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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
4 security tactics you should follow as schools reopen
District Administration Magazine
With much focus on re-engaging students in learning as more schools reopen, administrators are also re-committing to security beyond PPE and COVID precautions. "We need to plan for the unplanned," says Todd Miller, the senior vice president of strategic programs at emergency communications provider Rave Mobile Safety. "There have been a lot of changes over the last year in terms of guidance and direction, and we can take the lessons learned over past year and make sure they are incorporated into the ongoing process."
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What K-12 leaders should know when spending federal funds
EdTech Magazine
Since March 2020, the federal government has provided roughly $190 billion to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. The passing of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 on March 11 marks the third designation of federal funding K–12 schools have seen during the pandemic. The newest stimulus package allocates the most money to fund K–12 education since the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act last March and the subsequent Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act in December.
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Showing support for school counselors during the pandemic
By Brian Stack
We are just over a year into a pandemic that has already caused radical shifts and rifts in our society and our profession. Since it started, some of our profession's unsung heroes that you don't often hear enough about are our school counselors. This team, often a small group in a school, have been quietly trying to hold things together for the sake of our students, our staff, and our families. Have you checked in on your school counselors lately to make sure they are OK?
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4 ways to know when to use a shortened school day
District Administration Magazine
IEP teams may be tempted while students are slowly returning to school buildings to shorten the school days of students with disabilities who exhibit behavioral issues, particularly if they refuse to follow health and safety guidelines. But special education directors should alert staff that doing so in the long term could infringe on students' ability to receive FAPE.
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How to find fulfillment when work is frustrating
Leadership Freak
Leadership is frustrating sometimes. Other times it's fulfilling. How do leaders find fulfillment? Fulfillment isn't a job title. I know people who have powerful job titles who aren't fulfilled. Achievement doesn't promise fulfillment. People who achieve great things commit suicide just like the rest of us.
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Find the right words to inspire your team
Harvard Business Review
As the leader of an organization, group, or project, one of your top jobs is to inspire and galvanize your team through a variety of targeted communications, including live expressions, emails, videos, chats, social media posts and presentations. These communication opportunities are critical. According to leadership expert and former CEO Douglas Conant, "Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders and the future."
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The dumbest thing you can say to an employee
Inc. (commentary)
Jeff Haden, a contributor for Inc., writes: "I was on a Zoom call when a company founder who shall remain nameless (and his company unwritten-about, because dude, seriously?) yelled at the end of a rant to an employee struggling to share his screen, 'You're lucky you still have a job!' Yeah, no. Your employees may like their jobs. They may enjoy their schedule flexibility. Be excited by the developmental opportunities. Be thrilled to work with great colleagues. Feel fulfilled because they make a meaningful difference in the lives of others."
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How to finally solve employee engagement
By David Horsager
We toss around the word "engagement," but what is it? High employee engagement has a few standout elements: genuine connection, commitment to one's role and workplace, and a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve the mission. High employee engagement is a great aspiration, but the first step to fixing the engagement problem is realizing it can't be solved by changing the workplace into something more similar to leisure time. Ping-pong tables aren't the solution to a disengaged workplace culture. In fact, disengagement isn't even the core issue. Disengagement is the consequence, not the problem.
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How to have difficult conversations at work
Fast Company
One of the disadvantages of living in a civilized society is that there are great incentives to lie to others, especially at work. Many of us prefer fake compliments and sham agreements to brutally honest feedback and honest disagreement because we value harmony and collegiality.
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4 leadership traps that prevent accountability
Forbes
Leaders in an organization wield a lot of power and responsibility. They set the tone for their team, make decisions that affect business outcomes, foster leadership in others and bear the brunt of responsibility when things go wrong.
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This is how to keep your cool during an emotionally taxing conversation
Fast Company
At one point or another, we've all lost our cool at work. Perhaps you pulled an all-nighter to finish a project, only to feel distressed when it was criticized by a client. Or maybe a coworker failed to pull their weight and dumped their work on you at the last minute. These everyday workplace aggravations can make your blood boil.
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Want to be a better leader? Science says say 'thank you' a lot more often
Inc.
If you're like most people, you probably wish you got thanked a little more often. Hold that thought. In a classic Mad Men scene, Peggy confronts Don for taking credit for her idea. He disagrees. "It was a kernel (of an idea)," he says. "Which you changed just enough so it was yours," Peggy says.
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How to lead with humanity through crises
Inc.
It's been a year since America plummeted into a web of overlapping crises — health, economic, political, caregiving, racial justice. As a result, "stay at home" categories, such as connectivity platforms, streaming sites and online retailers, have boomed financially. Yet, certain companies rose above the rest even within these industries. And, more surprisingly, some businesses have seen significant growth in revenue and public reputation, despite having offerings unconnected to or even disrupted by these crises.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
How to cultivate creativity and innovation in the workplace
By Sunny Dhami
Creativity is something that many companies and employees strive for in the workplace. It is an opportunity for people to think differently and build skills in various areas. But creativity isn't always something that comes naturally. It's something that requires teamwork and effort and may even involve a change in thinking altogether. But even with that thought, having creativity as part of a company dynamic is well worth implementing, because originality leads to innovation. Here are some easy ways you can cultivate creativity and innovation in the workplace.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Biden budget includes 'first step toward fully funding IDEA'
Disability Scoop
President Joe Biden is calling for the federal government to make sizable investments in special education and support other programs benefiting people with disabilities in his first budget proposal. Biden sent a first look at his budget request to Congress. The 58-page document serves as a blueprint of the president's priorities for discretionary spending as lawmakers consider appropriations for the 2022 fiscal year, which begins in October.
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Nearly $200B in K-12 pandemic relief funding brings advantages, challenges
K-12 DIVE
While there are spending priorities for immediate needs school systems still face one year into the pandemic, such as the purchase of personal protective equipment and devices for learning, district leaders should consult with stakeholders to set goals for expenditures, in addition to developing procedures for monitoring and accountability of those funds, said the panelists.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Trust the process: How to choose and use ed tech that actually works
EdSurge
We've all read the news over the past year, and it's no longer a surprise that many schools around the country were woefully unprepared for COVID-19. According to one recent survey, nine in 10 educators expect technology to play an increased role in the coming years. But the pandemic made clear that despite dramatic increases in the amount of technology used in schools, all those new tools fell short when it came to actually maintaining an effective learning experience during a global crisis.
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Ed tech boom: The changing mindset of parents and students
Education Technology
We are only just beginning to see how the pandemic has triggered irreversible disruption in so many sectors. The effects of education establishments being closed has had far reaching effects, The World Bank estimates that as many as 1.7 billion students were out of school this year, which is 90% of all students globally. And 600 million have yet to return. The World Bank also estimates that around 10 million students may never return as a result of their parents being out of work and the financial implications that this causes.
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Digital tools prove critical for early learners during COVID
eSchool News
For early learners, nothing beats in-class learning. Having a teacher in close proximity to assess the needs of their students is critical for growth. 2020 threw a wrench in that format, forcing students and teachers to communicate digitally. While the year was disruptive on many levels, educators found ways to persevere. After all, sitting by idly and missing time to shape future generations simply was not an option. For all the pandemic is and was, it has forced positive growth, flexibility, adaptability and innovation. Still, it has been tough on teachers and their students.
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Online school. Poor technology. Declining enrollments.
Politico
The COVID-19 pandemic was arguably the largest shock to American education in generations. In a matter of days, students and teachers swapped classrooms for Chromebooks and school desks for kitchen tables. Schools and parents needed to figure out how to secure reliable internet for children, and college students had to decide whether undergraduate schooling was worth the price if you couldn't be on campus. The past year has also highlighted discrepancies in how local school districts responded to the pandemic, as well as gaps in digital access across states.
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In-class, remote or hybrid learning? How technology can help
Education Technology
The pandemic effectively displaced 1.2 billion students from receiving classroom instruction in 2020. Coronavirus caught many schools and instructors by surprise. Consequently, many institutions received little time and resources to support the shift from in-class training to online. This isn't saying that technology in education, specifically remote learning, is a new concept for schools, but most schools had to come up with a plan to change their mode of learning from in-person classroom to fully remote.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
5 suggestions for raising a struggling reader
By Scott Clamme
As a special education teacher and parent, I have worked with many children who have struggled to learn to read. The main thing to remember as a parent is to be patient. Children are all different, and they go through different processes when learning to read. Often, learning to read can be like learning to ride a bike. Some kids learn easier and earlier than others, but as long as they don't give up, most end up being competent readers. The key is keeping them from giving up. This article features some suggestions that can help keep your struggling reader on the path toward reading competence.
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Students who gesture during learning 'grasp' concepts better
Scientific American
When we talk, we naturally gesture — we open our palms, we point, we chop the air for emphasis. Such movement may be more than superfluous hand flapping. It helps communicate ideas to listeners and even appears to help speakers think and learn. A growing field of psychological research is exploring the potential of having students or teachers gesture as pupils learn.
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7 tips for exploring environmental science through project-based learning
Edutopia
Research supports what project-based learning practitioners and advocates have always known: PBL works — and how well it works is measurable. This is especially exciting for science teachers. PBL is often a natural fit with science frameworks such as the Next Generation Science Standards because PBL helps facilitate experimentation, which emulates the work that real scientists do.
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How to launch a flipped classroom
Tech & Learning
The realities of pandemic teaching have made the concept of a flipped classroom and flipped learning more appealing than ever before for many educators. "The entire conversation has changed in the last 12 months around flipped learning," says Matthew Moore, a high school math teacher and board member of Flipped Learning Network, a nonprofit online hub for flipped classroom practitioners.
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Tips for promoting student voice in middle school
Edutopia
Encouraging students to use their voices to speak up for themselves and others has always been a part of my practice. This year, however, it is even more important that students have opportunities to speak and be heard, given how isolated many are due to remote learning.
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What today's classrooms can learn from ancient cultures
MindShift
When Michaeleen Doucleff, an American science reporter, visited a preschool in an Arctic town, she was surprised by one of the regularly-scheduled activities. "Some days, a parent will bring a seal to butcher inside the classroom," the teacher told her. "Then the kids can run over and watch if they want." At the end, he offered all the children a piece of seal meat. It was a real task that all the children might execute when they were old enough, reinforced here in school.
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7 iPad time-saving tips for teachers
We Are Teachers
Teachers love teaching. That's why we're always looking for time-saving tools, like the ones you can find on iPad. There are so many built-in features that will save time so you can take back your weekends and evenings (yes, please!). Here are seven iPad time-saving tips for teachers you won't want to miss.
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25 third grade math games and activities that really keep kids engaged
We Are Teachers
When you get to third grade, math takes a pretty big leap forward. Common Core standards include multiplication and division, basic geometry, and rounding, among others. These third grade math games and activities will help your students master these key skills in fun and engaging ways.
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Students lead US push for fuller Black history education
The Associated Press
Ebele Azikiwe was in the sixth grade last year when February came and it was time to learn about Black history again. She was, by then, familiar with the curriculum: Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a discussion on slavery. Just like the year before, she said, and the year before that. Then came George Floyd's death in May, and she wrote to the administration at her school in Cherry Hill, in New Jersey's Philadelphia suburbs, to ask for more than the same lessons.
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Felisa Ford on 'good trouble: Lessons in social justice' for Minecraft Education
EdTech Magazine
Minecraft: Education Edition's "Good Trouble: Lessons in Social Justice" brings the discussion of equality to students by introducing them to the late U.S. Congressman John Lewis. The lesson, which has more than 2 million downloads since its release last November, helps educators explore the ideas of social injustice with their students. Other lessons in the series will cover identity, diversity and inclusion.
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5 ways to reach your students with poetry
Teaching Channel
Fear not, there are actually super-engaging ways to dazzle your students with the wonders of poetry — and reach even your most struggling or reluctant students. So this year, be bold. Branch out from the tried and true poetry classics and inspire your students with these engaging forms of poetry that will spark curiosity for all types of learners. Some educators have compiled their work from this year, Student Voices on a Year That Made History.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Even where schools open for in-person instruction, students stay home
THE Journal
The permutations of K-12 instruction being delivered are many right now, and so are the choices families are making for the education of their students. By mid-March 2021 more than three-quarters of fourth- and eighth-grade students (76%) were being offered the chance to attend public schools open at least some of the time for face-to-face lessons. But just a fraction of those students attended in-person instruction. The remaining 24% of grade 4 and grade 8 students were in schools that were only online.
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Why educators should create more inclusive conversations in the classroom
EdSurge (commentary)
Joshua Suh, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "As a third-generation Korean American, I was never conscious of my family lineage, especially growing up in Irvine, California, which has been a melting pot of diversity for the last twenty-some years. Like many others in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, recent headlines like the deadly killings in an Atlanta nail salon have led me to reflect on my values and my story here in America."
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Children's healthiest meals of the day come from school cafeterias
CNN
School food is often given a bad rap, but a new study found it can be the healthiest meal children eat in a day. Researchers analyzed the diets of over 21,000 children and 40,000 adults between 2003 and 2018 and found that the percentage of "poor nutritional quality food consumed from schools" declined from 55% to 24% over the 15-year period, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Network Open.
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Study: Elementary school children can learn evolutionary concepts that stump adults
University of Toronto Mississauga via Phys.org
Story time took on a whole new twist in a recent study by UTM psychology professor Samuel Ronfard. Working with collaborators Sarah Brown, Erin Doncaster, and Deborah Kelemen from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University, Ronfard and his colleagues used storybooks to teach elementary school children how new species evolve. The researchers examined whether children could learn, apply, and retain that understanding over time.
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Schools can open safely during covid, the latest evidence shows
Scientific American
Since the earliest days of the pandemic last March, debate has raged over whether U.S. schools are a significant source of COVID-19 transmission and should remain closed — or if in-person learning can, and should, continue with safety protocols in place. Experts have expressed increasing concern over the downsides that prolonged virtual instruction might pose for academic and social development in children — especially kids in disadvantaged communities who were already struggling before the pandemic.
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Children with worse atopic dermatitis more likely to have learning disabilities
HealthDay News
Worse atopic dermatitis severity is associated with increased odds of learning disorders in pediatric patients, according to a study published online April 14 in JAMA Dermatology. Joy Wan, M.D., from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and colleagues used data from 2,074 participants (aged 2 to 17 years) in the Pediatric Eczema Elective Registry with a physician-confirmed diagnosis of AD and 10 years of follow-up.
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.IN THE STATES
Many English learners reluctant to return to in-person instruction at California schools
EdSource
Students who are learning English as a second language have priority to return to in-person class at some school districts in California, but many are still staying home because their parents fear the risk of COVID-19 infection is too high. For English learners, live instruction and small groups can offer more opportunities to practice English, a critical part of learning the language.
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Massachusetts state lawmakers want to offer free school meals permanently
WBZ NewsRadio
There may indeed be a such thing as a free lunch. State Rep. Andy Vargas, D-Haverhill, and State Sen. Sal DiDomenico are sponsoring a bill in the state legislature to make school meals free for every student in Massachusetts. Sen. DiDomenico said in a statement about the bill that more than a quarter of the kids in Massachusetts dealing with food insecurity don't qualify for free or reduced school meals.
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How the hope and potential of 'at-promise' moves mainstream
District Administration Magazine
The idea was simple: Change an adjective and change the culture. The thinking was to replace the conversational and written label for the student referred to as "at-risk," and offer up the more positively framed "at-promise." Strong work for an adjective. The at-risk connotation has gnawed at educators wanting to de-stigmatize the terminology for years. Minorities grumbled privately until they found their voice. The movement gained traction in mid-2019 as Californians pressed their state assembly to put action into law.
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In-school therapy partnerships lead to measurable success
Idaho Ed News
Stephanie Lindholm's usually happy boys were struggling. Her divorce from their father had been traumatic: not just the separation, but the turmoil and restraining orders that followed. The boys were scared, and acting out. Stephanie's oldest son, 8, struggled to stay on task and didn't want to engage with family activities. Her kindergartner started to hit his brother, and to challenge Stephanie at every turn.
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'Zoom in a Room'? California's schools lag in reopening push
The Associated Press
Frustrated parents in San Francisco have coined a new phrase for their latest classroom reality: "Zoom in a Room." In Los Angeles, students can start going back to school in person, but more than half say they will stick with distance learning. More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced California's classrooms to close, some of the largest school districts are welcoming back students this week. But the most populated state is lagging the rest of the country — and in some cases offering options that parents say are unacceptable.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Helping children understand autism
NAESP
Since one in every 54 children is diagnosed with autism, students are likely to encounter a number of children with the disorder. That's why it's important to foster in students an acceptance of individuals with different abilities. "Helping Children Understand Autism," offers families ways to educate their children about autism.
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