This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
| | LATEST NEWS FOR PRINCIPALS |
School Leaders Now
You know those schools where the moment you walk in you can feel the teamwork vibe? The staff here like each other. The teachers trust each other and the front office. They are on the same page. Other schools, well, the first thing you notice is the t-e-n-s-i-o-n in the air. Sure not everyone is going to be besties all the time. But long-standing grudges, factions who won't speak to each other? Most educators can tell you stories of coworker dysfunction in schools that went on for years — even decades. It doesn't have to be this way.
READ MORE
eSchool News
President Donald Trump's recent education budget proposal has received a great deal of attention for cutting education by $9.2 billion or 13.6 percent. The administration is proposing an additional $400 million for vouchers and $1 billion more in Title 1 funds to support school choice. While details of the budget will evolve as it moves through the congressional approval process, it is likely that we will see an increase in funding that expands school choice. School choice is a controversial topic with advocates believing it will drive innovation in education and civil rights advocates and education reform leaders raising concerns about the unintended consequences to public schools, especially those serving the most vulnerable population, low-income families.
READ MORE
The Washington Post
Some school reformers have long been pushing technology as the way to transform education. There is no denying that education technology can be helpful to students in a number of important ways, but there is also no denying that in a number of important ways, it has not been as transformative as supporters might have hoped. In many cases, it has been used to park students in front of computers, sometimes sitting in their own cubicles in school or at home, learning, supposedly, at their own speed, without the annoyance of engaging face to face with other people.
READ MORE
 |
|
Over 75% of transgender students feel unsafe at school, and staff do not know how to help them. Welcoming Schools, the nation’s premier professional development program for elementary schools, provides educators with best practices to support transgender students and prevent bias-based bullying.
Visit www.welcomingschools.org to learn more.
|
|
By: Erick Herrmann (commentary)
 As the school year wraps up for many teachers this month, we begin the process of relaxing and rejuvenating so that we can be ready to start the new school year with a fresh group of students. Many, if not most, teachers also begin thinking about and preparing for the next school year as the summer progresses. Consider the following strategies and ideas to incorporate into your summer plans to be better prepared for your English learners.
READ MORE
The 74
The political mood in the United States has soured dramatically in recent months, but there's still one issue that draws bipartisan support: early childhood education.
Seventy-nine percent of voters in a new poll want Congress and the Trump administration to work together to improve the quality of child care and preschool and make it more affordable, according to a new poll from the First Five Years Fund, an early childhood education advocacy group.
READ MORE
|
|
MindShift
Creativity has become a coveted skill as the world's problems get bigger and more complex. Many schools recognize creativity as an important part of learning as well, but struggle to inject it into classrooms that are often dictated by district-mandated curriculum and focused on a narrow set of success criteria. But the challenges schools face could also be grounds for modeling the type of creativity teachers want to see in students.
READ MORE
Edutopia
These traveling art studios, science labs, and greenhouses are reducing barriers to access by meeting students where they are.
READ MORE
Education World
Aaron is the subject of several conversations during team meetings at his busy middle school near Washington, D.C., but they never go much beyond expressions of exasperation. Both personal interactions and testing shows he is very bright, but he just can't stay organized or focused and has a very difficult time with math. He is not a significant behavior issue, but occupies increasing amounts of the teachers' time to keep him focused on lectures and make sure he does class work and homework.
READ MORE
Edutopia (commentary)
Elena Aguilar, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Ever since I was a young child, the long days of summer have been for reading. Early in the morning and late into the night, sitting on a beach or lying on the living room floor, I devoured book after book. Novels took me on the journeys and adventures I yearned for; memoirs connected me with shared humanity. Books made me stronger: They put my sadness and loneliness into perspective, suggested routes around the obstacles in my life, and gave me clues as to how I could not only surmount challenges, but thrive in spite of them. By the end of summer, my literary immersion had renewed me for another school year."
READ MORE
Education DIVE
Charter schools, though increasingly touted (and criticized) by educators, administrators and lawmakers, remains in some sense predominantly an urban mainstay. 56.5 percent of charters are located in a city, while only 10 percent of charter schools are located in urban areas, according to the National Center for Education Statistics data. But the number of rural charters is on the rise; more than 200,000 students attend charter schools in rural areas, with California having the highest number at 114 schools. More than 200 rural charters have been opened since 2010, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
READ MORE
THE Journal
Google is gaining a stronghold in United States classrooms, with Chrome OS expanding its presence on school computers, while Apple's iOS has been on the decline since the first quarter of 2015 among students and teachers. These are some of the findings in Kahoot!'s first-ever EdTrends Report, released today, which seeks to address the latest education technology trends in the American K–12 market. The new quarterly report, published by the popular game-based learning platform, aims to help educators and administrators stay better informed about trends in education technology, state-specific challenges and best practices.
READ MORE
| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
Education Week
Back in February, President Donald Trump asked U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — and the rest of the cabinet — to toss out regulations and guidance that was either "burdensome" or expensive for school districts, states, and colleges to implement. The idea was to get rid of regulations that are redundant, "inhibiting job creation," or outdated.
READ MORE
|
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
|
Don't be left behind. Click here to see what else you missed.
|
Chalkbeat New York
David Baiz was disheartened. He had turned in his annual comprehensive plan on how to improve the middle school where he was principal, Global Technology Preparatory in East Harlem. Now, New York City education department officials had reviewed the plan and offered feedback. Baiz opened the officials' comments expecting substantive suggestions about how to help his students, who faced many challenges. That's not what he found.
READ MORE
U.S. News & World News
Children in schools dotting the districts along the Rio Grande River in Texas are overwhelmingly poor and Hispanic, and many of them are still learning English — all indicators associated with low academic achievement. But in a handful of cities there, students are bucking that assumption by performing just as well, and in some cases better, than their wealthier peers. Brownsville, McAllen and El Paso, for example, represent three of the four cities in the country where poor students outperform students from high-income families, according to a new report from GreatSchools and Education Cities.
READ MORE
The Arizona Republic
On a Saturday in late April, principal Theresa Nickolich gave her best recruiting pitch to every person who walked in the door. Come teach at Clarendon Elementary School in the Osborn School District, she told the candidates at the job fair. You'll be part of a system that will support you. You'll feel like family in a professional environment built up over years of strong leadership. You will be an anchor of stability for children in need, many of them poor.
READ MORE
NAESP
Throughout its 95-year history, NAESP has called upon its leaders to hold true to its mission, while astutely assessing and acting on the specific challenges and opportunities of their times. By any measure, the past decade has been a momentous period: Demographic tipping points are fundamentally altering society and the workplace, the digital revolution continues to accelerate, and repercussions are still being felt from a historic economic recession. And public school leaders, committed to educating every student, are experiencing unprecedented pressures on multiple fronts that make their jobs more demanding than ever before.
READ MORE
NAESP
It should come as no surprise to veteran principals that although leading a school is rewarding, it can also be extremely stressful. In the latest Rise and Shine survey administered to the National Panel of New Principals, 84 percent of new principals say they've had a high-stress school year. So what's causing all of that pressure? School politics? Dealing with parents? According to the survey, 59 percent of new principals identify time management as the most challenging aspect of their jobs.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
