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School Leaders Now
It is imperative, as school leaders, that we have the vision and commitment to help teachers and students wholly believe that literacy for all is possible. Dr. Louisa Moats believes this implicitly, and she should know. Dr. Moats has been a teacher, psychologist, researcher and graduate school faculty member. She is the author of many influential scientific journal articles, books, and policy papers on the topics of reading, spelling, language and teacher preparation.
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Education Week
Since the beginning of the year, teachers have already gone on strike in Los Angeles, Denver, West Virginia, and Oakland, California. In three of those strikes, principals were charged with running their buildings while teachers were out on the picket line. In Los Angeles, they were also expected to teach classes while juggling their regular duties — a job that already keeps most principals occupied for more than 60 hours a week, on average. The decision by districts to keep schools open is putting principals in a bind. Many school leaders, who are former teachers, support their teachers' calls for higher pay, more education funding, and additional counselors and social workers. But they also have a duty to keep students safe and ensure that they are learning.
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eSchool News
In the wake of all-too-common school shootings, school and district leaders are confronted with decisions about how to prevent–or respond to–violent incidents. Some are turning to facial recognition in schools as a way to track visitors and keep schools safe. Technology is a double-edged sword, and it's no different when applied to school security. Some argue that advanced emotion-detecting AI technologies and facial recognition in schools infringe on privacy and can't always identify people correctly or aid in prevention, while others see the technologies as yet another tool to keep students and educators safe.
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U.S. News & World Report
The number of students in kindergarten through the 12th grade who are homeless has increased by 70 percent over the last decade, according to new federal data that also suggests it shows no signs of slowing.
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Entrepreneur
Creating a long-lasting positive impact on your team will not come from random rewards sprinkled here and there or quarterly team-building activities. Intelligent employees are no longer inspired by tokenism. They search for a deeper sense of fulfillment and alignment in their work, but foremost their leader. Your internal philosophy on how people should be treated drives your leadership behavior and calibrates the degree of positive impact you have on your team.
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School Leaders Now
It's frustrating when we feel unheard and alone, but you might ask yourself if you're talking to the right person in the right way. Your principal is a teammate, a coach and your boss. The thing is, however amicable your relationship, she probably isn't your BFF. As such, she's not going to always respond to your rants in a way that is 100 percent supportive.
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Harvard Business Review
As more aspects of work become automated, it is increasingly important for people to focus on building skills that support creative and innovative tasks only human beings can perform. Efficiency is turning into the watchword of machines, and the opportunity for humans is work that addresses unseen problems and opportunities.
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Leadership Freak
You never succeed when you poke holes in your own boat. The desire to make a BIG difference is deadly when it hinders incremental progress. Show up ready to row the boat. Worry about the final destination tomorrow. Disappointment with small wins sucks the life out of people on the front lines.
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Fast Company
Anyone who's ever been on the receiving end of negative feedback can attest that it sucks. Aside from the emotional discomfort of being told your work isn't good enough, the physical responses of a racing heart, tense muscles and increasing blood pressure aren't exactly pleasant.
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Leadership Freak (commentary)
"I asked the mechanic if they rotated the tires on my vehicle. Tire rotation is included in the price of an oil change. His report was, 'Your tires look great. The technician didn’t think they needed to be rotated.' The reason my tires wear evenly is I have them rotated BEFORE they wear unevenly! For crying out loud! Tire truth: Don't wait for uneven wear to rotate the tires."
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Fast Company
Perhaps you've noticed business isn’t "as usual" lately and you've realized that a staff member or two haven't quite been performing up to scratch. Underperformance in employees can have a huge domino effect if it's not dealt with and could result in serious issues like profit loss and decreased team morale.
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Education Week
In an online video interview last year, television personality John Stossel drew U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' attention to rows of empty desks as they walked through the Department of Education. DeVos made it clear she sees a streamlined staff as a feature of her administration, not a bug. She's made it clear to managers that, "If you're going to make a case to hire more people, you better have a really good reason," she said.
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U.S. News & World Report
Lawmakers in states across the country have introduced nearly 250 school safety bills so far in 2019, underscoring how front-and-center the issue remains in the wake of two major school shootings that shook students, educators and parents and propelled the country to re-examine everything from gun safety laws to school discipline practices.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who has had trouble selling her school choice agenda in Washington, has thrown her weight behind new legislation to establish a federal tax credit to expand choice. The measure, which faces long odds in Congress, would offer a new federal tax credit for individuals and companies that donate to organizations offering scholarships to students. Under the plan, states would get to decide how big those scholarships are, which students and organizations would be eligible for them, and what could they could be used for.
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eSchool News
Today's K-12 students are coming to the classrooms toting three or more mobile devices, from smartphones and laptops to tablets and smart watches. Teachers are putting more of their educational content online and streaming it to their students, administrators are storing more student information in the cloud, and district officials are automating more of the schools' operations. There is the Internet of Things, digital signage, and video being used to monitor cafeterias. Technology continues to shape the future of how we educate our children and operate our schools, from flipped classrooms to the use of augmented and virtual reality.
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Young Rembrandts
If your classrooms are filled with ADD kids, chances are your teachers are going nuts. Did you know there’s about a 99% chance they’re visual learners? Kids that have an ADD or ADHD diagnosis have been struggling in the classroom. Once there is a treatment plan in place, you’re expecting they’re going to settle down and focus. But instead they come back and struggle more. This is discouraging for everyone and leads to even more conversations about these kids. But it’s not about the kid ...
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EdSurge
The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology published a report arguing schools and districts should go the way of other industries and hire a chief privacy officer to oversee their organization’s privacy policies and practices. Page by page, the report explains what a CPO is, why the role is necessary and even provides a two-page sample job description districts can use to begin the hiring process for a CPO.
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eSchool News
Online learning has come a long way since its early champions saw it as a supplement to classroom learning. Skeptics initially questioned the viability of the new model, wondering if it would provide the right levels of support, curriculum, and engagement needed to ensure student success. And while online learning has more than proven itself to be both an alternative to and complementary offering for traditional classroom instruction, some misconceptions still persist.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Alyssa Voigt, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "The term professional development is one that many educators have come to hate — it's automatically equated with a lot of 'sit and get' and a waste of precious time. As a library media specialist, I have probably shared these experiences more than most, as much of the professional development I've received over the years has had little relevance to my job. I have spent countless hours in one-size-fits-all lectures and trainings that did not pertain to my work because I was required to attend to fulfill my professional responsibilities."
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By: Erick Herrmann (commentary)
Many teachers are familiar with the importance of building background knowledge and linking to prior knowledge for English learners. When students encounter a new topic in school, they are spending a considerable amount of mental energy as they learn and deepen their understanding of a topic. For English learners, this is compounded by learning this new information in a new language. To better prepare all students, and especially English learners to learn and understand a new topic, we should "prime the pump."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Lori Desautels, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "For the past few years, I've been in a variety of schools around the country, working with educators whose students suffer from anxiety and depression. Such students are hungry for connection and a sense of predictability. Their needs can be overwhelming for teachers: 'Exhaustion sometimes peppered with hopelessness' is a feeling often described by these teachers."
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MiddleWeb
Memory research leads us to a very important insight: not only do we have to help students store information, they also need to be able to retrieve it. And retrieval is no simple matter. For instance, rereading is a very ineffective way to study material. In fact, research suggests that rereading leads to a false sense of confidence. Students believe that because they recognize information that has been taught to them, they know it. They very often don't.
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NPR
I know she died, but when is Grandma coming back? Why is your skin darker than Mommy's? Why do we live here but Daddy doesn't? Are you the tooth fairy? Anyone with kids in their life knows what it's like to be surprised by a tough question. It can come at any time, often when you least expect it: at breakfast, at bedtime or from the back seat. We're parents ourselves, and it's these questions — and the awkward, knee-buckling panic they induce — that led us to create a new series of parenting guides for NPR's Life Kit, a family of podcasts dedicated to making your life just a little bit easier.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
While young children may not even notice that they stutter, as they get older, living with this speech fluency disorder becomes increasingly stressful for many. "Stuttering is a disorder that comprises many elements, some that are very specific to the individual, so it's critical that it's accurately diagnosed and managed through treatment," says pediatric speech and language pathologist Amy Sindelar, a specialist in stuttering as well as language delays and disorders. Speaking in front of the class, meeting new teachers or classmates, eating at restaurants and socializing at events have been reported to Sindelar as difficult speaking situations by some of the young people who have been in treatment for stuttering with her.
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HealthDay News
Some schools offer breakfast in the classroom to ensure that hungry children start the day with a full stomach so they're ready to learn. But this may have an unintended consequence — it may raise the risk of childhood obesity. New research found that when kids in fourth through sixth grade were offered breakfast in the classroom at the start of the school day, the incidence of obesity more than doubled compared with kids who did not eat in the classroom (11.6 percent versus 4.4 percent, respectively).
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Chalkbeat
Late last year, the Trump administration moved to roll back Obama-era regulations designed to improve air quality and limit pollution. No one thought of it as an education story. But new research suggests it is, at least in part. While the health risks of air pollution have long been documented, two recent studies are among the first to directly connect two different forms of pollution to lower test scores and higher absence rates among exposed schoolchildren.
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MindShift
The experience of natural spaces, brimming with greenish light, the smells of soil and the quiet fluttering of leaves in the breeze can calm our frenetic modern lives. It's as though our very cells can exhale when surrounded by nature, relaxing our bodies and minds. Some people seek to maximize the purported therapeutic effects of contact with the unbuilt environment by embarking on sessions of forest bathing, slowing down and becoming mindfully immersed in nature.
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THE Journal
While teachers are gaining access to more data on their students than ever before, there is a lack of consistency in the quality of the information presented to help teachers with instruction, according to RAND data note paper. Using data from RAND's American Educator Panels Survey, the think tank found that the vast majority of teachers have access to electronic data information on their students, but the types of data have varied.
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The Brookings Institution
How students are assigned to schools is changing, especially in urban areas. After decades of using students' home addresses to determine school assignments, many U.S. cities are now turning to placement algorithms — alongside school choice policies — to determine which students can attend which particular schools. These algorithms, built on the Nobel Prize-winning theory of market design, elicit families' ranked preferences for schools and use those preferences, along with schools' priorities, to match students and schools.
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THE Journal
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 48 states have signed on to measure student academic progress. What's good about this approach is that it goes beyond the previously used one-time test score comparison. What's not so good is that every single participating state does it in its own way. As a result, according to a new report from the Data Quality Campaign, these student growth measures "are not created equal." While the states may use the same term — "growth" — to describe what they're doing, they're using different methods to calculate it.
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EdScoop
A bill that would require schools to monitor special education classrooms with video cameras passed in the West Virginia Senate and will now advance to consideration by the state's House of Representatives. The bill was introduced to the state legislature on Feb. 15 amid growing concern over an allegation of verbal abuse to a special-needs student at a Berkeley County elementary school.
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School breakfast is an energy source for kids across the nation. This National School Breakfast Week No Kid Hungry is making sure kids start each day with the fuel they need to succeed. Here’s how you can help spread the word!
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eSchool News
Student behavior can have a positive or negative impact on academic achievement. Even just one student who is misbehaving can affect how much and how well an entire class is learning. When we arrived at Betty Best Elementary in Houston in the summer of 2014 and dug into the school's data, we saw there were 627 office referrals during the previous year. The problem was that there was no information behind that number. There were no reasons listed for the referrals. There were no breakdowns of the data by students, demographics, grade levels, departments or teachers.
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Education Next
New York City is ending its signature effort to turn around failing schools. Mayor Bill de Blasio is canceling the Renewal program, "acknowledging that despite spending $773 million he was unable to turn around many long-struggling public schools in three years after decades of previous interventions had also failed," explains Elisa Shapiro in the New York Times.
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NAESP
A growing trend in education — teacher shortages — is affecting our nation's schools, and now is the time to work together to address it and reverse it. School districts across the country are facing a severe shortage of teachers — especially in math, science, special education, career and technical education, and bilingual education, according to a March 2018 Education Commission of the States report. Such shortages are much more common in urban, rural, high-poverty, high-minority and low-achieving schools, according to the report.
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NAESP
An effective principal is a coach, guiding team members toward the accomplishment of shared goals. An effective principal is a psychologist, intuiting diverse motives among people and instilling a unified vision. An effective principal wrings maximum gains from data, while retaining the ability to set priorities minute by minute. In short, an effective principal is a master of managing people, data and processes. This Leading Lessons guide, brought to you in partnership with The Wallace Foundation, is designed to facilitate planning and discussion to effectively manage people, data and processes.
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