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Education DIVE
Schools with leaders placed as part of the Principal Pipeline Initiative — a major, $75 million effort of The Wallace Foundation from 2011-2016 — have higher student achievement in both reading and math compared to similar schools that were not part of the initiative, according to a RAND Corp. study. Conducted in six large urban districts across the country, the evaluation also finds that the largest improvements in student achievement were seen in the lowest-performing schools and that those gains were seen as early as two years into the five-year initiative.
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The Conversation
One in 6 American children faces hunger and 3 out of 4 teachers report regularly seeing hungry kids in their classrooms. In response, school meals make up a large fraction of federal food assistance. The National School Lunch Program is the second-largest federal food assistance program, serving 30.4 million children. It is complemented by the School Breakfast Program, the Afterschool Snack Service and the Summer Food Service Program. Though these programs are essential, they are not enough.
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eSchool News
Today's kindergartners are the class of 2030, and by the time they enter the workforce, it will look vastly different. Occupations will need expertise, creativity, grit, and, most importantly, people who can learn and cultivate new skills. But if we're going to ensure the class of 2030 succeeds, our current education system needs an overhaul and a refreshed focus, according to a new report from Microsoft. The report, which is based on surveys of 2,000 students and 2,000 teachers, was conducted with McKinsey & Company.
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District Administration Magazine
Therapy dogs in schools can perform wonders: The animals relieve students' stress, help kids learn to read, and even boost test scores and attendance. To reach these goals, educators must focus as much on the animals' needs as they do on the comfort of students, says Jennifer VonLintel, a counselor. Her golden retriever, Copper, serves as a therapy dog at B.F. Kitchen Elementary School in Colorado's Thompson School District.
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Entrepreneur
Candace Sjogren, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "No matter whether I'm speaking to a new or an established founder, the most common question I hear, across all industries, is this: what differentiates the entrepreneurs who make it from the ones who don't? Are there specific characteristics or behaviors that an entrepreneur needs to exhibit in order to be successful?"
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Fast Company
Over time, you're likely to have other people at work ask you for advice. You might have colleagues who see something you do well and want your help. There might be folks in your industry who value your expertise. You might even take on the role of mentor. When you find yourself in an advice-giving situation, here are some suggestions for how to approach it.
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Forbes
We all wear a mask to some extent when we go to work. We want to put forward our best selves. We put on our work clothes, comb our hair, put on our makeup and show our professional faces. Being authentic at work can be daunting. What to show, what to keep for ourselves?
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Leadership Freak
Don't worry. You won't look stupid if you seek advice. There's wisdom in not-knowing. Research agrees with ancient wisdom. Advice-seeking is smart. And it makes you look smart when done skillfully.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 Do you feel less than connected to your co-workers on a personal level? It might not be that you don't have things in common with them. Feelings of isolation might be caused by behavior you routinely practice but don't even recognize as a problem. Don't just accept feeling alone in your cubicle — use these science-driven tips to feel better physically and emotionally.
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HR DIVE
Employers understand the importance of onboarding new employees. A Glassdoor report found a strong onboarding process improved new hire retention by 82% and improved productivity by more than 70%. Talent professionals place more emphasis than ever on creating positive employee experiences — and that pressure starts from an employee's first day. But should that same attention be given to an employee's last day?
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Forbes (commentary)
Courtney Kramer, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "I've noticed that many leaders seem to struggle with creativity; instead, they opt for clear-cut and rational decision making. However, effective leadership can require inspiration, which is often better evoked through curiosity and imagination rather than pragmatism. Leaders need followers in order to lead, and without the enrollment of their teams, pragmatic leaders risk standing alone."
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 What do we do when a whiny employee keeps whining? If we cannot move them to another department, we tend to try our best to "yes" them out of our office, ignore them, or delay responding in the hopes they will go away. In many cases, while the employee may continue to be annoying, taking one of these approaches is often sufficient. However, if a legitimate issue does arise, the pattern of not addressing earlier problems can come back to bite us. Here are a couple of ways to rethink the approach to the employee crying wolf in case a wolf does actually show up.
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Fast Company
Few people enjoy giving apologies. It's tough to admit you've made a mistake, especially if you're in a leadership role. It can be a blow to the ego and a challenge to your pride, and when you're in charge, you're supposed to have the answers, right?
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Education Week
House Democrats who focus on education peppered U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos with questions about her vision for school choice, arming teachers, and federal education law during a lengthy, often confrontational hearing here Wednesday. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., the committee chairman, set the tone when he highlighted the Education Department's core mission of ensuring equitable opportunities for all students. "Unfortunately under the president's fiscal 2020 budget, it would be nearly impossible to meet that challenge," he said.
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Education DIVE
Months after the approval process for all states' consolidated Every Student Succeeds Act accountability plans wrapped up in September 2018, each state has identified its own set of indicators and has been working to implement the federal law. However, as this shift takes place, there's still an underlying question: How well do these plans aim to support struggling schools and ensure equity?
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EdTech Magazine
Schools handle a wide variety of sensitive information concerning students and their families. Laws, regulations and ethical obligations require administrators to take active measures to protect that information from unauthorized disclosure. That warrants a combination of technical and process controls designed to facilitate legitimate use of student records while safeguarding them against intruders. Let's take a look at five ways that schools can better protect their student records.
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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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eSchool News
Billings Public Schools is the largest school district in Montana, supporting more than 16,800 students across 33 schools. With the support of technology levies, we have invested $1 million into new technology for both the high school and elementary levels. Over time, Billings Public Schools accumulated a complex assortment of devices, including 16,000 Chromebooks, 7,000 Apple iPads, 3,000 Macs and 2,000 Windows devices. These devices are used to support a STEM program that is leveraged by every student at every school. However, as the number and complexity of devices increased, the number of IT personnel to support those devices remained the same, decreasing our ability to effectively leverage this new technology.
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EdScoop
Student data is an important tool for educators, but good policy is key to student privacy, according to the Future for Privacy Forum, which on Friday released a guide for policymakers to help shape effective legislation surrounding student data privacy. "Data privacy is an essential part of data use," said Rachel Anderson, a policy director at data transparency advocacy group The Data Quality Campaign.
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THE Journal
Designing high-capacity and widely available networks is essential for meeting the digital learning goals, according to a new SETDA study. The report looks into how individual states are working to close the digital divide in education by creating dedicated networks for schools and funding grant programs.
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eSchool News
Cyberbullying is the use of digital media (such as websites, apps, and text messages) to intimidate, upset or harm someone. It includes repeatedly sending, posting or sharing negative, harmful or mean content about someone else on purpose. Usually, with cyberbullying, there are other people who see cyberbullying happen. In these situations, people can be bystanders, allies or upstanders. A bystander observes the conflict or unacceptable behavior but does not take part in it. An ally is someone who responds to the bullying situation by supporting the person being bullied (e.g., checking in with them, being a friend to them, etc.). An upstander tries to stop the bullying by confronting the person who is bullying directly or by telling a trusted adult.
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The Hechinger Report
Once students learn how to sound out words, reading is easy. They can speak the words they see. But whether they understand them is a different question entirely. Reading comprehension is complicated. Teachers, though, can help students learn concrete skills to become better readers. One way is by teaching them how to think as they read.
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EdSurge
Keyboarding is, perhaps, the most essential of all 21st-century skills. With computers in use across the majority of U.S. schools now, many educators may feel the need to focus on educational software. But while the debate rages over how to best implement technology into the classroom, we should also be mindful of the need to develop the fundamental skills required to interact fully with the machines themselves.
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Education World
There are a number of ways to tell just how important middle school years are, but one might be the repeated portrayal of it in a host of television shows and movies — from "Leave it to Beaver" and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" to the recent movie "Eighth Grade" and the new TV show "PEN15." You also might get a clear idea about the importance of early adolescence by asking a handful of people when they first really succeeded or struggled in school — and when they remember first developing their social and emotional patterns.
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Edutopia
Most classrooms are filled with students of varying academic abilities. Even within a gifted and talented classroom like mine, the ability levels can range drastically. As teachers strive to meet each student's individual needs, differentiation is key because it's about giving more opportunities for students to grow to their highest potential, and it is beneficial for all students.
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Education Week
More evidence is in: Reading from screens harms comprehension. According to a new meta-analysis of nearly three dozen research studies published over the past decade, reading from paper has a small, statistically significant benefit on reading performance. One likely reason: Readers using screens tend to think they're processing and understanding texts better then they actually are.
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Teaching Channel
Project-based learning, cultures of thinking, thinking maps, Genius Hour, Maker Space. Current trends in education may sometimes leave educators feeling overwhelmed. You see other teachers' blog posts, Instagram feeds, and Pinterest-worthy classrooms and can't help but feel that you have to do it all, too. This internal push-pull can leave you feeling defeated at times, struggling with how to incorporate all these great ideas within the time constraints of a school day.
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Newsweek
Children at risk of developing mental health disorders such as depression and ADHD are more likely to be bullied, according to scientists. The researchers studied 5,028 children of European ancestry from the Avon region of the U.K., who were taking part in the 14,062-participant Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The participants were born between April 1, 1991, and December 31, 1992. The authors of the study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, defined bullying as "repeated, intentional aggression by a more powerful bully against a less powerful individual," and highlighted as many as one in five adolescents suffer physical or verbal abuse.
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Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via Science Daily
Most children inherit both their postal code and their genetic code from their parents. But if genetic factors influence where families are able to live and children's health and educational success, improving neighborhoods may not be enough. Latest research provides new insights into the highly debated question of whether the neighborhoods that children live in influence their health and life chances.
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THE Journal
While the charter school sector has grown significantly since 1992, a new study from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance finds middle school enrollment in a charter school did not affect students' chances of enrolling or completing college. The study focuses on students who were enrolled in middle school during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years in 36 charter middle schools in 15 states.
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Carnegie Mellon University via Science Daily
Researchers sought to estimate the effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on the cognitive ability of 5-year-olds in the United States. The study found that higher lead in topsoil significantly increases the probability that 5-year-old boys will have cognitive difficulties but does not seem to affect 5-year-old girls. The researchers found the adverse effects in boys even in U.S. counties where the government considers the levels of lead concentration in the soil to be low.
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Lancaster University via Science Daily
Food insecurity — that is, limited access to sufficient safe and nutritious food at home — negatively impacts on the learning ability of adolescents in India, new research shows. The research team investigated inequalities in learning achievements at 12 years by examining test scores. They then looked at whether food insecurity at home at the ages of 5, 8 and 12 was linked to lower test scores at age 12.
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EdScoop
Over the last 15 years, Dallas Independent School District has lost 35,000 students to new charter and private schools in the city. The plan to get them back, led by Deputy Chief of Transformation and Innovation Angie Gaylord, is to redesign all 230 schools in the district with new academic focuses. Many schools are getting new buildings and principals, while others are narrowing in their curriculums on skills that reflect growing demands in the workplace.
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USA Today
Kevin Starks is living a classic Hawaii story. The California native became an educator through Teach for America in Oklahoma, then shipped off to the Aloha State. He now teaches eighth grade science and spends the rest of his time surfing, playing volleyball and enjoying the natural splendor of the islands. There's just one problem: Teaching in paradise has become too expensive. "I'm 31 years old, living with two roommates in a dump place," Starks said. "I have almost no savings. I want to stay and get a home, but it's looking more and more like that's not possible."
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Bethesda Magazine
A bill that passed in the final hours of the state legislature requiring all new Maryland school buses be "zero-emission" vehicles would have cost the Montgomery school system an estimated $84 million, but a last-minute addition of a grant program will offset the expected price tag. House Bill 1125, sponsored by District 15 delegate David Fraser-Hidalgo, mandates all new school buses in Maryland purchased after October be "zero-emission vehicles," defined as a bus that does not produce any tailpipe or evaporative emissions, as most traditional school buses do.
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NAESP
Together with Crayola, NAESP offers a special opportunity to apply for a Champion Creatively Alive Children Grant. Your school could receive a $3,500 grant (a $2,500 check and $1,000 worth of Crayola products) to establish a creative leadership team and build the creative capacity of your professional learning community. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 21. (The Early Bird deadline is Monday, June 3. Early Bird applications will receive a Crayola product Classpack®). Click here for more information.
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