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Education DIVE
Teachers earn salaries that in many cases haven't kept up with the pace of inflation, yet their job is among the most demanding. Though they enter the profession to pursue a passion of working with students, low pay, high demands and non-supportive environments can quickly burn them out. The tone of a school's culture is largely set by its principal, who must embed strategies to foster ongoing support. For example, Smith makes it a point to email three teachers every evening to compliment them on something they did.
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Edutopia
Chronic absenteeism — defined as students missing 10 percent or more of school days — is a target area for many school districts for improving student achievement. This makes sense: Students who are chronically absent are more likely to lack reading skills, have lower test scores, and receive exclusionary school discipline, and they are in higher jeopardy of not graduating. And it's a big problem: Chronic absenteeism affects one in seven students nationwide.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Michelle Fleming, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "In the summer of 2016, I decided to take on a fresh new challenge and, to be honest, I was a little intimidated at the start. The opportunity had come up to serve as principal at Lake Park Elementary, a Title 1 school where just one quarter of students were proficient in literacy and the school was on the state's list of the 300 lowest-performing schools — the need for an elementary school turnaround was clear. I wondered, 'Do I have what it takes to effect meaningful change at this school?'"
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District Administration Magazine
Technology can make it easier to communicate with parents and others about special education matters, but the convenience of digital communication can also lead to embarrassment and liability.
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The Lead Change Group
Employee engagement is a crucial driver of several positive business outcomes, such as productivity, employee retention, customer satisfaction, and profitability. What's often overlooked is the importance of employee engagement in driving successful change. Research by Anna University management professors C. Swarnalatha and T. Prasanna discovered a vital link between the two.
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Harvard Business Review
It's normal to experience emotions at work: frustration, anger, fear, excitement. But how leaders handle these feelings can go a long way toward building — or destroying — a strong workplace climate and motivating — or discouraging — employees. It's essential that leaders develop the ability to regulate their emotions, but perhaps not in the way you might think.
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HR DIVE
With unemployment near its lowest rate in half a century, it's a job seeker's market. That means the pressure for employers to recruit (and retain) top talent has never been more intense. As the savviest companies know, it's going to take more than a traditional compensation-and-benefits approach to win the best candidates over — and to keep your star players from switching teams.
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Training Industry Magazine (commentary)
Dr. Peter Langton, a contributor for Training Industry Magazine, writes: "My apologies to millennials and all the futurists who crave the solidarity of a text message, but I prefer a conversation. Texting is great when you need to convey information, confirm a plan, check in on a status or send a warm reminder photo of home. But supervision by text, email or smoke signal doesn't cut it."
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 The best part of any ethics class I teach — for me at least — is telling the students to try to get away with something. The assignment asks them to pick an ethical dilemma previously presented by one of their classmates and then, in as much detail as possible, explain how they would work around the rules to accomplish the desired, unethical outcome. While the activities vary, there is one thing that is consistent at every school and in any class: my best students are also the best at breaking the rules. Here are three ways knowing how to break the rules also makes you a better leader.
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Forbes
If you ask most business leaders, "Would you like to have a drama-free environment at work?" you'll receive a resounding yes. Ask these same leaders if their current work environment is drama-free, and they might stare a little blankly at you. The gap between what we say we want and what we actually create at work (and at home in our personal lives) starts to close when we become more conscious about our leadership style and how it impacts, informs and even creates our experience.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 Millennial workers are different from their older workplace counterparts in a variety of ways. However, one difference in particular is cause for alarm. According to a recent report by Catapult Health, millennials are more likely to be depressed and more likely to consider suicide than other generations in the workforce. The report, "Depression and the American Workplace," is based on an analysis of over 150,000 preventive health checkups that Catapult Health conducted in the past year in various workplace settings around the country.
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Leadership Freak (commentary)
When trust goes down cost goes up. Less than 50% of front-line employees trust the company. Spend more seeking the best interest of people close to you and less time complaining about higher ups. Shared contempt builds strong bonds. The temptation to complain about the boss is profound. If you hate the boss and I hate the boss I feel like I can trust you.
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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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Inc.
In its purest form, you'll notice a pattern in people with emotional intelligence: They show up to challenging circumstances with uncanny character and integrity. This is especially true for exceptional leaders of people. While it may be hard to manage conflict and navigate other emotional matters at work, great leaders know that skirting the issue is a recipe for disaster; it will lead to more drama and more conflict.
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Fast Company
The Art of Saying No really comes down to setting boundaries and making decisions from a place of abundance, rather than fear. When you make fear-based decisions, you're generally thinking about missing out. Will I miss the biggest opportunity of my life by saying no? Will this client drop me? Will I lose the reference I need?
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Entrepreneur
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, who's known as the king of hedge funds, is famous for saying, "Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge." These are obvious words from a brilliant man. But the problem is, there's no script for hiring "right" when you're in startup mode. You have a hundred different needs but can afford only a handful of positions to do the work. So before you begin, do yourself a favor and lower your expectations.
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POLITICO
Parents say it's bad enough when they find out a teacher took steps to physically isolate or control a disruptive child who may pose a danger to others — but not getting the news immediately from the school is all the more unsettling. As Democrats in Congress work to craft a bill that would create a federal standard on what's known as seclusion and restraint in K-12 schools, a key component is a parental notification requirement. Democrats want to bring the sometimes secretive practices of seclusion and restraint in schools out into the open — and say it's key to mandate that schools let parents know when such incidents have occurred.
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Education Week
The U.S. high school graduation rate has risen to an all-time high, but schools are still struggling to help their most vulnerable students earn diplomas. The "Building a Grad Nation" report by Civic, Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education, found that students with disabilities, English language learners, and homeless children — all at less than 70 percent — are the student subgroups with the lowest graduation rates in the country.
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EdScoop
The Federal Communications Commission is considering auctioning off wireless spectrum to the private sector that has traditionally been dedicated to educational institutions, but the Department of Education encouraged the agency last week to reconsider.
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The Associated Press
With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd's homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone? On the tiny screen, she switches between web pages for research projects, losing track of tabs whenever friends send messages. She uses her thumbs to tap out school papers, but when glitches keep her from submitting assignments electronically, she writes them out by hand. "At least I have something, instead of nothing, to explain the situation," said Raegan, a high school senior in Hartford.
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Education Week
The biggest challenges facing today's K-12 technology leaders are no real mystery. School technology chiefs are worried about cybersecurity. They have limited budgets, which have to be stretched to manage a flood of new devices, software and apps. And they're focused on how all that new technology and data can support schools' bottom line: good classroom instruction.
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eSchool News
According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007), the definition of digital equity is "equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness and skills." With that in mind, school leaders are working to strategically close the digital equity gap.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 For reading instruction to effectively capitalize on struggling readers' abilities to remediate their academic and social-emotional difficulties, schools must fully and accurately identify their abilities and difficulties. Doing so is often far easier said than done. It requires updated knowledge about the complexity of reading and writing as well as the research on effective interventions. Knowledge, however, is not enough. It also requires the ability to successfully put such research into practice.
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Forbes (commentary)
Liz Frazier, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "As fascinating as I personally think finance is, I get that maybe the average eight year old isn't begging their parents for more financial education. And when most parents think about teaching finance to their kids, they may imagine a structured, sit down lesson on budgeting - which sounds like torture to all involved. Not only will your child be bored to death, but they won't retain this type of information because it doesn't mean anything to them at this point."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Let's face it: A lot of students have test anxiety. How do we change test-taking so that we're creating a comfortable environment for our students to show what they really know?
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Tech&Learning (commentary)
Glenn Wiebe, a contributor for Tech&Learning, writes: "I spent the morning at Slate Creek Elementary in Newton, observing just a few of the cool things going on there. Lots of PBL. Lots of inquiry. Lots of great student questions. And one of my favorite hook activities ever. Tenae Alfaro, Slate Creek principal, is planning a summer trip and so she asked fourth grade kids to do some in-depth research and plan a trip for her. Now ... I'm not sure she's actually going go take the trip kids come up with. But what a cool essential and authentic question to ask 9-year-olds."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Justine Bruyère, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "From the back of her class, I watched as one of my favorite colleagues read to her second-grade students. While reading, she paused, allowed for turn and talks, and asked students to make predictions. When she had finished reading, my colleague asked questions about the plot, setting, and character traits. In many respects, the lesson was a success — the students had participated eagerly."
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Education Week
Differences in summer enrichment between poor and wealthy students may not contribute much to long-term achievement gaps, according to a new analysis. Researcher Paul von Hippel set out to replicate the landmark 1982 Beginning School Study, which tracked more than 800 Baltimore schoolchildren from kindergarten through grade 8. That study found reading achievement gaps between high- and low-poverty schools widened each summer, ultimately tripling the size of their reading gaps from the start of primary school to the end of middle school in 1990.
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MindShift
Seventh-grader Ellie Snyder always hated math. Nevertheless, when she heard about a game that combined math and athletics, she thought, "Why not? I'll try it." Her best friend, Olyvia Marshall, already loved math. Both girls signed up for the new Flagway team at Mansfield City Schools in Ohio. "We were totally unprepared," Ellie said of their first practice. "We wore jeans and hoodies."
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The Brookings Institution (commentary)
Dick Startz, a contributor for , writes: "When I write about teacher pay and teacher work I get a lot of feedback. In particular, I am inundated with two responses presented as arguments about whether teachers deserve higher pay. 'Many teachers work very long hours during the school year.' (Supporting higher pay.) 'Many teachers don’t work very many hours at all.' (Suggesting teachers are already overpaid.) So, do the facts support both arguments? No."
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By: Patrick Gleesonn (commentary)
 Public schools in the U.S. are generally funded by a combination of federal, state and local governments. If the system were designed to succeed, the allocation of funds might be based primarily on need. In such a system, some additional moneys might go to those school districts whose students' needs were the most acute. This idea runs so counter to the way things actually work as to seem at first almost heretical. This article describes various problems that further contribute to the inferiority of the educational experience offered to minority and especially low-income minority students.
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Edutopia
In this first person narrative from EdSurge, high school math teacher Bill Hinkley writes about the power of coupling research experts with teachers in the classroom. As part of a program by The Learning Agency, teachers and researcher are paired together and "each duo identifies a practice to experiment with and shares out about implementation."
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Education DIVE
In a survey, 70% of the principals who responded agreed a joint district-union program helped them attract teachers, and 81% said it helped with retention of the most effective educators.
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Governing
Following the end of the Nevada legislative session, the Clark County Education Association announced that its proposed teacher strike is still on. The union's executive director, John Vellardita, said the Legislature failed to allocate sufficient funds to the Clark County School District that could cover promised teacher raises without cutting resources in the classroom.
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NAESP
Curtis Slater, principal at Wyoming Elementary School in Wyoming, Minnesota, is more than just a very tall man who loves wearing bright-colored shoes to school every day. (He lets his students pick what color of shoes he'll wear the next day.) He's also a principal who's willing to go above and beyond to help his students, his staff and his community. "Don't be afraid to do things we're told not to do," Slater recommends. "We have to blow up the rule to 'know your role.' If I have a child and I know that child is walking in the rain, I'm going to pick that child up."
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NAESP
Save the date for our next #NAESPchat. We'll look at ways to grow your professional learning networks — in-person and online. We hope you'll join us on Thursday, June 20 at 8 p.m. ET!
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