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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Amy Lynn Tompkins, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "Have you ever heard the one about the things we cannot change? We have to accept them. However, if you really believe that having a conversation with your colleague will help her see how inappropriate you feel her behavior is, then I think you'll need to be gentle. Approach her with an attempt to understand her point of view. She's running a different building with different resources, and her own experiences with your district may be very different from yours."
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 You're laser-focused on preparing for tomorrow's presentation — but the phone won't stop ringing. And the emails keep pouring in. Your staff members are popping in, one after another, to report fires you have to put out right this second. Yep, you're distracted. Juggling essential tasks doesn't have to result in chaos, though. Use these easy, science-driven multitasking tips to accomplish everything on your plate, without sacrificing accuracy or quality.
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eSchool News
Excused absences, unexcused absences, suspensions — all contribute to chronic absenteeism, which is defined as missing 10 percent or more school days per year. While the causes vary, chronic absenteeism is now viewed as a warning sign that something within a school or student's life needs to be addressed to keep learning on track.
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Fast Company
While January might seem like it was just yesterday, the reality is that the half-year mark has passed, and we're closer to the end of the year than the beginning. If you're like more than half of people, those early-year goals you set were jettisoned months ago. But you still have months to make significant accomplishments toward changes you want to make by the end of the year, says career and transition coach Allison Task, author of "Personal (R)evolution: How to Be Happy, Change Your Life, and Do That Thing You've Always Wanted to Do." Ready to get back on track with your goals? Dust off that list and apply these four steps for a mid-year reboot.
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Harvard Business Review
by Elizabeth Grace Saunders, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "As a time management coach, I'm keenly aware that you could answer the question 'Am I productive enough?' using a variety of methods. I'm also familiar with the fact that individuals fall on a productivity spectrum. One person's maximum productivity for a certain role in a particular environment could look vastly different from another person's. These variations result from a combination of intrinsic ability, experience level, overall capacity and desire."
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Fast Company
Setting a goal creates a road map for the future, but if you don't know how to reach it, it can also be a recipe for getting stuck. Anything new or different is cause for losing momentum, says Jason Womack, coauthor of "Get Momentum: How to Start When You're Stuck." "What many people do when they get stuck, overwhelmed, or stressed is to clear their calendar, get out of the office, or make a list," he says.
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The Lead Change Group
Recent experience facilitating a leadership program for front-line and middle managers in a local authority in Southwest England raised again for me the specter of leadership myths. Encountering those leaders brought home just how many myths exist, particularly among those who have no previous experience of leadership development.
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Aim: Developing the will and skill to use math.
Methodology: Problem solving for deeper understanding
Program: Efficient and Effective Topic Arrangement
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THE Journal
A mammoth report by RAND and the American Institutes for Research laid out in excruciating detail the mix of outcomes for the "Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching" initiative, designed and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. There was no discernible change in the effectiveness of newly hired teachers; low-income and minority students didn't gain greater access to effective teachers; and there were no improvements in student outcomes, such as increased graduation rates.
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By: Hank Boyer (commentary)
 First impressions are lasting impressions. So, your first few seconds in a new job, meeting a new client, or networking in person may be much more critical than you think. Most interviewers will tell you that they have already made up their mind about a candidate within scant moments of meeting him or her for the first time. Even before a candidate opens his or her mouth, the interviewer has mentally recorded hundreds of impressions of the candidate.
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Education World
Many schools would benefit from an extreme makeover but can't afford one, let alone a coat of paint. Some community volunteers are taking on the job of making over rooms and teacher lounges, surprising and delighting school staff. Did you ever wish that your school was picked for an extreme makeover? Someone would blindfold you, lead you to the school one morning, and then capture you on film struggling for words to describe the stunning building transformation after the blindfold was whisked away.
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Forbes
Interviewing is a crucial step in the hiring process. In this series, you'll learn how to stage a great interview. First up, advice on choosing the right candidate to interview. Hiring an employee may seem like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. With the right preparations, an imposing stack of resumes can be whittled down in a snap. Once you figure out how to hire the right person, future hires will likely go more smoothly.
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Inc.
Your company's growth is limited to your staff's overall potential. A business's success is often the result of its team's ability to execute the vision of its founders. Of course, it is important that every new hire is properly integrated into the company culture and given the tools to excel at their role. When we interview job applicants at Amerisleep, we screen candidates carefully to ensure they align with our brand values and believe in our company mission. This allows us to bring on talent that are a strong culture-fit, which often is a prerequisite for long-term job satisfaction and success.
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Leadership Freak
People build walls of self-protection because they are afraid. "... if you are humble, if you make people realize that you are no threat to them, then they will embrace you." — Nelson Mandela. Vulnerability takes courage. Insecurity motivates wall-building. People watch for indications that it's safe to lower their guard. Self-protective walls keep leaders at arm’s length because leaders have authority and power. You impact the future of the people around you.
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The New York Times (commentary)
The Trump administration faced a deadline handed down earlier this summer by a United States District Court judge: reunite the children separated from their parents at the border by federal law enforcement. There's no way the White House could pull it off. Reports indicate that hundreds of parents will not be seeing their children because the government can't locate the parents or has already deported them.
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Education Week
Trauma-informed care, which focuses on sensitivity to students' experiences, and state support for mental health have paid off big in Wisconsin, state and local officials told U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and other members of the Federal School Safety Commission at its second field hearing, which took place in Adams, Wisconsin. The Badger State's system of supports for mental health took center stage at the hearing, which included a class tour and roundtable discussion at Adams-Friendship Middle School.
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THE Journal
A new survey published today reveals that classroom teachers, administrators and other professionals in education turn to a wide variety of sources for research into the effectiveness of technology tools but that they don't believe that some of them are particularly "well equipped to conduct reliable ed tech research."
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EdTech Magazine
For the past decade, bringing digital equity and broadband access to U.S. schools has been a main focus for educators and administrators. Thanks to nationwide efforts to pursue high-speed connectivity for K–12 students, Wi-Fi is available in more schools than ever before. In fact, 94 percent of school districts have acceptable high-speed internet, according to a report by EducationSuperHighway.
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Education Week
An average of about 550 ed-tech products are being used in K-12 districts, but the efficacy of those products is rarely the reason any of them are in classrooms, a panel for the national meeting of the Education Innovation Clusters agreed. How to change that is a conundrum for educators, researchers and nonprofits alike.
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eSchool News
Is your current professional learning program aligned with the federal definition of professional learning? Can you measure your progress against your organizational goals? How does your organization stack up to the rest of the nation? The Frontline Research & Learning Institute set out to answer these questions in our four-part Bridging the Gap report series.
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NPR
Rates of anxiety and depression among teens in the U.S. have been rising for years. According to one study, nearly one in three adolescents (ages 13-18) now meets the criteria for an anxiety disorder, and in the latest results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 32 percent of teens reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. And there's more bad news, grown-ups: The authors of two new parenting books believe you're part of the problem.
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Education World
Visualizing text is a proven way to improve reading comprehension. It is a technique that can be taught using this simple, step-by-step strategy from literacy consultant Cathy Puett Miller. Included: Tips and resources for developing students' comprehension skills.
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Education DIVE
At John C. Webb Elementary in Navasota, Texas, fifth-graders run the social media accounts every day. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are all managed by a team of two children who rotate roles every three weeks — the students shooting images, crafting messages and adding their own hashtags. Principal Todd Nesloney trains one team at the beginning of the year and has each succeeding pair train the next.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
As a country, we heard the children separated from their families at America's southern border cry inconsolably for their mothers and fathers. And as a country, we waited anxiously as bureaucratic, political and logistical problems have postponed reunions. Now, as families are slowly beginning to be reunited, we are witnessing reunions that may surprise some. According to reports, mothers — some of whom had been separated from their young children for as long as 4 months — were sometimes rebuked by those children. One mother reported that her 3-year-old didn't recognize her. Another said that her 3-year-old pushed her away and called for the social worker at the shelter where she had been housed.
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Medical Xpress
Have you had to deal with grumbling kids who don't want to go back to school after the winter holidays? While some school reluctance is normal, spare a thought for parents whose back-to-school struggles have reached a whole new dimension. Their child's reluctance to go to school has escalated into a more significant psychological problem, called school refusal. Around 1-2 percent of children experience school refusal: becoming severely distressed at the prospect of going to school and having prolonged absences. Unlike truancy, young people diagnosed with school refusal don't experience other behavioural concerns: their parents know where they are; they remain at home despite their parents' best efforts to get them to go to school.
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NPR
Have you ever paid your kid for good grades? Have you driven to school to drop off a forgotten assignment? Have you done a college student's laundry? What about coming along to Junior's first job interview? These examples are drawn from two bestselling books — "How to Raise an Adult" by Julie Lythcott-Haims and "The Gift of Failure" by Jessica Lahey. Both are by women writing from their experiences as parents and as educators.
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The Wall Street Journal
Some school districts are preparing for more immigrant students than usual this fall due to children who were separated from their parents at the border and others who came alone and are settling in their areas. Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida, wrote Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in June about not being told that 1,000 children were being housed at a shelter in his area. It isn't clear if the children were separated from parents or came unaccompanied, or both.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals has been awarded a 2018 Apex Award for Publication Excellence for its flagship publication, Principal magazine. NAESP received the award for the November/December 2017 edition of Principal, titled "Literacy Instruction: Chart a new course."
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NAESP
The NAESP Board of Directors has announced the resignation of Angelina Martino Finnegan, Director of Zone 2, (New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania) from the NAESP Board of Directors, effective July 31.
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