mosby and the thousands of other exhausted professionals across the nation who have left the education field was top of mind for U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and the approximately 4,000 school leaders and industry professionals who discussed solutions at the School Superintendents Association's National Conference on Education in Nashville.
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How are staffing shortages affecting schools during the pandemic?
The Brookings Institution
The ongoing pandemic has challenged schools in many ways over the past two years, ranging from the need to provide students ongoing access to remote instruction to the tightrope walk between public health concerns and student rights to quality schooling during the constantly shifting conditions of the pandemic. Perhaps no challenge has been so acute as the operational and staffing challenges that have hit schools during the pandemic. Districts nationwide report unfilled vacancies for janitors, bus drivers, teachers aides and substitute teachers, which have hobbled many schools.
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Social and emotional learning is the latest flashpoint in the education wars
The Hechinger Report
When a middle school teacher resigned over their district's social and emotional learning curriculum, Lisa Logan and Stacie Clayton wanted to understand why. So, the two moms from Sandy, Utah, spent 30 hours combing through the district's eighth grade curriculum. What they found alarmed them.
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Girls emerge as leaders of student walkouts over COVID concerns
The 74
The pandemic particularly lends itself to girl-led activism because fighting the virus centers on the desire to protect individuals more vulnerable than oneself, according to Taft. Too often, high school boys are socialized to behave as if nothing, even a global pandemic, scares them, so admitting how fragile life can be doesn’t “necessarily align with certain versions of young masculine toughness,” she argued.
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3 proactive school safety measures leaders can take in 2022
eSchool News
After a lull in threats of violence early in the pandemic, we are once again seeing tragic stories of deadly shootings and acts of violence as schools reopen. Schools and educators are in difficult positions and looking for ways to keep kids and staff safe. Nationwide, schools are preparing for potentially harmful threats, putting precautions in place and evolving the school safety landscape.
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Interims leading courageously in unparalleled times
District Administration Magazine
School districts are losing their superintendents at an alarming rate. What is more daunting is the shortage of available school leaders to replace the rapidly departing superintendents.
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Thinking critically about goal setting
Edutopia
As educators, our efforts center on helping others grow and develop. This means that we have ambitious goals for our students, colleagues, and communities. While we often have more direct control over making progress on our personal goals, helping others achieve ambitious goals is often part of what makes our experiences as teachers and leaders impactful and meaningful.
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The science of reading is a powerful lever for equity. Tune in to this on-demand webinar for guidance on implementing the science of reading within an MTSS. You’ll explore effective literacy assessments and the use of systematic and explicit instructional strategies to remove barriers to reading success.
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4 ways to enrich CTE programs
eSchool News
Right now, there's a labor shortage. The U.S. has more jobs available than there are people to work them. This means individuals who are just starting their careers can more easily snag positions in trade occupations, such as construction, cosmetology, HVAC, and more. But in order to take advantage of these opportunities, students first need to know that they are available.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Lawmakers differ on federal role in exclusionary discipline practices
K-12 Dive
Democratic and Republican lawmakers agree schools should be supportive and safe environments for students, but some differ over the role the federal government should play in limiting exclusionary discipline practices, according to discussion during a virtual House Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee hearing.
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FCC grants request to extend Emergency Connectivity Fund
Government Technology
According to a news release, the service delivery deadline has been extended from June 30, 2022, to June 30, 2023, following a petition by the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition, the American Library Association, the Consortium for School Networking and the State Educational Technology Directors Association.
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Education department urges states to rethink assessment delivery, communication
K-12 DIVE
The announcement echoes that of former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who similarly urged states in 2020 to pursue a competency and mastery-based model, calling it "the perfect time" after a year of assessment waivers in light of COVID-19. It also aligns with the Senate's proposed $50 million increase for state assessments in an appropriations bill released in October 2021. Federal lawmakers are still negotiating over the bill, which is part of a larger set of appropriations proposals.
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As school communities have struggled to address the mental health needs of their students, the focus has been on treatment. Understandable.
However, we can start proactively helping our students in elementary school. Brain-based mental health literacy & resilience training provide strong Tier 1 support.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Mobile computer labs, classrooms bring STEM to rural schools
Government Technology
With the help of a driver, a librarian and a paraeducator, a school district in rural Arkansas turned a decommissioned school bus into a mobile library and science lab to bring school to kids who couldn't get to campus.
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Online learning success starts with a strong foundation
EdTech Magazine
Teachers have come a long way since March 2020, when many were thrown unprepared into the remote learning world. But instructional technology consultant and author Lindy Hockenbary says there's still a lot more teachers can learn about online learning success.
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How Minecraft is teaching kids to face the threat of climate change
CNet
In classrooms all over the world, children are being taught about the world they're going to inherit. Large-scale erosion, melting ice caps, population growth and deforestation fill the pages of geography textbooks, but for some students in elementary school, it's not only hard to imagine — it's terrifying.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
7 keys to effective teacher development
eSchool News
Building on the changes that school systems have made during the pandemic to achieve true digital transformation requires an adaptive approach to K-12 leadership, as well as a focus on successful change management. These are adjustments that have to take place at the administrative level. But real transformation won't occur unless it reaches the classroom as well, with teachers embracing change and trying out new approaches to instruction.
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Professional learning in virtual classrooms
Edutopia
Peer walk-throughs and self-reflection are common practices among educators that provide even the most seasoned veterans with fresh perspective, innovative ideas and classroom best practices. I am the coordinator and principal of our district's virtual program, where our K–8 teachers are fully virtual, spending the majority of their day teaching online via Zoom videoconferencing. Because we are smaller, we have only one teacher in most grade levels.
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Learn tips and strategies to deliver inspired feedback, master MTSS, and create a culture and curriculum that’s inclusive and effective for every learner. Bestselling author Katie Novak (Innovate Inside the Box and UDL Now!) and Mike Woodlock show you how. Order A UDL Playbook for School and District Leaders today!
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3 tools to support trauma-informed teaching
eSchool News
While the awareness of trauma-informed teaching has been a concept I have grappled with, teaching amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has moved this concept to the forefront in terms of how to be effective as a trauma-informed educator in the virtual classroom.
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Number talks as a pedagogical tool for pre-service teachers
Faculty Focus
Pre-service teachers enter their education courses with their personal experiences as the basis for what their future classrooms might look like (Brown et al., 2021). For many, teaching and learning math involves algorithms, textbooks, paper and pencil, and getting to that one right answer.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
The shrinking school week
Education Next
How much face time do students and teachers need to keep pace with expectations for learning? It’s an urgent question during a pandemic that has kept many students out of school buildings for more than a year. The importance of school attendance has divided communities across the country, as they weigh the potential risks of in-person instruction with those of prolonged separation from the school environment.
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PROOF POINTS: A smarter robo-grader
Hechinger Report
When the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education wanted to learn more about the latest advances in robo-grading, it decided to hold a competition. In the fall of 2021, 23 teams, many of them Ph.D. computer scientists from universities and corporate research laboratories, competed to see who could build the best automatic scoring model.
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Empower your teachers with exciting new virtual STEAM-powered classes, clubs and workshops at award-winning Stepping Stones Museum for Children. The Stepping Stones Studio makes it easy to inspire and delight young learners with a celebrated lineup of play-filled, brain-building educational offerings now accessible to everyone, everywhere. “This is the most wonderful hands-on experience for children! The Traveling Seeds workshop was extraordinary. The students were engaged and learned a lot. I enjoyed watching the children play and learn at the same time,” a 1st grade teacher, Norwalk Public Schools, Norwalk CT. Click the link here for detailed information: https://www.steppingstonesmuseum.org/app/uploads/2021/12/21-School-and-Groups-Flyer-VIRTUAL-120821.pdf
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.IN THE STATES
Posturing or needed change? 15 states consider parent access to teaching materials
The Current
Mostly Republican governors and legislators in more than a dozen states are fighting to give parents more control over what their children learn in public schools, banking on so-called parents’ rights bills as a political winner. But educators worry that empowering parents to veto books and history lessons would push many already stressed teachers out of the profession.
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Despite supermajority, Indiana Republicans change curriculum bill
Chalkbeat
While states like Tennessee have passed laws that would punish teachers for teaching a laundry list of ideas, the Republican supermajority in the Indiana legislature has instead cut some of the most controversial parts of its bill, House Bill 1134, and left the door open to further amendments.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
NAESP Gathers School Leaders in Washington, D.C., to Advocate for School Recovery Support and Funding on Capitol Hill
NAESP
Nearly 200 elementary and middle-level principal leaders from across the country will gather in the nations capital to attend the National Leaders Conference (NLC), which is hosted annually by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). The meeting gives principals a firsthand role in shaping the associations advocacy and policy priorities as they engage with top education and policy thought leaders and legislators and their staffs on Capitol Hill.
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NAESP Twitter Chat: Moving Up! SEL and the Middle-Level Transition
NAESP
March is Middle-Level Education Month! To celebrate, NAESP Center for Middle-Level Leadership fellows Jessica Cabeen and Dr. Kevin Armstrong will host a Twitter chat about creating smooth transitions for middle schoolers. Well discuss solutions to common issues students face as they transition into and out of the middle level and the role of social-emotional learning, academics, and family engagement in ensuring students are set up for success. Its March 9 at 8 p.m. ET. Use #NAESPchat to take part.
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