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School Leaders Now
Principals have to be able to deal with conflict and find resolution all of the time. It's in the DNA of a thoughtful, productive school leader. But how do principals cope with fear that seems out of their control? In today's national school climate, new fears of gun violence, school safety and security are top of mind. How would principals advise new administrators or soon-to-be school leaders to keep their focus and worry in check? How do they do it?
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Inc.
Google recently conducted one of the most thorough studies of management behavior ever completed by a large corporation. Started in 2009, a team in Google's People Innovation Lab spent one year data mining performance appraisals, employee surveys, nominations for top manager awards, and other sources to evaluate the differences between the highest- and lowest-rated managers. The researchers summarized hundreds of pages of interview notes and data, then shared the results with employees.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Working in a flow state allows anyone from a cashier to an extreme athlete to accomplish amazing things. Experiencing flow states in the office increases pleasure and creativity, produces lasting satisfaction and better results faster, plus it reduces stress. The bottom line is working in a flow state is so comprehensively beneficial that it is worth practicing. Here are three ways leaders can tap into this amazing momentum to achieve and encourage flow on their teams.
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HR DIVE
If workers are struggling to prioritize their work — or struggling to balance work and personal activities — time-management training may help boost productivity. HR also may be in a good position to evaluate whether workers are facing app overload. Employees are increasingly reporting that many of the productivity tech tools they've been handed are actually interfering with their work. Including communication applications for texts, phone calls, team messaging, web meetings and video conferencing, employees are using on average four apps, and 20 percent are using six or more, according to another recent report.
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Entrepreneur
How do you react to change? How do your employees react to change? If you do not learn to manage — even embrace — change, you'll face an uphill climb of constant struggle in your career. Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, said, "No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and you are not the same person. The only thing that is constant is change." We all instinctively know this, yet most humans have difficulty dealing with change.
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Inc.
Collaboration can mean the difference between success or failure in an organization. In fact, one survey found that 86 percent of people attribute workplace failures to lack of collaboration. In today's era of distributed teams and remote workers, technology plays an essential role in collaboration; it can shake up the status quo in a good way. For instance, tools employing artificial intelligence remove the drudgery and add predictive suggestions, making collaboration faster and easier. And today there are new types of collaboration tools which weren't around a few years ago.
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School Leaders Now
It's time to take some new approaches to showing the wonderful teachers you work with that you notice their hard work and care about them. There are many small, genuine ways for those in administration to reward teachers. These simple gestures will remind teachers just how invaluable they truly are and how much you appreciate them.
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By: Hank Boyer (commentary)
 Robert Half knows a thing or two about ability. He founded Robert Half Associates, today a $4.7 billion global provider of talented staff through its seven industry-focused divisions. Half once observed, "There is something much more scarce, rarer than ability. That is the ability to identify ability." Determining who has the right ability to match a particular role is the purpose of the hundreds of millions of job interviews conducted each year. But I'd like to amend Half's ability maxim.
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Entrepreneur
Despite its third-quarter dip last year, Uber has "rocketed to become the highest-valued private startup company in the world." Why? Uber doesn't sell rides. Uber sells time — the single most valuable asset you have. Most people can't get through the day without getting into conversations they didn't plan on having. You don't schedule any of these impromptu discussions. If taking someone's time without his or her permission was as illegal as taking money, coworkers and business partners would find themselves on both sides of the biggest class-action lawsuit in the history of ... ever.
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Language Magazine
The House of Representatives has rejected some significant cuts to federal education spending proposed by education secretary Betsy DeVos and President Trump in the $1.3 trillion spending bill awaiting Senate approval. DeVos and Trump wanted to cut the Education Department's budget by $3.6 billion and use more than $1 billion to encourage school choice, including funding private school vouchers, but the bill funds the department at $70.9 billion, an increase of $2.6 billion. However, policymakers denied funding cuts for the department's Office for Civil Rights, halving federal work-study programs, and spending $250 million on a private school choice program.
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Education Week
The Trump administration has decided to add a question to the 2020 U.S. Census about whether respondents are U.S. citizens, and it's causing quite a stir. But how exactly is census information used in education? And how could a question about citizenship impact schools? Let's tackle that first question. The decennial census results impact the two biggest pots of federal money for K-12 schools: Title I aid for disadvantaged students, which receives $15.8 billion in fiscal 2018, and special education grants to states, which receive $12.3 billion.
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EdTech Magazine
For educators, Google Forms are an integral component of facilitating personalized and adaptive learning. But, they can also be huge in driving efficiency. "Google Forms are really my favorite tech tool," said Brent Coley, principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School in California, at a March 15 session at the Spring CUE 2018 conference. "I use them every single day." Google Forms, which can be used to facilitate a survey or quiz, reports data into Google Sheets so teachers and administrators can use the raw data. Coley offered up four innovative ways educators and administrators can embrace Google Forms to streamline documentation and feedback.
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THE Journal
A new guide on blended learning reminds school district leaders that blended isn't a goal unto itself; nor is it a specific instructional approach. Blended can be integrated into a "variety of educational models" and serves as the "vehicle" for providing innovative instruction. The report, "Blending Teaching and Technology: Simple Strategies for Improved Student Learning," was produced by Future Ready Schools, an initiative of the Alliance for Excellent Education.
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The Hechinger Report
When administrators in Ohio's Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-2016 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company's standard discount for school districts. Superintendent Matt Miller pushed for a better deal, but Apple said it would not budge from its price list. The company prohibits most third parties from selling new devices to school districts, so Miller couldn't place a bulk order with Best Buy as a district official.
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eSchool News
Summer school can be a daunting time for educators. Many struggle to create a concise curriculum that effectively teaches material while meeting the shortened timeline of summer school. Some find it challenging to override the distraction of summer fun for students — especially students who struggled to concentrate during the school year. One of the main challenges that educators face is adjusting their approaches on teaching to meet the needs of summer school students whose performance during the year necessitated summer school in the first place.
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By: Savanna Flakes (commentary)
 Studies have documented the effectiveness of using cooperative learning to increase academic achievement for students with and without disabilities. Results of these studies show that students who regularly participate in meaningful and structured reading groups have higher reading comprehension and greater retention. For students with disabilities, cooperative learning activities is often the key to successful inclusion and access to curriculum.
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eSchool News
Although student achievement in core subjects is commonly used to define success, more educators agree that student success also depends on learning about intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies — commonly known as social and emotional learning, or SEL. And while the Every Student Succeeds Act doesn't reference SEL specifically, it does offer opportunities to focus on school-based SEL. In fact, educators and policymakers can leverage ESSA funding to support SEL, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation.
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Edutopia
As young math students begin the quest to answer the question “Who am I?” it’s critical for teachers to help them write a narrative that includes a strong belief that they were born to do math. Many students struggle in math classes because at some point along their mathematical journey they bought into the idea that they're not "math people." Children's self-concept is the collection of attitudes and abilities that they believe define them. Within the development of identity, we have the opportunity to provide guidance and support for positive growth.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 At my New Hampshire high school, we have a community service tradition that all of our seniors participate in called the Senior Day of Caring. During this one day in early fall, our seniors engage in any number of community service activities that have been identified in our community. This tradition, which has persisted for the better part of two decades, often leaves our students' hearts filled with love and a hunger to do more, at least that is what we hope.
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National Institute for Early Education Research
The increase in the number of young children attending state pre-K programs, combined with stronger study methods, "provide greater generalizability" regarding the overall impact of public pre-K programs, the researchers say. As states have focused on increasing access, however, it's important that administrators with pre-K programs in their schools also focus on classroom quality.
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Chalkbeat
When Kim Van Duzer, an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn, had a chance to follow her students from third to fourth grade the next school year, she jumped at the opportunity. "It was such a positive experience," she said. "One of the big advantages is starting in September hitting the ground running — you already know the kids and the things they did the previous year and the things they need to work on." Now, a new study seems to confirm Van Duzer’s experience. Students improve more on tests in their second year with the same teacher, it finds, and the benefits are largest for students of color.
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Education Week
U.S. schools have significantly increased security measures and preparation for events like school shootings in the last 20 years, the newest federal data show. Meanwhile, rates of student victimization at school have continued to decline, fewer students have brought weapons to school and fewer students report fear of harm in school, according to a report. Fewer students report having access to an unlocked gun in the most recent data, and contrary to popular perception, rates of violent deaths at school have not trended significantly upward in recent years.
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Newsweek
As funding questions persist and states face the possibility of West Virginia-style teacher strikes, more school districts across the country are asking whether changing to a four-day week could answer a number of their problems — or even prove beneficial to students. A practice traditionally isolated to rural communities, more urban districts are considering the change.
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By: R.V. Scheide (commentary)
 In the wake of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, President Donald Trump has proposed arming teachers in the classroom to deter and defend against such attacks in the future. Trump's proposal was almost instantly panned, and detractors have been quick to point out that nearly three-quarters of the nation's teachers oppose the idea. But Trump isn't proposing arming all the nation's teachers.
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Education Week
It's very unlikely that the flattening of student test scores in states using the Smarter Balanced assessment in 2016-2017 is due to technical problems with the exam, the group's leadership concluded in a new report. In February, Curriculum Matters brought you the details of a debate about the meaning of the largely flat scores on the exam, given that year in 13 states. At the time, some critics questioned whether those results genuinely reflected a stall in student achievement, or whether it pointed to serious issues in the test.
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Chalkbeat
New York City will expand its efforts to diversify its starkly segregated Gifted and Talented programs, education department officials announced. Starting next year, two more gifted programs will join 42 other schools that have already changed their admissions policies in an attempt to enroll a more diverse group of students.
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NAESP
Polls are still open for the 2018 NAESP Vice President Election. 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. Visit naesp.org/2018-naesp-election for more information on how to vote. The election will close on Friday, March 30 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
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NAESP
Are you interested in strengthening your career while preparing a new generation of leaders? NAESP's National Mentor Training and Certification Program offers a highly structured professional development program that can make the critical difference in the sustainability of skilled leaders. NAESP will be hosting an upcoming training in Columbus, Ohio, April 16-17. Click here for more information.
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