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Mental illness is on the rise in schools. As mental-health advocates fight to remove the stigma associated with mental illness, more clinical diagnoses are made. Twenty-five years ago, anxiety and depression were two illnesses barely discussed and rarely diagnosed. Now, they are flooding public school classrooms.
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NPR
On the morning of her 16th birthday, in her AP music class, Megan Storm thought she was going to die. The sophomore at Lake Brantley High School in suburban Orlando, Fla., said she heard an announcement over the intercom that the school was in a code red lockdown — it was a drill, but Storm said students were not told that. She and her classmates hid in the dark, behind an instrument locker. "It was just really quiet. And we all sort of huddled together," Storm said.
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The New York Times
Present your driver's license to be scanned and verified. Have your photograph taken. Pass your belongings through a metal detector. Welcome to your child's school. Twenty years after the Columbine High School shooting, a school visit can feel like going to the airport. See-through backpacks and armed officers are common sights on campus. So are "run, hide, fight" trainings, full of tips on how to survive an active shooter. Some days might bring lockdown drills that students are not told in advance are rehearsals, not real threats. And in rare cases, the adult teaching algebra or social studies might be armed.
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EdSource
As we mark yet another anniversary of a school massacre — this time the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado — it is clear that gun violence in our schools is not a threat that has diminished, but rather is something that is on the minds of most principals every day.
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Education Week
When it comes to student learning, school facilities matter, according to the authors of an ambitious working paper from the California Policy Lab at UCLA and UC Berkley, recently presented at the Association for Education Finance and Policy conference. Researchers Julien Lafortune and David Scönholzer tracked the individual test scores, classroom grades, and attendance rates of more than 5 million individual Los Angeles Unified School District students between 2002 and 2012, before and after those same students moved from overcrowded, dilapidated schools to new facilities.
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Leadership Freak
Whatever you do, don't criticize or correct. You might damage someone's self-esteem. (Sarcasm intended.) Bolstering, maintaining and protecting self-esteem is the sacred cow of modern society. It's a grievous evil to do anything that might cause others to feel bad about themselves or their performance.
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Entrepreneur
According to a Cigna study, 46 percent of surveyed Americans suffer from feeling alone. In the work world, despite all the focus on employee engagement, many employees are still unhappy. We live at a time when we are more connected than ever digitally, yet loneliness and unhappiness abound. Where are we missing the boat?
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Haravard Business Review
Marcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute, and Ashley Goodall, senior vice president of leadership and team intelligence at Cisco Systems, say that managers and organizations are overestimating the importance of critical feedback. They argue that, in focusing our efforts on correcting weaknesses and rounding people out, we lose the ability to get exceptional performance from them. Instead, we should focus on strengths and push everyone to shine in their own areas.
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Inc.
You probably won't be surprised to learn that you spend a lot of time at work selling your ideas, convincing coworkers to take action and otherwise trying to influence people.
In fact, writes Daniel Pink in To Sell is Human, "we're devoting upward of 40 percent of our time to moving others. And we consider it critical to our professional success." So you need to practice your persuasion skills.
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Fast Company
A lot of us love our jobs — at first. But as time goes on, it's natural to be less and less happy. "Performing the same tasks repeatedly can become boring and too routine, or an increased workload can affect job satisfaction, causing too much stress and burnout," explains career coach Hallie Crawford. But that doesn't mean we still shouldn't seek happiness at the office.
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Forbes
There is growing concern about the decline of loyalty to one's workplace and of work satisfaction. This decline can greatly impact productivity and innovation, which then contributes to a vicious cycle of continual decline. Companies, as well as nonprofits and public employers, all want to do better. How can the workplace be made more attractive and fulfilling, especially to young, talented Millennials who have so much talent and energy to offer?
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Inc.
Gallup has released compelling evidence that the most important factor for employee engagement and productivity can be summed up in one simple word: managers. In fact, writes Sam Walker in The Wall Street Journal, after a decade of data from nearly 2 million employees, Gallup has proven that managers don't just have a small influence on productivity; "they explained a full 70% of the variance. In other words, if it's a superior team you're after, hiring the right manager is nearly three-fourths of the battle."
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Fast Company
Do you know how likable you are? You may want to find out because according to Psychology Today, this metric predicts success, not just with friends and family, but as you advance your career.
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U.S. News & World Report
Bullying, violence, crime and drug use in schools continue to decrease, as they have for much of the last two decades, despite public perception that schools have become less safe over the past 20 years. New federal data published by the Departments of Education and Justice show that 20% of students ages 12 to 18 reported being bullied at school during the 2016-2017 school year, the lowest since the federal government began collecting the information in 2005. The percentage of public schools that reported that student bullying occurred at least once a week also decreased, from 29% in the 1999-2000 school year to 12% in the 2015-2016 school year.
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Education Week
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, one of a busload of Democrats running for president, has reiterated her change of heart on a controversial issue: Pizza. During a town hall with several candidates broadcast by CNN, she said she regretted calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to rethink school-lunch rule changes that would make it more difficult for items like pizza sauces and salsas to be considered vegetables.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
I’ll never forget the first cybersecurity attack I endured as a high school principal. It happened years ago, after I had to assign consequences to a tech-savvy student who regularly would hack into our school Wi-Fi network to access websites and social media platforms that, at the time, were blocked from student access during the school day. I remember the student being upset because he was trying to meet a critical deadline for his international business, and his two other partners needed his help to finish a project for their company. The three ran a company that rented and sold server space to gamers around the world. Mind you, my student had just recently celebrated his 15th birthday.
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Prodigy Game
The search for better teaching strategies will never end. As a school leader, you probably spend too much of your time thinking about how to improve the learning experience of the students that pass through your school throughout the years.
After all, what they learn (and how they learn it) will become a part of these students as they grow, hopefully helping them become successful adults.
This is the main goal of competency based education: giving each student equal opportunity to master necessary skills and become successful adults.
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Education Week
Attention rural communities with major internet connectivity needs: Are you looking to upgrade your broadband? The U.S. Department of Agriculture — yes, Agriculture — may have a grant and loan program for you. The funding is available through a new, $600 million pilot program, called the Rural e-Connectivity Pilot Program, which Congress created last year. The money includes $200 million in grants, $200 million in low-interest loans and $200 million in loan-grant combinations.
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EdTech Magazine
K–12 technology directors looking to streamline IT services and make data storage and management more efficient are embracing hyperconvergence. At Iron County School District in Utah, IT leaders replaced the district's legacy systems with a Scale Computing hyperconverged infrastructure, significantly decreasing the time it took to complete previously burdensome tasks.
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Education Next
For two decades, technology seduced us, sleek devices and clever apps promising us a better, tech-enabled life. Tech would liberate, enlighten and most of all, connect us. Now that dream has shattered. The fevered claims of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Wired magazine futurists now seem naïve, reckless. Tech-utopia is over. Is 'personalized learning' and ed tech headed for the same reckoning?
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NPR
More than 80% of parents in the U.S. support the teaching of climate change. And that support crosses political divides, according to the results of an exclusive new NPR/Ipsos poll: Whether they have children or not, two-thirds of Republicans and 9 in 10 Democrats agree that the subject needs to be taught in school. A separate poll of teachers found that they are even more supportive, in theory — 86% agree that climate change should be taught.
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Teaching Channel
Are you, or someone you know, working to decrease the diversity gap in STEM education? We know that students benefit from having diversity in the teacher workforce. However, it can be challenging to recruit and retain future STEM teachers from underrepresented groups. The 100Kin10 Diversifying the STEM Teacher Pipeline Project Team is curating information and resources about how current programs, organizations and education institutions are directly engaged in the recruitment, preparation and retention of pre-service teachers to diversify the STEM teacher workforce.
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THE Journal
In an effort to expose more students to computer science, the Panasonic Foundation and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation are coming together to launch four Code as a Second Language academies in Newark, New Jersey, Reno, Nevada, Atlanta, Georgia, and Calexico, California. The academies will be a six- to eight-week coding course for students that meets for up to 90 minutes during the school day or as part of an after school program.
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Language Magazine
The goal of beginning reading instruction is to help students develop a pleasure-reading habit. This is a practical goal; it leads to competence in literacy in general, including reading ability, writing, vocabulary, spelling and grammar, and also leads to knowledge in several areas, including science, history and practical matters.
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Education DIVE
As classrooms continue to include rigorous academics and teach students loads of information, it can sometimes be difficult for students to stay focused and relaxed over the course of a long school day. That's why educators such as Desaultas recommend implementing practices like brain breaks — which she described as short time periods that "change up the dull routine of incoming information that arrives via predictable, tedious, well-worn roadways."
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Chalkbeat
A few years after South Carolina expanded access to preschool programs, students' test scores in elementary school jumped. But the increase contained something of a mystery. Only students from low-income families were eligible for the new pre-kindergarten program. Scores, though, climbed across the board, including for students from more affluent families.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
The progress of many struggling readers is undermined by slavish adherence to Lexile reading-level scores. Though I haven't observed that a majority of teachers, learning consultants, and school psychologists are subservient to these scores, I've observed it far too often to think it's rare. In contrast, it's obvious that Lexile scores, flexibly used as tentative guides, can advance decision-making but cannot take the place of a highly knowledgeable and insightful teacher's observations. Essentially, Lexile scores are produced by readability formulas that analyze the difficulty of texts, such as passages, articles and books.
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eSchool News
Educators are constantly looking for resources and tools to get students engaged and excited about the content they are teaching. Take it a step further by empowering your students with designing and creating, and that engagement will automatically happen. Empowerment means you are providing your students with the future-ready skills and experiences they can take with them into the future. They can take what they have learned and apply it to other experiences such as their own passions, interests and share them with an authentic audience. Empowered students can change the world!
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Edutopia
Students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder often have difficulty keeping their things organized. Have you ever looked inside the backpack or desk of a student with ADHD? It may have looked like a hurricane had torn right through it. That doesn't happen because such students are lazy or careless — students with attention challenges are typically not geared for this type of organization, and many of them also have concurrent learning and developmental disabilities like dyslexia, spectrum disorders, fine motor delays or sensory integration issues that may add to the struggle.
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American Psychological Association via Science Daily
Just like adults, children by the age of 5 make rapid and consistent character judgements of others based on facial features, such as the tilt of the mouth or the distance between the eyes. Those facial features also shape how children behave toward others, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
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The Associated Press via KRLD
A south Texas high school principal has implemented a dress code for parents because she says it is necessary to establish high standards for students, despite criticism that the move could be discriminatory. James Madison High School will turn away parents who show up to school wearing pajamas, hair rollers, leggings or certain other items of clothing, including bonnets.
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District Administration Magazine
Parents and advocates in several states have encouraged legislation requiring the use of cameras in special ed classrooms. If children are unable to report abuse because of a disability, the recordings can assist in investigations of suspected maltreatment. So far, Texas, Georgia and West Virginia have enacted legislation that either requires or allows the use of cameras. In March, West Virginia's governor signed a bill requiring cameras, upon parent or staff request, in primarily self-contained classrooms. The law goes into effect in July and is conditioned on the appropriation of state funds.
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Chalkbeat Colorado
Colorado school districts will get more money for students with more serious disabilities under a Public School Finance Act that received initial Senate approval. State Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat, successfully amended Senate Bill 246 to add $22 million in increased funding for students with autism spectrum disorders, visual and hearing impairments, traumatic brain injuries and certain other conditions that require more services to meet their educational needs.
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NAESP
Congratulations to the 2019 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 2018-2019 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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NAESP
To keep NAESP's publications at the forefront of education issues and trends, the Association has established a group of editorial advisers. This group assists NAESP by: Suggesting themes and articles for Principal and other publications; writing articles and one book review per year; contributing to conference news; and providing honest feedback on publications and other NAESP services.
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