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School Leaders Now
It can be challenging to find qualified substitute teachers who mesh well with your students and staff. Once you find those rockstar subs, it becomes a mission to keep them in your regular rotation, especially with sub shortages on the rise. After all, it's downright painful to ensure appropriate staff coverage without combining classes, which is the last resort.
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Education World
Creating lesson plans sometimes feels like a hit or miss prospect. Plans and curricula that you've poured your heart into can flop, while plans that you've thrown together hastily can remarkably resonate with students. The students of today must learn how to be exceptional to excel in the workplace of the future. As an educator, this sometimes means reassessing the basics of what it means to prepare students for an ever-evolving world. This raises a question. What can you do to ensure that your students are fully engaged in their lessons?
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Education Week
Imagine a world where school districts' hiring departments can predict the longevity and effectiveness of a teacher before she steps foot into a classroom. It's a scenario that's proved difficult to make reality, but a body of emerging research is making inroads. There are a handful of research-practitioner partnerships across the country working to improve teacher hiring through a strategic approach to job interviews, recommendations and resume screenings.
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District Administration Magazine
In Tempe, Arizona, the phone number for a suicide hotline is printed on every student's ID badge, teachers are trained to spot and respond to mental health warning signs in students, and administrators don't use euphemisms when discussing the topic. "We can't tiptoe around the word 'suicide' by saying someone 'took their life' — it's death by suicide, and we have to call it what it is, as harsh as it sounds," says Kevin Mendivil, superintendent of the Tempe Union High School District. "It resonates when it's verbalized by a caring adult because it's what's going on in kids' heads."
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District Administration Magazine
At least one in five students with ADHD do not receive school services despite experiencing significant academic and social impairment, according to a recent study. Middle and high school students with ADHD generally receive fewer support services (other than Section 504 educational support plans) than do elementary school students. Students from non-English speaking families and low socioeconomic backgrounds struggle to get any support services at all, the study also reveals.
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Harvard Business Review
Each morning, you emphatically write at the top of your to-do list, "Work on presentation!" Perhaps you even underline it a time or two for emphasis. But at the end of the day, your resolve has turned to dismay: yet again, you spent most of your time in meetings. And when you had a bit of time between them, you didn't make any progress on your presentation.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
 I was recently asked to coach an executive who was having a difficult time assimilating into her new leadership role, even though her company had invested a ton of money sending her to an executive leadership program. She confided in me that she could barely recall what she had learned six months ago. I'm not surprised. I'm going to let you in on a secret that will save your organization millions of dollars a year. Real learning takes place in real time. Think about it. You can't learn how to ride a bike by reading a book or attending a two-day session on the theory of bike riding.
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Entrepreneur
You are only as good as your team. It is your job as a leader to set the bar, inspire and motivate your team to reach greatness. Sitting back and focusing only on your personal goals will not benefit your team or help your brand grow. Here are 25 ways to steer your team to greatness.
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By: Stacey Hanke (commentary)
 Apologies are something we love to receive and hate to give. They are especially tough as a leader. They require a great deal of humility, which challenge your pride and ego. They are an open admission of failure and wrongdoing, but when delivered with sincerity, they hold power with your team. Unfortunately, too many leaders give superficial apologies loaded with excuses and blame. Here are four ways you are apologizing wrong and how to make sure you don’t make these mistakes in your next, "I'm sorry."
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Harvard Business Review
As a manager, you want to do right by your employees and support them through intense work periods so they don't get burned out. But this can be a challenge when you're feeling overly stressed yourself. How can you take care of yourself so that you have the time and energy to support your team? What steps do you need to take to reduce your stress level? And what actions can you take to improve your team members' well-being?
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Chief Learning Officer
Here's a fun experiment. Pick someone at work — preferably a person with a looming deadline or even better someone heading up a big project. Ask if they've got a couple of hours for training. If you're lucky, you walk away with all your body parts intact. The reality is even people in less stressful positions wouldn't look favorably on that same request. As should be expected, learning professionals spend a lot of time on learning. They talk to people about it, research it, test it, implement it, measure the results of it, and then talk to people some more about it.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
 I was on vacation last week and reluctantly dragged myself through a museum because others told me that this was something I couldn't miss. If you've ever attended an event because you were told you must go to or ate at a particular restaurant because everyone else was going, then you know exactly how it feels to do something out of obligation. Of course, no one was holding a gun to my head. I could have chosen to spend my time elsewhere. I see the same type of behavior with clients that I work with.
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Harvard Business Review
No matter how talented someone might be, there is no guarantee that their talents will translate into top performance. The science of human potential has generally illustrated that an individual's overarching competence cannot be fully understood unless we also account for their emotional make-up, preferences, and dispositions. No matter how smart, knowledgeable and experienced you are, there is generally a difference between what you can do and what you normally do.
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By: Michelle R. Matisons (commentary)
 Everyone seems to have a solution for safer public schools, but whose vision will guide the sweeping changes required for real school security? Last fall, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who also chairs the Federal Commission on School Safety, claimed she does not automatically favor federally mandated teacher weapons training. Instead, she describes the arming of classroom teachers as a "personal choice" for individual schools districts. Let's be clear here: armed teachers are not exactly new. But the national climate requires more school districts to tackle the issue of safety head-on.
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Education Week
The American Federation of Teachers endorsed Hillary Clinton for president back in July of 2015, becoming one of the first big national groups to throw its support behind the eventual Democratic nominee. And that early endorsement came back to haunt the union. A very vocal contingent of its membership wished the AFT had given Clinton's main rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, more consideration. They were angry and felt they had been left out of the process. The National Education Association, which also went in for Clinton early, heard similar complaints.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 It's no secret that the current administration's highest funding priorities don't include the Department of Education. President Donald Trump signaled as much in choosing Betsy DeVos to head the department. Her views on public schools were well-known long before her appointment and are summarized in her 2015 comment that public schools are "a dead end." For those who feel public schools are worth saving, the department's announcement earlier in March that it was further slashing the education budget after two years of earlier cuts was troubling. The department proposed eliminating 29 programs, by far the largest being the 21st Century Learning Centers that operate in high-poverty areas.
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EdScoop
As schools increasingly prioritize the physical security of their campuses and proactively identify at-risk students online, administrators have increasingly used emerging technologies like facial recognition and police-integrated social media databases. But if K-12 schools are trying to ensure the safety their students, said American Civil Liberties Union senior counsel Chad Marlow, then they must also examine whether these surveillance technologies are also impeding First Amendment rights.
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EdTech Magazine
Looking back, Robert Chinnici finds it hard to believe how overmatched he was. Until about a year ago, Acero Schools managed most IT assets for 15 schools and 7,500 students manually. That might have been reasonable if the charter school network had IT staff on every campus. But Chinnici, the Chicago system's IT director, was operating with one system administrator and five help desk technicians. The calls they received weren't always straightforward.
EdScoop
Moving from traditional textbooks to open educational resources can improve accessibility to information and save students millions. But a speaker in a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net say there are a few considerations administrators should keep in mind as they take on the shift to OER. Michael Nelson, director of curriculum and assessments for Coeur d'Alene Public Schools in Idaho, says his schools are shifting to an OER environment as part of their overall plans to improve individual student achievement.
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Young Rembrandts
 If your classrooms are filled with ADD kids, chances are your teachers are going nuts. Did you know there’s about a 99% chance they’re visual learners? Kids that have an ADD or ADHD diagnosis have been struggling in the classroom. Once there is a treatment plan in place, you’re expecting they’re going to settle down and focus. But instead they come back and struggle more. This is discouraging for everyone and leads to even more conversations about these kids. But it’s not about the kid ...
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District Administration Magazine
Technology used in everyday life is continuously progressing, allowing for greater access to information and life conveniences. The latest in technology — including artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality — can have an incredible impact on today's classrooms, bringing never-before-possible experiences into students' learning.
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eSchool News
American schools are facing a crisis in the lack of professional learning for school leaders. These leaders are required to be licensed, which usually entails a two-year program at a university or college. However, once they actually begin their careers, most of them will tell you that any further professional learning comes on the job. This vacuum of professional learning among principals and superintendents means many have to stub their toes by learning from mistakes, leading sometimes to grave consequences and almost certainly to less-than-optimal outcomes.
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THE Journal
Welcoming new teachers is exciting, but bringing these teachers up to speed can be a challenge. You can hire new teachers with a history of academic achievement in college and a sterling in-service record, but in the end, there is no substitute for boots-on-the-ground experience. Educators coming from the best teacher prep backgrounds are still going to need additional mentoring as they begin their careers.
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The Hechinger Report
The longer students attend Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School, the better they do. Many enter in sixth grade performing years behind grade level. By the end of middle school, though, they're doing better than their peers in District 13. And that's despite the fact that nearly 30 percent of Brooklyn Lab's students have disabilities that qualify them for special education services – double the portion of students in District 13 who do.
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eSchool News
Understanding anxiety is something that educators, parents, doctors, therapists, students, sufferers and non-sufferers are still working on. Just like anything else we attempt to understand, we will never get there if we don't, first, ask questions.
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NPR
Two afternoons a week, Mikala Tardy walks six blocks from Eastern High School to Payne Elementary School, not far from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She signs in at the front desk just after 3:30 p.m. and makes her way to a classroom, where she'll be tutoring second- and third-graders who are full of energy after the school day. Today, Mikala and three students work through an exercise about communities and the building blocks that create them. They learn how to spell people and playground — two essential components of any community, they decide.
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By: Amy Temple (commentary)
 For the past few months, I have been sharing my story about what it is like living with learning disabilities and the difficulties I have had to face. I have most definitely had my fair share of rejections over something that I have no control over, and that left me bitter and hurt for years. I wasted a lot of time being upset because society decided that I wasn't worth it. This month, I wish to pass on some wisdom that I have learned over the past 35 years. To begin with, I am going to share with you a piece of advice that my parents shared with me years ago.
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ADDitude Magazine
Homework stress is real — and exhausting for parents and students alike. Spare your family the drama and fights by following this homework system designed for children with ADHD and learning disabilities.
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Education Next
Income inequality has soared in the United States over the past half century. Has educational inequality increased alongside, in lockstep? Of course, say public intellectuals from across the political spectrum. As Richard Rothstein of the liberal Economic Policy Institute puts it: "Incomes have become more unequally distributed in the United States in the last generation, and this inequality contributes to the academic achievement gap." Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, citing research by Stanford sociologist Sean Reardon, says, "Rich Americans and poor Americans are living, learning, and raising children in increasingly separate and unequal worlds."
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University of Córdoba via Science Daily
Bullying is a harmful antisocial behavior present in schools all over the world. Involvement in bullying, as either perpetrators or victims, have serious short-term and long-term consequences for all the members of the school community, family and society in general, causing future problems related to depression and difficulty with social relationships. Moreover, studies on bullying link it to drug use and even offending.
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University of Cambridge via Science Daily
A report out xamines the factors that influence 'math anxiety' among primary and secondary school students, showing that teachers and parents may inadvertently play a role in a child's development of the condition, and that girls tend to be more affected than boys.
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The Hechinger Report
Critics have attacked Big Pharma for widespread biases in studies of new and potentially profitable drugs. Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that's supposed to be of the highest quality. And that may be leaving teachers and school administrators in the dark about the full story of classroom programs and interventions they are considering buying.
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The Texas Tribune
Mental health is at the forefront of gun violence prevention conversations among Texas legislators this session, but advocates for people with mental illness are wary of that focus. After the Santa Fe High School shooting in May that left 10 dead and 13 others wounded, Gov. Greg Abbott held a series of roundtable discussions around school safety that resulted in proposals like more resources for school safety personnel and closing gaps around mental health access. He named school safety as one of his top 2019 session priorities.
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The Montana Standard
"A lot of people don't know about school psychologists," Braydon Schilling said in February. But Schilling does. A school psychologist for Butte School District No. 1 for about five years, Schilling knows what the National Association of School Psychologists knows: that a school psychologist helps break down barriers to students' learning and success; helps implement evidence-based instruction; helps parents make informed decisions about education of their children; and helps youth succeed academically, socially, behaviorally and emotionally.
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WRAL
North Carolina could become the 32nd state to ban corporal punishment in public schools under a bipartisan bill that passed the House K-12 Education Committee unanimously. House Bill 295 would remove corporal punishment – paddling, hitting and so on – from the state law setting out permissible forms of discipline in public and public charter schools. It would not apply to private schools.
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WJZ
The Maryland House of Delegates unanimously passed legislation that toughens restrictions on the amount of lead allowed in school water fountains. The bill would also help fund efforts to fix the problem by establishing a grant system to replace aging pipes and fountains. This comes after state-mandated tests have found elevated levels of lead in water from hundreds of schools.
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NAESP
The proposed resolutions were approved by the Board of Directors and the General Assembly was informed on March 17, 2019. 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
The slogan at Whitesburg Elementary School is "We Engineer Success." As a Title I school in a small, rural community, we "own" the fact that our children will have to compete with children who have different experiences and levels of opportunity, and we want to ensure they are college- and career-ready. And an effective science, technology, engineering and mathematics program is a key part of that.
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