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School Leaders Now
The most common reason for teacher turnover is lack of appreciation for the hard work they do. Honoring and valuing teachers gives them a reason to stay and love their job even more. You may already be doing lots of things to help make your teachers happy, and you know that everyone has a different appreciation language. With Teacher Appreciation Day coming up soon, here are four ways to make sure your teachers know how much you appreciate them.
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Education World
The school year is coming to an end, and teachers are rushing to complete their lessons and finish the year on a high note. Education World offers a number of end-of-year resources to help provide classroom closure.
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Inc.
Anger is one powerful human emotion. It is also a very normal human emotion that needs to be expressed in a healthy way. But there's a place and time for appropriate anger, and we all have to learn how to manage it before it escalates. That takes emotional intelligence — the ability to exercise self-awareness to understand the situation from multiple angles and self-control to see things through other filters before pulling the anger-trigger.
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The Lead Change Group
Much of our leadership is given to ensure our customers have the best CX — customer experience — or if you are in the tech industry, the best UX — user experience. CX and UX. These symbols of experience are some of the core metrics and focuses that organizations hone in on to ensure they are meeting differentiation and success in delivering the best experience to their external customers. Yet how many of us are measuring what our internal customers — your staff — are experiencing?
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Leadership Freak
Tony Blair said, "The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes." Warren Buffett's success is attributed to saying no to a thousand deals in order to say yes to a few profitable opportunities. Buffett is credited with saying, "All I have to do is say yes four or five times in my life and I'm a billionaire."
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Forbes
As a first-time founder, CEO and product builder, Analisa Goodin is proud to admit there is a lot she doesn't know. But that hasn't stopped her from building Catch & Release, a company that curates user generated photos or videos for brands such as Apple, Twitter and Jeep. After working at an ad agency for 10 years, Goodin saw an opportunity to address a major industry pain point — finding relevant, compelling content that can be quickly licensed and leveraged for ad campaigns.
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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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Edutopia (commentary)
Heather Wolpert-Gawron, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "As a full-time teacher and educational consultant, I have the opportunity to see many schools in action. It's a joy to travel and learn about how other schools are making education work, and while there are many ways to make it work, sometimes you come across a site that clearly has gotten something right. The Weilenmann School of Discovery, a charter school outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, is one of those schools. Like many schools, the walls are covered by the creativity of its students. The building has natural light pouring through all of the windows."
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By: Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 It seems like everyone and their dog is now touting their organizational culture and how inclusive it is. But there is often a disconnect between the PR and marketing campaigns and what employees have to say. It takes intention, strategy and vision to build great workplace cultures, and everyone needs to be involved. Workplace culture is a way of doing business. It's not a one-time event.
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School Leaders Now
You know those days when the traffic jam at dismissal time at your elementary school feels like the parking lot after an NFL game. And you think this might finally be the day when there's a full on mom fistfight. Well, this principal might just have the answer. Paula Jones, this principal at Davidson Elementary in Lexington, North Carolina, says their dismissal protocol works like a well-oiled machine — 90 percent of the time anyway.
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Harvard Business Review
It is no secret that many employees face work environments that are not very engaging. A 2016 poll by the Gallup Organization shows that only 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged at work. And when it comes to enhancing employees' engagement (i.e., energy, enthusiasm, and focus), much of the popular narrative has focused on organizational factors such as job design, leadership or culture. But these factors are often outside of an employee's control.
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Harvard Business Review
Whether presiding over the entire company, a function, a region or a business unit, the people at the top of an organization have a disproportionate level of influence over those they lead. Those further down in the organization look to their leaders for cues on what's acceptable (and what isn't), and the team's habits — both good and bad — will be emulated. Having your actions play out publicly, as if on a Jumbotron, is a huge responsibility, and unfortunately too many teams don't take this responsibility as seriously as they should. The consequences can be farther reaching than most leadership teams realize.
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The Washington Post
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met privately with the nation's top teachers Monday and asked them to talk about the obstacles they face in doing their jobs. At least one of those teachers told DeVos that some of her policies are hurting public education. "We have a problem where public money is siphoned off from the public schools and given to children who are going to charter and private schools," Oklahoma Teacher of the Year Jon Hazell said.
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Disability Scoop
New data on nearly every public school in the nation shows that students with disabilities continue to be disciplined and experience restraint and seclusion at far higher rates than others. The figures come from the latest data collection from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. It reflects the experiences of more than 50 million students at over 96,000 public schools across the country during the 2015-2016 school year. The Education Department found that 12 percent of students were served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and another 2 percent under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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Education World
What can 5-year-olds do with a computer? A lot, says school technology facilitator Susan Brooks. Discover what computer skills kindergartners should learn — and what activities you can use to teach them — in this column by a 30-year veteran of kindergarten and technology classrooms. Included: Links to dozens of age-specific activities and lesson ideas!
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Education Week
In the dimly lit Hall of Mammals in the American Museum of Natural History here, small clusters of teachers scrutinized dioramas of animal habitats from around the world, filling in sheets of field observations. The task served as a way to help teachers think through how their students would experience the exhibits, and how teachers could tie their students' exploration of the museum to public data sets on temperature, rain and other climate factors that could affect where plants and animals live.
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THE Journal
While collaboration is a 21st century skill for students, teachers aren't modeling the behavior much. In a typical month, 44 percent will never visit another teacher's classroom in the same school to get ideas for instruction or offer feedback. Another 38 percent might do it once or less during that period. A third (30 percent) have never or rarely met with other teachers to share instructional practices or develop class content. And 45 percent said the same about reviewing student assessment data or assignments with other teachers.
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The Hechinger Report
Teaching assistants may sometimes feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the classroom. They don't get as much respect, and certainly not as much pay as the teachers they work with. But recent reviews of effective teaching strategies found that the assistants, often called paraprofessionals, were at least as good as teachers when it comes to one-to-one and small group tutoring. And both sets of paid professionals — aides and teachers — were far more effective than volunteer tutors.
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eSchool News
Science, technology, engineering, and math are not just important topics for school children — they are essential to our culture. These fields help the environment, revolutionize healthcare, innovate our country's security, and ensure our global economic competitiveness. According to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. is not producing enough STEM undergraduate degrees to match the forecasted demand, creating a national workforce crisis. Fewer people pursuing STEM degrees means fewer scientists finding clever solutions to antibiotics resistance, fewer technophiles turning data into targeted healthcare, fewer engineers designing homes and buildings to withstand rising seas and powerful storms.
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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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Education Week
Ever since the landmark "marshmallow test" highlighted the importance of early self-control in later achievement, educators have worked to find ways to build self-regulation among young children. But a new study in the journal Pediatric Research suggests boosting children's natural curiosity may be equally crucial to their long-term learning.
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eSchool News
As the largest middle school in the state of New Jersey, Lincoln Middle School has struggled at times with student discipline. Chronic tardiness and fights on campus have been a problem for this school, which serves 1,800 seventh- and eighth-grade students. Traditional approaches to student discipline haven't worked to change the school's culture. Not only has punishment been largely ineffective as a deterrent, but it also erodes the critical relationship between students and educators. When teachers are constantly meting out punishment, their relationship with students becomes confrontational instead of supportive — and this isn't the type of environment in which students can learn most effectively.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 Many schools have traditionally limited their special education evaluations to brief observations, informal measures, rating forms, and norm-referenced tests. These are tests that compare the student to large groups of students but offer incomplete and superficial glimpses of what the student knows and can successfully do. For students with mild-to-moderate difficulties, such as struggling learners with learning disabilities, they often dismiss or quickly wink at instructionally-relevant questions that influence academics, communication, and social, emotional and physical functioning.
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Education Week
Plenty of early childhood studies have shown that children who attend preschool start kindergarten with a measurable advantage over their peers who were not enrolled. But often, those same studies show that the academic progress of those two groups of children start to converge as the children move through school. By third grade, the students often are academically indistinguishable from one another.
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University of Missouri via Science Daily
One of the most important factors in ensuring student success is quality instruction by teachers. However, quality instruction can be a difficult goal if teachers do not have the resources to improve their skills and if rising levels of teacher stress go unchecked. Now, researchers have found that high levels of job-related stress affect 93 percent of teachers, a greater percentage than previously thought. Classrooms with highly stressed teachers tend to have the poorest student outcomes, such as lower grades and frequent behavior problems.
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Education Week
By now, you've probably heard about the major changes to the federal education budget approved by President Donald Trump. But how do these shifts impact your state? We decided to try to answer that question for two of the most significant federal K-12 programs at the U.S. Department of Education: Title I, which provides formula funding to districts to better serve students from low-income households, and Title II, which provides professional development and other services to teachers and principals.
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NAESP
July 1, 2010: My first day at Calverton Elementary School as a first-year principal. I had a well-planned strategic vision for academic student excellence, and knew I was fully capable of leading a learning orga¬nization. I had several years as an assistant principal under my belt, and I was ready for my building to SOAR!
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NAESP
Don't miss a unique opportunity to advance your career and strengthen the leadership skills of new principals. Your knowledge and expertise is critical to ensure the success of the next generation of school leaders. As with any career, mentors offer guidance and support to help others become highly effective leaders. Take the time to invest in yourself, your career, and the principal profession as a Certified National Principal Mentor.
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