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School Leaders Now
A principal's job is often crazy difficult, yet most of us say we wouldn't leave our jobs for anything. Why is it that being the go-to person for everything — when the furnace breaks, a toilet backs up, or a quarrel needs to be settled — doesn't make us run away screaming? We asked dozens of principals why they took the gig and what makes keeps them going even on the hardest days.
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Education Week (commentary)
Melissa Hensley was starting her first-ever administrative job when she arrived months into the already underway school year to be the new assistant principal at Signal Knob Middle School in Shenandoah County, Va. The school had experienced a lot of leadership turnover — Hensley said she was the seventh assistant principal in about four years. The administrative churn was such a sore point that on her first day, someone asked the principal: "How long are you going to keep this one?"
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Education Next
Raise the topic of education finance and most will jump to the revenue side of the equation: Is there enough money? Are districts funded equitably? But the spending side is equally important and gets shorter shrift. Parents and educators have not been asking, Is the district giving my school a fair share of its money? And local leaders have not asked what is purchased with that money and whether those purchases make the best use of the money. Part of the reason so much less time is spent on the spending side of the equation is a lack of visibility into how the money is spent. But that is about to change, thanks to a new provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Governing
Janine Menard is moving quickly through her busy day. On a Monday morning at Pueblo del Sol Elementary, a dual elementary and middle school in West Phoenix, she visits a fourth-grade classroom that's getting a lesson in understanding "different perspectives." Menard, the school counselor, goes over scenarios aimed at tapping into the children's empathetic side. They discuss ways to bridge gaps in understanding using emotional intelligence.
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Harvard Business Review
You've no doubt heard the well-worn advice that "if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." It's a nice idea but a total myth. When we equate work we love with "not really working," it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of it — all of the time, actually. Who needs a day off when you're not really working?! There's a whole cottage industry committed to proliferating this mindset — from books, to talks, and even kitsch stores selling piles of "Work is Bliss" quotes on merchandise. This type of mentality leads to burnout, and the consequences can be both dire and hard to detect.
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Leadership Freak
Respectful treatment of all employees at all levels was rated as very important by 67% of employees in 2015, making it the top contributor to overall employee job satisfaction for the second year in a row. 8 out of 10 employees who feel disrespected are less committed.
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Forbes
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine — we'll call him William — was asked to take a retirement package from a major advertising agency. It made sense to him at the time, as the client he had created award-winning campaigns for was cutting budgets. While he wasn't happy about it, he was graceful and professional, and since he was in his mid-50s at the time, the narrative that it was time for him to retire was believable.
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Fast Company
You know that feeling of being in flow where your mind is alert, you're deeply focused on a difficult problem, when time stands still and work stops feeling like work? That productive state where every move you make is purposeful?
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Inc. (commentary)
Marc Lore, a contributor for Inc., writes: "At the beginning of the year I read an article from Melinda Gates explaining how instead of setting a New Year's resolution, she chooses a word of the year. Like Melinda, I was drawn to the simplicity of focusing on one word for 12 months. I've always believed entrepreneurs have a strong sense of empathy because it's at the core of what they do — understanding customer pain points to develop thoughtful solutions that meet customers' needs."
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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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Education Week
Asked about a debate exchange between Democratic presidential candidates on busing and school integration, President Donald Trump over the weekend seemed to suggest that he would be releasing a new plan on the issue soon. But he provided few details. Trump's responses at a Saturday press conference in Osaka, Japan, seemed to focus on busing as a general mode of transportation, rather than a means of desegregating schools. This led some commentators to question whether he fully understood the debate.
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The Brookings Institution
In a little over a year from now, Democrats will have a presidential nominee and the race will be on with President Donald Trump. At that point, Trump will no doubt take a play out of the standard Republican playbook and try to brand Democrats as liberals, or even socialists.
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The New York Times
Senator Kamala Harris of California sharply criticized former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the Democratic presidential primary debate, talking about her personal history with busing and calling his recent recollections of working with segregationist senators "hurtful."
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EdScoop
As the Federal Communications Commission debates the future of the E-Rate program, education stakeholders said its function in supporting affordable broadband access is critical for schools to meet their learning goals.
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eSchool News
The chorus singing the praises of data in education has been ever-present for years now, but it's not always clear how educators can effectively put that data to use. Should we be using data to solve problems at the individual student level, the school level or district level? And in the final analysis, how can the constant steam of data we're faced with help us improve teaching and learning? In our experience, the right can help solve a variety of issues, from improving student literacy to helping school leaders make better-informed purchasing decisions.
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THE Journal
The majority of teachers are communicating with parents at least weekly, but a third of families (34 percent) remain "hard to reach and engage" throughout the school year. And 43 percent of teachers want to get a better sense of the visibility and feedback among parents to improve effectiveness of their interactions. That's according to a survey published by ClassTag, which collected responses from over 1,000 primary school teachers from the 2018-2019 school year.
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Education Next (commentary)
Michael J. Petrilli, a contributor for Education Next, writes: "As I indicated last week, I plan to spend the summer writing about whether our schools have improved over the past quarter-century or so — essentially the 'reform era.' There's little doubt, I argued, that outcomes improved dramatically for the lowest-performing students and for children of color from the mid-1990s until the onset of the Great Recession, at least in the key subjects of reading and math. That was especially the case in elementary and middle schools, though high school graduation and college-completion rates were up sharply as well, even if some of that progress might be due to slipping standards."
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eSchool News
K-12 teachers and administrators have been listening to policy makers and industry leaders warn of the need for computer science instruction in U.S. schools for years. And the evidence they cite is compelling.
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MiddleWeb
Understanding the complex and ever-changing world of assistive technology is a daunting task, especially for the individuals, families and professionals concerned about maximizing the use of advances in technology to support people with learning differences who may be challenged by communication and literacy needs.
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EdTech Magazine
Technology experts find Google's blended learning tool to be extremely effective helping teachers feel more comfortable with modern education tools.
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By: Amy Temple (commentary)
 Not that long ago, a relative talked down to me, and I was livid! Let me rephrase that ... I was beyond livid! I came this close to telling this individual to stick it up their you-know-where! This person thought that they would just decide something for me without even consulting. Then, they had the gall to say, "Is that all right, Amy?" Well, no! It's not! I have dealt with this numerous times with certain members of my family. I don't know what it is. They must equate my condition with a lack of intelligence. Who knows?
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Edutopia
Have you ever poured your heart into preparing and teaching a lesson only to have most students raise their hand for help as soon as you asked them to work independently?
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eSchool News
Every summer, the news is filled with stories about summer learning loss. The warnings sound dire: two months of math learning lost for most students every summer, and two to three months of reading learning lost for low-income students, according to the National Summer Learning Association. By the ninth grade, "summer learning loss during elementary school accounts for two-thirds of the achievement gap in reading between low-income children and their middle-income peers," the association says.
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Chalkbeat
It's summer break, but 14 rising third-graders spent a recent morning at Denver's McMeen Elementary learning about proper nouns. After fastening imaginary bow ties around their necks — a reminder that the nouns were "proper" — the students called out words that fit the bill.
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Education DIVE
Florida eliminated the Common Core State Standards this year with an executive order from Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, but in Alabama, getting rid of the standards is taking a more indirect route. Next March, Alabama voters will decide on an amendment to the state constitution that would eliminate the elected state board as well as the state superintendent position.
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U.S. News and World Report
The majority of students in Providence, Rhode Island's public schools are not learning, teachers there feel demoralized and unsupported, school buildings are deteriorating to the point of being dangerous and parents feel shut out. The searing findings, which reportedly left some investigators in tears, were part of a top-down assessment of Rhode Island’' 24,000-student school district that were issued and serve to showcase the immense challenges facing urban school districts across the country.
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The New York Times
The 8-year-old son of Caly and Wade Watkins is an active and happy Utah boy, they say. He fishes in a pond, sometimes landing a catfish, which he throws back. He rides his dirt bike for miles. He pores over his schoolwork, which in second grade included mastering multiplication tables.
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NAESP
Becoming a principal is an amazing opportunity to impact the lives of children, but interviewing to become one can be stressful. There are many unknowns before you step in front of a hiring committee: the size of the committee, the jobs of each committee member, what each of them wants in a school leader, and the specific questions they will ask. But, with these five tips, you can make your interview less stressful and significantly increase your odds of success.
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