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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
An expansive vision for the future of teaching and learning
Harvard Magazine
The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force, organized last year to assess what the University and its faculty members had learned from the pandemic pivot to remote instruction in the spring of 2020 and through the following academic year.
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Is making students stay after school the way to improve education?
Washington Post
A report from the Education Trust, a renowned nonprofit devoted to raising student achievement, on how to expand learning time. It has many thoughtful insights for district leaders wanting to expand the school day by one or two hours, double the length of reading and math periods, organize mandatory summer school and make other changes.
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'Abbott Elementary' aces the good, the bad and the ugly of teaching
Marketplace
Written and starring comedian Quinta Brunson, the mockumentary-style shows chronicles educators navigating struggles and successes at an underfunded Philadelphia public school.
Brunson drew inspiration for the show from a real-life Philly educator named Ms. Abbott. And as much as the show is receiving rave reviews from critics, it’s also nailing a lot about the struggles, hard work and financial precarity of being an educator in the U.S.
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Did we really learn anything about schools in the pandemic?
The Washington Post
If you Google "lessons learned about schools during the pandemic" you will see a long list of articles that purport to tell us about all the things we learned about teaching and learning in the two years since the coronavirus crisis began in March 2020. Many of the pieces highlight similar "lessons" — on inequity, technology, in-school learning, funding mechanisms and other issues — that seemingly hadn't been thought of before.
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Managing learning gaps with a wraparound assessment system
K-12 Dive
As educators aim to close learning gaps widened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a cohesive approach to assessments is more crucial than ever. While the emphasis on assessment has often been focused on the year-end summative test, educators today know they can best support students by keeping tabs on their progress week by week and concept by concept.
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Is homework a waste of time? Teachers weigh in
Education Week
Beyond considering the efficacy of homework, the debate over how much time students should spend daily on take-home assignments dates back to the early 1900s. The public furor even led some state lawmakers to ban homework entirely at one point. Multiple studies over the years have examined different angles of the homework debate, including just how much homework students were assigned.
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Philanthropy aims to diversify teacher workforce amid staffing shortages
EdWeek Market Brief
The organizations are adopting different strategies to “diversify teaching, including providing support to schools to identify and rectify practices that create barriers to growing a diverse workforce, building culturally responsive teacher preparation and residency programs, and providing targeted training and wellness support for teachers of color,” according to the fund.
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How federal grants can help staff your schools
eSchool News
Using federal funding for personnel expenses can seem daunting, but it can in fact be manageable with the right knowledge and tools in place.
Hiring additional reading and math coaches, counselors, school psychologists, and other support staff is a key strategy for meeting students’ academic and social-emotional learning needs.
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Has federal crisis spending for K-12 schools served its intended objectives?
Brookings Institute
Even with sufficient funding, it is important that federal relief aid be allocated to students who need it. An underappreciated feature of both ARRA and ESSER is that the policies were allocated to states and, ultimately, school districts based on funding rules that predated the fiscal crises at hand. Consequently, federal funds were not well-aligned with policy goals and provided different levels of aid to districts with comparable levels of economic disadvantage.
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Inside the vast national experiment in test-optional college admissions
NBC
Test-optional and test-blind admissions had begun to gain steam before the pandemic, with proponents arguing that tests hurt the odds of applicants who have traditionally not done as well on them, including students whose first language isn’t English, students whose parents didn’t go to college, Black and Hispanic students, immigrant students and students whose families can’t afford expensive test prep programs.
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Celebrate with staff as a challenging year ends
MiddleWeb
One characteristic of a school’s culture is the way success is celebrated and acknowledged. Those rituals and ceremonies are important because they transmit, in unspoken ways, the values and priorities of a school.
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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.
However, we can start proactively helping our students in elementary school. Brain-based mental health literacy & resilience training provide strong Tier 1 support.
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The best leaders are imperfect
Inc.
What's the right way to describe your imperfections during the most significant interview of your life? It's an intimidating prospect, and I can't stress enough how important it is to put in the time for both reflection and rehearsal before you sit down for that meeting.
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4 problematic leadership trends and how to solve them
Fast Company
Challenges related to the global pandemic continue to morph rather than disappear. As a result, leadership teams are still tasked with performing under unusual, unfamiliar, and at times, unsettling conditions.
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5 skills you need to become an inclusive leader
Training Industry Magazine
Inclusive leadership is an art and a science. It’s an always-on commitment versus something that’s dialed up or down based on the day and time. Leaders hold the keys to activating and empowering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) among their teams and broader organizations.
However, leading with a mindset of inclusion is rarely something that comes naturally — it’s a skill that many need to learn and build a capacity for, cultivate and continuously evolve.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
We need a 'Bill of Rights' for pandemic recovery
K-12 Dive
States and districts are already using federal pandemic recovery funding to deliver for families — from high-quality tutoring to evidence-based interventions including early literacy, work to increase learning time and a focus on mental health. We can build on these successes.
So what would a real "bill of rights" for pandemic recovery look like if it was meant to respond to the aspirations of parents and all caregivers and to support student success?
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
The role of technology in personalized learning
K-12 Dive
Today's technology has merely added the fuel personalized learning needed to move into the mainstream. It is now a scalable education strategy, rather than something to be considered to aid particular individuals under certain circumstances.
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Experts share the barriers, accelerators and enablers facing education innovation
EdTech Magazine
To help educators consider the future of K–12 learning and the emerging technologies sure to impact students, the Consortium for School Networking undertakes an annual global research project called Driving K–12 Innovation. Our annual research asks more than 100 global education and technology experts for feedback on the most important topics affecting teaching, learning and education innovation.
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Coding should be an essential part of school curriculums
Utah Business
While it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that today’s generation of K-12 students are digitally native and can excel in all things tech, some educators have discovered that’s it’s quite the opposite — many students struggle to complete some of the most basic computer skills. This became especially apparent during the COVID pandemic when schools pivoted from in-person classes to virtual.
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Exploring the state of computer science education amid rapid policy expansion
Brookings Institute
CS education is undergoing an important transformation in schools. Classes in computing and CS have long been offered in K-12 public schools, though have not been uniformly required, nor universally available. Thus, access to CS has been uneven across student populations. Yet, the growing importance of technological and computing skills in modern society has compelled many school systems to adopt policies to provide universal access to CS education. Several reasons often motivate this expanded access.
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Report: Students used 74 different ed tech tools in fall 2021 semester, educators used 86
THE Journal
The company’s annual "EdTech Top 40" report ranks the most-accessed digital education products, tools, and resources; the mid-year report released today includes a new analysis of ed tech usage by more than 2 million K–12 students and 225,000 teachers, between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021, LearnPlatform said.
School districts accessed an average of 1,403 ed tech products per month, about the same total reported during the 2020-21 school year, the report noted.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Using collaborative content curation for professional development
Edutopia
Research shows that effective PD provides teachers “an opportunity to engage in the same style of learning they are designing for their students.” In professional development built around content curation, teachers practice some of the critical thinking skills they teach in the classroom, and they leave with a list of lesson ideas to model for students along with the texts they need for their lessons.
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Embedded supports to differentiate instruction for struggling students
LDOnline
To ensure that your students are prepared to meet the high expectations set by the Common Core State Standards , you may need to incorporate a variety of supports into your English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, including Universal Design for Learning (UDL), explicit instruction of evidence-based strategies, and the use of technology tools. Focusing on literacy is critical at the upper elementary and middle school levels in order to help address these gaps before students move into high school.
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Using inquiry to support deeper learning
Edutopia
Have you ever had a conversation, only to think of what you really wanted to say after it was over? These moments happen all the time in our everyday lives but are perhaps more significant when they occur within the context of teaching and learning.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Remote learning special ed litigation lower than expected
K-12 Dive
Although the pandemic continues to disrupt in-person learning and the statute of limitations for suing over missed services for students with disabilities has yet to expire in some places, school administrators, attorneys and disability rights advocates say their own experiences or anecdotal stories they've heard show the expected rise in litigation has not materialized so far.
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As an all-inclusive research-into-practice resource center, Marzano Resources is committed to helping your school or district become highly effective at preparing every learner for their future. Whether you need a one-day workshop or a multi-year partnership, our experts have the knowledge and experience to help you reach your goals.
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.IN THE STATES
Texas congressman introduces bill to improve Hispanic education resources
Valley Central
The bill’s text states that Hispanics face disparities compared to other groups of people when it comes to educational achievements based on “lower grades, lower scores on standardized tests, and higher dropout rates.”
These issues are intensified and will continue to grow as Hispanics represent the “largest, youngest, and second-fastest growing minority population in the United States” and make up 26 percent of the nation’s prekindergarten through grade 12 school population, according to the bill’s text.
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'Utterly unsustainable': Denver mulling fix for special education workloads
Chalkbeat
Whereas the workloads of classroom teachers are dictated by factors like class size and 45-minute periods, specialized service providers have less definition to their workday. The committee’s goal is to adopt a workload calculator that would help specialized service providers and special education teachers collect data to quantify the work that they do.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Webinar: Moving On and Moving Up!
NAESP
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Address Inequities in the Early Grades
NAESP
The National P-3 Center is offering a P-3 Leadership Certificate on addressing early learning inequities. Apply for this 11-month fully online, executive-style program for working administrators by April 29.
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