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School Leaders Now
It's easy to get jaded about technology these days, and then you see stuff that blows off your socks. That's just what happened to me at ISTE 2019. Technology is doing more than ever before, but instead of letting ourselves get wowed by the bells and whistles of coolness, this year we focused on finding schoolwide technology tools that are worth making room for in your budget.
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Education Week (commentary)
In our third installment of advice for new principals, Education Week talked to Sue Park, the head of school at Yu Ming Charter School, a high-performing K-8 dual-language Mandarin immersion school in Oakland, California, Park started her career as an elementary teacher in the Los Angeles school district, and until about two years ago, she served as Yu Ming's principal. But as the school's enrollment grew — it now has about 450 students — the program was split into two, with one school serving kindergarten to second grade and the other third to eighth grade.
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Pew Research Center
Classes have ended for the summer at public schools across the United States, but a sizable share of teachers are still hard at work at second jobs outside the classroom. Among all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the U.S., 16% worked non-school summer jobs in the break before the 2015-2016 school year. Notably, about the same share of teachers (18%) had second jobs during the 2015-2016 school year, too, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This makes teachers about three times as likely as U.S. workers overall to balance multiple jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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Harvard Business Review
A fog of burnout surrounds you: You're perpetually exhausted, annoyed, and feeling unaccomplished and unappreciated. Everything in you wants to quit your job. But is that the best choice? Ultimately only you can know what is right in your situation. But there is research that can help you determine whether you can salvage your current job or whether the mismatch between you and your current position is so great that you need to look for a new one.
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Entrepreneur
Do your workers feel as if they're living the lines of a 1979 rock opera? If they connect with Pink Floyd's lament of being "just another brick in the wall," you have a problem on your hands. Employees have never wanted to be treated like drones. But today's talent has such an aversion to simply putting in time that workers will sacrifice money for meaning. As a recent Wrike study found, 58 percent of workers would undergo a sizable income cut to chase happiness at a different company.
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Forbes
Ask any accomplished entrepreneur what the key to success is and it's likely that "hard work" will feature prominently in their answer. There's no denying that the need to graft is important, but work culture is beginning to shift away from the "work hard, play hard" cliché of Wall Street, torwards a more balanced ethos.
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Leadership Freak
You might believe that taking care of each other is weak or silly. But think of the alternative. Care is nurtured. An uncaring team is a symptom of neglect.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 We can all agree that being nice is a desirable human trait. In the workplace in particular, companies want employees to be pleasant, agreeable, and polite — not just to customers and clients, but also to each other. But when is niceness more of a hindrance than an asset? New research by Fierce Conversations reveals that 63% of employees aren't sharing honest opinions and concerns because they want to continue being viewed in a positive light. These responses cut across gender and seniority level.
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Inc.
When you see someone fall short of expectations under pressure, you may be inclined to think that they weren't prepared enough. But, that's missing a huge piece of the puzzle. A large percentage of high performers don't perform well under pressure because their prefrontal cortex went into overdrive. Think of your prefrontal cortex as the commander-in-chief in terms of helping you focus on the specific task at hand.
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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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Harvard Business Review
In 2009, then President Barack Obama nominated Timothy Geithner for Secretary of Treasury and Tom Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Geithner was a known leader in the financial sphere and instrumental in navigating the 2007-2008 financial crisis, as the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Daschle was a well-known figure in the political circuit, a long-term senator from South Dakota who had served as a leader of both Minority and Majority Senate.
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Education DIVE
Vying for an endorsement from the nation's largest labor union, 10 Democratic presidential candidates responded to educators' questions on issues ranging from charter schools to gun violence during a National Education Association forum.
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Education Week
Education groups concerned about a fair distribution of federal education money though they got their wish, when the Trump administration announced it would print forms for the 2020 census without a controversial question about respondents' citizenship status. Later, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course and said they were trying to find a way to incorporate the item, which is the subject of ongoing legal disputes, on orders from President Donald Trump.
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The New York Times
In the short time since Kamala Harris and Joe Biden tangled over the history of busing in the first Democratic primary debate, the question has awkwardly shifted to the present. Busing is still needed today, Harris has since said. But discussion of just what that would look like has appeared to make both candidates uncomfortable on the campaign trail. As the issue lingers, it is easy to imagine a future debate question — one of those raise-your-hand episodes: "Do you support busing today?"
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District Administration Magazine
With 67% of educational software underutilized, according to Glimpse K-12's recent analysis of spending at 275 schools, it is important for administrators to ensure software use is effective and to avoid purchases that don't meet school needs. Know who is driving software purchasing, says Joseph South, chief learning officer for the International Society for Technology in Education. Often, a disconnect exists between educators and those making district purchasing decisions. To cut down on waste, South encourages administrators to include educators who will use the software in the buying process.
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EdTech Magazine
As K–12 schools shift towards an increasingly digitally-integrated classroom, it is essential that teachers have the tools they need to keep students safe from harmful content online. Modern content monitoring solutions are helping schools keep students away from entering inappropriate sites as well as protect them from falling victim to cyberthreats.
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District Administration Magazine
Summer break is almost over in Texas, and school district personnel are strategically planning for the upcoming school year. Administrators are developing checklists and tackling projects, and focusing time and energy on preparing campuses, completing purchases, and developing curriculum and instructional support plans. During the summer months, district staff conduct professional development, meet with building leaders, and recruit and hire new teachers and support staff. There is one area that administrators often take for granted: the technology skill level of new employees.
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eSchool News
Schools are facing new challenges now that most learning involves the web — chiefly, the ability to do work at home or anywhere away from school grounds. While many are looking for ways to provide all students with a device, just having the device does not mean equitable learning — especially when it comes to closing the homework gap. All students need to have the same access to WiFi, and thus the ability to use the device, whether they are at school or not.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Elizabeth Stein, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "At this point those of us in the northeast region have just finished winding down this school year, and we're catching up with the folks across the nation who have already begun summer break. Ah, that's worth repeating... summer break. Yet, we know that summer break for teachers means continued learning and preparing for the upcoming school year. Of course, we know to include a healthy balance of some well-needed rejuvenating summer sun and fun. After all, fall will be here before we know it."
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Education DIVE (commentary)
When a student appears to be inattentive, it's easy to say, "Listen up" or "Pay attention." However, it may not be that easy for the student to do so. Some studies report that people's attention spans are shrinking. Others say they are simply evolving and becoming more selective. Researchers theorize that these may be the effects of the mobile revolution and an increasingly digitized lifestyle. Since technology is here to stay, how can we help students improve their focus and attention so they are ready, willing and able to learn?
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eSchool News
The opportunity of bilingualism is an important gift to give to our students. The cognitive, cultural and professional benefits of bilingualism have the potential to broaden learners' experiences in their careers and academics. In a recent edWebinar, Maya Goodall, senior director of EL Curriculum at Lexia Learning, highlighted that 10 percent of all students in U.S. public schools are emerging bilingual learners and emerging multilinguals.
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Edutopia
Technology is an undeniable fact of everyday life and can support students' learning. But there are limits to that: Completely replacing handwriting instruction with keyboarding instruction in elementary school can be detrimental to students' literacy acquisition. Why are handwriting and letter formation so important?
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 Many teachers of struggling readers know what works. They've studied the research; spoken to experts; observed the programs, methods, and strategies; and discussed implementation with well-informed colleagues. But many is not all. Other teachers continue doing what's traditional; what they're comfortable with; what's hyped by testimonials and advertising; what politicians, administrators, and parents want; or combinations of these. Do these other teachers intentionally stress instruction they believe will, at best, perpetuate trivial progress? No.
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Language Magazine
The American educational system has a difficult time understanding dyslexia and an even harder time identifying children with dyslexia in order to provide the correct intervention for students who are native English speakers. When a school has the added challenge of identifying struggling English language learners, the task becomes an even more complicated process, and often, these kids are completely missed. But that does not have to be the case.
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Psych Central
New research suggests some young adults who were bullied as a child could have a greater risk of ongoing depression due to a mix of genetic and environmental factors. In the study, University of Bristol investigators sought to determine why some people respond differently to risk factors such as bullying, maternal postnatal depression, early childhood anxiety and domestic violence. Investigators especially targeted factors that influence depression in young adults between the ages of 10 and 24. To do this, they reviewed detailed mood and feelings questionnaires and genetic information from 3,325 teenagers who are part of Bristol's Children of the 90s study.
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Psych Central
Simply reminding children of their many roles in society — helper, friend, neighbor, son or daughter — can lead to better problem-solving and more flexible thinking, according to a new study at Duke University. "This is some of the first research on reminding kids about their multifaceted selves," said lead author Dr. Sarah Gaither, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke. "Such reminders boost their problem-solving skills and how flexibly they see their social worlds, all from a simple mindset switch."
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Education Week
Young children who spend more time learning about the relationship between letters and sounds are better at counting, calculating and recognizing numbers, a new study has found. Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University in England looked at the reading and math learning experiences that young children have at home with parents. They asked the parents of 274 preschoolers — children who were on average about 4 years old — how often they did different educational activities with their kids.
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2 Minute Medicine
Much research has been done in recent years exploring the negative impacts of ACEs, though fewer studies have explored how to best combat the effects of ACEs. In this cross-sectional analysis, researchers studied how ACEs impacted school performance and how various PFs were able to combat or reverse those effects. Using survey data from across all 50 states, researchers found that negative school outcomes — such as repeating a grade, not completing homework, or simply not caring about school — were all associated with higher ACE scores.
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eSchool News
Efforts to get kids coding have exploded in recent years, but sometimes kids need a push to discover the "why" behind learning how to code. At ISTE 2019, that push to learn coding was clear as new K-12 robotics solutions emerged. Aside from the cool factor K-12 robotics offers, students who learn to program through robotics learn a number of skills they'll take with them well into adulthood, including creativity, problem solving and the ability to fail without quitting.
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PBS Newhour
New York City's elite public high schools are being scrutinized for their admissions practices, which are yielding disproportionately low populations of black and Latino students. In response, the mayor and school chancellor want to eliminate a standardized test critics say is a barrier for low-income and minority applicants. But supporters of the test are pushing back.
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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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