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School Leaders Now
We've been thinking about student talent all wrong. We often call our highest-achieving students "gifted," as if their abilities and knowledge were gifts that they passively received, bestowed upon them by fate, genetics, or pure luck. The new science of expertise reveals a very different truth. Even those who initially appear to have no talent can develop expertise, or true mastery of skills and content. This means every student in your school has the potential to be an expert.
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Education Week
Sixty percent of public school principals say they have a major influence over their school budgets, while only 40 percent said they have that same amount of influence on establishing curriculum, according to a national study released this week by the federal government. Principals in suburban schools were the most likely to say that they have a major influence on school budgets (66 percent), but they were least likely to report that level of influence on curriculum choices (33 percent.)
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By: D. Albert Brannen (commentary)
 When the labor market gets tight and skilled candidates for employment are scarce, employers often wonder whether they should rehire former employees. No perfect answer exists to this question. The correct answer depends upon the circumstances of each situation. This article outlines the pros and cons of rehiring former employees and some practical steps if you ultimately decide to rehire a former employee.
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Inc.
The CEO was having a tantrum. While it's true that he hadn't thrown himself on the floor kicking and screaming like a 2-year-old, it was a tantrum just the same. He went on a long rant about the way no one had taken responsibility for a certain problem, taking a breath only long enough to ask pointed questions of the two senior leaders who were the object of his wrath. The CEO sputtered. He fumed. And when he was done, he abruptly left the conference room, banging the door shut as he departed.
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School Leaders Now
Your principal résumé can be a living document that tells the story of your growth as a professional. It should be a curated vision of how you have become the professional you are. When you take the time to carefully shape that vision, you are more likely to move beyond the preliminary pile of candidate maybes. If you are not currently doing a job search, revisiting your résumé can be a great way to record the good work you are doing.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Jane Perdue, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "At first, I was worried. Might she have been in an accident? Taken ill? Ten minutes after the time our coffee meetup was supposed to start, a horrible thought leapt into my mind. Had I gotten the date or time or place wrong? A frantic scroll through sent emails confirmed I was in the right place, right day, and right time. I called her. She'd forgotten about our get-together. Forgotten. It had been her idea to meet."
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HR DIVE
Unclear goals are part of the communication problem that continues to plague many workplaces, and were also cited as the number one cause of stress for tech workers in an earlier Comparably study. Employees who don't know what's expected of them can't perform their best work. Employers can't afford to ignore stress in the workplace, as it can lead to absenteeism, decreased productivity and higher healthcare costs. Stress is even causing workers to change careers — a real retention problem for some employers.
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Japan Math’s K – 2 curriculum teaches math through problem solving.
Aim: Developing the will and skill to use math.
Methodology: Problem solving for deeper understanding
Program: Efficient and Effective Topic Arrangement
Click here for more information: japan-math.com
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HR DIVE
Culture is an important consideration when discussing workplace norms and expectations, including fashion. The prototypical startup environment, in which both employer and employee trend younger, tends to evoke a more relaxed dress code characterized by jeans, t-shirts and similar items. Even legacy companies like Goldman Sachs have opened up to this trend. Other professions and industries keep things traditional, sometimes weaving the suit-and-tie look into their very identity.
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Education Week
Chicago students have made more and faster academic progress than children in virtually any other school district in the country. And if you ask district leaders, that's because of the intense focus principals in Chicago schools place on supporting and empowering their teachers. In this video, Education Week explores some of the methods principals in Chacgo are utilizing to support teachers, encourage collaboration and drive improvement strategies.
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Leadership Freak
The great temptation of leadership is giving answers instead of guidance. Experience makes answer-giving easy. But there's an ego factor as well. It feels great to KNOW when others don't.
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Edutopia
Mary Davenport, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Some of the best professional advice I've heard and keep returning to is 'Designate time to what you want.' If teachers want a stronger classroom community, they need to use instructional time to build it. If leaders want more collaboration, they must allot time in the master schedule. The same idea holds if a school wants a strong adult culture."
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Inc.
Justin M. Deonarine is an industrial-organizational psychologist with Psychometrics Canada, an Entrepreneurs' Organization-member company which provides a full spectrum of assessment consulting services to help businesses hire the right individuals at all levels of job responsibility and develop teams and leaders. Inc. asked Justin to share the results of a survey conducted by Psychometrics Canada about the greatest obstacles leaders face.
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CLO
Corporate leaders are sent abroad to get things done, but they often create more problems than they solve. Wondering why their best people succeed in one location and fail in another, firms habitually conclude that the challenge is cultural and provide leaders with "cultural skills" — generalizations at best and cartoonish clichés at worst, with little relevance to solving professional problems. Blaming challenges on national peculiarities, expat leaders often fail (scared, perhaps?) to look at the fundamental factors that make or break a diverse team's success.
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District Administration Magazine
A frustrated student cries out "I can't do it." A teacher redirects: "You can't do it, yet." This may be the simplest way to define "growth mindset," the increasingly popular learning approach in which K12 leaders affirm their students' — and their staff members' — lifelong capacity to boost intelligence.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 We all go through dynamic personal events, and they often seem to happen at the least opportune times. Whether it is divorce, death or a family crisis, two tips for staying professional through a personal crisis are to assess the situation and to plan, inside and out.
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Forbes (commentary)
Ann Latham, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "I have always thought of myself as an active person. Hiking, skiing, ice hockey, ping pong, tennis, wilderness canoeing — you name it and I was game. From my tiny years when playing tackle football meant throwing myself around someone's legs and hanging on as I was dragged the length of the field to the present day when more dignified activities like pickleball reign, action and sports have been a consistent, and nontrivial, part of my self-image."
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Education Week
Education and immigration advocates are pushing back against a Trump administration plan that would consolidate the federal office that helps guide education for millions of English language learner and immigrant students. Under the proposal, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos would fold her department's office of English language acquisition into the broader office for elementary and secondary education, according to advocacy groups briefed this week on the department's potential plan. The proposal also calls for eliminating the director's position for the English language acquisition office, a job currently held by José Viana.
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Education Week
White children made up about 2 in 5 public-school pre-K students during the 2015-2016 school year, but represented more than half of the preschoolers who were spanked, paddled, or otherwise subjected to corporal punishment that year, according to an Education Week Research Center analysis of federal civil rights data collected for the first time. Black and Native American students also were subjected to corporal punishment out of proportion to their representation among the nation's preschoolers.
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District Administration Magazine
Today's computer charging stations not only provide power, they also allow teachers to effortlessly transport an entire classroom's laptops and tablets. Some stationary platforms have cart attachments to make them mobile, while others can be stacked or mounted on various surfaces to save space.
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School Leaders Now
These days, the use of technology can change a school culture from okay to wow. We know that school relationships make or break learning. Technology can improve student-teacher relationships, but making it happen requires intention. Here are three ways intentionally integrating technology can more easily improve student-teacher relationships,
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EdTech Magazine
As K–12 school districts work to expand and modernize their networks, administrators must address evolving requirements in connectivity, gigabit-class Wi-Fi and ever-growing traffic flows. Driven by these increasing traffic demands and advances in technologies, new network switches offer benefits in both capacity and utility.
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Education Week
The video game Fortnite has become wildly popular with younger players, consuming kids' free time and frustrating teachers whose students play it on their phones under their desks during class. "As soon as there's a moment where they're not actively writing, or engaged in a lab — if there's any moment of downtime — they're trying to play," said Nick Fisher, a science teacher at Fort Zumwalt North High School in O'Fallon, Mo. Some teachers are looking for ways to curb that craze, while others are looking for ways to leverage students' interest in the game to make connections in the classroom.
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Scott Barry Kaufman was placed in special education classes as a kid. He struggled with auditory information processing and with anxiety. But with the support of his mother, and some teachers who saw his creativity and intellectual curiosity, Kaufman ended up with degrees from Yale and Cambridge. Now he's a psychologist who cares passionately about a holistic approach to education, one that recognizes the capacity within each child.
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The Brookings Institution
This report highlights the financial stress facing teachers in regions of fast economic growth and high property values. Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area report far greater financial anxiety than do samples of adults and workers from across the nation. Public schools in areas of increasing property values and other living costs cannot simply relocate teachers to areas with reasonable property values and short commutes. Teaching differs from the vast majority of other professions because of the need for geographic dispersion. Areas of great economic growth, as well as those of low economic opportunity and low appeal to many college graduates, need teachers for their students.
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Edutopia
Recently, the Aspen Institute released "The Practice Base for How We Learn: Supporting Students' Social, Emotional, and Academic Development," which contains several statements of practice for integrating these different aspects of learning. Among them is the recognition that "the key to fostering social and emotional development is a continuing loop in which we first help students understand why the skills are important and how they can be used effectively, then create opportunities for students to practice those skills, and finally provide feedback and time for reflection."
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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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eSchool News
For a relatively new buzzword, grit certainly has a lot of supporters. It is grit, and not necessarily IQ or talent, that can predict students' academic success. And as educators seek to understand students from a motivational and psychological point of view, grit pays an important role. "Grit is passion, perseverance for very long-term goals, stamina," says Angela Duckworth in her now-famous 2013 TED Talk. In that talk, viewed more than 13.5 million times, she describes her study of different predictors of success and how grit emerged as a significant predictor for long-term goals.
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HealthDay News
After-school activities might be just what the doctor ordered for kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, researchers suggest. After analyzing records on more than 4,000 children with ADHD, the investigators found that nearly 72 percent of them took part in one or more after-school activities. And if they did, they missed fewer days of school and had less severe symptoms of the disorder.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jason DeHart, a contributor for the Edutopia, writes: "One of the lessons I quickly learned—the hard way—when I began working with eighth graders was that they don’t all like the same kind of reading material. Here are some of the novels I tried out in my classroom—including ones that flew high and others that sank like literary stones."
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MiddleWeb
If you are looking for lesson plans to help you boost social and emotional learning in your middle, junior high, or high school, this book will be a great addition to your toolkit. SEL is a hot topic in education circles today and it should be.
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Education DIVE
Parents and early-childhood educators know that reading aloud to young children builds their vocabularies and supports other early literacy skills. But a recently published study also shows a positive connection to better behavior, such as less hyperactivity, when the children are ready to enter kindergarten.
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Education World
Maybe it's the emergence of spring. Maybe it's that the finish line seems within arm's length, yet wholly out of reach. But this month, the hashtag #teacherlife has had a huge uptick in the Twittersphere, showing the world the all-too-real tragic comedy of being a facilitator of learning in our modern-day public school systems. Some of them are just funny; some of them will make you laugh just to avoid crying.
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Education DIVE
When Tucson Unified School District started using gardening as part of its school curriculum, school leaders imagined science would be the main subject area that would fit with the lessons. They're were intrigued, instead, when they found other subjects, from English language arts to math, also blended well.
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NAESP
Together with Crayola, NAESP offers a special opportunity to apply for a Champion Creatively Alive Children Grant. Your school could receive a $3,500 grant (a $2,500 check and $1,000 worth of Crayola products) to establish a creative leadership team and build the creative capacity of your professional learning community. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 22. (The Early Bird deadline is Monday, June 5. Early Bird applications will receive a Crayola product Classpack). Click here for more information.
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NAESP
I am so stressed! I can’t believe one of my teachers is posting negative information about me on social media. She doesn't want to implement our new special education initiative, but I don't care if she's the special education chair — I'm the principal. I set the vision for the school. Why isn't she doing her job? This is slander, I think. I will get her. Then, I decide to call my coach. He'll understand exactly how ridiculous this situation is and help me figure out how to get rid of the troublesome teacher.
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