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School Leaders Now
Since, legally, you must attend every IEP meeting at your school, you can forget lunch duty, walk throughs and deadlines on those days. But, there is a way to use your IEP meetings effectively for your school community. Here are 5 things you can do before, during and after IEP meetings to leverage relationships with staff and further your bigger school-wide efforts.
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Training Industry Magazine
It's easy to understand why the modern workforce doesn't get excited about training initiatives. Sure, they are the end consumer and the people organizations want to upskill, but rarely are training initiatives truly about them. Most initiatives go something like the following. A business unit president tells human resources or training and development the team is struggling with a particular skill. Training professionals build programs and/or source the best content partner based on modality and cost.
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District Administration Magazine
School leaders everywhere have experienced parent, staff and student anxiety about school safety following the tragic attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. While these emotionally charged climates are understandable, making knee-jerk decisions with a "do something, do anything, do it now" mantra can lead to high-risk, high-liability actions that administrators and boards may regret down the road.
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Forbes (commentary)
From time to time, even the most conscientious and productive professionals procrastinate. For some, pushing off a deadline is a rare and anxiety-inducing situation; other people thrive best under the pressure of waiting until the eleventh hour. However, when your tendency to procrastinate is starting to make your overall quality of work and life suffer, it's time to do a reality check and break yourself of the habit.
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By: Scott E. Rupp (commentary)
 In a recent study on the stresses of American workers, the primary outcome suggests that we are all very tired, and it's taking a toll on our performance on the job. Most of the literal lost sleep comes from work-related anxiety, according to a simple poll. In it, more than 4 in 10 professionals (44 percent) are stressed about the following overwhelming workloads, looming business problems and strained co-worker relationships.
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Leadership Freaks
You tried to deal with the issue when it was small but there's no improvement. Now it's time for a tough conversation. Power tips for tough conversations: No. 1. Build positive relationships: Positive relationships are the foundation for successful tough conversations.
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Inc.
How do you best develop the talent of your current team? How do you groom a direct report to take on new responsibilities? How do you grow your employees so that they can start scaling your business with you? The secret ingredient is for you to coach and grow your team, and here are five tips to help you structure and run one-to-one coaching sessions with key team members. This advice doesn't come from theory. It comes from a lifetime of real-world experience.
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Inc.
To model unconventional leadership that will naturally attract followers, a good understanding of the human experience in the workplace may be a prerequisite. Once you master that understanding — that true leadership at its best is about serving the needs of others on a human level — there are certain innate traits you'll find in the best of them. Here are four of them.
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School Leaders Now
When you walk through a school with great community school enrichment programs, you can find students playing chess, strumming guitars, and laughing in an improv theater group — all under the instruction of parents and community members. When students participate in community school programming, they show impressive gains in areas of academics, social and emotional development, prevention of risky behaviors, and health and wellness.
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Harvard Business Review
Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, of the global consulting firm Potential Project, make their case for mindfulness, selflessness and compassion in leadership. Their survey of 30,000 leaders showed those characteristics are foundational — and often missing from leadership development programs. Practicing self-awareness, they say, leads to more focused and more people-focused organizations.
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THE Journal
A $1.7 million grant will help Indianapolis Public Schools as the school system shifts away from centralized support and its principals take on more autonomy. According to the final paperwork, the purpose of the grant is "to support the development of internal capacities, processes, and systems necessary for implementing full, building-level autonomy for every IPS school." The funding comes from the Walton Family Foundation, which has invested $1.3 billion-plus in K-12 education since the early 1990s. That includes support for more than a quarter of the charter schools created in the United States.
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Inc.
You probably imagine yoga mats and burning incense when thinking about mindfulness. But the practice actually can be applied to all aspects of life, including the workplace. Los Angeles-based author of How We Work, Leah Weiss, defines mindfulness as "paying attention to inattention." In the office, it involves finding ways to reduce distractions while keeping employees present in the moment. This leads to a happier and more efficient workplace. Unfortunately, the idea of increasing productivity while slowing down seems counterintuitive for most leaders. But once you understand how to implement these practices into your company culture, you'll see how easy it is to reap the benefits.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sparred with House Democrats over the Trump administration's proposed budget's support for private school choice, and its cuts to programs related to civil rights, safety, and after-school. In a House appropriations subcommittee hearing, DeVos said the administration's fiscal 2019 budget proposal would maintain its support for disadvantaged students, while also attempting to ensure greater opportunities for them through a new, $1 billion school choice program.
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The Associated Press
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faced tough questions from House Democrats on gun control, racial bias and civil rights as she sought to defend funding cuts for her agency. DeVos' testimony in front of the House Appropriations subcommittee got so tense at certain moments that the chairman made a point of thanking DeVos for her poise when he concluded the meeting. DeVos, already reeling after a series of rocky, high-profile interviews, unveiled some details of a federal commission on school safety that she will be chairing. The commission, formed after the Florida high school shooting in which 17 people were killed, will comprise herself as well as the heads of the Homeland Security, Health and Human Services and Justice departments.
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The Washington Post
Apple's next splashy product announcement won't be from its new campus in Cupertino, California. It will take place at a magnet high school on the North Side of Chicago — a signal that Apple isn't ready to let go of the education market it once dominated. Apple has not said what products will be introduced at its event, but the announcement comes at a crucial time: as many schools are looking to renew or change over the summer their agreements with companies for classroom tech. Tech companies hope that the presence of their products in classrooms will turn students into long-term customers.
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The Hechinger Report
When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don't have the option to start their search with Google. They can't access online encyclopedias. They basically can't access online anything. If teachers want kids to use online resources in class, they must take home a classroom set of laptops and download the information to each computer in preparation for the school day. The school's internet capacity simply can't handle many users at once.
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EdTech Magazine
When Tulare Joint Union High School District in California, was preparing to deploy one-to-one Chromebooks a few years ago, the amount of professional development and training needed for educators was overwhelming. "Teachers have a lot on their plates, and they often felt like the technology coaches were just adding more to their plates," said Denise Douglas, the district's educational technology coordinator, in a March 16 session at the Spring CUE 2018 conference.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 It's anxiety time. Summer is around the corner, and the crunch of IEP season has started. You, like untold thousands of parents of struggling learners, might be antagonizing over another summer slide: "This summer, will Harold again forget so much of what he learned that he'll struggle for months to relearn it? Will this cement his resistance to learning?" It might. But if he's properly educated over the summer, he's unlikely to suffer the summer slide.
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Teaching Channel (commentary)
James R. Delisle, a contributor for Teaching Channel, writes: "As a teacher myself, I feel your pain when a capable student chooses — yes, chooses — not to perform well academically. Cajole as we might (and do...) to convince kids like these on the merits of academic accomplishment, many of them look at us with that blank expression of adolescence that speaks volumes in its silence."
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eCampus News
Teaching elementary math — especially explaining the conceptual basis of algorithms and procedures— can be particularly challenging for novice teachers. Therefore, teacher-preparation programs need to provide robust support to help education preservice teachers acquire this specialized content knowledge and teach a high-quality math curriculum.
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MindShift
Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But Bezaire teaches math. The novel is part of a unit on number sense. While it's easy to envision using math picture books in elementary school classrooms, literature for older grades poses a bigger challenge. Can reading fit into the curriculum as the books get longer and the math gets more complex?
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Edutopia
Walk into any elementary school classroom, and you'll likely see the desks clustered in little pods to easily facilitate small group discussions. Look at a high school class syllabus, and it will boast a group project or two. Open up any recent instructional strategy book, and you'll find the buzzy phrase cooperative learning scattered throughout.
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Education DIVE
Research shows that reading at level by grade 3 is critical to determining a student's educational achievement and future success. This month, our Spotlight series focused on the topic, gathering a wide range of perspectives from administrators and teachers nationwide, highlighting several approaches making an impact.
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Education Week
One in five teachers who were physically or verbally victimized at school did not tell their administrators, a new study finds. The study, which included responses from 2,505 K-12 teachers across the country who had experienced an incident of violence at school, found that some teachers who were victimized also didn't tell their family (24 percent) or their colleagues (14 percent). Only 12 percent received counseling.
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The Brookings Institution
Charter schools can provide options to families who otherwise might not have them. This is, in essence, the equity-based argument for charters. Wealthier families have long enjoyed school choice by paying to live in neighborhoods with good public schools or enrolling in private schools. Poorer families have depended on public school systems to provide high-quality education in neighborhoods they can afford. Charter schools have the potential to expand families' tuition-free options, closing the gap in school choices between wealthier and poorer families. However, they only expand families' options if they are genuinely accessible — not just technically available. An assortment of barriers can get in the way.
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NPR
Florida schools have ramped up "code red drills" in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting. One teacher plans to post footage of the drills online to build support for more restrictive gun laws.
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Education Week
The academic past of Nikolas Cruz, the accused mass shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was littered with red flags suggesting serious emotional problems. News outlets that have reviewed Cruz's disciplinary records and interviewed his teachers paint a picture of a young man prone to violent outbursts and fascinated with weapons. In high school, he spent time in a Broward County public school that specializes in serving students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For the past two years, St. Louis Public Schools leaders have been looking for answers to this question: Why do our teachers leave? School leaders think it's largely because many first-year teachers are not adequately prepared. It's possible, for example, to be hired as a teacher in a St. Louis school without ever having walked through the school's front doors. It's possible to become a teacher after having spent just 12 weeks in front of a classroom, the minimum amount of student teaching that Missouri requires for new teachers.
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NAESP
The 2018 NAESP Vice President Election is open from March 20 – March 30. Members can visit the 2018 election webpage to read about each candidate, and watch the speeches each one delivered at the 2018 National Leaders Conference. On March 20, eligible voters should have received an email with a customized link to cast their vote. Click here for more information on how to vote.
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NAESP
NAESP and Scholastic are proud to host the Principals of Literacy Institute, this Sept. 20-22 in Nashville. The event hopes to explore the connection between principal leadership and effective literacy instruction. Register by Aug. 1 to receive the early bird discount.
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