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Education DIVE
Effective school leadership is now considered a necessary part of improving schools, according to a new RAND Corp. survey of 192 district leaders across the country. Ninety percent of the 175 leaders from districts with at least 10,000 students responded that school leadership is tied to school improvement in district goals, strategic plans and other district activities.
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The Hechinger Report
Educators who run U.S. schools aren't a diverse group. Almost 80% of the nation's 90,000 principals are white. Only 11% are Black and 9% are Latino, according to federal data. That doesn't come close to reflecting the demographics of the nation's 50 million public schoolchildren who are 46% white, 15 percent Black, 28% Latino and 6% Asian.
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We Are Teachers
In growing a safe space for diverse identities, we're always seeking more immediate ways to stop, address and prevent further harm caused by teasing. More than half of all teasing heard in schools is gender- or sexuality-based, and 75% of high schoolers surveyed heard homophobic remarks frequently. Stopping teasing is an important part of the larger work of creating a safe and welcoming space for all our students. A school that celebrates diversity protects against harm and actively normalizes diversity in pronoun, gender, sexuality and family.
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By Scott E. Rupp (commentary)
 The career of a facility manager is no cakewalk and the overwhelming burden placed on these professionals is far greater amidst COVID-19 than before the novel coronavirus' infiltration of the U.S. population. Private and corporate facilities may possess more considerable resources to manage the new burden, and public entities, especially school districts, are in a bind. With summer in full swing after most U.S. schools shuttered in March, district leaders may realize they are woefully underprepared for the facility management tasks ahead.
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EdTech Magazine
When Keith Price became technology director of Alabama's Vestavia Hills City Schools in 2019, one of the first tasks he tackled was replacing the district's aging video management system. The old system was an "antiquated version that didn't take advantage of modern technology," Price says. Now, the district uses an open platform solution from Milestone Systems, which offers more flexibility. The upgrades also include BCDVideo servers and Milestone software.
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The Hechinger Report
For the past three months, Bridget and Jerry Boyce have taken every precaution to avoid bringing the novel coronavirus into their rural Oregon home. Both drive buses for the Sutherlin School District — Bridget, for the past five years; Jerry, for two. After schools closed, they chose not to participate in a meal-delivery program to students' homes. They rarely go to grocery stores, only shop at retailers that require face masks and thoroughly disinfect themselves after each trip.
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Tech & Learning
Educators understand that failing is a huge part of the learning process. This is especially true for my fellow STEAM and robotics educators, whose students are often asked to try something, fail, try again and eventually succeed. We call this "meaningful failure," and it is one of the best ways for students to build resilience and confidence. Once they succeed, they feel confident in their ability as a learner.
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Edutopia
The pandemic has shone a spotlight on inequality in America: School closures and social isolation have affected all students, but particularly those living in poverty. Adding to the damage to their learning, a mental health crisis is emerging as many students have lost access to services that were offered by schools.
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District Administration Magazine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended in its May 19 update on guidance for reopening of K-12 education programs that schools can help mitigate the novel coronavirus pandemic through the use cloth face coverings and other measures incorporating personal protective equipment. Schools may take additional steps, in collaboration with state and local health officials, toward establishing CDC-guided PPE policies that directly affect students and staff.
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Forbes
Mental toughness is paramount for achieving any lofty goal or overcoming extreme hurdles. Few great things in this world come without a little bit of adversity. Nothing amazing happens inside our comfort zones. Whether we are talking about earning a promotion, nurturing a challenged marriage, mastering a sport, building or saving a small business, battling disease, dealing with the loss of a loved one, raising children or hunting terrorists, some suffering will always be attached. That's why the things we love and work hard for are rewarding.
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Leadership Freak
Stress isn't a germ you catch from an uncovered sneeze. Stress isn't a thing. Scientists examine the results of stress, but they can't examine stress itself. Stress is a monster that rises inside you.
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The Lead Change Group
Lessons throughout history inform us that cause precedes effect; actions create results. Plato explained the principle of causality, saying "everything that becomes or changes must do so owing to some cause; for nothing can come to be without a cause (Timaeus 28a)." In Codex Atlanticus, Leonardo DaVinci wrote, "No effect is in Nature without cause; you understand the cause and you do not need any experience." And as every schoolchild learns, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction," per Sir Issac Newton's third law.
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Harvard Business Review
The CCOVID-19 crisis and its fallout — including recession, layoffs, and uneven economic pain — as well as recent protests over police brutality and demands for racial justice have presented many of us with challenges that we’ve not encountered before. The high-stakes and unfamiliar nature of these situations have left many people feeling fearful of missteps.
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The Lead Change Group
How would you describe the young professionals in your organization? Are they entitled, lazy and unmotivated? Or are they responsible, creative and productive? How are their needs and desires different than the seasoned veterans on your team? What is it they value most in the social contract that exists between employees and employers?
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By Terri Williams (commentary)
 COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions in most business operations. However, companies are beginning to return to the new normal, which includes resuming their hiring plans. Gone (at least temporarily) are the days of forcing applicants to fidget in the lobby, evaluating their appearance from head to toe, and analyzing the firmness of their handshakes. However, technology can help companies streamline the interview process and provide a more effective way to onboard new employees.
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Fast Company
The "language police" have a point: words matters. There are plenty of verbal habits or throwaway phrases that can undermine our credibility and ability to communicate.
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Education Week
As protesters around the country continue to call for racial justice, President Donald Trump, administration officials, and his reelection campaign have focused on a familiar issue: school choice. Their decision to promote school choice — specifically the promotion of charter schools and public funding for private education — as a civil rights issue may serve several purposes for the president's re-election effort.
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The 74
As education officials and policymakers nationwide look ahead to the upcoming 2020-2021 school year, the only thing certain is the uncertainty of how to get students back to school safely and what measures school districts can take — now and in the future — to meet the varying needs of a student body that has been deeply affected and uprooted by the classroom closures caused by the pandemic.
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Education Week
District leaders are pessimistic about their tech budgets for the fall because of a COVID-19 financial squeeze, according to new survey data. The Consortium for School Networking, a nonprofit representing K-12 ed-tech leaders, has released findings from a survey of district IT officials that paints a potentially gloomy picture for tech spending during the upcoming school year.
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Texh & Learning
Google Jamboard is an innovative tool that allows teachers to interact with students with a whiteboard-style experience, only digitally without being in the same room. It's essentially a giant digital whiteboard that can be used by any teacher for any subject, making it a great tool for schools to use right across the — ahem — board.
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EdTech Magazine
Sometimes the best approach to dealing with the biggest problems involves taking a deep breath and diving in headfirst. That's the way it was facing the coronavirus pandemic, says Peter Cevenini, CTO at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. "The situation evolved so fast," he says, "everything we did kind of happened simultaneously."
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We Are Teachers
In these times, maintaining strong lines of communication with parents and students is more important than ever. There are many great reasons for using an app for parent communication. Apps allow you to get your messages out quickly and easily, maintain your privacy, and connect with parents (and even students) the way they want to be reached. There are also a lot of communication apps out there. Below, we look at two of the most popular, Bloomz vs. Remind, to see how they stack up.
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District Management Group
 With so much uncertainty ahead, it’s nearly impossible to predict what back to school schedules will look like. Will we be back to “normal”? Will we have hybrid in-class/remote schedules? Will we continue to be 100% remote? What happens if rolling closures force us to pivot? Districts need to explore various scheduling scenarios now in order to be prepared to respond effectively to whatever lies ahead. Using DMGroup’s elementary school scheduling software, we quickly and easily explored a variety of social-distancing schedule scenarios. Read on to see these schedule models and explore how they can work for you.
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District Administration Magazine
Administrators in many districts this summer will be working with teachers to provide professional development to improve online learning that is almost sure to continue alongside the coronavirus outbreak during 2020-2021 school year. If that work wasn't already a high priority, enhancing online classes may have taken on more urgency after a new survey found that 77% of parents are very or somewhat concerned about the coronavirus outbreak's negative impact on learning.
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District Administration Magazine
Superintendents proceeding with online learning programs can play a critical role in state and local efforts to extend high-speed, broadband internet to more homes in their communities. The coronavirus closures brought widespread attention to a problem that had long been clear to many in K-12 education: a substantial number of students — some 9 million by many estimates — can't connect to the internet when they're not in school. In efforts to narrow to this so-called "homework gap," many superintendents handed out mobile WiFi hotspots, placed routers on buses and helped families connect to low-cost internet service.
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EdTech Magazine
In 2018, U.S. school districts spent more than $98 billion on education construction projects, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and 55 percent of K–12 districts had construction projects on the books in 2019. New construction creates a unique opportunity for school districts to include robust IT capabilities from the ground up. Many will seize this chance to implement connectivity, security and classroom solutions designed to last for the long haul.
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Education Week
How can I support a growth mindset for underrepresented minority students when the system doesn't treat them like they can all learn? If you ask most educators, "Do you think every student can learn?," the answer is a resounding "YES." But Black and Latinx students don't always know this. The American education system has often told students of color, directly or indirectly, that they shouldn't be in the same school as white students, in the same classroom with white students, and in the same college with white students.
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EdSurge
Where we learn matters. This truth has exploded as we have waded through the realities of emergency remote learning. As a profession, we have honorably pivoted to meet the needs of students, but all of us have experienced the soft spots of our strategy. We have seen students lack access to technology and Wi-Fi. We have watched as students with additional challenges, including those with physical or learning disabilities, fade from technology-rich learning, and we have even seen our most driven students burn out from the daily grind of hours on video conferences and completing assignments online.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Jeremy Hyler, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "As educators, we are all catching our breath right now. Most of us were thrust into remote learning in early Spring and did the best we could to reach our students. Now, if you are like me, your brain is still processing all that has happened and in overdrive thinking about this Fall when we return to school. Yes, the ideal situation would be for us to be back in our classrooms every day. I know nothing would bring me more joy than to see my students face-to-face."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Victoria Lentfer, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "If you have ever worked with new teachers, I am sure you have comforted them with 'you can't take what students do personally.' Unfortunately, telling someone to not take things personally doesn't really teach them how."
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Education DIVE
Even for live sessions, it's important to record the class so students can benefit from asynchronous learning. When school begins in the fall, many states are preparing in-class teaching, online learning and hybrid approaches featuring some combination of the two on alternating schedules. The sudden transition to distance learning in the spring revealed some best practices, and a mix of professional development and trial-and-error have left teachers better prepared to adapt to disruption than in spring.
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The 74
Bart Epstein has seen the education space through a previous role where he helped build Tutor.com, the world's largest online tutoring and homework help service. He's also a parent trying to navigate homebound instruction for his two sons.
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Edutopia
For most of us, it's now officially summer break. Our school year has come to a surreal close in COVIDs characteristic blur of time. That blur is already extending into the 2020–2021 school year, as many districts — including my own — are in the throes of designing a new, optimal model of learning in response to an ever-changing and evasive reality.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Maurice J. Elias, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "My colleagues and I recently asked urban middle school students to reflect on their future. We were dismayed to discover that about half did not expect to graduate from high school or college. Less than half expected to have a healthy and happy life. What is the likelihood that kids with these expectations will dedicate themselves to academic pursuits or focus on positive health habits like avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, or eating nutritious foods?"
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MindShift
At least two-thirds of American high school students attend a school with a police officer, according to the Urban Institute, and that proportion is higher for students of color. Now, the national uprising for racial justice has led to a push to remove police officers from security positions inside schools. School systems in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Denver, Portland, Oregon, and two districts in the Bay Area have all moved in recent weeks to suspend or phase out ties with police.
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Edutopia
Soon after the Oklahoma City bombing, in 1995, children in a nearby kindergarten started playing dead. Over and over, they toppled towers of blocks and lay motionless on the floor. When their teacher asked them to tell her about what was happening in their play, the students informed her that they had all been killed by terrorists. The play continued in this vein for some time — smashed towers, splayed-out children — until their teacher asked if they might be interested in building a hospital.
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We Are Teachers
Whatever the space — your home, your office, your classroom — there are a variety of surfaces. And those surfaces? They're pretty disgusting. To help keep you and those you care about healthy, we've researched the germiest places in any room. And we're also sharing how (and how often) to disinfect them.
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EdSource
Walk into a California preschool during the coronavirus pandemic, and you might see children playing alone inside their own hula hoop. Gone are family-style meals and snacks where children serve themselves. And no more sharing toys. Some of the state's new guidelines for child care facilities, like keeping children six feet apart, seem at odds with the main goal of early education, which is focused on helping children feel safe and loved, and learn to play and talk with both other children and adults.
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The Wichita Star
When Kansas K-12 students head back to school in the fall, they may face an altered academic landscape as educators prepare districts for the possibility that the coronavirus will make in-person class time impossible for weeks on end. But a draft of statewide reopening guidance to schools, obtained by The Star, shows that educators preparing districts to navigate the pandemic see their work as an opportunity to advance changes that will affect how students are taught for decades.
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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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NAESP
With consideration for schools impacted by COVID-19 closings, we're extending the ordering period for the 2020 President's Education Awards through July. Take advantage of this extended ordering period by snagging your 2020 President's Education Awards. Recognize your students' hard work over this past year with certificates, pins, certificate jackets and graduation cords.
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