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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
5 steps for building culturally responsive online learning
District Administration Magazine
School leaders who observe and evaluate teachers can play a key role in ensuring online learning remains inclusive of and culturally responsive to diverse learners. That means these leaders need to develop their own skills and beliefs as culturally competent educators, according to a new observation guide, "Culturally Responsive Remote Learning," published by The Leadership Academy.
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How these districts prioritized relationships and social-emotional support during the pandemic
EdSurge
When schools shuttered suddenly more than a year ago, teachers and staff scrambled to recreate their school communities as best they could in a virtual environment. And while teaching and learning is a central component, not to be overlooked are the other, auxiliary experiences: the relationships forged, the support services provided, the social-emotional needs met.
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4 ways to accelerate student learning through this year and beyond
Tech & Learning (commentary)
Matthew Woods, a contributor for Tech & Learning, writes: "As we just marked one year of instruction in the COVID-19 era and educators have now become comfortable teaching in hybrid and remote environments, a new challenge has emerged. Both my colleagues at my school system — where I serve as the Director of Student Support Services — and guests on my podcast, have expressed concern over how to accelerate student learning to prevent learning loss."
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How pool testing can speed up reopening schools
District Administration Magazine
Pool testing, in which even elementary school students can swab themselves for COVID, could be a key to restoring confidence around reopening schools. Over the last several weeks, about 450 Massachusetts schools, serving more than 160,000 students, have begun pool testing. The process should take only about 10 minutes per classroom at the beginning of the school day, with the students’ samples tested in batches of 10, says Bill Jacobson, head of pool testing at CIC Health, which is facilitating the state-supported initiative.
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Almost everyone is concerned about K-12 students' academic progress
The Brookings Institution
Concern about our nation's children is currently at the center of intense public debate. While the pandemic caused virtually all schools nationwide to close by April 2020 — keeping almost all K-12 students home for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year — children's mode of learning (fully in-person, fully remote, or a hybrid mix of the two) in 2020-2021 has been
highly variable.
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6 strategies to help you focus better
MindShift
Getting and staying focused can be a challenge in the best of times. But with everything going on in the world, concentrating can often feel down-right impossible. Testament to that challenge is the burgeoning self-help industry bursting with books, blogs, videos and TED Talks on the topic. There's even a site called Caveday where the focus-challenged gather together on Zoom — computer cameras switched on for accountability, all other technology put away — for deep-focus work sessions.
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How leaders can set effective working habits for their teams
Forbes
Can it really be spring already? Some of us may have hoped for a better start to the year after stumbling from one lockdown into the next in 2020, but we're all finding ways to make the best of the situation and be as productive as possible whilst setting realistic goals for ourselves. Speaking of goals, now is as good a time as ever to reflect on the challenges you set yourself for the year and take stock of your progress.
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7 strategies to build collaborative relationships
The Lead Change Group
Perhaps, one of the positive outcomes of this pandemic has been the fact that many more organizations have begun to realize that effective collaboration is imperative for long-term success. In a crisis situation, it becomes even more important that organizations pull together experts with unique, cross-functional perspectives to solve rapidly changing, complex problems that have long-term implications. The diversity of experience allows a group to see risks and opportunities from different angles so that it can generate new solutions and adapt dynamically to changing situations.
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How to change your mindset so you don't get stuck
Fast Company
Being stuck is metaphorical. It's a mental construct. Of the reactions one can have to something negative — fight, flight or freeze — being stuck falls into the "freeze" camp. But unless you find yourself superglued to your chair or sinking in a pile of quicksand, you aren't actually stuck.
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Be more realistic about the time you have
Harvard Business Review
We are master storytellers. We tell ourselves fanciful stories to motivate ourselves to get vast amounts of work done in small amounts of time. We jot down task after task after task, sure that we can complete them all within a standard workday. And yet, at the end of the day, we're stunned to find that work remains unfinished and we have to dash to the finish line.
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6 leadership communication practices for great leaders
Training Industry Magazine
Leadership sometimes seems like a shape-shifting concept that lives just beyond our grasp. We know that effective leadership is important, but there is little agreement on exactly why, or what, great leadership looks like in action. If you read multiple articles about leadership, you likely will come away with a jumble of lists of key qualities. This confusion should not be surprising, considering that leadership is exercised through communication — and everybody communicates in unique ways.
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How to rethink your purpose after COVID-19
Fast Company
If you're feeling stressed-out as a leader, you're not alone. Even the most seasoned business leaders are finding that their training and experience haven't prepared them for the scale and speed of the challenges that have emerged in the last year.
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Infographic: How AI will lead to better hiring and more diversity
By Brian Wallace
By now, we have all heard about how important diversity is for business. The question is: how do we get there? Many of us don't realize it, but the way that companies typically hire has a level of unseen, unconscious bias. Recruiters and hiring managers alike make decisions based on a candidate's name, profile picture, even their address. How can we hire from a more diverse base of candidates with all of this bias in the way? The answer is artificial intelligence. Check out how hiring through AI leads to better diversity decision-making in this visual deep dive.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Here's a state-by-state breakdown of education stimulus funds
District Administration Magazine
The U.S. Education Department will be making nearly $122 billion in ESSER funds allocated as part of the American Rescue Plan Act available to state educational agencies this month according to a letter from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.
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As you plan for 2021-22, learn how social-emotional behavior data can provide insights into the effectiveness of your SEL programs and how to align resources for the coming year to build on student strengths, support teachers, and address student needs most effectively. Watch now.
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Education secretaries share advice on school pandemic recovery efforts
K-12 DIVE
Schools need to be innovative and inclusive when planning comprehensive programs as students return to full-time in-person learning, advised U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and two former education secretaries — John King Jr. and Arne Duncan, who both served under the Obama administration — during a virtual education summit hosted by the CAA Foundation.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Hybrid helpers: School districts successfully navigate the new normal
EdTech Magazine
After nearly a full year of remote learning, the Los Gatos Union School District in California reopened its schools in February with a hybrid learning model: Half the students attend school for in-class instruction, while the other half join live through videoconferencing, allowing teachers to teach both groups simultaneously. To ensure safe social distancing, each cohort attends class in person on alternate days. But to make it work, the K–8 district invested in new classroom technology that includes a webcam, a 70-inch TV, and a wireless microphone and speaker system, so everyone can see and hear each other.
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5 tips for school leaders thinking about working with foreign companies
District Administration Magazine
Prior to the pandemic, U.S. school districts were spending about $8.4 billion a year in ed tech software alone and with the pandemic that number is skyrocketing. This makes the U.S. market especially attractive to foreign ed tech companies. If you're a school administrator in the U.S., you've probably been approached by some foreign companies. When deciding whether to do business with them or not, the first step is to make sure they've done their homework. Not all foreign Ed-Tech companies are up to the challenge of competing in the U.S. market. It's important to make sure the company understands what your district needs — and that they have the ability to meet those needs.
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AI-powered content filtering adds new protection powers
EdTech Magazine
Schools are responsible for protecting students from harmful internet content, which requires K–12 IT teams to figure out how to keep the bad out and let through only material that is safe and educational. But past efforts have often fallen short. The internet is constantly evolving and adding content, and students are notoriously ingenious at subverting content filtering measures.
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Best pear deck tips and tricks for teaching
Tech & Learning
The best Pear Deck tips and tricks for teaching can help you engage students better while potentially also saving you instruction time. Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on that offers templates and third-party examples to create presentations that are lively and engaging. It's worth mentioning that Pear Deck also works as an add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. So whichever platform your school uses, adding Pear Deck is easy.
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5 ways ed tech builds cross-curricular connections to STEM content
eSchool News
Cross-curricular connections throughout different subject and content areas help to make lessons more meaningful and relevant for students. Thoughtfully-crafted STEM lessons that leverage technology-rich resources similar to what your students are using outside the classroom are great ways to engage students in interdisciplinary instruction.
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Using online whiteboards to boost student engagement and confidence in math
Edutopia
Imagine if you could ask a question in class and immediately get a response from every student. Understanding what students are thinking is one of the greatest challenges for experienced math teachers. In this article, we discuss ways that we can better grasp a student's thought process in math class by using online whiteboards — web-based tools that enable students to write or type content that teachers can instantly see and share.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Using comics across the curriculum
eSchool News
Comics are a fantastic tool for inspiring student engagement, leveling the playing field so students can demonstrate their learning even if they aren't great writers, and scaffolding intimidating projects. While it might be easier to see how comics would fit into an English language arts class, there's no great trick to incorporating them across the curriculum.
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A teacher's guide to copyright and fair use
Edutopia
While some school districts have resources and policies to help teachers navigate the tricky waters of copyright and fair use, many teachers are under the impression that because they're educators, they have blanket protections.
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8 instructional strategies for promoting critical thinking
Education Week
There is so much going on right now and there is an overload of information for us to process. Did you ever stop to think how our students are processing current events? They see news feeds, hear news reports, and scan photos and posts, but are they truly thinking about what they are hearing and seeing?
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Children will need summer tutors to make up for pandemic learning loss
The Hechinger Report
Summer school is a hot topic right now, for good reason. We know that remote instruction and disrupted hybrid learning during the pandemic have led to enormous learning loss, particularly for low-income students and students with learning disabilities and differences. Last year, 28% of kindergarten students were "well below benchmark" (the lowest category) in early literacy skills.
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Building critical thinking skills online
eSchool News
As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and how teachers can implement them in the classroom — especially now that schools are forced to provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Facilitating deep learning with group work
Edutopia
Small groups are integral in facilitating connections, building community, discussing difficult topics, and analyzing subject-specific content through a thoughtful and culturally responsive lens. Collaborative small group work is a strong teaching practice to use in-person or virtually. Whether in person or online, teachers can foster strong social connections and deep learning effectively using small groups.
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Curiosity, collaboration and connectedness during a pandemic
eSchool News
Real-time polling, original instructional videos, virtual conferences, and live on-screen annotation are just a few new skills teacher Jonathan Delgado is adding to his teaching toolkit this school year. When Delgado begins his high school Spanish class at The Village School each day, he's learning to manage many new things simultaneously in this year's hybrid learning environment. With some students on campus and others at home, his classroom looks a lot different.
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Students with limited verbal capabilities can thrive in inclusive classrooms
Edutopia (commentary)
Tim Villegas, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "My first exposure to a student who used augmentative and alternative communication was when I taught in a self-contained disability-specific special education classroom. The student, Ringo, had a device like a small laptop that he used to type words and sentences, which were spoken aloud by the device. When Ringo received the device, I didn't get much training other than a few consultations with the speech and language pathologist and a pat on the back for good luck."
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
How teens adapted and changed during the pandemic
PBS Newshour
From gaining a better understanding of themselves and learning lifelong lessons to struggling with their mental health and education, teens are creating a new normal as they attend online school and grow accustomed to a pandemic that has forced them to see more of family and less of friends and teachers.
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The big heart approach to ADHD acceptance and self-love
ADDitude Magazine
"Children with ADHD grow up thinking or being told they are 'too much,' annoying, lazy, unmotivated, not living up to their potential, difficult, frustrating or strange. These labels and interactions with others become the basis for identity and sense of self for an adult with ADHD."
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.IN THE STATES
Chicago Public Schools to invest $24 million in student trauma and mental health programs
Chalkbeat
At North-Grand High School in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood, a team of school counselors, case managers and a social worker make up the behavioral health team charged with supporting students with low attendance, discipline issues or trouble at home. In a couple of years, every Chicago school could have a team just like it. That's the goal of a new district initiative to train school staff in trauma-informed student support practices.
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New Jersey schools will get $636 million to combat learning loss. How should they spend it?
Chalkbeat
As the federal government pumps billions of additional dollars into New Jersey schools, a whopping $636 million is aimed at reversing student learning loss — a huge sum for what many fear is a huge problem. New Jersey doesn't have the data to know how much students' academic progress slowed over the past year of pandemic-disrupted learning, but national test data showed that most students started the school year behind in math and reading.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Leading for Literacy: Promoting Meaning-level Literacy Skills in Early Elementary School
NAESP
Join Jess Surles, M.Ed., and Lauren Artzi, Ph.D. as they present the sixth session in the NAESP-Lead for Literacy Center series. This session is focused on promoting children’s language and meaning-level literacy skills in early elementary school. For successful reading, a child needs to have skills that allow them to decode the words (code-based skills) and skills that allow them to understand and comprehend the text and understand what the words mean (meaning-level skills).
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10 Reasons Principals Love Leading in the Middle Level
NAESP
"I could never do that! Seriously, you are a principal of a ... middle school?" Yes, we have heard it—multiple times—from parents, students, and our fellow principals. Leading in the middle years takes a very special person. Here are 10 reasons why.
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