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School Leaders Now
Education has evolved so much in the past decade, and it's time for our professional development to reflect this as well. Topics like mindfulness, self-care and mental health should be part of teacher PD. As a dean in a high school where part of my job is to create relevant, whole-child PD for faculty, I know it can be a balancing act. We have certain PD standards to meet, but we also want to tackle new topics while being engaging, informative and innovative.
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eSchool News
As teachers and students return to school across the country, thoughts range from nervous excitement to worries about how to keep school buildings — and the people in them — secure. Last year's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, sparked a massive movement, including student lie-ins and protests, focused on gun control and the irrefutable point that students should not have to worry about injuries or death when walking in school hallways or sitting in classrooms.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 Many managers aren't aware of how pervasive the problem of workplace bullying is today. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, one in every 20 employees faces disrespectful behavior, most often from co-workers or direct supervisors, on the job. Bullying can take many forms, from humiliation, to offensive remarks, shouting, scapegoating, excluding an employee from group activities, and gossiping about that employee. What can you do to prevent bullying from happening in your organization — or stop the behavior in its tracks if you find it occurring?
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School Leaders Now
Almost 50 percent of public school enrollment in the United States is comprised of non-white students. The minority is quickly becoming the majority, and yet teachers of color make up less than 20 percent of all teachers in classrooms across the country. A healthy school is intentionally diverse in the faculty, staff and administration. In addition to reflecting racial diversity, a healthy school embraces an intersectional point of view. This means that your school actively embraces and supports racial, religious, gender, age, ability, ethnic, socioeconomic and sexual identity.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
 I received an interesting question the other day from a woman who was watching my LinkedIn Learning course on Managing Up. She asked me how to handle managers who are emotionally dependent on their employees. Too often managers want to be liked by their people when, instead, they should be seeking respect. I advise my coaching clients to create boundaries between themselves and the people they manage. It's important to do so for a number of reasons.
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Harvard Business Review
Supervisors enjoy all kinds of advantages that come with their positions: they have control over resources, make important decisions, enjoy higher salaries and other valuable perks, and have opportunities to network with power-brokers both inside and outside their organizations. Despite those distinct advantages, however, supervisors are not immune to feeling downward envy — that is, envy of the employees they oversee. This is especially true when a subordinate has strong social skills, demonstrates leadership potential, develops close relationships with senior management or is seen as a source of innovative ideas.
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Leadership Freak
You don't know what you're made of when you're a Little League Leader. The only way to learn what you're made of is to get knocked down a few times. When you feel like quitting, but stick with it, you're on your way to the big leagues. If you run off the field because leading is difficult, your team is better without you. Getting knocked down has two advantages. First, you learn what you're made of. Second, it toughens you. The first time you get knocked down you think it's the end of the world.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Tracey Smith, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "I have a hot pink sign that's right beside my computer that says, 'If you want people to embrace your vision, you must continue your pursuit of them.' As a school leader, my job is to pursue every teacher in this building, to help connect them to their peers and their students, and to help them find their passions. You might call it 'giving them ownership of their work,' but I call it 'loving on my teachers.' I firmly believe that if you connect with their hearts, their minds will follow. Part of loving on your teachers is coming up with little routines or catchphrases that bind us together. Our school motto is 'Go be awesome,' so we end every faculty meeting with a group chant: 'One, two, three — go be awesome!' Is it a little bit silly? Sure. Does it help us connect and teach better? I believe it does."
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Inc.
It's rational to be nervous about first impressions — a ton of science shows that people make super quick decisions when meetings others, and that those impressions are incredibly hard to shake. New research out of Yale, however, should calm your nerves about meeting new people a little. Yes, first impressions are lasting and important, scientists found, but you're also probably making a better first impression than you think.
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eSchool News
The role of school administrator is evolving from a building manager into an instructional leader. This shift is not easy, and all leaders strive to be the best they can. Being a school leader isn't easy and you are not going to make the right call all the time. However, you can learn to avoid common missteps.There are countless articles about being a good school leader, but we also need to learn how to recognize and avoid missteps. Although making a misstep can be a learning opportunity, taking the time to learn how to recognize and avoid common mistakes can help you become productive, successful and respected by your staff.
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The Lead Change Group
It sounds like the biggest oxymoron of them all: get more work done by finishing early. Something just doesn't compute — particularly if you're in a position of authority where you need to set an example. In reality, and as many leaders often find, by working every hour God sends, you only achieve one thing: exhaustion. You don't get more done, and you certainly don't feel any better for it. So, let's assume you can finish early each day. How do you ensure the time you spend at the office is ultimately productive?
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By: Michelle R. Matisons (commentary)
 Schools are back in session, and we all know what this means. Time to sharpen those pencils, set that alarm clock, and pack your bulletproof backpack up with everything you’ll need, right? Wait! Did you say bulletproof backpack? Earlier this year, after the tragic Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, there was widespread debate immediately on the almost desperate school security situation. Schools perform under mounting pressure to both protect students and staff while also building learning climates that are not ruled by fear. This is not an easy task.
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Educaiton Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos often points to a gloomy federal analysis of the Obama administration's multi-billion dollar School Improvement Grant program to make the case that big federal spending and direction doesn't make a difference. The analysis, which was commissioned by the Institute of Education Sciences, the Education Department's research arm, found that the SIG grant, which poured more than $7 billion into low-performing schools, had no significant impact on math and reading scores or high school graduation.
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School Leaders Now
By now, you've probably heard about all the benefits of going paperless: It saves money, frees up time for your staff and is good for the environment. It sounds really great on paper (see what I did there?). But tell that to my math teachers who go through several reams a day. Or try telling my English teachers they will have their students read short stories from laptops from now on. Ending or limiting your use of paper at school can be a challenge, but it is a worthwhile one. Consider these six tips when going paperless at your school.
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THE Journal
Last year Digital Promise kicked off the Dynamic Learning Project, a program to see what impact there would be on closing the "digital divide" by placing technology coaches into 50 high-need schools in 20 districts and five states. Google for Education provided $6.5 million in funding to support the pilot, which placed a full-time instructional technology coach onsite for the year, outfitted with multiple forms of help.
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Education World
As the new school year moves into gear, one familiar mantra should be self-evident, but is easily put aside: you must build relationships with your students. In the rushing stream of teaching, grading, testing and reporting it is easy to forget that without those connections, you are not likely to get the best out of a student — and probably get much worse.
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Full of engaging anecdotes from expert PBIS coaches, this comprehensive resource provides solid, detailed guidelines for implementing and sustaining a successful PBIS program.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Dorothy Venditto, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "'How do we get more girls interested in STEM?' is a big, often-discussed question. When students are given a choice of classes, as they are in my school, many girls flock to art and music classes and steer clear of science, technology, engineering, and math classes. After years of seeing a sea of eager boys and very few girls in my STEM classes, I sought ways to encourage a better balance, digging into the research on the gender-based choices children make about their learning and experiences."
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MindShift
Though her own children are long since grown, Sheila Hall rides alongside her "babies" on a yellow school bus for about an hour every weekday morning during the school year. In the afternoon she accompanies the group of primarily African-American and Latino kids for the return trip, while many of their classmates at Rooftop School in the San Francisco Unified School District stay behind for after-school activities like French, guitar and "Lego robotics."
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The New York Times
It was a searing summer day before the start of the school year, but Julianni and Giselle Wyche, 10-year-old twins, were in a classroom, engineering mini rockets, writing in journals and learning words like "fluctuate" and "cognizant." The sisters were among 1,000 children chosen for an enrichment course intended in part to prepare them for accelerated and gifted programs in Montgomery County, Md. All of the students were from schools that serve large numbers of low-income families. "It's one of my favorite parts of summer," Julianni said.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The focus on asset-based education is growing. Often called strength-based education, this new-age approach seeks to build on the strengths that students already possess. It aims to unlock the inner potential of students by focusing on their talents. Schools and teachers who are adopting this approach believe that asset-based teaching will create lifelong learners who are confident, talented and proactive in their path. The traditional approach has been called the deficit-based style of teaching, which highlights students' inadequacies.
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The New York Times
As students have returned to school, they have been greeted by teachers who, more likely than not, are white women. That means many students will be continuing to see teachers who are a different gender than they are, and a different skin color. Does it matter? Yes, according to a significant body of research: Students tend to benefit from having teachers who look like them, especially nonwhite students. The homogeneity of teachers is probably one of the contributors, the research suggests, to the stubborn gender and race gaps in student achievement: Over all, girls outperform boys and white students outperform those who are black and Hispanic.
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Medical Xpress
It's normal for both adults and children to feel nervous once in a while. A little anxiety prior to an event like a presentation or test is common — and normal. "For some, a little nervousness can actually be helpful," says Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine specialist. "But, for others, they struggle a bit more with what we call 'test anxiety.'" Test anxiety can affect anyone from primary and secondary school students to college students.
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Medical Xpress
School's back in session, which means that germs that are carrying illnesses such as influenza can start to spread rapidly among classmates, and to their families outside of school. But the good news is that with a variety of flu vaccination options, almost everyone can find just the right one for their needs, says an expert at Baylor College of Medicine.
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District Administration Magazine
When Tiffany Anderson took over as superintendent of Jennings School District near St. Louis in 2012, she faced high poverty and low academic achievement. As part of the turnaround effort, she focused on building supports for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, particularly those in foster care who struggle with social-emotional trauma and frequent changes in residence. With assistance from community partners, Anderson renovated a dilapidated, district-owned house and turned it into a permanent group home for students in foster care.
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The 74
What gets measured, gets done, as the popular education maxim goes. But what gets measured can also get gamed. Tackling chronic absenteeism is now part of education plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act for 36 states and Washington, D.C., making student attendance a factor in determining school success under federal education law. The resulting requirements are also new, with many states crafting uniform definitions for chronic absence for the first time and reporting attendance data that distinguishes whether each student absence is excused, unexcused or linked to disciplinary action.
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NAESP
NAESP Chat is back! Join us on Wed., Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. EDT for our first Twitter chat of the school year, hosted by Adam Welcome, author of the new book Run Like a Pirate. The topic — goal-setting — is one that all educators need for professional and personal growth.
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NAESP
NAESP President Eric Cardwell writes: "Across the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan's Upper Peninsula holds the Les Cheneaux Islands along the northern shore of Lake Huron — a boater's paradise of pristine waters and hidden bays about 30 miles south of the Canadian Border! It also is the home of Les Cheneaux Community Schools, with 240 kindergarten through 12th grade students. The district is led by Mr. Randy Schaedig who, up until this year served as K-12 principal AND superintendent!"
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