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The Hill (commentary)
A recent trend in public education spending is positive for educators: revenues are on the rise as states such as Texas, Arizona and West Virginia inject new money into school districts. While many schools will receive additional resources as a result, they won't necessarily get the things they need most.
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District Administration Magazine (commentary)
Lenny Schad, a contributor for District Administration Magazine, writes: "Over the past few months I have been asked numerous times about 5G and its potential impact on K-12 education, so I thought I would share my thoughts with all of you. 5G is the next generation of wireless service. This next generation of service is specifically designed to keep up with the staggering proliferation of devices needing a mobile internet connection. 5G will offer faster download speeds and reduced power (device battery) requirements. Of course, this additional speed and functionality comes with an increased cost."
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Education Week (commentary)
Leadership coaching, which is becoming increasingly popular these days, is often seen as coaching sessions between a building leader and their coach. Perhaps the building leader is looking to improve their walk-throughs or provide more effective feedback to teachers during informal and formal observations; the coaching relationship can help a leader home in on these goals.
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Education DIVE
The Chicago Teachers Union saw a victory this past spring when Illinois legislators increased the number of days retired teachers can substitute teach without losing pension benefits by 20%, from 100 days a year to 120. The state is also extending through 2021 a law that lets retired teachers go back to teaching for a full school year without the usual "return to work" restrictions, such as the "post-retirement" work limit of 120 days or 600 hours. The caveat, though, is that the teaching job must be in a district specifically determined by the regional superintendent to have a shortage in the subject area the retiree will be teaching.
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Forbes
What does it mean to be happy? And can you find happiness at work? Searching for an answer, ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle proposed the concept of eudaimonia. It means to live well or flourish as a human being. If you want to live well personally and in business, you can break flourishing into three areas.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Cassie Schwerner, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "After spending over two decades working to advance racial equity in education through advocacy and philanthropy, I took a new job last year that has allowed me to see this work from the inside out. As executive director of an organization that partners closely with hundreds of New York City public schools to promote equity, I now have a revealing window into what it really takes to build a school environment that supports and honors all of our young people."
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Fast Company
Workplace stress is remarkably damaging — both to our health and to our general effectiveness in the office. Last year, my company, Skylum, experienced some tough times. We grew sizably, but we were also navigating new markets and facing unexpected challenges. Ultimately, we had to ask — and answer — some hard questions of ourselves. Today, the company is more successful than it's ever been. But our year of growth and adjustment also had another side effect: everyone in the company — myself very much included — struggled with new and difficult levels of stress.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 Most companies typically have more job applicants than they can handle, and they've grown accustomed to candidates clamoring for positions. This has led, perhaps inevitably, to a lax attitude when responding to job candidates. Now it appears that job candidates may have adopted this communication approach as well. "Ghosting" is becoming a widespread phenomenon in which job candidates who are hired don't show up for the first day of work. Or, they stop responding to calls and messages following the interview. What's causing job candidates to disappear without notice and how should employers respond?
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Inc.
Human beings are inherently designed to learn, grow, and connect with others. It's certainly no different in the workplace. Most of us long for the same close bonds with colleagues in the pursuit of common goals, shared values and a compelling purpose. It makes showing up to work that much easier. Where does it all start? Building up such a culture of strong collaboration starts with leaders setting the tone for creating the conditions necessary to drive human performance.
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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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Leadership Freak
We begin new jobs with enthusiasm. But repetition leads to boredom. Lousy bosses make work miserable. Constant pressure causes burnout. Successful leaders energize teams.
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Fast Company
It's hard to know what other people think of you. Your own feelings of self-confidence and self-efficacy (your belief about how well you are able to influence the world) are likely to determine how you think other people view you. That can be a problem if you want to succeed in the workplace. An honest perception of your strengths and weaknesses is critical. The good news is that there are things that you can do to get a clearer sense of what your peers truly think.
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Inc.
It's easy, when you're removed from the day-to-day tasks, to not see everything as the leader of a company. You miss customer complications, cumbersome processes and tension between co-workers. You can thank confirmation bias for that: We seek out information that backs up our positions. In fact, Judith Glaser, an expert in conversational intelligence, found when she was working with Union Carbide that we get a psychological payoff for confirming our own beliefs.
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The Brookings Institution
School segregation is capturing headlines, due to a
heated exchange between Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden in a recent Democratic primary debate. While the benefits of racially integrated schools are clear, the legal and political hurdles to achieving racial diversity are substantial. Legally, the U.S. Supreme Court has expressed profound skepticism of districts considering a student's race when making school assignments. Politically, integration efforts have proven to be a tough sell to communities, a reality illustrated by the fact that hundreds of districts have sought release from desegregation orders over the past few decades.
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Education Week
Where, exactly, do those billions of dollars taxpayers annually spend for schools go? In most states, policymakers really don't know. That's because state education departments don't have the technology to track the tens of thousands of transactions that district officials, using a combination of federal, state and local dollars, make throughout the school year.
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EdTech Magazine
Cybersecurity is critical to making sure students are safe as they use digital tools. In school systems that provide one-to-one devices to students, phishing is a top concern among IT professionals. "Of attack types, phishing is by far the security threat that most concerns districts," according to a Consortium for School Networking report. Schools, with their troves of sensitive personal and financial information about staff and students, make attractive targets. The identities of young people, less likely to be monitored for suspicious activity, are especially sought after.
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Tech&Learning
One of the latest buzzwords in education is "active learning," but what does this really look like in the classroom? Active learning refers to the idea that students are actively engaged in the learning process, rather than passively absorbing content. The benefits of using such activities are many, including improved critical thinking skills, increased retention and transfer of new information, more motivation and improved interpersonal skills.
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EdScoop
Schools shouldn't approach educational technology as a replacement for teachers' various roles, says Michele Eaton, an administrator with the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township in Indianapolis. Rather, she said, they should consider technology as a way to change the classroom dynamic.
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EdTech Magazine
Recent updates to E-rate, which put more focus on funding high-speed internet and network protection tools, have helped K–12 schools reallocate resources to improve other focus areas. K–12 schools now have much more flexibility to fund projects, thanks to the Federal Communications Commission's recent announcement to make internet access a priority, combined with an increase to the annual E-rate cap from $2.4 billion to $3.9 billion.
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Edutopia
Coding is a top skill for job placement, but learning to code doesn't guarantee job security, says Christina Lewis, author and founder of All Star Code, a nonprofit that empowers young men of color through computer science instruction. In "Is Coding Over? Why Learning to Code Is Really About Learning to Learn," writing for EdSurge, Lewis says that as technology evolves, coding languages rapidly change.
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THE Journal
The education sector is expected to see a massive surge in game-based learning over the next five years in the K-12 space. According to a new forecast from market research firm Metaari, game-based learning will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 33.2 percent over the next five years, and revenues are expected quadruple to $24 billion by 2024.
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EdSurge
"How do you judge a person on one bad act that they do and what should be the parameters?" This ethical question formed the center of a thoughtful, deep discussion about an email from the school administration asking teachers to tell students not to "like" a YouTube video posted by a comedian who had been accused of making anti-Semitic statements.
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The Associated Press
Desks lined up in precise rows with teacher firmly planted at the front: That was the standard classroom format for much of the last century. But with many educators saying kids can do better in a more relaxed and flexible learning environment, designers and architects have been providing spaces and furnishings to fit that bill. "Innovators no longer speak of 'classrooms,'" says Bob Pearlman, a Tucson, Arizona-based education consultant. "Students now work in learning studios, plazas and home bases. They shift into varied extended learning areas and collaboration zones that include project-planning rooms, workrooms, focused labs, group learning spaces, individual pods."
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eSchool News
Advances in smart technologies and the knowledge needed to power them are paving the way for new kinds of educational opportunities — and a new guide offers a look at five strategies that will prove instrumental to the future of learning. The resource from KnowledgeWorks notes that educators are in a unique position to help students build the employability skills that will support them as they embrace lifelong learning.
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Education DIVE
Google announced new curriculum resources associated with its Be Internet Awesome initiative last month that include lessons on how to recognize fake websites and identify the way that those who create media frame their messages by deciding what information to include. The program is just one of an increasing array of media and news literacy programs that have expanded since the 2016 presidential election cycle in an effort to give students — and their teachers — the skills to approach media messages, videos and images with a critical eye.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Earlier this summer, the International Association of Online K-12 Learning, better known as iNACOL, released its most recent map displaying the implementation of statewide K-12 competency-based learning policies across the nation. The map now shows 17 states that have reached an advanced level of implementation with comprehensive policy alignment and/or an active state role to build capacity in local school systems for competency-based learning. This current map is in stark contrast to the 2012 map, which listed just three states at the advanced level.
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District Administration Magazine
Letter grades have been traditionally viewed as the only way to report student progress. Over the years, progressive education leaders have come to realize that while A-F grades may be an easy way to rank students, the outdated system comes with heavy burdens and expectations that emphasize an institution's efficiency over the learning process. At the UCDS (University Child Development School) College for School Culture in Seattle, we are preparing future teachers to assess and report student progress with greater clarity.
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Edutopia
Metacognition, or thinking about how one thinks, is a useful skill for improving comprehension and learning. It can be especially useful for review in advance of an assessment. Once students learn how to monitor their own progress and apply specific review strategies based on their needs, they are empowered to effectively and efficiently prepare for assessments.
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Education Week
Students with disabilities appear to experience higher highs and lower lows when using social media, according to a new report from the Ruderman Family Foundation. Students with disabilities were 1.8 times more likely to be victims — and 1.7 times more likely to be perpetrators — of social media-related cyberbullying, the group found in an analysis of survey information covering 24,000 Boston-area high school students. The connection between experiencing cyberbullying and suffering from depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation was also particularly strong for these students.
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The Hechinger Report
Why do most middle schools have seven or eight periods of 45 to 60 minutes each? Why does lunch tend to last 45 minutes? In many places, it's simply tradition. Furman Brown, CEO and co-founder of Tegy (as in stra-tegy), is trying to get schools to rethink basic assumptions about scheduling, and in so doing, position themselves for more comprehensive educational innovations. Brown helps schools design schedules where classes end at different times and last different lengths, where midday lunch and enrichment classes give teachers in core content areas up to 100 minutes of collaboration time per day, and where team teaching can get student-to-teacher ratios as low as 10-to-one without hiring any new staff members.
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EdSource
It's been almost two years since Bill Gates announced a major shift to locally driven solutions in the education funding strategy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the nation's largest charitable foundation. Gates said he remains "driven by the same guiding principle we started with: all students — but especially low-income students and students of color — must have equal access to a great public education that prepares them for adulthood." The result is a first round of funding totaling $93 million from the foundation to 21 local Networks for School Improvement committed to continuous improvement and uncovering changes that will make a difference for these students.
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Education Next (commentary)
Frederick Hess, a contributor for Education Next, writes: "I've hosted a number of sessions about social and emotional learning over the past six months, and one question that's repeatedly come up is whether SEL is ultimately an attempt to repackage traditional virtues in therapeutic, pedagogical garb so that they'll pass muster with bureaucrats, academics and reformers uncomfortable with moralizing or religion. The concern is that, by ignoring the degree to which SEL is indebted to moral and faith traditions, advocates risk creating an ineffectual dogma that's off-putting to Americans who take their faith seriously."
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Chalkbeat
Of the 10 Denver schools with the highest asthma rates — including one campus with rates more than triple the district average — just one will participate in a new air quality monitoring pilot program to be launched next month. One goal of this program is to help school nurses identify asthma triggers and then develop individual health plans for students who have the chronic breathing condition.
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Electrek via District Administration Magazine
The California Energy Commission has awarded nearly $70 million to state schools to replace more than 200 diesel school buses with new, all-electric school buses. The commission approved the funding this week. A total of $89.8 million has now been earmarked for new electric buses at schools in 26 California counties, as the commission's School Bus Replacement Program works toward this goal.
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NAESP
During its annual conference — held this year in Spokane, Washington — the National Association of Elementary School Principals released the executive summary of Leading Learning Communities: Pillars, Practices and Priorities for Effective Principals. Like the two editions that precede it, Leading Learning Communities is developed by and for principals and articulates a vision and practical strategies for what effective principals do.
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