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Education World
While as an educator right now you may be enjoying the beach, traveling, spending time with family, perhaps teaching a bit or attending training in a more relaxed setting, the last thing on your mind right now is how to deal with the stress of the school year. But now might be the perfect time, when you have a clear mind, to learn about stress reduction methods you can apply for the coming academic year.
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Connected Principals (commentary)
Schools are about more than learning; they are about experience(s). They help shape us in our present and future and those experiences stick with us long past our time as students. Unfortunately, this can either shape us in a positive or negative manner. I asked this question of educators recently: In your time as a student in K-12, what made an impact on you. Not who, but what? What do you remember that influenced you today?
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Education Week (commentary)
Sarah Fiarman, a former public school principal in Cambridge, Massachusetts, writes: "Of all the things I did as a principal, two leadership moves had the greatest impact on improving teaching practice across my school: engaging teachers in leading improvement and providing time and support for teacher collaboration. The latter requires more structure than we think, and the former requires getting ourselves out of the way. It can be hard to do both."
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The Brookings Institution
Recent research demonstrates that the test score gap between relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students is much higher in some school districts than it is in other districts. But measured school quality often varies dramatically within a school district, and therefore it is important to know whether individual schools differ in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students. We make use of detailed, linked birth and school records in Florida to investigate the degree to which this is true.
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Edutopia
When my son was an elementary student, he struggled with transitioning into a new class at the beginning of each school year. It could take him weeks to get used to a new classroom and curriculum, and sometimes months to develop a trusting relationship with his new teacher. Over time we discovered some tactics to make the change easier for him, helping him develop a relationship with his new teacher more quickly and transition into a new classroom and curriculum more smoothly.
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Over 75% of transgender students feel unsafe at school, and staff do not know how to help them. Welcoming Schools, the nation’s premier professional development program for elementary schools, provides educators with best practices to support transgender students and prevent bias-based bullying.
Visit www.welcomingschools.org to learn more.
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eSchool News
The math lesson on variables began with a simple prompt. As Dan Rothstein, executive director of the Right Question Institute, tells the story: "The teacher presented the following equation: 24 = (smiley face) + (smiley face) + (smiley face)." Then, she asked her students to think of as many questions as they could about the equation. What did the students want to know about this expression? What were they curious about?
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Education Week
A newly-minted special education teacher should be able to: "collaborate with professionals to increase student success," "use multiple sources of information" to understand a student's strengths and needs, and "systematically design instruction toward specific learning goals." These skills are among 22 "high-leverage practices" for special education teachers that were developed by the Council for Exceptional Children and the federally-supported Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform, also known as CEEDAR. Representatives for the groups have been spreading the word about their work this year, including during a session here at the annual leadership conference sponsored by the federal office of special education programs.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
When parents and teachers and parents work together, children arrive at school ready for kindergarten. I have spent the past ten years teaching at in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, in Boyle, Mississippi, the most recent four of those years teaching kindergarten for 5-year-olds at Bell Academy. Nearly one-third of the population of Boyle lives below the poverty line, as do more than 40 percent of those who are under 18 years old. Bell Academy serves 326 children in grades pre-K through sixth grade.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
There are many lessons about love, life, and relationships to learn from Hamlet. But when it comes to navigating your career at the management level, take to heart the wise words spoken by Polonius: "This above all: to thine own self be true." As I've shared, I went through a lot of growth and "finding myself" when I hit management level. But, I always insisted on transparency with my team. If upper management put pressure on me to hit specific goals, I let my team know the expectations.
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District Administration Magazine
When it comes to boosting the nutritional and academic value of school meals, Janet Poppendieck certainly offers food for thought. A nationally recognized scholar and activist whose work focuses on poverty, hunger and food assistance in the United States, Poppendieck is the author of Free for All: Fixing School Food in America (University of California Press, 2010). She is a founding member of the City University of New York Urban Food Policy Institute, which researches the underlying causes of hunger and food insecurity. Poppendieck says more must be done to end stigmatizing students who receive free lunches in school because it’s not a problem that will change anytime soon.
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STAT
School nurses offer far more than just Band-Aids these days. As the prevalence of childhood conditions like asthma and diabetes have risen, nurses treat a wide range of problems. Still, only an estimated 40 percent of U.S. schools have a full-time nurse, according to the National Association of School Nurses. But now telemedicine — virtual doctor visits over video — is increasingly helping nurses do their jobs. Telemedicine programs are making inroads in schools, where a student referred to the nurse can be plopped in front of a screen and connected with a physician. Special computer-connected otoscopes and stethoscopes allow doctors to check ears, noses, throats and heartbeats from afar.
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The Hechinger Report
State leaders are collecting reams of data on students, but they must do more to put that information into the hands of parents and teachers, according to a new report. Making that information available to school communities consists of more than merely publishing complicated, archaic spreadsheets online, according to the Data Quality Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that advocates for better data use. School leaders must work to provide data in a format that makes it easy to understand and act upon, the group says.
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Study Finds
Teachers and parents alike dream of a classroom where all children are welcomed for play without ever being told by a peer to "just go away." When it comes to childhood rejection, typically it's the behavior of the rejected child that's looked at to figure out what he or she was doing to invite rejection. However, a new study finds that the reason behind the antisocial behavior often lies in the hands of the child doing the rejecting. Researchers from Jaume I University and Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain turned the lunch tables and interviewed the kids doing the rejecting instead of focusing on the child left out.
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Education Week
When Betsy DeVos was tapped as U.S. Education Secretary, educators and advocates were terrified the longtime voucher fan would try to "privatize" the nation's schools. But DeVos has now been in office for going on six months, and she's been way more active on higher education than she has on K-12. We're still waiting around for the details of a big, new school choice plan. Meanwhile, DeVos and company have been slowly scaling back, pausing or moving to overhaul Obama-era student financial aid regulations.
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Star Tribune
A Minnesota Department of Education advisory council voted to approve a new toolkit for "Safe and Supportive Schools for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students" in front of a room of more than 200 opponents and advocates of LGBTQ issues Wednesday. The toolkit, approved by the School Safety Technical Assistance Council, is a nonbinding guide with information about providing welcoming environments for all students and guidelines for school officials to support transgender and gender-nonconforming students.
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The Des Moines Register
A legal judgment could force Iowa schools to change how they determine which students qualify for special education, potentially allowing thousands of more children to qualify for services, advocates say. Administrative Law Judge Christie J. Scase issued a ruling that requires the Iowa Department of Education to reimburse an Urbandale family for private tutoring costs incurred after their child was denied access to special education programming at school. The case could have broad implications for Iowa schools.
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The Washington Post
Elementary school students in one Florida school district are going to find a welcome new — but controversial — policy when they return to school for the 2017-2018 school year next month: no traditional homework. They are being asked to do one thing to help them academically: Read for 20 minutes a night. Heidi Maier, the new superintendent of the 42,000-student Marion County public school district in Florida, said in an interview that she made the decision based on solid research about what works best in improving academic achievement in students.
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NAESP
NAESP, along with the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the American Federation of School Administrators, issued a statement opposing the elimination of funding that is meant to support teachers, principals and other school leaders.
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NAESP
Recess is a vital component to student well-being and success. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and SHAPE America have developed helpful new guidelines that provide schools with tactics for recess planning. Physical education helps achieve the nationally recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity and supports SHAPE America's 50 Million Strong campaign commitment to empower kids to lead active and healthy lives.
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