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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How the pandemic is already changing principal-prep programs
Education Week
Even before the pandemic, university-based principal-preparation programs knew they had to change to keep pace with issues including the rapidly diversifying student body, the largely white teaching force, and principal-graduates seeking more support from their alma maters once they got their diplomas.
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How to make your school more welcoming for LGBTQ families
Edutopia
As school administrators and teachers encounter more diverse family structures, the burden is on us, as educators, to learn from their experiences and actively work to create a more welcoming school community in which everyone feels accepted.
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Compassion fatigue is overwhelming educators during the pandemic
Education Week
In April 2020, my great-aunt suddenly died from a rare and aggressive cancer. She was an adored and hilarious high school "cafeteria lady" of 20 years, but her funeral wasn't the celebratory affair I had envisioned: a procession of students past and present, decades in the future. Rather, it was me, her casket, and my cellphone.
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An effective IEP requires sharp elbows
District Administration Magazine (commentary)
Jen Mendelsohn, a contributor for District Administration Magazine, writes: "Education is a right. Yet, when it comes to those of us with children who have special needs, there's a disparity of wealthier students getting the support they require and the less-resourced children not getting the support they are entitled to by law. So, I had to learn how to fight for my child’s rights in an educational system that prefers to remediate than support. And it boils down to making your IEP (Individualized Education Program) work for your child."
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Why some parents are sticking with remote learning — Even as schools reopen
The Brookings Institution
Parent preferences for how their children attended school throughout the pandemic have been disparate. Many polls and media reports have tracked the differences in parent preference for in-person versus remote learning, including USC Dornsife's
Understanding America Study.
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3 education trends to watch for the upcoming school year
Tech & Learning
We've seen technology adopted in education more widely from 2019 to 2021 than it may have been used in the previous ten years. Education is encountering an ever-evolving reformation that will hopefully create a better system for learning and teaching on the other side of the pandemic.
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America's lingering problem with school segregation
U.S. News & World Report
In Massachusetts, where echoes of the 1970s busing riots still haunt the commonwealth's public school system, a new integration effort is underfoot in education — one that could, for the first time, shine a light on the state's hypersegregated districts and push them to change the status quo inside and outside their borders.
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Another COVID side effect: Many kids head to summer school
The Associated Press
With her three teenagers vaccinated against COVID-19, Aja Purnell-Mitchell left it up to them to decide whether to go back to school during summer break. The decision was unanimous: summer school. "Getting them back into it, helping them socialize back with their friends, maybe meet some new people, and, of course, pick up the things that they lacked on Zoom," the Durham County, North Carolina, mother said, ticking off her hopes for the session ahead, which will be the first time her children have been in the classroom since the outbreak took hold in the spring of 2020.
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In the coming year, student data can drive learning plans that help all students catch up and move new learning forward. We’ve put together resources, worksheets, and other tools to help your team identify student needs, guide student-centered instruction and intervention decisions, and accelerate each student’s growth. Open free toolkit.
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How do you know if you're failing as a leader?
Forbes
When a leadership role you are doing feels like horrendously hard work and you are not enjoying it, to the point where it is becoming a problem to your wellbeing, stop and go back to what you should be doing and what you are best at.
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Lead by example: 7 ways you may be a bad example for your employees
Entrepreneur
Occam’s Razor is a principle that states with all things being equal, the correct answer to most problems is the simplest and most direct one. Funnily enough, in life and business, people choose the opposite as they underestimate the power of simplicity.
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How to be a transformational leader
Inc.
There's a lot of research around leadership styles out there. But one area of consensus is that many leaders now aspire to become known as a "transformational leader." In short, a transformational leader is someone who inspires those around them to achieve new and greater results — which then inspires others to join those efforts. These are leaders who inspire the kind of innovative and game-changing thinking in their people that drives exceptional organizational value over the long term.
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Feeling overwhelmed about life picking up again? Try implementing 'microsteps'
Fast Company
As we see the light at the end of the COVID tunnel in the U.S. and many other countries, a new phase of collective experience has kicked in: anticipation. It's spring. The world is literally opening up again. Demand for airline tickets is surging. With places to go and people to see, we're making big plans and making up for lost time.
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Why time off is key to professional sustainability
Forbes (commentary)
Kristel de Groot, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "As the co-founder of a start-up in hypergrowth, it would be easy for me to work 24/7. In fact, it's how my partner and I have spent much of the last seven years. We're lucky that our passion has become our profession, so the idea of personal time has escaped us. As our company grew from the two of us to 10, to 20 and now to about 120 team members across multiple continents, we have learned a lot about hiring and HR practices. We've onboarded individuals who are equally as driven as we are and who give it their all."
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Lying leaders are more common than you think
Leadership Freak
Men who say they love ties are liars, just like women with deformed toes love red-soled high heels. If clothes make the man, he's pitiful. If clothes make the woman, she's self-deceived. No one runs to put on a tie or heels when they get home from work. Instead they throw off their painful costumes and get real. Don't misunderstand me. Culturally appropriate clothing is a desirable inconvenience. Just don't believe the lies you tell.
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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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Leading through loss
The Lead Change Group
Certainly, 2020 and into 2021 have been marked by tremendous loss. First, for many of us, we lost parents, siblings, children and dear friends. We might have watched our businesses plummet, our communities locked down, our gatherings minimized and possibly even our faith diminished. What we once took for granted might now be a rarity. How does one lead when faced with a Rubik's cube of such complexity?
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Why you should lead your employees towards self-direction, not empowerment
By Hank Boyer
Remember when the latest buzzword was empowerment? The premise was that employees who were empowered would be more committed to successful outcomes because they had the ability to make decisions, commit resources, own the decision, etc. What's wrong with empowerment? Plenty! What if you empower someone who is not capable of handling the responsibility? In other words, empowerment potentially fails because of a lack of specific expectations for outcomes and the unintentional ineffective execution towards the objective. What's needed instead of empowerment is a solid team of self-directed employees.
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My fixation on time management almost broke me
Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Abbie J. Shipp, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "In 2019, I hit a wall. To the outside observer, my career was successful, my family was happy, and I seemed to be living the dream. What people didn’t know, however, was that I was struggling with chronic insomnia, malnourishment, a pinched nerve in my neck, and a wicked hormonal imbalance. I would later discover that, ironically, time management was to blame."
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.EDUCATION POLICY
New Title IX rules strain districts, administrator says
District Administration Magazine
Trump-era Title IX regulations have placed unnecessary burdens on administrators investigating sexual misconduct complaints, one school leader said during a Office for Civil Rights virtual hearing. Requiring a principal and an assistant principal to participate in complaint hearings poses an "undue hardship," said Mike R., a Title IX coordinator for a 36,000-student district in Colorado.
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Biden wants to fix the nation's teacher shortage. Educators say the problem is worsening.
NBC News
It wasn't so long ago that Charles Prijatelj, the superintendent of the Altoona Area School District, was receiving up to 150 applications for elementary school teacher job openings. In recent years, however, the number of applicants for each opening at his 7,400-student district in central Pennsylvania has dwindled to as little as three or four.
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Justice Department cracks down on shortened school days
Disability Scoop
Students with disabilities in one district will no longer be restricted to shortened school days under an agreement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials with the federal agency say that Lewiston Public Schools in Maine has agreed to stop its "systemic and discriminatory practice" of excluding students from full days of school due to behavior issues related to their disabilities.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
3 ways to support understaffed IT departments
EdTech Magazine
Educational technology boomed in response to the pandemic. Across the nation, districts worked to get devices into students' hands. Connectivity increased as entire cities came together to provide internet access for teaching and learning. Educators found new classroom tools for online instruction that they will carry into the classroom. And companies — those new to the industry as well as old pros — made leaps and bounds in the educational technology space.
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One big reason schools are ditching remote learning: The cost
Education Week
Heath Oates, the superintendent of the El Dorado Springs school district, is in a fiscal pickle. In his rural district in western Missouri where both cell phone and Wi-Fi service is spotty, a substantial portion of his students want to continue learning online next year. But online education will be academically hazardous for his students and may be financially unsustainable for his district, Oates has concluded.
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5 solutions for fixing the flaws in online learning
District Administration Magazine
One-third of schools will maintain remote instruction as an option for all students post-COVID, says an ongoing survey of teachers' and principals' experiences of the pandemic. However, as many educators have realized, teachers and principals also reported that instructional time and curriculum coverage were significantly lower in fully remote schools, according to the final installment of the RAND American Educator Panels reports.
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Voice, chat and DM: Remote learning tools that make sense in person
MindShift
Understandably, many teachers were hesitant at the start of distance learning. Most saw only the new format's deficiencies when compared to their physical classrooms. However, as educators adapted, many discovered new ways to teach literacy skills digitally. Some of these skills ended up being liberating, enlisting multi-modal forms of communication and connecting students in a uniquely online way.
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Without digital equity, students lose the opportunity to learn
EdTech Magazine
Over the past few months, the topic of learning loss has been discussed with increased frequency and, in some circles, urgency. For many educators, the phrase strikes a nerve, and it's easy to see why. The term learning loss implies that teachers stopped teaching, when in fact teachers have been working harder than ever. While the pandemic presented many challenges for K–12 education over the past year, education never stopped.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SEL for educators: 4 best practices
Tech & Learning
Having an effective social and emotional learning program begins with educators, says Dr. Collette Bozek, the vice principal of Springs Charter Schools in California. Bozek, who specializes in SEL, likens it to the advice given on airplanes that are low on oxygen: You need to put your mask on first before you can help others.
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Striving or thriving? Steps to help kids find balance and purpose
MindShift
Michele Borba began her career teaching in a classroom for children with severe learning or emotional disabilities. As she got to know each student, she was guided by one question, "How can I help them shine?" This work took patience, practice, and curiosity. She paid close attention to the child in front of her — not the child the school file or previous teacher said was in front of her.
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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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What does good listening look like?
Edutopia
Sitting completely still with eyes on the teacher doesn't work for all students, but that doesn't mean they aren't paying attention.
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5 summer self-care tips for teachers
Teaching Channel
When we think of self-care, we often think of vacations, retail therapy, getting a massage or a beverage. Expensive and time-consuming! But what if self-care was more of a mindset than an action or purchase? With a self-care mindset, we can harness the small ongoing moments within our day to be more nourishing and less depleting, instead of saving up money and time for self-care only on weekends or vacations.
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Summer esports: 4 opportunities to learn, play
District Administration Magazine
Scholastic esports leaders and teachers looking to keep players busy during the summer now have a number of free events available from several top student-focused organizations. Along with events being planned by the North America Scholastic Esports Federation, the High School Esports League has opened registration for its Summer Challenge, which will feature several leaderboard-style tournaments.
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3 ways gamification engages students
eSchool News
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning. However, not all teachers have received the adequate resources and training needed to teach remotely.
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How to use podcasts in teaching
EdSurge
Podcasting is an incredibly powerful and intimate medium. There’s an authenticity to it that is difficult to produce in any other communication channel. Alex Blumberg, the co-founder and CEO of Gimlet Media, a podcast network, shared about that kind of intimacy during a 2016 Podcast Movement talk: The Second Golden Age of Audio.
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Integrating music into social and emotional learning
Edutopia
Many educators embrace social and emotional learning for teaching coping skills. Like visual art activities, music education can play a role in healing, particularly when it's paired with deep breathing exercises. Music is readily available from sources like YouTube, Spotify, and Pandora, which makes it easy to integrate into the classroom, and research shows that general music program activities like improvisation and identifying emotion through music are effective as a form of social and emotional learning.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Struggling schools don't get a boost from state takeovers, study shows
Chalkbeat
In 2008, The Atlantic ran a story headlined "First, Kill All the School Boards." The problem with American education, the piece concluded, was its structure: thousands of disparate boards, each influenced by local politics and teachers unions but subject to little oversight. It was emblematic of a mindset that held real sway over the last two decades, with big city school districts, including New York and Chicago, shifting control to the mayor. In dozens of other cases, states took over school districts deemed low performing.
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Study: Pre-COVID-19 summer slide worse for special education students
K-12 DIVE
Barker and Angela Johnson, an NWEA research scientist, used five years of reading and math MAP Growth assessment results (collected over the 2014-2015 through 2018-2019 school years) from a cohort of 4,228 students in 109 public schools that voluntarily participated in administering the assessments and sharing results and student demographics, such as special education status, with NWEA researchers.
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.IN THE STATES
New York turns to smart thermometers for disease detection in schools
The New York Times
Over the past few years, a California-based tech start-up has repeatedly made headlines for beating public health agencies at their own game. The start-up, Kinsa, which makes internet-connected thermometers, has routinely detected the spread of seasonal flu weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And when COVID hit last year, the company saw unusual spikes in fevers about 18 days before states recorded peaks in deaths.
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Newly passed legislation could bring change to Illinois classrooms. What to know
Chalkbeat
The Illinois legislature ended a long spring session with a raft of education bills heading to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk that will shape what students statewide are taught in classrooms. It sent to the governor a $42 billion state budget that will include a boost for K-12 school districts through the evidence-based funding formula, while holding flat money for preschool programs.
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California schools move ahead with fall distance learning plans despite limitations
EdSource
While parents and state officials are pushing to fully reopen campuses this fall, some families are fearful of sending their kids back into classrooms too soon. But options for distance learning this fall are unclear across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he expects schools to fully reopen after the distance learning statute expires on June 30 and that students who want to continue with remote learning can pursue existing independent study plans.
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So Michigan wants to hold back your third grader. What happens next?
Chalkbeat
The letters containing the bad news are being delivered by certified mail to the parents of 3,324 students.
The students' low scores on the state English exam "may require them to repeat third grade," the letter says, adding: "We understand this may be difficult news to hear." Difficult, yes — no one wants their child to struggle with reading. But they have options. Exemptions built into Michigan's controversial third grade reading law allow parents and educators broad leeway to move struggling young readers on to the next grade if that's what they think is best for the child.
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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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NAESP currently seeking new editorial advisers for Principal magazine
NAESP
To keep NAESP's publications at the forefront of education issues and trends, the Association has established a group of editorial advisers. This group assists NAESP by: Suggesting themes and articles for Principal and other publications; writing articles and one book review per year; contributing to conference news; and providing honest feedback on publications and other NAESP services.
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