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School Leaders Now
Any school staff can and even should have a certain degree of conflict. When people are working in an environment as emotionally charged and stressful as a school, conflict is bound to arise between staff members. But teacher conflict and clashes are not necessarily negative and need to be avoided. When teachers have conflict and find a way to work through it, their professional relationships are strengthened. One of the primary roles of school leaders is to help lead staff through, and even embrace, conflict. In the process, they are building a constructive and collaborative team of teachers.
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Education DIVE
Implementing a school security policy is a double-edged sword. It has never been more imperative to take effective, swift measures to ensure student safety, but many strategies also have unintended side effects. Zero-tolerance discipline policies, which mete out serious consequences and often involving police referrals for petty offenses, feed the school-to-prison pipeline, a phenomenon by which (mostly minority) students are funneled into the criminal justice system.
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Forbes
We've all seen it. The weekly team meeting is sailing along, then wham! Out of nowhere, emotions erupt and a simple discussion escalates into intense conflict. When tempers flare, the room can fill with tension, and poorly managed conflict can quickly poison the work culture. If our goal is to develop high-impact teams defined by collaboration and transparent interaction, then leaders must develop a strategy for healthy conflict resolution. The following three steps will help leaders navigate conflict within their teams.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Elena Aguilar,a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "The end of the school year can bring celebration and joy, and also anxiety and unwanted change. I always spent spring wondering which of my colleagues would return the following year. In the district where I worked, Oakland Unified in California, we lost about 50 percent of teachers within three years."
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Forbes
Sleep and performance go hand in hand. Just ask any professional athlete how important rest is to having a good game. Not getting enough sleep can impair your cognitive abilities, and this will show up in your work sooner or later.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Similar to organizations, when leaders carve out a niche, they open themselves to new opportunities. As discussed in part one of this article, specializing allows us to further strengthen our skills, grow our expertise and refine our approach. It also reinforces our position within the organization and our marketplace. Here are three ways we can create our leadership niche.
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Leadership Freak
You're making a crucial decision and a few stakeholders want to air unrelated concerns or grievances. Distractors bring up peripheral issues when crucial decisions are under consideration.
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School Leaders Now
For an administrator, LinkedIn is the best way to up your professional game on the internet. If you are going to commit to maintaining one strictly professional online channel, LinkedIn is an excellent choice. It combines the best aspects of Twitter and Facebook to create an online space that is professional and purposeful. For principals and administrators, LinkedIn is an invaluable resource for networking and brainstorming with a global online cohort.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Teachers need balance. You need to set professional limits that will support long-term engagement with your students and with teaching. This is about protecting your energy and attention in order to maximize their effects. Its about what you can and cannot control. It's about when to hold on and when to let go.
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Training Industry Magazine
It began with a question from the chief technology officer of a fast-growing firm: "How do I get my team leaders to the next level when measuring success doesn't involve making or selling products?" In other words, how can you measure growth and performance in a role as amorphous as leadership? The answer involves peering under the hood to see what runs the leadership engine.
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Education Week
Democratic members of Congress are pushing back against a proposal from U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' that would scrap the federal office that guides education policy and practice for millions of English language learner and immigrant students. The lawmakers want DeVos to rethink a proposal that would consolidate her department's office English language acquisition into the broader office for elementary and secondary education. There are an estimated 5 million English learners in public K-12 schools in the United States, and their academic proficiency and high school graduation rates lag behind those of their native English speaking peers.
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ABC News
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos set off a furor over comments she made to members of Congress suggesting that schools should decide whether or not to report undocumented students and their families to federal immigration authorities. The head of the Education Department shifted the responsibility of reporting undocumented students to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to principals and teachers when she said on Tuesday, "it's a local community decision."
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Education Week
Nearly three months — and seven school shootings — since President Donald Trump created a commission to seek solutions to school violence, the Cabinet-level panel is being slammed for what critics see as its slack pace, lack of transparency, and limited representation. Advocates, parents, and educators note that the commission, which is led by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has met only once since it was set up in the wake of February's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. They say there's been very little outreach to the education community.
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Education Week
Dozens of civil rights organizations are asking U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to clarify her recent contention that schools can decide whether or not to report undocumented students to immigration authorities. Those comments came during a wide-ranging House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing last week. Rep. Adriano D. Espaillat Cabral, D-N.Y., asked if teachers and principals should call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to report undocumented students.
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eSchool News
Several school district officials have told us they want to embrace our philosophy of empowering students and teachers through technology innovation, but lack the right infrastructure to support this vision. As we've recently completed a three-year, district-wide technology refresh cycle, we thought we'd share our top takeaways to help our peers get more educational benefits from your network infrastructure.
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EdTech Magazine
People use Pinterest for visual inspiration for virtually every aspect of their lives: event planning, recipes, garden ideas, beauty tips, clothing and jewelry trends — the list goes on. It's a valuable tool for K–12 educators, too, with pins about lesson plans, crafts and projects, classroom décor and organization, and education technology.
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THE Journal
A new study from the National Education Policy Center offers "overwhelming evidence" that virtual schools don't work. The research from NEPC found that these schools have high student-to-teacher ratios and are "excessively large." They also continue to underperform academically. However, those virtual schools operated by districts performed "far better" than charter-operated schools in performance ratings.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Students are often given assigned readings along with written assignments that ask them to retell or summarize what they read, and perhaps to explain why the information is important. This may also include asking them to connect the reading to another text, or to their prior knowledge. We need to move students beyond these comprehension tasks and into critique — teaching them to question what they read (and watch and hear) and how to push back when that seems necessary to them.
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Education World
Attendance forms. Lunch count. Lesson plans. Transition times. Test preparation. Homework correction. Bus duty. Lunch duty. Recess duty. State standards. National standards. Community standards. Computer crash. Paper shortage. Field trip cancelled. Prowling principal. Peeved parents. Cranky colleagues. Too many specials! Surly kids. Sad kids. Hurt kids. Struggling kids. Can there possibly be a job more stressful than teaching? Can there be a job that requires more patience, more understanding, more calm consideration? Whats a teacher to do?
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Education WOrld
It's official — summertime is here! The last days of school are a great time for reinforcing some summer safety rules and for looking ahead to some great summertime fun. Here is Education World's lessons help you accomplish those things! Included: Activities connected to food safety, roller coasters and more!
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Education Week
Many states' plans for educating English language learners under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act fall short of equity and send clear signals on how they value the educational progress of the students, an analysis by Achieve and UnidosUS finds. A pair of policy briefs prepared by the organizations reveal that more than half of states' ESSA plans intentionally set lower academic goals for English learners, at least seven states have plans that flout key provisions of the federal education law, and nearly 20 percent of state plans allow schools to earn high ratings even if English learners are struggling.
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Scientific American (commentary)
Cindi May, a contributor for Scientific American, writes: "When it comes to home projects, I am a step-by-step kind of girl. I read the instructions from start to finish, and then reread and execute each step. My husband, on the other hand, prefers to study the diagrams and then jump right in. Think owner’s manual versus IKEA instructions. This preference for one approach over another when learning new information is not uncommon. Indeed the notion that people learn in different ways is such a pervasive belief in American culture that there is a thriving industry dedicated to identifying learning styles and training teachers to meet the needs of different learners."
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Education DIVE
Not surprisingly, when schools are air-conditioned, high temperatures have hardly any negative effect on learning. In calculating where schools are more likely to have air-conditioning nationally, the authors found that regions of the U.S. that are generally cooler are less likely to be air-conditioned, and that "heat is particularly damaging to the achievement of students in these regions." These areas included New England, Michigan and the upper Midwest.
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Brown University via Science Daily
A new study found that children on the threshold of obesity or overweight in the first two years of life had lower perceptual reasoning and working memory scores than lean children when tested at ages five and eight. The study also indicated that IQ scores may be lower for higher-weight children.
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Education Week
The historic "marshmallow test" has tied young children's ability to delay gratification to their long-term success, but a new, larger study replicating the famous study puts those long-term results in doubt. Using a significantly larger and more diverse group of children than the original study, researchers from New York University and the University of California, Irvine, compared 4-year-olds' ability to delay gratification to their academic and behavioral progress in 1st grade and at age 15.
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MindShift
"I want The Three Bears!" These days parents, caregivers and teachers have lots of options when it comes to fulfilling that request. You can read a picture book, put on a cartoon, play an audiobook, or even ask Alexa. A newly published study gives some insight into what may be happening inside young children's brains in each of those situations. And, says lead author Dr. John Hutton, there is an apparent "Goldilocks effect" — some kinds of storytelling may be "too cold" for children, while others are "too hot." And, of course, some are "just right."
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Education DIVE
The report suggests that in successful schools, personalizing learning is much more than what technology platform students are using. "With staffing arrangements that supported increased small-group and online study, students had more opportunities to work on individualized, self-paced instruction," the authors write. "Schools also supported student engagement through personal goal-setting with teachers and providing more choices in where and how they learned."
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Education Week
The national spotlight on the strikes and walkouts this spring has been on the teachers themselves. But in the shadows was another group that's just as critical for keeping schools running: support staff. Often overlooked in the broader public discourse, these workers, including instructional aides and paraprofessionals, sometimes had more at stake in the walkouts than full-time teachers. When schools were closed, many didn't get paid.
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Illinois News Network
Lawmakers passed a bill that would mandate local public schools set minimum pay for teachers at $40,000 annually by the 2022-2023 school year. The union-crafted legislation would set the minimum teacher pay at $32,076 for the 2019-2020 school year and scale up to $40,000 by the 2022-2023 school year. The minimum would then be raised commensurately with inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Lawmakers would have the ability to vote against the CPI-based raise.
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The Sacramento Bee
California's schools are hiring teachers again. But California's colleges aren't producing enough new teachers to meet the demand. So where will the state's new teachers come from? Not from other states, if recent history is a guide. From 2003 through 2016, about 18,000 more elementary and secondary school teachers left California than came from other states, according to a Bee review of U.S. Census Bureau data. The worst losses were during the height of the housing boom, when home prices were peaking, but they have continued throughout the economic recovery.
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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 deadline to apply is Friday, June 22. (The Early Bird deadline is Monday, June 4. Early Bird applications will receive a Crayola product Classpack). Click here for more information.
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NAESP
Technology now enables school leaders in even the most remote districts to connect with innovative educators around the globe. School leaders now leverage both personal and professional relationships on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Voxer.
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