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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How school leaders can better predict which principals are going to leave
District Administration Magazine
Can principal vacancies be predicted? Perhaps the bigger question for administrators is, “Why aren’t you trying to predict them?” After all, if you don’t know who or how many principals might be leaving each year, you have much less time to prepare your most qualified replacements.
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Conversing with teachers: Leveraging what we've learned from the pandemic
Understood
In the world of education, the last 18 months required a combination of remote and hybrid learning that created unprecedented challenges for teachers. At Understood, we want to understand how to best support educators to make sure they have the resources to support all kids — particularly the 1 in 5 students with learning and thinking differences, such as ADHD and dyslexia.
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Schools grapple with new restrictions on teaching about gender and sexuality
Chalkbeat
These issues are not new — there have been decades-long arguments about what children should learn about gender and sexuality in school — but observers say this moment is notable because of the number of proposals and the speed at which they’re spreading. Federal education officials have said they’re watching for potential federal civil rights violations.
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'Every day feels unsettled': Educators decry staffing shortage
The Conversation
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its multiple waves of remote, hybrid and in-person education, increased students' needs for support, revealed political minefields in teaching and heightened labor tensions for educators. And in the 2021-2022 school year, staffing shortages have made all of that worse, as our work details.
Our long-term research with hundreds of teachers and school administrators reveals that persistent staffing shortages are leading professionals to feel burned out and to worry about students missing learning opportunities.
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Using school counselors to promote SEL in the classroom
Transforming Education
Some would argue that teacher demands have increased over time. In a publication written by policy fellows of TeachPlus MA, a teacher is directly quoted as saying, "Because my school is underfunded, I am not only the English Language Arts and ESL teacher, I am also the social studies teacher because that job was cut. I am the librarian… I am often a counselor. I am the registrar creating grade reports and the attendance officer calling home." One could argue many teachers across the state and nation feel similarly.
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To support stressed staff members, districts are turning to an overlooked resource
Education Week
Employee assistance programs — which offer staffers help with mental health, financial, substance abuse, family care and other issues — have long been a staple of school district benefit packages.
Now, with the pandemic taking a toll on the well-being of principals, teachers and other K-12 staff, some districts are seeing an increase in the number of employees using those programs, which typically cover dependents and household members as well.
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Pandemic learning was tough on everyone. Bilingual students faced additional challenges
EdSurge
Garcia Elementary is a dual-language school. Just a couple days after Thanksgiving break 2021, its teachers aren’t just trying to get students caught up on multiplication tables or grammar. They’re making up for months lost to the pandemic when students could have been making bigger strides with their second language, English, which they will need when they’re older and expected to take all their classes in.
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Equity in schools begins with changing mindsets
Edutopia
By improving students' motivation, engagement, academic self-regulation and overall achievement, teacher-student relationships offer schools continual opportunities to support students' learning.
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Police presence on school grounds poses potential risks to kids
The Conversation (Commentary)
The school resource officer debate has many sides. This debate comes at a time when communities and police have increasingly strained relations due to police shootings and other negative encounters. It also comes at a time when cities such as Alexandria, Virginia; Washington, DC; and Milwaukee are wrestling with whether to have school resource officers or regular police officers on campus.
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Teacher shortage: How higher education is working to solve the K-12 crisis
District Adminstration Magazine
Institutions of higher education can be pivotal in helping solve the problem, and several leaders from powerhouse universities recently came together for a discussion at the ASU-GSV Summit, a standout education technology conference hosted annually by Arizona State University, the nation’s No. 1 school for innovation. The goal: reimagine the future of learning, build back that pipeline and most notably, give teachers way more support than they’ve been getting.
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With aid to spend, schools look for students who need help
Associated Press
Districts are trying to address that lack of information by adding new tests, training teachers to spot learning gaps and exploring new ways to identify students who need help. In many districts, the findings are being used to guide the spending of billions of dollars in federal relief that’s meant to address learning loss and can be used in myriad ways.
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3 ways SEL helps students build life readiness
eSchool News
Social and emotional learning (SEL) might still be new to some educators, but the skills it teaches are the same we have been trying to help young people develop for decades. Adaptability, agency, collaboration, empathy, self-awareness and purpose are skills and qualities employers seek in their employees, and — more than that — skills that support young people to thrive on whatever path they choose to follow.
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Tech tools that help teachers and students exchange feedback
Edutopia
Although feedback is often traditionally viewed as written on assignments, technology provides a variety of ways for teachers to provide it. Authentic and differentiated methods of feedback can be more engaging and effective for students and teachers, in addition to enhancing the learning process and supporting understanding on both sides.
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Virtual screening, identification for ELs challenged districts during pandemic
K-12 DIVE
Virtual alternatives to screening and identification had "a lot of room for error due to limited and imperfect information" during the pandemic. As a result, education leaders are now erring on the side of caution. That is leading to an inflated number of students currently identified as English learners (ELs) entering the 2021-22 school year.
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Can we measure the impact of personalized learning?
eSchool News
New edtech developments have helped these learning techniques become more efficient, scalable and achievable for educators over the last decade. Many strategies were forced to take a back seat to more pressing challenges during the pandemic, and now it’s time to turn our attention to a more individualized form of learning once again.
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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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.EDUCATION POLICY
State education department awards $95 million to support 21st century community learning centers
NYSED
21st century community learning centers sites provide opportunities for academic enrichment and offer supplemental services such as youth development programs, after-school activities, health and wellness education, and counseling. In addition, the centers help families of students become more involved in their children’s education.
The state education department is the grant recipient and administrator of subgrants through a competitive peer-reviewed process. Funding for the subgrants is distributed across the state among judicial districts (JD) based on the percentage of disadvantaged students that attend schools in each JD.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
High technology, education and teachable moments
Government Technology (Commentary)
With students spending most of their waking hours interacting with technology, educators must think critically about its appropriate use and discuss with students the cost of relying so much on these tools.
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Edtech is looking to build tools to foster student engagement. Can that scale?
EdSurge (Commentary)
Authentic student community was already challenging to build pre-pandemic. Now, after two years of COVID-driven instability, it’s even harder to find.
With student disengagement and mental health problems on the rise, edtech solutions are trying to help rebuild that student connection. At this year’s ASU-GSV Summit, an annual gathering of edtech investors and companies, scaling learning communities arose as a major theme.
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How we created a computer science curriculum in 5 steps
eSchool News
Even with a strict budget, limited teacher expertise in computer science and the chaos of a pandemic, the Metropolitan School District of Pike Township launched a comprehensive and engaging K-5 computer science curriculum for every student.
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'There are so many issues': Why schools are struggling to protect student data
Education Week
Teachers, education and technology companies, students and parents were tossed into a digital storm when COVID-19 hit two years ago. They had to quickly shift to remote learning on a grand scale, which amplified weaknesses in student data privacy protections that were already a problem before the pandemic.
By many accounts, as most U.S. students have been back in the classroom this academic year, school systems and tech and education companies have applied the lessons learned and bolstered student data privacy.
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How tech-driven teaching strategies have changed during the pandemic
Education Week
Two years of intermittent remote and hybrid learning led schools to expand their use of some of the best-known technology tools in K-12, opening the door for instructional changes both small and large.
That’s according to a review of more than two dozen surveys administered to a nationally representative sample of teachers, principals and district leaders by the EdWeek Research Center between March 2020 and January 2022.
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Why schools need to talk about racial bias in AI-powered technologies
Education Week
Schools are embracing education technologies that use artificial intelligence for everything from teaching math to optimizing bus routes.
Their goals are to save money, personalize student learning and free teachers from rote administrative tasks.
But how can educators know if the data and design processes those products rely on have been skewed by racial bias? And what happens if they’re afraid to ask?
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This teen shared her troubles with a robot. Could AI 'chatbots' solve the youth mental health crisis?
The 74
Chatbots employ artificial intelligence similar to Alexa or Siri to engage in text-based conversations. Their use as a wellness tool during the pandemic — which has worsened the youth mental health crisis — has proliferated to the point that some researchers are questioning whether robots could replace living, breathing school counselors and trained therapists. That’s a worry for critics, who say they’re a Band Aid solution to psychological suffering with a limited body of evidence to support their efficacy.
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Guiding students to develop a clear understanding of their cellphone use
Edutopia
Are you reading this on your phone right now? If the answer is yes, you understand the dilemma that cell phones pose in our classes. Technology use is ubiquitous. Our students are immersed in a technological world, and we need to learn ways to control the use of phones in class.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
How to instill a 'growth mindset' in kids
U.S. News & World Report
Research has shown that kids with a growth mindset embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks and learn from their mistakes. They feel a greater sense of control over their lives and become more motivated. All of that translates to an academic impact: For instance, one 2021 report from the Program for International Student Assessment found that students identified as having a strong growth mindset scored significantly higher on all subjects than those who believed their intelligence was fixed.
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Helping students make sense of new material
Edutopia
These four metacognitive activities help students connect new lessons to prior learning, find patterns and assess their strengths and weaknesses by articulating what they know and what they don’t.
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3 authentic multimodal projects for young writers
Edutopia
Instead of writing being a joyful time for self-expression and sharing, it was turning into a time of big behaviors and classroom management challenges. This prompted me to ask: What could I do to get my second graders back in the room during writing?
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Students are behaving badly in class. Excessive screen time might be to blame
Education Week
Without even counting digital instruction, the amount of time teenagers and tweens spend staring at computer screens rivals how much time they would spend working at a full- or a part-time job. Educators and children’s health experts alike argue students need more support to prevent the overuse of technology from leading to unhealthy behaviors in the classroom.
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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 might need to incorporate a variety of supports into your English Language Arts instruction, including Universal Design for Learning, 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 to help address these gaps before students move into high school.
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.IN THE STATES
Mayor Eric Adams adds more spots in gifted programs
New York Times
By expanding the gifted and talented program and permanently eliminating admissions tests, Eric Adams hopes to address what city officials have acknowledged for years: The program has contributed to racially segregated classrooms.
Though 70 percent of the students in the city’s school system are Black and Latino, around 75 percent of the students enrolled in gifted classes are white or Asian American.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Webinar: Moving On and Moving Up!
NAESP
It's hiring season! In a webinar April 27 at 4 p.m. ET, learn tips to fine tune your resume, prep for interviews with practice questions, and distinguish yourself among the other candidates.
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Topnotch Speakers Headline NAESP Conference
NAESP
The lineup of general session speakers at the NAESP Pre-K-8 Principals Conference July 15-17 in Louisville, Kentucky, features keynote speaker Inky Johnson, who embraced adversity to live life with a greater purpose, and a live, virtual session with Simon Sinek, who’ll inspire you to live your “why.”
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