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Disability Scoop
Federal education officials are calling out more than half of states for failing to meet their obligations under the nation's special education law. The U.S. Department of Education determined that just 24 states qualified at the "meets requirements" level. The rest of the states were identified as "needs assistance" or "needs intervention" for the 2014-2015 school year. The findings are the result of an annual review mandated under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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District Administration Magazine
The use of game-based learning in the nation's classrooms has doubled over the past five years, according to findings from Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey. Over the past 13 years, the survey has offered a look into the technology being used in classrooms. In 2015, 48 percent of teachers said they use games in their lessons. In 2012, that number was 30 percent. In 2010, it was only 23 percent.
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By: Christopher F. Herman
 Behind the walls of AIM Academy, a Philadelphia independent school for bright children with learning differences, a unique leadership model is taking shape. The leadership flows from the top down, the bottom up, and from side to side. This multidirectional model allows for teacher leaders within the school to organically emerge and simultaneously impact the broader school while remaining in the classroom.
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Education Week
Two recent, recorded police killings of black men and the killings of five police officers in Dallas have left many adults without words, especially not the words necessary to explain the violence and underlying racial issues to children. Most public schools are out on summer vacation, but that hasn't slowed the calls for educators to prepare to discuss the events of the last week with students when school resumes in the fall.
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Education DIVE
Kristen LaScola teaches a song a week to her third grade students in Hudson, OH. As a musician, she sees the value of incorporating music into her classroom. One song that she taught her students two years ago has sparked a movement that spread from the third grade that first year up to the fourth and fifth grades last year, with plans already in place to get the entire K-12 district involved this fall.
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Brookings
One of the key ingredients to student success is engaged parents. While there is considerable debate on just how much parent engagement influences student outcomes, there is significant research to suggest that parents who consistently and "positively nag" their children to complete their academic work and give maximum effort, supplement school instruction with own activities (e.g. reading to their child), and communicate and partner well with teachers are more likely to promote student success than parents who do not offer these supports.
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THE Journal
In the five videos, students Skype with a music teacher, use their mobile devices to make videos of their work and then explain what their intention was, and stand in pairs in front of a green screen to explain the thematic elements of the book they just read, whose cover will eventually be integrated into the recording of their performance. You might say these were just examples of your typical digital classroom. But in this case, the classes are all in schools that teach the littlest students. All five schools and their principals have been recognized for their innovative educational technology practices with early learners. The National Association of Elementary School Principals announced the winners of its Digital Leader of Early Learning Awards during NAESP's annual conference.
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Scholastic Administration Magazine (commentary)
Ping (Benson) Cheng Yeh, a contributor for Scholastic Administration Magazine, writes: "Earlier this year, I was interviewed for an article on classroom cheating, and I talked about how gamification solved this problem for me at the University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor. Indeed, gamification solves an array of problems in the classroom: Games boost student engagement, empower students with the responsibility for learning, encourage success while taking failure lightly, promote collaboration and make teaching easier for instructors."
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The Hechinger Report
Even the best prepared, most promising first-year teachers face a harsh transition from completing credential programs to becoming solely responsible for an entire class of students for the first time. During their first few days in the classroom, they are bombarded with a variety of situations they had not anticipated, and are often caught off guard by the realities of teaching. When new teachers aren't supported to rapidly develop skills and address the realities of the classroom, it's their students who pay the price. To help teachers overcome these struggles — particularly the top challenges that every new teacher faces — it is essential that district leaders put a comprehensive induction program and ongoing support system in place.
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Campus Safety Magazine
As the nation's schools devise plans for responding effectively to critical incidents on campus, the spotlight is now on how school districts are managing crises, emergencies, disasters, terrorism threats and active shooters. In many cases, these districts are looking to the schools that have "been there" for examples of what to do (or, what not to do) when these and other incidents occur.
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NPR
There's a reason Jose Luis Vilson's students learn in groups: He wants them to feel comfortable working with anyone in the classroom, something he's realized in his 11 years of teaching doesn't always come naturally. "I don't really give students a chance to self-select until later on, when I feel like they can pretty much group with anybody," he says. Vilson teaches math at a public middle school just north of Harlem in New York City. Most of his students are Latino and African-American, and Vilson pays close attention to the fact that their racial identities affect their experiences in the classroom.
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eSchool News
It's a question we hear all too often — from parents, technology critics, and, of course, the news media: Do those pricey laptops schools buy actually improve academic results? On the surface, it seems logical. Schools make big investments in technology and stakeholders want to see a return on that investment — by way of better school ratings or big jumps in test scores. But really, the question is superficial and shows a limited understanding of what is needed to enhance teaching and learning using technology.
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Scholastic Administrator Magazine
As many administrators know, a traditional, paper-based student registration process can be unnecessarily complicated, inefficient in meeting a district's operational needs and costly. Costs add up due to paper consumption, postage and employing staff to manually enter and reenter data that they collect from families and input into student information systems. Moreover, a paper-based process does not enable real-time access to accurate data that districts need to communicate with families and to make timely enrollment and school staffing decisions.
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| | FEDERAL ADVOCACY AND POLICY |
U.S. News & World Report
The Department of Education is continuing to press states and school districts to rethink their testing regimens, unveiling a set of proposed assessment regulations under the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act. "Our proposed regulations build on President Barack Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well-rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers and communities with critical information about students' learning," Education Secretary John King said in a statement.
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Education Week
One of the big selling points of the Every Student Succeeds Act is that it gives schools a chance to move beyond just reading and math and offer students a broader, "well-rounded" education that includes things like the arts, humanities and hands-on career focused experiences. The U.S. Department of Education is hoping states and districts embrace that flexibility.
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Forbes (commentary)
There are 49 days until school starts again in my district. And while that seems like a long (long) way off, it's not in retail time. Back to school sales offers and catalogs are already making their way into my mailbox. Back to school is a huge industry. According to the National Retail Federation, last year spending on back to school for families with school-aged children was expected to reach $24.9 billion (add in spending for college and the number hits $68 billion). That's a lot of out of pocket spending: the average family with children in grades K-12 plans to spend $630.36 on apparel, shoes, supplies and electronics to get ready for the school year.
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Chicago Tribune
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner tried to hit the reset button on a bruising battle over the state funding formula for elementary and secondary schools, tasking a commission of lawmakers and policy advisers with a Feb. 1 deadline to propose ideas for changing the system. The move comes after Rauner spent the better part of this year resisting calls for an immediate change to the formula while he sought to keep schools afloat financially this fall and leave for another day the politically fraught issue of how state tax dollars are doled out.
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NAESP
To keep NAESP's publications at the forefront of education issues and trends, the Association has established a group of editorial advisors. This group assists NAESP by suggesting themes and articles for Principal and other publications; writing articles and one book review per year; contributing to conference news; and providing honest feedback on publications and other NAESP services. Interested NAESP members are encouraged to submit on NAESP's website using the form provided. The deadline to Apply is Friday, July 15.
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NAESP
NAESP Conference Blogger Rachel Walters writes: "The first full day of the annual NAESP conference was filled with information, professional dialogue, personal reflection, and goal setting. The day started early with a powerful session by speaker Paula Noe from Texas. She presented important research and tips on how to reach the boys who are at risk. She highlighted the power of the principalship: 'Intentional leadership can shrink the prep time for grooming a new teacher into a seasoned teacher from 10 down to two years with appropriate feedback and good coaching.'"
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