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THE Journal
Adequate funding is the top concern for a majority of principals, according to a new survey from MCH Strategic Data. More than half of those surveyed, 52 percent, cited adequate funding as a major concern, 14 points more than the second-most-commonly-cited concern, teacher morale. Attendance, aligning assessments to standards and behavior issues rounded out the top 5 at 33 percent, 32 percent and 31 percent, respectively.
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HR DIVE
Businesses today face a unique challenge: hiring and managing a multigenerational workforce. Engaging employees at various stages of their career can be difficult, and generational differences can make it even more challenging. What is the value of engagement? Engagement translates into more than happy employees. Employees who are not engaged are costly: one study estimates that one-third of American employees as disengaged from their work at a cost to employers of $450 to $550 billion dollars per year.
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Inc. (commentary)
Marcel Schwantes, a contributor for Inc., writes: "If you keep up with my column, you know that I've covered the topic of bad bosses' impact on organizations for years. Most of what I've found and documented centers around toxic management traits that disengage employees and sends them packing for the competition."
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Harvard Business Review
Employees take leaves of absence for all sorts of reasons, from dealing with a cancer diagnosis to caring for a sick child. In one survey, 13 percent of U.S. employees reported taking time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act in the past 12 months. When the employee comes back to the office, of course, there is often a sense of relief, both because your colleague has returned from a difficult time and because the extra work absorbed by coworkers can now be handed back. But leaders sometimes forget that there are many steps that must occur before employees can return to full capacity. Here are some specific actions that will help ensure a smooth transition for your employee and you.
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School Leaders Now
A day in the life of a principal is more than meetings and paperwork. In this job, you are a peacemaker, an accountant, an occasional substitute teacher and a juggler. Share this with the next person who thinks your job is a piece of cake.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 It's a common scenario, unfortunately. One of the best members of your team suffers the loss of a spouse, parent, sibling or child. Corporations, of course, allow for some bereavement time, but the grief process can last on average between six months and a year. How do you handle it if this employee breaks down in tears in a meeting? What if his work is temporarily not up to par? How can you best encourage your staff to show compassion and support for her at this time?
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eSchool News
Almost everyone of us has someone we work with who is "above us" on the hierarchy. A principal, a manager, a department chair, a director, an assistant superintendent, the boss. These people work with us, but also have the role of providing supervision or holding us accountable for our progress. So we are in some ways, at some times, intimidated by them.
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Leadership Freak
Teams and organizations move in the direction of the words they use. The most important thing I can say about your tongue is it's a rudder.
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The Lead Change Group
What attracts top talent? This question spawned the original research behind the book "Talent Magnet." That research gained insight from more than 7,000 people, collected through various methods across the U.S. We knew, if we could look at the world of work from the perspective of top talent, we could attract more of them. Our research revealed three necessary ingredients* to make your organization an employer of choice for top talent. One of them is bigger vision. Find a top performer, and you will find a person who wants to be a part of something great. If you expect to attract the brightest and best, you are going to need a bigger vision.
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Forbes (commentary)
Mark Murphy, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "The only funny thing about chronically late employees is the excuses they sometimes give. 'I was here on time but I fell asleep in the parking lot' and 'My cat got stuck in the toilet' are two I've heard that are chuckle-worthy, as long as you're not the one on the receiving end of those absurd excuses. Expecting employees to come to work, on time, as scheduled, shouldn't be a reach, but sadly, it's a common problem. Coaching the chronically late to get to work on time isn't easy, which is why I advise managers to bypass the issue by hiring people who are punctual, reliable and dependable."
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Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act becomes a working reality in district central offices and schools this fall. But it's unclear if the law, which passed in a haze of rare bipartisanship more than two years ago, will live up to its promise. ESSA allows states — rather than the federal government — to ride herd on accountability, school improvement, and teacher quality, while requiring them to maintain key protections for vulnerable groups of students, such as minorities, English learners and those with disabilities.
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CNN
A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that black students are still disciplined at school disproportionately, compared to their peers. The report provides the first national analysis of disparities in school discipline since the Obama administration issued guidance in 2014 urging schools to examine their disciplinary practices and move away from those that disproportionately impacted minority students.
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Disability Scoop
Since January 2016, Marcie Lipsitt has filed 2,400 complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over web accessibility for people with disabilities.Lipsitt, a Michigan-based special education activist, estimates that a thousand of those complaints have ended in resolutions. However, last month she began receiving letters notifying her that dozens of her complaints under investigation had been dismissed.
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USA Today
Google is giving out free Wi-Fi and Chromebooks to rural school districts in a dozen states to transform school buses into rolling classrooms. Google officials announced the expansion of their "Rolling Study Halls" program at a school district on the plains east of Denver. Officials say the move will help reclaim 1.5 million hours of time the thousands of students would otherwise be spending just sitting on buses riding to and from school.
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EdScoop
The Consortium for School Networking has decided to resurrect the K-12 edition of the Horizon Report after the organization that published it folded about three months ago. CoSN, the association for school technology leaders, announced a new publication series called Driving K-12 Innovation, meant to replace and iterate on the Horizon Reports, which helped edtech specialists navigate crucial developments in the industry. The nonprofit New Media Consortium — which published yearly editions of the Horizon Report for K-12 and higher education — abruptly went bankrupt in December.
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EdTech Magazine
Like many school districts across the country, Warren County Public Schools in Front Royal, Virginia, regards the safety of its students and staff as a top priority. Located an hour west of Washington, D.C., WCPS has 430 security cameras keeping a close watch on nine schools with about 5,000 students and 800 employees. The district's surveillance system not only allows school resource officers and administrators to monitor school grounds in real time, it also allows them to identify those involved in incidents after the fact, says Technology Director Timothy Grant.
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Edutopia
Research shows that reading for pleasure leads to success in school, the workplace and life. It helps students empathize with their peers and reduces their stress levels. Unfortunately, as children age, they read less. Parents and teachers report that kids read much less in middle and high school than they did in elementary school.
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Education Week
Compare and contrast these two assignments. Both target a math standard on seeing structure in an expression and being able to represent that expression in different ways. Which do you suppose is more common in middle school math in the United States?
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Edutopia
It's a busy morning in Ms. B's kindergarten class. Students work independently counting collections of shells, marbles and other small objects. Susana chooses a collection of colorful cotton balls and starts placing each ball on a blank one-to-100 chart. Once the chart is full, she starts counting: "One, two, three...." Suddenly, Ms. B calls the students' attention: "Please remember to record the total number of objects in your collection. If you need help writing that number, use the resources in the room. You have two more minutes."
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Education Week
Regardless of whether students like to rise with the dawn or stay up after midnight, new research suggests that when their class schedules fall out of sync with their biological clocks, their grades can suffer. A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests students who develop consistent daily class schedules that match their natural body rhythms have better grades — and students whose circadian rhythms don't match "normal" class days pay the price. The study comes as more high schools nationwide experiment with an array of school schedules, from late starts to four-day weeks and alternating block classes.
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MindShift
Teaching through projects, interrogating the value of grades, attempting to make learning more meaningful and connected to young people's lives and interests, thoughtful ways of using technology to amplify and share student work. These are just some of the ways teaching and learning are changing. But moving to these kinds of learning environments is a big shift for many teachers, schools, and districts; it's hard to sustain change once the shiny newness wears off. That's when people tend to slip back into old habits, relying on what they know best. The transformation requires a leader who understands how to manage the change process.
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The Brookings Institution
Education policymakers around the world are recognizing that students need a broad range of skills such as communication, collaboration and problem solving in order to thrive in the future. However, what this means in practice is not clear. Revising curricula to include these skills does not address lack of understanding of the nature of the skills or how to teach the skills.
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The Brookings Institution
This report brings data from the newly-released 2016 National Survey of Children's Health to the robust policy and research debate over the extent to which differences in aggregate special education participation rates over racial and ethnic groups represent differences in underlying needs for special education.
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The Washington Post
To "reading, writing and arithmetic," we can now add "solidarity." The new teacher activism — born in West Virginia and spreading to Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona — is not a flash in the pan. And it's about more than the demand for higher wages and benefits. It is a revolt against decades of policies that gutted public institutions.
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NPR
Thousands of Oklahoma teachers did not go to school Monday. Instead they are protesting at the state capitol. They've walked off the job to draw attention to funding and salary shortfalls.
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CBS News
Schools in several of Kentucky's largest counties were forced to close Friday when teachers angered by the passage of a pension overhaul refused to go to work. The state's two largest districts in Louisville and Lexington were among at least eight school districts that closed schools due to employee absences. "A lot of sick days are going to be used today," said Patricia Lea Collins, the Head Start and preschool director for the Pike County school system.
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EdSource
What are all the things that make a school safe and the people inside it feel connected with each other and the surrounding community? This question is most often answered with some variation on the following: a school is safe if it is a secure facility in good physical condition. Students, teachers and parents feel connected if class sizes are reasonable and it has a full menu of extra-curricular activities. However, a growing body of research is demonstrating that such answers only scratch the surface — and the health and welfare of our children depends on schools and communities digging much deeper into the question.
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American University Radio
The success of the teachers' strike in West Virginia, which resulted in a 5 percent pay increase, has inspired a movement among educators across the nation. Teachers and their supporters have staged demonstrations in Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, closing down some public schools in those states — and more strikes could be coming soon.
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NAESP
Kimbrelle Barbosa Lewis has been named Vice President of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and will join both newly elected and currently serving members of NAESP's Board of Directors. NAESP appreciates the commitment of all the candidates for office and congratulate those who will serve in their roles effective Aug. 1.
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NAESP
Principals are essential to the success of afterschool and summer learning programs that inspire, motivate and challenge students. NAESP has collected and vetted a variety of resources to help principals and other school leaders expand quality afterschool and summer learning programs for children and youth.
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