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Education Week
Instructional leadership is one of the most researched forms of leadership over the last 50 years. It happens when those in a leadership position focus their efforts on the implementation of practices that will positively impact student learning (DeWitt. 2019). In John Hattie's synthesis of meta-analysis around leadership, which includes 17 meta-analyses involving over 600 studies, it is the form of leadership that provided the biggest impact to student learning. In fact, Robinson et al. (2018, p. 23) writes, "The more leaders focus their influence, their learning, and their relationships with teachers on the core business of teaching and learning, the greater their likely influence on student outcomes."
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 Almost half of all K-12 teachers quit teaching within five years. Those who quit are disproportionately teachers in two of the most critical areas: English or science. Moreover, they quit soonest and most often in high-poverty and urban schools. But neither the federal government nor most state governments have convincingly answered the simple question of why this occurs.
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School Leaders Now
Suicide is a difficult topic for both students and teachers, but it shouldn't be ignored. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control reports that the number of high school students who said they'd seriously considered suicide has increased 25 percent since 2009. When students exhibit warning signs of suicide, they are at an increased risk for suicide within a short period of time — often within days, hours or even minutes.
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Inc. (commentary)
David Finkel, a contributor for Inc., writes: "I want to challenge you today; to stretch your thinking about how you approach building your company. I want to start off by sharing the story of Tom Santilli, CEO of a successful technology wholesaling company in Florida called xByte Technologies and long time coaching client of mine. In the early years Tom was a compulsive workhorse who built his company from the ground up."
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Harvard Business Review
Deadlines are powerful forces in our work, signaling what's most important, forcing focus, and driving tasks to completion. That's why projects that don't have a deadline can languish on your task list for weeks, months, or even years. Sometimes this happens because a project is ambiguous, boring, or messy. You naturally deprioritize it whenever possible, because working on it feels uncomfortable. But other times you don't mean to avoid the project. You just never get to it, because items with clear deadlines feel more pressing.
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Fast Company
In the startup world, it's easy to get caught up in the seemingly overnight success stories of others, such as unicorn founders who launched billion-dollar companies in their 20s. Maybe they even dropped out of college to do so.
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Harvard Business Review
Algorithms are becoming increasingly relevant in the workplace. From sifting through resumes to deciding who gets a raise, many of these new systems are proving to be highly valuable. But perhaps their most impressive, and relevant, capability is predicting which employees will quit. IBM is in the process of patenting an algorithm that can supposedly predict flight risk with 95% accuracy. Given that we are in a candidate-driven market, this is a significant innovation. There are now more job openings in the U.S. than there are unemployed Americans.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Emotional courage is the willingness to tolerate all feelings. It's entirely developable, and developing it increases your ability to lead effectively, get business results, communicate in a way that inspires others, and make the impact you're trying to make. How do I know? My company, Bregman Partners, measured those changes in people who increased their emotional courage at our Leadership Intensive.
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By Catherine Iste (commentary)
 As an avid follower of the Getting Things Done system, I am a big fan of doing something right away if it takes two minutes or less. However, I have found sometimes where, counterintuitively, it seems best to wait a bit before playing whack-a-mole with issues as they arise. Here are a few examples of when doing things right away may not always be a best practice.
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Fast Company
You may not think your hastily scrawled to-do list has "an irresistible magic," but Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco would have disagreed. Eco held up this simple practice, which humans have conducted for generations, as a paradigm of cultural significance.
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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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Education Week
Ten Democratic presidential candidates will gather in Houston for the party's third primary debate. Amid talk of differing views on healthcare, foreign policy, and immigration, will education find its way onto the stage? A coalition of education and civil rights groups hopes it will. ED2020 — made up more than 20 organizations, including national teachers unions, the Alliance for Excellent Education and The Children's Defense Fund — is one of several organizations that have pushed for more questions about K-12 education and related policy.
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EdTech Magazine
What solutions should school leaders consider for securing the physical safety and well-being of students and adults? There are options such as cameras and sensors that can detect everything from children using e-cigarettes to individuals entering or exiting school grounds, along with analytics software that connects to digital surveillance cameras and sensors to enable administrators to respond proactively to potential threats.
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EdSurge
When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. That's arguably the case for U.S. smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. Recent studies by Deloitte and the Gates Foundation have shed light into how educators engage with edtech.
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EdScoop
A group of 41 additional educational organizations pledged to address the root causes of the Unites States' shortage of K-12 teachers in science, technology, engineering and math. Announced by 100Kin10, a group dedicated to ameliorating the STEM teacher shortage, the newly committed nonprofits, academic institutions, private companies and government agencies join an existing cohort of some 300 organizations.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 As a child, I was always enamored with books and movies that let me imagine what the future would look like. I wasn't excited about the idea of traveling on spaceships from planet to planet with the crew on "Star Wars," and I didn't care so much about flying a car like the people from "Back to the Future 2." Maybe I was afraid of heights. I did, however, love the idea that one day computers would be as smart (or smarter) than humans. That day has been slowly creeping up on us.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Elizabeth Vogel, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "As a fifth grade teacher, I used to spend hours hunting for math materials and exercises. If I had to teach my math class a standard skill, like adding fractions with different denominators, I would flip through thick binders of exercises, maybe printing up a few. Then I'd search online, where I'd inevitably find an avalanche of teaching resources, including loads of useless resources. It took hours to winnow the mathematical wheat from the chaff."
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MiddleWeb
Students love to talk! Teachers, that's mostly a good thing, right? Especially so if we harness the natural social drive of tweens and teens and use it to pull the wagon of content learning through whole-class discussions.
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District Administration Magazine
It's one thing to hear students talk about their neighborhoods; it's another to contend with implicit bias by viewing firsthand the diversity of their communities. During the summer, new teachers at Tennessee's Hamilton County Schools (45,000 students) took neighborhood bus tours with their mentors as part of their summer orientation program designed to foster cultural diversity in the classroom. Veteran educators also joined the eye-opening rides, which were provided free by the Chattanooga district's transportation provider, says Erin Kirby, a new teacher induction specialist.
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eSchool News
A diverse and inclusive education workforce can play a critical role in ensuring that students receive a robust, quality educational experience. But an alarmingly low rate of black male educators has researchers looking for ways to strengthen diversity and improve recruitment efforts. While students of color make up more than half of PreK-12 classroom populations in the United States, overcoming the shortage of educators of color has been a decades-long dilemma for U.S. schools, according to research from the University of Phoenix.
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Education DIVE
While the early-childhood period covers birth to age 8, the systems that serve infants, toddlers, preschoolers and students in the primary grades largely exist under different governance structures and are financed with different funding streams. "Because of the historic divide between early learning and the formal K-12 school system, it will require years of dedicated effort to truly establish a system that ensures students and families a transition into a kindergarten classroom that is prepared to receive them and provide them with a high-quality learning experience starting on the very first day of school," write the authors of New America's "Moving into Kindergarten" report.
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Harvard University via Science Daily
For decades, there has been evidence that active learning — classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process — produces better educational outcomes for students at virtually all levels. And a new Harvard study suggests it may be important to let students know it. The study, published September 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that, though students felt like they learned more through traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in active learning classrooms.
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Education Week
It's a constant struggle for school districts across the country to find qualified special education teachers. An extra challenge: finding special educators of color to help meet the needs of a student population that can be disproportionately nonwhite. Just over 82% of special education teachers in public schools are white, according to 2011-2012 federal data, the most recent available. Meanwhile, only about half of students receiving special education services are white, according to 2017-2018 data.
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Edutopia
Rachel, a passionate leader in a New York City–based public school, was concerned about the math outcomes at her school, especially for English language learners, who made up about a third of the school community. Rachel knew that the students at her school had tremendous learning potential and that their teachers were motivated. The students had improved in English language arts, but mathematics scores had remained stagnant, particularly for ELLs.
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Education DIVE
Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor.
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Education Week
U.S. students and teachers alike spend significantly more time at school than their peers internationally, according to the latest Education at a Glance compendium by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The report, released this morning, tracks education systems of 46 member and participating countries, including the United States. It includes measures of early childhood through postgraduate education, as well as comparisons of international teachers and principals.
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THE Journal
A wide-ranging survey on a multitude of education topics among adults and high schoolers found that the students viewed school safety differently from their parents. Alongside its larger 2019 Education Next survey, researchers also surveyed a sample of 415 high school parents and their oldest high school child and discovered that the students were less likely than their parents to think their schools should take additional security measures.
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NPR
Plenty of research shows that adverse childhood experiences can lead to depression and other health problems later in life. But researcher Christina Bethell wondered whether positive experiences in childhood could counter that. Her research comes from a personal place. In the 1970s, in a low-income housing complex in Los Angeles, Bethell had a tough childhood. Sometimes she didn't have money for lunch. Sometimes, when a free bus came through to take kids to church, she would get on it, just to go somewhere else. "In low-income areas and in California in general, there was a lot of drugs and drinking — it was the norm," she says.
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EdScoop
The Arkansas Department of Education has expanded its stipend program for computer science teachers, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced to support further development of computer science programs for high school students and help address the shortage of STEM teachers.
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The CT Mirror
A proposal that would dramatically weaken oversight of — and public access to — an initiative that will pump hundreds of millions of public and private funds into Connecticut schools has run afoul of state legislative leaders. Republican and Democratic lawmakers told the CT Mirror that the oversight proposal crafted by representatives of hedge-fund giant Ray Dalio's philanthropic group has little chance of moving forward, though bipartisan support for the partnership remains strong.
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Detroit Free Press
In elementary school classrooms across Michigan this month, teachers are scrutinizing students to gauge their understanding of words, sentences and meanings. They are trying to answer a critical question: Can this child read? In recent years, the answer more often than not, has been no. At least not at a level that the state considers proficient. Test scores released last month show that 55% of third graders didn't meet state standards for reading, a deficiency that hamstrings learning not only in language, but in other subjects that are acquired by reading textbooks.
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New York Daily News
The city's Department of Education is dragging its feet on providing legally required services for kids with disabilities, a motion filed in federal court charges. Thirty percent of students who get a court order for crucial support like physical and speech therapy aren't getting those services within the legal deadline of 35 days, according to the education legal aid group Advocates for Children, which filed the motion.
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NAESP
There are pitfalls to personalized learning that can derail its successful implementation. Teachers and administrators may not understand what the approach should look like, and their visions for success might not be aligned. While adjusted to each individual student, instruction must continue to be standards-based and align with state and district learning goals.
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NAESP
Don't miss a unique opportunity to advance your career and strengthen the leadership skills of new principals. Your knowledge and expertise is critical to ensure the success of the next generation of school leaders. As with any career, mentors offer guidance and support to help others become highly effective leaders. Take the time to invest in yourself, your career and the principal profession as a Certified National Principal Mentor.
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