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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How principals are stepping up for their teachers as vacancies increase
District Administration Magazine
The intense amount of work teachers are doing to support students through the pandemic is not sustainable. So, in the face of persistent staff shortages and curriculum controversies, principals across the country are giving teachers the space to refocus on their “roots”—which is serving their students.
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Schools are exiting the pandemic. What now?
The Dispatch
Parents typically feel warmly about their local public schools. However, recent polling shows a boom in affection for private schools and charter schools, but not much love for district schools. The share of parents giving an "A" or a "B" to local charter schools and private schools is up by 23 and 25 percentage points, respectively during the past two years. Meanwhile, the share saying the same about their local public schools has edged down.
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The aftermath of COVID — and the way forward
eSchool News
From the classroom to the lunch room to the bus drivers and beyond, schools all over the country are facing a shortage of skilled staff to teach students, provide related services, transport children with IEPs, and serve meals. The pressure on leaders is enormous, particularly as they continue to navigate change and attempt to stabilize their campus. The recovery period from several years of disrupted learning will be significant. It will take longer than a single school year.
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K-12 groups blast loss of free meals while some praise spending package
District Administration Magazine
Despite COVID's steep decline, schools and community meal providers still face the "extreme challenges" of staff shortages, rapidly rising food costs and severe supply chain disruptions, said Lisa Davis, senior vice president of Share Our Strength, the nonprofit that operates "No Kid Hungry."
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This one factor is blamed for more learning loss than remote instruction
District Administration Magazine
Remote learning was not the biggest factor in how far some students fell behind in reading and math during the last two pandemic years, new research revealed this week.
Where students stood academically prior to COVID had the greater impact on the gaps that emerged during the pandemic, regardless of whether students learned virtually or in-person, according to an analysis by the education company, Curriculum Associates.
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Explaining SEL to parents
Tech & Learning
Explaining your school’s SEL policies to parents has become increasingly important.
Outside of the education world, few people know that SEL stands for social and emotional learning, and even those who understand the acronym are often uncertain as to what SEL programs in schools look like.
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'Our own journeys': The growing push for more bilingual children's books in schools and libraries
KQED
A number of academic studies in recent years have shown that bilingual books help improve literacy levels among immigrant families where English is not spoken at home, especially when the stories highlight diverse characters.
A small but growing number of bilingual children’s titles are taking that model a step further, by not only centering Latinx characters, but also making them powerful agents of change.
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A new imperative for schools: Protecting vulnerable kids as masks disappear
Education Week
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, school and district leaders are facing a fresh set of challenges with mask mandates evaporating across the country. Now they must figure out other ways to protect medically vulnerable students, a high-wire act that requires great delicacy and carries a huge price tag — legally and medically — if they err.
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4 steps to discussing challenging behavior with a student
Edutopia
We’ve read about and witnessed firsthand the mental health crisis and increase in behavioral challenges of students this year. Because of those challenges, which are coupled with a lack of mental health providers in schools, educators often find themselves in a position of having difficult conversations with students around social, emotional, and behavioral struggles. As many teachers report an increase in stress, responding to challenging behaviors and student emotional needs can leave us feeling exhausted.
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Using social and emotional data to promote a positive school culture
Edutopia
Warm data gives both dimension and measure to an individual’s and group’s social and emotional status. The visual representation of this information and analysis can cause positive shifts in school culture. Highlighting warm data to support both relationships and social and emotional learning creates infinite possibilities and promise for our students.
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The benefits of taking a time-out during group work
Edutopia
We talk often in the world of education about data and formative assessment. As an administrator, I challenge my teachers to assess their students as often as possible. But what makes for truly effective formative assessment is not the strategy used to assess, but rather what you do with the data gathered. Using data to drive our decision-making is the pinnacle of assessment.
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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.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
With few details but big ideas, Education Secretary Cardona pushes total reimagining of education
EdSurge
In the last two years, while schools experienced more disruption and strain than in almost any other time in recent memory, education leaders have been broadcasting one message, loud and clear and often: Education cannot go back to normal. This moment presents a chance to move forward, not go back. The upheaval of the pandemic can be an opportunity for positive change, if we let it.
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Biden hoped to reshape school funding. A new budget deal shows tha's not likely anytime soon.
Chalkbeat
A bipartisan budget package unveiled early Wednesday increases Title I by just 6%, or $1 billion, and includes a smaller-than-requested boost for funding to support students with disabilities. It’s the latest blow to the Biden’s administration’s education agenda, and means that high-poverty schools won’t be getting the sustained windfall some officials and advocates were hoping for.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Education technology post-COVID-19: A missed opportunity?
Brookings Institute
After an extensive review of the evidence showing how ed-tech interventions are effective in improving student learning in low and middle-income countries, we concluded that ed tech is most effective when it complements, not substitutes, the work of teachers. Specifically, we found that ed-tech interventions are most effective when they play to one or more of its comparative advantages: (1) scaling up quality instruction; (2) facilitating personalized instruction; (3) expanding opportunities for practice; and (4) increasing learner engagement (making it more fun to learn!).
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AI should continue being taught in STEM courses
Government Technology (Commentary)
Some school board members criticized teachers for adding artificial intelligence material to STEM courses. However, students should be learning about all technology in their environment, including AI.
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Why video creation encourages classroom innovation
eSchool News
Think about how students today communicate outside of school–so much of it is video-based, and if educators can meet students in that space, they’ll be able to create more engaging and impactful lessons. In the TikTok, Instagram Video and Snapchat era, video creation has also provided the perfect medium to encourage and empower intuitive content creation in classroom environments.
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School tech woes: Digital equity, cybersecurity, IT staffing
Government Technology
An overwhelming mix of IT challenges is hitting school districts hard. Three big ones: building tech equity into K-12 schools and sustaining it; training educators at all levels how to prevent and respond to rising numbers of cyber attacks; and dealing with IT staff shortages at a time when schools are using digital tools more widely than ever across all grade levels.
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Suffering from labor shortages, states look to build up K-12 digital transparency
EdSurge
As states struggle to keep pace with the economy, some of them are now turning to K-12 credential transparency, in the hopes that it will show them how to give their workforces the leg up.
Four states — Ohio, Alabama, Indiana and Colorado — have announced that they’re now joining a growing list of states working with the nonprofit Credential Engine to enter their K-12 credentials and competencies into the Credential Registry, a platform that allows prospective students to compare degrees and credentials side by side.
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Is autocorrect making us smarter or eroding our humanity?
EdSurge
These days our word processing systems can do some of the writing for us — with features that suggest what word you might be about to type and save you the trouble of keying in every letter. He has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from, and he has a warning for what he thinks is going wrong in how things have evolved in recent years — and what it might be doing to us as learners and thinkers.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
How to manage social-emotional learning needs in the classroom
THE Journal
Educators know that social-emotional learning, also known as SEL, is an important and crucial student need, but managing this in the classroom can be difficult. After all, there’s so much on educators’ plates and SEL is one more thing weighing on educators’ minds.
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Phrases you can keep handy to say 'no' clearly
Edutopia
Alex Shevrin Venet stopped eating lunch when she took on a leadership position at her old school. The school leader turned community college teacher—and author of Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education—recalls saying yes to every request that came her way during that time because she was in charge and “every day felt like an emergency,” writes Venet in Unconditional Learning: “Crisis support. Class coverage. Tech troubleshooting. Yes, yes, yes.”
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Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years
Hechinger Report
The Research Partnership for Professional Learning, says the conventional wisdom that veteran teachers stop getting better is one of several myths about teaching. The organization says that several groups of researchers have since found that teachers continue to improve, albeit at a slower rate,
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A step-by-step guide to teaching students to work in groups
Edutopia
Collaborative learning allows students to solve problems, construct explanations, critique other students’ reasoning, and engage in rich academic discourse. But as teachers, we all know how difficult it is to get students to communicate and collaborate. The group feedback strategy can help students learn effective group-level behaviors and understand the interactions you expect. It promotes student participation, collaboration, and equity.
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Engaging multilingual learners in daily academic conversations
MiddleWeb
If we want our multilingual learners to develop their speaking skills in another language, we need to provide them with authentic opportunities to participate in academic conversation and also provide them with the linguistic support they need to be comfortable and successful in the process.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Better air in classrooms matters beyond COVID. Here's why schools aren't there yet
NPR
The COVID-19 pandemic — spread by virus particles that can build up in indoor air and linger, sometimes for hours. Key to clearing out these infectious particles: good ventilation and filtration. For example, one study of Georgia schools linked improved ventilation strategies, combined with HEPA filtration, to a 48 percent lower rate of COVID.
Suddenly – finally – lots of people have started to pay attention to indoor air quality in schools, says Anisa Heming, director of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council.
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High school grades are up, but test scores aren't. Why?
Chalkbeat
Far more American high school students are graduating compared to a decade ago. Those students are completing more courses, particularly rigorous ones. And their grades are higher, too.
But these heartening pre-pandemic trends, detailed in a new federal study, come with a significant asterisk. Those same high school students scored no better, and in some cases scored worse, than graduates a decade ago on national exams.
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.IN THE STATES
Gov. Greg Abbott wants task force to examine Texas teacher shortage and consider revisions to certification process
The 74
In a letter to TEA Commissioner Mike Morath on Monday, Abbott said the task force should investigate why these shortages exist, recommend policy changes to the state education agency and consider more flexibility in the teacher certification process.
“This task force should work diligently to ensure that best practices and resources for recruitment and retention are provided to districts to ensure the learning environment of Texas students is not interrupted by the absence of a qualified teacher,” Abbott said.
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Florida isn't the only state pushing legislation that could be harmful to LGBTQ students
CNN
A little more than two months into the new year, lawmakers in dozens of states have introduced a slew of bills that could limit the rights of LGBTQ Americans.
The proposals range from prohibiting instruction about gender identity in the classroom to restricting access to gender-affirming health care and excluding transgender youth from school athletics.
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Here are the Indiana education bills that passed in 2022
Chalkbeat
Though Indiana’s 2022 legislative session lasted just two months, lawmakers managed to pack the calendar with education legislation.
Some of the most controversial bills that would have imposed restrictions on teachers and libraries stalled and died. But another bill banning transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports is headed to the desk of Gov. Eric Holcomb, who has indicated support for it.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
NAESP Twitter Chat: Strategies for Women in Leadership to Strengthen Self-Trust
NAESP
Self-trust in leadership as a woman is key to your success. If this doesn’t come naturally to you, know that you’re not alone. In this Twitter chat, hosted by NAESP Center for Women in Leadership fellows Dr. Andrea Thompson and Jessica Gomez, we’ll explore how to create a psychologically safe environment, address stereotypes, own your story, and overcome imposter syndrome—all strategies that will set you up to thrive as a woman in school leadership. Join us at #NAESPchat on Twitter on Wednesday, March 23 at 8 p.m. ET.
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Connect the Dots for Early Ed
NAESP
Many administrators who supervise early childhood education programs don’t, unfortunately, have credentials or a lot of knowledge in the area. Therefore, they might lack an understanding of a number of critical areas, including early childhood development; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; and brain development and developmentally appropriate practices.
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