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School Leaders Now
When it comes to an administrator's list of their least favorite things to do, conducting standardized testing has to be up there. No one wants to do it, not the students, not the teachers. But there's no real way for an administrator to avoid it. So how can you make the process a little more tolerable? By garnering standardized testing support from your staff. Part of your role is to lead teachers to effectively prepare students and skillfully administer tests. Here's how to do that without alienating your staff.
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District Administration Magazine
Elevated levels of lead continue to be found in schools across the U.S., requiring district administrators to take action to provide clean drinking water for students. More than 40% of K-12 districts in the U.S. have recently tested for lead in drinking water, with 37% reporting elevated levels and taking corrective action, according to a 2018 survey from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Education DIVE
Teacher shortages continue to be a problem for many states nationwide. The shortage of special education teachers is especially widespread, as the number of trained special education teachers has dropped by roughly 20% over the past 10 years, while the number of students needing those teachers has barely dropped at all.
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Education Week
Thousands of administrators across the country have spent countless hours this summer attempting to rejigger their school finance software to determine how much money they spend on each individual school — a new reporting requirement under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Will it be worth all the headaches? A new federal report suggets the answer is yes. Unlike the more familiar average per-pupil spending levels, school-level funding will highlight funding disparities between student groups and help administrators target resources to academically struggling schools, policymakers and advocates predict.
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The Washington Post
The scene was the same every day at Deb Shell's house in Berkeley, Calif. She would send her three children to elementary school with packed lunches, and they would come home with their lunch bags almost completely full. Shell started talking to other parents and learned that the Berkeley Unified School District had cut lunchtime at some schools to add additional instructional minutes to the classroom. Many kids were going through the day hungry.
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Leadership Freak
The energy of conversation points to the relevance of the topic. There's no guarantee of follow-through, but if heads nod around the table, follow-through will be like pulling teeth.
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Fast Company
There are many ways that leaders influence the way that companies work — including setting the tone for company culture. It takes those at the top to create an environment that makes employees feel valued and empowered. If workers think they're underappreciated, you'll start to see destructive conflict. This can result in high turnover, low engagement, and a lack of workplace satisfaction.
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HR DIVE
mployee happiness is a much lauded standard — but despite the saying that "happy people work harder," the question of how to cultivate a happy workforce, particularly when your workers are diverse, may be more challenging to answer than throwing office parties every week. For one thing, happiness is subjective. Some may find happiness through the relationships they form, while others may prefer the thrill of meeting a challenge. Happiness means different things to different people. The task for HR, then, may be to create many avenues for happiness and steer employees to their own career bliss.
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Harvard Business Review
Most work today is done in teams. While teamwork can lead to innovative ideas and strong performance, it can also be stressful. Conflicts arise, people become too dependent on each other, some don't get their fair share of credit — there are numerous coordination costs that come with making teams work well.
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Entrepreneur
Pick one: sound business strategy or perfect execution? For some leaders, this may be an easy choice, but for others, it's not so black-and-white. It's a difficult debate to resolve because, like most choices, a final decision can be analyzed through a multitude of perspectives and has the potential to bring about just as many outcomes.
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HR DIVE
Burnout has reached such high levels in the workplace, the World Health Organization declared burnout an official "occupational phenomenon." Employers will not want to ignore its prevalence. In fact, they may want to enact preventative measures and solutions in order to mitigate and alleviate the adverse effects of burnout.
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EdTech Magazine
Adoption of artificial intelligence is on the rise: According to research firm Gartner, 37 percent of organizations have now "implemented AI in some form," and adoption is up 270 percent over the past four years. Schools are following suit: Technavio's "Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector 2018-2022" report predicts a nearly 48 percent growth rate for AI tools over the next three years.
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Tech&Learning
One of the best ways to measure the latest and greatest gear for the classroom each fall is to roam the exhibition floor in June at the annual International Society for Technology in Education Conference and Expo, which took place in Philadelphia this year. There were over 600 exhibitors in the expo hall, featuring everything from projectors and 3D printers to robots, apps, online curriculum, and more. Laptops are always a popular product — they may not be the most exciting products in the expo hall, but they're one of the most essential.
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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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eSchool News
Our students are mostly digital learners. We, as teachers, are not. How do we best bridge this divide and bring education into the digital learning space where students reside? How do we take what we as teachers know in one literacy and allow students to demonstrate mastery in another, without losing control of the classroom? One answer: digital storytelling around curricular content.
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eSchool News
By now, pretty much everyone knows what Minecraft is. If you're just joining us, however, here's a summary: Minecraft is a "sandbox" game offering open-ended possibilities for building and creation. Educators love it because it can be used across all subject areas, meaning Minecraft in the classroom is no longer a foreign concept. All it takes is a Google or Pinterest search to find some pretty cool ways to incorporate Minecraft in the classroom.
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EdSurge
What do Dave Chapelle shows and a growing number of schools have in common? You can't use your cell phone in either places. A growing number of entertainers, including Chapelle and musicians Jack White and John Mayer, prohibit the use of mobile devices during their performances. They want people to enjoy the moment, not just capture it. Many worry about how widely their original materials are shared online.
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Reuters
As schools begin reopening their doors to children nationwide, the U.S. government has told a federal judge that states have no power to sue over new rules they say make school meals less healthy. In a Monday night court filing, the government said New York, five other states and Washington, D.C., could not sue based on speculation that changes to the federally funded National School Lunch Program could cause health problems for children and require more spending on treatment.
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Education Week
Schools and educators have pretty bad memories of the Great Recession. Now that the prospect of an economic downturn has entered the mainstream, those recollections might get harder to avoid. We talked with a district business official and several analysts about what the prospect of a financial slump might mean for K-12 in a new Education Week story. It's way too early to know when such a downturn might occur, or its severity. But if or when things slow down, discussions among schools could quickly turn to how they'll handle it.
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Association for Psychological Science via Science Daily
The purpose of going to school is to learn, but students may find certain topics difficult to understand if they don't have the necessary background knowledge. This is one of the conclusions of a research article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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THE Journal
A health simulation company has released a new simulation for preschool teachers. Kognito's "At-Risk for Early-Childhood Educators" is a professional development training tool that uses interactive, online role-play conversations with fully animated students and caregivers. The goal is to help those adults build their knowledge and skills in child mental health and behavior management.
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EdSurge
It's an age-old question pinched straight from the '90s: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? The answer today might be, well, everywhere. Thanks to a reboot from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns the brand, the world's slipperiest super thief has an animated series on Netflix, a clutch of Google Earth games and even a new series of paperbacks — all of which are finding their way into classrooms two decades after she fell off the map. Her return comes at a time when geography proficiency has flatlined among U.S. students, despite calls for schools to focus more on global citizenship. Perhaps the question isn't where she is so much as where she can help the most.
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The Conversation via Phys.org
The preparation of student teachers is a critical aspect of their journey to being professional teachers. And teaching practice — real-world experiences that students acquire from actual classroom teaching before they are qualified teachers — is one important characteristic of this preparation process. During this process, student teachers entering the profession are supported to realize that teaching is not just about applying learned theories. It also requires practical problem solving expertise that leads to effective teaching.
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Education Week
It's the time of year for students to go back to school, but some 5-year-olds won't be making the transition to kindergarten. What's known as academic redshirting has become a more popular option, most often for upper middle class parents. This is when parents hold their child back from kindergarten by a year. Required school entry varies across the U.S., and in 42 states attendance is mandatory at age 6 or later.
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MiddleWeb
Authentic STEM focuses on problem-solving, and the best STEM lessons address some aspect of a real-world challenge that engineers and scientists might address. So STEM teachers often face a recurring problem when designing lessons for their classroom or school lab: Just how do you DO that? How do you build a STEM lesson around a real-world challenge?
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jason DeHart, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Why comic books? I have revisited this question more than once since I began my career as an educator. The answer is somewhat autobiographical: I was the kind of kid who didn't always embrace required readings at school but did read voraciously at home. Often, this reading was based in comic books and adventure stories. I would push aside 'schoolish' reading when given the chance, in favor of the fiction I really wanted to explore."
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
With school in full swing, many parents might be considering how to get more involved with their child's schooling. Parent involvement and support can be beneficial for students of all ages, but new research shows that family-school involvement has specific perks for young students.
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Edutopia
A low-cost intervention can make a big difference for students in their formative years, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin researcher and professor Geoffrey Borman. In an interview with Borman in Time, writer Belinda Luscombe explores how a simple writing exercise improved the experiences of more than 1,000 new middle schoolers. While other social and emotional interventions cost more than $500 per student, according to researchers, the writing intervention costs a tiny fraction of that — an eye-popping $1.35 per student — and the results outperform the more expensive interventions, Lunscombe writes.
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Association for Psychological Science via Science Daily
When the daily stress of parenting becomes chronic it can turn into parental burnout, an intense exhaustion that leads parents to feel detached from their children and unsure of their parenting abilities, according to new research. This type of burnout can have serious consequences for both parent and child, increasing parental neglect, harm and thoughts about escape.
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New York Daily News
A new proposal to scrap a fast track for gifted elementary-schoolers and shake up school admission policies is stirring strong reactions — even as final details remain hazy. The proposal from a city-appointed diversity group, released Monday, includes eliminating the city's Gifted and Talented program and moving toward a system of specialized "magnet" programs that don't screen students by test scores — a move some critics say would eliminate one of the few consistently challenging options for academic high-performers.
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Providence Journal
The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Legal Services have filed a lawsuit against the Providence school district for allegedly withholding information about violations of the rights of English language learners students. The violations led to a settlement agreement between the school system and the U.S. Department of Justice more than a year ago. The Access to Public Records Act lawsuit seeks to require the district to release the DOJ documents identifying the various violations of federal law committed by the school district, which are referenced in the agreement.
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NAESP
A principal's job is astonishingly complex, and its competing demands can be overwhelming, especially in the first few years. In this webinar, join Jen Schwanke, a principal herself, as she provides practical guidance to steer new principals through the period of adjustment and set the foundation for a long and rewarding career. Along with real-life scenarios and critical tips for success, you'll find helpful models of what to do, what to say, and how to say it. This conversation will be a source for ideas any time you encounter a problem and think, "Now what?" It's the beginning of an ongoing conversation about the wonderful and rewarding work of being a principal.
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NAESP
Regular school attendance is a major factor in student success. Those with chronic absenteeism are more likely to fall behind in reading, score lower on standardized tests, not graduate high school, and not attend college. To improve attendance, it takes a village — of students, families, faculty, and administrators all stepping in to make a difference. These resources can help you work toward improving your students' attendance rates.
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