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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Teachers feel anxious about the new school year. How principals can help
Education Week
Teachers lean on summer as a time to refresh and recharge for the academic year ahead. This summer, the need was perhaps greater than in any period in recent history. In one recent nationwide teacher survey, half of respondents reported feeling burned out; more than a quarter had symptoms of depression; and close to one in four considered leaving their jobs by the end of the year.
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What students will need as the year begins
Edutopia
As we reflect on our current educational landscape and the social and emotional implications of the pandemic over the past 18 months, we see that, unfortunately, many school districts and policy makers around the country are addressing "learning loss" as one of our greatest challenges in the 2021–2022 academic year.
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Pandemic prompts changes in how future teachers are trained
The Associated Press
Before last year, a one-credit technology course for students pursuing master's degrees in education at the University of Washington wasn't seen as the program's most relevant. Then COVID-19 hit, schools plunged into remote learning, and suddenly material from that course was being infused into others.
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4 lessons school administrators learned last year and will apply in the fall
Education Week
If this pandemic has taught us anything, it is the importance of relationships in our schools. Specifically, to be effective throughout the pandemic, administrators needed to work on their ability to listen. Over the past year, everyone had different opinions, views, suggestions, and ideas of what needed to be done for our students, each conflicting with the other.
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Managing reunions
Language Magazine
This fall, many educators across the U.S. will be welcoming students back to brick-and-mortar classrooms for the first time in 18 months. Along with feeling excitement at resuming in-person learning, educators may simultaneously feel enormous pressure to quickly assess learning loss and fill in gaps, all while ensuring grade-level learning for all students. This fall, educators will face an unprecedented challenge.
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As schools hire teachers and counselors, a funding cliff looms
Chalkbeat
The schools of Greeley, Colorado are in the midst of a hiring spree. The 27-school district, about an hour north of Denver, plans to hire 12 social workers, eight counselors, seven attendance monitors, another seven credit recovery specialists, five health aides, three nurses — plus 46 teachers.
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Summer funding helped school districts address disparities
The Associated Press
After another pandemic-disrupted school year, organizers of vastly expanded summer learning opportunities are investing heavily in efforts to make them accessible to the most vulnerable students. While there have been success stories, the programs have faced many of the same challenges that educators have been up against since the pandemic hit: Attendance has been inconsistent, some families have lost interest, and COVID-19 still has many reluctant to let students learn in-person.
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In the coming year, student data can drive learning plans that help all students catch up and move new learning forward. We’ve put together resources, worksheets, and other tools to help your team identify student needs, guide student-centered instruction and intervention decisions, and accelerate each student’s growth. Open free toolkit.
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Lack of in-person instruction pushed public school enrollment down, new research finds
Chalkbeat
About 300,000 U.S. students didn't attend public school last year because their schools didn't offer in-person learning, a team of researchers at Stanford University has estimated. That explains about a quarter of the country's overall public school enrollment drop during the pandemic, when headcounts fell by about 1.1 million students.
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For fearless leaders, the journey never stops
Entrepreneur
If success really matters to you, then you won't be content to stay where you are. There has to be growth and progress. You have to face your fears. This is what we usually mean when we talk about becoming a leader or being on a leadership journey.
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How leaders can increase engagement and build stronger teams
Forbes
For many people, team building activities can feel like a chore and another work obligation that distracts from what some consider to be more important and worthwhile efforts. But it's an undeniable fact that team building can greatly impact projects, outcomes and morale. And research actually shows that 97% of executives and their employees agree that team alignment is crucial to project outcomes.
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How to lead with patience and not get walked on
Leadership Freak
You were born exasperated and impatient. Patience emerges after we learn that we aren't the center of the universe. In other words, when you know and accept your limitations and frailties you become able to practice patience.
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My employee won't speak to me
Inc.
Inc.com columnist Alison Green answers questions about workplace and management issues — everything from how to deal with a micromanaging boss to how to talk to someone on your team about body odor.
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Leadership — Are you using the most effective ratio?
The Lead Change Group
Leaders engage in a number of related activities including managing and leading, discovery and delivery, as well as giving and receiving feedback. How much time should you spend doing each activity? Of course, it depends on the situation. There is no one approach (ratio) that can be used in every situation. Versatility is key. You must determine what's required to achieve your goals.
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Give teachers meaningful insights that fuel professional learning teams using your existing classroom assessments. Forefront puts teachers at the center of efforts to systematically collect and analyze evidence of student learning. Aggregate these results for an unparalleled vision of student learning. Download our free data discussions checklist.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Universal pre-K, free community college tuition: What's in $3.5T budget bill
ABC News
Senate Democrats on Monday unveiled details of their $3.5 trillion budget resolution, setting up Congress to begin work on the second portion of President Joe Biden's major economic objectives. The legislative language comes just as the Senate is preparing to complete its work on a separate $1.1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill late Monday or early Tuesday morning. Taken together, the bills are designed to comprise the whole of Biden's American Families Plan priorities.
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Why Cardona is now expressing support for student and staff vaccine mandates
District Administration Magazine
Teachers and students may be required to get COVID vaccines to keep schools open throughout the pandemic, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says. California and New York City have so far required teachers to get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing. Cardona not only said he supports these mandates but might also expand the requirement once the vaccines are fully authorized by the FDA for Americans of all ages.
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The 3 areas Title I educators say American Rescue Plan funds should be spent on
District Administration Magazine
More than $120 billion has been allocated to schools from the American Rescue Plan. But the vast majority of individuals charged with ensuring student success at diverse K-12s and in under-resourced programs — Title I educators — say they haven't had a voice in how it should be spent.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Software keeps mental health at the forefront as students transition back to classrooms
EdTech Magazine
The many disruptions of the pandemic created well-documented challenges for K–12 students as they continued their studies from home. Separation from peers, adapting to virtual classrooms and dealing with the anxiety around the crisis led to a mentally fraught year. Many students will return to physical classrooms for the 2021–2022 school year, which may prove to be equally challenging.
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How to protect your district from ransomware attacks
eSchool News
As with almost every industry, COVID-19 has required educational institutions to embrace digital technology for remote learning and student, teacher, and internal administrative meetings and collaboration. Web applications are adapting the learning experience, and streamlining the way educational institutions work. K-12, college, and university campuses are increasingly reliant upon these digital technologies.
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Not your dad's diorama: Using tech tools to enhance a traditional assignment
Edutopia
Over 80 years ago, John Dewey said, "If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." These words still ring true, especially in the implementation of technology in the classroom. Dioramas have been around for a long time, and they have value in a lot of different contexts. But it's time to go beyond the same projects that students have been doing for generations.
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National K-12 cybersecurity learning standards aim to strengthen pipeline
K-12 DIVE
The new K-12 cybersecurity learning standards have been touted as the first of their kind by Cyber.org as the nation faces both a growing number of advanced cyberattacks and a skills gap for professionals in the space. Each core concept contains sub-concepts and topics, with standards for each arranged by grade bands that define understanding for K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. The document also includes eight different approaches to implementation for teachers, school districts, state departments of education, and informal education partners.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Download these free digital images that can be used on social media, signage or on Zoom to celebrate the start of the new school year. Use these back to school posters to welcome students to a fun and exciting school year. Download now
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11 strategies for facing this year's classroom challenges
Education Week
The new school year has already begun for some and will soon kick off for the rest of us. Today's post offers some advice for all of us on how to face it ... Today, Meg Tegerdine, Robert S. Harvey, Lauren Nifong, and Julia Stearns Cloat offer their best suggestions.
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At summer camp: More anxiety, more learning, more hugs — Same fun
MindShift
Allison Perez, 11, and on the cusp of sixth grade in the Elmsford Union Free School District in New York, had been working all morning to build a rocket she would launch as soon as it was fit to fly. After more than a year of interrupted learning, she was eager to see her project through. She shot the colorful 12-inch missile into the air with abandon on the last day of summer camp.
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5 learning strategies that are here to stay
eSchool News
In 2020, students, teachers, and parents made an extraordinary pivot to distance learning with no preparation at all. From the district perspective, investments have been made in technology and infrastructure that may not have been made otherwise. We all gained phenomenal skills and insights as a result of having to make this abrupt turn, and then having to sustain that as the global pandemic persisted.
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Keeping students' hands clean can increase school attendance rates by 29%-57%. The Personal Protected Quad-Sink, a high volume mobile hand wash station comes equipped with social distancing barriers, touchless dispensers, and can service 120 students in just 10 minutes. Prevent illness by providing safe convenient hand washing.
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Extraordinary virtual learning opportunities are still available for the summer! Explore space, travel to prehistoric times or enjoy our many other STEAM-focused virtual workshops.
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How teachers can communicate with families this year
Teaching Channel
Every school year, teachers get a fresh start with a new group of students and their families. One of the best ways to get prepared for the new school year is to think about effective communication. Families are truly a part of the instructional team, and are often eager to be involved. This past year provided families the opportunity to have valuable insight to students' learning, and it's safe to say many want to continue!
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Engaging resources were critical to successful pandemic learning
eSchool News
New research released from the Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University finds that digitally accessible, high-quality instructional materials designed to bring students, families, and educators together increased student learning and engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research reveals possibilities for sustained partnership between schools and families moving forward.
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40 anchor charts that nail reading comprehension
We Are Teachers
Being able to read words is one thing, but actually understanding what you're reading is another thing altogether. Reading comprehension enables students to succeed in other subjects and makes reading more enjoyable too. There are so many factors involved in developing reading comprehension. These anchor charts for reading will help your students tackle characters, plot, setting, vocabulary, close reading and so much more.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
10 ways parents are feeling about vaccinating their kids, wearing masks
District Administration Magazine
Close to half of parents of unvaccinated teens report that their kids are hesitant about inoculations while some parents of younger children plan to wait even after FDA approves the shot for all Americans. Across the country, a growing number of states and hundreds of districts are mandating masks but none have required that students get the vaccines, which have only been approved for emergency use and are not available to children under 12.
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We studied one million students. This is what we learned about masking.
Yahoo News
Returning to school this fall, children should be vaccinated if eligible, wear masks or prepare to rick getting COVID. Big questions loom over the upcoming back-to-school season: Should children be required to wear masks? Should children go to in-person classes at all? If we send children to school without masks, we increase their risk of acquiring Covid-19. Some could suffer illness or die. If we close schools, millions of children will suffer learning loss, and many of them may suffer lifelong effects on their physical and mental health.
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What if teaching mirrored how human brains learn?
The Brookings Institution
"Here we are again." These are the words of one art teacher in Tennessee that reflect educators' wariness about the new school year as a recent surge in COVID-19 threatens plans to resume in-person learning. Yet in the face of all this continued uncertainty, heroic educators still ask: How can I support my students? They consider both their students' socio-emotional skills and "unfinished" academic content.
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.IN THE STATES
Some Florida school districts will require masks. The governor may cut their funding
NPR
A battle is brewing in Florida over whether students will have to wear masks when they return to the classroom this fall. Several Florida school districts are keeping their mask mandates in place for the upcoming school year, despite an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis that leaves it up to parents to decide whether their children wear face coverings in school. School boards that don't eliminate mask mandates could face the loss of state funding.
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Tennessee schools prepares for 'a safe return'
Chalkbeat
Shelby County Schools is preparing for what it hopes will be its first full year of in-person classes since the 2018-2019 school year. The district worked behind the scenes this summer to ready its buildings, buses and staff for the first day of school Monday as the delta variant rages, leading to spikes in COVID-19 infections, child hospitalization and deaths.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
"Return to School Roadmap" with Miguel Cardona
NAESP
NAESP members are invited to engage with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Monday, Aug. 16 at 3:45 p.m. ET as he highlights the department's back-to-school roadmap. He'll also be answering questions during a Q&A.
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K-12 organizations strongly urge congress to include K-12 school facilities in reconciliation bill
NAESP
As Congress moves forward with negotiations on a budget reconciliation bill, NAESP and other national K-12 organizations are strongly urging the inclusion of at least $100 billion in direct grants and $30 billion in bonds for K-12 public school facilities — consistent with the Reopen and Rebuild America's Schools Act, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2020. K-12 infrastructure funding was not included in the Senate bipartisan infrastructure legislation, however the reconciliation bill provides Congress with another opportunity to provide robust federal investments in America's K-12 facilities.
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