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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
We need support and empathy to prevent teacher burnout
eSchool News
Teachers are not robots – they, too, are human beings with feelings, fears, insecurities and lives. A teacher’s day is beyond classroom hours, and at the same time, teachers have to take care of themselves. When teachers don’t do this, they experience teacher burnout.
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3 school years into COVID, are students gaining ground or still sliding?
District Administration Magazine
Though many schools have resumed in-person instruction during most of 2021-22, one set of widely used assessments shows students are still falling behind. Put simply, student performance in year two of the pandemic has been lower than during the first year, according to “How Kids Are Performing,” the latest report from testing company Renaissance.
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Students' career interests are changing. Here is why our teaching must change, too
EdSurge
Our students’ personal interests and goals are changing and quite frankly, our education system has failed to keep up with this amorphous landscape where becoming an influencer on various social media platforms is a viable career option. Career pathways in social media management have increased drastically as companies work to expand access to their desired audiences.
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Temper tantrums, tears, and trauma: The challenges facing children during COVID
New America
One of the latest trends on social media captures life before and after the pandemic in early elementary classrooms. Most of the videos start the same. Classrooms filled with children, dancing, drawing, and playing together. The videos then dramatically cut to early elementary classrooms now. Papers and colored pencils are strewn across the floor. Desks are knocked over. Children are distanced and often play independently rather than together. Although the endings differ, the message is clear: children are showcasing more behaviors that teachers find challenging than ever before.
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Does your state have enough school psychologists and counselors?
Education Week
School psychologists and counselors are crucial to supporting the mental health and well-being of students in school. This is especially true as kids’ mental health needs continue to rise and survey data show that students are asking for more school-based mental health services.
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Standardized tests in their current format are 'incredibly antiquated'
Hechinger Report
Over the past two years — when almost all state standardized tests were suspended — periodic assessments provided educators with some data to understand what kids learned — or didn’t. This month, as many states resume their regular standardized testing schedule, experts on both sides of the debate say now is the moment to reconsider how tests are developed and what we test for.
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Let's make COVID the catalyst for closing long-standing achievement gaps
District Administration Magazine
While COVID’s impact on student learning is real, the truth is that learning gaps have always existed between students living in poverty and their peers from more affluent households. The pandemic has exacerbated long-standing achievement gaps among students facing different economic circumstances, and it’s finally time to address these gaps.
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How can equity be prioritized in early ed quality metrics?
K-12 Dive
Early childhood educators and policymakers should take a broad, holistic and equity-focused approach when measuring the quality of programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers and early elementary school students, according to a new guide from Trust for Learning, a philanthropic partnership that provides resources to promote ideal learning programs.
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Tutors take center stage as students try to make up pandemic losses
NBC
As schools across the nation face an acute shortage of teachers and other staff and as the remaining educators find themselves strained, demand for and interest in tutoring have increased with school districts and parents alike grappling with how best to serve the many students believed to have fallen behind academically because of the pandemic.
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How to focus on classroom accessibility
eSchool News
Classroom accessibility is paramount — here's how you can evaluate your district practices and establish classrooms that are accessible for all students
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Tracking threats: Violent social media posts close almost one school per day
District Administration Magazine
Students are increasingly using the speed and seeming anonymity of the internet to post threats of violence against their schools and classmates. The extremity of some of these messages is forcing administrators to close schools or entire districts, impose frightening lockdowns, or evacuate buildings while police investigate. And this is now happening almost every day somewhere in the U.S. as the threats cut across districts of all sizes and demographic makeup.
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Creating a supportive SEL forum for English learner lesson contributions
Language Magazine
Despite the decided merits of devoting class time to activities with a focus on personal growth and positive relationship-building, English learners all too often remain on the sidelines. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning acknowledges the importance of considering students’ cultural and ethnic backgrounds and stresses that more research needs to be conducted to determine modifications that can make SEL lessons more accessible and impactful for different populations.
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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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.EDUCATION POLICY
With thousands of kids secluded & restrained, Congress again tries to ban practices
The National Desk
According to the Department of Education, more than 100,000 students in a single school year were subjected to a set of controversial practices known as seclusion and restraint, where children are isolated in special rooms or tied down in certain scenarios. With calls to ban the practices growing louder, Congress is again trying to pass legislation it says will protect students, specifically those with disabilities who are disproportionately impacted.
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Biden proposes 15.6% increase for education spending in FY23
K-12 Dive
The proposed budget includes increased allocations for high-poverty schools with $36.5 billion for Title I and addressing the needs of students with disabilities in pre-K-12 with spending at $16.3 billion. Additionally, the White House recommends dedicating $1 billion for increasing the number of counselors, nurses, school psychologists, social workers and other health professionals in schools.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Why evidence-based solutions are critical for edtech buying
eSchool News
When it comes to early childhood STEM resources, evidence of efficacy is more than just a stamp of approval. Evidence gives confidence that those products will lead to the buzzing environments we want for our youngest students, full of playful learning, collaboration, and the kinds of concrete engagement that come with hands-on manipulatives.
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The promises and perils of new technologies to improve education and employment opportunities
Brookings Instititue
The rapid expansion of new technologies within the education sector in most countries has contributed to the proliferation of alternative models of education, learning, and skill signaling in global labor markets. From digital badges to bootcamps to learning and employment records, a wide range of public, private, and nonprofit initiatives and platforms have emerged to address the ongoing demand for education and new skills among employers and workers alike.
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Should schools invest in the metaverse?
K-12 Dive
Pondering the potential of the metaverse in educational spaces, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, imagines infinite possibilities for learning opportunities.
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Teaching with word games beyond Wordle
Tech & Learning
Instead of, or in addition to, Wordle, Duke recommends incorporating games that have been researched and shown to be effective in teaching children. She’s on the advisory board for PBSkids.org and says that site can be a good place to start. “The PBSkids.org games are developed in consultation with researchers and they are generally well-aligned with things we know about supporting children's development,” she says.
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3 ways podcasting can strengthen core academic skills
K-12 Dive
Through podcasts, students can develop skills from in-depth research and narrative building to technical know-how and project planning, experts suggest. And while these skills can help students in their academic pursuits, they can continue to serve learners when they graduate, grow up and enter the working world.
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How to encourage physical computing in elementary school
Edutopia
Elementary teachers no longer have to fear the code. Each year, platforms are created for younger students to understand basic computational thinking concepts in easier ways. Block code is visual instruction (converted text-based code) that uses a drag-and-drop interface for code. With an entry-level activity, students can learn strategies prior to handling text-based code. An easy way to include basic coding, especially for teachers new to code, is to create literacy storytelling.
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Meet buddy, the AI robot helping to teach students
Tech & Learning
Buddy is an artificially intelligent robot that is being shown off at Bett 2022 as a way to help teach students. The smart robot is built to help communicate emotionally with children for connected learning engagement.
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How to prepare K-12 students for online testing
EdTech Magazine
Studies have found that students generally perform poorly on online assessments compared with written exams. Additionally, critics have voiced concerns about digital equity, a sentiment supported by research that shows that students from low-income families, English language learners and students with disabilities perform considerably worse on online tests.
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How to build relationships with students using instructional audio
eSchool News
Access to intelligible, clear audio has never been more important.
However, while instructional audio solutions gained traction in the pandemic, there's so much more to instructional audio than just projecting an educator's voice. Instructional audio benefits all students — students with learning loss, students in the back of classrooms, non-native English speakers, and others.
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To improve ed tech, focus on feedback
District Administration Magazine
One of the most common complaints about ed tech – especially in subjects like math, where pencil and paper still dominate – is that it lacks the rich, in-depth interactive quality of one-on-one teaching. Without the constant feedback provided by the best teachers and tutors, students get lost, lose interest, or spin their wheels in frustration.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Allowing preschool students to guide instruction
Edutopia
Teachers are right on point when they want children to do deeper learning and have meaningful experiences. These lessons tap into intrinsic motivation where one does an activity based on an internal satisfaction or extrinsic motivation where one works hard to gain something. But how do you make things meaningful for children? First, we must look at what the word meaningful means.
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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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Study highlights need to address race and racism in teacher education programs
Phys
Teacher education programs that evade discussions of race and racism often leave teacher educators of color to bear the brunt of educating students about these matters, reports a new paper published in AERA Open. Most individuals in a study of teacher educators of color were hired specifically to teach race and racism within programs that, nonetheless, prioritized whiteness and the needs of white student teachers in their curricula.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Technology quality affects online learning
EdTech Magazine
While previous reports found that remote learning resulted in learning disruptions in K–12, it turns out that the quality of technology students have access to plays a significant role in online learning outcomes. This is according to a NewSchools Venture Fund/Gallup study that surveyed teachers, parents and students in grades 3 through 12 in 2020.
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There's a big advantage to playing Wordle in other languages
Slate Magazine
For language learners, linguistic nerds, and polyglots everywhere, the emergence of multilingual Wordles is a delight. But it’s more than that—it’s useful. Ohioan Betsy Ramsey plays the English and Spanish versions. Alongside the free Spanish classes she takes online, she plays Wordle ES as a kind of supplemental “extra credit,” thinking of it as a chance to reinforce vocabulary and look up unfamiliar words.
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.IN THE STATES
Sending disabled students out of state gains Washington lawmakers' attention
Crosscut
Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, the state Senate deputy majority leader, says that after reading an InvestigateWest article last month, she’s requesting a session with multiple Senate committee chairs this summer to discuss the issue. The article revealed how schools in Washington sent 80 students away from Washington in the 2020-21 school year, costing nearly $13 million.
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Friends With Paws placing therapy dogs in some West Virginia schools
Associated Press
Friends With Paws will be a partnership between the governor’s office, West Virginia Communities in Schools Nonprofit and the state Department of Education.
The dogs will be placed in schools in counties where students are disproportionately affected by poverty, substance misuse or other at-risk situations, Gov. Jim Justice’s office said.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Nurturing Our Emotional, Mental, and Physical Well-Being
NAESP
Self-care can be a frequently overlooked aspect of leadership, especially for women. Jessica Gomez and Andrea Thompson, fellows at the NAESP Center for Women in Leadership, sit down with Principal Sarah Harrington to discuss.
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Promoting Purposeful Play
NAESP
“Let them play!” This phrase has been heard in school communities across the country as more early childhood and elementary administrators find themselves advocating for the needs of their students every day. And coming out of a pandemic—or maybe still knee-deep in one—it appears that students’ social-emotional needs have taken precedence over academic concerns.
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