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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
To close the educational equity gap, teachers have to understand their position of power
EdSurge
when teachers say students can’t, they often mean that students don’t deserve to.
The moment a teacher decides their students can’t do something, then the battle has already been lost to the monster of educational inequity in our country. To close the massive gap of education inequity, teachers need to start by adjusting their mindsets, checking their implicit biases, and reflecting on what they choose — and don’t choose — to teach their students.
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Education Department: Students with disabilities must be considered as schools go mask optional
Disability Scoop
If a parent or any other member of a child’s individualized education program, or IEP, team or Section 504 team believes that any type of COVID-19 prevention strategy is needed in order to ensure a free appropriate public education, the team must consider such measures, Cardona said. If the team agrees, then the strategy needs to be incorporated into the student’s IEP or Section 504 plan.
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Why schools see extra time as the solution to making up for lost instruction
Education Week
Principal Langston Longley plays the song "All I Do is Win" by DJ Khaled for the 350 students at Atlanta's Scott Elementary school every morning. He wants to build the children's enthusiasm as they head into classroom sessions designed to keep them on track after pandemic-related learning interruptions.
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What's the big reason schools are closing now that COVID is waning?
District Administration Magazine
Social media and other digital forms of communication have been a lifeline for young people coping with isolation over the last two years. But some students have used the speed and seeming anonymity of the internet to make serious threats that, even when they’re empty or meant as “pranks,” force administrators and police to investigate on an almost daily basis somewhere in the U.S. — and often close schools. The deluge of threats cuts across districts of all sizes and demographic makeup and is happening in all parts of the country.
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10 things principals can do to support tired teachers right now
We Are Teachers
The effects of the disruptions to education have taken a cumulative toll — on teachers just as much as students. Admins understandably have school improvement planning on their minds, but the first step has to be taking care of teachers. It’s not an overnight solution, but there are ways principals can support teachers right now.
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Longer school days and years remain rare as schools fight learning loss with optional time
Chalkbeat
Across the country, schools are adding learning time, but typically only for a fraction of students whose families opt for extra programming. Chalkbeat reviewed 45 large districts’ spending plans and found that while virtually all of them mentioned more after-school or summer school programming, very few planned to add minutes or days to the normal calendar.
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It's time to focus on learning experience design
eSchool News
If the pandemic taught us anything, it's that understanding the whole student matters. Since March of 2020, billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of person hours have been spent enabling remote learning access, rolling out strategic student supports — particularly around mental health — and providing emergency aid for students struggling with basic needs.
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Hiccups and hard lessons: What it takes to bring big new tutoring programs to America's classrooms
Chalkbeat
The Arkansas initiative is just one of at least a dozen new large-scale tutoring efforts started by state education departments and school districts across the country. They’re part of an unprecedented effort to help students recover academically after two years of disrupted schooling.
There are encouraging signs: Thousands of tutors have gotten to work, and some say they’ve seen students make progress. But several initiatives are starting smaller or taking longer to reach students than officials originally hoped.
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Benefits of service learning for high school students
Edutopia
Service learning has an academic component in addition to volunteering. There’s usually a writing piece, a call to action, and reflection on what students learned or accomplished. All these elements elevate this experience to be one that they will grow from as an individual as they benefit the community. Additionally, many universities recognize the value of service learning.
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Helping middle level students self-regulate
MiddleWeb
Students who learn self-regulation skills experience benefits such as completing more of their homework on time, doing better in their classes, feeling more in control of their learning and their upcoming tasks, getting better at organization and time management, and learning more in their classes.
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6 ways to get families engaged in reading fluency growth
THE Journal
The science of reading has made a much-needed comeback in recent years, with several states enacting policies for educators training on it. However, fluency practice doesn’t have to occur only at school; it can be reinforced at home, too. Research shows that family engagement is connected to improved student outcomes.
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Reaching out to businesses for meaningful career education
Edutopia
Through extensive collaboration by educators, parents, and business and civic leaders, there’s been a reset of career education goals. As it continues to grow, Real World Learning offers a model of collaboration that can energize career education in communities of all sizes.
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As school communities have struggled to address the mental health needs of their students, the focus has been on treatment. Understandable.
However, we can start proactively helping our students in elementary school. Brain-based mental health literacy & resilience training provide strong Tier 1 support.
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5 ways high schools need to look different to get and keep students on track to graduate
District Administration Magazine
The pandemic simply doubled down on these challenges, resulting in higher course failure and far lower attendance rates, particularly among our most vulnerable high school students. Many struggled to access everything from the internet to healthy meals and stable housing. Mental health needs spiked, and postsecondary matriculation dropped. And some students had or now have other significant obligations outside of school, such as working to support themselves and their families or caring for a younger sibling or child.
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AP takes a stand amid the raging curriculum debates. It's worth emulating
Education Week
Hot-button educational debates over "anti-racism" and critical race theory can feel like they're full of people talking past each other. Truth is, they often are. Most parents and teachers agree that schools need to do a better job teaching about race and its role in America. At the same time, most Americans reject the notion that their nation is a deplorable "slavocracy." There's an appetite for sensible middle ground, but it can be hard to see.
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What do we want with mathematics curriculum?
Mind Matters
Modern policy discussions in America almost always leave out the biggest question — why are we doing what we are doing in the first place? Leaving out first principles always leaves people trying to find the most practical way to accomplish nothing in particular. We have become accustomed to not asking questions about first principles because they always sound too doctrinaire, but then we wind up, at best, making the misplaced assumption that everyone is reaching for the same goal, or, far worse, viewing the activities themselves as the goals.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Cardona urges state, district momentum on teacher shortages
K-12 Dive
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona plans to push state policymakers, higher education leaders and school districts to use pandemic relief and recovery funds to increase teacher recruits "as early as possible," according to a fact sheet provided to K-12 Dive.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
A new resource for free digital field trips
Edutopia
Museums for Digital Learning (MDL) is a free learning platform that provides K–12 educators with curated museum collection resources and activities aligned with national content standards. Developed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Newfields Lab of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, the Field Museum in Chicago, and History Colorado in Denver, MDL offers a way for museums of all disciplines to leverage digitized museum collections to support K–12 educators and students.
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Benefits and considerations for creating modern, innovative learning spaces in schools
EdTech Magazine
Creating a modern learning environment within a school district often used to be the result of a "keeping up with the Joneses" approach. When a school saw what a neighboring district implemented, it would try to keep pace by purchasing similar technology or building a similar space. These days, districts are taking a much more thoughtful approach when they purchase technology. They are considering what will work best inside their school buildings. They are working with experts like CDW to understand what modern learning environment would best benefit their student populations.
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YouTube is a huge classroom distraction. Teachers are reluctant to banish it.
The Wall Street Journal
There's YouTube, the lifesaver for teachers during the pandemic that continues to provide useful videos for students. Then there's YouTube, the endless distraction that followed kids back into the classroom. Together, they're causing tension between parents and educators over the role technology should play in school.
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A teacher's tips for effective edtech integration
eSchool News
It's clear that technology isn't going anywhere and will become an integral part of students' educational futures. Being able to effectively utilize technology in the classroom is no small task for the classroom teachers. Integrating technology into the classroom isn't simply transferring a worksheet into a virtual format–rather, it involves using technology to enhance lessons and enable the students to showcase their content mastery in a variety of ways.
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The eGlass brings digital innovation to the classic chalkboard
EdTech Magazine
While the chalkboard has served as a classic teaching tool for centuries, the past few decades have seen teachers shifting to the tidier whiteboard or the multifaceted interactive smart board. Still, no upgrade to the humble chalkboard has ever truly overcome one very important challenge: that teachers must turn their backs to students when writing.
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Learning how to blend online and offline teaching
EdSurge
In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that teaching online can actually open new possibilities to innovate their teaching practice.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Role of principal leadership in improving student achievement
Reading Rockets
School and district leadership has been the focus of intense scrutiny in recent years as researchers try to define not only the qualities of effective leadership but the impact of leadership on the operation of schools, and even on student achievement.
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is a breakthrough playspace designed to encourage child-directed unstructured free play. Unlike traditional hardscape playgrounds, Imagination Playground is low cost, requires no installation, and can be used both indoors and out. Our Blue Blocks are proudly made in the USA from a closed cell waterproof foam, making them durable and easy to clean.
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8 best practices for teaching in dual language and other bilingual programs
School Library Journal
Today, effective bilingual programs strengthen students’ literacy in their home language while they build their academic English skills. But these programs require a lot of invisible labor—these educators dedicate extra time developing curricular materials that may not always be apparent.
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How to support twice exceptional students
We Are Teachers
Twice exceptional students, or 2e students, are learners who are identified as exceptionally bright but who also have disabilities (for example ADHD, mild autism, dyslexia, or other learning or behavioral challenges) that need specialized attention. According to a report on twice exceptionality by National Association for Gifted Children, there are approximately three million gifted children in grades K-12 in the United States, approximately six percent of the total student population.
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Empower your teachers with exciting new virtual STEAM-powered classes, clubs and workshops at award-winning Stepping Stones Museum for Children. The Stepping Stones Studio makes it easy to inspire and delight young learners with a celebrated lineup of play-filled, brain-building educational offerings now accessible to everyone, everywhere. “This is the most wonderful hands-on experience for children! The Traveling Seeds workshop was extraordinary. The students were engaged and learned a lot. I enjoyed watching the children play and learn at the same time,” a 1st grade teacher, Norwalk Public Schools, Norwalk CT. Click the link here for detailed information: https://www.steppingstonesmuseum.org/app/uploads/2021/12/21-School-and-Groups-Flyer-VIRTUAL-120821.pdf
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
The research on life-changing teaching
Edutopia
Being an effective teacher is about more than just improving test scores — it's also about making a difference in students’ lives. When we asked our readers to describe the traits of a life-changing teacher, they said that great teachers make their students feel safe and loved, possess a contagious passion for learning, believe their students can succeed — and always know when to be tough to help students reach their full potential.
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4 major components of school violence prevention
eSchool News
It’s clear that schools must work with parents to inform students of the consequences associated with participating in these dangerous viral challenges. And with the spike in school violence over the last year, every threat should be taken seriously. So, what can schools do now to ensure their students and colleagues remain safe?
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Interconnecting mental health and behavioral support improves school safety, study says
National Institute of Justice
When children experience violence at school, be it bullying or gun violence, the negative consequences of those interactions can follow them for years, often manifesting later as higher rates of absenteeism, lower high school graduation rates, and lower college graduation rates. Early intervention is a key resource in preventing aggressive behaviors from occurring in the first place, and effective early intervention serves to build a positive school climate for all students.
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.IN THE STATES
Minneapolis educators approve contract, classes set to resume
MPRNews
The union said nearly 76 percent of teachers voted in favor of the contract, while close to 80 percent of the education support professionals voted yes.
Ed Graff, the school system’s superintendent, told reporters Friday that while negotiations were difficult the past few weeks, “at the end of the day we were all able to come together.” He described it as a fair contract. It runs through the end of the 2022 - 2023 school year.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
President's Education Awards Program (PEAP) ordering now open
NAESP
Celebrate achievement in your school with the President’s Education Awards Program (PEAP). Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with NAESP and the National Association of Secondary School Principals, PEAP offers principals a way to recognize and honor students’ dedication to learning.
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Rise And Thrive: The AP's Role in Enhancing a School Community
NAESP
In this #NAESPchat on Twitter, hosts and assistant principals Equetta Jones and Zach Korth will lead a discussion on strategies APs can use to effect change in schools by building a strong principal-AP leadership team, collaborating with teachers, ensuring equitable outcomes for students, focusing on academic and social-emotional growth, and engaging school families. Join us on Wednesday, April 6, at 8 p.m. ET, for this special #NAESPchat as we celebrate National Assistant Principals Week April 4-8.
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