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School Leaders Now
Hiring school support staff for the front office can be a formidable task. Not only do these individuals keep your school running smoothly by taking care of communications, logistics, and every other detail, they are also the people you’ll be working with most closely, day in and day out. In addition, they often set the tone for your school’s reputation since they are the public-facing members of the staff. So how can you make sure you make the right hire? By asking the right questions. Not sure what to ask? Here are the interview questions you need to find the perfect addition to your school support staff.
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District Administration Magazine
As educators continue to grapple with rising stress and depression, district leaders are starting to tailor school anxiety interventions to meet the needs of specific student groups. In the Auburn School District, which is just south of Seattle, leaders used $450,000 in voter-approved county grants to bring the SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) program to the four middle schools. Students were having trouble transitioning from elementary school, says Rhonda Larson, assistant superintendent for family engagement and student success.
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MiddleWeb
Efforts to improve your school will only be successful with widespread support and ownership. When a principal or central office mandates an initiative, it almost guarantees resistance and inadequate implementation. Involving all stakeholders, families, and community, as well as teachers and other staff, is essential. Participation and involvement are central to building collective commitment to improving your school.
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The Lead Change Group
"If the recognition program doesn't reward people with money, Scott, it's worthless." "You couldn't be more wrong, Bill. Making money isn't the only reason people work." "I can't believe how naïve you are, Scott. You do-gooders are all alike. None of you understand business." Could you imagine hearing a similar exchange where you work? Two people all wrapped up in their views and openly scornful of each other's opinions? Happens a lot, doesn't it? And, sadly, not only at work.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
When I ask this question to clients, their employees, and my business ethics students, they all answer very clearly yes or no. When it comes to questions about morals and obligations, to have such definitive answers is pretty rare. In ethics, HR, and leadership, we are used to gray areas. So why is it that the answers I receive to this question are so black and white? Whether you answered yes or no, here are a few things to consider when it comes to the moral obligations leaders have to their employees.
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Harvard Business Review
You've probably heard this advice about meetings before: Set an agenda and stick to it. But if the purpose of your meeting is to solve a complex challenge, this advice couldn't be more wrong.
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Forbes
Generation Z is here, and they are working alongside you right now. Do you know how to manage them? Do you know enough about their expectations to be effective as a leader? Let's do a quick tutorial on this latest generation to enter the workforce, born from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.
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Inc.
As a proud, card-carrying Millennial, I'll defend my generation anytime someone uses the tired stereotype of our being lazy, entitled-acting, or soft. In my experience, this group who graduated into the worst economic slump in modern history has managed to wage a path as best they could. No thanks to the haters. The oldest Millennials are now nearly 40 years old. They're already at the highest levels of leadership, and in some instances running entire organizations. En masse, they've been less entrepreneurial than previous generations, but they did bring you Airbnb, Spotify, Mashable, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook.
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Fast Company
The summer slump is in full swing. Whether you're going on vacation or just have a vacation state of mind, productivity often takes a dip during the warmer months. Just because you're not crushing it at work doesn't mean you can't take steps forward. Impact coach Katie Sandler says summertime is the best time of year to focus on your career development.
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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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Entrepreneur
Take the millennials portion of the workforce. Its members generally have different expectations of work than their predecessors.They demand rapid mobility and new experiences, and they frequently seek out companies that share their personal values. Members of this cohort also know about and use a multitude of websites, recruiting services and apps to connect them with potential employers; and the gig economy gives them options for making ends meet until the right full-time opportunity shows up.
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By: Victoria Fann (commentary)
 Are you a people-pleaser? Do you have a difficult time saying no? Do you put others' needs first and yours second? Do you have a difficult time being honest about what you want or need? You're not alone. We all do it to some degree. Because we are part of a family, a community and a culture, there is a lot of pressure to fit in, conform and not rock the boat. This can become a pattern, and it can feel daunting to change it because it feels normal, even if it’s also harmful. These simple steps can help you move in a new direction.
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Leadership Freak
The courage of leadership is seldom seen and never understood by those who choose safety over adventure. Real courage is a decision made without fanfare.
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Education Week
On average, the U.S. Department of Education has resolved about twice as many civil rights cases per year under the Trump administration as it did under the Obama administration, the agency said in a news release Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has praised her department's efforts to more quickly resolve civil rights complaints. But critics say the agency has focused on closing cases at the expense of meaningful protections for vulnerable students.
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Education DIVE
Hunger does not take the summer off. The 30.3 million students that rely on free and reduced-price meals during the school year are at risk of going hungry when summer vacation begins. While these students also qualify for summer meal programs, only about 10% of them participate, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Last year, nearly 2.9 million children participated in a summer lunch program, according to a Food Research and Action Center report. The number represents 171,000 fewer children participating in July 2018 versus July 2017. This is the third consecutive year that summer feeding numbers fell, the report states.
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The Atlantic
In the two weeks since Sen. Kamala Harris of California delivered a pointed attack on former Vice President Joe Biden over his past criticism of federally mandated school busing, it's become clear that the two Democratic candidates don't differ all that much in their views: They both support voluntary busing, but seem hesitant to endorse it as a federal mandate.
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Language Magazine
Whether or not the U.S. Census 2020 includes a citizenship question, it is likely that thousands and maybe even millions of people will not take part in the count due to concerns about how the data will be used or to misinformation about its relevance and importance. Regrettably, the people most likely to remain excluded are also the most disadvantaged, including speakers of languages other than English and their children.
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EdScoop
The Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to auction off unused wireless spectrum currently assigned to its Educational Broadband Service. Education advocates are deriding the decision, which will go into effect next year, as shortsighted. The order, approved through a 3-2 vote led by the commission's Republican majority, will place 114 megahertz of unused mid-band spectrum up for auction to wireless carriers for the expansion of their nascent 5G networks.
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THE Journal
The FCC decision to revise Educational Broadband Service rules drew immediate criticism from one major education technology advocacy group. CoSN, the Consortium for School Networking, released a statement characterizing the decision as a loss for teachers and students. "We are deeply disappointed by the FCC's decision today. After failing for 20 years to help school districts acquire new educational broadband service licenses, the FCC's vote is a loss for teachers and students."
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District Administration Magazine
Thirty-four state education departments will receive MetaMetrics' Lexile Find a Book and Quantile Summer Math Challenge as part of the national Council of Chief State School Officers' Summer Learning Challenge initiative. The Find a Book online search tool includes more than 335,000 fiction and nonfiction works, while the Summer Math Challenge email-based program targets students in grades 1 through 8.
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The New York Times
David Cardenas, a mechanic and the mayor of Fowler, knows families in his town want high-quality and free daylong preschool. But options are thin. A government-subsidized program fills up fast and fits only a small fraction of the town's 4-year-olds, he said. A private program that closed a decade ago was unaffordable for many of the 6,500 residents of Fowler, a predominantly Latino community of agricultural workers in California's Central Valley. Otherwise, there are a handful of private day cares.
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The Brookings Institution
Summer is here — known for camp, beaches and the summer slide, where many children lose skills they gained during the school year. For young children, there are easy ways to exercise the brain while still enjoying the fruits of the season. Playful learning — child-directed, fun activities that support language, literacy, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics — is the real "educational" toy, and summer is the perfect occasion to introduce it into daily routines. Construction toys (like building blocks and puzzles), wooden trains, mazes and treasure maps, for example, offer playful learning experiences that promote STEM-relevant
spatial skills.
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Education Next
Education technology has many faces. A prominent one has long been computer-assisted language learning, offering great promise for struggling readers, non-English speakers, or those seeking to master a second tongue. And, in recent years, the technology has raced ahead. No longer do students simply repeat what they hear through headphones or get instruction from a computer screen — now they can talk to ROBOTS. How cool is that? The question, of course, is: Do robots actually help?
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District Administration Magazine
Long gone should be the days when a general education teacher gives a special education co-teacher a paper copy of a lesson plan the day before class, as schools continue to adopt technology for staff and students. Today's co-teachers should be sharing lesson plans digitally to make planning, including face-to-face planning, more efficient, says Anne Beninghof, an education consultant and co-teaching author. "Good co-teaching requires good co-planning," Beninghof says.
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The Hechinger Report
Lindsey Eakin's son Corbin was only six months old when she started to suspect something was wrong. Corbin, her third child, wasn't babbling or cooing like his two older siblings had at his age and he was experiencing chronic, painful ear infections. His pediatrician at the time wasn't concerned. But by the time he turned 1, Corbin wasn't meeting developmental milestones in speech and Eakins was frustrated that nobody seemed to have answers for her.
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The Associated Press
"They made me a slave today." Aneka Burton still remembers the way her then 10-year-old son, Nikko, who is black, recounted his experience to his grandfather after school one day. It was 2011. But Burton believes the classroom exercise in which Nikko's classmates were encouraged to examine and pretend to bid on each other during a history lesson continues to affect his life, even now as an 18-year-old high school graduate. "He tries to act like it didn't bother him, but I really think it changed him," the Gahanna, Ohio, mother said.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A state education initiative seeks to entice more students to agriculture jobs by offering them courses — some beginning in kindergarten — to better acquaint them with one of the state's oldest industries. The state's agriculture industry adds about $75 billion to the economy each year and provides jobs for more than 400,000 people. But schools have not been preparing enough people to fill the jobs.
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NBC News
Sweaty after a long, hot day spent playing in the park, more than a dozen children stopped in their tracks and jockeyed for a spot in line outside a recreation center on a recent June evening. They rubbed on hand sanitizer, then walked up to a concession stand window and grabbed a tray of food: barbecue chicken sliders, apple slices, baby carrots and a half pint of 1 percent lowfat milk.
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Taylor & Francis Group via Science Daily
The positive effects of a rich home learning environment during a child's early years continue into adolescence and help improve test scores later in life, according to a new study published in School Effectiveness and School Improvement. This research shows pre-schoolers whose parents regularly read and talked about books with them scored better on math tests at age 12. The study, lead by Dr Simone Lehrl of the University of Bamberg, is one of the first to provide detail on the importance of early years home learning on children's development up to early adolescence.
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Chalkbeat
Families choosing schools for their kids can find themselves awash in information, from test scores and demographic data to local knowledge gleaned by talking to friends and family. That information can feel critical for parents facing high-stakes schooling decisions. But it also may serve to entrench the segregation of schools by race and income. White families tend to avoid schools with many black students, research has shown, and low test scores can push those families away, too — scores that are also tightly correlated with student demographics.
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EdScoop
Florida is amassing student data from social media, law enforcement and school districts across the state for a database set to launch Aug. 1 — an unprecedented initiative to prevent school gun violence. But civil rights advocacy groups say the database will put students at risk.
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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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