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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 For me, this is about the time of the year when some of my teachers will come to me and ask me if I am planning to leave the school at the end of the year. "If you leave, I leave!" is a common phrase I hear from them. The truth is, I’m not looking to leave. I have a high level of job satisfaction, and I am excited to go to work every day in an effort to work with my team and my staff to make a difference for the 700 students that we serve. I wish more of my principal colleagues could feel the same way about their school and their situation.
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School Leaders Now
Finding an assistant principal to meet your school's needs is a challenging prospect. After all, you've got to find that one person with the skills and the ability to do the job who is also the right fit for your leadership team, staff, students and broader community. To help, we've rounded up a few queries to add to your repertoire of assistant principal interview questions.
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Education DIVE
The school lunch debate is sure to be drawn even more into national headlines as some presidential hopefuls are using the issue to draw attention to their campaigns. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro have touted universal free school meals as a solution, though neither has outlined the cost or where the money will come from. For now, school administrators are left to wrestle with this complex issue. On the one hand, debt from school meals is a growing problem and one that the USDA expects districts to find a way to solve.
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When students are believed to be a danger to themselves or others, they're sometimes restrained in school or isolated in a separate room. These practices, known as restraint and seclusion, are supposed to be a last resort, and they disproportionately affect boys and students with disabilities or special needs. In the past, government officials have said public schools rarely use these behavior management methods — but now, those same officials aren't so sure. A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog, questions the quality of the data the U.S. Department of Education collects on this issue.
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District Administration Magazine
Teacher turnover is getting worse by the minute. If you're in the unenviable position of finding people to fill the shoes of some of your best former teachers, know that you're not alone. More than eight percent of U.S. teachers are leaving the profession every year. It's clear that it's hard to find highly-qualified teachers, and it's because of many legitimate challenges facing the profession. Let's take a closer look at why teachers are leaving their jobs and dive into some ways you can beat the odds.
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Education DIVE
According to data collected by Attendance Works, a nonprofit organization, nearly 8 million K-12 students in the U.S. missed three or more weeks of school during the 2015-2016 school year. While many states and school districts are developing strategies to overcome barriers to student attendance, school leaders can also spend this summer considering what other efforts are needed to reduce absenteeism among those still facing obstacles. Some districts have attendance review teams that meet to determine what issues are causing students to miss school.
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Education Next
About a week ago, the Washington Post published a stinging essay on the problems with excessive paperwork in medicine. A study of 7,000 physicians found that half showed symptoms of burnout, with surveys consistently showing that doctors who spend too little time on meaningful activities are much more likely to burn out — and to go part time, leave their practice or simply leave medicine. Researchers estimate that half of physicians log on to their electronic health record from home, just to complete their documentation for the day. Though it's long been assumed that surgeons are unusually susceptible to burnout, data suggest that surgeons are actually reporting high rates of professional fulfillment.
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Harvard Business Review
AI is disrupting every area of life, including how organizations find talent. Companies are generally aware of the ROI that comes from finding the right person for the right job. McKinsey estimated that, for highly complex roles, stars can be expected to produce 800% more than average performers. And a recent Harvard Business School study showed that there are even bigger benefits to avoiding toxic workers.
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By: Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 If you want to create an inclusive culture that lasts, you have to start with a strong foundation. Too often, organizations spend too much money on training without a clear direction, no defined measures of success, and no alignment with their short- and long-term culture objectives. While training is essential to increase diversity, create equity, and build inclusion throughout the organization, training alone is not enough for systemic change and to get the results you want. Working without a foundation and a road map is like building a house on quicksand. It won’t last.
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Fast Company
If the sun's out, your brain's out-of-office, right? Managers across nearly every industry believe distraction soars as the temperature rises. But are we really less productive in the summer? Career experts and life coaches agree it's true — but it's not just because you're anticipating that beach getaway you have planned. Here are the real reasons why you may find your energy dropping or why you may not be able to maintain concentration when it's gorgeous outside.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
 I was recently asked the following question: "What do you do if you like your job but your boss is a micromanager who doesn't have a clue how to manage projects, and his boss put him in that position due to nepotism?" Micromanagement is about lack of trust. The person who is micromanaging doesn't believe anyone can do something as well as he or she can. Once you understand this, you'll be better able to manage a micromanaging boss.
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The Lead Change Group
One of the challenges you as leader are faced with is getting changes done in your organization. Especially influencing organizational culture, which is an arduous task and many an attempt fails to bring about the desired cultural change. So why is that? And more importantly: how can you influence your coworkers in such a way that you increase the probability the desired changes are actually effectuated?
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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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Tech&Learning
As the school year winds down, we need to start considering preparing for the fall. One of the key opportunities in the fall will be to onboard new faculty and staff via new teacher orientation and similar events across the nation. The Society of Human Resource Management provides a guidebook for onboarding new employees. They identify four areas for onboarding; compliance, clarification, culture and connection. How does that impact the technology staff as they interact with new staff? Compliance is straightforward in many ways.
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Education DIVE
Even though states are now fully implementing their approved plans, revisions and requests for waivers will continue, and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is encouraging states to submit waivers, particularly in the areas of assessment. States ESSA report cards — which are meant to provide clear information to parents and the public on how schools are performing — are also likely to cause ongoing implementation challenges, Duff and Wohlstetter write.
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Education Week
States frequently and successfully flexed their muscles when working with the federal government to get their Every Student Succeeds Act plans approved — but whether Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was smart to let them take that approach or often just let states off the hook is up for debate.
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eSchool News
Educational software is one of the biggest sources of wasted spending in K-12, according to a new study evaluating spending in U.S. K-12 schools. The study from Glimpse K12 tracked 200,000 curriculum software licenses purchased by 275 schools during the 2017-2018 school year. The company used its eROI platform to measure how many of the software licenses were actually being used by teachers and students.
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District Administration Magazine
Some say that CIO stands for "Career Is Over." Without intervention, it could be true. The CIO could serve next in an operations position encompassing technology and other functions, such as facilities and communications, or in the superintendent position. In school districts across the country, few CIOs have been promoted to superintendents, but a few more have moved into operations roles.
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eSchool News
With charter schools' enrollment growing — the number of charter schools more than tripled from 2000 to 2015, according to the most recent data available from NCES — public, private and charter schools find themselves competing for students. For many parents, the first impression of a school comes from its website. School and school district websites are increasingly becoming marketing tools for attracting students and setting the tone for all potential incoming students.
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The Brookings Institution
Low teacher pay has attracted much attention over the last year in the wave of teacher unrest, even gathering attention among Democratic presidential candidates. A recent report from The Economic Policy Institute shows teachers were paid lower than other college graduates in all states, and the teacher pay penalty in the U.S. is also large by international standards.
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Teaching Channel
Let's face it. Children these days are often more technologically savvy than their parents. Sometimes, the students actually become their parents' teachers, especially where devices are concerned. So perhaps teachers could use that passion to their advantage, and utilize some of the new voice-enabled devices — which some believe could be the next trend in EdTech — to enhance the lessons that they are giving their students in the classroom.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 Let's begin with a lede borrowed from the June 5 edition of the Los Angeles Times: "Leaders of the Los Angeles school district made a calculated gamble: The January teachers strike made such a huge, positive impact on the public that sympathetic voters, they thought, would overwhelmingly pass a tax increase to benefit schools." Here's the background: Los Angeles public schools, like public schools across the country, are overcrowded and lacking in resources, particularly in the resources needed to educate minority students with special needs.
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Edutopia
Every summer, we hear about the dangers of "summer slide" — kids going to the beach, watching television or playing video games, all the while forgetting most of what they learned during the school year. The real story, as it turns out, is a lot more complicated, according to a recent article by a researcher in Education Next.
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By: Elizabeth C. Hamblet (commentary)
 In April, I saw a post that said, "It’s IEP season again." At high schools across the country, that’s the time of year IEP teams of families and professionals are finalizing plans for their students — some of whom are now rising seniors. That got me thinking about things I hear from both parents and educators — that some IEP teams are moving students from one kind of plan to another (typically from an IEP to a 504) or off of their plans entirely for their senior year based on misunderstandings about college admissions and accommodations.
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eSchool News
Have you had a student act out when you try to redirect her misbehavior? Ever had a kid freeze on a test and then give up in frustration as he forgets everything he studied for? Or have you had students who simply, seemingly randomly, shut down out of nowhere and refuse to participate? If so, it might be time to examine how to help students reduce stress and anxiety.
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Edutopia
Collaborative reading is one of several strategies at Concourse Village Elementary School that are meant to incorporate literacy into all aspects of the curriculum. The approach, spearheaded by Alexa Sorden, the school's founding principal and a former literacy coach, is a marriage of shared reading — students read a text together, guided by the teacher — and close reading, which has students work independently and in small groups to produce a critical analysis of a text.
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eSchool News
STEAM education has become monumentally important in classrooms, and for good reason–the skills students learn in STEAM classes and programs can help prepare them for advanced education classes, training programs and the workforce. A focus on STEAM education doesn't mean students have to pursue careers in the field — those STEAM experiences are important regardless of students' eventual career paths. Even if students don't pursue jobs in tech fields like computer programming or engineering, the skills they learn are easily applied in other fields.
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Education DIVE
The report provides data on how such factors influence academic outcomes. For example, among children in low-income homes, 78% of 4th-graders score below the proficient level in reading, compared to 48% of children in moderate- and high-income families. Researchers have long looked at the intersection of family income and student outcomes, and the federal government is currently funding a study that will track whether giving low-income mothers of young children an additional $333 per month — about $4,000 per year — leads to better outcomes in children’s cognitive and emotional development. Early results are expected in 2021.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Another school year ends. With that comes the dreaded chore of entering students' final grades. In a perfect world, teachers would be able to "just" teach and the concept of recording grades would not exist. Teachers would teach for the purpose of sharing their content expertise with students who worked hard for the joy of gaining knowledge.
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Education World
Does requiring students to wear uniforms directly affect school environment and student achievement, or is it the equivalent of painting the walls of a crumbling building — merely cosmetic? What does the research say? What do students, teachers and parents say?
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Education DIVE
U.S. teachers in grades 7-9 spend more hours teaching and have longer work weeks than most of their counterparts in 48 other education systems, according to an international study comparing the backgrounds, attitudes and experiences of educators throughout the world.
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Education World
One would expect that a heart surgeon would be familiar with how that organ works and a podiatrist would know a lot about feet. Plumbers know pipes, car salesmen know their vehicles if they are good at their job and fisherman believe they understand how fish think. It is understandable, then, why experts increasingly think educators should have a better grasp of the organ they contend with every day — their student's brain.
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By: Julie Anne Wells (commentary)
 Recently, the Texas Legislature made unprecedented moves to direct money towards education initiatives. On June 11, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that will reward schools and districts based on their performance, support low-income students, and increase compensation for working and retired teachers. While the new bill guarantees that teachers will receive a raise, it is still unclear what the exact amount will be. Here are a few things we do know about the bill that will impact every school and every teacher in the state of Texas.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston School Committee unanimously approved a policy that would eliminate middle schools, as part of an effort to reduce the number of times students change schools. The goal is to have students attend just two schools during their time in the Boston school system. The policy sets out two basic grade structures for most schools: Elementary schools that end at grade six or eight and secondary schools that begin at grade seven or nine. School officials intend to convert the system's six middle schools into one of those structures.
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UPI
New York has eliminated religious exemptions from school vaccination requirements amid the state's worst measles outbreak in 25 years. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the legislation into law Thursday that ends non-medical exemptions from mandatory vaccinations for school children.
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NAESP
Craig Martin, principal of Michael J. Perkins Elementary School in South Boston, is passionate about education — and his efforts haven't gone unnoticed. Martin has been recognized as an NAESP National Distinguished Principal, an ASCD Emerging Leader, and a Boston Educator of the Year. Though he's proud of these accomplishments, his passion lies in helping his students, staff and community be the best they can be. And for him, that means an education rich in liberal arts.
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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. Click here for more information.
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