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Education Week
Are principals really nearly perfect? According to a recent RAND survey, the majority of principals think they are. The survey, which asked principals to rate themselves against an "ideal," shows that the majority of respondents see themselves as performing highly when it comes to three key areas: outlining a clear vision for their schools, setting high standards for teaching, and making clear their expectations for meeting instructional goals to staff.
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School Leaders Now
School bathrooms tend to have a bad rep. Historically, they've been known for being unkept or where mischief and bullying happen. However, many schools are taking their restrooms back and turning them into havens of inspiration, motivation, and peace. Here's a look at some of the best and brightest we've spotted. We hope they inspire you to change up the mood of your school bathrooms, too.
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Education Week
Middle and high schools often favor setting aside a block in students' schedules for something a little less structured — and a lot less academic — than a traditional class period. The reoccuring blocks — often called advisories — are adopted as a way to strengthen relationships and help students weather the challenges that may keep them from succeeding academically, including a lack of routines, social isolation, and out-of-school issues that can bleed into the school day.
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The Brookings Institution (commentary)
Hannah Putman, a contributor for The Brookings Institution, writes: "When I think back to my days in elementary school, I still remember reading 'How to Eat Fried Worms' in second grade, dissecting a cow's eye in third grade, and mastering long division in fifth. These lessons do not just make elementary school interesting (OK, I never found long division interesting), they set my classmates and me up for success. Because of these early lessons, we were better able to tackle more sophisticated novels, understand the functioning of other organs, and grasp higher-level mathematics."
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HR DIVE
Recent findings demonstrate the pervasiveness and severity of stress in the workplace. Employees are reporting higher stress levels than they did two years ago, according to recent research. On a scale of one to ten, a full 80 percent of workers gave their stress levels a 7-point rating or higher. And like Colonial Life's study, a Fidelity Investment report named finances and job-related issues as the top stressors for workers.
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Entrepreneur
At the end of 2018, the number of open jobs in the U.S. reached 7.3 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's the highest number of job openings on record since the Department of Labor started measuring them in 2000. Available jobs have outpaced hiring for more than a year, indicating that companies are having a difficult time filling their vacant positions.
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Fast Company
The annual review used to be the time to talk to employees about their performance. Lately, though, it's not nearly enough. Studies show that employees (especially younger employees) want feedback — lots of it — so companies are delivering with all shapes and sizes. From upward to downward, peer to management, solicited, unsolicited and anonymous, feedback has turned into an industry, but is it helping anyone excel?
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HR DIVE
These kinds of studies can help illustrate diversity's value in the workplace, as Peakon noted in its statement. However, the benefits of diversity won't be realized if women and other underrepresented groups are brought aboard without strategies for engaging and retaining them, measuring hiring outcomes or guiding them into leadership roles. Diversity hiring without inclusion isn't enough according to experts; employees must be treated as valued team members, recognized for their contributions and given opportunities for advancement.
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Leadership Freak
You can't make a good decision until you know who you are. Decisions based on someone else's values are dissatisfying and ineffective. Three principles that explain authentic decision-making: No. 1. Identity tells you what to do.
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Fast Company (commentary)
Julie Zhou, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "A manager's journey is filled with twists and turns. Some days, you'll feel imposter syndrome so strongly that it feels like you're stuck at bottom of a dark, deep pit. Every manager I know is well acquainted with this place. You feel alone. You second-guess every decision, and you search desperately for something solid to grasp. You just want to restore your faith, but you don't know how."
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Entrepreneur
Close your eyes for a second and conjure-up a mental image of a leader. What do you see? Do you picture a politician, CEO or military leader? It's easy to see why these type of images come to someone's mind. Leaders are often viewed as someone who is decisive, smart and outgoing. In some cases, leaders may appear just a little bit intimidating. The problem with an image that suggests an aggressive persona of authority is that it can prevent some potentially strong leaders from pursuing leadership roles or reaching their full potential. It's easy to misconstrue and have a misconception of what a leader is and isn't.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Wally Bock, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "'Well-oiled machine.' For most of the time I've been in business, that was the metaphor for organizations. Leaders designed machines. Other leaders operated machines. And the machines themselves? Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. If a part broke or if a part wore out, all you had to do was replace it with another part. That metaphor comes from the early Industrial Age. It made sense then, but it makes little sense now."
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Whether it has been a frustrating quarter or the job itself is not as interesting as it once was, as leaders we all face times that challenge our ability to be inspiring. Yet, our teams and organizations depend on us to bring our best regardless of challenges. While it does not work to pretend to be perfect, it does work to have tricks up our sleeve we can easily pull out when needed. Here are a few simple ways to get out of a rut and back into the leadership groove.
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U.S. News & World Report
Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation intended to clarify that the Department of Education cannot allow school districts to use federal funds to arm teachers. "The last thing our classrooms need is for schools to be loaded up with weapons," Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said at a press conference. "That terrifies children who are already living in fear of being the next victim."
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THE Journal
Leadership in the House Science, Space and Technology Committee is putting its support behind a bipartisan Senate effort to boost research in STEM education initiatives for young children under the Building Blocks of STEM Act legislation. The new bill directs the National Science Foundation to equitably distribute funding for early childhood education in its Discovery Research Pre-K-12 program. This program seeks to improve the learning and teaching of STEM in the classroom.
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THE Journal
Many students who live in rural areas believe that lack of access to high-speed internet is holding them back. According to results from a pair of surveys of students who took the national ACT test last year, rural students were 10 percentage points less likely than non-rural students to call their home internet "great" and almost twice as likely to consider their broadband access "unpredictable" (16 percent versus 9 percent). They were also more likely to have access to only a single device at home (24 percent versus 11 percent). Rural students make up almost one in five K-12 students in the United States.
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Young Rembrandts
 Art has special significance to 80% of kids; not because they will grow up to be professional artists, because it is a tactile medium that meets children halfway. Without art, our kids are frustrated, uninterested and struggling. Parents get bad reports. The kids’ risk being labeled as difficult and a whole negative cycle begins – all of it completely unfair to the child. We tell them to buck up. Do better. Work harder. And yet we deny them the tools to make it possible to do better. The truth of who they are is in the right side of their brain.
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EdTech Magazine
While preparing to move the data center at Iron County School District to a building with more space, the IT team received an alert: The air conditioning system had failed. By the time a crew got there, the temperature was so high that their fingerprints melted into the plastic around the power cords. Fortunately, the Utah district was in the process of replacing its aging systems with a Scale Computing HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure, which was onsite, just waiting to be installed in the new data center.
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eSchool News
Across the country, K-12 schools are embracing technology to strengthen learning and engagement inside the classroom. But while technology has an ever-increasing presence in the classroom, the opposite is often true when it comes to a district's back-end operations. Due to aging systems, many accounts payable departments within school districts still rely on manual, legacy, or proprietary systems to perform critical functions like expense and invoice submission and reimbursement. This lack of automation and visibility into their expenses can end up costing a school district more in the long run, due to errors and the increased time a non-automated system takes.
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EdTech Magazine
For districts looking to upgrade communications systems, it’s no longer a question of whether to adopt an IP-based phone system, but rather which one to deploy. The advantages they provide — ease of mass notifications, the ability to deliver video as well as voice, greater redundancy and reliability — are simply too compelling to ignore. But for many budget-strapped districts, the deciding factor frequently comes down to cost. For example, last year Monterey Peninsula Unified School District in Northern California deployed a new solution from Jive Communications.
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eSchool News
Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. A new analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality reveals that few teacher preparation programs either conduct any sort of screening or require specific coursework in the subject area knowledge traditionally taught in elementary grades.
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Education Week
Students spend more than 1,000 hours with their teacher in a typical school year. That's enough time to build a relationship that could ignite a student's lifetime love of learning — and it's enough time for the dynamic to go totally off the rails. Education watchers have long known that the relationship with a teacher can be critically important to how well students learn. But emerging research is giving a clearer picture than ever of how teachers can build and leverage strong relationships with their students.
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By: Julie Anne Wells (commentary)
 "Montessori" is becoming a buzzword among parents and educators. With the popularity of Montessori schools on the rise, you may find yourself wondering if it's right for your child. The Montessori Method is a specific teaching style that focuses on five key areas of child development: practical life, sensorial materials, mathematics, language, and culture. It is tailored to each child's unique attributes and learning preferences. To better understand a Montessori education, it helps to know the background behind the method.
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BU Today
Do your homework. If only it were that simple. Educators have debated the merits of homework since the late 19th century. In recent years, amid concerns of some parents and teachers that children are being stressed out by too much homework, things have only gotten more fraught.
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eSchool News
We are often asked for the definition of social-emotional learning. One common and useful SEL definition is the process of learning to integrate thinking, feeling, and behaving in order to become aware of the self and of others, make responsible decisions and manage behaviors.
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District Administration Magazine
Would most of the moms and dads in your district rather attend a parents-only weekend school event or take their kids to the zoo? Hayward USD, realizing families almost always choose the latter, boosted turnout in 2015 by launching dual-generation activities that allow parents to learn alongside their children.
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The "skill and drill" portion of many reading lessons does an extreme disservice by failing to truly help students succeed. As students' progress through the worksheets, it is easy to simply check them off a list because they did the work, but are they truly showing mastery of the specific standards we attempt to address?
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NPR
Whether a school shooting or a deadly tornado, scary events in the news can leave parents struggling to know when — and how — they should talk with their kids about it. Rosemarie Truglio of Sesame Workshop and Tara Conley, a media studies professor at Montclair State University, give us tips.
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West Virginia University via Science Daily
When their family members struggle with substance use disorders, children bring experiences of neglect, trauma and often, mental health issues into the classroom, creating challenging environments for their teachers. Researchers at West Virginia University have evaluated the impact of the opioid crisis in classrooms across the Mountain State through a survey of 2,205 teachers in 49 counties.
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THE Journal
While investments in elementary and secondary education has quadrupled from 1960 to 2015, the persistent student achievement gap between the haves and have-nots has remained, according to new study by Stanford University and Harvard University researchers in the journal Education Next. There have been steady gains in student achievement up to the eighth-grade level, but the gains don't translate into success at the end of high school.
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Education Week
Teenagers learn and remember more when they get more time to sleep in the morning, but making that happen can be tricky, since it requires costly changes in transportation routes to set school earlier. A new study suggests that even transportation changes that save money and ease students' schedules can be tough to pay for politically.
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EdSource
When Joyce Ponce used to teach Head Start preschool programs in Santa Clara County, she taught in English, though many of the children in her classroom spoke Spanish or Punjabi at home. "I noticed the kids who did not understand English were just sitting off to the side, but the moment the assistant would come and speak their language, they blossomed, their eyes opened up," Ponce said.
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USA Today
A federal judge in New York denied a request for a temporary injunction that would have allowed 44 unvaccinated children to go back to class, citing an "unprecedented measles outbreak." "The plaintiffs have not demonstrated that public interest weighs in favor of granting an injunction," U.S. District Court Judge Vincent Briccetti said in federal court in White Plains. After the ruling, many parents in the court room embraced. "Preventing my child from being with his class, his teacher, his classroom, has had a significant social and psychological impact," said a parent of a 4-year old preschooler who declined to give her name.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals, in partnership with AASA, The School Superintendents Association, is proud to administer the National Aspiring Principals Academy. This highly engaging year-long professional learning experience will directly bolster the effectiveness and preparation of all aspiring school principals across the nation. The academy follows a cohort model designed to support aspiring principals in acquiring the essential knowledge, skills and practices needed to advance to the next leadership level. Applications are due by April 25. The academy will be accepting applications on a rolling admission basis until the cohort is filled.
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