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District Administration Magazine
Purple lanyards offer lifelines to students suffering from anxiety, depression or other mental health conditions in Fauquier County, Virginia. About 400 educators in the school district and 1,000 community members wear the lanyards to show they've completed a mental health first-aid course that teaches adults how to spot and respond quickly to signs of mental distress in young people.
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Education Week
Should schools allow students to take excused mental health days? In previous years, a willing parent might have called their child's school to report them as sick as an excuse to stay home to deal with emotional exhaustion, to see a therapist, or just to take a break. But a student-supported Oregon bill proposes explicitly adding "mental or behavioral health" to a list of reasons for excused absences, alongside physical sickness. Current law allows individual districts to determine the range of issues that will be considered an excused absence, and many don't include mental health, the bill's supporters say.
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District Administration Magazine
When Cara Tait became principal of Williamsburg High School of Arts & Technology in Brooklyn, New York, she worked hard to build staff's trust. As a young, new principal still finding her agency and voice, Tait focused on developing and communicating a strong vision to unite staff. In a school where classroom observations were not common practice, she worked on creating structures for consistent feedback and accountability.
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By: Sweety Patel (commentary)
 According to the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors, school counselors have an essential role as social justice advocates who affirm and support students from diverse populations. They are central to servicing students so that students may move toward self-determination and self-development. Standard A.10 speaks of underserved and at-risk populations, for whom school counselors strive to contribute to a safe, respectful, and nondiscriminatory school environment.
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Haravard Business Review
Most of us, at some time in our lives, have had jobs in which we felt unfulfilled, mistreated or without purpose. And those feelings are strongly reflected in the holistic value we derive from our jobs and probability that we stay on versus quit. But what, if anything, can firms do to address workers' dissatisfaction and prevent turnover? We decided to test whether a simple intervention — asking workers for feedback — might be successful at reducing quit rates.
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Entrepreneur
From the moment you wake up to when your head hits the pillow, entrepreneurs spend their days jumping from task-to-task. We're also rushing from meeting-to-meeting. Putting out fires. And, getting distracted by emails, phones and answering a question from employees. Starting a business is exhausting. With so much going on, how is it possible for us to get anything done?
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Harvard Business Review
All jobs require us at some point to deliver bad news — whether it be a minor revelation such as a recruiter telling a prospective employee that there's no wiggle-room in salary, or something major, like when a manager must fire an employee. We dread such discussions even when the revelations aren't at all our fault. It turns out that our aversion is for good reason. Our research shows that people are prone to derogating those who tell them things they don't want to hear — we shoot the messenger.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Few of us like giving negative feedback. From quick tips to academic research findings, there is no shortage of advice on how to deliver it, though. One aspect rarely discussed is how to share positive feedback, because presumably everyone is good at that. However, in my work I have found that few people are good at giving either kind of feedback. Yet, because positive feedback is so much less fraught than negative, we worry about and discuss it less. Instead, we should focus on getting better at giving positive feedback to improve our ability to give negative feedback. After all, improving performance should not be limited to problem employees.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Danise DiStasi, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "Louie, my adopted pup since 2013, has experienced a lot of loss over the last year. We wrote about two of those losses, Ellie and Mick, in previous blogs. Our neighborhood grieved over the loss of these beloved companions. Though it took some time, Mick's and Ellie's families welcomed new puppies into their homes."
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Leadership Freak
There's plenty of boldness in leadership. But, sadly, there's too little courage. The greatest courage isn't the courage to tell people what to do. It's the courage to tell yourself what to do. It's not the courage to attempt great things. It's the courage to bring your best self to daily challenges and opportunities.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 We have all come across them in our careers: managers or even whole organizations that keep their heads in the proverbial sand, refusing to acknowledge what is all around them. Whether it is something subtle like a leader who avoids conflict or more obvious, like an organization that does not have a handbook, the ostrich syndrome can affect everything from attendance to office culture. As such, it is more important than ever for leaders to identify and stop ostrich-style management.
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Entrepreneur
When your team sees you coming, what's their first reaction? Is it ... "Awesome, I'm so glad she's here! I can't wait to tell her my new idea!" — or: "Oh crap, what does he want now?" Regardless of the pronouns involved, management by walking around is what's at stake here. The term, of course, refers to the practice of managers randomly strolling through their company locations, stopping to chat or observe, all in an unplanned fashion. Sound like a breeze? It isn't: MBWA can be one of the hardest competencies for fast-growing startup leaders to master.
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Forbes
You arrive to work on Monday morning with optimism and hopefulness about the day and week ahead. You're going to stay focused. Then, you open your computer and watch with despair while hundreds of emails flood in, including one from your boss about a mistake your team made last week. This trumps everything you had in mind to accomplish.
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Fast Company
There really are differences between people in whether they see the glasses around them as half empty or half full. Often, this has to do with what the motivation psychologist Tory Higgins has called a regulatory focus.
The human motivational system has two modes: an approach mode and an avoidance mode. The approach mode engages when people are interested in some positive or desirable outcome in the world. The avoidance mode engages when people are attempting to evade a negative or noxious outcome.
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Inc.
There are leaders, and then there are people who think they are leaders. How can you tell which is which? Well, if you spent 30 minutes in a room — say, in a meeting — with an executive or manager, you could probably detect a few telltale signs, within minutes, that someone just isn't cut out to be in the privileged role of a leader.
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District Administration Magazine
A first-of-its-kind report breaks down the wide range of state laws that, to varying degrees, require districts to develop or upgrade school safety and security plans that cover firearms, school resource officers, safety audits and other issues. The "50 State Comparison: K-12 School Safety" report features a year's worth of research on state statutes and regulations on K-12 school safety from the Education Commission of the States.
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THE Journal
The education sector is forecast to spend more than $6 billion annually on augmented and virtual reality technologies by 2023. Funding for the technologies remains a major hurdle to adoption, but price points for equipment are dropping rapidly, according to a new market forecast from ABI Research. According to the report, "Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education," the market for augmented reality in education will hit $5.3 billion in 2023, with the market for virtual reality head-mounted displays trailing at $640 million.
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Edutopia
Voice technology like that used by Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple's Siri allows users to access information on the internet through voice commands. Integrating voice technology in the classroom can enhance learning and engagement. Smart speakers in the classroom can be beneficial for instruction because they are more communal in nature than a laptop or tablet.
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eSchool News
Ensuring the success of any new ed tech initiative has little to nothing to do with the technology itself, but instead is directly related to a focus on student learning and an effort to break down silos. When districts keep student learning at the top of their list and focus on building successful relationships, a digital transformation is more of a reality and less of a dream, said Lenny Schad, chief information and innovation officer for LRP Media, during CoSN 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
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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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District Administration Magazine
Today's focus on STEM seems irrevocably linked to the makerspace movement. Educators have seen students thrive when they experiment with tools and technology to create various objects. Building these creative spaces can seem daunting to district leaders who face traditional curricular objectives and a list of must-have equipment. But by answering some key questions, leaders can avoid costly mistakes as they design high- and low-tech makerspaces that energize teachers and students.
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The Atlantic
It might be better to ban kids from the internet. Across the West, governments are pushing for more power to regulate cyberspace even as authoritarian political parties are gaining more official power, portending a future in which what people can say online is subject to the whims of ill-meaning bureaucrats. Often, calls for regulation and even censorship are justified by the highly defensible and probably correct anxiety that the status quo ill-serves the internet’s youngest users.
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The Hechinger Report
At James Lick High School the slate-gray Chromebooks are ubiquitous. Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. In this majority-Latino school of 1,100 students, 84 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty, school principal David Porter says making the devices readily available is a significant part of an effort to develop digital literacy for students who might otherwise be left behind.
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EdScoop
If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it's reasonable to say that today's students need the same access during the school day. After all, schools are preparing students for their future careers, which will surely include some aspect of online technology.
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Education DIVE
Educators' lukewarm response to ed tech highlights the need for professional development on any new technology educators are expected to use. Most technology is embedded with all sorts of functions that most users never implement, for example. That component can be especially critical — and useful — given that, after completing those training sessions, teachers can access and reference related resources for immediate application on the fly in the classroom.
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Education DIVE
Each change in educational policy, from accountability to curriculum requirements, necessitates adjustments for teachers, administrators and students alike. New standards and the tests that come with them can bring a period where learning is disrupted, and where new curriculum may not dovetail with what was taught the year prior.
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Language Magazine
TESOL International Association has pledged its support for the bipartisan Reaching English Learners Act (H.R. 1153, S. 545). The legislation would create a grant program for colleges and universities under Title II Part B of the Higher Education Act to support the development of teacher preparation programs that train future teachers to instruct ELs.
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Teaching Channel
Now more than ever, cultural relevance is a crucial ingredient for the success of our schools, well being of our students and future of our workforce. Students are more diverse in their languages, abilities, ways of learning, interests, skills and cultures than ever. Culturally relevant pedagogy "empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills and attitudes."
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The Hechinger Report
The Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, on the west side of Indianapolis, has gotten a fair amount of attention for personalizing the professional development it gives to teachers in its virtual high school and blended learning programs. The fact that voluntary professional development can attract 90 percent of teachers is seen as a wild success. It's that success the district, and by extension, Michele Eaton, its director of virtual and blended learning, has been known for. Until now.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Take a deep breath — this school year is drawing to an end. Everything so far has gone exactly as planned, and your classes have been examples of perfectly executed STEM lessons and totally cooperative students. Or ... maybe not?
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eSchool News
Whether we like it or not, the fourth industrial revolution is fundamentally changing the way the world works — and educators have to rise to the task of preparing students for 2030 and beyond.
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MindShift
NPR/IPSOS did a national poll recently and found that more than 8 in 10 teachers — and a similar majority of parents — support teaching kids about climate change. But in reality, it's not always happening: Fewer than half of K-12 teachers told us that they talk about climate change with their children or students. Again, parents were about the same.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Justine Bruyère, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "It was raining again. My second-grade students were indoors for recess and enjoying free time when a student approached me and asked, 'How do I spell because?' I responded, 'That's a tricky one — have you checked the word wall?' The student answered with a familiar tune, 'Oh yeah! I forget about the wall sometimes, it's so high up.' She waltzed over to the word wall and craned her neck to find the word because written at the top of the wall, in my handwriting."
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eSchool News
Curator. What does that world call to mind? Museums? Art? A simple Google Images search will reinforce that notion. Now think about curation. Maybe you envision the very same. But if you try a search in Google Images for curation, you’ll uncover entirely different results. Curation is something of a buzzword in education today, especially the phrase content curation. And regardless of your role, you are likely a content curator. The question is how effectively you curate. Librarians often excel in this, as do many teachers. Whether you are starting out as a content curator or honing your skills, there are a few things to keep in mind.
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The Brookings Institution
More than 25 million students in the United States — more than half of all students — ride a school bus. Although the iconic vehicle may conjure images of nostalgia for many, the use of diesel fuel and an aging fleet mean these buses are some of the most polluting vehicles on the road. New research is piling up demonstrating the causal link between short- and long-term exposure to air pollution, especially particulate matter, on cognitive functioning and even the risk of dementia. One might begin to wonder about the effects of pollution from school buses on children, who are highly sensitive to dirty air.
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Education Next (commentary)
Frederick Hess, a contributor for Education Next, writes: "When I consider the state of education research today, I can't help but think of Samuel Jackson's classic line from
'Pulp Fiction': 'If my answers frighten you, Vincent, then you should cease asking scary questions.' Over the past decade or two, 'sophisticated' education research has done just that: stopped asking scary questions. Big-dollar, widely-cited research has shied away from asking complicated, sometimes scary questions about how programs and policies actually work, choosing to focus on asking 'What works?' — a query that promises to provide safe, sure answers."
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Education Week
In the last two decades, the average weekly wages of public school teachers, adjusted for inflation, have decreased, while the weekly wages of other college graduates have risen. That's according to an analysis by Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank supported partially by teachers' unions. The teacher weekly wage penalty reached a record 21.4 percent in 2018. Teachers do get better benefits than other college-educated workers — but even after factoring those into the analysis, the total teacher compensation penalty was 13.1 percent in 2018.
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EdTech Magazine
Education is moving toward a student-centered, collaborative, creative learning environment, but without professional development in place — and the understanding of what the end results should look like — it's difficult to ensure technology investments will succeed. Many districts (unintentionally, of course) put hardware in place with the expectation that it will solve a particular problem, without understanding the proper way to implement and support the technology.
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The Texas Tribune
Texas lawmakers have given property tax reform top billing this legislative session, and they agree that tamping down school taxes is the best way to lower Texans' tax bills. That's because school taxes make up more than half the total property taxes in the state. And the average school district tax rate has slightly and gradually increased since 2006, though skyrocketing local property values across the state are the main reason why the average tax bill gets higher and higher.
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EdSource
State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, earlier this month recounted to a group of medical students a common belief about preventable diseases that he once heard while studying to become a pediatrician. "You're not likely to ever see them because of the vaccines here in the United States," said Pan, recalling the words of his microbiology professor, who had worked with Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine.
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NAESP
In this era of teacher shortages and competition for the best candidates, creating an accurate first impression of what is important in our schools is imperative. Our first opportunities to express our values and beliefs occur during the recruitment and selection processes, long before teachers decide which offer to accept. To recruit and hire teachers who are a good fit with the mission, vision, and values of a school, leaders must ensure the steps in the selection process accurately reflect their beliefs about what critical in the teaching and learning process.
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NAESP
Art develops self-regulation and a sense of belonging. At the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington, Vermont, principal Bobby Riley works to change the discipline paradigm. "Kids don't intentionally get in trouble," he says. "When they act out, there is always something else going on. Especially in that moment, kids have difficulty articulating what is at the root of the issue."
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