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EdSource
Achieve Academy charter school Co-Principal Lucy Schmidt was one of more than 1,000 administrators who recently spent a day seeing her campus through the eyes of a student as part of a national "Shadow a Student Challenge." The goal was to help school leaders empathize with students and teachers — and to identify strengths and weaknesses, then take actions to improve their learning environments and campus cultures.
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Education Week
One of two main issues Every Student Succeeds Act negotiators will tackle when drafting proposed regulations for the law is "supplement-not-supplant." It's a relatively low-profile issue compared to accountability provisions in ESSA. But for those who care about and study school funding, it's a key portion of the law. Supplement-not-supplant is the requirement that federal Title I dollars for disadvanaged students not simply take the place of state and local dollars in schools. That federal money is supposed to supplement, not supplant, those state and local funding efforts.
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Los Angeles Times
Citing the lack of evidence that homework does much if anything to improve academic performance in elementary grades, a principal in Manhattan notified parents that there would be no more after-school assignments for the public school's students. And then came the rebellion—not from teachers, but from parents, according to the website DNAinfo. They threatened to transfer their children to another school. Some said they were finding online sources of homework for their children.
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MindShift
Kathy Perez has decades of experience as a classroom educator, with training in special education and teaching English language learners. She also has a dynamic style. Sitting through her workshop presentation was like being a student in her classroom. She presents on how to make the classroom engaging and motivating to all students, even the most reluctant learners, while modeling for her audience exactly how she would do it. The experience is a bit jarring because it's so different from the lectures that dominate big education conferences, but it’s also refreshing and way more fun.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Jill Barshay, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "Last summer I pointed out how wildly different academic expectations were around the country, just before the introduction of the Common Core standards. Some states set the passing marks on their annual standardized tests more than four grade levels behind those of other states. For example, back in 2013, Alabama's passing mark on its eighth-grade reading test was roughly equivalent to what fourth graders were expected to do in New York."
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Edutopia
When the Every Student Succeeds Act became law in December, advocates of arts education cheered. The federal definition of a well-rounded K-12 education now specifically includes the arts. What's more, an amendment to the act turns STEM into STEAM, adding the A for Art to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education and expanding opportunities for integrated programs.
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By: Savanna Flakes
 Do your students cringe when you say, "We have new vocabulary terms to learn"? These students may recall the previous times they have copied words over and over again or looked up exhaustive lists of words that lack a connection to one another. Our learners have changed, and research shows students don't retain new terms or gather word-analysis skills by copying definitions from a dictionary. But vocabulary practice doesn't have to be boring or a practice of rote memorization.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Take a minute to think about a few of your most recent lessons. What's happening in your classroom? What are you and your co-teacher doing? More important, what are your students doing? Are your students engaged? Or are they just being politely compliant? How do you know?
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The Washington Post
Nancy Hanks was standing in an elevator, her eyes fixed on her cellphone, when the doors opened onto a familiar face. It was one of her former students, a boy she had expelled from the school she led in one of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods. She was flooded with fear. What had become of the student's life? Had her decision helped set him on a path toward failure? She also was flooded with regret. Why had she kicked him out of school? She could have chosen a different path, and a more courageous one, she said, recalling the encounter in a speech last month in Washington at the 25th anniversary summit for Teach for America.
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Education Week
Sleep. We all know kids need it, and without it, they don't perform as well in school. As we've reported in the past, the National Academy of Pediatrics recommends that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. to better align with the natural body rhythms of adolescents. But it's not unusual for the first-period bells to ring at many middle and high schools much earlier than that.
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eSchool News
The ed-tech procurement process is broken, said former New York City Public Schools Chancellor Harold Levy during the 2016 South by Southwest Education conference in Austin, Texas, March 8 — and to prove it, he said a study found disparities of more than $100 per unit on how much schools were paying for the exact same iPad model. In a session titled "Begging for Disruption: Ed-Tech Procurement," Levy and the other panelists discussed the problems that school districts have in discovering, evaluating and buying technology products that meet their specific needs.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
Education Week
Acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King said that he plans to spend at least part of his time in office helping to revamp career and technical education and shining a spotlight on smart improvement strategies for low-performing schools and struggling populations. Why is this important? The brand-new Every Student Succeeds Act calls for states and districts to use so-called "evidence based" interventions in schools that are seriously underperforming or where certain groups of students are struggling — and it expressly prohibits the education secretary from dictating interventions for states and districts.
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The Washington Post
Five years ago, Congress passed legislation that transformed how the nation's public schools feed students. The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act required these schools to serve more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and less sugar, fat and salt. The new standards are among the most important efforts to improve children's health in the past two decades. Since 1980, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents. Nearly a third of children and adolescents are either obese or overweight. In some states, the combined rate is close to 40 percent; among African American and Latino children, these rates are particularly high. And millions more children consume more sugar and empty calories than is healthy.
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Education DIVE
Boone County, WV isn't exactly known for being a bastion of education technology. But in the western coal-mining town of Comfort, West Virgina, Sherman Elementary School is seeing success in motivating young learners to tackle the challenges of e-Learning by offering a system of points and prizes. The elementary school serves under 500 students from pre-K through the sixth grade. Assistant Principal Jacob Messer and his staff were brainstorming ways to use a new ed-tech product called MobyMax over the summer break when they decided to hold a contest.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Over 31 million children in the United States consume most of their daily caloric intake at school. For many children, it may be the only food they eat regularly each day. But improving the quality of school lunches offers an effective way to ensure that half of what children eat is healthy, nutritious and sustainably grown. School lunch programs that source organic, local, nutritious, and sustainable foods impact children's health and also the health of our planet. Food Tank has compiled a list of 16 school lunch programs making strides to improve children's health.
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NASEP
Nearly 200 elementary and middle-level principal leaders from across the country will gather in the nation's capital to attend the National Association of Elementary School Principals' National Leaders Conference. During this meeting, which will take place March 13-15 in Arlington, Virginia and Washington, D.C., NAESP will launch its 2016 Advocacy Agenda, which focuses on ensuring implementation oversight of the Every School Succeeds Act and ensuring federal funding to meet the needs of every student.
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NASEP
Research has shown that the most impactful staff development to foster building the instructional capacity of educators is job embedded with frequent opportunities to revisit and adapt skills. In this webinar,the goal is to have principals share the steps and processes they have taken to ensure that teachers have optimal opportunities to hone their craft. This webinar will be held Wendesday, March 16 from 4–5 p.m. ET.
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