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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Mentors matter for new teachers. Advice on what works and doesn't
Education Week
A big batch of file folders, mandatory homework that felt like “busy work,” and requisite weekly meetings that never seemed to address what she needed to know at that moment — that's what Misti Kemmer recalls about her mentorship experience as a newly minted 23-year-old elementary school teacher.
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Survival mode: Educators reflect on a tough 2021 and brace for the future
EdSurge
For many of us, glancing at our social media feeds this year was a rather dispiriting exercise. Learning gaps deepened, the pandemic frustrated schools’ return to normal and teachers talked openly of burnout and exhaustion, when they weren’t announcing sudden retirement. It can seem as if the entire system of education is unraveling right when we need it most.
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How to build any school into a success story
MiddleWeb
As a school leader have you ever found a brief solitary moment to sit down at your desk during the school day and come to the realization that what you were taught to do in education leadership classes, and have done with fidelity, isn’t getting the job done? While you may have seen some success, your school is simply not moving steadily forward to reach its goals.
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Kids' access to recess varies greatly
Hechinger Report
Ask any young child their favorite part of a school day and you’re likely to hear it’s recess. Recess is often the only time kids get for free play during jam-packed school days— and it’s brief: The average length of recess is 25 minutes per day. This time can benefit kids and their teachers, research shows: children are more attentive, productive and perform better cognitively after recess. Elementary school principals have reported that recess has a positive impact on students’ ability to focus
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Reducing exclusionary discipline practices in early childhood education
New America
Exclusionary discipline refers to a school disciplinary action, typically a suspension or expulsion, that removes a student from his or her typical education setting. The specific issue of exclusionary discipline in ECE began to receive increased attention in 2005, with the release of a paper by Yale University professor Walter Gilliam. Gilliam found that the national rate of expulsions for pre-K children was over three times higher than that of K–12 students, with an estimated 5,000 pre-K students expelled each year, based on teacher-reported data.
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Promoting SEL through bulletin boards
Edutopia
With the right prompts, the bulletin boards in a school hallway—and their digital equivalents — can be used to foster social and emotional learning.
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After a lockdown, students found comfort in humor. But what are the jokes hiding?
NPR
The Instagram memes and jokes didn't just stop after the lockdown lifted and normal high school life resumed. They went on for weeks. Everyone was talking about them.
Much of it was inside humor that only the students go. For example, there was an account that posted only brick walls from around school – another one of only cinder block walls. The biggest account in the school got up to 366 followers.
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5 ways to improve school board and superintendent collaboration
Studies Weekly
Why is it important for school boards and superintendents to get along?
Richard Goodman said it best in his book, Getting There from Here: “Strong, collaborative leadership by local school boards and school superintendents is a key cornerstone of the foundation for high student achievement.”
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Teachers say live instruction better for mitigating learning loss
K-12 Dive
Live instruction and the use of technology apps and platforms were most helpful in supporting students’ academic progress during the pandemic, according to a Government Accountability Office report based on a teacher survey and virtual meetings with K-12 stakeholders.
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How to make school assessments fairer for English learners
Phys
Current assessment practices are not only monolingual, but they tend to be in writing. Therefore a "one test, one language, one mode" approach is used. For some users of Aboriginal languages, this means their messages cannot be fully communicated because culturally it is appropriate to use gesture or signing to communicate certain information.
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As a leader in your building, your staff looks to you to feel understood and supported. A straightforward way to help people feel seen and valued is a tool we call the Temperature Check. We’ve built out a template for you.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Short on substitute teachers? Here's something states can do
Education Week
Most students returned to in-person instruction this school year, but for many it was not the smooth reopening that parents, policymakers, and practitioners wanted. Disruptions due to COVID-19 outbreaks and quarantines among students and teachers have been a recurring feature of the school year. The pandemic has also elevated the importance of a key position in keeping schools open and helping them operate smoothly: substitute teachers.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Digital resources for play-based learning in preschool
Edutopia
As schools moved to distance learning during the pandemic, early childhood educators began to explore ways that play-based learning could occur with digital resources or within digital environments. To be effective, such educational media must remain open-ended, socially interactive, and flexible while requiring communication and removing external evaluation.
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With so many ed tech choices, here's what schools should be investing in
THE Journal
The challenge for schools now, it seems, is that they’re spoiled for choice. With so many programs, devices, and technologies to choose from, educators and procurement decision-makers can quickly become overwhelmed. What’s more, these technologies often have hefty price tags, so it’s important that schools choose wisely.
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How to setup virtual reality or augmented reality in schools for free
Tech and Learning
If virtual reality or augmented reality are of interest to your school then this guide is what you need to get it for free. While the relatively new technologies may seem expensive and complex initially, when you look more closely it becomes clear that either can be very accessible.
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5 ways to get your teachers more excited about using ed-tech
District Administration
If you’re like most K-12 leaders, it’s a given that you will be encouraging your teachers to incorporate more ed-tech in the coming school years, whether students are in-person or online. But as some CIOs and administrators have learned, it’s not as simple as buying new instructional technology tools and installing them on your teachers’ devices.
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Katie Novak returns with an all-new UDL Now! that provides practical and savvy strategies to help all learners succeed with Universal Design for Learning. This powerful guide covers MTSS, equity, standardized tests, and student choice and voice. Save 20% with discount code NOWS22. Offer expires 9/30/2022.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
How variability shapes learning and generalization
Phys
variability is found in many domains, including speech perception, grammar, and learning words and categories. For instance, infants will struggle to learn the category "dog" if they are only exposed to chihuahuas, instead of many different kinds of dogs.
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Vaping: Know the truth from Truth Initiative is a free vaping prevention curriculum and quitting resource available in the U.S. for use among middle school students that gives young people the facts about e-cigarettes and tools to help those vaping quit through the first-of-its-kind text message program, This is Quitting from truth.
Youth e-cigarette use remains an epidemic with more than two million middle school and high school students vaping nicotine in 2021. Vaping: Know the truth engages young people through its peer-to-peer voice and self-led digital instruction. Learn how to get this free program for your school.
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.IN THE STATES
Dyslexia bills pass Michigan Senate with bipartisan support
Chalkbeat
Three years ago, Michigan law didn’t mention dyslexia. Now the state is a step closer to enacting comprehensive measures to improve literacy by screening for and addressing the hereditary reading disorder.
The state Senate passed a package of bills that would require schools to screen for dyslexia and provide evidence-based instruction to help students learn to read.
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Meeting the moment: strategic recommendations for literacy & equity in North Carolina
EdNC
In the last decade, North Carolina has made significant efforts to support student literacy growth. Despite these efforts, student reading scores continue to demand our collective attention and innovation. According to the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, 64% of fourth graders and 67% of eighth graders in North Carolina scored below proficiency level in reading.
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Will California teachers be ready to teach ethnic studies? Some say training needed
Lake County Record-Bee
California high school teachers will need to be prepared to teach ethnic studies in several years, but there’s debate over whether they will be. Last year, California became the first state in the nation to mandate ethnic studies as a high school graduation requirement beginning with students graduating in the 2029-30 academic year. However, high schools can start offering ethnic studies courses as early as 2025.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
The Principal's New Gig
NAESP
Good principals manage their buildings. They deftly handle flu outbreaks. They deal calmly with anxious parents. But they didn’t train to be health managers. They weren’t prepared to divert time away from the pursuit of educational excellence and toward assuaging the overwhelming concerns of students, families, and staff. Thank the COVID-19 pandemic for an upheaval that makes the job of principal feel new.
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