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MiddleWeb
School leaders have access to lots of data about their school. Most of that data consists of numbers — things like test scores, graduation rates, student demographics or survey results. But what about data from direct observation? Many leaders recognize value of a more authentic data source, one that provides insights into how students experience their school's program day to day.
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eSchool News
Across the country, residency programs are growing in popularity to help address teacher shortages and in teacher preparation. These programs provide alternative licensure for educators who are often changing careers to work in high-need schools — particularly in rural communities — and in hard-to-fill subject areas.
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Education DIVE
Asking teachers to be lamplighters as schools embrace and roll out new learning initiatives is important, as educators need to buy in to directional changes in the classroom if those efforts are to succeed. However, for educators working in districts that are transitioning from a traditional educational style to more active learning models, chief academic officers and other administrators should make sure they're not contributing to potential burnout among faculty.
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Education Week
Research has shown that teachers having leadership roles in their schools can lead to improved student achievement. So why not formalize those roles? That's the argument in a new report by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, a group that works to increase educator effectiveness. The group convened a panel discussion at the U.S. Capitol to discuss how state and district leaders can create sustainable systems of teacher leadership.
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Education DIVE
As U.S. academic achievement lags behind competitor nations, school districts face a number of challenges — and quality teacher recruitment and retention remains among top concerns. A 2018 Gallup poll found more than half of superintendents (61%) chose teacher retention as the greatest struggle from a list of challenges facing school districts.
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District Administration Magazine
There are numerous challenges facing our education system. Given the ever-changing dynamics of American public education, the most critical issues in the next five years include funding, school safety, student mental health, technology (the over use, instructional balance and cyber issues), and innovation and progress in curriculum and instruction.
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Inc. (commentary)
Bernard Coleman, a contributor for Inc., writes: "Leadership runs the gamut — extraordinary, great, good, bad, terrible and just awful. I've seen them all during my career. To successfully lead requires a mix of innate and learned abilities that culminate in the ability to adjust in any setting. Given the complexities of a global economy and challenges we've never seen before, succeeding requires extraordinary leaders with an adaptive, inclusive approach."
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Fast Company
It's every manager's nightmare. The day someone you've been investing in, mentoring and coaching decides to fly the coop for greener pastures. We know it is inevitable. As our team members grow in their careers, they may branch out beyond what is available to them in their current role or company. Sometimes, what they are looking for next isn't something we can offer. Such moves are also part of a larger trend: people switch jobs more frequently than ever now.
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Training Industry Magazine
In the workplace, giving feedback to direct reports, peers and leaders is not always easy. When using a 360-degree feedback survey, after all parties (peers, direct reports and managers) complete the evaluation, effective delivery of the data gathered in the survey is critical for the employee to be able to use it for growth and development.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Summer Fridays refer to the practice that employees get to leave early or work remotely on Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. While this can be a fantastic benefit for office workers, it can be extremely impractical to implement outside of standard 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. offices and cost-prohibitive to offer to nonexempt employees. This does not mean our hands are tied as leaders when it comes to giving employees a break during the summer months. Here are some other options to consider when summer Fridays are not practical.
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Forbes
Whether you're an employee or entrepreneur, meetings are a way of life. What percentage of your time at work do you spend in meetings? If you're a middle manager, it's likely about 35% of your time, and if you're in upper management, it can be as much as 50%. Meetings are an essential way to bring people together so they can discuss ideas and drive outcomes.
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Leadership Freak
You know the value of people trusting YOU. But how are you helping managers trust each other? You aren't done trust building until the people around the table trust each other.
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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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HR DIVE
As public sentiments have evolved, LGBTQ workers are increasingly likely to be out at work. In a 2018 Human Rights Campaign survey, 46% reported being "closeted" at work, down from 50% in 2008. Among those who were not open at work about their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, 38% said they were concerned about being stereotyped, while 36% were concerned about potentially making others uncomfortable.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
 I do a lot of executive coaching, and when I ask clients to tell me about their core strengths, they'll say things like, "I have solid communication skills." Or, "My team enjoys working with me." I'll then ask their direct reports the same question about my clients. Their responses are usually a stark contrast to what the leader has told me. I'm often left wondering if we're talking about the same person here! Here's the reality. No matter how good (or bad) someone is, all that matters is perception.
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Entrepreneur
Let's get something straight before we go any further: teams always beat groups of individuals. Want to accomplish the impossible? Build a team. Looking to turn around a hopeless situation? Fire up a team. Trying to launch a new-to-the-world idea? Yep, you guessed it, a team is what you need. Turning a startup into a success only happens with hard work, determination and a team.
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The 74
House members have proposed more than four dozen education-related amendments to a pending fiscal 2020 spending bill, running the gamut from student loans and Title IX to school safety and English language learners. Under the House Democrats’ measure, which combines what are usually five stand-alone spending bills, the Education Department would receive $75.9 billion, including big increases for long-standing programs and a new social-emotional-learning grant.
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Eduation World
In many schools, students and teachers will soon breathe a sigh of relief — but not just because school will conclude. Testing will be over. As the year ends and a new one begins, there are indications that there may be changes over the next few years. The Every Student Succeeds Act calls for revisions to the way we do standardized testing, though it is uncertain how it will be interpreted and how it will evolve.
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The Washington Post
The U.S. Agriculture Department has good news about the nation's school nutrition programs. But it isn't shouting it from the rooftops. On April 23, the USDA released its "School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study," which the agency says was "the first nationally representative, comprehensive assessment" of school meals after the implementation of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a key initiative of the Obama administration that mandated healthy changes in food at schools. The best news was that the Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2010), a multicomponent measure of diet quality, shot up dramatically for both school-provided breakfasts and lunches.
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EdSurge
To surveil or not to surveil? That is the question U.S. schools are grappling with as they face mounting pressure to better protect students against the gamut of growing safety concerns, from school shootings to bullying and self-harm. Increasingly, many schools and states are deciding that the answer is to surveil — through social media monitoring, facial recognition cameras, threat assessment and other emerging technologies.
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EdTech Magazine
Once a novelty in many classrooms and makerspaces, 3-D printers are again flourishing as valuable classroom tools thanks to advanced technology, lower costs and more products and services geared toward K–12 education. Both manufacturers and educators are leveraging the benefits of 3-D printers in education. 3-D modeling and printers can bring almost any educational concept to life, while building practical skills such as problem-solving, creative coding and design.
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The Hechinger Report
A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn't boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation's performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds' self-reported use of technology in school. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement.
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District Administration Magazine
Educators not trained in mental health care may fear saying the wrong things when discussing suicide and depression with students in distress. So why not practice these delicate communication skills with virtual teenagers? As growing student anxiety raises concerns in districts across the country, teachers in Round Rock ISD near Austin (50,000 students) have been learning how to best approach these conversations using At-Risk, a digital role-playing platform.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Data interoperability in education refers to the secure and seamless exchange of data between the various platforms that are used in the classroom and overall in K-12 education. Today, we use a blend of collaborative software, learning management systems, and various mobile apps to learn. Yet, the information is not easily transferred between these platforms. Educators find it cumbersome to transfer data, and this creates friction in learning and information gaps as well.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Kimberly Rues, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "As the school year draws to a close, I am looking forward to the laidback freedom of summer with its less hectic schedule and longer daylight hours. If I'm being completely honest, there's something really incredible about turning off my alarm clock for the foreseeable future. For me, it's time to recharge, to reflect and to prepare to return to the classroom and library renewed with energy and ideas."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Sarah K. Anderson, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "As eleven-year-olds, my friend Tammy and I decided to follow the river behind my house downstream about a mile towards town. By the time we hauled ourselves up the riverbanks and into the general store to buy candy, we came to see ourselves as adventurers who understood the river in a way that no one else did."
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EdTech Magazine
As K–12 teachers seek to create classrooms where all students have an equal opportunity to learn, they must be mindful of physical and digital elements that could potentially be a barrier for students with special learning needs. The physical layout of a space can make all the difference for a successful learning experience. After all, when we walk into a room, we immediately have a sense of the experience we might have in the space. Schools everywhere are transforming their classrooms into modern learning environments. As they do, the following tips can help to optimize the environment for all students.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Gerard Visco, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Many preschool teachers call their students 'friends,' but do we think about why? My reason is straightforward: I call them friends because I want them to be friends. They're in preschool, and they'll probably be together through eighth grade. That's a long time to go to school with someone you don't like. While they won't all be close, I do want them to at least treat each other like friends."
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Education Next
A new report by Seth Gershenson sparks fresh ideas about new directions for the literature on student-teacher matching along demographic characteristics. While previous work has shown teacher-student race/ethnicity matching has a detectable impact on test scores, academic perceptions and attitudes, attendance and suspensions, gifted and talented referrals, and educational attainment, this new work offers a fresh perspective by examining differences in exposure and impact associated with assignment to same race/ethnicity teachers between the traditional public school and public charter sectors.
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Eduation World
Still in School? Vacation a couple of weeks away? Use the news and have students select one of the following news stories and write a short paragraph stating their opinions on the topic. In addition to passing your classes, a new law passed in the Philippines will require all students to show that they planted 10 trees to graduate! With about 18 million students calling the Philippines home, that could mean that 175 million trees will be planted each year! It is estimated the requirement would mean about 525 billion trees could be grown in just one generation.
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Swansea University via Science Daily
A Swansea University study has revealed how as little as an hour a week of outdoor learning has tremendous benefits for children and also boosts teachers' job satisfaction. Through interviews and focus groups, researchers explored the views and experiences of pupils and educators at three primary schools in south Wales that had adopted an outdoor learning program, which entailed teaching the curriculum in the natural environment for at least an hour a week.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 This is the third of four articles dealing with inequality in U.S. public education. It addresses a persistent problem: the underperformance of black and brown students in public schools. Substantial research studies documented in the first article in this series demonstrated that black and brown students in segregated primary and secondary schools receive a comparatively underfunded education taught by less-experienced and lower-paid teachers in overcrowded classrooms. However, even when minority students come from middle-class, two-parent backgrounds and enjoy the same advantages as their white cohorts — principally classroom integration, teacher skills, class size and funds per pupil — they don't do as well in college. Why is that?
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Psych Central
A new study adds to the growing evidence that students experience several benefits from later school start times. The findings reveal that, after a Colorado school district changed to later start times, students in middle and high school got more sleep at night, were less likely to feel too sleepy to do homework and were much more engaged with their work. "Biological changes in the circadian rhythm, or internal clock, during puberty prevents teens from falling asleep early enough to get sufficient sleep when faced with early school start times," said principal investigator Lisa J. Meltzer, Ph.D., an associate professor of pediatrics at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado.
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Houston Chronicle
A massive overhaul of how Texas funds public education was signed into law as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott trumpeted the $11 billion program that will mean an increase pay for teachers and lower property taxes. The bill would fund pre-K programs for certain students across the state, provide funding for school districts to add an extra month to the school year for struggling students, and work toward a goal of ensuring all students are reading on grade level by third grade.
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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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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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