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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
CDC schools guidance update: 4 takeaways
Tech&Learning
The CDC recently updated its guidance for COVID-19 prevention in public schools with new suggestions around masking, distancing, ventilation, testing, and in-person school. Albert Ko, MD epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, says that with the updated guidance, the CDC is taking a thoughtful and cautious approach to loosening COVID-19 mitigation strategies.
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Kids bullied each other less during the pandemic. Here's how we keep it that way
Fast Company
Despite the duress many kids suffered during the pandemic and anecdotal reports about an upswing in bullying, a new study indicates that bullying among students was down in the last year. The decrease is likely due to the way that schools transitioned to online learning and hybrid formats, where students spent sometime in classrooms and sometime working from home. That resulted in reduced class sizes to accommodate socially distant learning. The findings confirm what experts already knew: small class sizes and increased teacher oversight reduces the opportunity for abusive behavior. Because of the pandemic, they say, schools now have an opportunity to keep bullying down going forward.
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Isolated children need support, but they go unnoticed
Observatory of Educational Innovation
Although they seem similar terms because they are considered forms of social marginalization, children who are rejected by their peers and those isolated are two different terms, according to a study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The research was based on 1,075 students in fifth, sixth, and seventh for two years. Students answered each semester which of their classmates they liked the least so the researchers could identify those rejected children. They were also asked to describe the group dynamics of each grade, that is, who hangs out with whom. Those who were not identified as part of any group were categorized as isolated.
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5 ways you can help ease kids' stress from the last year
The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Jackie Mader, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "Two weeks ago, I wrote about the many families with young children who are still struggling to make ends meet. While some families are getting help with material needs from local organizations and schools, many children and their parents may need more holistic support, including mental health services."
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Schools pay a high price for low teacher salaries
Education Week
Charles Carr has been teaching at Carol City Elementary since 2007. He said he fell in love with teaching early in his career, and is proud to work in Miami-Dade County's Miami Gardens, the community where he grew up.
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How to help students spot political polarization and extremism
District Administration Magazine
Here's an idea for teaching students about political polarization and far-right extremism: Have them do the research to debunk a conspiracy theory. This will help students develop healthy skepticism toward the avalanche of information they come across on the internet and other sources, says Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor and director of the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University. "An exercise for kids is to pick a non-ideological conspiracy theory — like, birds are not real, all birds are drones — and have them figure out how to prove it's not true," says Miller-Idriss, author of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right.
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On-demand professional learning: In this social-emotional behavior (SEB) Academy Master Class, Dr. Sherril English discusses how to prepare middle and high school students in the successful transition to life after high school by integrating SEL into the classroom environment and instruction Watch the video.
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Survey: Half of schools have urgent cooling and heating concerns
Education Week
As temperatures soar to record highs in many parts of the country, and fears of imminent impacts from climate change continue to mount, close to half of K-12 educators say heating and cooling challenges are urgent concerns in their school buildings, according to a new EdWeek Research Center survey.
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15 effective ways to improve recruiting and find good talent
Forbes
When companies publish job opportunities, they sometimes forget that the interview process goes both ways. People with a great deal of talent and ambition know what they're worth, and they won't settle for mediocre positions or work for companies that don't measure up to their high standards.
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Ditch the tie: Best practices for informal leadership development
Training Industry Magazine
Leadership development is often associated with lavish retreats, week-long courses, and even expensive and time-consuming higher-education programs that may require time and resources that leaders — and their organizations — simply don’t have. However, we also know that leadership development is a sound investment: It gives leaders the tools and skills they need to impact change.
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How to work harmoniously with a dominant personality
Fast Company
Almost every team has that one dominant personality who is motivated by winning, competition, and reaching results. While dominant personalities are often seen as commanding and confident, their characteristics have a flip side. They can also become obstinate, aggressive and overly direct.
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The 7 laws of Loki leadership — How to make your purpose more glorious!
Forbes
What's your glorious purpose? For the past decade every leader, brand and business has being scurrying to hone a compelling response to that. Most landing on a pinch of environmental sustainability, mixed with with a touch of social equity added to a lot of legacy and seeking for authenticity. For some this recipe had worked spectacularly, for others, less so.
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Dr. Don Vu examines six conditions for building a school’s culture of literacy to create an environment where immigrant and refugee children can thrive. Vu’s work is a testament to the transformative power of reading—a key to opening the door for all to realize the American Dream.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Ed Department to release extra IDEA funds, new guidance
Disability Scoop
Schools across the country are set to receive billions of dollars — and some new guidance — to help meet the needs of students with disabilities amid the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education said that it has sent more than $3 billion to states to support students served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The funding comes as part of the American Rescue Plan, a massive government pandemic relief package approved in March.
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How are states spending their COVID education relief funds?
The 74
Asked recently by the U.S. Education Department to identify the top issues facing students and schools in the wake of the pandemic, state education officials were remarkably consistent: There's a strong need to expand learning opportunities and address students' social and emotional needs, they wrote in plans they shared with the department for spending their share of federal COVID relief aid for education.
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CDC puts out new guidance on masks in schools
ABC News
Students who are vaccinated don't have to wear masks in school this fall unless they are riding the school bus or their school decides otherwise, according to new guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new federal guidelines aren't mandatory but are expected to influence school officials, local health departments and governors who are in the midst of preparing for students to return to the classroom full time this fall.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Meeting licensing challenges for the hybrid classroom
District Administration Magazine
Though heading back to school is on the horizon (or much closer) for many students, the end of the pandemic may not bring about a return to learning as usual. As school districts plan for the coming years, many are looking to make online instruction a larger part of their learning model. In this evolving environment, the demand from schools, edtech companies, and curriculum developers for rights to incorporate excerpts of high-quality texts in curriculum remains, and so do the accompanying copyright permissions challenges.
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Post-pandemic tools are focusing on engaging digital content for all learning scenarios
eSchool News
Engagement — whether students are hybrid or in person — is a top priority for educators, particularly after the rollercoaster year COVID delivered to schools. Another thing COVID made clear? The need for impactful edtech tools and digital content. New updates to Discovery Education's K-12 learning platform combine engaging tools with timely, vetted, and easy-to-access content. The updates give educators and students new ways to seamlessly create learning activities each day.
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Is it ethical to run learning experiments on students without their knowledge?
EdSurge
Imagine you're an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don't know they are part of the sample. Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that's common throughout the tech sphere? Or rope unwitting students into being the guinea pigs of your experiment without consent?
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5 myths about device buyback programs
eSchool News
While most school district officials are aware that they can sell their digital learning device fleets at the end of their lifecycles, many don't do it because they don't understand the device buyback process. This is a key finding from a recent study conducted by Project Tomorrow, best known for its annual K-12 Speak Up education research.
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Get the most out of iPad with these teacher tips
We Are Teachers
Whether you are a novice or veteran at teaching with iPad& #8212; if you're looking for ways to make the most out of iPad, this article with iPad tips for teachers is for you. Meet Kristen Brooks and Carla Jefferson, two teachers who have a ton of experience teaching students and educators how to use iPads. In this article, they share how to get started with iPad, their best advice, and so much more. Here are the highlights from our conversation.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Keeping students' hands clean can increase school attendance rates by 29%-57%. The Personal Protected® Quad-Sink™, a high volume mobile hand wash station comes equipped with social distancing barriers, touchless dispensers, and can service 120 students in just 10 minutes. Prevent illness by providing safe convenient hand washing.
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Stepping Stones Museum for Children brings its reputable, multidimensional learning approach to the Stepping Stones Studio. The Studio gives students access to a virtual world of brain-building, STEAM and fun-infused learning experiences, whether they are learning in the classroom or at home.
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How and why to assess in multiple languages
MiddleWeb
Before we talk about how we can incorporate home languages when assessing students, it's important to pause to consider the power of home language use. Research suggests that the more established a student's literacy skills are in their home language, the more they are able to acquire a new language.
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Bus classrooms provide mobile summer learning for students
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
County school systems are putting the American Rescue Plan dollars to work this summer. One mobile program meant to bring education closer to the students began Monday in Southern West Virginia. Mercer County Schools created a program using buses that will travel around the county over the next three weeks.
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Teaching young students how to reflect on their learning
Edutopia
Reflection helps us remember lessons learned and gives us a sense of accomplishment. When we consider our challenges and experiences deeply, we can identify gratifying experiences and things that we can aspire to do differently going forward.
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Center your students with literacy workshop
MiddleWeb (commentary)
Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "As teachers turn our focus toward a new school year, we reflect on the lessons learned from pandemic teaching and strive to find innovative ways to streamline literacy instruction while offering students opportunities to follow individualized learning paths."
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Partisanship alone didn't determine school reopenings, new study argues
The 74
What made so many K-12 schools stick with remote learning to begin the 2020-2021 school year, even as others reopened their doors to in-person or hybrid instruction? According to a slew of research that emerged last year, much of the answer boils down to simple politics. Multiple studies from political scientists at Michigan State University, Boston College, and the Brookings Institution suggested that school reopening decisions were significantly more correlated with local political affiliation — as measured by the results of the 2016 election, or sometimes by strength of teachers' unions — than the prevalence of COVID-19.
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FableVision’s Creativity to Careers programs are designed to engage students in creative career explorations at the middle and high school level to increase graduation rates and most importantly, jobs. Both 18 Week courses Exploration in Animation and Engineering & Production are approved Florida’s Department of Education Digital Tools. CTE certification available.
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.IN THE STATES
Effort widens in Philadelphia to inform families about option for students to repeat a grade
Chalkbeat
With a deadline looming for families to decide whether they want their children to repeat a grade after the pandemic stunted learning for so many students, the Philadelphia school district and others are scrambling to inform parents about their options and help them complete the necessary paperwork. Advocates for non-English-speaking parents are working tirelessly to reach families who are most likely to benefit from the new state law, but the least likely to know about it.
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Connecticut to require science of reading
Language Magazine
Connecticut has become the latest state to pass legislation requiring that reading instruction be based on the science of reading. According to the state's recently enacted budget bill, every school district in the state is required to focus its reading curriculum on the science of reading by 2023, despite opposition from some educators and parents.
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An oral history of early childhood educators during the pandemic
EdSurge
Yessika Magdaleno, owner of a home-based child care program in Orange County, Calif., is a problem-solver by nature. When she opened her program 20 years ago, she attracted families by expanding her hours to nights and weekends to accommodate those with non-traditional work hours. When she felt that her own children were not well-served by the local afterschool program, Magdaleno expanded her program to include afterschool care.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Books for principals
NAESP
Reading a great book remains a tried and true way to learn and grow — that's as true for principals as it is for students. Adam and Rachael sit down with school leaders Majalise Tolan and Brian McCann to talk about how important books are to their growth.
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New principal? Join the National Panel of New Principals
NAESP
NAESP's new principal panel is the first and only national program dedicated to gathering and sharing the experiences of new principals in rural, urban and suburban schools across the country. Panelists participate in online surveys each year on a relevant topic, which take less than 10 minutes to complete. Panelists receive the survey results and resource recommendations from their peers.
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