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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
3 ways to support teachers in flexible learning environments
eSchool News
Flexible learning environments have been a popular buzzword for a while now. Traditionally, flexible learning environments address the flexible use of the physical space as well as how time during classes might be used and how students are grouped during learning. Now, school leaders and educators also have to consider switching between in-person learning and remote learning, and how that applies to the learning environment in place.
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Want students to get the COVID-19 vaccine? Here's what to do and not to do
Education Week
Schools have a big interest in students getting vaccinated against COVID-19. It protects students, especially those with weakened immune systems who are at greater risk of getting severely ill with COVID-19; and it shields older teachers and school staff from getting sick. Plus, vaccinated children and adolescents are important to stopping the spread and mutation of the coronavirus nationally.
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3 ways to manage uncertainty when you're in a bind
Fast Company
How do patients react if their doctor expresses uncertainty? A handful of studies have investigated this question and come to very different conclusions. Some studies find that patients react negatively to uncertainty, seeing it as a sign of incompetence. Other studies find that patients don’t appear to mind hearing uncertainty from their doctors, or even appreciate it.
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Building leadership skills organically
Chief Learning Officer Magazine
We are all well aware of the variety of impacts the pandemic has had on organizations both large and small in the last 18 months. One of the most worrisome developments is the impact to leadership pipelines.
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, baby boomers were expected to exit the workforce by 2030, simply based on their age.
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Where resilience meets leadership: Lessons from the pandemic
Forbes
Jeff Hawkins writes: I’ve enjoyed playing sports my whole life. From a young age, I’ve observed that the difference between who’s on the field and who's not often comes down to work ethic. When I played college sports, there were great athletes at every turn — so winning often came down to grit and perseverance, not talent alone. Throughout my career, I’ve found that this insight rings true for all of life’s arenas, especially when we are faced with adversity.
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ISTE 2021: Be bold, not reckless, when investing relief funds in ed tech
Education Dive
School districts should think creatively but responsibly when planning to spend federal COVID-19 relief funds over the next several years in order to show appropriators that the money allocated was justified, recommended a panel of speakers in a Tuesday session during the annual ISTE conference.
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Department of Education implements TEACH Grant Program changes to benefit teachers and students
U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently announced changes to the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program, the only federal student aid grant program that directly benefits teachers working in high-need fields and underserved schools. ED implemented the changes as the Biden-Harris Administration proposes further enhancements to the program through the American Families Plan, which would double the annual grant amount, increase program flexibilities, address high grant-to-loan conversion rates, and ensure better outcomes for teachers and students.
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Boosting teacher diversity requires bold, extensive action
The Brookings Institution
Before the American Rescue Plan passed in March, steering nearly $130 billion into public school coffers, there was growing concern about the potential for widespread layoffs and what this might mean for the teacher workforce. Public school systems in two states began exploring policies that would prioritize teachers' racial diversity over seniority in the event of layoffs. Worried that pandemic-induced budget shortfalls will lead to staff cuts that threatened to erase the progress on workforce diversity that many locales have seen in recent years, policymakers and leaders eyed pre-emptive action.
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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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Diversity in the classroom: Why representation matters
Diverse Education
Teacher diversity is invaluable for all students. Having a teacher of color at the helm of a classroom benefits all learners, both academically and through deep and enriching social emotional connections. However, according to The White House’s fact sheet for The American Families Plan, while teachers of color can have a particularly strong impact on students of color, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only one in five teachers are people of color, compared to more than half of K-12 public school students. That is why President Biden is calling on Congress to invest $9 billion in American teachers, addressing shortages, improving training and supports for teachers, and boosting teacher diversity.
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Investing in our teachers is what our students need most
EdSource
While the pandemic upended our lives, it also brought into focus the vital role teachers play in the day-to-day lives of our students and communities. As we prepare to welcome students back to classrooms this fall, we recognize the incredible contributions of our educators during an immensely challenging time.
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Let's get specific: Steps for centering recovery planning on academics
District Administration
States and districts across the country have an unprecedented opportunity today to leverage federal relief funding in support of stronger, more coherent instructional systems to improve teaching and learning for all students. While, of course, we must address schools’ operational needs and students’ social and emotional recovery from the pandemic, academics should be at the center of planning efforts.
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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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The 6 traits of inspirational leadership
Forbes
Are you an inspirational leader? We all want to work for someone who inspires us, someone who brings out the best in us and who is there for us when obstacles arise. Many job descriptions and postings I’ve seen lately often mention inspirational leadership, but what is that exactly?
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.EDUCATION POLICY
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Parents face dilemma in states that ban school mask mandates
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Parents, education advocates and health professionals have voiced concerns that as more students return to school buildings, the larger class sizes could put at risk the kids who are unvaccinated or too young to get the shots, even as more transmissible variants circulate throughout the country.
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 A child’s first few years of educational experiences set the stage for how they will learn for the rest of their lives. The Bank Street Early Childhood Leadership Advanced Certificate Program is designed for mission-driven educators seeking to advance their professional opportunities and fill the need for exceptional leadership in early childhood education. Areas of study within the program include curriculum and development, social justice, systems thinking, progressive education and law.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
4 ideas to create engaging online learning activities
eSchool News
While most schools plan for full in-person returns in the fall, plans are not 100% certain right now. Variables such as more contagious COVID-19 strains, approval and availability of vaccines for children younger than 12, and local COVID-19 outbreaks could force schools back to online learning for weeks at a time.
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Education technology must be accessible for all students
The Journal
We’ve seen the use of education technology become more prevalent this past year. We’ve also seen an additional disruption in education as COVID-19 impacted student achievement, particularly in diverse student populations with accessibility needs. Aside from the overarching challenges of learning from home, the nation’s nearly 7 million students with disabilities had additional obstacles to overcome during the pandemic. For these students, the move to Zoom wasn’t a fixall solution for remote learning.
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Empower learners to make the most of their technology
Education Technology
With federal aid and other resources, local education authorities have found a way to provide most to all students with a device for school purposes. Some may claim that this is providing equitable access, yet there is more to achieving that goal than a device. The true magic begins when the learner and educator create a serendipitous relationship where devices are used as tools to empower the learning authentically.
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Summer school is getting beefed up after remote learning; But some programs struggled to get teachers
CNN
Dan Gannon wouldn't mind a full summer break. The Bronx high school history teacher is as drained as anyone by teaching remotely during the pandemic.
He sympathizes with any educator taking the summer off. Many worked more hours than usual to adapt lessons and relearn how to instruct — and carried the weight of their students' struggles with pandemic stress and isolation.
But Gannon will keep working.
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4 benefits of gamification in the online classroom
eLearning Inside
Video games are an integral part of everyday life for many people, and all genders of all ages consider playing games as part of their routine. According to Statista, people between the ages of 15 and 19 in the U.S. spent an average of 49 minutes each day gaming or on leisurely computer use in 2018.
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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
Administrators put focus on high-impact teacher PD
K-12 Dive
Additional federal stimulus funding and pandemic instructional experiences are leading school administrators to revamp teacher professional development opportunities for this summer and early next school year so efforts lead to high-impact student outcomes. Some of the ambitious plans for teacher PD will center on instructional strategies, multi-tiered systems of support, ed tech, social-emotional learning, and equity and inclusion, according to administrators K-12 Dive spoke to. Specific populations of teachers and students will also receive attention through PD, such as new educators and students experiencing homelessness.
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5 summer professional development ideas for teachers
Tech&Learning
The last thing some of us want to do in the summer is take a class but the reality is summer is the perfect time to take advantage of great learnings and have enough time to put those learnings into practice in your planning for next school year. Several conferences will continue to be virtual; ISTE, for example, is a virtual conference this year, but the Digital Learning Annual Conference kicked off as a hybrid conference earlier this month.
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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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Thinking in 3D improves mathematical skills
Science Daily
Spatial reasoning ability in small children reflects how well they will perform in mathematics later. Researchers recently came to this conclusion, making the case for better cultivation of spatial reasoning.
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Past is prologue: 12 big challenges from last school year that could now define the fall of 2021 — from learning loss to restoring trust, closing achievement gaps & more
The 74
If the 2019 school year ended in a surge of shutdowns and socially-distanced chaos, the 2020 school year commenced with an unprecedented mix of innovation, improvisation and isolation, as districts rushed to rethink everything from school safety to remote instruction, student nutrition, social-emotional supports and beyond. From fall to spring — through all the spikes in COVID cases, the rolling campus closures, the approval of vaccines for adolescents and the evolving CDC guidance surrounding the spread and mitigation of the disease — school communities did their best to pivot and adapt to the twists and turns that made the past nine months an academic year unlike any other.
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3 questions we can ask about informational texts
MiddleWeb
These are three questions we need to teach every student to ask as they make sense of informational sources. These questions serve as simple gateways to making meaning as we engage with nonfiction and information text.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Strong cleaning protocols can boost fall returns to school
EducationDive
As districts prepare to fully reopen schools this fall, strong cleaning and sanitization protocols can help stop the spread of COVID-19 and alleviate families' concerns, EdTech: Focus on K-12 reports, adding that classroom technology also shouldn’t be overlooked, as shared devices can harbor germs and bacteria.
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Is college still the best route to a successful career? One expert says it's complicated
Yahoo!
Rising tuition costs and crippling student loan debt have left many students wondering if college is still the best option to prepare them for the workforce. According to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, higher education enrollment fell to new lows this past spring — a one-year decline of 3.5%, seven times worse than the decline a year earlier.
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FableVision’s Creativity to Careers programs are designed to engage students in creative career explorations at the middle and high school level to increase graduation rates and most importantly, jobs. Both 18 Week courses Exploration in Animation and Engineering & Production are approved Florida’s Department of Education Digital Tools. CTE certification available.
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Portland begins anti-racist teacher training, source says
Fox News
Internal Portland Public Schools documents provided to Fox News by a whistleblower show the district’s mandatory cultural competency teacher training is heavily steeped in Critical Race Theory with an emphasis on creating activists.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Principals from across the nation to gather for NAESP Pre-K–8 Principals Conference
NAESP
Elementary and middle-level principals from across the nation will gather July 8-10 in Chicago for the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Pre-K–8 Principals Conference. The conference is a significant one in the history of public education—marking 100 years of service for the association and a return to relative normalcy after a year of school closures due to COVID-19.
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