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Education Week
In his first year as a principal, Ben Rodriguez faced the usual jitters and learning curve any newbie would. But Rodriguez also faced the enormous pressures of opening a new high school at the same time. That meant the rookie principal had to shoulder duties unique to opening a school: Hiring every single staff member and setting up the varsity sports programs, to name just two.
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District Administration Magazine
Four in 5 teachers at high-poverty urban schools with large minority student populations experience moral injury — meaning they feel compelled to act against their values or sometimes witness peers engaging in behavior that is counter to their values — according to a recent study. "Moral Injury Among Professionals in K-12 Education" surveyed a Midwestern district that the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice had pressured to increase graduation rates and lower suspensions by adopting restorative justice policies.
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District Administration Magazine
A movement to allow students to carry and apply sunscreen in school without written approval from parents or doctors is growing, pushed by concerns about the risks of sun-related skin cancer. This year, Illinois, Arkansas, Maine, Nevada, Minnesota and Connecticut joined 18 other states in enacting legislation based on the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery's SUNucate model bill, which removes barriers that prevent students from possessing and applying over-the-counter sunscreen at school or during school-related activities.
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Teaching Channel
Dawn Butler, a contributor for Teaching Channel, writes: "I've got something to share with you, and it might blow your mind: Happiness is not a result of success. Success is a result of happiness. That means that so many of the messages we have received about what brings happiness (money, stability, etc) are backwards. It's true, folks: Success comes about because of happiness, not the other way around."
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Inc.
You may or may not already code yourself as a natural born leader. It's one of the highest complements you can pay a manager, for a reason. Gallup says only one out of every ten leaders can be considered a natural born leader. Which begs the question, what makes for such a leader? The Gallup organization conducted an extensive, 195 country study across a whopping 2.5 million teams (detailed in their new book "It's The Manager") to discover what attributes predict managerial success.
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Forbes
Do you ever feel like your work schedule is unmanageable? Does your boss ask you to fly across the country on a moment’s notice? Do you say “yes” to every new project that comes along? If this sounds like you, you're probably feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Studies show that job stress is by far the major source of anxiety for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades. A big reason for this is that technology allows us to lead 24/7 work lives with virtually no boundaries.
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By: Lisa Cole (commentary)
 When I think about a healing environment, rest, beauty and love instantly come to mind. Yet, how often do we encounter any of these three qualities in a typical healthcare encounter? Or in any workplace? Kate Strasburg and Traci Teraoka, co-founders of Healing Environments, spent 15 years creating environments conducive to healing. Let's take up their torch and put on our thinking caps.
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Fast Company
Although humility is a universal virtue, it's also quite rare. How many times a day do you meet people who seem remarkably humble? How often do you tell your work colleagues — or boss — that they should think more highly of themselves? And when was the last time you saw a famous businessperson or politician display genuine signs of modesty, self-criticism or self-doubt?
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Entrepreneur
Last September, more than 70 employees from Honey Stinger – a sports nutrition brand that makes honey-based products – and its sister companies finished a 740-mile trek. Dubbed "the world's longest staff meeting," this adventurous group spent nearly three months traversing the Continental Divide Trail from Colorado's southern border to its northern edge.
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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: Anne Rose (commentary)
 Have you ever had one of those days where nothing goes right and everything goes wrong? No matter what you touch, there’s a screw-up. At the end of the day, you have nothing to show for your work and just wish you could have a "do-over." I had one of those days recently. Absolutely nothing went right. Total failure. Failed culinary skills. Failed computer skills. I was a failure. The day was a failure! The next morning it occurred to me what my biggest failure was: measuring my day by whether or not activities proceeded according to my plan.
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The Lead Change Group
Change is constant. This is not new information, of course. But it seems there are two feelings when it comes to change: love it or hate it. Sure, when it's the change you've been hoping for, it's easy to love. The promotion came your way. Your offer was accepted on the house. You can finally get a puppy! When it's change you've asked for, being excited and bought in makes any hiccups or headaches worth it. But what happens when change happens and you didn't ask for it? What if it's change that has the potential to fragment your life? What do you do?
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Education DIVE (commentary)
Dallas Hicks, a contributor for Education DIVE, writes: "When our district implemented a new student safety platform last year, I knew it wasn’t going to be enough to simply roll out the new technology and expect administrators and teachers to embrace it and engage with it. Like any new technology, this one would require both upfront and online professional development. I also knew that this had to take place on the administrators’ and teachers’ turfs, not in our IT department. "
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Forbes
Whether you are a Wall Street professional or head of a startup, one of your key tests as a leader is being able to navigate a difficult conversation successfully. What is a difficult conversation, really?
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Education Week
The House spending bills, including an all-time high for federal education aid, have generated a great deal of interest this year. It's the first time in a decade Democrats control the chamber, and they want to draw sharp distinctions between their priorities and the Trump administration's. But with all that done and dusted weeks ago, you might be wondering: Where's the Senate school funding bill for fiscal 2020?
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The Hechinger Report
A lot has been written about the "homework gap" in recent years, meaning the disadvantage placed on students in low-income and rural areas where they can't get speedy internet service to keep up with the expectations schools increasingly have for student online access. Some rural districts have started building their own broadband networks, and many others had hoped to follow their lead using a chunk of bandwidth long ago set aside by the federal government for educational purposes.
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eSchool News
In the world of instructional technology, evaluating a tech tool is widely misunderstood. School districts are under pressure to quantify the impact of technology integration on student achievement. And that can lead to districts trying to draw a direct line between student achievement and a tech tool. Community members often ask, "Where is the data that shows that this works?" or "How do these devices raise test scores?"
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Education Next
Since the early 2000s, when wireless connectivity and the Internet evolved into everyday technologies, they have come to pervade our home and work lives, revolutionizing the way we share and access information. Wi-Fi circuits, which connect a device to a wireless network and the Internet, are incorporated into billions of devices, ranging from bathroom scales and "smart" electric outlets to equipment that streams movies and music. Wi-Fi is installed on our smartphones and laptops, at home and in the workplace, in cafés and airports, and of course, in schools everywhere.
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Center for Digital Education
To the surprise of many, online preschool not only exists, it's expanding. Thanks to some states' desire to offer such programs to children with limited or no opportunities to attend traditional preschool programs, "online preschool" and "virtual kindergarten readiness" are getting lots of attention.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Whether summer break for you includes travel or just a change in routine, you can increase your enjoyment of it with these simple mindfulness practices. Beyond a multitude of health benefits associated with mindfulness, it is basically an attitudinal shift that promotes greater satisfaction with life. The objective of any mindfulness technique is to maintain a state of alert, focused relaxation by deliberately paying attention to thoughts and sensations without judgment. This allows the mind to refocus on the present moment.
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The Associated Press
When we think of literacy, we tend to think of reading. Schools, literary nonprofits and philanthropists often focus on encouraging students to be strong readers with solid comprehension skills. While those skills are crucial, many experts say critical and creative writing skills are equally important, and are too often overlooked. Compared to reading, writing is more active, encouraging students to be independent thinkers, take ownership over their own stories and ideas, and communicate them clearly to others, says Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, executive director of the National Writing Project, which offers resources for teachers who want to encourage students to write.
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Edutopia
The internet can be a great resource for finding math tasks at every level of cognitive demand. While elementary students need exposure to tasks at all levels — lower as well as higher — an emphasis should be placed on those at the higher levels. That means we need the skills to evaluate what is and isn't cognitively demanding.
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Edutopia
In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered that our brains are not fixed after early childhood but instead have potential for further change. The brain can adapt, reorganize, and reconstruct itself based on learning and experiences. What we learn can change not only the physical structure of the brain but the way that information is organized.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 People are social and emotional beings. Some have great social and emotional understanding and skills; others barely squeak by. Generally, those with greater social and emotional understanding and skills do far better in every major aspect of life than those who struggle. Compared to those who struggle, they're happier, healthier, and more productive. Usually, they enjoy and keep their friends and tend to avoid the life-threatening dangers of loneliness. Unfortunately, difficulties with the social-emotional aspects of life severely wound many struggling readers.
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Montgomery Advertiser
Jocelyn Stovall's little sister was four years old when she needed open-heart surgery, traveling from Prattville to a Boston hospital to undergo the procedure. Stovall, a music performance major at Huntingdon College at the time, went with for the operation, not knowing the trip would change the trajectory of her life's work. After the operation, Stovall's sister was irritable, refusing to leave her bed. Her doctors called in the hospital's music therapist to help. Singing songs about standing up and walking — instructions sang with melody rather than ordered directly — made the difference.
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The Hechinger Report
As grown-ups everywhere have long suspected, poorly behaved 6-year-olds will come to no good. Or, at least not as much good as their more attentive, kinder and less aggressive peers. New research used tax return data to determine the income, at age 33 to 35, of 2,850 children tracked by the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children, an academic research project following kids from kindergarten through adulthood. The analysis, led by first author Francis Vergunst at the Université de Montréal, found that children who were bad at paying attention as 6-year-olds earned less than their peers as adults.
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Education DIVE
Federal and state early-childhood education accountability systems randomly assess the quality of Head Start within a sample of classrooms to inform decisions about which centers should have their funding renewed. But this method might be leading to inaccurate conclusions about which centers are meeting standards, according to a new study published in the American Educational Research Journal.
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The Washington Post
Online bullying is on the rise among middle and high school students, even as overall rates of bullying in schools have remained steady, according to a federal report released Tuesday. Twenty percent of students between the ages of 12 and 18 were bullied during the 2016-2017 school year, according to the report from the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the U.S. Education Department. Among those students who faced bullying, 15 percent said they were bullied online or by text, a 3.5 percentage point jump from the 2014-2015 school year.
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NPR
Changes in education policy often emanate from the federal government. Think Common Core, the set of standards established in 2010 for what U.S. students should know. But one policy that has spread across the country came not from Washington, D.C., but from Florida. "Mandatory retention" requires that third-graders who do not show sufficient proficiency in reading repeat the grade. It was part of a broader packet of reforms proposed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002.
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Education DIVE
Few states have as much experience with public pre-K as Georgia. The first to create a universal state-funded program — not restricted to low-income families or children facing other risks — the state created a model that has inspired other early education-focused policymakers across the country. "A lot of states look to Georgia for how to set up a system and take it to scale," said Susan Adams, deputy commissioner for pre-K and instructional support with Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning.
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NAESP
This year, NAESP launched The Center for Innovative Leadership®, created to improve and expand the support of principals as 21stcentury leaders in achieving the highest results for children, families and communities, has the focus and strategic design to help principals and learning communities achieve optimal results for every child. As part of its launch, fellows Andy Jacks and Hamish Brewer have released a video podcast series, featuring interviews with principals from across the country sharing their innovative strategies for improving learning spaces, growing school culture, using grant funding and more. Click here to catch up on the latest episodes.
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