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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Return of the in-person edu-conference: Elementary principals' group to meet in Chicago
EdWeek
Education associations are still wary about returning to packed convention centers for in-person conferences, after the coronavirus forced nearly all such gatherings to go online over the last year. But the National Association of Elementary School Principals is bucking that trend with its annual conference scheduled for the Hyatt Regency in Chicago from July 8-10.
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How to talk about burnout at work
Forbes
People generally have reported an increase in stress, overwhelm, overwork, burnout, hitting the "pandemic wall" or whatever they choose to call this cluster of emotions and experiences. With so many people feeling other than fully charged with work, it's important for both leaders and employees to develop a vocabulary and a practice about how to talk about stress.
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Lead like you mean it: The importance of character-led leadership
Training Industry Magazine
Many leaders would agree that personal character provides a guardrail for an individual's career path. However, few recognize that there's something just as important to the individual and the company they choose to work for: upstanding character.
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How can districts improve recruitment, retention for male teachers of color?
K-12 DIVE
Since assuming the superintendency in Columbia, South Carolina's Richland School District Two in 2017, Baron Davis has overseen several key initiatives to diversify the school system's teacher workforce and academic offerings, as well as to fortify and enhance its facilities. Much of his two-decade career has been spent in the 27,000-student district, where he is also the first African American to hold the top leadership position.
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HONORABLE CHARACTER
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Making it look easy
The Lead Change Group
Wally Bock, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "That's how one colleague described Art Jones, the best supervisor I've ever seen up close. There never seemed to be problems with his team. They were always productive. When malcontents or slackers were transferred to Art's team, one of two things happened. Most were transformed into paragons of engagement. Some were either fired or resigned. Art never looked like he broke a sweat."
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Different ways of looking at how to use edtech
Edutopia
With many schools returning to in-person learning after more than a year of remote or hybrid, many teachers feel conflicted about their technology usage going forward: Some want a hiatus from tech, while others have a bring-it-on attitude and aim to build on hard-earned technical skills.
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We cannot innovate if we're tied to yesterday's "normal"
eSchool News
Not even 24 hours into his summer break, Brooklyn-based educator and author Cornelius Minor opened ISTELive 21 with a brutally honest assessment of what it means to inspire educators–and the communities that support schools–to innovate and do better for children of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, for students of all abilities, and for students of all gender identities.
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3 unexpected signs you're a more successful leader than you think
Inc.
The pandemic has hit leaders hard and forced plenty of them to look inward. Executives have learned to shift, become more transparent and, dare I say, more human!
As mental-health challenges in the workplace increase, empathy and compassion are the new emotional currency.
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On-Demand PD: Universal social-emotional behavior (SEB) screening can play an important role in improving students’ social-emotional and academic skills. In this SEB Master Class, Dr. Stephen Kilgus discusses how SEB screening fits into MTSS and provides guidance on selecting an SEB screener. Watch the video.
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Leaders desperately need training on these three issues to succeed for the rest of 2021
Forbes
This year has delivered a unique set of challenges that most leaders were never trained to handle (especially when they occur simultaneously). From employee burnout to staffing shortages to hybrid workforces and more, leaders must tweak and adapt their traditional skills; but the vast majority haven't been taught how to pull that off. So here are three vital areas where your company's leaders desperately need some assistance and guidance.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
How to measure employee productivity fairly and consistently
By Grace Lau
Productivity is an interesting concept. While the ability to work from anywhere has its perks, many of us also feel that it has altered our productivity levels compared to the days of working in an office. It can be hard to track productivity consistently and fairly. It's all too easy to favor certain employees for particular tasks or to only track productivity intermittently — when there's a performance review coming up, for instance. If you track productivity intermittently, you won’t reap the full benefits and you could alienate some employees along the way. Luckily, there are a few simple steps you can follow to ensure that you're measuring productivity the right way.
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Conquer your self-doubt in meetings
Harvard Business Review
Self-doubt can afflict anyone, especially in meetings. Individuals may overreact to others' reactions or compare themselves to what they see of others. As a result, they self-edit their contributions, robbing themselves and the team of ideas and hiding their true feelings, which fester into further feelings of doubt and resentment.
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Rethinking leadership: Finding your voice in difficult moments
Embrace the Resistance
When we join the fire service, one of our primary responsibilities is to take care of the resources given to us by our organization and community. Stewardship, which is taking care of what's entrusted to you by someone else, is at the heart of our mission and maintains the public trust in the fire service. Knowing the weight of this obligation and expectation, senior members teach and coach new hires to take responsibility for the state of their station, apparatus, equipment, and uniforms.
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3 unexpected signs you're a more successful leader than you think
Inc.
The pandemic has hit leaders hard and forced plenty of them to look inward. Executives have learned to shift, become more transparent and, dare I say, more human! As mental-health challenges in the workplace increase, empathy and compassion are the new emotional currency. Understanding each team members' unique experiences, challenges and opportunities for improved success will greatly increase their engagement.
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Why learning on the job is more important than ever (and 5 ways to do it better)
Fast Company
As many parts of the world reopen for business, we shouldn't expect workplaces to look exactly as they did before the pandemic. Many companies have announced that workers can continue working from anywhere permanently. Meanwhile, some employees are eager to return to the office, while others are opting for something in between: working remotely while gathering in person for meetings or special events.
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Dr. Don Vu examines six conditions for building a school’s culture of literacy to create an environment where immigrant and refugee children can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to realize the American Dream.
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Adults are banning classroom topics; Perhaps they should allow students to explore them?
Education Week
School is supposed to be a venue where students have numerous opportunities to engage in deep learning that will prepare them for their future. That learning is supposed to foster the ability for students to engage in their own learning around topics that they care about and perhaps even want to pursue after they leave high school and enter career and technical education, higher education, or the workforce in an internship capacity.
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Why not working first thing on Monday can supercharge your productivity
Fast Company
Hannah Herman–Zapier writes: Reader, let me tell you a secret: I spend the first two hours of my Monday workday not working.
Okay, it’s not that much of a secret. It’s the headline of this piece, and it’s blocked out on my calendar. By this point, every Jane, Dick, and Harry knows that I don’t do work on Monday mornings—and that I don’t think you should, either.
Let me explain how this happened.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
3 ways to remove barriers for underrepresented students
District Administration Magazine
Students own some of their teachers' learning at one Washington high school where kids help design professional development programs in diversity, equity and inclusion. This is just one of initiatives researchers found in a few dozen Washington "outlier" schools where administrators have deployed strategies to remove barriers that have stymied the progress of underrepresented students, says John Steach, CEO of The Center for Educational Effectiveness.
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$100 million and many open questions: Here's how Biden is approaching school integration
Chalkbeat
For the last few years, the Dallas Independent School District has been trying to make some of its schools more economically diverse — and hearing from other districts curious about doing the same. Its integration program reserves half of a school’s seats for students from low-income families, and the other half for middle- and higher-income students.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
11 ed tech tips for new teachers
Tech&Learning
As preparations begin for a new school year, it is important to think intentionally about the ways in which you will use instructional technology to support student learning. Learning technologies are ubiquitous and have the power to transform teaching to create innovative content, engage students and efficiently assess student growth.
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4 ways my teaching has changed because of remote learning
Tech&Learning (commentary)
Erik Ofgang, a contributor for Tech&Learning, writes: "The pandemic has changed my teaching. In March of 2020 I walked out of my editing class at Western Connecticut State University after telling my journalism students the university would be closing for at least two weeks. I expected it would be longer and joked that by the next time the students saw me, I'd have a long beard."
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Reimagining post-pandemic classrooms for today's learners
EdTech Magazine
There's no denying that the pandemic upended education this past year. Like many school districts across the nation, Portland Public Schools pivoted to online and hybrid instruction. "Our teaching staff rose to the challenge and have done a beautiful job making instruction engaging for students in a remote environment," CTO Don Wolff says of the Oregon district.
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School is hard for mobile students; These districts want to help
EdSurge
Being the new kid in school is never easy. Students who move, especially during the middle of the academic year, must adapt to a lot: new classes, new textbooks, even a new social scene. And that kind of disruption can sometimes cause big academic delays. In Chelsea, Mass. — a mostly working-class suburban city just across the Mystic River from Boston — high student mobility used to be a challenge without a clear solution.
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Schools can use pandemic relief on cybersecurity, senators remind Education Department
EdScoop
The U.S. Education Department should give better instructions to K-12 schools that they can spend federal pandemic relief money on cybersecurity, especially as ransomware attacks against districts nationwide continue to run rampant and many school systems plan for some degree of long-term virtual learning, two senators said recently. In a letter addressed to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, wrote that the department needs to issue clearer guidance that the programs established in multiple rounds of federal COVID-19 relief "can be spent on cybersecurity resources and engage with school districts to increase awareness of the critical need for prioritizing stronger cybersecurity measures."
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Technology helps address student safety and behavioral health concerns
Security Magazine
As students return to school, it’s important that administrators are prepared to address the safety, behavioral, and mental health challenges that lay ahead. Some students were already struggling with their mental health prior to the pandemic and it has only become a bigger challenge.
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Stepping Stones Museum for Children brings its reputable, multidimensional learning approach to the Stepping Stones Studio. The Studio gives students access to a virtual world of brain-building, STEAM and fun-infused learning experiences, whether they are learning in the classroom or at home.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Applying insights from neuroscience in the classroom
Edutopia
Understanding, even minimally, how the brain works when it comes to learning can help teachers more effectively educate students. In her recently released book, "Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn," Dr. Barbara Oakley and her coauthors provide easy-to-understand explanations of neuroscience concepts and practical tips for how teachers can help students learn more effectively no matter what the content.
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Eric Litwin, the original author of the best-selling Pete the Cat series, and Dr. Gina Pepin, an award-winning teacher, share practical tools and strategies to transform your classroom into a “reading playground”—a space where children read, sing, dance, and celebrate words and texts. The Power of Joyful Reading provides research-based solutions to implement successful shared reading experiences in daycare, preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary classrooms. These tools build students’ foundational literacy skills and help them learn to love books and see themselves as successful readers.
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LEGO Ed, NASA collaborate on free digital STEAM learning series
THE Journal
LEGO Education and NASA have come together to create "Build to Launch: A STEAM Exploration Series," a new interactive learning series scheduled to launch in September. According to LEGO Education, the series "is designed to spark student curiosity and increase engagement in STEAM through the upcoming Artemis I mission."
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3 ways assessment data advances student equity
eSchool News
As educators, we all know the importance of data in decision-making. We understand how limited, skewed, or biased data – or no data at all – can result in faulty decision-making and regressive actions, be it in our teaching and learning, curricular design, assessments, or administrative responsibilities.
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The tough task ahead for 1st grade teachers
EdWeek
Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted version. And now, 1st grade teachers will have to fill in the gaps.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Why parental consent often isn't required in education research
The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Jill Barshay, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "While writing a recent column about teachers conducting educational studies in their own classrooms, I was curious about when they might need to inform their students' parents about this research and obtain parental permission. As I dug into the rules governing informed consent in educational research, I was surprised to learn that parental consent often isn't required by law. That's the case not just in teacher-led studies but even when outside researchers are studying which teaching methods or materials work best in the classroom."
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Chicago's Pre-K policy has important lessons to teach us
EdSurge
As early childhood researchers, we’ve spent our careers steeped in an enormous body of work that documents the long-term positive impacts of quality early care and education on the lives of those fortunate enough to experience it. The pre-academic and social-emotional skills children develop in preschool — the ability to manage frustration, work with peers, ask for help, and recover from setbacks and disruptions — create the foundation upon which future school and life success is built.
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Cicadas during COVID — A 'golden moment' for classroom engagement at the end of an isolating school year
The 74
The Brood X cicadas that have swarmed parts of the United States in recent weeks emerge every 17 years, which scientists believe could be a survival tactic that helps them avoid matching their predators’ life cycles. For science teachers around the country who live and work in the regions where the periodical cicadas have come out this year, the timing is perfect: After a year of virtual lessons, flagging student engagement and ongoing stress, a real-life science lesson has crawled out of the ground — and started singing.
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Obesity in teens raises adult diabetes risk, even after weight loss
HealthDay News
In a finding that confirms what many suspect, a new study shows that teens who are overweight or obese may be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes or have a heart attack in their 30s and 40s. These teens are also more likely to have other health issues down the road, regardless of whether they shed any excess weight during adulthood.
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Kids with a desk and a quiet place to study do better in school, data shows
Study International
Ask what students need to learn at home, and the answer often involves access to Wi-Fi or a digital device. For example, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 sets aside US$7.1 billion to support access to high-speed internet for schools and libraries. What often gets overlooked is whether kids have a study desk at home or a quiet place to study.
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.IN THE STATES
With burnout on the rise, districts turn to staff SEL and bringing joy to learning
K-12 DIVE
For fourth grade teacher Tom Whisinnand, the most stressful part of the 2020-2021 school year was simultaneously instructing his in-person and virtual learners at Reagan Elementary in Omaha, Nebraska. Technical difficulties and logistical challenges for teaching and grading were at times frustrating, he said. For eighth grade math teacher Brandon Contreras, he was most low when he struggled to engage his virtual learners in the Compton Unified School District in California, several of whom kept their cameras off.
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Computer Science for All?
Education Next
Step into Nicole Reitz-Larsen's classroom in Salt Lake City's West High School and see students grooving to "Single Ladies" or zigzagging to execute one of LeBron James's handshakes. You might think it's a dance class. It's not. Reitz-Larsen is teaching computer science through movement. The former German-language and business instructor found that linking difficult concepts such as algorithms and the binary system to students' interests helps the students grasp a topic that many were leery about before they stepped into her class.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Testing has a whole new meaning this fall
NAESP
As students across the country prepare to return to in-person learning this fall, schools are closely watching federal, state, and local health guidelines as well as listening to parents and staff about what feels safe and right when kids return to campus.
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Healthy habit tips for students
NAESP
The final bell for the 2020-2021 school year has rung, so it is now time for some summer fun! To say it has been a challenging and atypical school year would be an understatement, and both teachers and students deserve some time to relax and enjoy the warmer weather. As we head into these exciting months, Lysol wants to share some reminders to help you and your students enjoy summer to the fullest.
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