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School Leaders Now
A teacher retirement party is a great way to honor the service of colleagues and build community traditions. Start planning now to make sure you craft a thoughtful celebration. Teacher retirement parties are also important school-culture-building moments. So you want to do it right.
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District Administration Magazine
Today's more sophisticated visitor management systems allow K-12 leaders to get a better handle on who's trying to enter (or leave) their buildings — including tardy students. Lobby kiosks can perform automated and instant background checks, screen guests and issue badges. This process can immediately identify registered sex offenders and alert staff to parental custody issues, among other concerns. And all of this information can be shared in real-time among schools and administrators.
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HR DIVE
Employers have long known that messaging is, generally speaking, the preferred method of communication for Millennials. Employers have both adopted workplace chat applications and increased their investments in texting for recruiting partly for this reason. But employers have to ensure that the generations' preferences don't create miscommunication mishaps. After all, tension between Millennials and other generations is not unheard of. A previous report revealed that Millennials often believe boomers and Gen Xers stifle their advancement, for example.
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Forbes (commentary)
John Drumgoole Jr., a contributor for Forbes, writes: "There was a point early in my career when I was afforded the opportunity to work closely with the senior leadership team of a budding organization. One morning, a colleague pulled me aside for a water cooler chat and mentioned that some of the top brass were not seeing eye to eye over a matter. She said she disliked it when this happened because it had of way of throwing the entire company out of alignment. "
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Brendan Boyle, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "I remember trying to be super serious when I started teaching design and innovation at Stanford University more than 20 years ago. I wore a tie and sport coat. Ha! I thought it would help people identify me as a teacher — and make me look more important. I epitomized what Steven Dubner and Steve Levitt, authors of Freakonomics, discovered when they said they '[could] find no correlation from being serious to being really good at what you do.'"
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Harvard Business Review
Plenty of media coverage — and companies' attention — is devoted to employees at the beginning and end of their careers, at least in my experience. Entry-level employees learning the ropes garner more than their share of managers' time, and those transitioning toward retirement pull executives' focus by necessity as they work to develop succession plans.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Jennifer Duston, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "I'm a 13-year veteran principal with lots of tricks up my sleeve, but nothing prepared me enough for our recent actual school lockdown. We had just recovered from the Thomas Fire and could have used a little peace. We received a report of a suspicious man outside the fence of a school with an unknown object in his hand. This report resulted in a school lockdown for approximately an hour and a half. This experience forever changed me."
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The Brookings Institution
Many education policymakers and practitioners across the country recognize the need to recruit and retain more racial and ethnic minorities into the teaching profession. As we’ve previously discussed in our ongoing teacher diversity series, there is credible evidence that minority teachers can boost a range of minority student outcomes, yet minorities are underrepresented among the population of public school teachers.
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allBusiness
Hiring is one of the most difficult ongoing tasks a business faces. Not only do managers have to evaluate a candidate's hard skills, but they also need to look for the right soft skills and personality traits to ensure a new employee will be a cultural fit.
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Education Week
The use of Twitter to share news and to congratulate individuals or teams, or to remind of meetings or events has become a part of many educational leaders' work of the day. Many, if not most students and parents are "on" Twitter. It has become a favored way to communicate quickly and briefly. At first a vehicle for young people to speak to each other in brief terms, it has been swept up by adults and businesses. Its use was welcomed and used for good.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Wally Bock, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "Debbie was little then. But she already had the radiant smile that would inspire her high school classmates to dub her: 'Girl most likely to get her picture on a Wheaties box.' It was after church, on a clear California day, and Debbie was charming anyone who came in range. I was acting the role of proud parent. One well-dressed older woman bent down to ask: 'What does your daddy do?' I prepared to swell with pride at whatever my little girl said. Debbie frowned as she pondered the question. Then she brightened and piped up in her little-girl voice."
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Education DIVE
When it comes to how higher education leaders can get more students to their institutions, the same advice comes up over and over again — build partnerships with local K-12 districts. A plethora of these types of examples exist in everything from summer camps for high school students to mentorship programs. But, what if your institution could build a far-reaching partnership with hundreds of businesses, several school districts, other universities and the local community at the same time?
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The Hill
A Department of Justice agency has canceled a pair of efforts to improve school safety after their funding was cut under the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed. A message posted on the website for the DOJ's National Institute of Justice states that funding for the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative and Research and Evaluation of Technologies to Improve School Safety solicitations was reapportioned under the recently-passed Stop School Violence Act of 2018.
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eSchool News
A federal report on students' home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. In a letter to the Institute of Education Sciences, a number of ed-tech and advocacy organizations point out that many students lack home access to the internet connectivity they need to complete homework and use online learning resources. The groups also point out that the study, which the Every Student Succeeds Act mandated be sent to Congress by June 2017, "will help policy makers identify the best ways to ensure all students can connect with broadband services and be on a path for success after graduation."
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MindShift
"Alexa, tell me a story." "Siri, what is 32 divided by 3?" "Google, why does it snow?" One in six Americans now owns a smart speaker like Amazon's Alexa or Google Home, and 75 percent of homes are likely to have one by 2020. That means information and learning opportunities are more accessible to children than ever before, but it also raises unsettling questions for educators and parents. How do children know whether to trust information from these devices' disembodied voices? Will kids miss opportunities for rich conversation when they ask Alexa a question instead of mom or dad?
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
In a 6th grade science class, Mr. Rothman reads the following aloud: "Bonds between water molecules have to be broken when they go from ice (solid) to water (liquid) to water vapor (gas) state. Breaking bonds requires energy, so in this process, heat is absorbed from the surroundings. That means these reactions are endothermic in nature." Gazing up from his textbook, he asks the class: "Can someone define endothermic for me?" He is met with blank stares and a Ferris Bueller moment of utter silence. Realizing that his students are lost in the myriad of details and technical vocabulary of this informational text, he approaches the text again.
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Center for American Progress
How bad are school vouchers for students? Far worse than most people imagine. Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one-third of a year of classroom learning. In other words, this analysis found that the overall effect of the D.C. voucher program on students is the same as missing 68 days of school.
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NPR (commentary)
Barbara J. King, a contributor for NPR, writes: "I think it's fair to say that many parents focus a lot of energy — and worry! — on protecting their small kids from risky situations. But it turns out that integrating limited risk into our kids' playtime may be taking a step toward healthier child development. This past weekend, reporter Ellen Barry published a piece in The New York Times about a growing movement in Britain to bring risk into the playground experience. Measures include: erecting handmade play equipment like 20-ft. climbing towers; leaving intact gorse bushes that are quite spiky; supervising children in the use of knives, saws, and other tools; and building fires right in the play area."
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THE Journal
When Giulia Bini started using a video game in her high school calculus class, she saw a 100 percent pass rate on testing about limits compared to 80 percent in the previous year; plus, grades rose by 10 percent. The game she used, Variant: Limits by Triseum, places players on an imaginary planet. To rescue the planet from "imminent doom," they help "Equa," the main character, solve a series of increasingly tough calculus problems.
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By: Aileen Miracle (commentary)
 Centers in the music room can be a great way to have students practice concepts and skills while engaging in a student-centered environment. Even though I've been doing centers for several years, I am still learning how most effectively to run a centers lesson in my music room. Whether students are practicing basic rhythms, improving recorder playing or practicing staff work, the following is a list of strategies that have worked well for my students when rotating through centers.
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NPR
Remember that skeleton hanging in the front of your biology — or art — classroom? It's possible those bones are not plastic, but actual human remains. A lot of classroom skeletons, in high schools, universities and medical schools, are real.
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Frontiers via Science Daily
Researchers find that primary school children with reduced cognitive skills for planning and self-restraint are more likely to show increased aggression in middle childhood. The study examined the relationship between aggression and executive function — a measure of cognitive skills that allow a person to achieve goals by controlling their behavior. The results suggest that helping children to increase their executive function could reduce their aggression.
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NPR
Nearly three fourths of U.S. teachers do not want to carry guns in school, and they overwhelmingly favor gun control measures over security steps meant to "harden" schools, according to a new Gallup poll. The nationally representative poll of nearly 500 K-12 teachers was conducted earlier this month, after the Parkland shooting and student protests brought national attention to the issue of gun violence. Some of the poll was released last week. In that portion, 73 percent of teachers opposed training teachers and staff to carry guns in school. Of those, 63 percent "strongly" opposed the proposal. In addition, 7 in 10 teachers said arming teachers would not be effective in limiting casualties in a school shooting.
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Los Angeles Times
Half a century ago, when sociologist James Coleman was tasked by the U.S. Department of Education with studying educational inequality, a good school was regarded as one that featured teachers with advanced degrees, a well-stocked library, state-of-the-art science labs and the like. The assumption was that these "inputs" were key to students' success. But the bottom line of the 737-page "Equal Educational Opportunity Survey," known as the Coleman Report, was dynamite. Families mattered most, schools mattered less — and extra resources didn't seem to matter much at all.
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THE Journal
Charter schools tend to serve more students with disabilities in more inclusive settings. Nearly 85 percent of students with disabilities in charter schools attended class in general education classrooms for 80 percent or more of their day compared to 68 percent of students with disabilities in traditional public schools. Those findings were shared in a new report produced by the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, a non-profit formed in 2013 to advocate for students with "diverse learning needs."
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Chalkbeat
As a first-year teacher, Pierce Bond took on a remarkable responsibility: helping other teachers by disciplining or counseling misbehaving students. That left him to make tough choices, like whether to disrupt his own class mid-lesson to handle problems in the school's detention room. "Sometimes you have to make that decision," he told an interviewer. "Do I stop whatever I'm doing now to go deal with this situation?"
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The Atlantic
Larry Cagle is angry. At 54 years of age, he makes $34,500 a year teaching critical-reading skills to public high-school students in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "I do construction and lawn maintenance in the summer" to make ends meet, he said. "I moved here from Florida five years ago, and in Florida I made $25,000 a year more." He talked about the number of public-school teachers he knew working second jobs on nights and weekends, flipping burgers or hauling luggage at the airport. Teachers digging into their own pockets to pay for students' basic needs and classroom supplies.
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Education DIVE
The efforts at reform discipline policies and practices that began in the Obama-era were designed to correct reported racial inequities in the way harsher punishments, such as out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, were meted out. Since that time, research on the effect of these policies has been sparse and contradictory. The studies also sometimes fail logically. For instance, reducing the number of out-of-school suspensions, by definition, must increase school attendance rates because students are in school more often. Sound in-school suspension policies, however, can allow students to make the most of their time away from their regular classroom settings.
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U.S. News & World Report
The percentage of students reporting that they've been bullied has dropped by more than a third since 2007, according to federal data. The new figures say that 20.8 percent of students reported being bullied in 2015, continuing a downward trend that dates back to 2007, when 31.7 percent of students reported being bullied. A similar — though not as significant — decrease was also seen in students reporting being called a hate-related word, with the 7.2 percent reporting such an experience in 2015 down from some 9.7 percent in 2007.
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The Boston Globe
As the fourth nor'easter of March approaches New England, some school districts across the region are struggling to make up days missed because of weather, and at least a few are considering giving up vacation days or Saturdays to close the gap. In Andover, where schools had reached their sixth snow day by mid-January and logged their 10th last week, the town's School Department has added makeup days on two Saturdays — April 28 and May 12 — and on Good Friday and the last Friday in June, according to an email Superintendent Sheldon Berman sent parents.
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The New York Times
When she woke up one morning last week, Tiffany Bell, a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School here, had $35 in her bank account. On take-home pay of $2,200 per month, she supports her husband, a veteran who went back to school, and their three children, all of whom qualify for the Children's Health Insurance Program, a federal benefit for low-income families. The couple's 4-year-old twins attend a Head Start preschool — another antipoverty program.
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NAESP
Congress has passed the FY18 omnibus appropriations bill, which maintains funding at $2.055 billion for Title II, Part A — the only federal funding source dedicated to the preparation, training, and support of teachers and principals. The omnibus bill also includes funding increases for other federal education programs important to principals, as well as additional resources for training to address school violence and for improving mental health services in schools. The legislation now heads to the president for his signature to become law.
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NAESP
Bridging the gap between the school day and afterschool and summer learning has often been a challenge for school leaders. Expanded learning programs are critical for student success. How can this be done? Where does a principal begin? What resources are available to expand my current program? Answers to these and many more questions are a click away in this highly informative learning experience.
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