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School Leaders Now
Connecting with students' families is an important part of creating a strong school community. And by family we mean the people who are most important in your students' lives. Whether that's the traditional definition of mom and dad, or one mom, or two dads, or grandma or grandpa, or a very loving caregiver.
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Education Week
School districts across the country struggle to hire staff that reflect changing student demographics. But could the answer to that ongoing problem lie in developing a strategy to hire more principals of color? A working paper by Jason Grissom, an associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, and Brendan Bartanen, a doctoral student at the university, strongly suggests yes.
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eSchool News
Procrastination is something we all experience. Whether it's studying for an exam, completing a college essay, or finishing a social studies project, all students will inevitably find themselves procrastinating at some point in their academic careers. Delaying the completion of work because you'd rather go outside and play, or because you have writer's block, or because you'd rather engage in social media, are not feelings that require intense intervention. Families may need to give gentle reminders about the importance of completing work, but when does procrastination go from a simple academic growing pain, to school avoidance?
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MindShift
Many teachers are working to modify their classrooms and schools to offer a more supportive environment for students who have experienced trauma in their lives. They're taking heed of research showing that adverse childhood experiences like poverty, neglect and exposure to violence affect children's brains and may have a negative impact on learning and behavior.
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EdSurge
In 2015, Vanessa Ford's 4-year-old came out as transgender. Ford says she was lucky to have a strong support network and an understanding school, but she was still a little overwhelmed. Even though she had spent 14 years as an educator at D.C. Public Schools, she realized there was a lot she still didn't know, such as how to make a support plan for her daughter Ellie.
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eSchool News
The drawbacks of social media are well-documented — like anonymous trolls posting negative comments just to spark controversy — and social media in school is no different. However, says Jamie Knowles, Senior Manager of Educator Professional Learning Programs at Common Sense Media, social media also has the ability to help users share their stories and shed a positive light on their activities.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 The thank you — written or spoken — is a cornerstone of good manners. And while acts of appreciation have become more varied (shout-outs, likes and gratitude apps, to name a few) the practice of gratitude has also become easier. We can leverage this ease to send more frequent and meaningful thanks. Taking a few minutes to rethink the email thank you or get out of our private gratitude journals to send a genuine paper-and-pen thank you may be easier than it sounds and serve us in more ways than we remember.
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Harvard Business Review
Work is stressful. If you're hiding a disability, the daily grind of early mornings, deadlines and office politics is compounded into a far heavier burden. You live in fear of being discovered. You work overtime to mask your authentic self. But you aren't alone.
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Fast Company
Work-life balance — or work-life integration — is a hot topic right now. Even employers are getting in on the trend, presenting work-life balance as a perk in job descriptions. There are certainly ways that the company you work for can destroy your work-life balance, hustle culture being a prime example. But there's also research that suggests that achieving work-life balance has little to do with your job — it's mostly driven by your personality.
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The Lead Change Group
Leadership today is more challenging than ever. Trends including the rapid pace of change, constant restructuring, and a 24/7 always-on work environment are creating overwhelmed employees and eroding trust in workplaces. Organizations need leaders who drive engagement, innovation and outstanding client experiences. How can you be this type of leader?
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By: Linda Popky (commentary)
 Friction-free. Smooth sailing. Highly collaborative organizations. Harmonious team dynamics. These are all sought-after states for most organizations. After all, who wants to introduce tension or friction when you could have a calm, stable organization, right? You do, of course. That's because calm, smooth, friction-free organizations don't push the envelope to try new and creative ideas, they don't fully explore possibilities, and they don't use internal dialogue to vet ideas and concepts before they hit the external market.
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Entrepreneur
By elminating these three words at work, you'll find that engagement is enhanced and trust is built as your company culture transitions away from one of "Gotcha!" As a leader, it's important to grow and reap the best from all team members so that they can give the best to each customer. These people need to trust you before they can support you. And that starts with you and your communication style. Taking out these three "gotcha" watch-words allows any culture to grow more positively. That includes your culture.
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Prodigy Game
 The search for better teaching strategies will never end. As a school leader, you probably spend too much of your time thinking about how to improve the learning experience of the students that pass through your school throughout the years.
After all, what they learn (and how they learn it) will become a part of these students as they grow, hopefully helping them become successful adults.
This is the main goal of competency based education: giving each student equal opportunity to master necessary skills and become successful adults.
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Fast Company
Between the various privacy scandals, sexual misconduct probes and CEOs charged with buying college admissions for their kids, trust in the business world feels like it's at an all-time low. But it turns out the picture is more complicated than that. While faith in big business, media and government is under siege, more people than ever are turning to their employers for guidance and support.
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Inc.
It can be difficult to stay positive if you concentrate on all the negative aspects of your job and what it entails. But what would happen if you decided to change your mindset so that you could see things in a different light and view your obstacles as opportunities rather than setbacks?
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Forbes
Trusting yourself means that doubt is minimized and the decisions you make have moved from questioning and second-guessing to an assuredness that others can feel good about. Everything starts here. At first glance, it might be easy to say that you trust yourself. But on a deeper level, trusting yourself means your intuition and strategic thinking are able to come together to provide clarity to your thoughts, decisions and actions.
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The Brookings Institution
Among politicos, education is not usually considered a top-tier issue in presidential elections. The issue tends to get overshadowed by other issues where the president is the obvious leader and decisionmaker — defense, security, climate change, health care, Social Security, and economic affairs. Education, in contrast, has been seen as a state and local issue. But times have changed, especially when it comes to Democratic primaries.
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Education DIVE
When designing curriculum at the school or district level, all players need to work in tandem to ensure that materials, resources and educational lessons are delivered in the most effective way possible. In this way, it's crucial that chief academic officers and others in academic offices aren't separated from those overseeing technology.
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Education Week
For policymakers and taxpayers alike, school finance is an uneasy balance between effort — how much they're willing or able to spend — and equity, or how fairly that money gets spread around to schools and districts. The most recent analysis from the Education Week Research Center shows that the nation as a whole and many individual states are doing a far better job on the equity side of the equation than they are on the sheer spending side of things.
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THE Journal
Privacy-focused nonprofit Future of Privacy Forum has taken to video to help schools and families understand the potential impact of monitoring tools districts might deploy in the name of safety. According to "School Safety & Privacy: An Animated Introduction," while technologies have made it easier for schools to monitor social media posts and flag situations where students need help, for example, they "may not always differentiate between slang and true threats, overwhelming administrators with false positives."
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eSchool News (commentary)
Diane Brauner, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "As someone with years of experience working with visually impaired students, I am thrilled by the transition from traditional to digital classrooms — and I am particularly excited by the opportunities that new technology is bringing with it. Although there has long been a shortage of accessible educational apps for this population of students, especially at the preschool and elementary levels, fresh innovations in educational game design are coming to the rescue. Let's take a quick look at three positive developments in this arena."
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EdTech Magazine
For K–12 schools interested in upgrading their classrooms to fit a modern pedagogy, it is important to take an intentional approach that keeps academic success at the forefront of any decision. At Illinois' Glenbrook High School District 225, Ryan Bretag, the district's director of instructional innovation wanted every decision to help improve "student wellness and meaningful work," Education Dive reports.
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eSchool News
When schools think about incorporating personalized learning, it may seem intuitive to consider resources like specific technologies or professional development plans. But there's another critical resource that too often gets discounted but is hiding in plain sight: time. Although schools may manage to add more time on the margins with a "just do more" mindset, personalizing learning at scale will require a massive rethinking of how schools use time, alongside pursuing new strategies that can save time.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 In my many decades of critiquing special education evaluations, IEPs, and progress reports from various New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware schools, and in speaking to innumerable parents, teachers and other IEP team members, I've gained an overwhelming impression: Little, if any, valid progress monitoring occurs. Instead, many special education teachers and case managers rely primarily on their subjective memories to judge their students' progress.
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Edutopia
A classroom teacher makes a dozen decisions a minute, keeps lists of to-dos that reach the double digits, and — as a result of all that work — rarely purposefully takes time to develop relationships with other teachers. This is why many of us who step into the role of instructional coach struggle to find that familiar productive feeling at first: We know that building relationships with teachers is essential, but we're so accustomed to crossing 17 items off our to-do lists before 8 a.m. that a chat in the teachers' lounge over a doughnut seems indulgent.
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Education World
Too often, educators find themselves choosing between social promotion and retention, when neither benefits children. Some districts have found that intensive intervention in the early grades can eliminate the choice between two unappealing options. Included: Ways to keep struggling students from falling too far behind. Vying for least appealing education strategy of all time are social promotion and pupil retention. The trouble is, traditionally, one has been seen as the antidote for the other.
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Education Week (commentary)
Chad Kramer, principal at Patterson Park Public Charter School in Baltimore and Heart of the School award winner, writes: "When I moved to Baltimore more than 25 years ago, I came to a city actively looking for solutions. The headlines were defined by teenage pregnancy, addiction and violence. I was fortunate to begin my career teaching special education at the Paquin School for Teen Mothers. The school treated students and their young families as leaders — they provided medical services and child care along with instruction that integrated the challenges of parenting with traditional academics."
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THE Journal
A new guide has provided insight for school administrators in California who are struggling to implement equitable K-12 computer science education. Organized as a series of questions and answers, the "CS Equity Guide" covers ground on curriculum, recruiting students into classes, preparing teachers, funding new programs, getting local support and providing "out-of-school learning."
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Edutopia
Many adults joke about not being able to do simple math or not being a "science person." Students hear these perceptions and enter the STEM classroom with negative views. This creates a fixed mindset where students believe that you need to already have certain abilities to be successful in math and science. As educators, we need to create opportunities for students to overcome this mindset.
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Education DIVE
Seven years after the end of the Great Recession, states are still spending less per student in K-12 schools, and in nine states, per-pupil funding was down 10% in 2016 compared to 2008, according to a new Pew Charitable Trusts' report focusing on the "lost decade" in state economic growth. Confirming other reports showing ongoing effects of the recession, the report shows that education spending remains lower than before the recession in more than 20 states.
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EdSource
Researchers who examined data from five large California school districts have concluded that measures of students' personal strengths and interpersonal skills are not reliable enough at this point to include in states' and districts' school accountability systems. In a report last month, the research nonprofit Policy Analysis for California Education, or PACE, concluded that surveys of students about their habits of mind, like self-control, are useful and can point to schools that are succeeding in developing individual and interpersonal skills.
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University of Pennsylvania via Science Daily
Children who nap 30 to 60 minutes midday at least three times a week are happier, have more self-control and grit, and showcase fewer behavioral problems, according to new research. These children also have higher IQs and excel academically.
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Education Week
The impact of automation will vary for male and female workers, with women likely being more susceptible to partial automation of their current occupations, according to new projections from the McKinsey Global Institute. One big example: elementary school teachers, roughly 80 percent of whom are female. In the coming decade, McKinsey Global predicts, more than 40 percent of what these educators do during a current workday could be automated, resulting in the need to develop new skills and become more comfortable collaborating with algorithmic systems.
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University of Arizona via Science Daily
Financial education often stresses the importance of earning and saving, but new research suggests that one of the most valuable lessons parents can teach their children about money might be how to appropriately give it away. The study, led by University of Arizona researcher Ashley LeBaron and published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, explores how financial-giving habits are passed down through generations, and how early life lessons in giving may contribute to personal and financial well-being later on.
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By: Jackie Cambridge (commentary)
 A recent study by Kiddi Caru asked U.K. parents about the amount of outdoor time their child gets, weather permitting. 31% said they get three hours or less weekly outdoor time, in spite of 100% of respondents agreeing that outdoor time is crucial to a child's development. This is surprisingly little, considering the same percentage (31%) get two to three hours of screen time per day, with 11% getting over four hours daily. According to physical activity guidelines, toddlers should be physically active for at least three hours per day.
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The Wall Street Journal
School is almost out and parents know what that means: no homework, later bedtimes and kids who want to bend the rules on screen time. During those long summer days, parents worry about how to make sure kids aren't getting into trouble online. There are tools available that can monitor every picture, email and text message a kid sends or receives — even every Google doc a child creates — and alert parents at any sign of mischief. But at what point do you cross the line from parental duty to police state?
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 In recent years, more energy has been devoted to the pros and cons of affirmative action than probably any other education topic. But these arguments on what should or shouldn't be done to help black and brown students skirt a far more fundamental issue, which even liberal educators and politicians often avoid: why do black and brown students need affirmative action or any other kind of race-based help to enjoy the same level of success in college enjoyed by Asian students and white students? Underlying the answers to that question are two seemingly contradictory bodies of fact.
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Education DIVE
"Bare bones" and "random acts of guidance" is how Kathy Pelzer described counseling services in the Capistrano Unified School District in California when she was hired in 2014. "It was all about just reacting to the issues," said Pelzer, whose caseload at Capistrano Valley High School was over 2,300 students. Then the district hired 30 counselors — one for each elementary and middle school and two at each high school.
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THE Journal
For the last five years SETDA, the State Education Technology Directors Association, has monitored how well schools and districts have weathered the transition to digital learning. Today, the organization released its latest snapshot of those efforts, finding that the number of states with definitions, guidance and policies supporting the use of digital instructional materials and resources "continues to increase annually."
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LA School Report
L.A. Unified's schools chief has a new plan to simplify the sprawling urban district's complex system. A little more than a year into his tenure, Superintendent Austin Beutner is betting that by empowering principals he can turn "the organization upside down in a certain way" that puts students at the center.
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NAESP
In education we often assert that we are lifelong learners but what does this mean? Who does it apply to in education students, adults, both? Can the learning that principals engage in impact the learning of educators and students? For principals on the journey to becoming a learning leader, a life-long learning growth mindset is essential. Leadership actions that are intentional, transparent, and collaboratively aligned to student and teacher learning are required for results. Join Dr. Deborah Childs-Bowen and explore how you can elicit a contagious, collaborative culture of inquiry, learning, action and adaptation for everyone in your school, including a well-deserved, you! This webinar takes place Thursday, June 20 at 3 p.m. ET.
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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 21. (The Early Bird deadline is Monday, June 3. Early Bird applications will receive a Crayola product Classpack®). Click here for more information.
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