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Education DIVE
In 2012, the New Teacher Center received federal funding in order to pilot a teacher induction model program, hoping to work with educators in a range of school districts to offer substantive mentoring and professional development. The center expanded its model to three districts, including Chicago Public Schools, Broward County Public Schools in Broward, Florida, and Grant Wood Area Education Agency in eastern Iowa.
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Education Week (commentary)
The American public school system is closed for summer vacation. Yes, some will be in summer programs of one kind or another but most students are off for the summer. Some have graduated and are in transitions to a new time in their lives. Teachers, even those working, appreciate the change of pace and can take a family vacation. All those things put off during the year now become the summer list of to do's. But, what about leaders? What does the summer mean for them?
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Education World
Putting a notebook or tablet in the hands of every teacher and student in the classroom is a goal school districts across the U.S. are striving to accomplish. For rural communities, it offers a wealth of advantage for both the students and the educators. For teachers in especially small and isolated schools, it allows them to connect with colleagues and share lesson plans and strengthen professional relationships. Students of course have another avenue with which to discover and strengthen already learned skills and concepts. Making a school a 1:1 technological learning environment can be especially difficult though for some rural schools where the budget is often an issue.
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NPR
Our education system has this funny quirk of grouping kids by birth date — rather than, say, intellectual ability or achievement or interest. But developmental pathways are as individual as kids themselves. And so there's a perpetual back-and-forth about whether to put certain kids in school a grade behind or ahead of their actual age. Recently we covered the research on "redshirting," or the practice of starting kindergarten a little late. That researcher concluded that it's usually better to go ahead and enroll kids as soon as they're old enough. For one thing, they will earn more money on average over a lifetime with that head start into the workforce.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 President Donald Trump's proposal to ax the National Endowment for the Arts from the U.S. national budget this spring alarmed the world and drew special attention to the arts. While funding ended up being increased for the fiscal year and the threat postponed until 2018, the question remains: Are the arts worth investing in as a nation? In the arena of education, the debate about whether the arts warrant the investment of class time and money is ongoing.
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Over 75% of transgender students feel unsafe at school, and staff do not know how to help them. Welcoming Schools, the nation’s premier professional development program for elementary schools, provides educators with best practices to support transgender students and prevent bias-based bullying.
Visit www.welcomingschools.org to learn more.
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EdSurge
Chrissy Romano-Arrabito, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "As a student, my parents would inevitably hear the same thing at every Parent-Teacher conference — some variation of: 'She sure is a spirited one!' or 'Participation isn't an issue for her!' or my mother's personal favorite: 'She simply needs to stop talking.'"
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The Journal
Students who experienced personalized learning in school gained about three percentile points in mathematics relative to a comparison group of similar students, according to a RAND report on personalized learning. In the subject of reading, the study found a similar trend, although it was not statistically significant. The report determined that both low-performing and high-performing students appeared to benefit from personalized learning. The report builds on RAND's 2015 report on personalized learning, looking deeper into the implementation of the practice and exploring how it may play out as the innovation becomes more widespread.
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University of British Columbia via Science Daily
Social and emotional learning programs for youth not only immediately improve mental health, social skills, and learning outcomes but also continue to benefit children years later.
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Connected Principals (commentary)
George Couros, a contributor for Connected Principals blog, writes: "A principal friend of mine asked if I could send their staff a message before they open a brand new school."
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By: Savanna Flakes (commentary)
 Congratulations educators for another successful school year! I hope you've carved out lots of time this summer for relaxation and rejuvenation — this is necessary and mandatory. As we hit the midpoint of our break, now you may be ready to explore resources for classroom preparation. These are few of my top strategies and resources to support positive classroom management; I will share specific behavior supports for individual students.
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Michigan State University via Science Daily
Burnout among young teachers appears to be contagious, indicates a new study. It found a significant link between burnout among early-career teachers and exposure to both a school-wide culture of burnout and burnout among the young teachers' closest circle of colleagues.
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Education Week
P.S. 123, a K-8 school in Harlem, had been a chaotic place when Melitina Hernandez arrived as principal in 2013. Students would often run out of class to get attention. Staff members sometimes dodged confrontational parents. The school had old computers and tattered textbooks. So Hernandez and her staff set out to make big changes with a $4 million grant from the state. They started with upgrading technology and other classroom amenities. They also turned their attention to the needs of the school's large population of homeless children.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Does the founding partner at a law firm need to be as inspiring as the executive director at an equally-large nonprofit? The adjectives describing the type of leader we are have become critical. This three-part series reviews some common but different leadership descriptors — like innovative and transparent — and whether to embrace or ignore them. This article considers when and whether it is important to be an inspiring leader.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
Education Week
There's been a ton of confusion lately about whether and how states can incorporate science, social studies and other subjects into their systems for rating schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The upshot is that, yes, states can indeed use science, social studies, the arts and other subjects beyond reading and math for accountability. But there are some caveats when it comes to just how they do that.
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U.S. News & World Report
Is anyone really for accountability? Everyone says they support it in principle, but in practice, it seems almost everyone in the system, from school boards and administrators to teacher unions and anti-testing zealots, finds ways to dodge it. Lately, resistance to accountability is coming from some on the political right who, after decades arguing for school choice based on low test scores in traditional public schools, are now arguing that choice alone provides pretty much all the accountability we need. Moreover, they add, test scores aren't a very good measure of school quality or linked to better outcomes in life.
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EdSource
In the midst of a statewide teacher shortage, the new California state budget includes $5 million to address a shortfall of bilingual teachers, a shortage a new study concludes will continue following the passage of Proposition 58 and the expected growth of bilingual programs. The new state law, in effect on July 1, lifted an almost 20-year ban on bilingual education and gives districts more flexibility to offer bilingual classes to all students. Under the old law English learners had to be taught in English, unless a parent signed a waiver to enroll their child in bilingual or dual language programs — classrooms where students are taught in English and another language such as Mandarin or Spanish. The goal is learning to read, write and speak in both languages.
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U.S. News & World Report
Adelle Settle was driving to her house in Gainesville, Virginia, in April, when she first learned about school lunch shaming — embarrassing tactics some cafeteria workers use to remind students who have racked up unpaid lunch debt. The story documented an especially humiliating incident in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where a woman running the cash register in the school lunchroom told a 4-year-old girl who had missed successive payments that she had no money and threw her lunch in the trash.
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NAESP
The 2018 NAESP Annual Conference will be July 9-11 in Orlando, Florida. Make plans to attend the premier professional development conference for elementary and middle-level principals. During the course of three days, you will connect with your peers, learn best practices, and have access to today's education movers and shakers. Apply the knowledge and skills you learn in your school and in your career. Get ready to lead, learn and rethink with Pre-K-8 principals. Click here for more details.
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NAESP
Strengthen arts education in your school with a 2011 grant to Champion Creatively Alive Children, a national program funded by Crayola and supported by NAESP's National Principals Resource Center. Crayola will award up to 20 grants, which include a $2,500 monetary award and $500 worth of Crayola products.
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