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School Leaders Now
The best thing a principal can do is hire the best and brightest teachers out there to work with their students. Get top talent in your building, and the school will run itself. But what do you do when you receive a midsummer resignation and can't be as methodical in your hiring or take a lot of time to find a replacement?
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Education DIVE
Jeffrey Ramnytz, superintendent at Barberton City Schools outside of Akron, Ohio, has an open-door policy for realtors and clients who want to visit the schools in his district and find out what lies behind the numbers that go into school ratings. He knows from experience that once he shows parents what his schools have to offer, the vast majority — roughly 85% — choose a Barberton school instead of a nearby charter school, private school or another district.
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School Leaders Now
Ever feel like dealing with bus problems is a full-time job? If so, you're not alone. Principals across the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the time and effort they put into resolving behavior issues that occur on the way to and from school. They cite a laundry list of offenses, from foul language, bullying and not following driver instructions to aggressive behavior, threats, fights, weapons — even drugs and alcohol.
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Education DIVE
While there have been fewer incidents of school violence so far this year, 2018 had the highest incident of school shootings in recorded history with 97 incidents reported in the nation. This increase in school violence prompted the creation of a Federal Commission on School Safety which developed multiple suggestions, but ultimately put the responsibility for preventing violence back on individual states.
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MindShift
It was a Friday morning in early May, just before Mother's Day, when a group of preschool teachers settled onto oversized pillows and colorful beanbags for a conversation that would lead to tears, frustration and — eventually — a sense of clarity on a delicate matter involving a child. Karen Massingille, a preschool behavioral health therapist, sat on a tiny child's chair, looking at the nine women seated around her in a cozy, carpeted corner of the sunlit room. She took a few deliberate breaths, then started to speak.
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The Hechinger Report
While institutions continue to work toward improving the diversity of their students, another aspect of diversity work receives precious little attention: faculty. More than three-quarters of full-time faculty members are white, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Just six percent of full-time faculty are black, even as black students now make up at least 16 percent of those enrolled in college. And, despite a dramatic increase in Hispanic student enrollment, under five percent of faculty are Hispanic.
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Forbes
Leaders spend a large portion of their time evaluating the members of their teams. They regularly monitor and assess their performance, communication skills and results. Effective leaders also spend time evaluating their own performance and continually seeking ways to improve.
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Fast Company
"Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook," wrote psychologist William James. Unfortunately, if this is the case then few of us can honestly say we're wise. Knowing where to allocate our attention has become the great challenge of our lives. And we're not making it any easier by exposing ourselves to so many distractions.
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Inc. (commentary)
If you regularly offer sincere and specific praise, you help to create what researchers refer to as a "psychologically safe" environment — one where team members feel safe to ask questions, take risks, and make mistakes.
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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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Entrepreneur
Is one employee dragging your company down? It's absolutely critical that you know how to both spot and deal with toxic employees. A single bad employee can ruin the work experience for everyone else, creating issues with absenteeism, killing useful initiatives, increasing turnover and generally making your workplace a hostile environment.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Ruchika Tulshyan, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "When it comes to hiring diverse candidates, good intentions do not necessarily lead to good results. I once met a talent acquisition leader at a large global technology company who had changed the organization's hiring process in multiple ways to bring in more diverse candidates but was frustrated by the lack of progress. Internal analyses showed that even though the company had interviewed a higher number of non-white candidates in preliminary rounds, their final hires were still overwhelmingly white."
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The Lead Change Group
Winston Churchill once pointed out that people occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. The great American author and humorist, Mark Twain, opined that many people must regard truth as their most valuable possession since they were very economical in its use. His advice was simply, "Always do right."
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Education Week
The winner of the 2020 presidential campaign should encourage the use of "high-quality charter schools" as a strategy not a goal, and attempt to move school funding models away from a reliance on local property taxes that so often short-change students of color. Those are two big pieces of a proposed education agenda for the next president from the Center for American Progress, a left-of-center Washington think tank often aligned with Democrats. In addition, the platform addresses racial gaps in education, teacher preparation and preparing students for life after high school.
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EdScoop
The Consortium for School Networking announced a new initiative in partnership with the online educator network edWeb.net designed to improve technology for rural school districts. The project, "Tech for Rural Districts," will offer support for district leaders through a webinar series and a new online platform.
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EdTech Magazine
What's next in STEAM education? Technology advocate and author Sylvia Martinez identified 10 keys to the future of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) but was emphatic that change will be driven by the teachers and students involved in the learning process.
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Education DIVE
The integration of technology into education — which includes everything from online homework to digital textbooks — has led to increasing concerns around digital equity, said panelists at the 2019 International Society for Technology in Education conference. They also addressed the question of how educators can bridge the gap.
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Edutopia
Every new teacher is given the same challenge: Do the best you can to cover the material in the most engaging way all year. Sounds simple, right? Don't worry — many of your fellow first-year teachers agree that it's not at all simple or straightforward. But curriculum mapping doesn't have to be a beast—it can help make your life easier in many ways, by helping you to set realistic expectations for your students and manage teaching a complex subject over an extended time.
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Education World
Education of students is serious, important work, but there is also scholarly research that says it may be most effective if it's sometimes fun. For years teachers have tried ways of bringing humor into the classroom to keep kids engaged, and Mary Kay Morrison, past president of the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor and author of the book "Using Humor to Maximize Learning", says brain research shows that it's a good idea.
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Education Week
Guiding students through the bold colors and statements of graffiti art. Teaching them how to blend their voices in song. Arts experiences like these can open students to new ways of thinking. But they can also offer teachers powerful opportunities to develop students' social and emotional skills. The trick to maximizing that potential, according to a new report, is careful thought and planning. If arts teachers recognize that each "arts practice" — or component of arts instruction — draws on specific social or emotional skills, they can design their teaching to facilitate students' growth in those skills.
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Edutopia
Imagine a school in early August. The floors are shiny and fresh paint covers the classroom walls. Fortified with renewed energy and the latest initiative from Central Office, the faculty eagerly await the start of the school year. This year's focus is lowering discipline referrals in each grade. If realized, this could boost achievement for perennially underperforming students.
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UPI
When a young person pinpoints their emotional problem, they're more likely to resolve it, a new study says. That concept is known as negative emotion differentiation, or NED, which allows a person to sort out and identify various negative emotions, according to a study in Emotion. For a really young person, a NED is relatively high, then it sinks to its lowest point during adolescence, before bouncing back up during adulthood.
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eSchool News
A new survey shows that the number of girls interested in pursuing STEM careers is alarmingly small–and it continues to decline. The survey from Junior Achievement, conducted by the research group Engine, shows that only 9 percent of girls ages 13-17 express an interest in STEM careers, down from 11 percent in a similar 2018 survey.
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MetroNews
Gov. Jim Justice has signed an omnibus education bill that opens the way for West Virginia's first charter schools. The bill includes a variety of proposed changes to the education system, including pay raises, charter schools, increased support personnel for schools, open enrollment, incentives to fill in-demand positions and financial support for small or struggling counties.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 In an article published last month, Chalkbeat's Patrick Wall reported that early data shows attendance gains in Newark, New Jersey, as a result of a district push to combat absenteeism. Superintendent Roger León launched an attendance campaign this past school year called "Give Me Five," where every district employee reminded five students to show up for the first day of school. Newark is not alone in its efforts to combat chronic absenteeism, an issue that plagues many communities from coast to coast.
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EdSource
As California pushes to increase access to computer science education for K-12 students, schools across the state this summer are preparing to ramp up course offerings and equip teachers to lead computer science courses. Many teachers and administrators steering those efforts gathered in June at the Summer of CS, a week-long program led by the Sacramento County Office of Education and Computer Science for California, or CSforCA, a campaign that promotes access to computer science education in California.
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NAESP
Together with Crayola, NAESP offers a special opportunity to apply for a Champion Creatively Alive Children Grant. Your school could receive a $3,500 grant (a $2,500 check and $1,000 worth of Crayola products) to establish a creative leadership team and build the creative capacity of your professional learning community. The deadline to apply has been extended to July 30 — any interested members of NAESP are encouraged to apply. Click here for more information.
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NAESP
In their fifth principal interview for the NAESP Center for Innovative Leadership, Andy Jacks and Hamish Brewer talk with Connecticut principal Diane MacKinnon about using grant funding to renovate an outdoor learning space that created a fantastic space and taught students new skills to help their families to transform spaces in their homes, too.
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