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Education DIVE
Though often spotlighted for their perceived counter-productive roles in social discourse, social media platforms — particularly Twitter — have grown to play a prominent role in education, allowing educators from across the globe to share their best practices. It's a concept that thought leaders and former administrators like Jimmy Casas, Jeff Zoul and Todd Whitaker have come to be known for in their conference appearances, and hashtags like #BFC530 have popped up over the years for a practice some administrators have labeled "PD in your PJs."
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Retail DIVE
Consumer spending is expected to reach nearly $26.2 billion, or $696.70 per household, on K-12 back-to-school items in 2019. The total household spend is up from 2018's reported $684.70, while spending a year ago was higher — $27.5 billion total — due to more families with children in grades K-12, according to National Retail Federation's 2019 survey.
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Language Magazine
For many educators, the beginning of the school year is the best of times and the worst of times. It's exciting to prepare for a new year and to think about creating something new — but at the same time, too many new initiatives can be overwhelming and lead to the same sense of extreme tiredness that results from mental or physical exertion. Social workers and medical professionals often deal with "compassion fatigue" from spending long hours working with people in crisis. Teachers faced with the chronic introduction of new programs can suffer from "initiative fatigue," even before the first student ever reaches the classroom.
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By Angela Cleveland and Jennifer Correnti (commentary)
 Counselors are at the forefront of opening doors to opportunities for all students. It is crucial for educational leaders to recognize the impact and service school counselors have in every school community as stakeholders and embrace engaging educational environments that support pathways to sustainable and rewarding post-secondary opportunities. Counselors recognize that technology is changing every career. Engaging students and families in conversations about sustainable careers means talking about the intersection of computer science with every vocation.
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eSchool News
School districts face urgent issues, from student safety to teacher evaluations, but perhaps the most critical problem involves mismanaged spending. Mismanaged spending can be a costly, potentially criminal, liability. For example, an audit of 42 school districts in Pennsylvania found incorrect payments of more than $8.4 million in transportation expenses.
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Harvard Business Review
Most of us have experienced the misery of working for a boss who intimidates employees while charming superiors and customers. But it's hard to figure out if you may be that kind of boss. You might think you are doing a good job, getting results by pushing people past their comfort zones, but what if they experience it as being afraid of you?
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Terminations are stressful for everyone. While there are challenges unique to firing specialists in any industry, there are a few things that make it hard to fire someone regardless of industry. Here are some common challenges around terminations and strategies for addressing them. For example, documentation is one of the most common issues with terminations. In some cases, we do not have enough documentation.
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Fast Company
Ping! "Oh, maybe this is the email I've been waiting for. Let me check. Shoot, that's not it. Hmm, but this invite looks interesting." Ping! "Oh maybe this . . . Darn it." Ping! "I should probably turn off my phone in this meeting ... but let me check first." Silence.
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Forbes
A long-held belief holds that managers acquire the lion's share of their management and leadership skills from their on-the-job experience. In the HR community, there is a widespread belief that 70% of a leader's skills come from work experience, 20% come from coaching from their manager and others, and 10% comes from formal development activities. It sounds good. But is it true?
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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: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Imagine if company handbooks included policies governing what personal information employees could and could not share. While there are topics that are generally discouraged, like politics and religion, we usually do not provide hard and fast rules around conversation topics and often allow the culture and the employees to create the standard. This can further blur the line between personal and work lives, which can have interesting implications for leaders.
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Leadership Freak
Miserable leaders spread misery everywhere they go. Enjoy leading or get out of leadership. Stop spreading misery. Decide to enjoy leadership. You won't enjoy every aspect of leadership but choose happiness every chance you get. If patients and operating staff can dance before surgery, you can smile once in a while.
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EdScoop
School- and district-wide wireless internet access is no longer a nice-to-have — it's a must have. And with staff, teachers, parents, and students needing 24/7 access, there's never a good time for down time. During a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net — entitled "Smart Network Design for Transformation and Innovation: Reaching in and Beyond the Classroom" — two educational technology leaders reviewed the six elements of new network design for continuous service conceived by the Consortium for School Networking.
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District Administration Magazine
If you started your career in education as a teacher, think back to your first year. Chances are you experienced some pain points. Maybe a lesson flopped, you had no idea how to connect with students, or you flat-out lost control of the class. New teachers learn important lessons in their first few years, but they do so sometimes to the detriment of their students. Students with disabilities, English learners and students in high-poverty areas — where beginning teachers are more common — especially can't afford to lose learning time as teachers hone their skills.
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Edutopia
Teaching isn't an easy job, and recent changes in education and society aren't making it any easier. A generation ago, if you made sure to cover your curriculum according to pacing guides and best practices, you were doing a satisfactory job. But as students' needs and society's expectations have risen, so have the demands placed on teachers' shoulders.
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U.S. News & World Report
When hundreds of school superintendents from across the country gathered earlier this month in Washington, D.C., for their annual policy summit, the 2020 decennial census was top of mind. The Supreme Court had days prior to the school officials' arrival in the nation's capital, effectively crippled the Trump administration's attempt to add a citizenship question to the census. The question, it was widely believed, would drive down participation rates and have devastating implications for federal education funding, particularly in school districts that serve the most vulnerable children.
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Pew Research Center
Most Americans, including majorities of both Republicans and Democrats, see higher education as a gateway to good job opportunities. However, a recent Pew Research Center survey finds that Republicans are much more skeptical than Democrats when it comes to whether colleges and universities are open to different points of view. This partisan gap is not just limited to views of these institutions – Republicans also are less likely than Democrats to see community colleges and K-12 public schools as open to a wide range of opinions and viewpoints.
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MiddleWeb
It is well known that afterschool programs keep kids safe, inspire them to learn, and give parents peace of mind during the often-perilous hours after the school day ends and before parents return home from their jobs. That's why public support for federal funding for these programs is sky-high. Most people, however, associate afterschool programs with elementary school students. Less well known are the afterschool and summer programs that serve middle school students, which play a critically important role in putting them on track to succeed in school and in life.
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Edutopia
Why do students struggle to ask teachers for extra help? Why do they sit in silence or confusion when raising their hand could bring help? Failure to ask for help can affect students' academic performance, self-esteem and potentially their access to learning in the future. There are several reasons why students struggle to ask for help, but the good news is that there are many strategies that can help them become stronger self-advocates for their learning.
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EdSource (commentary)
Daniel Helena, a contributor for EdSource, writes: "Whenever my sixth graders enter my English classroom, I'm struck by both their boundless energy and their lack of self-consciousness. My students give me a high-five in the morning. One of them always insists that I raise my hand as high as I can so that she can show off just how high she can jump."
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Lee Whitmore, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. My classes included all varieties of instruments. I sang and learned to conduct bands, orchestras and choirs. I played in ensembles. I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. This training has served me well in many aspects of my professional and personal lives but, frankly, these techniques weren't enough when I got to my semester of student teaching."
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Education Week
Nearly half of schools are employing police. Many more schools than previously are now engaging in more "restorative practices" and alternative forms of discipline meant to keep students in schools rather than at home or in detention facilities. Yet after a period of decline, serious violent incidents are on the rise in American schools.
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Psych Central
A new study finds that lower-income parents are less likely than their higher-income counterparts to involve their children in school- or community-based sports due to barriers such as rising costs for these extracurricular activities. For the study, researchers from RAND Corporation surveyed approximately 2,800 parents, public school administrators and community sports program leaders and discovered that financial costs and time commitments were obstacles to sports participation for middle and high school students.
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EdSource
As California schools move to implement new science standards, they are under pressure to offer more physics instruction, creating a demand for teachers in a subject area where there is already a severe shortage. The California Science Framework, adopted in 2016 by the State Board of Education to support the Next Generation Science Standards, recommends that all high school students take biology, earth/space science, chemistry and physics. Some districts are offering students four year-long courses in each of these subject areas, while others are offering three courses with earth/space science integrated into biology, physics and chemistry courses.
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Education Week
Pencils. Protractors. Folders. Highlighters. And ... blue light glasses? Blue light glasses, or filters, can help block light from digital devices. Given all the time kids spend these days on iPads and Chromebooks in school, parents should consider adding them to the back-to-school shopping list, one eye doctor suggested. "We do know that exposure of blue light can cause a lot of digital eye strain," said Jennifer Wademan, an optometrist, in an interview arranged with representatives for VSP Global, a company that makes blue light shields for glasses.
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THE Journal
Chicago has adopted changes to its school accountability system that include two "on-track" early-warning measures for grades three–eight: grade point average and attendance. What's unique is that these are measures typically applied in high school rather than at the elementary level. The same round of revisions also promoted high schools' efforts to help students follow through on their post-graduation plans.
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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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