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The Hechinger Report
In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children. In Minnesota, a series of workshops offered across the state aims to educate school leaders and teachers on child development and pre-K through third grade work.
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eSchool News
Sometimes, teaching is more like bombardment: Grading hundreds of essays, placating disgruntled parents, accommodating learning needs, sweating out the principals' nerve-wracking classroom observation. And then there are the stressors of life beyond the classroom.
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Education DIVE
Research from the Center on Reinventing Public Education shows parents of students with disabilities often struggle to find schools that fit their children's needs and feel that the information-gathering process falls largely on their shoulders. The research was based in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and looked at how school choice affects families that have children with disabilities.
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Forbes
China. Japan. Italy. One nation after another has had to close swaths of schools for long stretches in response to the spread of Covid-19. In the U.S., schools have already been closed in California, Washington, New York and Pennsylvania. As this unfolds, online discussions, comment sections and parental listservs are filled with frustrated complaints about the idiocy of school leaders.
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Campus Security & Life Safety
After witnessing the traumatic impact that active shooter drills can have on students, particularly young children, two major teachers' unions have joined with the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety to ask school districts and states to rethink how they conduct these drills, if they continue them at all.
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Inc.com
Leaders talk a lot about vision — and for a good reason. Making sure everyone is on board with an organization's vision is one of the most important things a leader can do. It paints a picture of a shared future and motivates team members to keep moving forward, even when the future sometimes seems more like a distant dream than a certain reality. At the same time, your team needs more than just a picture of the future if it's ever going to bring that vision to life.
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Fast Company
A to-do list can be a helpful tool for running your day, but it can also be a place where tasks go to linger and die. If you end the day with things undone or if you keep carrying tasks forward to the next day or week, you need a to-do list makeover — a reality check on how you spend your time, as well as your expectations.
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Benchmark Advance engages diverse K-6 students in building literary and content-area knowledge through close reading and collaborative conversations. Foundational skills and use of text evidence are seamlessly integrated through a balanced literacy approach, as are resources for ELs. Fully equitable Spanish edition is also available. FREE Sampler
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Harvard Business Review
If you love your job, consider yourself lucky. According to global estimates, just 13% of people are engaged at work, which contributes to a huge productivity loss. In the United States alone, disengagement costs the economy around $500 billion every year (that is roughly the size of the global beer industry). These estimates are based on a simple calculation, namely scaling the average differences in productivity between engaged and disengaged workers.
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Leadership Freak
I'm capable of many responses to the same situation. Some responses are noble and others, disadvantageous and self-defeating. Smart people are capable of self-destructive behaviors.
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Inc.
Micromanagers look for any mistakes, even tiny ones, and insist on very strict policies that are intended to motivate employees and use time wisely. Instead, that overly controlling and difficult-to-work-with approach can make work miserable and maybe even lower employee self-confidence and productivity. Micromanagers may self-proclaim themselves to be "control freaks" or "perfectionists," not realizing that they are out of bounds in the way they manage the workplace.
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Entrepreneur
You're not one to intimidate employees. You lead by example, strive for a collaborative environment and value input from your staff. All of which is why you may be surprised to hear — or maybe just sense — that you intimidate your team. There are warning signs: Everyone agrees with you, even when you’re asking for honest feedback; staff tends to quiet down when you walk into a room; or you see a quick look of nervousness on a junior employee's face when you ask them to complete a task.
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Leadership Freak
Negative leaders look in the mirror and see someone who cares. There are "good" reasons for negativity.
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The Lead Change Group
Let's be honest, 40% of the average person's time is spent working. More than you spend (awake) with your partner or your children, for example. Or on your favorite hobby. If you don't have a nice boss, you're not going to be that happy. And if you take that not-so-nice-boss home with you, you suffer. High time, then, for you to test if you're a nice boss for your coworkers. Because if you are, you're helping them be happy — and as you know, happy people perform better, and that's also good for you and your organization!
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IRIS Center
 Supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Department of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the IRIS Center creates reliable, trustworthy online open educational resources covering a huge variety of the issues most important to educators in today’s classrooms. In this article, we’ll tell you a little about IRIS, our resources, and why for almost 18 years the IRIS Center has been hailed as one of the most proven and credible sources for information about evidenced-based instructional and behavioral practices.
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Harvard Business Review
What makes people feel included in organizations? Or feel that they are treated fairly and respectfully, are valued and belong? Many things of course, including an organization's mission, policies and practices, as well as co-worker behaviors.
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The New York Times
Facing a bipartisan backlash led by Republican lawmakers, the Trump administration is backing off a bookkeeping change that would have drastically cut federal funds for rural schools — at least for a year. Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, will allow states to more easily qualify for funding under the Rural and Low-Income School Program, after hundreds of districts faced cuts when the department abruptly began using eligibility requirements it had not enforced in 17 years.
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Education Week
As communities around the country record new cases of coronavirus, schools are grappling with tough questions about how to respond, senators told U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. "Schools are going to be affected," Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, said, at a hearing of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on health and education. "They are all going to be asking the same questions, and you are in a position to help them understand and get the answers to that."
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THE Journal
If more schools need to close even temporarily in response to Coronavirus (COVID-19), in some places, they may not be able to substitute at-home learning for in-class learning. A recent survey found that just 70% of educators worked for schools in states that allowed for the use of digital learning days in place of "snow days" (which now might need to be renamed to "virus days").
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EdTech Magazine
It's something IT leaders generally know — you can buy all kinds of hardware and software to try to ward off cyberattacks, but one of the most important cybersecurity vulnerabilities to address involves people, not technology. That human element is particularly important for K–12 districts, which are popular targets for cyber incidents because of the heaps of sensitive information they collect. Some school districts are forced to pay ransoms to retrieve data. Some attacks shutter districts for days.
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eSchool News
There are a number of factors — 10, to be specific — that have a sizable impact on the success (or failure) of and ed tech implementation. The EdTech Genome Project, a collaborative effort of more than 100 education research and advocacy organizations, reached unanimous consensus on an initial list of those 10 factors with the greatest influence on whether an ed tech implementation succeeds or fails.
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EdSurge
We are just getting started with voice technology in education. From simple commands that retrieve stored information to a future where voice-activated AI coaches help us set and reach educational goals across a lifetime, the potential for growth is undeniable. Voice, after all, is one of the most natural ways to interface with technology, says Coursera's Alexander Sanchez.
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MIT Technology Review
Artificial intelligence is a major influence on the state of education today, and the implications are huge. AI has the potential to transform how our education system operates, heighten the competitiveness of institutions, and empower teachers and learners of all abilities. The opportunities for AI to support education are so broad that recently Microsoft commissioned research on this topic from IDC to understand where the company can help.
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The 74
Virtual reality has long opened up windows for corporate training and consumer entertainment. But what about education? What about opportunities to create experiences for rural students in science, technology, engineering and math? Those were the questions that Mike Cuales, owner of LEVR Studios and creative director of North Carolina State University's distance learning program, looked to answer in a three-part pilot program that brought VR STEM experiences into middle school classrooms.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
Kimberley Moran, a contributor for We Are Teachers, writes: "I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I always want the 'difficult' kids to be placed in my classroom. They're like those gifts that are wrapped in a series of boxes that continue the suspense until you get to the end. Plus, they help me practice patience (which is not a virtue that comes easily to me)."
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MiddleWeb
Innovative. Endurance. Partnership. Critical. Perseverance. Knowing vocabulary words like these opens doorways for our students to making sense of complex informational sources. Knowing the meaning of a word can help a student when they encounter the word in a text and can also help a student when they are attempting to explain what they learned from a text.
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Language Magazine
During the past few years, blended learning has been hailed by schools worldwide as everything from the future of education to the conduit that will finally make true differentiated instruction a reality. And it is not all hype: the best blended-learning programs truly can move away from the lecture-based instructional model many of us grew up with and free educators to completely reimagine what learning looks like from the ground up.
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Education DIVE
After 25 years of teaching English across the hall from each other, we decided it was time for an instructional reboot. Our textbook was several standards old and prevented us from keeping our test scores relevant. The rest of our resources were teacher-created, including our novel studies. We loved teaching novels, but always found it difficult to spend weeks on end with one book. We didn't feel that we hit all the skills students needed or covered the standards as well as we could.
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The Gainesville Sun
March is Arts Education Month and today's children will require skills that are best developed with a strong arts education. The skills learned from the core subjects, such as language arts, mathematics, science and social studies, will continue to be emphasized with a strong focus on science, math and technology.
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We Are Teachers
Wyatt, a dark-haired kindergartener, carefully pushes his doll into a highchair. Consulting a list on the wooden table next to him, he announces, "It's time for lunch!" He takes a bowl and spoon from the shelf and says, "Please eat your food, baby!" While this might seem cute behavior to the untrained eye, it is really social and cognitive learning to an educated professional. Wyatt is learning how to care for others, empathize, and follow a predictable schedule. This kind of practice is critical to early childhood development.
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EducationDIVE
Social studies teachers are not "above the fray" in how they present and discuss news sources' credibility in the classroom, according to a study published in the journal Educational Researcher. The researchers found a connection between high school social studies teachers’ political views and how credible they found mainstream media sources.
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Edutopia (commentary)
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can," says the Little Blue Engine to herself as she hauls a train full of toys up a mountain. In Watty Piper's classic children's book, all it takes is a dose of self-encouragement to give the engine the strength to overcome a seemingly impossible task.
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Education Week
Teens who have a decent night's sleep are better equipped to deal with stress the next day, including seeking out support from friends and engaging in active problem solving rather than brooding. The findings, based on tracking the activity and sleep patterns of around 250 high school freshmen in New York City, is yet more evidence of the importance of adequate sleep to overall well-being. And this study also offers insight into the impact of racial and ethnic discrimination on teens: all the students involved were Asian, black or Latino, and they were asked to track instances they felt they were subject to discrimination and their well-being in the aftermath of those events.
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Hi-Desert Star
"I don't get bullied, I bully." The sixth-grade boy from Friendly Hills Elementary School made his admission at Morongo Unified School District's bullying forum March 4. Tapping and jittering, he looked out from a gray hoodie sweatshirt, his eyes glancing around the other adults and children gathered around one of the tables in the La Contenta Middle School MPR.
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NY Daily News
The difference in academic outcomes between black and white students is often described as an achievement gap. But as a former public school principal, I know that this description misses the mark. It places the blame and responsibility on black students and families and ignores the role elected officials and policies play in maintaining structural barriers.
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Education Week
How close does the public education system come to the principles of equity: providing all students the resources they need to meet their highest potential? A growing number of organizations are using data to answer that question. And those same organizations are also creating tools that allow anyone with a computer to compare their district, state or even their school to similar entities across the country.
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NAESP
On Feb. 10, 2020, the Trump administration released its FY21 Budget, which cuts the U.S. Department of Education funding by nearly 8 percent. The proposal consolidates 29 major K-12 programs — including Title I, Title II and Title IV — into a single, $19.4 billion block grant. The 29 programs currently receive $24.1 billion in federal funding, meaning the block grant would cut funding to these programs by $4.7 billion. You can view a list of the 29 programs and their current funding levels here.
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NAESP
There is a clear consensus among principals, administrators and teachers that helping students succeed requires more than academic support. But there is much less clarity on how schools can best deliver the wide range of services and expertise needed to address challenges such as a lack of secure housing, behavioral issues and food insecurity.
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