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School Leaders Now
Feedback is most powerful when it is solicited in meaningful, intentional ways, and school administrators can use it to leverage momentum towards change in school culture. In other words, changing teacher feedback from a pro forma administrative exercise to gaining knowledge from colleagues' thoughts and ideas is like fuel in a gas tank.
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Education DIVE
District leaders spent this week planning how to respond to immigrant families' concerns over the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, while some saw students taking their frustrations over President Donald Trump's decision to the streets. More than 1,100 students in the Denver Public Schools, for example, were given unexcused absences after they participated in a peaceful walkout Tuesday that culminated at the downtown Auraria Campus, a higher education center. Will Jones, spokesman for the district, said officials began hearing late last week about students' plans to participate in the demonstration, which included speeches, chants and signs.
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The New York Times
On a sweltering morning in July, Sonny Perdue, the newly minted secretary of agriculture, strode across the stage of a convention hall here packed with 7,000 members of the School Nutrition Association, who had gathered for their annual conference. After reminiscing about the cinnamon rolls baked by the lunchroom ladies of his youth, he delivered a rousing defense of school food-service workers who were unhappy with some of the sweeping changes made by the Obama administration.
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THE Journal
A group of school districts that incorporated personalized learning practices in the classroom report achieved average growth of 130 percent in reading and 122 percent in mathematics for approximately 36,000 students who took the NWEA Measure of Academic Progress exam. More than half of those students met or exceeded the reading growth and math growth targets. These findings come out of the third annual report from Education Elements, a national K–12 consulting firm of educators, designers, technologists and change-management experts. Since 2010, the firm has worked with 127 districts, impacting more than 600 schools, 34,000 teachers and 545,000 students across the United States.
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The Atlantic
In 1997, Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of the country's foremost authorities on the psychology of racism, answered a recurring question that surfaced in her work with teachers, administrators, and parent groups: Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? The result was a critically acclaimed book of the same name that gave readers — numbering in the hundreds of thousands — a starting point to demystify conversations about race, better understand the concept of racial identity, and communicate across racial and ethnic divides.
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Education Week
It's a new school year, and many of the 6.4 million U.S. children ages 4-17 who've been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are coming back to the classroom in varying states of readiness for the rigors of academic life. The big question is: Are you ready for them? ADHD is considered to be a neurobiological condition that has three primary symptoms: hyperactivity, impulsivity and distractibility. Students diagnosed with ADHD may have difficulty focusing on classroom tasks, organizing their assignments and even staying in their seats at school.
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Science News
Sure, students in the classroom have to remember facts, but they also have to apply them. Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others bolster students' abilities to stay on task, think more fluidly and mentally track and juggle information. But there's a catch. The science behind student learning is so far based on carefully controlled studies, primarily with college students. Do the same approaches work with younger students? Will they work in a classroom of 25 or 30 kids of varying abilities?
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THE Journal
Google launched a free, digital collection that aims to preserve and share stories related to Latino history, culture and contributions in the United States — content that has traditionally been underrepresented both online and offline, according to the company. The release is timed with National Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins on Sept. 15.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jeremiah Ruesch, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "When do you know it's time to try something different in your math lesson? For me, I knew the moment I read this word problem to my fifth-grade summer school students: 'On average, the sun's energy density reaching Earth's upper atmosphere is 1,350 watts per square meter. Assume the incident, monochromatic light has a wavelength of 800 nanometers (each photon has an energy of 2.48 × 10-19 joules at this wavelength). How many photons are incident on the Earth's upper atmosphere in one second?'"
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Istation
[FREE E-Book] From progress monitoring to implementation, learn how blended learning supports differentiation for ALL students. This intervention e-book from Istation shows how formative assessments, data-driven instruction, and computer-adaptive lessons transform schools. Get the e-book.
Mashable
Coding, as cool as it is, went way over my head in college. If I had Algobrix as a kid, that may not have been the case. These futuristic Lego-like blocks' true potential can be unlocked through the complex magic of coding. Using special blocks that simulate different lines and functions of code, kids can program their Lego-like creations to do just about anything. With a snap of a finger, a dinosaur can start to walk. Flip a switch to make a whole carnival come to life.
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The Register-Guard
As a new school year begins, educators, families and students are gearing up with high aspirations for a successful year. However, relatively overnight we have witnessed significant changes in societal and global norms that are in sheer opposition to the norms and practices we promote in our schools. Specifically, the presidential election was associated with reports of unprecedented negativity, intolerance and disrespect.
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District Administration Magazine
Ensuring all students have equal access to educational technology — both in the classroom and at home — often requires innovation. Educators can find cost-effective solutions in new technologies such as open-educational resources and by partnering with the business community. "The vast majority of superintendents agree with the premise that digital equity is a problem, but when we ask them if they're doing anything about it, the alarming thing is that 70 percent say they aren't," says Keith R. Krueger, CEO of CoSN, a nonprofit professional organization of K-12 technology leaders.
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EdTech Magazine
Designing an environment, experience and instructional path for learners is complex and exciting work. But the growing number of digital tools available in the educational marketplace adds to that complexity. Educators need access to reliable and timely research to guide their technology purchasing decisions. Evidence-based and unbiased research on educational technologies, and the breadth of information and resources available, means that educational decision-makers are more informed and savvier than ever.
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EdTech Magazine
More and more, today's personalized learning initiatives in K-12 are being driven by data. These adaptive learning initiatives, which use data sets and complex algorithms to more finely tune instruction, have become so popular that school districts report spending $41 million on them in the past two years. With these tools using so much data, protecting it is top of mind for school administrators. New research from University of Colorado's National Education Policy Center calls for better regulations regarding the algorithms used in personalized learning and collection and storage of student data, Education Week reports.
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The Brookings Institution (commentary)
Teachers fill critical roles in our public education system, with far-reaching effects on the lives of the students they teach. Over the past 10 years, research and policy have both prioritized efforts to attract, develop and retain highly effective teachers in the classroom. How salaries are distributed across teachers is relevant to these discussions, and decisions to pay some teachers less and others more may at times come into conflict with politics, economics or other desired policy objectives.
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The Washington Post
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly to approve a spending bill that rejects President Trump's proposed cuts to education funding for fiscal year 2018 and, for now at least, derails the administration's goal of directing federal dollars toward promoting and expanding school choice and private school vouchers. The 29 to 2 vote on the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Bill further illustrates the president's difficulty in moving his education agenda through Congress despite Republican control of the House and Senate.
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Education Week
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent time and energy dismantling some of the education regulations championed by President Barack Obama. But an educational equity policy born from the bipartisan reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and given prominence by Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative lives on. And it means that many more school districts may have to make changes to how they spend their federal special education allotment.
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NPR
For the staff of Wilson Montessori, a public pre-K-8 school in Houston, the days after Harvey meant tracking down members of the community via text, collecting donations for those in need — and reassuring students about the fate of the school's pets. Belva Parrish, the counselor at Wilson and a 25-year veteran of Houston's public schools, says the pet update on the school's Facebook page was one small way schools can help students heal.
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NAESP
As a new academic year ramps up, so do goals for student achievement, curricular reforms, teacher development and more. Setting high expectations, though, isn't enough to guarantee that those expectations are met. After all, many of us set goals for ourselves every year that we fail to achieve.
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NAESP
Presented by Brad Gustafson and Bill Ziegler, "Leading the Learning" will provide school leaders with practical strategies to lead the learning in a culturally responsive way. Principals will learn how conversation can be leveraged to impact change, and collect examples of culturally responsive leadership strategies. This webinar takes place Thursday, Oct. 19 at 4 p.m. EST.
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