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School Leaders Now
Ever wonder why IEP meetings all sound the same even though they're designed to serve the needs of very diverse students? Let's change the narrative. Here are five ways administrators can make IEP meetings productive, synergetic and data driven to give diverse students exactly what they need.
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EdTech Magazine
Figuring out the best way to prepare the next generation of students often feels like aiming at a moving target. The evolution of society and technology places tremendous demands on K–12 leaders, and yet this same challenge can yield immense satisfaction. We are helping students navigate a world even as it develops and unfolds, almost in front of our eyes.
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New York Daily News
New York City's Department of Education will no longer require principals to attend district meetings during the month of September as part of a new initiative to give school leaders more time in their buildings, a spokesperson said. Schools chancellor Richard Carranza introduced the idea of a month without meetings this spring after principals told him they were spending too much time away from school. Principals voted on September as the month to drop outside meetings.
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District Administration Magazine
Research suggests that taking part in extracurricular activities offers important academic, social and emotional benefits for students — and our own experience in the Iowa City Community School District confirms this. However, there are barriers that prevent students from joining these activities, especially if they come from low-income or minority families.
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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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Fast Company
Are you a judgmental person? Whether you are known as the resident Judge Judy or consider yourself to be a tolerant person, being judgmental is a behavior that we have all engaged in at some point or another. But there's a difference between being judgmental and being opinionated, making observations or being biased.
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Forbes
One of the hardest lessons to learn as a leader is the art of delegation. It's even harder when you're overloaded and pressed for time because it frequently feels more efficient to do something yourself rather than delegate it and try to steer the results. That assumption may be true for a while, but if your company is growing, sooner or later you'll need to rely on delegation to ensure your time is being spent on the most high-value work.
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By: Anne Rose (commentary)
 We are frequently encouraged to focus on our strengths and "work on," that is, tamp down, our less sterling personality traits. But just who gets to determine what your strength is and what your character flaws are? Other people? Has anyone told you you're obstinate? Or too blunt without any discretion? These "well-meaning" critics point out these damning personality flaws in the hopes that you'll change and make their lives easier in getting along with you. But frequently, the so-called flaw is simply an exaggeration of an asset.
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Fast Company
Though it may be "just a number," age can shift the dynamics of any team. If you're young and in a management position, it's normal to worry about being seen as an authority figure by those who report to you. It's important to set some ground rules in order to ensure you're hitting goals, making progress and creating a positive, inclusive workplace.
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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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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 As leaders, we have found ways to identify our workplace culture in everything from our performance reviews and handbooks to our total rewards packages and exit interviews. We can see evidence of it everywhere and it is clear it can affect or be affected by almost every aspect of our leadership. Yet, with the pervasive nature of culture, it can be challenging to understand how to prioritize our actions in order to successfully implement our culture vision. Here are a few practical ways to think about culture to ensure we focus on what is most impactful.
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HR DIVE
Deloitte's report on inclusion cited the top three types of biases that respondents said they saw most often were those based on age, gender and race or ethnicity. The company focused on victims of workplace bias, but employers must also craft policies that discuss the role of those who perpetrate bias — in addition to bystanders who fail to speak up.
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U.S. News & World Report
More than 300,000 Hispanic students have been displaced from K-12 schools in communities where local police have forged partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to better enforce immigration laws, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford University. The researchers used data acquired from the Department of Homeland Security through Freedom of Information Act requests to identify 55 counties where ICE partnered with local law enforcement agencies to identify, arrest and remove undocumented residents.
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EdTech Magazine
According to the most recent data, student-teacher ratios in public schools currently average 16 to 1 — with some states as high as 24 to 1 — meaning regularly adjusting lessons on an individual basis is, for most teachers, aspirational at best. Here are three ways schools can overcome the challenges of large classes to implement a more personalized approach to education.
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eSchool News
Rural schools in the United States face challenges many of their suburban counterparts couldn't fathom. For example, access to challenging and engaging STEM courses such as robotics and coding is not as prevalent in rural schools as it is in larger districts. But one district is aiming to make it easier for students to access robotics in rural schools.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 For the first time, the number of female college graduates in the labor force has surpassed that of their male counterparts, per a new Pew Research Center analysis of 2019 first-quarter data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yet, the number of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs remains steady and below 30%. To shed light on how we as educators can help shift these stats, I spoke with international educator and STEM author Erin Twamley. Here are some of her strategies that empower female students.
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Edutopia
We know that giving students feedback works: In his meta-analysis, John Hattie found that it has an effect size of 0.7, which is beyond the "hinge point," or average effect size, of 0.4 — meaning that it has a significant effect on student learning.
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The Hechinger Report
Juliet Basinger pressed a button on a remote control, and the drone she built did a somersault, first in one direction, then in another, before taking off around the room, cheekily snapping photos of the adults looking on. Juliet won't finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. This year alone, Juliet has used 3D printers, servo motors and microcontrollers to build the parts needed to construct a therapeutic robotic dog that she hopes will help those afraid of canines overcome their fears, a project she did as part of a lesson in her English class.
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eSchool News
When trauma goes unacknowledged by caring adults, students can feel suffocated by the burden of their experience. Research shows that traumatic experiences can drastically hinder students' academic development, and that "children who have three or more Adverse Childhood Experiences are three times more likely to experience academic failure, five times more likely to have attendance problems, and six times more likely to have behavioral problems than those with no ACEs."
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NPR
After a full day of school a few weeks ago, 12-year-old Rose Quigley donned gloves and quickly picked bunches of fresh lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, mint and oregano. But she didn't have to leave her school in Brooklyn, N.Y., or even go outdoors to do it. Quigley is one of dozens of students at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School who in the past year built a high-tech, high-yield farm inside a third-floor classroom. They decided what to grow, then planted seeds and harvested dozens of pounds of produce weekly.
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Education Week
For decades, children's books in school libraries and classrooms have overwhelmingly featured white faces. And as the U.S. school-age population grows more diverse, students of color are less likely than white students to see books with characters that look like them or share their cultural background. Some educators and children's book authors are trying to change that.
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MiddleWeb
You may have heard that "In primary grades, kids learn to read, and in upper grades, kids read to learn." It's a cleverly constructed saying, but it's not true. Children in all grades do both. So, if you're a middle school teacher focusing on using text to convey information (reading to learn), you can also help your students learn to read.
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HealthDay News via WebMD
Somewhere between the Mom who obsessively wipes down every knob and toy her child might touch, and the Dad who thinks rolling in the dirt is "good" for kids, there's a healthy medium, British experts say. "We have to find a way to protect against infectious diseases and harmful microbes, whilst at the same time sustaining exposure to the essential beneficial microbes in our world," explained Sally Bloomfield.
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Florida Atlantic University via Science Daily
About 1 in 10 babies in the United States is born premature. These children are at an increased risk for adverse outcomes across a broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental domains, including language skills. They also are at an increased risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as well as other behavioral problems. Preschool is a crucial time for language development. Children born preterm who display deficits in language skills are unlikely to catch up with their full-term peers. That's why it's imperative to accurately assess their language skills to determine if they need early intervention.
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The Seattle Times
Something is not right. When Luckisha Phillips' son Jayden picked up a pencil in kindergarten, his letters often came out backward and inverted, so illegible that his mother thought something was wrong with his vision. Handed a set of crayons, Ammerine Dellenbaugh's bright, chatty son Creede refused to use them to draw or write. Instead, he'd line them up by color, or just scribble.
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NAESP
During its annual conference — held this year in Spokane, Washington — the National Association of Elementary School Principals released the executive summary of Leading Learning Communities: Pillars, Practices and Priorities for Effective Principals. Like the two editions that precede it, Leading Learning Communities is developed by and for principals and articulates a vision and practical strategies for what effective principals do.
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