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Education Week
Soiled hands. Boozy social media pics. Trash talking former bosses = Bombed. Sincere stories about former students. Polite to the custodian. Didn't fake an answer = Nailed it. These real-world examples of job candidates who bombed or nailed their interviews come from two veteran principals who shared what matters most to them when hiring teachers.
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School Leaders Now
Most teachers would agree that their first year was by far the most difficult. After all, how many people can say they graduated from their teaching program adequately prepared for all that was thrown at them? The most important things brand-new teachers need are time, attention, support and guidance. Supporting first-year teachers on day one can make all the difference.
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The Hechinger Report
Education is among the most female-dominated of professions. Yet strikingly few women make it to the top role in America's state and district education systems. And along the path to leadership, they face a familiar and frustrating pay gap compared to their male colleagues. If we want to promote more women into education leadership, it's incumbent upon us as a nation to stop this pattern of discrimination.
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eSchool News
A new survey demonstrates a critical need for continued federal investment in a fund that helps schools address the non-academic needs having a dramatic influence on student learning and achievement. The Student Support and Academic Enrichment program is designed as a flexible funding block grant and is flexible enough that schools can use it for a variety of needs.
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Fast Company
Could the items on your desk be hurting your productivity? Experts say yes. Whether it's creating clutter that makes it hard to find what you need or providing a distraction that ruins your focus, the items you keep nearby have an impact on your work performance.
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Leadership Freak
Position, status and success don't magically make you superior to others. Know-it-all leaders become less than they could be.
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Harvard Business Review
You define the contours of your character and the shape of your life by what you say no to. For example, saying no to invitations is the way you safeguard the attention you need to say yes to what matters most. Saying no to demands that compromise your values is how you secure your hold on those values. Articulating your reservations about a proposal is the work of acquainting yourself with your own thoughts. Expressing disagreement with an exuberant crowd is the very sacrament of personal integrity.
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Forbes
"People management" is a term often thrown about in leadership circles and HR departments, but it means different things to different people. Sure, you can wrap it up in the category of human resource management as part of the hiring and firing process, but to those of us in the C-suite, it means something more. People management is about bringing out the best in a person, unlocking an employee’s potential in a way that propels them and your company to greater engagement and success.
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By: Anne Rose (commentary)
 I am not advocating parenting your employees. But some of your employees may not have had the best role models in their life, so they have undeveloped critical judgment skills and poor decision-making with an inability to predict the consequences of their behavior. I worked with a young lady once who had barely been on the job for one week before asking for a day off to go shopping with her mother. That judgment is bad enough, but she confided to me that her mother had advised her to simply call in sick and not risk asking for the day off!
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Leadership Freak
Problems are spiny gifts wrapped in sandpaper. It's foolish to wish for problem-free leadership. The four benefits of persistent problems: No 1. The prospect of becoming your best self. "Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do." Francis Hesselbein. Discomfort and distress are the hammer and anvil of becoming. Personal growth gives meaning to persistent problems because problems help you become yourself.
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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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EdScoop
Education leaders are applauding the Federal Communications Commission for proposing a new fund that will continue efforts to bring modern broadband service to rural communities. But they also expressed concerns over a separate proposal to limit funding for several other broadband initiatives.
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eSchool News
Digital portfolios aren't new, but they continue to be used in unique and innovative ways. When students of any age build a digital portfolio, they're creating a way to both look back at their best work and track progress to see how far their learning and achievement have come. Digital portfolios also help students take ownership of their learning, because they develop student voice and learn how to assess their work to choose examples that best demonstrate application of knowledge.
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THE Journal (commentary)
Derik Moore, a contributor for THE Journal, writes: "Through decades in district communications, I've seen our ability to reach stakeholders more effectively blossom, from websites to mobile devices to social media. But with all those new channels has come the responsibility for managing them. How can a communications director effectively control the firehose of information without getting bogged down in website maintenance or constantly responding to a plethora of social media accounts? At the Sheldon Independent School District, we manage through a combination of outsourcing what we need to and sharing responsibility internally where we can."
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EdTech Magazine
On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 7, essentially bringing the life of the operating system to an end after a decade. For IT directors at K–12 schools currently running the OS, now is the time to evaluate options for next steps. While some may choose to continue using Windows 7 without support for the time being, this is hardly an ideal solution. With no further security or performance updates available, choosing to stay the course will only delay the inevitable.
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Tech&Learning
As the costs for devices and applications decrease, technology use is increasing In classrooms across the country. Growth is particularly high in web-based devices. A recent University of Phoenix College of Education survey showed that about 58% of teachers use educational apps and 41% use social media. As tablets, Chromebooks and other handheld devices are employed in classrooms, instruction relies more and more on apps instead of on traditional computer-based programs.
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Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act puts more pressure on schools to ensure their students show up every day. But when it comes to addressing chronic absenteeism, some educators and policy makers say they are building the plane in the air, relying on a growing body of research about everything from student health and motivation to mentoring to family poverty to find ways to move the needle.
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Education Week
School desegregation continues to make waves in the 2020 presidential campaign, particularly for two Democratic front-runners, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris of California. But a dispute between the Trump administration and some civil rights advocates over the federal Fair Housing Act illustrates the extent to which education segregation cuts across policy issues, and the challenges school integration advocates face at a national level that go way beyond debate-stage arguments over "busing."
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Education World
Mindfulness — or training one's attention to focus on the present moment — has become all the rage, filtering into schools and classrooms. Books and articles suggest that teachers and students can benefit from mindfulness practices such as mindful breathing, meditation and mindful walking.
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Education DIVE
With teacher shortages remaining an ongoing concern for many states and districts — and the conditions that bred them contributing to teacher strikes nationwide in the past two years — recruitment and retention are top of mind for K-12 administrators. Low and stagnant pay and benefits in the face of rising costs of living, as well as years of scapegoating by public officials, have made the profession unattractive to many.
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Language Magazine
In some cases, a dyslexia diagnosis may mean that alternative teaching methods might be necessary to help children be successful, for it is through empowerment of bright students with dyslexia that they will ultimately fulfill their potential.
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eSchool News
The nation needs to engage more minorities and girls in computer science if it hopes to build a diverse and talented workforce — after all, great ideas and innovation don't lie exclusively within white men's brains. There has in recent years been a louder and more resounding call for girls to enter the coding world. This call is buoyed in large part by Computer Science Education Week, the Hour of Code, and extra-curricular coding groups for girls.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Tan Huynh, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "We know that in many districts, the ELL population is increasing. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that 'The percentage of public school students in the United States who were English language learners (ELLs) was higher in fall 2016 (9.6 percent, or 4.9 million students) than in fall 2000 (8.1 percent, or 3.8 million students)' (2017)."
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 Some parents of children with disabilities readily accept whatever the school's IEP team members recommend. After all, they reason, these people are the professionals. They know best. Other parents believe it's critical that they participate in every aspect of developing, implementing, and assessing their child's IEP. They believe that they know a great deal about their child's needs that school-IEP team members need to address but may not know or fully appreciate. They see much that school personnel don't.
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Psych Central
New sixth grade students who participate in a social intervention designed to relieve their transition-related fears are more likely to have better grades and attendance and fewer behavioral problems throughout middle school, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The interventions, taught in the form of reading and writing exercises, are targeted to ease sixth graders' fears about "fitting in" at their new schools with a message that the angst they're feeling is "both temporary and normal," and that help is available from school staff.
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Taylor & Francis Group via Science Daily
A new study reveals that school fitness tests have little impact on student attitudes to PE — contrary to polarized views on their merits — and for many students, fitness testing during PE may be wasting valuable class time when used in isolation from the curriculum.
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
Research has shown that, despite great efforts, one in three children continue to experience bullying in school. However, research also has indicated that environmental and psychological factors might play an important role in minimizing bullying behaviors. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that students who feel a greater sense of belonging with their peers, family and school community are less likely to become bullies.
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The Associated Press
Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online. The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It helps to take a break from it for perspective, said Whalen, now a 19-year-old college student in Utah. There's a rise in cyberbullying nationwide, with three times as many girls reporting being harassed online or by text message than boys, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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University of Washington via Science Daily
In a pilot study, researchers explored art-based mindfulness activities that schools could use to reduce headaches, a common side effect of stress in adolescent girls. After three weeks of twice-weekly mindfulness and art therapy sessions, 8 teenage girls reported experiencing significantly fewer headaches.
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The Brookings Institution
Policymakers and leaders at multiple levels have been paying increased attention to community schools — schools that engage families and community organizations to provide well-rounded support to students. Recently, presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden called for expanding community schools. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, another presidential candidate, has created the largest community school initiative in the country with over 200 sites.
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NAESP
Three years ago, Kelley Begley McCall attended her first NAESP conference in Philadelphia — and she's returned every year since. Here's why: "As one of the cofounders of Moms As Principals, I believe in the power of being a connected educator. It is because of those connections that I have stayed in the role of principal. As I reflect back on this year's conference, I can't help but want to share why I believe the conference is a must for any leader."
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NAESP
During the Pre-K–8 Principals Conference in Spokane, Washington, keynote speaker Michael Fullan highlighted his latest research on deep learning and revealed an inspiring message on how students and teachers respond best if they are focusing on global competencies. Fullan engaged, motivated, and challenged school administrators from across the country to lead students in finding their purpose in life by becoming nuanced leaders.
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