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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Report: Principal supervisors a 'key' but sometimes untapped resource
K-12 DIVE
The report also cites research showing effective principals can have a significant impact on student outcomes, potentially raising learning gains by more than two months in a school year. However, principals report being slim on time as they undertake instructional leadership, despite spending as much as 17% of their job on actions related to teaching and learning. Principals also report not knowing what to look for when observing and giving feedback to teachers, and have expressed a desire for professional learning themselves, which they sometimes do not have access to.
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42% of principals want to leave their position. Will you let them?
Education Week
For as long as school building leaders are responsible for learning walks and formal observations, there will be pressure on them to practice instructional leadership. Some school building leaders can do it without any issue and have credibility within their buildings to practice it, while others lack the credibility, and their learning walks and formal observations do nothing more than create chaos within their school climates.
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'We need to be nurtured, too': Many teachers say they're reaching a breaking point
NPR
To say Leah Juelke is an award-winning teacher is a bit of an understatement. She was a top 10 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize in 2020; she was North Dakota's Teacher of the Year in 2018; and she was awarded an NEA Foundation award for teaching excellence in 2019. But Juelke, who teaches high school English learners in Fargo, N.D., says nothing prepared her for teaching during the coronavirus pandemic.
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9 ways districts sit in the driver's seat for stimulus spending
District Administration Magazine
Keeping the community informed of what's possible will be important as district leaders spend multiple waves of COVID stimulus funding, says one superintendent. In the Upper Dublin School District north of Philadelphia, refining blending learning models that were implemented during the pandemic will be one priority, Superintendent Steven Yanni said during a stimulus spending webinar hosted by digital security provider, GoGuardian.
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3 lessons from 1 year of remote learning
eSchool News
As President Joe Biden works to reopen schools safely, the reality is that the way we approach in-classroom instruction has fundamentally changed. With new COVID variants swirling, and the future structure of education in flux (think no more snow days), remote learning is going to remain a key part of the curriculum for the foreseeable future and schools will need to stay agile to keep up.
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Bridging the gap between school safety and emotional wellness during a pandemic: Part 2
By Lynn Scott and Kiera Anderson
Schools seeking assessment for the purpose of evaluating and improving family and community connection can earn a family-friendly school designation by the Department of Education. The recognition is the result of an assessment process centered around surveys of school staff, parents, and students. The Family Friendly School program addresses not only academic, but physical, emotional and social needs of students. Schools earn distinction by providing evidentiary documentation addressing the components of the program.
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Exams show 3 key impacts in students' COVID rebound
District Administration Magazine
The achievement impact of COVID is shrinking in many grades, according to one company's assessments of 3.8 million students. Reading and math growth during the first half of the 2020–2021 school year came closer to expected levels in Renaissance's comparison of fall and winter results. Students in grades 1–8 who took the Star Early Literacy, Star Reading or Star Math exams scored about 2 points behind pre-COVID expectations in reading and 6 points behind in math.
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I am a principal in NYC. I appreciate everyone who works in my school building now more than ever.
Chalkbeat (commentary)
Kristin Cahill, a contributor for Chalkbeat, writes: "CEOs get up at 5 a.m., but high school principals and religious leaders get up at 4. My husband made this observation on one of our first dates, and it came to mind as I drove across an eerily empty 149th Street to reopen my school in the South Bronx a few weeks ago. This is just what I do, I told myself. But the early hour and my long pandemic absence still made simple tasks, like printing out class lists and checking student schedules, feel like a struggle."
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The summer puzzle: Summer plans to date are lacking in key areas
District Administration Magazine
Many school districts have put out little information about 2021 summer learning and enrichment plans. Moreover, many of the plans released are missing high-leverage strategies like tutoring, assessment data and clear communication plans.
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What good leaders do when replacing bad leaders
Harvard Business Review
Every leader who fills a top role previously held by someone else faces the same challenge: They must deal with the outgoing leader's accomplishments and shortcomings. When your predecessor was successful, you will be judged against their accomplishments.
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4 strategies to effectively navigate the confidence-competence matrix
The Lead Change Group
As a leader, we are all too familiar with the struggle that often exists between the need to get things done (results) and the need to build and maintain relationships, with clients and team members. As leaders, we need to be able to balance both but all too often coaching and mentoring our team members gets relegated down our to-do list as business-critical activities take precedent.
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Rising leaders need your go-ahead nod
The Lead Change Group
When was the last time your point leader gave you a go-ahead nod? What were the circumstances and how did it all turn out? Like a baseball coach sending a runner the sign to steal on the next pitch, leaders in your life can let you loose with a simple head nod. It happens when your boss eventually says, "Go for it!" after you pitch your latest wacky idea. Or, after a few weeks of pumping the brakes, they finally greenlight your game plan to retool your team or department. Better yet, even though you have nothing particular in mind, your boss clearly knows you want a new challenge, so they lob it your way.
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How inclusive is your leadership?
Harvard Business Review
America is housing a racially traumatized workforce. Many managers are ill-equipped to lead and connect with Black, Indigenous and people of color employees. The physical traits, values, behaviors and workplace identities of BIPOC employees continue to be compromised, minimized and excluded. The reality is that professionalism has become the pseudonym for assimilation.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Biden administration extends universal free school lunch through 2022
The Hill
The Biden administration issued an extension for free school lunch through 2022 as part of its effort to reopen schools safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to a press release, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow school meal programs to resume serving meals to students this fall and will extend the programs through the following year. The programs will also allow for flexible service that promotes social distancing as schools begin to reopen across the country.
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Ed Dept details rules for maintaining state K-12 funding under COVID-19 relief
K-12 DIVE
Neither the legislation authorizing the stimulus funding — the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act; the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act; and the American Rescue Plan Act — nor the Education Department's MOE guidance specify how states should determine its support for K-12 education in relation to MOE requirements. But it does provide flexibility in quantifying the amount of that support, the guidance said.
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Can teaching be improved by law?
Education Next
If there's one lesson education policymakers might have learned in the last twenty-five years, it's that it's not hard to make schools and districts do something, but it's extremely hard to make them do it well. There has always been at least a tacit assumption among policy wonks that schools and teachers are sitting on vast reserves of untapped potential that must either to be set free from bureaucratic constraints or shaken out of its complacency.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
5 ways ed-tech will transform PD post-COVID
District Administration Magazine
PD will be a major priority for stimulus in many districts as teachers continue to build their online and hybrid teaching skills. But superintendents and their teams can also use funding from the American Rescue Plan and the other two stimulus packages to transform how the PD is delivered and how teachers collaborate, says Adam Geller, the founder and CEO of Edthena, which provides video observation and feedback tools.
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Ed tech essentials: A history teacher's must-have tech list
EdTech Magazine
Jamie Ellman's eleventh grade students haven't read from a textbook all year. It's not because she only sees about a third of her students in person each day. It's because of the technology-focused model of Moe and Gene Johnson High School, where she teaches history to sophomores and juniors. The tech-based approach of Hays Consolidated Independent School District's new high school in Buda, Texas, lends itself nicely to the various digital learning models the district adopted in the wake of the pandemic. In the school's current hybrid model, students can elect whether they'd prefer to learn from home or in the classroom.
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Microsoft Teams tips and tricks for teachers
Tech & Learning
Microsoft Teams is a super powerful tool for teachers and education institutions to help create a space to better engage with pupils and enhance learning. This video-based platform is easy to use and works across most devices to connect teachers and students wherever they are. Using these Microsoft Teams tips you can get the most out of the platform.
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Online ed is the new corporate threat vector
Security Boulevard
Schools became a major hotspot for cyberattacks as students moved to online learning. In the last 30 days, education was the most targeted sector, receiving more than 60% of all malware encounters, or more than 5 million incidents, according to Microsoft Security Intelligence. The Government Accounting Office wants to know what the U.S. Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies can do to protect schools from attacks.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Starting a K-12 classroom drone program
eSchool News
More K-12 schools are introducing drones into the classroom as educators discover how useful unattended vehicles can be to teach and strengthen science, technology, art, engineering and mathematics skills. Students are engaged by the possibility of flying robots in their classrooms, but teachers will require support systems to understand how to best implement a classroom drone program.
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Proactive classroom management in preschool
Edutopia
Teachers can foster children's ability to make prosocial decisions by demonstrating faith in their good intentions and promoting their sense of control over their actions.
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The science of reading in dual language
Language Magazine
"Literacy has two beginnings: one, in the world, the other, in each person who learns to read and write." — Margaret Meek
This quote has continued to rewind and repeat in my mind as a more than 50-year research "war" re-emerges to declare to the educational world that science has definitely and universally revealed how all children learn to read.
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Making mental health checks during remote learning
eSchool News
According to a 2019 survey from the Centers for Disease Control, approximately one in five youths reported they'd seriously considered attempting suicide within the last year, while one in six had actually made a suicide plan, and one in 11 had made an attempt. Since the pandemic began, things have only gotten worse. In 2020 Mental Health America reported an uptick in severe major depression and suicidal ideation among youth.
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Students are slipping through the cracks of special education. Schools must do better.
EdSurge
This is the story of a student who got lost in the system. Jason* was a 10th grader affected by the pandemic like many other students and their families. He came to school one day and explained to his teacher that his mother had lost her job at a day care due to declining enrollment. His father was working two jobs trying to make enough money to support his family, which included his younger brother and sister.
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Take poverty out of the literacy equation for good
Language Magazine
The federal economic stimulus package passed last month achieves something progressives have dreamed of for decades: monthly assistance for families in poverty with no application process, work requirements, nor restrictions on how the money is spent. This should result in an enormous improvement in educational outcomes for our most disadvantaged children as long as it reaches those most in need and is made permanent.
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Eric Litwin, the original author of the best-selling Pete the Cat series, and Dr. Gina Pepin, an award-winning teacher, share practical tools and strategies to transform your classroom into a “reading playground”—a space where children read, sing, dance, and celebrate words and texts. The Power of Joyful Reading provides research-based solutions to implement successful shared reading experiences in daycare, preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary classrooms. These tools build students’ foundational literacy skills and help them learn to love books and see themselves as successful readers.
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How physical stress impacts you and your classroom
eSchool News
Being a teacher was already one of the most stressful occupations in America, even before the COVID-19 pandemic triggered widespread classroom changes and sudden shifts in teaching modalities. The impacts of physical stress in the classroom are widespread and have ramifications that stretch far beyond the classroom.
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Embracing the social aspect of independent reading
Edutopia
While adults worry about making decisions about the canon and whether it should or shouldn't be in the 21st-century English classroom, many students in middle school and high school worry about autonomy and when they'll be able to make decisions about what they read.
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My long, winding road to better homework
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Alex Valencic, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Let me start by telling you a story: Back in 2011, I was a new fourth grade teacher. I knew that I was supposed to give students homework because that’s just what we do in education. So I dutifully made copies of the math homework assignment sheets, sent them home each day, put a star on the ones that were returned, marked it off in my grade book, and hopefully remembered to send back the completed homework so that parents could see the stars."
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5 ways to teach perseverance in the era of helicopter parents
We Are Teachers (commentary)
Yonina Lermer, a contributor for We Are Teachers, writes: "As the years pass, I notice my students fall apart easily when they hit a snag in the road. They collapse and give up at the slightest notion of a problem in front of them. They want help to arrive immediately and quickly. I've also noticed that many parents and teachers swoop in immediately so as not to cause added anxiety or stress to the child. While this comes from a good place, a certain amount of anxiety is healthy, natural, and useful! Here are five ways you can help teach perseverance to your students so they can take on problems independently."
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3 keys for success as 'kindergarten bubble' looms
District Administration Magazine
A kindergarten bubble is looming in fall 2021 that could alter the traditional makeup of the early grades. Many districts reported a drop in kindergarten enrollment in 2020-2021, which means these students may return in bigger numbers in the fall.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Survey: Rising numbers of educators say pandemic is now blown out of proportion
Education Week
Chalk it up to pandemic fatigue, vaccine-driven optimism, or the relaxing of mask-wearing and social distancing mandates in states. Whatever the reason, a growing number of educators feel like the pandemic is being blown out of proportion and is not a real threat to schools—nearly 1 of every 3 educators surveyed last month expressed that view.
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'Doomed' by 8th grade: Underserved students thrive in college, but disparities in access start early & persist insidiously, new report reveals
The 74
When it comes to understanding which students make it not just to, but through college, substantial past education research has identified steep differences along lines of race, gender and class. A recently released report, however, provides an alternate narrative. The study, which links middle and high school achievement to postsecondary outcomes in five New England school districts, finds stark racial and socioeconomic gaps in enrollment at four-year colleges. But after students matriculate, disparities in who continues on toward graduation largely disappear.
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Why adolescence matters in preventing substance abuse
MindShift
In order to understand people who develop substance abuse disorders as adults, it's important to recognize when they were first exposed. The majority of adults who develop substance abuse disorders first used drugs or alcohol during adolescence. In her new book, "The Addiction Innoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence," Jessica Lahey translates the research around addiction and explores practical ways parents and educators can use this information to support kids.
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Gifted programs provide little to no academic boost, new study says
The Hechinger Report
Gifted education is often a flash point in school desegregation debates; in large cities, these programs often operate as an essentially separate school system, dominated by white and Asian children. Though gifted programs touch only 3.3 million school children, about 7% of the U.S. student population, it's disturbing that Black and Hispanic children are rarely chosen for them.
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.IN THE STATES
New Indiana budget proposal increases funding for teacher pay and voucher expansion
Chalkbeat
Indiana lawmakers plan to boost funding to K-12 schools to fulfill a recommendation to add $600 million by 2023 to increase teacher pay. With about $2 billion more than they initially anticipated in the state revenue forecast, lawmakers proposed to hike per-student spending by 4.6% in 2021-2022 and 4.3% in 2022-2023. Both increases exceed what legislators previously had planned.
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Arizona governor vetoes bill restricting L.G.B.T.Q. education
The New York Times
Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona vetoed legislation that would have imposed some of the country's most restrictive rules regarding L.G.B.T.Q. education, calling the bill "overly broad and vague." The bill, which was sponsored by eight Republicans and passed the Arizona Senate on a party-line vote, would prohibit schools from teaching about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and L.G.B.T.Q. history unless a student received "signed, written consent" from a parent or guardian opting them in to the lessons.
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Detroit district offers $500 incentive for employees to get vaccinated
Chalkbeat
The Detroit Public Schools Community District is offering a one-time $500 incentive to encourage educators and other eligible staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The incentive, which applies to those who already have been vaccinated or plan to be by June 30, 2021, also includes up to 16 hours of sick leave to account for possible vaccine side effects.
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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
This 2-day event (available virtually or face-to-face) provides the foundational knowledge for the National Mentor Training and Certification Program™. The curriculum is strategically aligned to the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders. The 2019 edition of "Leading Learning Communities: Pillars, Practices, and Priorities for Effective Principals" serves as the guiding framework alongside NAESP's mentor competencies.
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