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District Administration Magazine
Quick quiz: After the buildings, salaries and benefits, what is one of the biggest expenses for most school districts? Chances are that it's those ubiquitous yellow buses that pick up kids in the morning and return them home (or close to it) after school. With the typical school bus costing between $45,000 and $90,000 a year to operate, a district can easily spend upward of 10 percent of its budget on transportation.
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Education Week (commentary)
During these times of accountability from our state we live in, or the social-emotional issues our students experience, family engagement is both a call to action, and a scapegoat depending on the conversation. In John Hattie's research family engagement has around a .51 effect size, which is over the .40 that equates to a year's worth of growth for a year's input.
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Inc.
Conventional wisdom about leadership holds that great leaders are born and not made. It turns out that isn't true. Some research done by Leadership Quarterly showed that 26 percent of a leader is born or DNA and 74 percent is learned or developed. Why is this so important?
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Forbes
Tracy Cocivera, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "Some people make the mistake of thinking that being influential means always getting things your own way. I recently worked with a client who was frustrated that one of her key people was constantly pressing her to provide him with more resources, more support and more power, all the while refusing to do his actual job. Although she was open to discussing his requirements, she insisted he provide a rationale for the requests first — in other words, make a business case for himself. He flatly stated he was far too busy."
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District Administration Magazine
In 2016, the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Aspen Institute gathered state education leaders, advocates and civil rights leaders to develop actions to support education equity. A year later, 10 general equity-boosting practices have emerged from across the U.S.
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Leadership Freak
You don't think of yourself as a fault-finder, but what if you track your thoughts and language for an hour? What's your attitude about others right now? Yourself?
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HR DIVE
Feelings of boredom, underutilization and stagnation often are engagement problems, and they're not limited to millennials. Challenging assignments, development opportunities, recognition for a job well done, opportunities for advancement and a focus on well-being can help employees of any generation connect with an organization, support its mission and remain productive.
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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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Forbes
Marcel doesn't need any silly pet tricks to entertain patients, family members and the health care staff when we make our rounds as a volunteer therapy dog team at the local hospital. His "superpower" is locking his eyes with me. He often gazes into my eyes for upwards of 15 seconds, which elicits cries of wonderment when people notice what he's doing. "Look at him," family members and friends will say to one another, enjoying a welcome respite which is one of the many advantages of a therapy dog visit. "He's looking her in the eye!" We humans used to do that all of the time — before we became glued to our digital devices. Now, we regularly divert our eyes to check on the latest alerts from our smartphones, smart watches and other devices, leaving less time to make eye contact with each other.
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Education Week
There is no doubt about it: the American educational system has been undergoing some significant transformations in the past few decades. To maneuver through these changes and those to come, we must examine our beliefs and feelings about instructional leadership more rigorously than ever before.
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Learning Solutions Magazine
Although there has been a lot of talk about female advancement in the workplace, women in the United States still struggle to secure leadership positions. Research by the Center for American Progress found that while women hold almost 52 percent of all professional-level jobs, just 6 percent of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. The seemingly impenetrable glass ceiling exists in nearly all business verticals, including the legal, medical and academic arenas.
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Education World (commentary)
Keith Lambert, a contributor for Education World, writes: "This is going to be a divisive one. And for good reason. But I want to talk about tracking in schools. And it might not be the article you're expecting, but hear me out. The question at hand? With advances in data-based instruction and differentiation, should we be reconsidering the practice of tracking students by academic ability? Yes, there's a whole lot of evidence against its practice in its many historical iterations, and by no means am I suggesting we ignore hard data, in favor of a whim. But let's talk about it."
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Harvard Business Review
Bill Taylor, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "I don't often start essays about leadership with insights from French novelists, but in this case it seems appropriate. 'The real act of discovery,' Marcel Proust wrote, 'consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.' Today the most successful companies don't just outcompete their rivals. They redefine the terms of competition by embracing one-of-a-kind ideas in a world of copycat thinking. Which means, almost by definition, that the best leaders see things that other leaders don't see."
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Joseph Grenny, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "I got an early start in business. By the time I was 17 years old, I was a partner in a fast-growing company, and when I decided to hire a close friend of my father's, I was thrilled when he agreed to join."
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U.S. News & World Report
Federal education officials are exploring a new benefit that would give military families additional resources for their children's schooling — despite the fact that the proposal faces significant opposition from within the military community itself, where it is largely seen as costly and ineffective.
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THE Journal
There's something about texts most of us can't turn our attention away from. Researchers have glommed onto that reality as a way to produce educational benefits for children. One recent research project out of Stanford University studied the effects of a text-based program specifically for parents of kindergartners, in which general texts were tested against more differentiated and personalized messages. The study found that children in the second group read at higher levels compared to the control group. Also, parents were more engaged in reading activities with their kids.
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eSchool News
Cornell University computing and information sciences researchers are working on computer software that may help K-8 math teachers with grading math assignments. Researchers will present their research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, in Montreal. "I've been interested in working on techniques for automatic education and trying to make teachers' lives easier," says Erik Andersen, assistant professor of computer science.
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EdTech Magazine
Like good hygiene, good digital citizenship is a set of responsibilities all internet users should practice. For K–12 students, lessons on how to use the internet safely and be effective online citizens are likely part of receiving any new classroom device. "We're seeing a tipping point where schools are realizing that in order to have a successful technology integration, they have to have digital citizenship lessons alongside it," says Kelly Mendoza, senior director of education programs at Common Sense Education.
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Education World
Nearly all familiar facets of the school classroom are being scrutinized — from desks lined up in rows to the assignment of homework and use of use of worksheets, pencils and paper. And over the last decade there has been increasing attention on another fundamental feature of American education — the grade. There are several new approaches to how we evaluate students — and even advocates who suggest they should grade themselves or that schools should go gradeless. Parents are often confused by the options — as are some educators.
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School Leaders Now
If you've worked in a school for more than three years, you've probably implemented a new curriculum. Transitioning to new curriculum can cause stress and (sometimes) friction for everyone. Educators who've been in the profession for a while know when changes are authentic and best for students. They also know when changes are enforced because of whims or to please stakeholders. However, as the world evolves, the education system needs to as well, and sometimes major curriculum changes are necessary and good.
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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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MiddleWeb (commentary)
It's check-in time, co-teachers! So here's the question to ask yourself: What is the one thing that you would say challenges you the most as a teacher in an inclusive setting? Once you select your one thing, jot it down, and keep it handy for us to return to once you have read this post. What's my one thing, you might wonder? Well, thanks for asking!
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EdTech Magazine
It starts with a game of Robot Turtles, a board game by Thinkfun that's being used at Hubbard Woods School in Winnetka, Illinois, to teach kindergarteners the basics of coding. "It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding," says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. The game serves as an on-ramp for students, introducing technology into their educational journeys. Within HWS and District 36's other four schools, this is the first step of a journey that will touch on coding and robotics at each grade level.
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Edutopia
Group work has long been used by school counselors and teachers to help build soft-skills capacity for struggling students. Lunch groups are another way to help foster these positive interactions so that students gain skills and form bonds during a time of communion.
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Education Week
As the political fallout continues from teacher protests in several states, it's worth revisiting how the general public has said it feels about teachers in recent polls. Where does public opinion stand now, and how might it change in the future?
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Education DIVE
States continue to enroll more young children in public preschool, but nine state-funded programs meet fewer than half of the quality indicators set by the National Institute for Early Education Research, the Rutgers University-based center reports in this year's State of Preschool Yearbook.
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Education Week
A new study from the Urban Institute finds a huge gap in pay between entry-level kindergarten teachers and early childhood educators in child care centers, home care and schools' before- and after-care programs in the Washington, D.C. area. The study also finds big gaps in pay for early-childhood educators in the region along racial and ethnic lines.
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District Administration Magazine
When Upton High School in Wyoming switched from a traditional to a self-paced education model last year, Weston County School District Superintendent Summer Stephens' 15-year-old daughter reacted the way many students did. "'I don't know how to make choices,' she kept saying," Stephens recalls. "But now a year later, she has organized her classes and projects so that she can take two weeks off to go be a legislative intern."
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NAESP
How many times have you picked up a book, hoping that it would have answers to some of the questions that keep you up at night, only to finish it disappointed because the answers you sought were not within the covers of the book? As a principal of a diverse elementary school that has been finding some small success in closing opportunity and achievement gaps in our school community, I've been searching for a book that provides practical steps we can take on our journey to providing all students with an inclusive and equitable education.
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NAESP
Congratulations to the 2018 American Student Council Association Honor Council of Excellence Winners. These councils were selected based on their submission of projects that their council completed during the 2017-2018 school year as well as their student council constitution and election procedures. Councils were also required to submit letters of recommendation from their School Principal and Student Council President. All winners are members of the American Student Council Association. Click here for more information on joining.
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