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Education World
An open house for parents is now required in many districts and states, usually in early Fall. At our school, we have ours one day before school starts and it is a combination of an open house and a meet the teacher day as we are a pre-K to 12th grade school. The question is how to showcase the event, so it becomes a positive and informative event for the teachers and parents. Something that is a positive PR tool that can improve the school's culture and climate. Often principals do what they have always done and do not attempt to improve the event each year "If it ain't broke, then don't fix it."
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Forbes
Not all of us naturally know how to lead. Some leaders have received training, had a mentor or are just plain naturally intuitive leaders. However, many wing it and hope for the best. If you want to be a great leader, here's what you should know.
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Training Industry Magazine
When we talk about training, three outcomes typically rise to the top as the most important: knowledge, skills and attitude (although some talk about abilities instead of attitude, depending on the source and the purpose). Theoretically, we can train for the first two, but we have to hire and promote for the third.
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Forbes
Straightforward, honest feedback is a rarity in many corporate cultures. Feedback can sting, and we fear both giving and getting it. It can change the course of someone’s plan. Offered with thought and emotional intelligence, the best feedback has the power to create the kind of self-awareness that can not only change performance but change lives.
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Entrepreneur
Great talent doesn't always stick around. People are always looking for the next big opportunity, and if you aren't careful, you'll wake up one day and find all your best people in positions at other companies. While there are many ways to compete for great talent, the key is to make sure your people feel connected to your company and its mission. The best way to stand out as a growing company and retain your talent once you've landed it is by selling that mission (and your team’s future) from a career trajectory standpoint.
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Leadership Freak
Wouldn't you love for someone to listen to you? Why not be that person for others? 5 reasons leaders have closed ears:
No. 1. No aspiration to listen. Have you ever heard a leader exclaim, "My aspiration is to be a great listener."
No. 2. Bias toward action. You might try listening AND doing at the same time. No. 3. Time pressure. Perceived lack of time dehumanizes interactions. No. 4. Fearful heart. Caring for people and getting results seem to collide. The combination of #3 and #4 is deadly to listening. No. 5. Lack of skill and discipline. The challenge of listening is first skill, then the discipline to actually do it.
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Forbes
Motivating and managing people toward a common goal is rarely easy, regardless of whether it's leading a group of employees, coaching players on a sports team or leading troops on a battlefield. People inherently want to be led by someone they trust, who has a strong vision of where the organization is heading and who can produce positive results. In fact, according to a report from McKinsey, the list of behavioral traits found in successful leaders can be distilled down to 20 distinct things. These include things like being supportive, being results-oriented and solving problems efficiently.
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Training Industry Magazine
The way people work has changed dramatically. Gone are the days of large, stable organizations and strict 9-to-5, Monday through Friday schedules. Now, people work anywhere they have Wi-Fi. A series of evolutionary trends have forced employees to shift not only their hours and expectations, but their mindset. They must be agile and open to new opportunities in order to keep pace and stay employed. More and more, they expect that growth and global economic shifts may require them to look elsewhere for opportunities.
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By: Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 Talking about race with people who are different from you can be awkward and uncomfortable, but it's necessary and doable. The fact is racism exists, racial conflict exists, and inequality still exists. Even some people who work in the diversity and inclusion field stay within their comfort zone and still almost only interact with people who are like them. Police shootings, Black Lives Matter and issues of inequality substantiate the need to have real conversations about race.
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Harvard Business Review
Your back tenses. Your eyes dart. Your mind races. No, it's not caused by an impending animal attack or even a scary email from your boss. It's receiving a text from a close friend, seeing your significant other on your caller ID, or a coworker dropping by to chat during your workday. Why this reaction? You want to connect with these people and maintain a relationship, so why does communication from them or requests like going out to lunch feel like a threat?
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eSchool News (commentary)
Leah Weiser, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "It's no secret that finding and hiring teaching talent is one of the biggest challenges schools and districts face. My school, Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School in the Bronx, has experienced this first hand. Over the past four years, our school has grown into a full-service 6-12 middle and high school, serving students and families in the South Bronx. During that time, we've almost tripled our staff size, hiring more than 20 teachers per year."
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Entrereneur
Leaders often forget the difference between a "job" and a "career." A job is a means to a paycheck, whereas a career is a long-term path that provides meaning. So, offering employees "jobs" doesn't usually inspire loyalty. Research backs this up: A November 2017 Addison Group survey of 1,000 employees found that 84 percent of those respondents actively seeking a new opportunity viewed their job as just that — a job. They didn't feel they had a career.
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Inc.
John Eades, a contributor for Inc., writes: "If I asked you to close your eyes and visualize a leader, what image would come to mind? When I originally did the exercise, the first thought that came to my mind was a statue of a military general. For some reason, a general in the 1700's with one leg on a giant rock pointing a sword to direct his troops into battle. One could say, a commanding style of leader that came up with all of the plans, made decisions with the input of a few and received all the glory in victory or disappointment in defeat."
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CNN
The Trump administration proposed providing some school personnel with "rigorous" firearms training and backed a bill to improve criminal background checks on gun buyers, but backpedaled on the idea of increasing the minimum age to buy certain firearms — a policy President Donald Trump had said he would support.
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eSchool News
The digital divide and the opportunity gap. These are two of the closely related and defining issues that educators and administrators are grappling with today. At DeKalb County School District in Georgia, we set out to create a plan that narrows the digital divide our students are facing at school, in the community and at home. By providing our students with the digital technology needed for modern learning, we've started closing the opportunity gap caused in part by digital and technological inequities. Throughout this process, we learned important lessons and discovered key takeaways along the way that all schools can integrate into their own initiatives.
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EdTech Magazine
The teacher pool is getting smaller, and naturally, is getting filled with less qualified candidates, according to public school superintendents. In The Gallup 2017 Survey of K–12 School District Superintendents, 67 percent of respondents said the quantity of new teacher candidates is decreasing and 39 percent said the quality is also declining. When it comes to recruiting and retaining effective teachers, large percentages of superintendents from suburban districts rated that they were still very effective (46 and 60 percent, respectively), but city and rural leaders are not faring as well. Though city superintendents rank themselves higher for recruiting educators, they are on par with rural superintendents for retaining them.
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Education World
Listening to reading helps students develop fluency, expression and comprehension skills. Creating a Listening Center in your classroom can help support reader focus and build student confidence, which translates to success. Organizing and maintaining listening centers that keep students independently engaged can be tricky.
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NPR
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability, affecting tens of millions of people in the United States. But getting help for children who have it in public school can be a nightmare. "They wouldn't acknowledge that he had a problem," says Christine Beattie about her son Neil. "They wouldn't say the word 'dyslexia.'" Other parents, she says, in the Upper Arlington, Ohio, schools were having the same problem. The district in a suburb of Columbus wasn't identifying their children's dyslexia or giving them appropriate help.
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Education DIVE
Much has been written about the conditions within schools that allow new teachers to be successful or to be discouraged and want to leave the profession. Recent data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that the percentage of teachers who leave teaching within the first five years is far less than stated in previous studies — about 17 percent compared with 50 percent. Even so, researchers at the Learning Policy Institute note that under-prepared teachers are two to three times more likely to leave the profession than those who have "comprehensive preparation."
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MindShift
Girls and boys have always grown up with cultural and societal stereotypes swirling around them. Despite the unparalleled access to opportunities that young women have today compared with the past, many are still absorbing strong messages about how they should look, act and be. For girls, many of the most powerful influences come from the media, but young girls could find relief among the real people in their lives. Social media has changed the game, requiring educators and parents to also change strategies to help girls navigate complicated waters.
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THE Journal
A new report proposes a framework by which open educational resource initiatives — and particularly those promulgated by for-profit organizations — can be measured. "Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship" has three purposes according to its authors: to help make sure "the OER community's values can be maintained as the movement scales"; to gauge the practices of "new entrants" to the OER field (especially those out to make money from it); and to build educator confidence in participating in OER, including those who contribute their own materials and may be uncertain regarding its use by for-profit publishers.
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Education World
The shaggy-haired boy at table six usually loved to write. Most days, he could barely stop tapping his pencil through the mini-lesson before he excitedly bent over his own writing creation. Today, he sat with arms crossed and hair slung over his teary eyes. His notebook remained resolutely closed. This week he got the distressing news that his father was being deported. Suddenly, his identity shook in the face of such a life-changing event. He struggled to focus on work that had once been so important to him. He was no longer sure of his place with his father so far away.
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NPR
In Kelly Stevens' kindergarten classroom, each day begins with circle time for what sounds like a menu of lesson options. Students — or "friends" as Stevens calls them — can read at the green table, they can build boats or make things out of clay, among other options. Students Marco Carias Castellanos and Holden Free chose a writing activity today. But there's no worksheet in front of them. Instead, they're standing in front of wolf statues they made out of blocks and their assignment is to write labels for body parts.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Ryan Tahmaseb, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "A few years into my teaching career, a colleague attended training at Phillips Exeter Academy on the Harkness method, in which classroom learning takes place as students and teacher sit in a circle or oval for discussions and all students must contribute. Afterward, she enthusiastically shared what she had learned about facilitating effective student-led discussions."
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The New York Times
Maple syrup gumming up the gun belt isn't normally a hazard of police work. But it is a common problem for Cpl. Pamela Revels when students have been eating pancakes at the school breakfast. "Kids like to come up and give you a little bit of a hug," Corporal Revels said. "They don't wipe their hands that well." Revels freely dispenses hugs and smiles at the schools where she works around Auburn, Ala. But she is also a sheriff's deputy who wears a sidearm and a bulletproof vest, drives an official S.U.V. and has an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle stored nearby.
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The Atlantic
On a crisp fall morning, parents lined the school’s circular driveway in Audis, BMWs and Land Rovers, among other luxury SUVs, to drop their high schoolers off at Detroit Country Day School. Dressed in uniforms — boys in button-down shirts, blazers with the school crest, khaki or navy dress pants, and ties; girls in largely the same garb, though without the ties and the option of wearing a skirt — the students entered a lobby adorned with green tiles from the nearby Pewabic Pottery, a legendary Detroit ceramic studio.
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Education Week
Hurricane Maria has taken people away from Yzmar Roman. The 16-year-old Puerto Rican high school student's two best friends moved to the U.S. mainland in the wake of last September's devastating storm, one to Florida and the other to Tennessee. Her father, a policeman, has been working long hours since Hurricane Maria and doesn't have much time to learn about her day when he's home. And her mother's job as a bank teller also means she's busy.
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NAESP
We all recognize that technology is ubiquitous, changing and forever part of our professional lives as educators. In your schools you likely have computers or tablets at your disposal. Quite apart from the instructional benefits of technology, these changes have had a lot of positive impact in improving our ability to communicate with parents, colleagues and community members. Email, in particular, is an important means of communication for educators in this regard.
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NAESP
A 10 percent increase in parental participation — a form of social capital — would increase academic achievement far more than a 10 percent increase in school spending. This is not an argument against school budget increases, but an argument for paying attention to social capital. Research repeatedly correlates family engagement with student achievement, yet this strategy is rarely activated. Project Appleseed's Kevin Walker can show you and your school community how to encourage parent Involvement — without straining the budget. This webinar takes place Wednesday, March 14, 3-4 p.m. EDT.
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