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Education World
The accountability standards mandated by state and federal legislators are becoming increasingly difficult to meet for many schools. Using volunteers and mentors are one strategy that can go a long way toward helping meet accountability standards. There is a common belief as well as research that parental involvement and strong schools are inseparable and that each one makes the other stronger. What better way to get parents and the community involved than to get them volunteering/mentoring at the school.
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Education Week
Peter DeWitt, a contributor for Education Week, writes: "Last week I posted a blog called "No Place for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools? Are You Sure?" It resonated well with many readers who shared it on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. It was in response to pushback I often receive from people who do not believe social-emotional learning is the job of schools. After that blog was posted, a principal responded Tweeting, 'Schools can raise children ... school teachers can't do it all...how about parent accountability?' First and foremost, I never said that schools need to raise other people's children."
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Q. How long have you been focusing on a positive culture in the workplace? A. I've been working with culture for more than 20 years, but the focus on a positive culture dates from the last 5 years or so. After university, I landed a job where I brimmed with energy, but after a temporary project ended, I was just "doing time" in an office to pay my bills. I didn't feel appreciated and, worse, it felt like a prison. I started my own company because I wanted more freedom, autonomy and purpose.
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Counseling Today
Dakota L. King-White, a contributor for Counseling Today, writes: "Over the past 13 years, I have dedicated my career to developing mental health services and models within the academic setting as a school counselor, mental health therapist and now as an assistant professor in counselor education, where I engage in community action research to develop mental health models in schools from pre-K through 12th grade. From my research and experiences, I have observed that students’ ability to learn is significantly affected by their mental health."
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Leadership Freak
Nudges normally produce acceptable growth. But some growth-opportunities require leaps. One day a door of opportunity will open for you. You sweat thinking about it. Your knees buckle. Your boss may ask you to step into a new role. Or you'll apply for a stretch-position and they'll actually hire you.
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Training Industry Magazine
At this point, just about everyone knows about the gender gap — the disparity between the number of women in leadership roles and the number of women who should be in leadership roles based on demographics, ability and interest. Coaching may help. In 2008, for example, researchers wrote that coaching can be particularly beneficial by focusing "on the holistic nature of women's development." Additionally, recent research by Training Industry found that coaching, when implemented well, can act as an equalizer between men and women.
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District Administration Magazine
For the past two years, leaders at Muhlenberg South Middle School in Greenville, Kentucky, have been working to decrease the number of teacher absences as part of a wider effort to improve school culture. Although this has occurred during a financial crisis in which all Muhlenberg County School District staff took a 10 percent pay cut, teacher attendance at the middle school has increased 57 percent over the two years, says Principal Brian Lile.
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Education DIVE
Social-emotional learning can help all students achieve — not just those who have experienced trauma or have behavior issues. SEL also creates a school culture that is "inclusive of
and responsive to" diversity. Those are among the statements made by a panel of educators as part of the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Steve Blank, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "I just read 'Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley'. It was both eye-opening and cringe-worthy. The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry — at startups and venture capital firms, and the interaction between men and women in the two. While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade. Chasing deal flow has resulted in many VCs leading the race to the bottom in startup ethical behavior."
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NPR
Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, students at schools across the country will walk out of their classrooms. The plan is for them to leave school — or at least gather in the hallway — for 17 minutes. That's one minute for each of the victims in last month's school shooting in Parkland, Fla. The walkout has galvanized teens nationwide and raised big questions for schools about how to handle protests.
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Forbes (commentary)
Robert Glazer, a conributor for Forbes, writes: "At a recent presentation I gave on workplace culture and our unique employee transition program, an audience member challenged my assertion that it is easy to tell when someone is working or not working out at our company. Our back-and-forth really underscored for me that companies too often run into personnel problems because the employee and employer aren't clear on goals or the definition of success."
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Education Week
An early-childhood education advocacy group has released a new report on how states are using the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, to leverage federal support for early learning. The report is the latest component of what the First Five Years Fund calls an ESSA resource toolkit. Entitled, "Early Learning In State ESSA Plans — Implementation Snapshot: How States Are Using the Law," it breaks down how each state plans to either launch new early-childhood initiatives or increase their current offerings.
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EdSource
It is perhaps not surprising that sooner or later President Donald Trump and other conservative lawmakers would find a way to link former President Barack Obama in some fashion to the Parkland school massacre. The only surprise is that it took almost a month for that to happen. Culprit Number 1: Federal guidelines issued jointly by the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education and a similar office in the Justice Department in 2014 "to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination in school discipline." Also implicated is the Rethinking Discipline report issued in December 2016, just weeks before President Obama left office, promoting policies "to support all students and promote a welcome and safe climate in schools."
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Education Week
To help create safer schools in the wake of a Florida school shooting last month, several Democratic senators want Congress to give more money to an Every Student Succeeds Act program in order to fund more counselors, trauma-informed classroom management, and mental-health services for schools. In a letter to top Senators on the Senate appropriations committee, which is led by Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, the Democrats said the Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants — which are a part of Title IV in ESSA — should be funded at "the highest possible level" for fiscal 2018.
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EdSurge
Having trouble filling a senior role? Consider looking for someone from another industry outside of education. Sure, hiring talent from organizations outside of education isn't exactly a new phenomenon, nor a sure-fire cure for any challenge. But sector-switchers can be an indispensable asset to education organizations in pursuit of innovation, bringing sharp skills honed elsewhere. And with a fresher set of eyes on your challenges, a sector switcher’s biggest asset may actually be their limited education knowledge, which allows them to question, challenge, and often break through stale approaches that can come from only hiring from within or within education.
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EdTech Magazine
Cybersecurity and broadband/network capacity are tied for the top priorities for IT leaders in 2018, while budget constraints were marked as one of the most pressing challenges for a fourth straight year. Those were among the 10 key findings highlighted in the Consortium for School Networking's fourth K–12 IT Leadership Survey Report, which was released in conjunction with the opening of CoSN's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The survey also highlighted the different paths men and women take to IT leadership.
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eSchool News
Technology changes so rapidly that the newest tablets, phones and tools are often outdated within a couple years. Pair that fast pace with the education industry, which is notoriously slow to adopt new things, and it doesn't exactly sound like a recipe for innovation.But educators can take their classrooms to the next level, and they can innovate, if they know which technologies to keep on their radar. During TCEA, Dr. Maureen Yoder, a professor in Lesley University's Educational Technology Department, presented 18 education trends that will take top billing in 2018.
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EdTech Magazine
In a small school district, an IT leader is more than just the steward of technologies. "I wear a bunch of different hats and have several jobs throughout the day, many of which aren't even IT-related," said Maureen Chertow Miller, technology director for Winnetka, Illinois, Public Schools District 36. "Most recently I have become my district's enrollment guru." Miller joined Nancy Battaglia, the technology director for Skokie, Illinois, School District 68, to offer advice to other small IT shops in K–12 school districts during the third day of CoSN's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
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The Hechinger Report
Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials — or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Sometimes, they consult curation sites that have evaluated these materials; sometimes they just consult other teachers on what they use. The need for reliable evaluation has become more urgent with the flood of new, often free, online materials. These OER — open educational resources — may be good, bad or indifferent. How can school districts or teachers know?
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District Administration Magazine
After February's deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, there was no shortage of suggestions for improving school security, ranging from adding more guards to arming teachers. One area not widely addressed, however, is how to prepare teachers and administrators psychologically for dealing with a crisis. For example, although teachers practice active shooter lockdown procedures, how should they respond if they lock a classroom door and hear a student in the hall calling for help — do they risk the safety of other students to bring the child in from the hall?
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Barbara Blackburn, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Formative assessment is a hot topic in education today. A Google search returns over 11 million hits for the two-word phrase, and nearly four million for 'formative assessment strategies.' That's where I want to focus our attention in this post. I strongly believe that if we are going to truly support our students to higher levels of success and achievement, we must continually assess their learning in our everyday classroom settings – and use that information to plan our future instruction. How do we do that? Let's take a look at some ideas."
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Edutopia
Teaching computational thinking to preschool and kindergarten students? This may sound out of sync with what we know about developmentally appropriate activities for 4- and 5-year-olds, as computational thinking refers to the skills, concepts and behaviors used in computer science to solve problems or complete projects. But my state of Virginia and others now require computational thinking instruction in grades K to 12.
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eSchool News
Interest in K-12 coding and computer programming has increased tenfold in recent years, due in part to the nation's need for highly-qualified computer programming graduates to fill jobs that sit empty. But there's a disconnect between students' interest, advocacy for coding education, and what schools actually offer. Ninety percent of parents want their child to study computer science, but only 40 percent of schools teach computer programming, according to Code.org. After participating in the Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week, one district's technology team wanted to sustain students' interest in computer science and wanted to offer something different for students who were recommended for enrichment.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 When parents, students and school personnel disagree about the specifics of individualized education programs, they often fall into the trap of angrily blaming one another. Bitterly, parents may accuse teachers, IEP team members and school administrators of not caring a wit about their child, caring only about dollars. School personnel may respond in kind, scornfully staring, rushing through proposed IEPs and presenting them with little, if any, further discussion.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Cheryl Mizerny, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "This time of year, as the temperatures start to rise and the flowers begin to grow, I notice that the energy level of my students does the same. At the same time, their attention spans seem to shorten, no matter how interesting the material being studied. Come spring, I find myself digging deeper into my bag of tricks to make my classroom more interactive, relevant, and engaging. Luckily, I have a bit of help from some great educational technology. I want to share a few of my favorites."
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MindShift
Classroom management is an essential tool for an effective teacher, but it's not always easy to do well. Without an orderly classroom it's hard for teachers with upward of 25 kids in their classrooms to lead effective lessons, help students who are struggling, and perhaps most important, to trust students. That's why getting behavior under control was Michael Essien's number one goal when he started as the assistant principal at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco.
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The Washington Post
A lawmaker from Pennsylvania says he wants to crack down on bullying. One way to do so, he says, is to punish parents for their child's bad behavior. State Rep. Frank Burns, D-Cambria, plans to propose legislation that would require parents to pay up to $750 if their child is a habitual bully and require school officials to notify parents each time their child bullies another student. The bill, though, would not immediately impose the stiff penalty. If a child bullies for the first time, school officials would have to take some type of action, according to Burns's office.
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NAESP
The proposed resolutions were approved by the Board of Directors and the General Assembly was informed on March 18, 2018. The NAESP Platform serves as the statement of beliefs for the Association and its members, elementary and middle-level principals. It consists of a summary of all resolutions adopted by business meetings, and since 1974, by Delegate Assemblies.The Platform is reviewed and updated annually and submitted to the Board of Directors in March.
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NAESP
Alaska is known as "The Last Frontier." In an area three times the size of Texas and one-fifth the size of the contiguous states, Alaska has a population of 740,000. Almost half of Alaska's population resides in Anchorage, while the largest five school districts make up 68 percent of the state's 129,969 students. Of the 54 school districts in Alaska, the majority of them are off the highway system, and all school districts have a rural component. Even in schools with hundreds of students, or in communities with multiple schools, these schools remain physically isolated.
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