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School Leaders Now
Being connected to a network of people is critical to growth and success in all parts of our lives. But how can we help students engage in meaningful connection and build purposeful school relationships? Instead of saying, "What's in it for me?" students should ask, "How can I help and be supportive of other people?" Our elementary school has practiced this in the form of our "Connections" groups for over 10 years. It has truly shaped the way students value all relationships with purpose and meaning.
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Chalkbeat
Being a new teacher is notoriously difficult — and schools often make it even tougher. New research out of Los Angeles finds that teachers in their first few years end up in classrooms with more struggling students and in schools with fewer experienced colleagues, making their introduction to teaching all the more challenging. The differences between the environments of new teachers and their more experienced teachers are generally small, but they appear to matter for both students and teachers.
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Education Week
Alan Krueger, a groundbreaking Princeton University economist, died at age 58. While perhaps best known for his study of minimum wages, Krueger also provided critical empirical research on fundamental and often hotly debated questions about class size, school choice, educational attainment, and resources in schools. "Alan was the rare academic who could do it all: brilliant researcher, great teacher, fantastic adviser and accomplished public servant. His passing is a devastating loss for all of us," said Wolfgang Pesendorfer, the chairman of Princeton's economics department, in a statement.
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School Leaders Now
The only thing teachers dread more than a broken copier is sitting down for three hours on a Sunday night to write pages and pages of detailed lesson plans. Many teachers question who they are writing the lesson plans for. They often see the task as a waste of limited time, which begs the question: Could it be done differently? More efficiently?
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PD Essentials: Reading & Classroom Management
- Reading Fluency by Jan Hasbrouck and Deborah Glaser joins Adria Klein’s books on reading instruction.
- Vicki Gibson’s Classroom Management series also features engaging, full-color formats and proven techniques.
- Train-the-trainer and other types of PD are available with the books and can be customized to meet district needs.
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Education DIVE
School district administrators, teacher educators, foundation officials and nonprofit and corporate leaders gathered at the San Diego Zoo to further their collaborative efforts to prepare more STEM teachers for the nation's classrooms. Participating in the 100Kin10 initiative's annual summit, attendees shared their expertise and held discussions around "grand challenges," such as teacher preparation and supporting teachers at the elementary level in teaching STEM content.
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2 Minute Medicine
Mental health conditions in childhood have the potential to negatively impact healthy development, interfering with a child's ability to achieve social, emotional and cognitive milestones. This has important implications for social determinants of health. As such, there is a continuous need to assess the prevalence and correlates of childhood mental health disorders. In this retrospective cohort study, investigators analyzed data from the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health on 43,283 U.S. children in order to estimate the latest trends in mental health conditions.
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Leadership Freak
"The best managers reinforce how and why each person's contribution is fundamental to the team's success." Gallup. People are energized when their contribution is understood and appreciated.
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The Lead Change Group
No-one doubts that we are faced with increasing complexity and challenges coming at us globally, impacting us professionally, and touching us personally. Examples include climate change, income inequality, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, stress and anxiety and lack of purpose and meaning. The current challenge for leaders is how do they navigate this new landscape they find themselves in it. Whilst many leaders recognize that the current ways of leading business are not sustainable as it focuses on profit and margin rather than the planet and people when under stress they revert to their “normal” behavior. After all, that was the focus of the business which many of today’s leaders were brought up in.
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Entrepreneur
In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Brian Tracy discusses how to let an underperforming employee go. Tracy describes jobs as evolving positions, ones that may require more responsibilities along the way. In this sense, a job that was described one way during the hiring process may expand into new areas; similarly, an employee who seemed promising in the beginning may reveal himself to be different after he has worked at the company some time.
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Fast Company
We all have those co-workers who seem to do nothing but complain, and often, our inclination is to stay as far away from them as possible. As a manager, you probably have no choice but to interact with those constant moaners, but chances are, you still aim to keep your distance to the extent that you can.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Danise DiStasi, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "'I hope you have a good lawyer,' said the CEO as he leaned back in his chair. He was referring to my business tagline, 'Develop Leaders to Develop Leaders Based on the Foundation of LOVE,' and to my newly released book, 'Love Like Louie', for 8-year-olds and up. He meant no malice by that comment. He just didn't know the story of Louie, my rescue pup and how Louie influenced my writing about love."
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Fast Company
There are times that you notice people at work doing things that ought to be fixed. What can you do to make that interaction productive, rather than ruining a work relationship? You might be tempted not to say anything at all–particularly if the consequences don't seem to be dire. If a colleague mispronounces a word, it doesn't seem like that big a deal to point it out. But the consequences of even a small error can be large in some contexts.
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Entrepreneur
The most fulfilling path to success and personal fulfillment comes through the pursuit of your own self-development. The radically successful and happy immerse themselves in self-development and a deep interest in life and relationships. Through self-exploration they remain openly curious and passionate about their self-education and improvement. They hold the belief that they can only learn if they are willing to risk themselves personally and professionally.
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Education Week
After a game-changing election, New Mexico submitted a revamped plan to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act. And now, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her team are reviewing it.
But meanwhile, the state is already taking steps to implement its new ESSA vision, even though it hasn't gotten the federal green light. And that move could put DeVos and her team in a tough spot.
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The 74
Heejae Lim, founder of TalkingPoints, an app that translates text messages from educators into a parent's home language, likes to tell a story of a San Francisco middle school principal. The administrator wanted to connect with the parents of a Spanish-speaking student at risk of failing. He tried visiting the family at home twice, to no avail. He turned to the TalkingPoints app, sending a text message — which was translated into Spanish — and received an instant response, starting a dialogue between school administrators and this family that had never before existed.
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EdScoop
Like many school districts, South Portland Schools in Maine is paying "close attention" to student data privacy, but with that concern comes a broad approach that touches on various parts of the business. "We need to be very intentional with the tools that we use and in what our kids share for data," Andrew Wallace, the director of technology for South Portland Schools, says in a video interview. "We're, like many people, playing really close attention to student data privacy concerns." In South Portland Schools, Wallace says the district is taking a "multi-part approach" that balances activism, advocacy, and education.
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eSchool News
Along with students' increased use of and reliance on technology comes another avenue to detect risks for harmful behavior or violent attacks. School safety management systems can play an integral role in helping administrators stay on top of critical threats. Often, it seems as if just when the nation starts to repair after one school shooting, another occurs. Students fear for their safety or fear copycats during the anniversary of attacks, and they also fear physical attacks or threats because of their race or religion.
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District Administration Magazine
Bethel Middle school in Waynesville, North Carolina, took the bold step last month of banning smartphones in class, from start of day until final bell. Administrators said the devices cause distractions that prevent students from learning. Last September, school districts across Wisconsin also banned cell phones in the classroom in an effort to reduce distractions. Portage High School confiscated more than 200 phones during the past school year, and classroom performance improved, Principal Robin Kvalo says.
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Tech&Learning
Teaching students to recognize both sides of an argument, and/or have structured conversations centered around class content, regularly finds its place in our classrooms. We teach argumentative essay writing, debate protocols, conversational cues (in all languages), etc... These lessons can be completed through traditional classroom strategies, through podcasting ... and perhaps through texting.
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Education World
The positive findings from a new study further muddy the waters when it comes to the benefits of holding a student back in their current grade, but it probably makes one thing more clear: retention is only useful in specific, well-considered circumstances. The study by researchers from Northwestern University and the American Institute of Research tracked English language learners who were retained in third grade at schools in 12 Florida school districts, and found it improved English skills, reduced the time it took to be proficient by half and substantially decreased the chances they needed remedial work.
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EdScoop
Even in today's tech-heavy environment, moving to online assessments is not a given. This was the central message of a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net and led by Glenn Robbins, superintendent of Tabernacle Township School District in New Jersey, and Donna Wright, director of schools for Wilson County Schools in Tennessee.
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Education Week
Parents worry about whether their child is ready for kindergarten. Teachers and school administrators are concerned that too many children are entering school before they are ready. Legislators are investing in early-childhood education to improve children's readiness for school. And, in some places, their performance on kindergarten-readiness tests are even being used to evaluate preschool programs.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 In an EdSurge article, Giancarlo Brotto makes a strong case for why the future of education depends on social-emotional learning, which he sees as a critical indicator to predict college and career readiness. He writes, "social and emotional abilities are said to be indicators of how well a person adjusts to his or her environment, adapts to change and, ultimately, how successful she or he will be in life." Student affect and SEL are important skills and dispositions that schools must find consistent, deliberate ways to assess. As schools think about college and career readiness, they must know that the critical competencies for success are evolving.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Why do we want to make our students into historians? Not because even a fraction of a percent of them might become writers or professors — but because "doing history" teaches life skills hard to learn anywhere else.
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By: Savanna Flakes (commentary)
 It is no secret that our students today have a lot going on inside and outside of school. We are teaching students who are undergoing trauma, stress and anxiety. To support the social and emotional well-being of our students, we have to teach and provide space for them to learn how to self-regulate. Emotional self-regulation is important for helping children manage how they express and experience emotions. Just as we provide students explicit instruction on academic content, we want to provide explicit instruction for social emotional learning.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Amy Schwartzbach-Kang, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "I had always hated math. Now I suddenly found myself teaching trigonometry. I was an English teacher in Chicago Public Schools with certification in special education, and when my school was facing a shortage of certified special education teachers, I was pulled in mid-year to co-teach a junior-level trigonometry class with the math teacher."
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The Atlantic
America has long had a fickle relationship with homework. A century or so ago, progressive reformers argued that it made kids unduly stressed, which later led in some cases to district-level bans on it for all grades under seventh. This anti-homework sentiment faded, though, amid mid-century fears that the U.S. was falling behind the Soviet Union (which led to more homework), only to resurface in the 1960s and ’70s, when a more open culture came to see homework as stifling play and creativity (which led to less).
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MindShift
Many students are not good at evaluating the credibility of what they see and read online according to a now-famous Stanford study that was released just after the 2016 election. And while it's true that 82 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t tell the difference between a native advertisement and a news article, neither could 59 percent of adults in a study conducted by the advertising industry.
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Edutopia
The consequences of implicit bias in schools are both powerful and measurable. A 2017 study by Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, for example, found that "math teachers perceive their classes to be too difficult for Latino and black students, and English teachers perceive their classes to be too difficult for all non-white students." In English, these biases lower the affected students' "expected years of schooling by almost a third of a year.... The effect of being underestimated by math teachers is −0.20 GPA points."
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Education DIVE
Middle school can be a tough transition for many students — classes become more challenging, homework loads increase and students are more accountable for their performance. But things can also get rough outside the classroom, with more insecurity, more demanding social pressures and, oftentimes, more — and more extreme — bullying among students. What all of these factors have in common is their effects on a student's mental health.
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George Mason University via Science Daily
A new study from the George Mason University Arts Research Center and published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts found a link between arts elective courses in music, dance, visual art and drama, and better grades in middle school. The study, led by Adam Winsler, professor of applied developmental psychology, followed a large and diverse sample of preschool children up until they completed sixth, seventh and eighth grade.
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THE Journal
More educators across the world are investing in the emotional well-being of their students as a harbinger of success, according to a new survey commissioned by Microsoft and produced by The Economist's Intelligence Unit. The report surveyed 762 educators across 15 countries at the elementary and secondary school levels.
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Education Week
While students in the nation's classrooms are increasingly more diverse, the educators leading those classrooms and their approach to teaching has not kept pace. A new analysis from New America, a Washington think tank, argues that only three states require teachers to learn how institutional racism and other forms of bias can hinder some students — and only slightly more than half encourage educators to consider how their own biases can affect their work.
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Education Week
The hallways of Fred M. Lynn Middle School in Woodbridge, Va., were not always as lively and colorful as they are today. When Principal Hamish Brewer came to the school in 2017, the walls were bare. Many students and staff didn't particularly like coming to the school. It had lost its accreditation, and was considered one of the most challenged schools in the Prince William County district. But through a series of changes, both physical and philosophical, Brewer and his team have helped turn the school around and get its accreditation back.
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EdSurge
Even in elementary school, Luz Annette got into a lot of fights with other girls. In the hallways, in the cafeteria, in the girls' restroom. Just about every day brought another confrontation. These were not just shouting matches. Luz, who is now in eighth grade, was getting into physical altercations with her classmates. "When you get in an argument, you just straight up go and fight," the 14-year-old says, describing a lesson that was ingrained in her at a young age.
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NAESP
NAESP is gearing up for #APWeek19! As part of our celebration, we're holding a Twitter chat with assistant principals. Join us April 11 at 8 p.m. ET to discuss maximizing the role of APs. Use #NAESPchat and #APWeek19 to take part!
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NAESP
For more than a decade, schools have been implementing multi-tiered systems of support to provide both schoolwide and targeted academic interventions. At its core, MTSS is a data-based decision-making process that allows teachers to efficiently identify struggling students and modify academic instruction to meet their needs.
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