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School Leaders Now
There probably isn't anyone in school who has more daily interaction with the biggest cross-section of those served than school secretaries. On the phone, in the lobby, in the halls, in the break room and in the front office, the school secretary is literally everywhere. If you're not tapping into that resource, you're missing out on a critical knowledge base.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The numbers on the reality of bullying in school are staggering: 28 percent of student aged between 12 and 18 have been bullied at school. Bullying is a global problem that affects millions of students daily. They are scared to go to school, scared to speak out, become depressed and perform badly in the classroom. They are picked on for a wide number of reasons — their looks, speech, race, religion, sexual orientation or anything that prevents them from fitting in.
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NPR
For a lot of families, back-to-school shopping is a stretch, but there are also a lot of teachers out there who are buying classroom supplies using their own money. One Oklahoma teacher got so frustrated, she decided to do something about it. Third-grade teacher Teresa Danks recently went out to a busy highway in Tulsa and she panhandled. She wore a pink Minnie Mouse backpack and held a sign that said, "teacher needs school supplies, anything helps."
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eSchool News
The ability to read, and read well, is a skill that follows students for the rest of their lives and yet it's shocking how many children lack the early education support they need to develop this essential competency. Providing proper literacy instruction in my district, the Northern Lights School Division in central Canada, has its own specific challenges. We serve more than 4,300 students spread out over half the entire province of Saskatchewan, and 87 percent of our students are of Indigenous descent, often speaking English. However, due to only being second-generation English speakers with some family members who still speak the Indigenous language, many of our students are not proficient in either language.
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USA Today
When twins Ryan and Michael D'Introno entered kindergarten two years ago, they often came home from school singing songs in Spanish, part of a language immersion program their school in Bedford Hills, N.Y., decided to try. All students, many of whom were native Spanish speakers, received instruction in both English and Spanish a few days a week. The boys' mother, Gina D'Introno, says her sons "were excited to learn Spanish." 'Introno also believes the Spanish-speaking students were pleased to see their classmates learning their language.
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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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The Atlantic
Kindergarten, first grade and second grade are often free of the high-stakes testing common in later grades — but those years are still high-stakes for students' learning and development. That means it's a big problem when schools encourage their least effective teachers to work with their youngest students. And a new study says that the pressure of school accountability systems may be encouraging exactly that.
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EdTech Magazine
As many education tools go digital, some people have feared that libraries may go the way of the dinosaur. However, the skills that students need to thrive in a modern world continue to adapt, and they need places where they can learn such skills. Libraries have the opportunity to become havens of future-ready skills lessons to meet that need.
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Edutopia
Books can be an outlet and a tool for helping young people understand that they can make a difference as they explore how to address bias, hate, incivility and injustice. As they look for strategies to address inequities in schools, communities, and society as whole, books about social justice and ally behavior provide models, stories and inspiration.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Dance, defined as movements of the body that are expressive rather than purely functional, has existed as long as we have. Using the body to express feelings, sensations and emotions is the oldest form of human communication — uniting communities, emulating and honoring natural cycles, celebrating harvests and hunts, and signaling rites of passage. When present in the school setting, dance is commonly lumped in with physical education.
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Education World
Starting teachers in Seattle without a Master's degree earn around $44,000 a year. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Seattle is around $2,063 a month, making it tricky for many teachers to even afford to rent an apartment in the school districts they're teaching in. As for buying a house, well, forget about it. Seattle isn't alone on this issue, but is just one of several cities in the U.S. where teachers often have to live outside the districts they teach in or shack up with multiple roommates. The issue of teacher salaries versus housing costs is just as bad in cities like New York, San Francisco, Miami and Denver.
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Disability Scoop
New research suggests that local factors may play the biggest role in determining how likely students with disabilities are to experience restraint and seclusion at school. An analysis looking at rates of restraint and seclusion of those with disabilities in American schools across two years finds that most districts rarely employ the practices while a small group of districts report "exceedingly high rates." In many cases, however, researchers found that variation between high-use and low-use districts was most pronounced within the same states.
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The Hechinger Report
Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question — maybe it's math, maybe history. You raise your hand, you give your answer with full assurance. And then? You're shot down. You got it wrong. We remember moments like this because they brim with some of our least favorite emotions: shame, humiliation, self-recrimination, and that gutting sense that you want to melt into the floor.
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Education Week
The top two Democrats for education in Congress have warned U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that her department's new approach to reviewing states' Every Student Succeeds Act plans is riddled with problems. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., the ranking Democrats on the respective Senate and House education committees, wrote in a letter to DeVos that the U.S. Department of Education's plans to begin conducting two-hour phone calls with states about their ESSA plans before providing states with formal comments will "limit the public's knowledge" about ESSA-related agreements between states and the department.
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PBS Newshour
The back and forth between states and Washington over the Every Student Succeeds Act has become more complicated than many had expected. Although U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos took office in February pledging to let states seize control of key education policy decisions under the new federal K-12 law, her department's responses to states' ESSA plans have surprised — and in some cases irritated—state leaders and others. The U.S. Department of Education has expressed skepticism about elements of those plans, from the ambitiousness of long-term academic goals to the use of Advanced Placement exams in state accountability systems.
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The Washington Post
More than a quarter of D.C. Public Schools have had at least three principals since August 2012, a pattern of upheaval that worries parents and teachers who say constant change in leadership can generate instability, inhibit trust and stall academic progress. Capitol Hill's Eliot-Hine Middle School, for example, is heading into its second straight school year with a new principal. In 2016, a fresh chief took over after the previous one left for another DCPS school. But the position will be filled anew this upcoming academic year.
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NPR
Keith Flaugh is a retired IBM executive living in Naples, Fla., and a man with a mission. He describes it as "getting the school boards to recognize ... the garbage that's in our textbooks." Flaugh helped found Florida Citizens' Alliance, a conservative group that fought unsuccessfully to stop Florida from signing on to Common Core educational standards. More recently, the group has turned its attention to the books being used in Florida's schools. A new state law, developed and pushed through by Flaugh's group, allows parents and any residents, to challenge the use of textbooks and instructional materials they find objectionable via an independent hearing.
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The Sacramento Bee
Knikki Royster starts her workday as a juvenile court teacher in San Diego at 7:30 a.m., and she's not sure what to do if her two kids can't start high school until an hour later. "I don't like the idea of my kids having to walk to school. I prefer to drop them off," Royster said. They would have to walk a mile to school. "I want that supervision in the morning. ... When you don't allow parents to do their job, we start making systems that don't work for parents and hurt the family." Working parents like Royster are wondering about new routines as the idea of later school starting times gains traction in California.
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NAESP
As the beginning of the school year approaches, principals are looking to connect with students, families and other stakeholders. Traditional means such as phone calls and letters do provide important points of contact. But these days there are even more channels to spread your back-to-school message and meaningfully reach your audience.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals is committed to preparing assistant principals to step into the principal role. We want to honor assistant principals who are doing a superb job in their roles. This program promotes educational excellence for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade (PreK-8) schooling and calls attention to the fundamental importance of the assistant principal.
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