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Education Week
With school safety dominating the K-12 conversation for the last year, about half of principals said they were the sole decision-makers about some safety and security procedures in their buildings, according to a survey released this month. Those decisions included things like changing phone systems to add caller ID, using student fees to beef-up security at after-school events, creating check-in procedures for campus visitors, drafting in-depth school safety plans for their buildings, and reviewing their building's crisis plans, according to MCH Strategic Data, a data and technology firm, which annually surveys principals about their concerns and the most pressing issues in K-12 education.
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Education DIVE
The teacher shortage that affects certain fields of study and certain states more than others is now impacting the quality of education for many students. While emergency credentialing measures and easier certification pathways have managed to place bodies in front of the classroom in some cases, the lack of teacher training and experience often impacts student success, as this research indicates.
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MindShift
School counselors help guide students with academics, college applications and social matters with other students. Increasingly, however, they are also helping students deal with mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression. School counselors, along with school social workers, may be children’s only access to some form of mental health care, since it’s estimated that only 20 percent of children with mental or behavioral disorders receive help from a mental health care provider.
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Harvard Business Review
According to a recent Harvard Business Review cover story, it's rarely useful to give feedback to colleagues. The authors argue that constructive criticism won't help people excel and that, when you highlight someone's shortcomings, you actually hinder their learning. They say that managers should encourage employees to worry less about their weaknesses and instead focus on their strengths.
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THE Journal
When it comes to giving students with behavioral issues more support, creating an open line of communication between teachers and parents is critical. But a new study finds policies, processes and tools for documenting behaviors in schools are often implemented without considering exchanging information with parents. The findings of the study were presented May 7 at the CHI 2019 conference by Gabriela Marcu, lead author of the study and an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
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Inc.
The evolution of neuroscience has proven that words and tone immediately affect our brains and can trigger emotions, sometimes negatively. Whether or not you consider yourself an emotional person, your brain instantaneously responds to words and tone in very specific ways. This is true when you are being spoken to or when you engage in negative self-talk.
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The Lead Change Group
She was the chief operating officer of a large company, and this was the leadership conference for her company. I was there as a keynote speaker, and her "message to the troops" came right before my closing remarks. She had been going through chemotherapy for breast cancer and was utterly bald ... no wig and no hat. She stood before this large group of followers entirely without pretense, embarrassment or reserve. And she was incredibly compelling.
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Forbes
Our research shows that 78% of companies are failing to get good results from employee engagement surveys. Or put another way, only 22% are actually getting good results. More than 4,000 HR executives have taken the online quiz “How Good Is Your Employee Engagement Survey?”
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Leadership Freak
Leaders won't seek input if they don't know how to gracefully reject irrelevant or stupid suggestions. Don't insult people when they offer ideas, or they'll take their ideas to competitors.
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Fast Company
Most candidates are preselected for an open role using a traditional but not-so-effective method: by screening resumes, checking for the schools they attended, searching for the right keywords and looking for suitable experience. After interviewing those who successfully passed this stage, somebody gets hired. The problem is at least 50% of the time, the person stays no more than 18 months on the job.
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Forbes
Today, everyone wants to give you tips and tricks to improve your leadership skills. In fact, if you search for "leadership" as a keyword in Google Scholar, you'll see 139,000 articles from 2018 alone. That makes some sense; leadership is a skill set that can earn you a job, that often commands respect and that could help you earn a higher income. But until you're actually in a leadership position, what can you do?
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Fast Company (commentary)
Navigating a career and a young family life can feel like juggling axes. To avoid the crippling stress many aspiring professionals face, you need to find ways to manage it effectively.
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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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Inc.
When was the last time you put yourself in someone else's shoes? I mean, actually seeing through that person's eyes? The ability to understand and share the feelings of others is known as empathy, and this vital leadership skill can make all the difference between a good leader and an exceptional one.
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U.S. News & World Report
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat running for president, pledged that if elected, she would tap a public school teacher to be her secretary of education. "In my administration, the Secretary of Education will be a former public school teacher who is committed to public education," Warren, herself a former special education teacher, wrote in a campaign email blasted to supporters Monday.
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District Administration Magazine
With cyberattacks on the rise, school leaders need to stay ahead of the risk curve. Technology products and services hit the market constantly, and keeping up with all the options and emerging risks is a daunting task.
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Market Brief
A new analysis of K-12 school district spending bolsters the notion that many ed-tech products and software purchased aren't actually used or don't have the intended impact. Ed-tech company Glimpse K12 studied $2 billion in school spending and found that on average, 67 percent of educational software product licenses go unused. Glimpse K12 tracked 200,000 curriculum software licenses purchased by 275 schools during the 2017-2018 school year. The analysis found educational software was the biggest source of wasted spending in K-12 districts.
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THE Journal
In order to study how technology can improve behavioral management, researchers at the University of Michigan and Drexel University have developed a classroom display prototype for teachers that allows students to track their behaviors throughout the school day. Through using a token-based economy, teachers are able to reward students for positive behaviors in the classroom.
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Education Week
Many teachers share a common complaint: Professional development doesn't actually treat them like professionals. Mandatory seminars often have no relevance to their particular subject area or cover skills that they mastered years ago. Facilitators from outside groups introduce new instructional practices and don't inquire about, or even acknowledge, teachers' current strategies.
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By: Julie Anne Wells (commentary)
 There are few topics in the world of education more heavily debated than standardized testing. Is it even necessary? Does it accurately reflect the curriculum for each grade level? Is it an accurate measuring stick for student success? Parents and teachers alike question the validity and accuracy of state-mandated testing for students with diverse learning styles and socioeconomic backgrounds. Here are a few of the pros and cons of standardized testing.
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Edutopia
There's a form of cogent professional development that requires teachers to collaboratively create, participate in and reflect on a lesson. It's called lesson study, and it's research-based, student-centered and eye-opening.
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NPR
By some estimates, up to 93% of American adults have some degree of math anxiety. The problem often starts in elementary school, but parents can do a lot to fix it. Sesame Workshop's Rosemarie Truglio and Sudha Swaminathan of Eastern Connecticut State University give us some unexpected strategies for children of all ages, with a little bit of help from Sesame Street head writer Ken Scarborough and, of course, the Count.
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Education Week
English language learners and students with disabilities — groups of children once taught in isolated classrooms with specially trained instructors — spend more time in general education classrooms now than in years past. But many general education teachers are not equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to meet the needs of English learners or students with disabilities, researchers have found.
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Education World (comentary)
Marissa King, a contributor for Education World, writes: "For most teachers, the last days of school are a frantic sprint of classroom tidying, teary goodbyes, and messy end-of-year parties. Teachers are usually too tired or too excited or too busy to take time for reflection. I get it; you really do have to track down that missing library book and account for all your curricular resources."
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MiddleWeb
Throughout history, images have been an important part of the media message. They've also been a part of the education curriculum. Since the invention of photographic printing, pictures have routinely accompanied the words written about critical events in social studies textbooks.
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Edutopia
By the time many students reach middle school, they no longer have books read aloud to them at home or at school. But research shows benefits of hearing books read aloud, including improved comprehension, reduced stress and expanded exposure to different types of materials.
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eSchool News
It's easy to focus on what we teach and how we teach, but where we teach is often overlooked. We need to prepare students for jobs that don't yet exist and for a world that is rapidly evolving. While no one can predict what the future will look like, we can set students on a path for success by unlocking their creative potential. One of the best ways to foster creativity is to provide conditions in which all learners can develop ideas, solve problems, connect, learn and adapt.
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The Atlantic
Recently, America got another reminder of the fear that its schoolchildren must make sense of every day. On Tuesday afternoon, nine students were shot—one of them fatally — at STEM School Highlands Ranch, near Denver. Though the two suspects are teenagers, STEM School Highlands Ranch is K–12, meaning that some young children were exposed to the violence. Among them was a second grader who told a New York Times reporter that he'd gone through lockdowns and active-shooter drills since kindergarten. That's close to half his eight years of life.
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The Hechinger Report
Nearly 60 years ago, a handful of 3- and 4-year-old black children living in a small city outside of Detroit attended a preschool program known as the Perry Preschool Project. The children were part of an experiment to see if a high-quality educational experience in a child's early years could raise IQ scores. Kids' IQ scores went up initially, but soon evened out with those of their peers. The same thing has happened more recently with the standardized test scores of children who attend preschool: They got a boost in kindergarten and then saw that boost fade as they grew older.
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Education Week
Flo Rice used to run about 30 miles a week to relax and burn off stress. But now, during the most stressful, emotional time in her life, she can't turn to her old outlet. Rice was substitute teaching a year ago at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, evacuating students from a gym at the sound of a fire alarm, when an attacker shot her in both legs.
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EdScoop
In following a national trend, Wyoming passed legislation last year adding computer science standards to its K-12 curriculum, but the state has become embroiled in conversations about the rigor of the learning requirements for students and the instructional burden expected to be placed on teachers. Now, the state is rushing to approve new standards everyone can agree on and train its teachers before a fall 2022 implementation deadline.
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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 21. (The Early Bird deadline is Monday, June 3. Early Bird applications will receive a Crayola product Classpack®). Click here for more information.
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NAESP
I had just been handed one of the best gifts an elementary school principal could receive — an assistant principal. Upon meeting Jamar Humphrey, newly named assistant principal of Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, asked what his hopes and dreams were for his new position. He said he was short for the world of assistant principal and a principal role was his next destination. I thought, This is good news, because I know how to be a principal, but in truth, I have no idea how to be an assistant principal. Like many elementary school principals, I never served as an assistant principal, and, as a teacher, I never worked in an environment that had both roles.
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