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District Administration Magazine
A range of policies and training techniques can change the way schools prevent or respond to physical altercations between students. School administrators can learn effective strategies on how to stop school fights by participating in training seminars from companies such as the Crisis Prevention Institute. Here are a few school violence prevention tips.
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eSchool News
Mental illness is omnipresent in schools today, but it isn’t as well understood or managed as districts would hope. An October 2018 Education Week article stated that, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 32% of adolescents have an anxiety disorder. This means that in a classroom of 24, eight students will suffer from clinical anxiety.
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School Leaders Now
It's no secret that the most successful all-school initiatives have faculty support. Enter the Sunshine Club: a faculty-led group charged with making life brighter during the school year. A typical Sunshine Club collects annual dues, and that money can be used in a variety of ways. Some Sunshine Clubs focus on whole-faculty treats and activities. Others specialize in celebrating with birthday treats or sending condolences when teachers experience a loss.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 "The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of, not the circumstances." Years ago, as a high school math teacher, this quote was displayed in my classroom as a way to remind my students that, regardless of their circumstances and their environment, they could overcome adversity and succeed. In life, we make do with the hand that is dealt to us. Yet, for all the promise of a positive outlook when dealing with shortcomings in life, the reality is that sometimes an upgrade can go a long way towards changing one's promise for a better future.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Ivan Misner, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "I hate change. I really do. I like the comfort and contentment that comes with a successful status quo. The problem is that a successful status quo is the present, built upon a strong past. Unfortunately, the present is not etched in stone for the future. Whether I like it or not — the future involves change, and the change is, by nature, disruptive."
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Fast Company
Have you ever thought about why humankind has successfully traveled to the moon, but companies still have a hard time figuring out how to grow faster than the competition? That we can make interventions using nanotechnology, but struggle to turn around the performance of a business unit?
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Inc.
In today's always connected, always on, faster-than-fast moving world we've eliminated any time for introspection, for reasoned decision making, and for time to think about the medium and long term. We're too busy for that. There's an actual job to be done.
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Fast Company
If an employee at IBM is thinking of quitting, their manager likely knows. The company recently announced it's developed an AI program that can predict with 95% accuracy employees who are flight risks, providing steps for managers to reengage them. In an interview with CNBC, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty didn't disclose "the secret sauce," but she said their "predictive attrition program" has saved IBM nearly $300 million in retention costs.
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The Lead Change Group
A significant dimension of leadership is coaching... engaging in conversations that help others make the leap from where they are to where they want (or need) to be. Whether the focus is on correcting a performance problem, expanding capacity, improving relationships or developing within one's career, coaching is a powerful tool for supporting others as they grow, achieve and realize their full potential.
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Inc.
Leaders spend a lot of time worrying about what to say. We sweat over a presentation. Carefully write (and rewrite) "informal" remarks. Print out a draft email so we can re-read it one more time before hitting the send button. It's all important, of course, but when it comes to building trust in your organization, what you say is not nearly as important as how well you listen, according to Denny F. Strigel, former CEO and President of Verizon Wireless and author of "Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?"
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Fast Company (commentary)
Scott E Page, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him at a conference on traffic models. During a presentation on computational models of traffic jams, his hand went up."
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Disability Scoop
The U.S. Department of Education is fighting to delay a special education regulation two months after a federal judge found that the agency’s efforts to do so were illegal.
In March, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan determined that the Education Department had violated the law in moving to hold off on implementing the “Equity in IDEA” regulations finalized under the Obama administration.
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The Journal
The Federal Communications Commission is considering making changes to the Educational Broadband Service, which is spectrum that is dedicated to serving educational institutions. But the schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition and the Consortium for School Networking are leading a petition to the FCC to make sure that the EBS spectrum remains in the hands of educational leaders and tribal entities.
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EdTech Magazine
It should not be news that technology plays a major role in modern education because it is used in almost every school across the United States. But what is the actual state of digital learning when it comes to accessibility, implementation and effectiveness? More important, how can we use our understanding of the current state to improve the educational experience for all? Schoology recently released a report on the 2018-2019 state of digital learning in K-12 schools. Using the responses from 9,279 teachers and administrators, Schoology identified three major steps for moving forward with digital learning.
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Edscoop
"What are you [teachers] doing right now so that your students have unhindered access to grade-level curriculum each day?" That was a question posed in a recent edWeb.net webinar by Dana Blackaby, a dyslexia specialist at The Academy at Nola Dunn in Burleson, Texas.
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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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By Angela Cleveland and Stephen Sharp
Today’s educators recognize that they are not just teaching a subject; they are teaching life skills to students so they can successfully navigate academic, career, and social-emotional challenges as they arise. Integrating developmentally appropriate mental health and wellness strategies into all content area subjects is increasingly as commonplace as integrating study skills strategies.
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eSchool News
Quality social-emotional learning and effective special education programming look remarkably similar. Each relies on a positive, safe learning environment and touts activities geared toward student strengths and weaknesses. Both types of programming facilitate a group experience where individual outcomes are designed to be disparate, be recorded, and used to track growth. Because these two types of programming are similar in philosophy, it should come as no surprise that both SEL and SpEd can be enhanced and expanded by innovative edtech solutions — most notably, student-created virtual reality.
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Tech&Learning
Facebook has a mentorship program available to people within select groups with a focus on parenting, professional or personal development. This means admins can offer this feature to members of their groups. Those who are members of groups using this feature can offer or find support. Members can determine how much time they want to spend together and what goals you want to work towards.
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Education Next
It's 7:30 a.m. on a cold morning in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The sun is barely over the horizon and students haven't yet arrived at the Crossroads Preparatory Academy charter school, but Crystalle Green is already setting up coffee, orange juice, and an array of LaMar's doughnuts, a local favorite. It's all part of the job for Green, a former teacher turned site coordinator for Communities in Schools, a nationwide nonprofit "integrated student support" organization. Crossroads, which operates three charter schools in Kansas City, partners with Communities in Schools of Mid-America to provide social services to its students, either directly or by connecting them with existing programs in the local community.
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Education Week
Kim Head's kindergarten son, Noah, would do anything to avoid school. Hide under tables. Complain of a stomach ache. Cry. For Noah, going to school was painful and he didn't understand why. But, his mom figured it out. It turns out Noah has dyslexia, a learning disability that makes it difficult to read and spell. Dyslexia affects 1 in 5 individuals, and is the most commonly diagnosed learning disability, said Sarah Sayko, the deputy director of the National Center on Improving Literacy. The group is federally funded and works to give educators and parents evidence-based information to help all children, including those with learning disabilities, learn to read.
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Edutopia
A quick primer on how to think about the decorations in your classroom, with five research-backed tips for getting it right.
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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg via Science Daily
About a tenth of adolescents across the globe have been the victim of psychological or physical violence from their classmates. In a new study researchers show that victims and their perpetrators both suffer as a result of these attacks: They are more inclined to consume alcohol and tobacco, are more likely to complain of psychosomatic problems and their chances of having problems with their social environment increase, too.
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The 74
With the nationwide expansion of both charter schools and voucher-style tuition subsidy programs, growing numbers of families are selecting from an array of places to enroll their children in school. The question is, how do they make up their minds?
Many in the education reform movement no doubt wish that those choices were entirely based on academics — particularly how well schools performed in lifting student scores on standardized tests.
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WITF-FM
Pennsylvania's State Board of Education is giving its support to proposals by Gov. Tom Wolf to require students start schooling by age 6 and continue until they're at least 18.
The board recently voted unanimously for the Democratic governor's proposals that he unveiled in February. The Republican-controlled Legislature still must approve the proposals for them to take effect.
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The Buffalo News
Lawmakers say they have reached a deal to permit school districts to use cameras to catch drivers who fail to stop when students are boarding or getting off buses. "We have to put in place measures to keep our kids safe," said State Sen. Tim Kennedy, a Buffalo Democrat who chairs the Senate transportation committee. He said he and Assemblyman William Magnarelli, a Syracuse Democrat, have reached a two-house deal to pass the long-stalled school bus camera bill.
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Governing
Gov. Steve Bullock recently signed a school safety bill that would let schools offer a new tax specifically for school safety costs and to use existing funding streams for safety upgrades.
Senate Bill 92 takes an expansive view on the topic, citing concepts from active shooter training to restorative justice, a disciplinary approach that shifts from punitive measures toward helping students reflect on their behavior and its consequences.
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NAESP
Join NAESP on Wednesday, May 15, for a Title II Day of Action. Title II-A is the only federal funding stream dedicated to the preparation, training and support of teachers and principals. It’s critical for Members of Congress to hear directly from you why this funding matters, how it helps you in your job and why it's critical for student success. In addition to professional development, Title II-A enables districts and states to boost principal pipelines and pathways into the profession, and boosts innovative programs that provide clinical-based preparation for principal candidates.
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NAESP
Laurie A. Kimbrel writes: Reflecting over the past few years as a novice assistant principal, I remember the time before this new role, this new chapter of my life in education. I recall being inspired, motivated, determined and full of excitement about how I was going to make a difference in the lives of students on a larger scale. I remember specifically writing this in the goal statement on my resume and repeating it to anyone who would listen.
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