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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
CDC: No change to COVID measures through end of school year
District Administration Magazine
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools through Phased Prevention guidance to reflect that schools should continue to follow the agency's recommended prevention measures against COVID-19 for the remainder of SY 2020-2021.
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A support system for principals juggling multiple crises
The Hechinger Report
In February 2020, Jacqueline Adam-Taylor accepted a new job almost 2,000 miles away from her home in Springfield, Massachusetts. She packed up her desk as a high school principal and moved to Fort Worth, Texas to lead a kindergarten program, just after her new school and others shuttered because of COVID-19.
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Half of teachers say the pandemic has made them more likely to leave teaching
We Are Teachers
"After the stress of this year, feelings of being unsupported by my community and my administration, and the fact that I could make more money at any other job, I am seriously considering leaving the profession." This is the sentiment that comes up again and again when teachers share how the past year has affected them. From the challenges of teaching online and in person simultaneously to concerns about safety and mental health, pandemic teaching pushed teachers to the brink and many are seriously considering a career change.
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Leaders detail approaches to assessing students' academic, mental health needs
K-12 DIVE
While formative and diagnostic assessments are useful tools to gauge students' academic status, they should be administered with a specific purpose and in coordination with other measures of student learning and social and emotional wellbeing, a group of education leaders said in a webinar Tuesday hosted by the Learning Policy Institute and AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
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3 tools for reopening schools with equity and advocacy
District Administration Magazine
The equitable spending of American Rescue Plan funds could rely on superintendents and their teams working closely with community leaders, education advocates say. The Alliance for Resource Equity, a joint project of The Education Trust and Education Resource Strategies, has developed a series of tools to help educators and communities collaborate to better understand students' distinct needs.
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How school nurses are helping get vaccine shots into the arms of students
EdSurge
The FDA's decision: It would authorize emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds. Two days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed suit, recommending that adolescents — the youngest population yet — begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
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How are districts planning to spend American Rescue Plan funds?
K-12 DIVE
Federal aid from the American Rescue Plan, which provided the largest pot of COVID-19 pandemic relief funds for schools to date, is making its way to states. The package, which provided nearly $123 billion through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, is prompting district leaders to plan in unprecedented ways for the next three years, as well as prepare for a fiscal cliff once those funds run dry.
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Many barriers prevent students of color and other marginalized youth from benefiting from SEL programs. One of these is how SEB skills are assessed and how resulting data are used to inform SEL. Tune in for this webinar to learn strategies for culturally responsive assessment practices. Register for the webinar.
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15 strategies to lower stress while boosting productivity
Forbes
Maintaining manageable levels of stress while simultaneously increasing your productivity can be challenging for any professional. A greater focus on being more productive often comes with a corresponding increase in anxiety. It's important to find a balance, as ignoring the impact of too much stress can affect your mental and physical health.
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How to do 10-minute micro-meetings And make them useful!
Entrepreneur
"Reunionitis" is practically the deadliest pandemic experienced by businesses. It is known that up to 40% of the time is wasted in unproductive encounters, from which nothing is gained. In these times of remote or hybrid work, the overabundance of baseless meetings, with the excuse of following up on topics, has overloaded the agenda of CEOs, senior management, managers and teams.
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4 lessons for building diverse teams
Harvard Business Review
If something yields the result we want even once, it's human nature to do that exact same thing again. In general, people are creatures of habit. Just think about how many times you've gone to your local coffee shop and ordered the exact same latte. Once you found the mixture of ingredients that your taste buds enjoy the most, you probably chose to stick with that.
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Now is the time to invest in school infrastructure
The Brookings Institution
COVID-19 has changed the way we understand school building ventilation and its importance in keeping us safe from viruses and bacteria in the air. The pandemic has motivated many school leaders to invest in improvements to ventilation systems, but the benefits of investing in a safe learning environment extend far beyond protecting children from the coronavirus.
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Leadership — Unwrapped and unadorned
The Lead Change Group
The true story is a part of the Southwest Airlines folklore — stories you would retell around the corporate campfire. A customer repeatedly wrote a complaining letter after each of Southwest's flights. She complained that Southwest did not have first-class, that they did not have assigned seats, that they failed to serve meals, on and on. The public relations team struggled to find new ways to try and appease Mrs. Crabapple.
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8 ways to make sure your leadership style isn't offensive
Entrepreneur
Giving feedback is an essential part of a leader's role. It shouldn't be overlooked, but it can be a complex task, as it's not always well-received. Sometimes people want to improve, but they can't handle the constructive feedback required.
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Dr. Don Vu examines six conditions for building a school’s culture of literacy to create an environment where immigrant and refugee children can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to realize the American Dream.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Census Bureau: 2019 had largest annual ed spending increase in a decade
K-12 DIVE
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of School System Finances shows New York state had the highest per pupil expenditure rate at $25,139 and Idaho had the lowest at $7,985. The data also shows, among other statistics, the year-over-year per pupil increase per state and revenue levels of the 100 largest public K-12 elementary and secondary school systems.
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Gwen Moore and other Democrats offer bill to make school meals free for all students, regardless of income
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Congress supercharged funding for food assistance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore wants to make sure help for hungry children stays in place for the long term. The Milwaukee Democrat is sponsoring a bill that would make breakfast, lunch, a snack and dinner free to all children in the United States regardless of income. Moore said the expansion of the free meal program would ensure kids get fed, reduce paperwork and bureaucracy and end any stigma from qualifying for government help.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
3 technology solutions to provide support in the post-COVID-19 classroom
EdTech Magazine
The return to in-person schooling is already underway. As of April, at least 14 states were requiring in-person instruction in all or some grades, and the 2021 National Assessment of Educational Progress School Survey found 77% of U.S. public schools with fourth and eighth graders were holding classroom instruction this spring.
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How ed-tech turbocharges active learning in schools
District Administration Magazine
Active. Hybrid. Remote. Distance. Autonomous. Asynchronous. Approaches to learning in our school system are ever-expanding and often confusing, especially for parents who have enough on their plate trying to ensure homework is done and grades are good. However, thanks to an otherwise tumultuous year, educators and experts now know more about effective ways to teach than ever before.
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Getting ed-tech wrong would be a bitter pandemic legacy
Education Next
The public view of education technology has evolved over the past 12 months. When schools shut down last spring, frustration with the availability of devices, amount of instruction and quality of teaching seemed nearly universal. During this past year, there appeared to be some rough consensus that virtual learning — while mostly still mediocre — has clearly improved from last spring.
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Interrupted, not lost: 5 questions about ed-tech's role in recovery
District Administration Magazine
Learning was not lost during COVID; it was interrupted and took new forms, says Matthew Mugo Fields. Still, educators must redouble their efforts to provide interventions to help all students recover from the disruptions, says Fields, who leads the development and strategy of supplemental and intervention solutions at ed-tech company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Our school has 1:1 technology. It needs 1:1 plants, too.
Chalkbeat (commentary)
Chandra Valenza, a contributor for Chalkbeat, writes: "Being the environmental education specialist at a K-12 school in Colorado is full of wins and what we'll call opportunities for growth. I love reading student essays on recycling, Zooming into discussions with ninth graders about climate change, or inviting a speaker from our local waste management facility to talk to our third graders."
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
10 essential reads for burned-out teachers
eSchool News
Teachers were stressed even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended schools and sent teachers and students home to learn virtually, but the pandemic certainly added to growing teacher burnout. The truth is that teachers manage much more than instruction. Teachers offer support and encouragement and are an integral part of students' lives. In some cases, they've privy to information students don't want to share with their parents or caregivers, putting teachers in the important position of stepping in to keep students safe from abuse, bullying or self-harm.
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Best English language learners lessons and activities
Tech&Learning
According to the National Education Association, a majority (55%) of U.S. teachers have at least one English language learner in their classroom. The NEA further predicts that by 2025, 25% of all children in U.S. classrooms will be ELLs. These statistics highlight the need for widespread availability of high-quality ELL teaching materials. The following top lessons, activities, and curriculum are designed to support English language learners and educators as they strive toward English proficiency.
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Creating a culturally responsive teaching ecosystem
Language Magazine
Culturally responsive teaching, a research-based approach that makes meaningful connections between what students learn in school and their cultures, languages, and life experiences, should be a priority for districts in today's society. Not only is our nation’s population becoming more diverse, but events like the Black Lives Matter movement, the global pandemic and the shift to more remote learning have all brought further attention to the need for CRT at the K–12 level.
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5 ways to keep equity at the center of teaching
eSchool News
If school system leaders are to make equity a priority as education moves forward during this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, teacher work environments will have to evolve. The pandemic struck in the middle of social unrest as U.S. citizens called for action to combat racism and economic inequities. The pandemic highlighted existing educational inequities, drawing attention to large gaps in internet and device access along with differences in family structures and parents' ability to work from home and help their children with virtual learning. Black, Latinx and Indigenous students and their families have been disproportionately impacted.
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Encouraging mental health awareness in the classroom
By Ginger Abbot
 Educators teach students about more than math and science. They also establish spaces where kids develop their social skills and learn more about themselves. It's a critical place for introducing topics surrounding mental health, but that might be tricky to integrate into lesson plans. If you're wondering how to encourage mental health awareness in the classroom, try these tips.
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12 buzzworthy insect activities for grades K-6
We Are Teachers
Adults often get the creepy-crawlies when it comes to insects, but kids are naturally fascinated by bugs. The good news is there are so many fun and engaging ways to teach about insects, including hands-on projects, videos and more. Check out these insect activities that will help your students learn all about these amazing creatures.
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Eric Litwin, the original author of the best-selling Pete the Cat series, and Dr. Gina Pepin, an award-winning teacher, share practical tools and strategies to transform your classroom into a “reading playground”—a space where children read, sing, dance, and celebrate words and texts. The Power of Joyful Reading provides research-based solutions to implement successful shared reading experiences in daycare, preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary classrooms. These tools build students’ foundational literacy skills and help them learn to love books and see themselves as successful readers.
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Here's how we can make difficult pandemic parent-teacher conferences better
The Hechinger Report
Parent-teacher conferences have always been important, perhaps never more so than now, with many schools across the country closed to in-person teaching since last spring. Some students have only had access to class instruction through Zoom, an experiment that everyone hopes against reason will minimally impact children's learning and development, but an experiment, nonetheless.
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4 steps for humanizing personalized learning
EdSurge
Most educators can probably agree that more personalization in learning is needed for the fall — perhaps more than ever before. Students will be entering classrooms with varied experiences during the pandemic, entering classrooms with uneven skill sets and knowledge levels.
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Coding instruction should follow educational principles
eSchool News
A programming language is math. It's a system for writing human logic in a way that a computer can work with. A computer program is a list of instructions written using the programming language's mathematical system. When a computer runs a program, it's called software. Because computer software is so important these days, it's vital that we teach our kids to code.
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Giving our students the key to the school
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Myron Dueck, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I grew up in a very small town in southern Manitoba, and unless you owned a snowmobile, all you could do on a blustery Sunday afternoon was read, sleep or stare at a pixilated rendition of PacMan through an Atari 2600 console. Limited options and sheer boredom prompted us to pester our school principal for a favor. A few of us loved to play volleyball, and if we could coax Mr. Koop to unlock the doors to the school gym, we had all afternoon to play."
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How to provide less structure for independent reading
Edutopia
When we limit independent reading to a small range of topics, genres, and reading levels, and routinely assign rote accountability tasks like daily reading logs, we inadvertently send a signal that reading isn't meant to be a joyful, inspiring, self-directed and even revelatory activity.
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I think my child struggles with reading. What should I do?
By Howard Margolis and Gary G. Brannigan
Many students will soon face the Herculean task of becoming proficient readers. Some will be first graders, some fourth graders, and so on. And many of them, as their parents and guardians suspect, will face enormous struggles. If you're one of these parents or guardians who suspect that your child will struggle with reading, now is the time for action. Action alone, however, will not be enough. It's critical that you know what to request and what to avoid. This article focuses on one aspect of what's critical: Getting a comprehensive reading evaluation.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Educational intervention enhances student learning
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health via Science Daily
In a study of low-income, urban youth in the U.S., researchers found that students exposed to Photovoice, an educational intervention, experienced greater improvements in STEM-capacity scores and environmental awareness scores compared to a group of youth who were not exposed to the activity. The results suggest that the Photovoice activities may be associated with improved learning outcomes.
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ADHD: How breathing exercises help improve focus, decrease hyperactivity in children with the condition?
The Science Times
Breathing exercises, as well as Yoga, can help improve focus and lessen hyperactivity in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, recent research specified. Earth.com reported, a team of Ural Federal University psychologists also discovered that following special exercise training, children with ADHD were able to take part in complex activities for longer periods without getting exhausted.
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Report: Here's how Michigan schools can help students recover from the pandemic.
Chalkbeat
Michigan schools should use federal COVID-19 funding to hire more nurses, social workers and psychologists as part of a multi-year campaign to help students recover from the pandemic. That's a key takeaway from a sweeping new set of recovery recommendations developed in recent months by a 29-member council of educators, public health experts and others from Michigan's education landscape.
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.IN THE STATES
3 states, and others, move quickly to ban school mask mandates
District Administration Magazine
Schools in Iowa and Texas can longer require students or staff to wear masks to stymie the spread of COVID. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a new law Thursday morning that prohibits schools, cities and counties from making anyone wear masks, the Des Moines Register reported.
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Florida district leaders share best practices from a year of reopened schools
K-12 DIVE
After a year of being reopen for full-time, in-person learning, Florida school districts have recommendations and lessons learned to share with colleagues nationwide striving to reopen with a sense of normalcy. For many, this school year drove home the importance of technology, in-person instruction, flexibility, communications and collaboration.
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To bring all NYC students back, some schools may need more than classroom space
Chalkbeat
As city officials plan to welcome all students back into classrooms this fall, they are ironing out space issues at the city's most overcrowded schools, officials said. While "almost all" New York City public schools can accommodate their students five days a week under current social distancing guidelines, a number of schools "in the range of 10%" may have to use space outside of their classrooms, said Deputy Chancellor Karin Goldmark during a City Council budget hearing.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Webinar: 'Short Term Response — Long Term Implications'
NAESP
COVID-19 will continue to change education altering the ways in which students learn, teachers teach and leaders lead. Educational leaders are positioned to navigate new opportunities while bringing calming logic and coherence to the disequilibrium presented with COVID-19. Through the conversations between the two authors, we will address "How" questions.
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Multiple choice
NAESP
Student agency requires each student to experience a sense of belonging in all classes and activities. Authentic student agency also depends on rigorous teaching and learning that relies on understanding each student in a "whole-child" way. So, what is student agency? While there is no one definition, common elements have surfaced to describe it. Jennifer Davis Poon, a fellow at the Center for Innovation in Education, summarizes four concepts central to student agency.
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