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School Leaders Now
For decades, the principal was the sole holder of power within the school. Ask most veteran teachers, and they will tell you about an administration that was the authority on everything. The principal had the first and final say on all matters relating to the school. However, the role of the principal has evolved, and the demands of the job now require more than a dictator making unilateral decisions. The most successful leaders are collaborative and use a system that makes stakeholders and leaders out of everyone.
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Edutopia
School leaders face many difficult choices in how to approach teacher evaluations with their staff in a way that is empowering and uplifting and gets to the goal of improving instruction. If an administrator rarely visits a classroom, the process can seem inauthentic to the teacher. And the many hours that can go into writing an evaluation report can feel pointless when very little is tied to it, such as a bonus, raise, or promotion. Finally, there are often so many components of instruction that need to be considered in an evaluation report that the process can be overwhelming for even the most evaluation-enthusiastic site leaders.
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Entrepreneur
Check out any publication talking about HR these days and you'll see that diversity and inclusion is a hot topic. And we're totally on board and encouraged, because from any and all angles — ethically, socially, culturally and in every sense of business success — the mission to create more inclusive work environments is a positive development.
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eSchool News
Teachers are overwhelmingly turning to social media and online resources to drive their own professional learning, according to new Speak Up Survey data released by Project Tomorrow. The data gives district administrators insight into what teachers still struggle with in the classroom, as well as the professional learning approaches they say they most value.
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Leadership Freak
If you don't like the people around you, you hate showing up at work. Jamie Naughton, Chief of Staff for Zappos, told me she used to think, "Happiness at work was more in your job duties." Jamie said, "We wrongly believe a new job, promotion, or getting a new boss will make us happy."
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Inc.
When American business executive Douglas Conant took over as the president and CEO of Campbell's Soup in 2001, he was faced with a formidable task. "The company's stock was falling steeply," writes Roger Dean Duncan in a profile for Fast Company. "Of all the major food companies in the world, Campbell's was the rock bottom performer. Conant's challenge was to lead the company back to greatness."
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Harvard Business Review
Working parents sometimes struggle with the feeling that they are either letting down their family or not meeting their career goals. It can be hard to strike the right balance. As with most of the challenges we face at work, having an open and honest conversation is one of the first steps toward finding a solution. If you're able to talk about the issue, you can often resolve it, or at least come to a compromise.
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Educaiton DIVE
Managing a school and district is a juggling act. Add into this the oversight of not just teachers academic skills, but their habits, and curriculum designers can quickly feel something slip. Offering teachers professional development opportunities may help, and these activities don't always need to focus on hard skills.
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School Leaders Now
Tara Taylor's journey as a single parent started when her daughter was 6 months old. Now, her daughter is in college, and Taylor can reflect on her experience as a single parent during those K–12 years. In short: It's not easy. "Think about all the challenges that two parents face," says Taylor, "and multiply that." For single parents, getting the kids out the door in the morning, handling homework at night and juggling school events with work can be tough. Here are 10 things your school can do to help make it a little easier for single parents.
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Chalkbeat
Gary Hughes remembers rolling his eyes last year after learning that Nashville's new school superintendent was completely revamping the way principals like himself would be supervised. After all, as a 10-year school administrator, Hughes thought he had done just fine under the previous system. Occasional drop-in visits from central office personnel found that his school was in compliance with all district rules and regulations.
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School Leaders Now
You are on the eve of your first year of helping lead a school. Whatever path you took to get here, it was likely long and full of twists and turns. You chose this path because you have a vision for how to create a thriving, loving, and inspiring community for teaching and learning. So when the going gets tough, here are some essential pieces of wisdom to remember as you embark on this new phase of your professional life as a new administrator.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Ugh, team building. From HR-unfriendly happy hours or rock-climbing walls to cheesy ice-breakers and overpriced workshops, there are so many options for team building it can be numbing. Further, so many of us have had more annoying team-building experiences than positive ones it can be hard to find the motivation to participate fully, even if it might be a productive event. Enter: passive team building. Passive team building activities allow everyone to participate in a group project at their own level of social comfort.
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Forbes
It's easy to revert to past behavior once you receive a promotion. After all, what you did (behaviorally speaking) and how you performed clearly worked otherwise you wouldn't have been promoted, right? While it's true that your past behavior may have catapulted you forward, it's also true that what got you here won't get you there. However, when you include the fast pace of business today it becomes even more appealing to revert to what you already know because, well, who has time to think and reflect on what could work? You need results and you need them now.
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Education Week
A bipartisan bill now in Congress would give the National Institutes of Health $95 million over five years to fund studies on how media and technology effect children. The proposed Children and Media Research Advancement Act, or CAMRA, outlines an ambitious research agenda. It calls for studies on the impact of "social media, applications, websites, television, motion pictures, artificial intelligence, mobile devices, computers, video games, virtual and augmented reality, and other media formats as they become available" on children's cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development.
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THE Journal
The top learning priority in education for technology use is personalized learning. More than nine in 10 respondents to a survey on the topic reported that in the pursuit of encouraging personalized learning their districts 1) provide software or digital curriculum to classrooms (designated by 96 percent of participants); 2) provide computing devices to classrooms (94 percent); and 3) provide professional development in personalized learning practices (92 percent). Two-thirds of districts (65 percent) also assess teachers on their implementation of personalized learning practices.
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EdTech Magazine
Ransomware hackers continue to threaten and target K–12 schools, and they're not likely to quit anytime soon. Ransomware works in several ways, but all of them prevent access or use of computing resources until a ransom is paid. For example, crypto-based ransomware encrypts data so no one can access it, and locker-based ransomware locks a computer so no one can use it. Even worse, another form of ransomware, known as wiperware, makes each computer unusable even if the user or school pays up.
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MindShift
In every classroom, teachers try to engage students who have a variety of temperaments: extroverts, introverts and ambiverts. They work with children who crave sensory stimulation and with those who are highly sensitive to noise and visual distraction. While one temperament is not better than any other, introverted students are often "overlooked, undervalued and overstimulated in our schools," said Heidi Kasevich, a 20-year teaching veteran and director of education for Quiet Revolution, an outgrowth of Susan Cain's best-selling book on the power of introverts.
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CNBC
Kids love it, parents may dread it, but one thing's certain: The annual school shopping ritual is a smack to the wallet every year. This year, back-to-school spending will hit $82.8 billion for K-12 and college combined, according to the National Retail Federation's annual survey. That's almost as high as last year's $83.6 billion. As well as money, families spend precious time scanning sale circulars and crossing off items on their school shopping lists.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Valentina Gonzalez, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "The beginning of the school year is both an exciting time and a busy time for teachers and students. Teaching in the middle grades can add a few extra layers to the equation. Middle grade students themselves are unique in that they care so much about what their peers think. They are highly distracted, wondering if they fit in and whether they are liked."
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Education Week
Teachers who reported using at least one textbook aligned to the Common Core State Standards were more likely to report engaging students in key mathematical practices that those who didn't, according to a new study. Despite the positive correlation, only a small fraction of teachers surveyed reported using materials with a high alignment rating, concludes the study from the RAND Corporation. It's the latest research project to probe how curriculum alignment does — and doesn't — change teachers' understanding of what they're expected to teach.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 The latest craze with my New Hampshire high school teachers is to supplement, or in some cases replace, their institutional, inflexible classroom furniture with more student-friendly options. In a school with a very tiny furniture budget, my staff has accomplished this task by soliciting donations, applying for grants, and in some cases, building their own furniture. A walk through the few re-imagined spaces that we have completed thus far is reminiscent of a trip through a trendy Ikea showroom.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
What STEM lessons will you use with your students this year? This question probably looms large as you look for practical tips and information about quality STEM learning experiences for your students.
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MindShift
When a colleague invited Joy Kirr to a professional development day featuring the Scottish design thinking expert Ewan McIntosh she didn't think it would be life changing. She was flattered to be asked, and wanted to make the most of the opportunity, but her experience of professional development up to that point didn't lead her to believe it would be Earth-shattering. But then, McIntosh gave the teachers assembled a simple task: Pick one problem in your school and start working on it today.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Shane Safir, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "It’s the end of the school year and I'm sitting with a young principal I coach who has deep expertise, heart, and know-how. Suddenly, she breaks down sobbing. 'I'm miserable in this job,' she says. 'I want to stay the course, but I don't know how to get my head above water. I just don't feel any joy in this work.'"
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Chalkbeat
Does tightening the screws on schools and teachers lead to benefits for students? For the past couple of decades, school reform efforts have assumed that the answer is yes. Setting ambitious goals, and putting pressure on schools to reach them, would push students ahead. And past research has shown that math scores rose as more states began threatening and sanctioning schools with low test scores in the 2000s.
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Education Week
A sweeping new report on the state of teacher preparation finds that few aspiring educators are pursuing majors that would equip them to work with English language learners and bilingual students. In 2016, about 4 percent of the students who completed teacher preparation programs majored in English-as-a-second-language instruction while 2 percent majored in bilingual, multilingual and multicultural education, according to federal data compiled by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
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Chalkbeat
Test scores were rising at Fuller Elementary School when Marilyn McCottrell took over in 2016. Yet troubling trends loomed behind the numbers. "A lot of growth has been made," said McCottrell, Fuller's third principal in six years. "But that growth is not equal among students." She's talking about African-American boys. Black girls had driven most of Fuller's academic improvement since the 2012-13 school year, when Chicago Public Schools handed management of the Bronzeville school over to the nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership, which replaced the staff and principal in a turnaround effort.
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NBC News
Parents and students at the Isaac Del Rosario elementary school open house noticed the newly renovated facilities as they filled out school bus transportation forms for their children and met some of the teachers. "Mami, look at the basketball court! They painted it!" said a little boy as soon as he walked into the school towards a first-grade classroom alongside his mother, while passing by a handful of classrooms that were still being painted and repaired on Friday.
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Arizona Republic
The stakes are high at Christa Mussi's job. She's Dobson High School's first line of defense in helping students with social and emotional problems. She's their cruise director come college application season. She's the gatekeeper when someone wants to change classes. And with hundreds of students on her roster — with the goal of seeing 20 a day — her workload is colossal.
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NAESP
In my work building partnerships for the Inglewood Unified School District in Inglewood, CA, I have worked with members of our community to create beautiful projects and inspiring experiences for the children in our schools. It is absolutely true that this work takes a lot of hustle and creative thinking. But there is one thing I always remind people: partnerships are relationships. Every conversation I have begins with this idea in mind. I never ask, "What can you do for us?" I ask, "What can we do together?" From there, we're able to dream big together.
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NAESP
Have you ever wanted to invite your Member of Congress or state legislator to visit your school, but you weren't really sure how to do it? In preparation for National Principals Month in October, which will include school shadowing visits for state and federal legislators, NAESP is partnering with the Congressional Management Foundation to deliver a webinar on the nuts and bolts of inviting your legislators to your school and ensuring a successful visit. This webinar takes place Monday, Aug. 27, 4–5 p.m. EDT.
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