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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How does sending a child to school change a family's risk of COVID-19?
Education Week
The rate of COVID-19 infection in a school's broader community is considered the most important factor in determining whether it is safe to return students to in-person instruction, and a new study highlights why: Even when the school doesn't see outbreaks, students may be bringing the coronavirus home to vulnerable family members.
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Some schools are holding Zoom detention and Twitter is not having it
We Are Teachers
Can schools require families to enforce rules in their homes?
Here's a scenario for you. A school district in Springfield, Ill. updates its school handbook with guidelines for remote learning. One rule is students can't wear pajamas to virtual classes or sit in bed. The schools are enforcing dress code. But the problem is that students aren't at school. They're at home.
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3 keys to starting your district's adapted sports league
District Administration Magazine
When adapted physical education specialist Korey Kleinhans first broached the idea of starting an adapted sports league in Wisconsin's Oshkosh Area School District four years ago, the special education director immediately expressed interest. For the next two years, Kleinhans would tell people, "This will happen. I need a few years to raise money to get proper equipment." Adapted physical education is, generally, developmental games, sports, or similar activities designed for students whose disabilities prevent safe or successful participation in regular physical education.
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District leaders detail 4 best practices for hosting school vaccination clinics
K-12 DIVE
As COVID-19 vaccines roll out at varying paces, districts are setting up school-based clinics and working with local health organizations to get shots to school staff at other community vaccination events. "We all know schools get used for a lot of different events ... they're a real center of a community and so it's not difficult to set something like that up," said Kathleen Ethier, a public health official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a March webinar.
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How many teachers are effective reading instructors?
eSchool News
Only 11 states currently verify that all teacher candidates planning to teach either elementary or special education have learned the most effective methods for teaching children how to read–arguably the most important skill these teachers need, according to new data from the National Council on Teacher Quality. Low literacy rates in the United States were a problem before the pandemic, with annual measures reporting that nearly 1 million 4th grade students are barely able to read, if at all. Instructional loss due to the pandemic is likely to raise this number substantially, elevating the need for more teachers to have expertise in reading instruction.
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School counselors have implicit bias. Some are ready to address it.
EdSurge
During his sixth year as a school counselor, Derek Francis faced a situation that would change his career. It was 2017, and the Minnesota high school where he worked — which also happened to be the high school he attended as a teenager — was in turmoil over a video circulating on social media. In it, one of the school's star volleyball players said the n-word on a bus ride to a game.
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Why students are logging in to class from 7,000 miles away
The New York Times
Faiqa Naqvi, a 15-year-old freshman at a New Jersey public high school, logs in to her all-remote classes each night from Pakistan in a time zone nine hours ahead. Max Rodriquez, who also attends school in New Jersey, joined his Advanced Placement history class for about two months from Guayaquil, Ecuador, a port city on the coast of South America. Max's schoolmate, Naobe Maradiaga, 16, participated in classes from northern Honduras.
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Should school lunches be free for all? A pandemic experiment.
The Christian Science Monitor
It's 5 p.m. on a Tuesday, and Cathy McNair and a few student volunteers are ready to go. They've wheeled out a couple dozen boxes of pre-packaged meals — some donated and some from the school's food services provider — to the Finneytown Secondary Campus parking lot in suburban Cincinnati. High school and middle school students here are attending class on a hybrid model — partially in person, partially remote. But students need to eat regardless, so the questions arise: If they're not getting their meals at school, how are they getting them? Are they getting them?
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Why self-leadership is the most important leadership
Forbes
Leaders will ultimately succeed or fail based on their ability to effectively navigate their most important, complex, and relational situations. These are the harder situations that leaders regularly encounter where there is no one right answer and successfully engaging others is critical for success.
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Why 'messy' leaders are the future
Entrepreneur
For leaders, 2020 was a troublesome year. The global health crisis brought swift (and sometimes painful) changes to the way we work and live. This meant leaders had to help employees manage historically high levels of stress and respond to challenges more quickly than they ever thought possible.
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Thought leaders — An unused pond stinks
Leadership Freak (commentary)
"Occasionally, I'm asked if I consider myself to be a thought leader. Some ask how I became a thought leader. Recently, I was asked where the courage to be a thought leader comes from. I remembered a campfire."
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Mental strength: How to build confidence that fortifies against burnout
Leadership Freak
Lack of confidence causes stress; prolonged stress causes burnout. According to a Wall Street Journal article, a recent Harvard Medical School study revealed that 96% of senior leaders reported feeling burned out on some level, with one-third describing their burnout as extreme. That's what happened to Paula Davis.
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How the pandemic's lack of connection affected our ability to think positively
Fast Company
It's no secret as humans, we need our people (and you've likely been missing friends, family and colleagues through the pandemic), but there is some surprising new research on just how much we you may be craving relationships. Our fulfillment and our happiness are significantly affected by the extent to which we establish strong bonds with others. But in addition to knowing how important connections are, science can guide us in how we can create, nurture and sustain relationships going forward.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
With new aid, schools seek solutions to problems new and old
The Associated Press
With a massive infusion of federal aid coming their way, schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use the windfall to ease the harm of the pandemic — and to tackle problems that existed long before the coronavirus. The assistance that was approved last month totals $123 billion — a staggering sum that will offer some districts several times the amount of federal education funding they receive in a single year.
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How do you recognize the social-emotional competencies students need to thrive? The Social, Academic, Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (SAEBRS) helps you identify and rate behaviors that align to CASEL’s five competencies so you can better foster student learning and development. Explore the interactive tool.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Lawmakers ask Cardona to address K-12 cybersecurity threats
EdScoop
A pair of U.S. House members last week asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to take actions to help K-12 school districts invest in cybersecurity measures to improve their defenses against ransomware, phishing and other threats that continue to target the education sector.
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6 strategies for better K-12 cybersecurity
eSchool News
The education sector has had to rapidly adopt and scale new technologies to enable remote and hybrid learning as a result of the pandemic. This has created an expanded threat landscape, and malicious actors have taken this opportunity to target academic institutions to an even greater extent. In mid-March, the FBI issued a warning about an increase in specific ransomware targeting education institutions in 12 U.S. states and the United Kingdom. This alert follows a steady wave of cyberthreats facing educational institutions in recent months. We first saw a spike when remote learning kicked off last fall.
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New school visions requires a change in how we make decisions
EdTech Magazine
For so long, our concept of school meant a physical building; a classroom, a room with a chalkboard and rows of desks. But if there's anything that the last year has taught us, it's that educators, administrators and IT leaders need to be flexible and open-minded enough to reimagine and redefine everything we know about education.
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High-dosage tutoring: Can technology help curb learning loss?
Tech & Learning
Learning loss has not been as significant as feared within the North Shore School District 112 in Highland Park, Illinois, although COVID disruption has still been felt. Prior to March 2020, the district, in which 25% of students qualify for free or reduced launch, was making positive strides toward closing the achievement gap, but those have not continued through the pandemic year.
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10 ways to harness the power of the chat function
Edutopia
Engaging teenagers in classroom discussion has often confounded me through my many roles in education as teacher, staff developer, assistant principal, and now adjunct professor and student-teacher supervisor. It's as if the conditions have to be just so and include the right atmosphere and maybe a bolt of lightning. This act of engagement is especially challenging now through our virtual learning environments, where many of us stare at a screen of stacked gray blocks and names in white type.
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Ebook vs. print book study: 5 takeaways
Tech & Learning
A recent meta-analysis found that children ages 1 to 8 were less likely to understand picture books if they read the ebook version instead of the print version, but only when the ebook didn't have effective enhancements. For the analysis, researchers examined more than 39 studies involving more than 1,800 children. Though generally print picture books outperformed their digital counterparts in terms of reader comprehension, if the ebooks contained enhancements that reinforced story content not only did the print advantage go away but students learned more.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Why setting boundaries is helpful for teachers and their students
MindShift
As teachers, we are caretakers by the nature of our positions. Our instinct almost always is to care for our students before we care for ourselves. This is a noble ideal. But it is also impossible. Children will always need more, so there is no clear end to the amount of giving a teacher can do. And when teachers give teaching their all, they often end up depleted, drained of the physical and emotional energy to be the sort of skilled practitioner we'd all like to be.
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How to talk about COVID grief in the classroom
Tech & Learning
According to tradition, the Buddha's father tried to shield him from human suffering by raising him in a lavish palace where death was never mentioned and sick and old servants were not allowed to enter. Intentionally or not, some adults and educators have a tendency to do the same thing with their children and students by avoiding the topics of death and loss.
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Inclusivity: Ensuring all students count
eSchool News
No matter age or ability, it's critical that schools make inclusivity a priority for all students. Parents often struggle to find inclusive environments for kids with special needs, which limits abilities to capture memories outside of the home or secure a space in traditional memory books like yearbooks or other school representation.
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Using improv as social emotional learning
Teaching Channel
Katie McKnight, a contributor for Teaching Channel, writes: "Over 10 years ago I first explored the educational benefits of using improvisation in the classroom. Since then, thousands of K-12 teachers and students have been exposed to the educational benefits of improvisational games. What makes improvisation such an engaging and effective learning experience?"
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SEL begins with the teacher
Edutopia
Many middle school teachers find success using extrinsic reward systems to manage class behavior, but these methods can cause a "What's in it for me?" attitude among students when they're asked to do something they should be doing anyway, such as being kind to others. A more intrinsic way to improve class behavior is to use social and emotional learning to help students strengthen their relationships with teachers and peers.
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Use text sets to benefit bilingual students
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Let's say you are asked to learn how to juggle, a skill you do not already have. You get one 30-minute lesson. You start with two balls and then three. It's a little chaotic but with some coaching you start to get the hang of it. Then the balls disappear. Now you are asked to learn how to ride a unicycle. You get one lesson. It's a little crazy. You start to gain balance. Then the unicycle disappears.
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Should we grade participation?
We Are Teachers
This is a question schools really should consider. But when they do, the debate gets heated quickly. Some teachers argue that participation is too subjective. Grades measure mastery of content, and there are no teaching standards for participation. Others believe that the learning process is just as important as a test or project.
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Science lessons that tap into student curiosity about COVID-19
Edutopia
Some students aren't just wearing masks to class; they're experimenting on them. Inspired by the daily use of masks during the pandemic, fifth-grade students at New Albany Intermediate School in Ohio set out to measure the effectiveness of different mask types and brands by their ability to prevent droplet transmission.
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Parental pressure mounts for more phonics, less guessing in teaching reading
Education Next
Early childhood literacy advocacy has been a quiet casualty of our current annus horribilis. Back in the BCE years (Before Covid Era), considerable interest had been building among practitioners and policymakers in curriculum and instruction built on the "Science of Reading." That critical conversation has been largely sidelined for obvious reasons as states, districts, and schools prioritize setting up and running remote and hybrid learning plans and focus on a return to in-person schooling with public health imperatives more than instructional ones, first and foremost.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Parents fighting, teachers crying: Grownup stress is hitting kids hard
The Hechinger Report
Alexis, 17, has always been close to her parents. But since the pandemic began, they have been arguing a lot. "We snap at each other more," she said. "And because there's more negative emotion with the virus and we're all trapped in the house together, the stress is definitely amplified."
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Report: Intervene early, effectively to prevent violent school attacks
K-12 DIVE
"The key findings of the study are clear and consistent: Individuals contemplating violence often exhibit observable behaviors, and when community members report these behaviors, the next tragedy can be averted," wrote U.S. Secret Service Director James M. Murray in the report.
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Studying abroad improves fluency and lexis 'rapidly'
Language Magazine
Study abroad programs are a mainstay of university language departments all over the world — and for good reason, too. Studying abroad — even for a relatively short period of time — can allow students to significantly improve their fluency and vocabulary, according to a new study published in Applied Linguistics that investigates the ways in which language learners can build their speaking abilities through study abroad programs.
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For girls, learning science outside linked to better grades, knowledge
North Carolina State University via Science Daily
In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found that an outdoor science program was linked to higher average science grades and an increase in a measure of science knowledge for a group of fifth grade girls in North Carolina. The findings, published in the International Journal of Science Education, indicates outdoor education could be a promising tool to help close gender gaps in science.
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US hunger crisis persists, especially for kids, older adults
The Associated Press
America is starting to claw its way out of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, but food insecurity persists, especially for children and older adults. Food banks around the U.S. continue giving away far more canned, packaged and fresh provisions than they did before the virus outbreak tossed millions of people out of work, forcing many to seek something to eat for the first time. For those who are now back at work, many are still struggling, paying back rent or trying to rebuild savings.
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.IN THE STATES
State tests for grades 3-8 are optional this year, NYC education officials say
Chalkbeat
Amid the controversy over whether students should take state tests this year, New York City's education department is taking a bold step: Families must sign up to take grades 3-8 exams, officials said. For the English exams, families have until April 15 to let their schools know they would like to take the test. The deadline is April 29 for math exams and is May 28 for grades 4 and 8 science tests. New York City children whose families don't opt in to take the exams won't be signed up. Neither the students nor their schools will be penalized for not participating, officials said.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
What Principals Need To Know About Implicit Racial Bias
NAESP
Dr. Sylvia Perry (assistant professor of Psychology, Northwestern University) from Project Implicit will be presenting a webinar on Wednesday, April 28 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. The objectives of the webinar are to raise awareness of our biases, to explore how researchers measure and understand identity-based biases, and to provide actionable steps that we as educators can take to prevent and mitigate the impact of biases.
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Register for Virtual Leadership Immersion Institute, May 5-6
NAESP
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