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School Leaders Now
Once you've decided to pursue the administrator track, you'll need to consider which kind of school you prefer. Matching a principal to a school has its challenges. Though you may have some experience and think you know what you'd like, it's always good to arm yourself with information.
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Harvard Business Review
Compassion has become increasingly recognized as a foundational aspect of leadership. One study from 2012 found that compassionate leaders appear stronger and have more-engaged followers. Other studies have found that organizations with more-compassionate leaders have better collaboration, lower turnover, and employees who are more trusting, more connected to each other, and more committed to the company. When we surveyed more than 1,000 leaders from 800 organizations, 91 percent of them said compassion is very important for their leadership and 80 percent said they would like to enhance their compassion but do not know how.
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The Lead Change Group
Your health is a critical aspect of your job. You have to be mentally healthy to provide stellar customer service, and you have to be physically healthy to handle the bodily demands of the position. The following are some tips that can help to ensure you remain fit and safe during your work shift, so you can be a model employee and a testimony for creating healthier workplaces.
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Connected Principals (commentary)
It is not uncommon for us as educators to share our disappointments when we find ourselves dealing with certain situations that cause us frustration. For whatever reason, some educators have felt safe lately sharing with me some of their personal experiences they are currently facing in their daily work as teachers and school leaders.
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Training Industry Magazine
"Can you train 'nice'?" asked S. Chris Edmonds in a recent article for TrainingIndustry.com. His answer was "yes," and he explained that doing so will help create "a purposeful, positive, productive work experience." When "niceness" is cultivated and rewarded in an organization, employees feel safe to ask for help and receive it. Managers support their employees' development, and every employee, from the intern to the CEO, brings his or her authentic self to work and performs better as a result.
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District Administration Magazine
While our students strive for A's in the classroom, school administrators can focus on the "4 C's." This smart model from Jez Frampton, CEO of global marketing leader Interbrand, brings a tight structure from the world of business. It's a tool for school brand builders who are on the path to "telling, not selling." So what are the education leadership 4 C's?
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Forbes
It's well known that the modern employee is often a stressed employee. Indeed, official government stats suggest that 40 percent of workers believe their job is extremely stressful, with 25 percent regarding it as the main stressor in their lives. Having a bit of a grumble with a colleague about something so stressful could be a great way to let off steam, right? Well yes and no. Let's explore the evidence to support venting at work first.
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By: Anne Rose (commentary)
 Have you ever hired a person, not because you thought they would be an asset to your company, but simply because you felt sorry for them? You think, "No one else would ever hire this person," or "They have a rough life and deserve a break." Having sympathized with their circumstances, you bend over backwards to keep this person employed to give them an opportunity for a fresh start. In short, you've forgiven a lot of transgressions because of misplaced sympathy.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Michael P. Dempsey, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "There is no single leadership trait that guarantees success in any profession, but there is, based on my experience, one that many of the best leaders share: a fierce commitment to objectivity. And yet I realize it's often not easy for leaders to remain objective."
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Forbes
Increasingly, the financial concerns of employees are playing a more prominent part in workplace stress and the problem isn't set to go away in these economically turbulent times. But how are financial services firms addressing the stress induced by employees' financial concerns?
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Leadership Freak
The seductions of arrogance wreck leaders, demoralize teams and destroy organizations. "The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." (Attributed to Albert Einstein.) Everything good in leadership begins with humility.
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Training Industry Magazine
What most older leaders and managers mean by critical thinking is the ability to "think on your feet" — learning, problem-solving and decision-making, without the assistance of a handheld device. Many older managers of younger employees describe this issue similarly: "Millennial employees just don't think on their feet the way we used to. If they are not sure of something, they go right to their phone. They never seem to just stop and think for an answer."
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 A problem employee can have a ripple effect of toxicity in a department or organization. Oftentimes, as leaders, we know the employee must be fired but are unable to gather the evidence we feel is air-tight enough to make the case. Here are a few tips for tough terminations.
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School Leaders Now
School choice has some major implications for school leaders. It allows families to opt out of their neighborhood school in favor of a more desirable intradistrict choice. 35 states have policies in place that allow this form of public school choice. The kicker: State funds follow students, so schools must now market themselves to ensure appropriate enrollment. For admins with little marketing experience, this may seem like an insurmountable challenge.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary Betsy DeVos's team is mulling a significant reorganization of the office of elementary and secondary education or OESE, the main K-12 arm of the U.S. Department of Education. The effort would be part of the Trump administration's overall push to "streamline" government. The department signaled earlier this year that it would merge the OESE, which oversees programs like Title I grants to help districts serve disadvantaged students, with the office for innovation, which deals with charters, programs for private schools and more.
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eSchool News
In any given K-12 district, you'll find at least some teachers choosing their own edtech products. Why? If their district hasn't shown tech leadership, there are no shortage of tempting free apps to choose from. Why not fly solo, so to speak? But that's contrary to what districts have come to learn over time: that students and their parents benefit most when all teachers in a district are assessing and reporting on students using a common, approved set of tools and schemes.
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EdTech Magazine
What's the best way to define a makerspace? For Laura Fleming, library media specialist at New Milford High School in New Jersey, a library makerspace is a unique learning environment that encourages tinkering, play and open-ended exploration for all. Fleming, who also runs and manages her own business, Worlds of Making, says too often schools build library makerspaces just for the top engineering students or the gifted and talented students.
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Frontiers via Science Daily
A new study finds a free "massive, open, online course" led to students feeling more positive about math, more engaged during math class, and scoring significantly higher in mathematics assessments. This is the first of its kind to focus on changing students' mindsets and beliefs about their mathematics potential.
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Education DIVE
Conferences are particularly popular for teaching writing skills, where experts say teachers shouldn't try to correct every mistake but rather a representative few, and instead make a few "teaching points" and look for positives. They also should limit the length of the sessions and range of topics — and record details on a conferencing sheet that is stapled in the student's notebook.
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District Administration Magazine
How do you ensure students who excel at math remain engaged? Heidi Williams intended to solve that challenge by starting an after-school coding club while she was a gifted-and-talented teacher at Bayside Middle School near Milwaukee. Instead of using pen and paper, her students created an interactive children's book on Scratch, the MIT Media Lab coding suite that lets users create games, stories and simulations. And the more of this kind of coding activity they did, the better their math test scores got.
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School Leaders Now
It's easy to label negative student behaviors as "problems," especially when our time is stretched thin. Is the student tapping his pencil being disrespectful? Or is he worried his parents can't pay rent? You can improve your school climate with a shift in mindset.
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University of Eastern Finland via Science Daily
Different types of maternal homework assistance have a different impact on the child's way of completing school assignments in grades 2 to 4 of elementary school, according to a new study. Although all homework assistance presumably aims at helping the child, not all types of homework assistance lead to equally positive outcomes.
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MiddleWeb
Although our assessment of students is critical to learning, we also want students to learn to assess themselves. Encouraging students to take measures of their own learning is more rigorous than the teacher providing all the assessment. As always, with greater rigor comes plenty of support. We can't expect students to immediately grasp what it means to gauge their own academic progress.
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eSchool News
Schools give many tests throughout the year to identify students' skills and gaps in their learning, including universal screening, diagnostic, formative, interim and summative assessments. These tests generate a huge amount of data meant to guide instruction — but all of this information can be overwhelming if teachers don't have an easy way to process it.
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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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The Washington Post
When it comes to treating anxiety in children and teens, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are the bane of therapists' work. "With (social media), it's all about the self-image — who's 'liking' them, who's watching them, who clicked on their picture," said Marco Grados, associate professor of psychiatry and clinical director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. "Everything can turn into something negative ... [K]ids are exposed to that day after day, and it's not good for them." Anxiety, not depression, is the leading mental health issue among American youths, and clinicians and research both suggest it is rising.
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Taylor & Francis Group via Science Daily
Teachers who antagonize their students by belittling them, showing favoritism or criticizing their contributions can damage their learning potential, a new study warns.
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News-Medical.net
Seasonal allergies can be a nuisance for children as well as adults. And in some young children, the symptoms of seasonal allergies can be mistaken for inattentiveness or learning disabilities. Dr. Maria Garcia-Lloret, a pediatric allergist at the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, explains that certain symptoms characteristic of learning disabilities or behavioral problems, such as fidgeting and difficulty concentrating, can arise from a child's discomfort due to seasonal allergies.
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The 74
Seventy-eight feet. That's a key number when it comes to the ability of teachers to interact with — and influence — the colleagues around them, according to a research paper by James Spillane, professor of learning and organizational change at Northwestern University, and Matthew Shirrell, assistant professor of educational leadership and administration at George Washington University. The researchers spent four years studying 14 elementary schools in a Midwestern suburb with a total of 6,000 students to discover just how the distribution of classrooms affected teacher-to-teacher interactions. The answer, they found: Classroom alignment makes a huge difference.
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The Washington Post (commentary)
Jay Mathews, a contributor for The Washington Post, writes: "After a long career looking at schools from every angle, Kalman R. 'Buzzy' Hettleman has no fear of upending old assumptions and making people angry. He has served two terms on the Baltimore school board and been deputy mayor of Baltimore and Maryland secretary of human resources. I first knew him as the effervescent policy and political activist who worked with educational researchers Robert Slavin and Nancy Madden in the creation of the nationally renowned 'Success for All' program for elementary and middle school students. Slavin and Madden had the idea. To their total surprise, Hettleman walked in one day to announce he had gotten the money budgeted, so they had better get started."
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The Associated Press
The Connecticut legislature's approval of new measures to recruit minority teachers could help boost numbers the state has been struggling to raise for decades, the state's education commissioner said. Like most of the United States, Connecticut has small numbers of minority teachers relative to its students. Only about 9 percent of public school teachers are African-American or Latino, while 44 percent of the students are nonwhite. The legislation approved this week could help by creating new ways to obtain teacher certification and improve coordination with state agencies to identify candidates, Commissioner Dianna Wentzell said.
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Chalkbeat
Getting sent home from school became a constant for Ben Wankel’s second-grade son last fall. It started simply enough: The cafeteria was too noisy, his pants were scratchy, or he was bored in class. Sometimes, Wankel’s son, who has autism, would flee the room, prompting a teacher or aide to follow. Other times, he'd have a meltdown that devolved into kicking, hitting or throwing things.
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District Administration Magazine
After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, Matthew Mayer and Shane Jimerson knew they had some work to do. Mayer, from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and Jimerson, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, both specialize in studying school violence. "In 2006, there were several school shootings, and we put out a position statement," says Mayer. "But this time we felt it was more important to take an action-oriented approach."
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NAESP
How can principals better meet their students social-emotional needs? Join NAESP and fellow educators on Twitter for a conversation on social-emotional skills. This chat takes place Tuesday, May 22 at 9 p.m. EDT. Use hashtag #NAESPChat to participate.
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NAESP
Trying to get middle schoolers to care about academics is an uphill battle. Middle school students care deeply about their connections with peers, but not nearly as much about turning homework or classwork in on time. This led me to think: Could students' desire for peer approval be used to increase academic engagement? The answer, we found, is a resounding YES.
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