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District Administration Magazine
While detention remains a staple of student discipline across the country, many school leaders are looking at ways to modify the practice, or even replace it, with approaches that may be more effective in actually reducing bad behavior. Classic detention, where bored students sit silently and unproductively in classrooms after school, has limited value as a disciplinary tool, says Alan Johnson, superintendent of the Woodland Hills School District near Pittsburgh.
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HealthDay News
Every school should have at least one full-time registered nurse, a new American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement says. "School nursing is one of the most effective ways to keep children healthy and in school and to prevent chronic absenteeism," Dr. Breena Welch Holmes, a lead author of the policy statement and chair of the AAP Council on School Health, said in an AAP news release. But school district policies about nurses may lack uniformity. And such policies often need updating, the AAP noted. In the past, the AAP supported having one school nurse for every 750 healthy students and one nurse for every 225 students who needed professional nursing assistance. But these ratios aren't enough to meet the health needs of today's students, the new policy says.
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Parent Herald
Yoga does not only have a positive effect on adults, but it is beneficial for school aged children as well. Brightwood Education Campus in Washington D.C. made a remarkable step by adding yoga and meditation into their curriculum. According to Yoganonymous, the U.S. Department of Education took note of the benefits of yoga and meditation among school-aged children during their trip to Brightwood. They were then surprised with the benefits of meditation and yoga among the students.
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ADDitude Magazine
Math is everywhere — some might even say it's inescapable. And we're not just talking about those ubiquitous addition and subtraction worksheets. Math is at the grocery store, in your cupcake recipe, and powering those baseball stats. Summer is a great time to demonstrate how math relates to the real world, so use these ideas to keep your child learning.
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By: Erick Herrmann
 In classrooms all over the country, teachers have their students answer questions and engage in classroom discussions. Numerous researchers have demonstrated the importance of oral interactions in the classroom, especially for English learners. Research has also shown that the initiation-response-evaluation/feedback pattern used by many teachers is one of the least effective. This is where a teacher asks a question, often requiring only simple recall.
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The New York Times
The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the questions and the critique on her blog, and before she knew it, her posting ignited on the Internet, fueling a new round of anger about nationwide standardized testing.
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By: Howard Margolis
 Do teachers and tutors quickly and accurately know whether their struggling learners are sufficiently benefiting from their academic program? And if the benefit is meager — or far exceeds expectations — do they adjust the ineffective program to meet the needs of struggling learners? From the hundreds of programs I've observed over decades of evaluating struggling learners' needs and programs, the answers vary.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Ben Johnson, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Of course I've done my best throughout the year. I've submitted my lesson plans on time and attended all of the professional and staff development. I've also documented efforts to help struggling students, completed my extra duty assignments, and conducted parent conferences over the phone and in person. I've differentiated lessons for special-needs students. I think I've done a good job. But what does my evaluator think?"
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THE Journal
Broadband and network capacity replaced assessment readiness as the top priority for IT leaders, according to the latest annual survey from the Consortium for School Networking. This is the fourth year the CoSN has conducted a survey of K–12 IT leaders to highlight the trends and changes of the industry. The K–12 IT Leadership Survey, sponsored by software solutions company SchoolDude and conducted in partnership with education marketing agency MDR, was distributed to more than 120,000 U.S. school system technology leaders. More than 500 surveys were completed between January and March 2016.
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eSchool News
After hearing students and teachers overwhelmingly say iPad computers are used to play games in class, while laptops are better for schoolwork, Auburn and other Maine districts are sending iPads packing and returning to laptops. The Maine Department of Education and Apple are offering Maine schools a "Refresh" swap offer at no additional cost. Laptops and iPads ordered in 2013 can be returned for new and improved Apple MacBook Air laptops, which cost less than the Apple laptops three years ago. Schools can also opt to get new iPads since both devices have been improved.
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Edutopia (commentary)
The idea of personalization in education abounds in so many ways. We want to know and understand our students as individuals, as well as personalize their instruction according to the nuances of their learning. This makes sense because, after all, educators are individuals, too, and just like our students, our unique attributes are gifts.
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MindShift
While many educators now recognize that "noncognitive" factors that affect how a student thinks about his or her abilities are important to learning academic content, there's little consensus about how teachers can help build those qualities. Some districts are trying to include noncognitive factors in measures of school effectiveness, while other schools focus on certain character qualities as part of their mission.
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Education Week
There's been a lively debate recently about funding gaps inside districts between schools with low levels of state and local aid and their wealthier counterparts. But is a major factor in intradistrict inequality being overlooked by many people? If you ask Bruce Baker, a Rutgers University professor who studies school finance, the answer is yes.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
Disability Scoop
With an eye toward increasing the number of school professionals prepared to serve kids with disabilities, federal officials are doling out millions of dollars to enhance training programs. The U.S. Department of Education said this week that it will distribute $13.4 million in grants to colleges and universities across the country to beef up special education training. Of the grants, $4.1 million will go toward helping places of higher learning prepare doctoral students to take on administrator and faculty positions in special education, early intervention and related services, the Education Department said.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
Texas and 10 other states are suing the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. The lawsuit includes Oklahoma, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, Arizona, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia. The challenge, which asks a judge to declare the directive unlawful, follows a federal directive to U.S. schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
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Youth Today (commentary)
Priscilla Little, a contributor for Youth Today, writes: "Quality after-school opportunities benefit children in many ways, but millions of disadvantaged youth don't have access to good programs. Research I did several years ago at Harvard, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, painted a consistent pattern of winners and losers when it comes to participating in quality OST experiences, and this is still true today."
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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 application form can be found here. The deadline to apply is Monday, June 20. (The Early Bird Deadline is June 6.)
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NAESP
Writing for Principal magazine is a great way to help other principals while giving you fresh insights into your own professional development. This year's editorial calendar was recently announced, and upcoming issues will feature topics such as technology, early career principals, and diversity. View the 2016-2017 Editorial Calendar and submission guidelines for more information.
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