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By: Kimberly Ragland (commentary)
Every teacher on the planet knows what I'm talking about when I say I had "the dream" last night. You know, the one where you show up to the first day of school dressed in shorts and a tank top. Your walls are completely blank, and you can't find any prepared lesson plans or materials. Sound familiar? Why do we always have "the dream?" It's because teacher preparation is key. We know that if we're not ready to go when school starts, it sets the tone for our students.
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THE Journal
Nearly a million violent incidents took place in U.S. public schools during the 2017-2018 school year. Of the 962,300 physical attacks, threats, sexual assaults, rapes and robberies, less than a quarter (24 percent) took place in majority minority schools, where the minority enrollment was 50 percent or more. The number of violent incidents rose from 15.5 percent in the 2015-2016 school year to 21.3 percent for 2017-2018.
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Language Magazine
Box Tops for Education is now offering an app that allows users to scan their store receipts and earn money for local schools. The Box Tops program, which was founded by General Mills in 1996, allows consumers to collect box tops from participating products and send them to their child’s enrolled elementary or middle school. Schools then send the box tops, each worth 10 cents, to General Mills to be redeemed for cash. Since its inception, the Box Tops program has raised upwards of $913 million for more than 70,000 schools across the country.
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Education Next
For families living in neighborhoods with low-performing schools, choice-friendly policies open up an array of options. Students can seek out district or charter schools with stronger academic programs, or look for schools that match their unique interests or needs. The concept is simple, but families who want to take the school-choice route may find that getting students to and from school presents a significant roadblock.
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HR DIVE
Front-line managers can have a profound effect on workplace dynamics. HR departments are well-positioned to lead the charge on addressing managers' shortcomings, especially when flaws become problematic for individual workers and teams.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Though I have never been accused of being nice at work, my sister suffers from chronic niceness. She recently joked if she ever had to terminate someone, instead of firing them, she would likely end up baking them cookies and finding some way to share her job, à la Norm Peterson from "Cheers." While I would love to work in a place full of people like my sister, I am not sure how productive it would be. Here are some problems with nice employees and a few ways we figured out to address them so everyone wins.
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Entrepreneur
Management principles such as instilling a growth mindset in your employees or leading with empathy can pose a noteworthy obstacle in and of themselves, but when you are responsible for managing a large team, that challenge can become even greater. The larger your team, the harder it can be to give each person the individual attention they deserve while still finding time for other important management tasks. If you're not careful, it becomes all too easy to get overwhelmed or to let certain responsibilities slip.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Darin Rowell, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "If you haven't yet built powerful relationships at work — the type that can be trusted both to endure and to deliver results when needed — it's time to start. Research shows that your ability to empathize with, connect with, and influence others is a pivotal skill for success. But time and again in my work with leaders across industries and geographies, I've seen people struggle with how to build those relationships."
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By Lisa Cole (commentary)
 "Improvise! Adapt! Overcome!" I feel like I'm doing this a lot lately. I first heard this phrase when my son was in high school — it's what his AP chemistry teacher barked at his students when they complained. Considered an informal U.S. Marines slogan, it sure can help direct us when we're faced with change — be it desired or not. Most of us are content operating within our regularities, routines and rituals. We like the stability and safety of the status quo. When things get shaken up, often we get frustrated, impatient and mad.
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HR DIVE
Two organizational structures clash in the world of work, and to reconcile them, leaders must pursue another thing entirely: belonging. Hierarchies and networks are the two forces in conflict, Luminate Co-Founder and Chief Movement Officer Seth Mattison told attendees at the 2019 Disability Management Employer Coalition Annual Conference. The former is the organizational structure most seasoned professionals have known throughout their entire lives, Mattison said. The latter characterizes a burgeoning world, one that bases itself in "networks of information and resources, talent and people," he said.
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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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Forbes (commentary)
Ryan Wines, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "My family and I recently enjoyed three nights at a Japanese onsen resort on the bank of Lake Chuzenji, tucked away in the mountains of Japan. This onsen, and others like it, exist because of the natural hot springs in the region. The water from these hot springs — which has long been believed to have healing, rejuvenating properties — is piped into pools for resort guests to enjoy. These pools are known as onsens."
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EdTech Magazine
At Vertiv, we see a lot of K–12 schools looking for ways to integrate IT into their classrooms and curricula, despite being behind the technology curve due to shrinking federal and state funding and never-ending campaigns for local support. It's a credit to the teachers and administrators who recognize the importance of including critical modern skills in their administrative and educational efforts, but it can be a daunting challenge. Industry experts surveyed for Vertiv's recent Data Center 2025 report paint an interesting picture of the data center's future, and the outcome looks promising for IT in the K–12 space.
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EdTech Magazine
Schools are finding new ways to take a digital approach to learning across K–12 subjects. That's long been true in science, technology, engineering and math, which have been at the forefront of digital integration. But as educational focus expands from just STEM to include arts in a STEAM approach, teachers are finding new applications for this kind of technology to encourage digital creativity in their classrooms.
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Tech&Learning (commentary)
Rita Mortenson, a contributor for Tech&Learning, writes: "As the Educational Technology Coach and a District Personalized Learning Coach for Verona Area High School, in Verona, Wisconsin, a key part of my role is supporting my colleagues as they learn to integrate technology into the classroom. In our fourth year as a 1:1 iPad school (K-12), we have made great strides in our digital transformation, and in order to do this I have been actively working with teachers to develop lessons and content for our 1:1 iPad environment to meet the needs of all learners by incorporating universal design for learning principles."
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Education is not always a top-tier issue in presidential debates, but it has increasingly become a topic that needs to be addressed. 2016 candidates touched it almost in passing, disappointing many. This is not the case with the candidates for 2020. They are vocal and are not afraid to address the biggest questions in education. The Democratic primary field has thus far taken education up as a major issue rather than leaving it to state and local authorities like before.
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Education Week
Twenty-five percent of respondents to a recent national poll identified "a lack of financial support" as one of the biggest problems facing public schools in their communities. Money — or the lack of it — has been the most common response to the question on the annual PDK International Poll about public attitudes toward education for 18 years running, outranking other factors like drugs, violence or a lack of student discipline.
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Edutopia
One day, Alyssa, an eighth-grade student, came to our middle school wearing a purple bandanna as a headband, even though she knew that our school's dress code does not allow bandannas. While it seemed like a simple issue to reconcile, I soon found another teacher knocking on my door that morning, asking me to tell Alyssa to take the bandanna off. He said he didn't feel comfortable handling the situation but knew I could persuade Alyssa to follow the rules because she trusted me.
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Education Week
A post on Twitter has unleashed a flood of creative responses to one of the Most Persistent Teaching Questions of All Time: How do you get ever-chatty middle schoolers to quiet down and pay attention? The Twitter thread, started on Monday by Baltimore English/language arts teacher Laquisha Hall, has sparked 140 suggestions so far. They're a refreshing mix of traditional, funny, predictable, and unconventional.
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Teaching Channel (commentary)
"We all know Social Emotional Learning is deeply important for all students (and all of us teachers, too). We know it's not enough to just sprinkle SEL in here and there. We've got to integrate SEL with academics in an inclusive, meaningful, and ongoing way, which is clearly shown in research. But how? After all, none of us want SEL to become just another box to check off the list."
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Education DIVE
With summer break rounding the halfway mark toward a new school year, educators will find that not every pupil forgot the previous year's lessons during the time off. Experts believe summer learning loss is a bit more nuanced and doesn't impact every student the same way. "Some students have gains. There’s not a set number for everyone," Rebecca Lavinson, policy associate with the nonprofit American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., told Education Dive. Lavinson suggests that any outreach from educators — whether at the start of summer, ideally or later — is helpful.
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Edutopia
When Temple Grandin — a pioneer in the field of animal behavior who also has autism — worked on a farm milking cows, she had difficulty remembering each step in the process. No matter how many times she was shown how to do it, the information wouldn't stay straight in her head. "I absolutely cannot remember a sequence of instructions," she explains.
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CNN
Today's classroom is a far cry from the traditional image of locker desks, chalkboards and pencils. With education expected to prepare children for a fast-changing digital workplace, technology-led learning is becoming the norm and kids may be coding before they can read and write.
As a result, global spending on educational technology is booming. It's expected to double to $341 billion between 2018 and 2025, according to data and research firm HolonIq.
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EdSurge
Some U.S. teachers have just about had enough. No, really. A new report from Phi Delta Kappa International, a professional association for educators, finds that half of teachers have "seriously considered" leaving teaching in the last few years. Their reasoning? Many say they're working longer hours for less pay than ever before. They juggle high-stress classrooms and constant pressure from administrators and state officials to improve students' standardized test scores. On top of that, they don't feel they have earned the respect of students and their parents.
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University of Texas at Austin via Science Daily
Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students' attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to new research.
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Edutopia
A 1970s-era study found that, when asked to draw a scientist, boys and girls drew males an astonishing 99.4 percent of the time. Looking at roughly 5,000 drawings collected between 1966 and 1977, researchers determined that "only 28 were of female scientists," as Edutopia reported in "50 Years of Children Drawing Scientists."
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EdSource
Lynette Stewart plays with her son Quincy, 3, in Marin City, California. When her son Quincy was six weeks old, Lynette Stewart dropped him off at a child care center in Long Beach, California and headed back to work, with a hard ball of worry in her chest. "I cried my eyes out, especially that first week of leaving him there," Stewart said. "No one wants to take their baby, who can't communicate, to a stranger at that age." At the time, in 2015, Stewart was working as an administrative assistant at a small company that made kombucha, a fermented tea. She was raising her two boys, Quincy and his teenage brother, alone while earning just $17 an hour — about $35,360 a year. Stewart had taken the six weeks of partially paid disability leave available to mothers in California after they give birth.
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NAESP
The NAESP Pre-K–8 Principals Conference is by far one of the best conferences I have ever attended, and it became more evident than ever during my transition from a middle-level principal who supervised elementary principals to the head of a preschool education program.
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NAESP
Inspire. Motivate. Persuade. Encourage. Influence. Move. Stir. That's what the recent NAESP Pre-K–8 Principals Conference in Spokane, Washington, set out to do for leaders in education. And closing out the conference with keynote speaker Kwame Alexander, an author and a poet who has a way with all of those words and so many more, was the best way to inspire attendees to go forward and bring about change in their schools.
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