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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Why most teachers who say they plan to leave the profession probably won't do so anytime soon
The 74
Every spring, school and district leaders ask teachers about their plans to return to teaching in the fall. They need to know how many teachers to begin recruiting for the next school year.
These career conversations are currently taking place under the unprecedented circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Stories from across the country show high levels of teacher stress and burnout from repeated and long-term disruptions to school routines.
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Cyber bullying: What to look for and how to stop it
Government Technology
Most students report having been cyber bullied, but some schools have been able to reduce incidents by hiring additional counselors and creating online portals to report bullying and putting links to them everywhere.
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Has the federal government underestimated the progress of high school students for decades?
Chalkbeat
The NAEP scores are widely reported on, including by Chalkbeat, and touted by policymakers. The exams are sometimes referred to as the “gold standard” of student assessments, and for good reason: There are no other national tests that so carefully track the progress of American students.
But there’s no indication that officials are addressing a long-standing challenge that could be skewing our understanding of high school scores.
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How human connection calms teacher burnout
eSchool News
The power of human connection is a transformative element that is deeply wired into our collective DNA. With so many teachers experiencing burnout, I can’t help but recognize a strong link between human connection and the challenges facing teachers today.
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SEL builds foundations for boosting shy students' confidence
K-12 Dive
Helping students find their voice can start by establishing a supportive and encouraging classroom at the start of the school year. Social-emotional learning tools help foster that environment by seeding students with skills to help them develop empathy and motivate them to work collaboratively with each other.
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Why free lunch may no longer be the best way to measure student need
District Administration Magazine
Free- and reduced-price lunch, used for decades to set school funding levels and track other accountability measures, may no longer serve as an accurate proxy for student poverty.
Free-lunch rates fail to reveal the deeper nuances of students’ experiences in and outside school, which means education leaders and policymakers must look to other sources to identify the students who most need broader supports, according to the Data Quality Campaign’s new “Toward a Better Measure” report.
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Why we need to talk about teacher trauma
EdSurge
Educators and school-based staff are often so focused on student and family needs that it comes at the expense of neglecting their own, and schools are not set up to prioritize the health and well-being of teachers and staff while students and families are struggling.
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Why two educators say elevating student voice is key to building back better
District Administration Magazine
Student voice was surging in importance pre-COVID among K-12 educators seeking new ways to engage learners in the curriculum and build more authentic relationships with young people. Now, in a growing number of districts, teachers and administrators are elevating student voice as a key step in bouncing back from COVID.
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The stress of learning a new language
Psychology Today
Language learning anxiety, or the stress that accompanies language learning in the classroom, is well-established in the literature, along with the effect this stress has on academic performance. Therefore, English language learners may be at an increased risk of higher stress than the average student.
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Strategies for managing challenging student behaviors
Edutopia
In the best of times, disruptive student behaviors are challenging to effectively act on. And now, this is compounded by our current reality: a traumatic time — during which many of us are just trying to hang on and stay in the profession — that has reduced our patience, taxed our energy, and increased our reactivity.
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CDC data highlights COVID-19's toll on student mental health
K-12 Dive
More than a third of high school students reported experiencing poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 44% saying they persistently felt sad or hopeless in the past year, according to the first nationally representative survey of high school students during the pandemic, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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New nationwide call to action aims to help solve teacher shortages
District Administration Magazine
Teacher shortages continue to place as much pressure on K-12 leaders as any of the other large and complicated challenges of the pandemic. In several big California districts, for example, 10% of classroom positions were empty, forcing leaders to hire more teachers with incomplete credentials, a recent survey found.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Biden budget calls for increase in special education spending
Disability Scoop
Just two weeks after signing a government spending bill featuring more money for special education, President Joe Biden is seeking another big boost in funding for students with disabilities. The budget request includes $16.3 billion for special education and related services for students with disabilities in pre-K through 12th grade.
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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.
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New Title IX rules set to assert rights of transgender students
Washington Post
The regulations would rewrite, for the third time in three administrations, complex rules for universities and K-12 schools in adjudicating allegations of sexual harassment and assault. The Trump administration’s version included more due process rights for the accused, and the new version is expected to be friendlier to those leveling the accusations.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Teachers want a say in the ed-tech adoption process
Government Technology
Educators involved in ed-tech adoption decisions are most likely to strongly agree their school districts have “a sufficient range of tools” to support classroom instruction and learning, according to a recent report from the digital learning company Clever.
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Cellphones in schools: A huge nuisance and a powerful teaching tool
Education Week
Educators have struggled with whether to ban phones, let kids use them for classwork, or some combination of the two for more than a decade. But the need to figure out how to use cellphones for learning, rather than letting them become a distraction, has gotten more urgent since kids returned from pandemic-driven virtual learning, experts and educators say.
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How to incorporate asynchronous learning in K-12 districts
EdTech Magazine
Asynchronous learning, an educational model in which students learn on their own schedule, is exploding in popularity in K–12 schools. As the number of devices and familiarity with online learning increase, districts are finding students prefer a more flexible schedule.
There are many ways districts can approach this trending educational model, including flipped classrooms, virtual-only schools and through variations of blended learning, project-based learning and more.
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NACAC plans new digital resources for school counselors
Goverment Technology
According to data from the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), public school counselors across the board feel “stretched thin” in their jobs, with many only able to devote 19 percent of their time to one-on-one college advising. To help, the NACAC announced a partnership last week with the College Guidance Network (CGN) to provide school counselors with access to new digital resources featuring content for students navigating the college application process.
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Using Wordle in the math classroom
Edutopia
While its connection to spelling is clear, the popular online game can also teach students lessons about math concepts such as probability.
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Move over metaverse, eduverse is the future for education
Marketscale
Education is arguably the most unified industry out there since all educators have the same goal, which is the desire to impact the next generation. Unlike others, they’re not looking for fame, money or notoriety, and Vriti Saraf, CEO and founder of k20 Educators (k20), wants to empower educators around the world by breaking down common barriers. Saraf joined co-host of Voices of E-Learning, Leena Marie Saleh, to discuss how k20 is working to connect those in education.
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Why Surface SE laptops are gaining new attention at K-12 schools
EdScoop
Schools are discovering that while Chrome devices have offered great economy, older devices cannot receive updates indefinitely; and many lack some of the built-in security and centrally managed features available on Microsoft’s Surface SE laptops designed expressly for education, notes Comer.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Is your professional development missing this key element?
eSchool News
The importance of professional development in education cannot be overstated. In fact, according to research, when teachers receive well-designed professional development, an average of 49 hours spread over six to 12 months, they can increase student achievement by as much as 21 percentile points.
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Proper implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
NEA
NEA supports the use of best practices and evidence-based inclusion strategies for every student with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. NEA believes that educators are in the best position to know and understand positive inclusion practices and are the best advocates for students in need of additional supports.
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4 ways new teachers can make the most out of having a mentor
Edutopia
First-year teachers who are matched with teacher-mentors can expect a positive partnership that spans their inaugural professional year, at least. Mentors are trained for their roles as skilled guides, and they commit to working alongside novice teachers in various ways. Just as mentors agree to dedicate themselves to the professional partnership, so should mentees consent to the mentor’s expectations.
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Using courage, compassion, and connection to combat disconnection
Faculty Focus
To best engage students, prominent research on general human connection and communication was consulted. The work of leading researcher, professor, and author Brené Brown emerged as being premier research on human connection. Specifically, through her research on empathy, effective communication strategies emerge that can be used to foster enhanced online engagement with students while defusing perceived stressors from the pandemic.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Math anxiety weakens how students study. Here's what teachers can do
Education Week
Math anxiety doesn’t just make students choke on tests. It changes their approach to learning the subject in ways that sets them up for ongoing failure.
A new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests math-anxious students choose less-effective ways to study, like rereading textbooks instead of working through real problems. This, in turn, can make them less prepared for exams and heighten the risk students will also “freeze” on the math test itself.
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Report suggests 'invisible tax' levied against Black male educators
K-12 Dive
The DonorsChoose report found that, compared to their counterparts, Black male educators spend more hours counseling students outside of regular class time: While Black male teachers spend an average of 5.4 hours on this per week, White male educators spend 2.5 hours.
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.IN THE STATES
States call in the national guard to mitigate school staffing shortages
PBS Newshour
For two years, the pandemic has hammered schools and accentuated the staffing shortages they are facing. It's led to enormous problems with teacher morale, burnout, school closures and learning losses. But some states are using the National Guard to fill in the gaps. Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, which represents 3 million educators, joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.
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Colorado charter schools seek more authority over special education
Chalkbeat
Colorado charter schools serve far fewer students with disabilities than district-run schools do. The gap means those students don’t have access to the same educational opportunities as their peers, and school districts end up serving a larger share of students who require expensive services.
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NYC Board of Ed to pay teachers hundreds of millions in damages for biased licensing exam
K-12 Dive
The New York City Board of Education will end appeals in Gulino v. Board of Education, a long-standing case brought against the district and the New York State Education Department by four teachers of color in 1996 on the grounds a test required for obtaining a permanent teaching certificate disparately impacted African American and Latino teachers.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
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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How APs Impact Equity
NAESP
Assistant principals can play a critical role in advancing racial and gender equity in schools, says “The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership,” the research review commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and published last year by Vanderbilt University/Mathematica.
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