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Chief Learning Officer
Many of our coaching engagements are what we call "well work" — with teams that are performing well, getting along and highly functional. Why we are consulted when something isn't broken? There is significant potential for teams beyond being highly functional. We're invited to get them to the next level of their development and growth — to become an authentic team. Our secret code is simple: share a bit of humanity so your teammates see you as a real person, not just someone who fills a role.
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Edutopia
Human brains are social organs — they're neurobiologically wired for connection. But just as our students' brains can be adversely affected by negative dispositions, adversities and behaviors, so can their parents' brains, affecting relationships with teachers. What feels oppositional and hurtful from a parent could be an exhausted brain, one that is trying to survive and so is defending itself and paying close attention to experiences or relationships that may feel threatening or unsafe.
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Harvard Business Review
At best, mergers and acquisitions have a 50/50 chance of reaching their intended results. Study after study puts the failure rate closer to 70-90 percent. Why is the failure rate so high? Repeatedly, research cites the human factor as the leading reason why mergers and acquisitions fail.
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Inc.
Many business leaders assume an employee's mental health is none of their business. But, the way employees think, feel, and behave impact everything from productivity and communication to their ability to maintain safety in the workplace. Helping employees improve their mental health could be one of the most important steps an employer could take to improve an individual's well-being as well as the health of the entire organization.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 A niche can be a scary thing for a business. It seems counterintuitive to narrow the focus of the organization, yet it is a proven way to propel new businesses and reinvigorate organizations languishing on a plateau. In this age of social media, personal branding and embracing our why, successful leaders are taking a page from the business playbook and creating their own leadership niche to propel their careers forward.
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Leadership Freak
Curiosity takes you further than knowledge. The bottleneck in the room is the leader who has all the answers when there are competent people at the table. Telling is easy. If you doubt this idea, try asking three questions before making one statement.
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The Conversation
School shootings like the one that took place in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 18 are often followed by calls for enhanced security measures. But Santa Fe High School already had many of these security measures in place. For instance, the high school had a school resource officer who responded to the attack. The school also had security cameras in place and had recently conducted active shooting training and drills.
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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
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By: Bill Becken (commentary)
 The decades-long rise of gun-related violence in U.S. schools reached a zenith of sorts with the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Seemingly, it has also led to a new interest in educating students about death as a part of life. And why shouldn’t death be proactively prepared for? After all, it comes for everyone, including for one’s friends and loved ones; for great leaders and scholars; for everyone and anyone, all of the time.
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The Lead Change Group
It may go like winning the lottery, or like the grim reaper running amok. That is the likely spectrum of emotion you will encounter on announcing your change plan to the team or the organisation. No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. Why? Simply put, our brains are hard-wired to protect us in a myriad of ways when we feel threatened. So what does that mean for your people?
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Forbes
Everybody wants to have a positive impact. Everybody wants to matter and to belong. People also recognize a difference between effective leadership and, well, leadership wannabee's who have no idea how to lead because they're leaders by competence only, not by character. Effective leadership requires both. Subject matter expertise will only get you so far, and trust and integrity will only get you so far if you don't have the capacity to learn or the skillset to execute.
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NPR
In response to exclusive NPR reporting into a troubled federal grant program for public school teachers, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told Congressional leaders that she is aware of the program's problems and has taken steps to fix it.
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U.S. News & World Report
64 years after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional, educational institutions in the United States are still very divided by race, with over one-third of Black and Latino students attending schools that are over 90 percent non-white. And more than a third of white students attend schools that are almost 100 percent white, according to a recent report.
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NPR
The recent school shooting in Texas has reignited the debate over gun control. NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with former Education Secretary Arne Duncan about his idea to boycott school until reforms are made.
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Education Week
House Democrats and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sparred over civil rights, the Every Student Succeeds Act, and teachers' salaries at a hearing, but lawmakers from both parties largely avoided controversial questions about school safety in the aftermath of a Texas high school shooting last week that left 10 students and staff dead.
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EdScoop
The U.S. Department of Education will begin offering guidance and tips to information technology professionals about how to make the websites and online programs of their education institutions more accessible. The "technical assistance" initiative — announced, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which promotes accessibility and inclusion through technology and digital tools — will be led by the department's Office for Civil Rights and will be delivered in a series of webinars, the first of which is scheduled for later this month.
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EdTech Magazine
Cluttered bulletin boards, garbled loudspeaker announcements and missed memos are becoming a thing of the past as a growing number of schools turn to digital signage. The tools make communicating with students, staff and parents easier, more effective and even less expensive. A recent report from Technavio found that revenue from digital signage in the education market is expected to grow 10 percent by 2021.
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University of Washington via Science Daily
Research shows that the more skills children bring with them to kindergarten — in basic math, reading, even friendship and cooperation — the more likely they will succeed in those same areas in school. Hence, "kindergarten readiness" is the goal of many preschool programs, and a motivator for many parents.
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Forbes
Higher academic standards like those in the Common Core were supposed to improve student performance, but new data shows that hasn’t happened. Teachers need more specific guidance than standards provide, and they need to build knowledge beginning in the early grades that standards don't reach. For the last thirty years, education reformers have pinned their hopes on rigorous academic standards. That movement culminated in the Common Core literacy and math standards, which most states have adopted. Once high standards were in place, the theory went, schools would adjust their teaching to meet them and test scores would rise.
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Edutopia
Students in classrooms across the United States are a reflection of the diverse people, perspectives, histories and values in our society. Yet if we were to take an inventory of classroom texts, curricula and literacy materials across classrooms settings, we'd find that these instructional materials do not reflect the diversity of our students, let alone the diversity of our society.
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By: Aileen Miracle (commentary)
 Upper elementary can be a tough level to teach in the music room. They are sometimes "too cool for school" and self-conscious of their singing voices. Academically they are advanced, yet musically they may need the basics. A little background about my situation: I’ve had most of the fifth graders I teach since kindergarten. However, I have been in other situations where they needed a lot of help with the musical basics, where behavior was an issue, and where students didn't want to sing.
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Education World
"No more pencils, no more books, no more..." No more time? The last days of school may be upon us and your students may already be chanting the traditional end-of-school cheer, but that doesn't mean that you have to succumb to the temptation to start summer early. Why throw away the last few precious days? Instead, blow your students away with some cool end-of-year activities that combine fun and learning.
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By: Susan Winebrenner (commentary)
 Are you looking for an end-of-year activity you can use to help your students review its events in a meaningful way? Keep in mind that some students are not comfortable with written work. Some teachers suggest that it's OK to make a vocal recording instead. But students should always be invited to create and use another format than those you are suggesting. It may also be helpful to brainstorm and display a list of the year's events, which makes it easier for students to remember specific things that have happened during the present school year.
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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 Hechinger Report
Two studies on how best to teach elementary schools students — one on the popular trend of "platooning" and one on the far less common practice of "looping" — at first would seem totally unrelated other than the fact that they both use silly words with double-o's. "Platooning" refers to having teachers specialize in a particular subject, such as math or English, and young students switch teachers for each class. "Looping" is a term used when kids keep the same teacher for two years in a row. They don't switch teachers for each subject and don't switch each year.
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Education World
A recent report suggests that well over half the nation’s teachers are suffering from stress-related mental health concerns, an increase of more than 20 percent in three years. Issues ranging standardized testing and discipline have for years concerned teachers and administrators, but now the head of a large teacher union says it may also be caused by the current political discourse and concern about school violence.
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THE Journal
An elementary school in California has opened a new "sensory room" with the help of Fullerton Cares, a local non-profit that advocates for people with autism. Fullerton School District's Sunset Lane Elementary will make the space available to all people with disabilities in the school system. The room features a swing structure with multiple swings, a touch wall for tactile input, a squishy corner, multiple sensory bins, light-up bubble tubes and an outdoor garden area.
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MindShift
Sometimes 11-year-old B. comes home from school in tears. Maybe she was taunted about her weight that day, called "ugly." Or her so-called friends blocked her on their phones. Some nights she is too anxious to sleep alone and climbs into her mother's bed. It's just the two of them at home, ever since her father was deported back to West Africa when she was a toddler.
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Education Week
American schools — particularly those serving black and Latino students — have seen a precipitous drop in their school librarians since the Great Recession. The nation's public school districts have lost 20 percent of their librarians and media specialists since 2000, from more than 54,000 to less than 44,000 in 2015, according to an Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data. Many districts lost librarians even as student populations grew by 7 percent nationwide. For example, over the past decade in Denver public schools, student enrollment increased by 25 percent, but the number of librarians decreased by 60 percent.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore school district established new guidelines for closing schools in hot weather, months after complaints about freezing classrooms sparked widespread outrage. It's an annual problem: Nearly every winter and summer, extreme weather exposes infrastructure issues in Baltimore school buildings, which are among the oldest in the state. In September, temperatures in some city classrooms exceeded 100 degrees. In January, photos went viral of children huddling in parkas while classroom thermometers showed temperatures in the 40s.
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The Associated Press
Just hours after the nation's latest school shooting, the debate began anew: Are American schools built in a way that makes them easy targets? Are there too many windows, too many entrances and exits and too few security features? The questions expose yet another divide, with Second Amendment activists and some security experts calling for safer school designs and some gun-control advocates saying it's a distracting side issue that avoids more meaningful action.
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Democrat & Chronicle
New York spent $22,366 per pupil at its public schools in 2016 — 90 percent above the national average, the U.S. Census Bureau said. New York's per-pupil spending on its schools has long led the nation, and the gap continues to grow as the state has increased aid to schools by 36 percent since 2012. The average spending for all 50 states and the District of Columbia increased by 3.2 percent to $11,762 during the 2016 fiscal year, the Census Bureau said.
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NAESP
Attending national conferences is an effective way to expand your professional learning network, as well as to build the knowledge and skills you need for school leadership. With NAESP's Pre-K–8 Principals Conference just around the corner, here are five to-dos to enhance your experience this summer in Orlando — or at any conference.
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NAESP
How are effective Principal-Superintendent relationships developed? Strong leadership partnerships don't happen in isolation. As an award-winning past superintendent with Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and now executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association, Dr. Daniel A. Domenech will share key insights on how Pre-K-8 principals can build dynamic, collaborative, and intentional partnerships with superintendents. In this webinar, you will learn how savvy administrators form interdependent relationships that brings a team approach to meeting student needs. This webinar takes place Wednesday, June 13, 3-4 p.m. ET.
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