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Education DIVE
It's not uncommon, in some circles, for the use of predictive data analytics to conjure up visions of a dystopian future where that information is used to selectively identify people who might potentially cause problems and proactively sequester them from society. Those concerns have most prominently been directed toward the idea of predictive policing, especially as law enforcement agencies use genetic data gathered by companies like 23andMe to solve cases, or in social work, where additional context beyond data gathered can mean the difference between a child being removed from a home.
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School Leaders Now
Since Columbine, Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas and over 200 other less publicized school shootings, school safety has understandably become an all-consuming priority in many school communities. Parents worry about whether their child is safe during the day. Educators wonder how the willingness to take a bullet or carry a gun ever became part of what it means to be a teacher, and our students practice how to hide from armed persons in regular lockdown drills.
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THE Journal
A North Carolina university is recruiting principals for a new grant-funded program intended to help school leaders work more effectively with their math and science teachers. The program will use virtual reality and online coaching. The purpose: to help them improve their abilities to observe, analyze and communicate improvements to classroom instruction, particularly as it relates to access and equity in STEM.
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The Brookings Institution
One of the great accomplishments of the late 20th century was to bring women onto a more equal footing in the labor market. Salaries became more equal. Employers opened up jobs for women. Educational opportunities became more gender-equal. And for college-educated women, all of this meant that careers outside teaching and nursing became possible.
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Fast Company
Examining our failures isn't an easy thing to do. Accepting reality means taking a hard look at your mistakes, owning them, and creating a new plan of attack to make your next approach more effective. But look at it this way: You're still standing, which means you have the opportunity to analyze, make corrections and then move forward from whatever the failure taught you. The fact that you are still here also means that you have one less reason to fear failure. It didn't kill you. Now you can use it to make you stronger.
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The Lead Change Group
Scaling leadership provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization by multiplying high-achieving leaders at scale.
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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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Leadership Freak
Pushovers prolong helplessness, failure and mediocrity. But accountability with compassion fuels boldness, growth and productivity. You demonstrate respect for people when you hold them accountable. Accountability says behaviors matter. Who wants to live in a world where actions have no consequences? Lack of compassion creates fear.
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Fast Company
Exercising our bodies to grow stronger might be something we intentionally practice, but how many of us devote a daily practice to make our brains and memory grow stronger? It takes intention, physical adjustments and lifestyle changes. And thankfully you don't have to devote hours in pursuit of better remembering birthdays, names and tasks on your mental to-do list.
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Entrepreneur
Have you ever tried to do business with someone who didn’t seem to take pleasure in the job — or even care? If you had the option, you probably you didn't go back to this person because you didn't like the way you were treated or lacked confidence in them.
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Forbes
There are more than thirty different ways to call all those unpleasant and stressful situations which prevent us from directly achieving what we want to achieve. Life is full of them. This is why the ability to solve problems in an effective and timely manner without any impediments is considered to be one of the most key and critical skill for resolutive and successful leaders. But is not just leaders or top managers facing the way forward.
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HR DIVE
Results of the survey support the findings of myriad polls on employee satisfaction and engagement. Although most employers report being satisfied with their jobs, a good percentage of them are constantly on the look-out for other opportunities. Some plan on leaving with less than a year on the job; while sometimes this can't be avoided, new employees can be driven away by recruiting experiences that don't match up with the actual workplace culture.
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Entrepreneur
There comes a point in your career development where advancement is no longer purely about becoming a technical expert. You'll hit a crossroads where pursuing career goals that you want now requires you to play a different game strategy in your career version of Game of Thrones. Technical professional development should always be on your radar. However, you'll find higher levels of workplace success will come to a standstill if you lack skills to find and build alliances with those who can help you get to where you want to go.
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Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act turned three years old in December, but only recently have many districts and schools begun to experience the law's impact. That's because states and districts have only just started identifying low-performing schools. Those schools are starting to create plans to fix their issues. And relatively soon, more schools are going to be identified for problems with particular groups of students. Plus, states are going to have to put all sorts of new information on their report cards, including financial transparency requirements.
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ABC News
A group of states led by New York is suing the Trump administration over changes it made to school lunch nutrition standards initially championed by Michelle Obama. Five states, plus the District of Columbia, filed a complaint in federal court on Wednesday against the Department of Agriculture and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. The lawsuit argues that the changes to the 2012 school breakfast and lunch standards were rolled back without a required public comment period and that they go against nutrition requirements put in place by Congress.
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EdScoop
Marlo Gaddis started her education career in the classroom, so she knows that teachers need to be adept at finding resources to augment the learning experience. Now serving as chief technology officer for the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina, she told EdScoop she sees her role as essential in supporting that task.
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Prodigy Game
 The search for better teaching strategies will never end. As a school leader, you probably spend too much of your time thinking about how to improve the learning experience of the students that pass through your school throughout the years.
After all, what they learn (and how they learn it) will become a part of these students as they grow, hopefully helping them become successful adults.
This is the main goal of competency based education: giving each student equal opportunity to master necessary skills and become successful adults.
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THE Journal
The major challenges facing technology adoption in education haven't changed much over the years. But the priorities of school and district technology leaders have. According to a survey by the Consortium for School Networking, the key challenges facing ed tech have remained consistent for the last three year.
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EdTech Magazine
When it comes to educational innovations to prepare students for the future, Yong Zhao, foundation distinguished professor at the University of Kansas School of Education, believes educators are stuck in a loop. "Today when we talk about education, we only talk about three things: the curriculum, the teacher and the assessments," Zhao told attendees at the Consortium for School Networking's 2019 annual conference keynote session, Envisioning the Skills Students Need: 2030. Current K–12 students will face a dynamically different work environment as industries integrate emerging technology in new and creative ways.
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The Brookings Institution
Children often follow in their parents' footsteps. For example, many children root for the same teams and like the same foods as their parents. But do they enter the same professions? Over the past year, teacher strikes have brought to national attention the plight of teachers across the country. Teacher shortages and a lack of teacher diversity are major issues facing schools right now. Recent evidence shows that teacher shortages exist and are expected to worsen. So where do new teachers come from? Many come from existing teachers — that is, they inherit the teaching profession from their mothers.
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School Leaders Now
Learning to read is a lot like trying to lose weight. If there were an exact science for either, everyone would be sitting around at a healthy weight happily reading the next book in the stack they keep next to their bed. Yet, we are bombarded with statements like, "It's just calories in and calories out" or "It's as simple as your ABCs." But it's not so simple, is it? Human beings have complex issues that cannot be solved with one easy solution. So, let's stop treating literacy as if it can easily addressed and start training teachers to really help kids learn to read.
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MiddleWeb
It can be mind-bending to allow yourself to believe that your students can solve most of their own problems — that math problem they don't get on the first (or second) pass, the missing homework, or the kid poking them in the back of the head with an eraser. After all, we're the teachers. We're supposed to predict, contain and control student behavior, correct?
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Teaching Channel
Many teachers are resigned to one unfortunate truth: minor misbehavior happens in every classroom. No matter how hard you try, there will always be an unruly student or two to derail your carefully crafted lesson. But what if you could develop a set of moves that would stop disruptive behavior in its tracks?
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Edutopia
Collaboration and socialization are key aspects of any workplace. Professionals across disciplines and industries collaborate, debate and share. In the classroom, healthy socialization patterns can support student creativity and foster critical thinking.
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District Administration Magazine (commentary)
Lori Koerner, a contributor for District Administration Magazine, writes: "I taught in a classroom for 26 years prior to becoming an administrator. Over the years, I've realized that when educators hear the word 'data,' the first things that come to mind are numbers and test scores. At a time when data-driven instruction stands at the forefront of every decision we make, we must understand that data means more than the typical benchmark or state assessment. There are various forms of data. By discussing data here, I hope more educators will feel validated knowing that the 'extra information' we once hid in the back of our grade books provides key evidence of student growth."
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The Brookings Institution
We are born with the natural ability to gain skills through play. As children, we learn about social norms, roles and responsibilities, and language through curiosity-driven, playful interactions and activities. Learning through play harnesses the power of children's imagination and inspires active engagement with the material.
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Edutopia
A rapid heartbeat. Sweaty palms. Clouded thoughts. For many students, the biggest obstacle to passing a test isn't what they know, but the anxiety they feel. Stress and anxiety can wreak havoc on a student's ability to concentrate on tests, leading to poor performance and, ultimately, fewer opportunities to succeed in school. A new study highlights an effective solution: Guide students to view stress differently — as a boost instead of a burden. Simple 10-minute writing exercises given just before a test helped students see stress as "a beneficial and energizing force" that could help them.
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Education Week
A challenging math problem can make some students break into a cold sweat and others excited to wrap their brains around a puzzle. A wealth of research suggests that a student's academic "mindset" — whether she believes math skill is an inborn, fixed trait or that it can be grown through practice — can make the difference in how she engages with the subject.
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MindShift
When Grace Dearborn started her career teaching high school students, she felt confident about how to teach but unprepared for managing behavior in her classroom. During more challenging disciplinary moments with students, she used her angry voice with them, thinking that would work. Instead, on one occasion, an escalated situation led to a student following her around the classroom for 15 minutes while she was teaching until security could come to escort the student out of the class.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Have you ever had this experience? Your students have read a text, and you are sure that they have some opinions, questions and observations. But when you ask them what they think, the majority of them remain silent and the ones who raise their hands say something like "It was good" or "I didn't like it."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Tom Deris, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Nine years ago, I starting thinking about changing the layout of my classroom — the traditional classroom structure that had gone largely unchanged since I was a child. I'm now in my eighth year exploring flexible seating with my second and third grade students. I started by asking students to help me come up with design ideas and to brainstorm ways to transform our classroom with the furniture we had at the time. I knew that if that step went well, I could add more furniture in time."
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By: Angela Cleveland (commentary)
 In the past, the title "guidance counselor" was used to describe counselors working in a school. Their role was primarily focused on "guiding" students to post-secondary education and scheduling. Their days were filled with tasks like sending out transcripts, writing letters of recommendation, etc. The title "school counselor" today recognizes that counselors address the needs of the whole student. They are proactive, data-informed leaders in the school community. Watch this video to learn more about the difference in roles.
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Tech&Learning
Like it or not, educators and parents of young schoolchildren know (or will soon find out) the rigorous literacy demands being placed on students today. A friend shared she was surprised by the reading level and number of books her 6-year-old was supposed to be reading. She'd been reading bedtime stories to her daughter. What she didn't realize was that schools today expect young children to be reading their own stories with proficiency at such a young age.
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Ohio State University via Science Daily
Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could be one key in explaining differences in vocabulary and reading development.
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Princeton University via Science Daily
Across U.S. counties, black students experience higher rates of suspension, expulsion, in-school arrests and law enforcement referrals than whites, according to a new study.
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The Washington Post
According to federal rules of the National School Lunch program, kids at school are supposed to be served lunch between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. If you are thinking that 10 a.m. sounds early, consider this: At some schools, kids are served lunch at 9 a.m., and at least one New York City school, lunch starts at 8:58 a.m. New York, which has the largest school district in the country, is not the only place with lunch timing problems, but it is the place where Mayor Bill de Blasio just vowed to try to change it.
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EdSource
When Christopher Gonzalez first entered John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, he noticed that students generally kept to themselves and their own cliques. "It was like a line you didn't cross," said Gonzalez, now a senior. The climate began to change more than a year ago: More greetings are exchanged in hallways. Virtually no one sits alone at lunchtime. Students from various cross sections of the school — gamers, artists, dancers, jocks and others — gather together in a small grassy courtyard called "the mound" for a monthly "Hey Day" event. At the event, which Gonzalez helps organize, people sit on blankets and benches nearby, eating lunch and mingling.
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NAESP
To recognize the significant role APs play in the overall academic achievement of students, NAESP celebrates National Assistant Principals Week, April 8-12. To properly celebrate assistant principals and highlight their leadership in both schools and communities, we have planned several resources and activities. Register now for AP webinars such as "Time Management: The Personal and Professional Life of an AP," on Tuesday, April 9 at 3 p.m. ET. Plan to take part in the #NAESPchat on “Celebrating Assistant Principals” Thursday, April 11 at 8 p.m. ET.
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