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Education Week
In the wake of the largest U.S. immigration raid in a decade, educators in Mississippi this week were left to console and support children with detained parents. Now, school administrators and other educators across the country face the prospect that workplace raids could happen in their districts — and must address the fear and uncertainty that is likely gripping millions of their students. Nationally, at least five million children have at least one parent who is undocumented, according to a 2017 report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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eSchool News
In May 2019, 150 school principals from across the country participated in an edWeb survey on the topics, challenges, and accomplishments they experienced this year as the educational leaders in their buildings. Some of the most significant challenges and successes were highlighted in a recent edWebinar, presented by Shannon Holden, principal of Pierce City High School (MO), and Dr. L. Robert Furman, principal, of South Park Elementary Center.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Last month, ASCD released a series of articles on grading reform where both teachers and researchers identified key considerations for assessments that "fairly gauge and report students' learning" with the rise of the "no-grades classroom," one where the A-F system is replaced by one with methods that encourage students to take charge of their learning progress. As a professional community, we need to move to a model where we grade students on what they learn, not what they earn.
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The Hechinger Report
As instructors finalize lesson plans and schools across the country head back into session, there's been a recent and significant surge of interest in social and emotional learning curricula at both the federal and state levels. With few exceptions, policymakers, educators, families and communities in many states see the benefits of social and emotional learning and are united by shared goals to promote these practices as part of a well-rounded education.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Tiffany Delmore, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "Let's start with the good news: Recent Gallup survey results suggest the highest levels of employee engagement since 2000, at 34 percent. Unfortunately, that's a far cry from a world where even the majority of employees are engaged in their jobs, so there's still a massive amount of work to be done. Much has been said about the importance of engagement, but most of the current literature focuses on increases in productivity and retention rate that go along with an engaged workforce. I would add that there's another vital benefit hiding in plain sight: getting your employees to buy into your strategy and involve themselves in executing your business plan."
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 It turns out that trying to find our passion may be a futile search. For those of us who believe a passion is something we have and just need to discover, we may be setting ourselves up to fail. Researchers at Stanford and Yale found that those of us who believe passions can be found also tend to believe that once we find our passion, it will provide us with limitless motivation. Unfortunately, this means we may bounce from one thing to another, because as soon as the activity becomes difficult or unmotivating, we tend to believe it is because it is not our passion.
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Entrepreneur
Unemployment in the U.S. is sitting under 4%, which means that human capital has become a scarce resource. As an employer, that means that you should be doing everything that you can to attract, develop and retain the best possible employees. There are many mistakes that employer make with hiring that are avoidable are avoidable. Avoid these five mistakes, and you’ll be on your way to finding the right people every time.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
 There aren't enough hours in the day for everything you want to do, and this realization leads many people to multitask. However, multitasking can actually be counterproductive. While you may consider yourself an exception to the rule, the science and the experts disagree. In a Stanford University study, people who frequently engage in multitasking — and think they're excellent multitaskers — shift back and forth so often that it negatively impacts their ability to distinguish between important and irrelevant information.
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Forbes
Employee turnover has increased over the past several years, with approximately 42 million workers leaving their jobs in 2018, according to a study by the Work Institute. More than ever before, employees are likely to quit voluntarily, whether it's for more pay, a better opportunity or a different manager. The study further reported that approximately 40% of employees leave within the first 12 months of employment.
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Fast Company
We're living in a digital world — one where screens dominate our time. The average American adult spends three hours and 43 minutes on mobile devices, according to 2019 research by eMarketer. This doesn't include the time spent on a computer at work or parked in front of the television at home. It's easy to find an app or software platform to help you do run your life, making paper and pen feel old-school. But paper products offer advantages that tech does not.
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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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Leadership Freak
It's not the work; it's the people that drive you crazy. You love working with the people on your team. BUT there are a few things that drive you nuts. People with extraordinary strengths have exceptional weaknesses. Don't limit your success by eliminating remarkable people.
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Harvard Business Review
When it comes to hiring, democratic decisions lead to better outcomes. There is wisdom in crowds when it comes to spotting talent. When Google tracked the performance of recent hires against their interview ratings, the company found that averaging the ratings of a group of interviewers was by far a more accurate predictor of success than the rating of a single interviewer, even if that interviewer was an HR leader or one of the company's founders.
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EdScoop
Data is the key element to elevating services for teachers and students alike, the technology director for a Texas school district tells EdScoop in a recent video interview. "The biggest thing I think that we're looking at for this coming year is how do we use data better?" says Cindy Bingham, the executive director for technology services at Aldine Independent School District. "How do we use [data] to serve our children better?" Bingham oversees technology for the district that serves 67,000 students north of Houston. Sifting through all the various pieces of data to actually drive decisions though can be challenging, she says.
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eSchool News
When students feel like they are helping drive their education and have a say in their own learning — having student voice — achievement thrives. That's been a given, even when education technology was only a pencil and paper. Many edtech tools promise to help promote student voice, but how can educators tell which to choose?
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Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act's brand depends largely on the flexibility it provides states and districts. Yet one of ways it was designed to provide schools more freedom, in this case for funding systems, has been almost totally ignored. Now the Congressional Research Service has identified possible reasons for that. One potential culprit? Father Time. First, here's what we're talking about: Included in ESSA is a "Flexibility for Equitable Per-Pupil Spending" authority.
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eSchool News
We are leading a national conversation about the importance of "prevention" versus "treatment" of health and well-being of our youth, families, and society. It is critical, in our view, that all 50 state governors and chief state school officers relay to students, parents, health care professionals, and teachers the interconnectedness among mental health and well-being to their success in school and in life.
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Education DIVE
Teachers participating in the AEP also had a lot to say recently about student discipline trends as a part of a Thomas B. Fordham Institute report. Responses showed teachers support newer approaches to discipline, such as restorative practices, but roughly half think out-of-school suspension isn't used enough. The responses in this new survey suggest teachers are looking to administrators for leadership on interventions to improve student behavior.
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Edutopia
"Mental health days" now join the flu, stomachache, and common cold as excusable absences in schools in Oregon and Utah. Legislation passed this summer in Oregon will allow students five excusable mental health days in a three-month period. In Utah, permissible illnesses were expanded in 2018 to include mental illnesses in addition to physical illnesses — reports The New York Times and the Associated Press.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
If we want our students to be readers, we have to let them read. We have to freely give them time for the kind of reading that is guided by curiosity, joy and desire to fall deep into story. Pleasure reading. Real reading.
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MindShift
In 1987, two researchers in Wisconsin, Donna Recht and Lauren Leslie, constructed a miniature baseball field and installed it in an empty classroom in a junior high school. They peopled it with four-inch wooden baseball players arranged to simulate the beginning of a game. Then they brought in sixty-four seventh- and eighth-grade students who had been tested both for their general reading ability and their knowledge of baseball.
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THE Journal
A new research project has suggested that the dramatic changes that take place in the brains of young people offer "unique opportunities for positive, life-shaping development and for recovering from past adversity." For that to happen, however, the country also needs to address inequities in education, healthcare and other areas "that undermine the well-being of many adolescents and leave them less able to take advantage of the promise offered by this stage of life." People aged 10 to 25 make up almost a fourth of the U.S. population.
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The Hechinger Report
Taylor Correia-Podolske's great-grandmother has Alzheimer's, and the high-school junior was concerned about the isolation that her beloved relative and others like her suffer. After Correia-Podolske learned that musical memory was often intact even when other memory was gone, she decided to construct a senior-year project identifying a community need and proposing a way to address that need artistically. She engaged the residents of her great-grandmother's care facility in communal singing, using songs from their childhood in the African island nation of Cape Verde.
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The Atlantic
In school, "popularity" is a slippery concept, with kids falling in and out of it for no apparent reason. The hierarchies of middle and high school can be as mystifying years later as they were at the time. But researchers have been studying "popularity" in a systematic way for a while now, and one question they've dug into is to what degree the actions and customs of kids considered to be popular dictate what everyone else does. In other words, how much is the rest of the school trying to be like the popular kids? What researchers tend to find is that, yes, popular kids do shape the behavior of the broader student body — but only to a point.
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The Atlantic
Late on a fall afternoon, a skeleton crew staffed the cafeteria at New Canaan High School, in Connecticut. Custodial workers cleaned up the day's remains while one of the cooks prepped for the evening's athletic banquet. A woman entered quietly through the back door, the one designated for deliveries and employees. She wore a jacket over a loose gown. She clutched something to her chest that appeared to be a bag connected to an IV. "What are you doing here?" one of the workers asked.
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The Hechinger Report
Virginia Clinton prefers to read on a screen. Her love affair with digital texts began when she was a new mother, juggling the workload of a young academic with diapers and feedings. "I have warm, fuzzy memories of rocking my babies to sleep and reading one-handed on my phone," Clinton said. As an assistant professor of education at the University of North Dakota, Clinton had encouraged her students to save money on textbooks and buy cheaper digital versions or use free materials online. Her research specialty was reading comprehension. According to theories she learned in graduate school, she recalled, there should be no difference between reading on paper and reading on a screen.
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Education DIVE
With its announcement earlier this month that it will adopt a culturally responsive curriculum, after a unanimous vote by the city's Panel for Educational Policy, the New York City Department of Education joins a number of other districts that have also overhauled longstanding Eurocentric curricula in recent years. The change follows the release of a report by the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice in February that noted a "lack of representation, diversity and inclusivity" in the district's teaching materials.
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NAESP
Is your school prepared to deal with a crisis, whether it's a hurricane, an earthquake, an explosion at a nearby chemical facility, an active shooter, or one of many other possibilities? Does your school have an up-to-date plan to deal with hazards of all sorts? Do teachers and other staff members know what to do in emergency situations to protect their students and themselves from harm? In this informative virtual conversation, school safety experts Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger offer significant — and sometimes surprising — statistics on school safety, dispel common misunderstandings, and provide school leaders with information they to create safe environments for learning.
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NAESP
Every school stakeholder hopes that students arrive each day with a hunger to learn. When schools make breakfast part of the school day, just like lunch, students succeed. Absenteeism and behavior disruptions decline and students' academic outcomes increase. Most importantly, teachers and principals report a new sense of community that is created as students eat a calm morning meal together. Learn how other principals lead the charge with Breakfast After the Bell. Learn what resources are available through NAESP's partnership with No Kid Hungry to ensure all your students have an equitable start to the day with school breakfast.
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