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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Jeremy Knoll, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "As an English teacher, I love thinking about the meaning of words. The definition of the word observation is the action or process of observing something carefully in order to gain information. I am struck by how literally my current principal takes this definition and uses it in positive ways to make my work feel valued."
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Leadership Freak
Negative environments are built by default. 50 percent of our emotional vocabulary describes negative emotion. 30 percent describes positive emotion. 20 percent is neutral. You have more words for negative energy than positive emotion. The problem of negativity is compounded when you realize that only one of your core emotions is universally positive.
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By: Mashaal Hashmi (commentary)
 Flu season, illnesses, tough political times, economic hardships, grief, difficult relationships — all of these things and more are affecting your employees on a daily basis. Obviously, a lot of this is happening outside of your company's walls, but it can still cause problems during work hours. There's scientific research based on the correlation between your work and your health. There's also research based on how being a good boss means taking care of your employees' wellness.
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Harvard Business Review
Imagine this: You're a general manager for a manufacturing company and orders are up. You know you should be celebrating, but instead, you feel gut punched. Your plants are facing severe capacity and material constraints and you know you can't fill these orders. Now you have to decide which ones to fill, which to delay and which to turn away.
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CLO
Just as important as recognizing that a talented workforce is the lifeblood of any good company is the ability to drive effective strategies to attract, develop and retain high-quality talent. Like many technology companies, Epicor Software is keen to attract and retain millennials. These digital natives have grown up immersed in technology — critical for a company such as Epicor, where we design industry-specific software to fit the needs of our manufacturing, distribution, retail and service industry customers that must also appeal to this new generation of buyers. To attract and retain employees who bring new perspectives, we’ve implemented specific digital strategies for talent acquisition, training and leadership development.
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Inc.
Today's organizations are undergoing rapid transformation due to an influx of Millennial and Generation Z workers who are determined to build careers and companies differently, and due to societal implications resulting from the chaotic political environment. Leaders of established companies must embrace these changes if they want to attract and retain the talent they will need to sustain and grow their organizations. Leaders of emerging companies will naturally implement these shifts as they work to build organizations that reflect their value systems and desired company cultures.
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The Lead Change Group
Tons of information is accessible on the internet on mistakes that first-time managers make. Enough literature is available on developing new skills by new managers.
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The NIGHTLOCK® Lockdown uses the strength of the floor to withstand tremendous force, and works on any outward- and inward-swinging doors. The NIGHTLOCK unit is installed at floor level, and remains out of reach to anyone attempting to enter by breaking window glass on conventional classroom and office doors.
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Education Week
Technology is entwined in the lives of the children who attend Johnson Elementary School in Charlottesville, Virgina. — perhaps too deeply, said Principal Summerlyn Thompson. Thompson, the leader of the PK-4 school since 2013, has seen some of her students arriving at school bleary-eyed from lack of sleep. She believes the culprits are television and digital devices.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 The amount of information available at our fingertips is amazing. At any given moment, we can accomplish more, quicker. We can connect with more people, easily. And we can capture data, ideas and potential issues, simply. In many ways, this accessibility has had positive effects on our productivity. However, there are well-documented, notable downsides like increased stress, negative impacts on sleep and strains on interpersonal interactions.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Rebecca Alber, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "In my years teaching in urban public schools, I saw many students experience extreme stress from living in poverty and also in gang-affiliated neighborhoods. The children I taught had frequent food and housing insecurity, and were exposed to multiple forms of violence—on the streets, at school, and in their homes. As The Atlantic reports, location, income level, and race can determine how often children experience crisis and violence."
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Education Week
Over the last two decades, federal grants for educating low-income students have shifted from overwhelmingly being targeted to only the individual low-income students in a building to mostly being used to support schoolwide programs on high-poverty campuses. A new nationwide study of the $15.8 billion Title I program suggests that, while the more holistic approach has allowed school and district leaders to support a broader array of staff and interventions for students in poverty, school leaders often do not receive the training and information needed to make the most of the grant's flexibility.
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Education Week
Former first lady Barbara Bush, an advocate for early and adult literacy in the White House and afterward, died April 18 at the age of 94. The wife of President George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, and the mother of George W. Bush, the 43rd, as well as of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and of three other children, Bush used the bully pulpit of her office as first lady to advance the issue on the behalf of both for children and their parents.
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The Brookings Institution
The U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Betsy DeVos has recently taken steps to walk back the agency's role in protecting the civil rights of LGBTQ students. In multiple congressional appearances, for example, DeVos has
consistently declined to say that the department will protect LGBTQ students from discrimination. Further, the agency decided this past fall to rescind the Obama administration's Title IX guidance regarding transgender students.
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EdTech Magazine
For a K–12 IT department, one of the biggest security threats may be as sinister as it sounds. Shadow IT — the term for hardware, software and applications acquired by an organization's users without going through the IT department — has become common, especially with the rise in inexpensive computing devices and widely available mobile and cloud-based apps.
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School Leaders Now
There are nearly as many different ed tech strategies as there are schools and students. Here's how to find the educational technology plan that's right for your school.
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EdSurge
Recently, my school district — like many across the country — has begun to explore ways to increase students' technology use in thoughtful ways, especially at the middle and high school level. Taking the idea from theory to practice is something that takes a lot of work, and classroom teachers can sometimes benefit from extra support to make this successful transition.
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eSchool News
The learning spectrum is broad: On one end, there's the student who loves a challenge; at the other exists one who consistently doubts his or her ability to successfully complete that challenge — and there are countless other types of students in between. Whether students are best suited to a traditional lecture, independent reading or working with peers in a more visual environment, it's well known that no two learn in the same manner.
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U.S. News & World Report
More students are enrolling in state preschool programs than ever before as states continue to invest in them. But those increases are eclipsed by a slump in the rate of growth and in per-student spending, the latter of which is an important indicator of quality. Those are just some of the top-line findings from an annual assessment of every state's preschool offerings, released by the National Institute for Early Education Research.
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Edutopia
For many of us, reading is as automatic as breathing. But for the millions of students with dyslexia, reading is a difficult task that poses constant academic and emotional challenges. To simulate the experience of reading with dyslexia, try using this key to decipher the coded statement below.
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GameTime
Studies show students who are physically active throughout the school day perform better in class. A curriculum and playgrounds based on national standards for physical education are helping schools keep students active. A new funding opportunity is also helping with up to $25,000 for active school projects.
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Education DIVE
In these digital days, knowing how to write in cursive may seem a bit of an anachronism. People can sign legal documents online just by typing in their name, and whether a student can properly swoop their Y's correctly doesn't impact their ability to pass an SAT exam or even get their high school diploma.
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Education World
Do you need ideas for occupying students during the last ten minutes of a busy day? Perhaps you want to reward kids at the end of a particularly productive day. These ten games are great for end-of-the-day fun. You can link many of them to classroom curricula too. These games are also great to use for your Field Day activities! It's a rainy day, everyone has to stay indoors, and the kids are driving you nuts. Maybe you just want to give a well-deserved break to students who have really been trying hard in class. What do you do? Play a game!
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EdSource
Boosting the language development of students whose first language is not English is critical if California is to narrow the wide and persistent gaps in math test scores between its nearly 1.4 million English learners and their English proficient peers. That is the recommendation in a recent report by Education Trust–West, which highlights the successful strategies that five California districts implemented to improve the academic performance of English learners.
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eSchool News
Efforts to ramp up computer science education in K-12 schools have intensified across the nation, and with good cause — most future jobs will require some form of computational thinking. According to Code.org stats, only 15 states have created K-12 computer science standards. In 35 states and Washington, D.C., computer science can count toward a high school math or science requirement; this is up from just 12 states in 2013. In a 2016 Gallup report, 84 percent of parents, 71 percent of teachers, 66 percent of principals, and 65 percent of superintendents said they believe offering computer science is more important than, or just as important as, required courses such as math, science, history and English.
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The Atlantic
Every two years, education-policy wonks gear up for what has become a time-honored ritual: the release of the Nation's Report Card. Officially known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, the data reflect the results of reading and math tests administered to a sample of students across the country. Experts generally consider the tests rigorous and highly reliable — and the scores basically stagnant.
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The Brookings Institution
Recently, the National Assessment Governing Board and National Center for Education Statistics released results from the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress. Often referred to as "the Nation's Report Card," these results provide a bi-annual barometer on how states and the country as a whole are performing in the classroom. This year's results are particularly noteworthy because they are from the final NAEP administered before implementation of the new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind. In this sense, these results reflect a boundary in the timeline of education policy, demarcating the end of the NCLB era and the beginning of the ESSA era.
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Education DIVE
This new study highlights the growing influence that neuroscience is having on the field of education. In the past decade, more attention has been paid to how executive functions affect the learning process in students. This recent study confirms the earlier results released in 2014 by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. In that study, lead author Clancy Blair, professor of applied psychology, concluded that, "Working memory and the ability to control attention, both important components of executive functions, enable children to focus and process information more efficiently.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The government recently announced the closure of 283 schools and a new pilot plan for charter schools and vouchers. Meanwhile, education nonprofits, parent-teacher associations and teachers' union members are seeking solutions of their own.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Public Schools will provide about $60 million in additional funding to schools for the next academic year, an increase district officials said will cover salary increases for unionized teachers and restore a special education funding model that was abandoned amid much controversy in 2016. The modest per-school spending bump will allow principals to maintain staff levels from this year. The district also said 129 schools that have suffered sharp enrollment declines and struggled to provide a basic education will share an additional $10 million to $15 million to protect against staff or program cuts.
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NAESP
Bridging the gap between the school day and after-school and summer learning has often been a challenge for school leaders. Expanded learning programs are critical for student success. How can this be done? Where does a principal begin? What resources are available to expand my current program? Answers to these and many more questions are a click away in this highly informative learning experience.
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NAESP
You've probably heard, "Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others." This is true both in aircraft and in educational settings — you have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If principals are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive energy and enthusiasm to provide the best leadership for staff and students? Take a few moments for this much needed webinar and obtain renewed energy and vitality as you learn to take care of your personal needs along with your professional duties. Join presenter Dr. Joe Mazza on Wednesday, May 9, 3-4 p.m. EDT for his webinar, "Turn Down the Pressure: Finding Balance in Work and Life."
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