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eSchool News
Schools are experiencing a dramatic shift from how they've been run and structured for over a century. Leaders must establish direction, influence others and initiate sustainable change as they navigate the ever-evolving landscape of education. Such leadership requires a dynamic combination of positive mindset, influential behaviors, and effective skills. Stepping into a school leader role requires a change in thinking from "How can I be the best for me?" to "How can I be the best to help my people do their jobs more effectively?"
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District Administration Magazine
This list of educators and other resources to follow online includes a ninja, a hacker, a cool cat and a star. These K-12 thought leaders are sharing ideas about equity, staying motivated as an educator and the future of grading.
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eSchool News
Technology in the classroom is the new normal, providing an array of opportunities for learning and productivity. At the same time, the proliferation of personal electronic devices and social media outlets among children is creating new challenges for educators, parents and students alike. This new landscape is ever-changing and can be difficult to navigate, especially as we strive to set social media boundaries and protect children from the potentially dangerous aspects of online communication.
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Edutopia
In the U.S. today, more than 400,000 children are in foster care at any given time, and they have a high likelihood of having experienced neglect or physical, sexual or emotional abuse, according to Jill Rowland, director of the Alliance for Children’s Rights.
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Forbes
If you're a leader or a professional in any capacity, you've probably asked yourself at one time or another, "How do I find my purpose? And how do I create an impact?" As a leader myself, I've asked these questions more times than I can count. Out of my own experience and from my own journey, I've discovered some ways that have greatly clarified the answers to those questions, and I'd love to share some of those insights with you.
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By: Terri Williams (commentary)
Exit interviews are usually perfunctory and meaningless for two reasons: departing employees don't really care to provide insight to a company they're leaving, and organizations tend to brush off these remarks. According to a 2018 survey by HR Bartender, most employees leave for better compensation and benefits, increased opportunities for advancement, more supportive managers, and flexible work schedules. However, if companies take the approach that they can't increase wages, create additional opportunities for advancement, or let employees work from home three days a week, they may consider exit interviews a waste of time.
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Fast Company
Is there something you're not particularly good at, but that gives you energy when you do it? We call these skills "hidden treasures" and the answers we've received from young leaders relate to things outside of work like playing soccer, writing poetry, or playing guitar. There's nothing wrong with these answers, but what's consistent is that they tend to overlook skills that relate to their job. It's understandable — if you're not good at something, you're probably not going to do it at work because you don't want to look incompetent or be embarrassed.
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Leadership Freak
Performance can't be improved until it's defined. You're supposed to bring out the best in others, but what does that mean? How is it measured? Simple behaviors can be measured because they can be observed. It's frustrating when bringing out the best in others is a goal, not a process. Bring out the best in others is a set of behaviors.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
Toxic employees can infect other staff and bring down morale. The negative cultures they create can bring down the organization. But short of firing everyone and starting again, how do you build a team that trusts each other? Here are three steps to repairing the damage and building a culture of trust.
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Harvard Business Review
It might sound odd, but people need the most help not at the beginning of their careers, but in mid-career — especially when it comes to making decisions. That's a key finding from a research study coordinated by one of us (Julia). The study asked 500 college-educated adults in professional careers (representative of 16% of U.S. adults) to indicate the degree of their agreement with statements about their behaviors when making important work decisions throughout their careers. The questionnaire also asked them to assess each decision's degree of success.
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Entrepreneur
As a leader, you're constantly competing for talent. You want to hire and work with the best, and you deserve to work with a strong team. Unfortunately, stress prevents us from building and exercising our interpersonal skills. In extreme circumstances, there is a clear link between chronic stress and a greater incidence of psychiatric disorders. Stress has also been linked to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. It has even been shown to reduce the size of the brain. When we're stressed, our focus tends to move inward. We overlook or deprioritize the people around us, including top talent, and how we interact with them.
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EdTech Magazine
Technology is an ideal vehicle for teachers to better blend classroom instruction with learning opportunities occuring outside of the traditional school day — and outside of the brick-and-mortar school building. By bridging the gap between physical and online spaces, schools see their students improve academically and engage with their studies on a deeper level. Blended learning "can provide educators and students with a wealth of actionable insights on student learning, needs and preferences, empowering them to deliver the right learning resources at the right time for the right students," according to the Consortium for School Networking’s Tech Enablers 2019 report.
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eSchool News
Summer is almost officially over, and now that September has claimed its place on our calendars, educators have been busy preparing and organizing and welcoming students back to school — and that means ensuring tech tools and digital resources are ready to go. District administrators, principals and teachers are prepping for full classrooms and full schedules. Now is a great time to double-check school priorities, tech tools and instructional strategies for the coming school year.
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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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The Hill (commentary)
Jessica Rosenworcel, a contributor for The Hill, writes: "It's September and the new school year is underway. Across the country, students are filing into their new classrooms and meeting their new teachers. They are also getting ready for something familiar in education — and that's homework. What is new about homework, however, is that it now requires internet service. Today, seven in 10 teachers assign homework that requires online access. But data from the Federal Communications Commission, where I work, consistently shows that one in three households does not subscribe to broadband. Where those numbers overlap is the homework gap."
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eSchool News
Imagine this: You're a teacher at a school that's been on board with STEM since the first little whispers about how it can provide unique learning experiences centered on 21st-century skills. You and the other teachers at your school encourage students to stretch their critical thinking skills and complete projects, but after a couple of years, the STEM program has lost its zest. It needs to grow and to work better for staff and students — but no one is quite sure what would add that extra spark.
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EdTech Magazine
How much do you know about passwords? You might believe password authentication is old hat, and that you already know the best practices for implementing them. After all, we've heard password hygiene messages for years, right? But unless you've updated your knowledge recently, you might be in for a few surprises.
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Education Next (commentary)
From the mid to late 1990s, and generally until 2010 or so, National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, scores at the fourth and eighth grades for the lowest-achieving children, and for students of color, shot up in reading, math and most other academic subjects. The gains were greatest at the low end of the spectrum — as seen in trends at the 10th percentile of achievement and a big drop in the percentage of students scoring at the "below basic" level. By 2010 or so, our African American, Hispanic and low-achieving students were reading and doing math two and sometimes three grade levels above their counterparts in the early 1990s. That's historic, life-changing progress. And it surely contributed to more recent gains in the high school graduation rate for these groups, as many more kids came into ninth grade closer to being on track.
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Education Week
Almost all teachers believe persistent myths about learning, a new survey finds. More than three-fourths of teachers think that people are either right-brained (creative) or left-brained (analytical), and that those designations affect how they learn. And nearly all teachers endorsed the idea of "learning styles" — meaning that students learn more when their teachers tailor instruction to their individual styles, such as auditory, visual or kinesthetic. But research doesn't back up these ideas, said Ulrich Boser, a researcher who leads the firm The Learning Agency and conducted the survey.
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THE Journal
Teaching Strategies, a provider of early childhood technology solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire ReadyRosie, a platform designed to improve parent-teacher communications. ReadyRosie enables educators to securely communicate with families and provide research-based content to help parents extend the learning experience beyond the classroom. Parents can access over 1,000 video tutorials targeted toward infants and toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school learners.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
The beginning of any school year naturally becomes a great kaleidoscope of emotions, responsibilities and experiences. Co-teachers become engulfed in the range and depth of balancing it all, which is not always an easy task.
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THE Journal
Of five major content areas covered in math classes — numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, data and statistics, and algebra and functions — teachers are putting a bigger emphasis particularly on algebra and functions in math class beyond what they were doing a dozen years earlier. And in science, students are discussing the kinds of problems engineers solve more frequently. Those results came from a recent study published by the National Assessment of Educational Progress on how classroom instruction has evolved. The comparisons were made in assessments done in 2015 and previous testing years among students in grades 4, 8 and 12.
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Edutopia (commentary)
John S. Thomas, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "During my 14-year flexible seating journey, I've taught a mix of first through third grade classes, including multigrade classrooms with up to 28 students. I've encountered plenty of challenges, but through research and some trial and error, I've been able to create a sustainable flexible seating environment that is differentiated for my students' needs."
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology via Science Daily
Two new studies suggest that mindfulness — the practice of focusing one's awareness on the present moment — can enhance academic performance and mental health in middle-schoolers.
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NPR
Imagine this — you're going to school, and you hear that the government has banned homework. Wouldn't that be the best day ever? Well, it actually happened in India. The government said there would be no homework for students in grades one and two. The reason: heavy school bags. Last November, the government announced new rules limiting the weight of school bags depending on a child's age. Students of grades one and two would be allowed to carry bags weighing only at most about 3 pounds. For pupils studying in grades three and four, the weight limit was 6.6 pounds. There are limits set up through grade 10, where the cap is 11 pounds.
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The Hechinger Report
When you're running out of time on a multiple-choice test, it makes sense to guess the rest of the answers rather than leave the questions blank. But it turns out that a surprisingly high number of students are guessing their way throughout a test, even when they're not pressed for time or trying to boost their scores. Testing experts have a name for it: rapid guessing. One researcher at NWEA, an organization that produces standardized tests, says he has come up with a way to detect rapid guessing and has found that it is particularly prevalent on reading tests. Boys, in general, do it at twice the rate of girls.
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The Conversation
When we speak, our sentences emerge as a flowing stream of sound. Unless we are really annoyed, We. Don't. Speak. One. Word. At. A. Time. But this property of speech is not how language itself is organised. Sentences consist of words: discrete units of meaning and linguistic form that we can combine in myriad ways to make sentences. This disconnect between speech and language raises a problem. How do children, at an incredibly young age, learn the discrete units of their languages from the messy sound waves they hear?
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European Society of Cardiology via Science Daily
Teacher training followed by classroom education with information, activities, and emotional support improves lifestyles in teachers and students, according to new research. The study suggests that knowledge alone is insufficient to change behavior.
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EdScoop
Seven school districts across the United States are testing tablet-enabled school buses as part of a pilot program to improve student transportation, the transport company First Student announced. The company has partnered with software provider Tyler Technologies to equip its school buses with tablets and customized software that can put important route data at bus drivers’ fingertips.
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The Washington Post
Just days into the new school year, hundreds of schools and universities across four states shut their doors as communities braced for Hurricane Dorian, which was expected to bring high winds and heavy rain to the U.S. mainland. The storm delivered unprecedented damage to the Bahamas, where aerial footage showed widespread flooding and destruction. As it turned toward the U.S. mainland, officials in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas responded with mandatory evacuations and widespread school closures in coastal communities.
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EdScoop
A school district in Buffalo, New York, has announced a $1.3 million project to bring Wi-Fi connectivity to thousands of students' homes in two of the city's most poorly connected neighborhoods. Buffalo Public Schools, a K-12 district of roughly 70 facilities and 34,000 students in Western New York, announced last month it's hired the Buffalo-based technology firm HarpData to install a wireless network that gives students access to the school's educational resources from their homes.
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NAESP
Leading Learning Communities: Pillars, Practices and Priorities for Effective Principals, like the two editions of Leading Learning Communities that preceded it, is designed to be a practical resource for new and experienced principals. It is a guidebook by and for principals. It is a distillation of the role of principal, informed and shaped by experienced principals in diverse schools across the country. It articulates a vision, and practical strategies for what effective principals do, focused on a core set of abilities and beliefs.
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NAESP
If you had access to an unlimited budget, what resources would you request to take your school to the next level? Come learn how to better leverage DonorsChoose.org, the nonprofit crowdfunding platform built exclusively to support K–12 public schools, to get materials and experiences to help your students learn and revolutionize your school. This session will cover how your teachers can get free resources, field trips and professional development opportunities thanks to a national community of donors and highlight the critical role principals play in that process.
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