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School Leaders Now
They may be all grown up, but parents of school-aged kids sometimes still fear the principal and hesitate to approach with questions or concerns. The problem with that is you need parent and family feedback in order to better reach your share goal of helping children succeed. Are you an approachable principal? Here's a quick checklist find out and learn how to put parents at ease.
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The Brookings Institution
Policymakers, advocates and the public have long been concerned with inequities in funding levels between schools attended by students from low-income families and their more affluent peers. School funding has received increased attention in recent years as multiple high-quality studies have found that school funding reforms initiated by courts and state legislatures improved the outcomes of disadvantaged students, both in terms of academic achievement (test scores) and attainment (high school graduation and college enrollment).
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Education World
The opioid crisis has a firm grip on the well-being of Americans and drug-related overdoses now account for the leading cause of death among adults under the age of 50. It's a startling statistic and one that has sadly led to numerous headlines of parents overdosing with children present. Opioid abuse isn't limited to adults of course and is a growing problem in schools, both in small towns and large cities all across the United States. The prescription drugs which fall under the opioid umbrella — hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, fentanyl and oxycodone — generally lead abusers to turn to heroin once the prescription runs out.
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Frontiers via Science Daily
Is it OK for children to count on their fingers? Generations of pupils have been discouraged by their teachers from using their hands when learning maths. But a new research article shows using fingers may be a much more important part of maths learning than previously thought.
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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.
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The Boston Globe
Children who come from poorer homes may benefit more from summer reading programs than kids from wealthier homes, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Researchers at MIT wanted to understand why one child may respond differently to an approach than another. The team set up two summer schools with kids of many backgrounds to study how they reacted to programs meant to help them read better, said John Gabrieli, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and the study's lead author.
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EdSource
Only a third of eighth-graders in the western U.S. took an art class last year and only 17 percent played in the school band, the lowest figures of any region in the country, according to a recently released national arts assessment. The assessment, given to a random sampling of eighth-graders once every eight years by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, looked at how many students were enrolled in visual art and music classes at their schools, how well the students understood basic art and music principles and other criteria intended to measure the quality of arts education in the U.S. The assessment is the largest and one of the only assessments of arts education in the country.
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Edutopia
A sensory room — a therapeutic space with a variety of equipment that provides students with special needs with personalized sensory input — helps these children calm and focus themselves so they can be better prepared for learning and interacting with others. In April, Edutopia published the story of Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut, including a video about the district's sensory room at Hanover Elementary School, which provides support services for students with a wide range of special needs.
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District Administration Magazine
CIOs can play a key role in their district's efforts to increase parent engagement as part of wider initiatives to advance equity. Providing multilingual content on school websites and apps presents these outreach opportunities — as well as costs and challenges. "The overall benefit is to get the conversation started," says Jason Olsen, communications officer for Salt Lake City Schools. The district serves 24,000 students speaking 80 to 90 languages.
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NPR
It is the education debate of the Trump era. With the president and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos using policy and the bully pulpit to champion private school vouchers, supporters and critics have tangled over the question: Do low-income, public school students perform better when they're given a voucher to attend a private school? For years, the answer from researchers has been a muddle, while a handful of recent studies have clearly shown voucher students backsliding academically. Today, much-anticipated reviews of not one but two of the nation's largest voucher programs add some depth and a few twists to the voucher narrative.
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District Administration Magazine
Teaching is a craft and, as with any craft, neophytes should ideally work alongside the experts and artisans to soak up knowledge and experience along the path to mastery. David Krulwich, principal of the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, a college preparatory school serving grades 6 through 12 in the Bronx, says new teachers are too often left to fend for themselves, without the benefit of an artisan-apprentice relationship.
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The Atlantic
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state of Missouri cannot deny public funds to a church simply because it is a religious organization. Seven justices affirmed the judgment in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, albeit with some disagreement about the reasoning behind it. The major church-state case could potentially expand the legal understanding of the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It is also the first time the Supreme Court has ruled that governments must provide money directly to a house of worship, which could have implications for future policy fights — including funding for private, religious charter schools.
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The Washington Post
When schools in Fairfax County open next fall, students and teachers are expected to contend with larger class sizes. Hundreds of teachers will go without raises they were anticipating. Alternative schools are bracing to trim programs. Student athletes who take the field will be asked to pay a new $50 fee. Facing a revenue shortfall, the county school board slashed more than $50 million from its spending plan last month, forcing cuts that will be felt in a multitude of ways across the 188,000-student district. Critics worry those moves could harm the premier reputation of Virginia's largest school system.
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KGW
Every day thousands of Oregon children get on a bus to head to school unaware that the bus may be spewing cancer causing diesel exhaust. Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would clean up those dirty diesel buses. It is a drastically whittled down version of the original bill. The original bill called for a comprehensive statewide plan to get all dirty diesel engines off our roads, but over the past few months, Senate Bill 1008 has been stripped down to a bill about school buses.
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NAESP
As a new principal, one of your primary tasks is to build relationships with your teachers and help them grow as professionals. Your staff likely represents multiple generations or age groups. Let's look at some general information about the various generations represented in most schools, and how to support them.
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NAESP
Are you interested in strengthening your career while preparing a new generation of leaders? The National Mentor Training and Certification Program offers a highly structured professional development program which integrates a mentor training component that can make the critical difference in sustainability of skilled leaders. NAESP will be hosting an upcoming mentor training in Alexandria, Virginia, July 27-28. Click here to register and find more information.
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