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School Leaders Now
You can't see school culture nor can you touch it, but it sure does pulse through the halls. School culture is electric and as the principal, you hold the lightening rod. Positive energy sparks unity, a desire to succeed and a shared sense of purpose. Negativity just breeds anxiety, discontent and apathy. Leading a school where everyone has the same goals, the same vision and desire to learn is essential — but takes hard work.
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eSchool News
English language learners are not a monolithic population. They come from different countries, have different levels of English exposure at home, and have widely different educational needs. Here, two district leaders discuss their approaches to giving every ELL the best possible chance at reaching their literacy goals.
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Connected Principals (commentary)
David Geurin, a contributor for Connected Principals blog, writes: "Sometimes I hear people complain about kids nowadays. I can tell you it doesn't really set too well with me. Sure, there are examples of kids making poor choices. There are kids who are lazy. Some are selfish. We know they are into their devices. But hey, so are we. And there are some challenges they have now we probably didn't have when we were growing up."
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 When hurricanes tear through a region, they leave a visible path of destruction that's easy to capture on camera. More difficult to picture is the mark they leave on the people whose lives have been disrupted. This is especially true when it comes to children in school. All in all, 1 in every 6 American students missed school time due to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Roughly 8.5 million K-12 students in eight states and Puerto Rico missed at least one day of education.
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Edutopia (commentary)
We've all heard legends of Google employees being able to spend 20 percent of their workweek exploring topics of their choosing. Some of our favorite apps were born in this innovative venture. Educators know a good idea when we see one (even if Google eventually ended the program). We want that vibrant creativity pulsing through our classrooms. We can visualize the end, filled with projects in which our students have connected with experts, filled journals with intelligent thinking, and explored with curiosity. How do we get from this euphoric idea to a classroom reality?
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Your students don’t all learn in the same way, so why deliver instruction in the same way? Exact Path is focused on understanding where your students are academically and then taking that data a step further. Adaptive tools offer targeted instruction that is aligned to your goals and paced to your students’ needs.
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Education World
It's not enough for the school lessons of today to simply focus on students' academic progress. Social and emotional learning must be infused into the curriculum to prepare students for the challenges they'll face throughout their lives. A brief by 28 academic researchers specializing in the fields of child psychology and behavioral development organized by the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development takes a deeper look at what is and isn’t working in the classroom curriculum.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Matthew Farber, Ed.D., a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Can designing games about real-world issues teach students empathy, systems thinking, and design thinking? After organizing a series of game jams last year around serious social issues — immigration, climate change, future cities — I discovered the answer to be an overwhelming yes."
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NPR
Paper ... or glass? Advances in laptops and technology are pushing screens into schools like never before. So what does this drive toward digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper? It may seem a wasteful and obsolete technology, ready to follow the slate chalkboard and the ditto machine into the Smithsonian, or a flat, white invitation to creativity, just waiting for some learning magic to happen. And when it comes to learning and retention, is there any difference between reading and writing on an electronic "tablet" or a paper one?
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District Administration Magazine
The summer break was far from idyllic, marked by demonstrations, marches and even deadly violence across the country. For school leaders, fostering a positive school climate for returning students must be a high priority. In these troubling times, schools must place the highest priority on becoming an oasis of kindness and respect for all of our nation's young people.
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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.
Washington Examiner
Support for charter schools and voucher programs is high among millennials, and especially high among minority millennials, according to a new poll. The poll was conducted among 1,836 adults between the ages of 18-34 over the summer by GenForward as part of its bimonthly survey of millennials, which is administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. The data published focused on how young people view education, probing respondents on three different questions related to school choice policies such as charter schools and vouchers.
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Youth Today
Black girls are nearly four times more likely to be arrested at school than their white counterparts and Latina girls are almost three times more likely to be arrested in elementary school than white girls, a new report says. Researchers at the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and the National Black Women's Justice Institute found that the explosion of police in the nation's schools is forcing increasing numbers of black and brown girls into the school-to-prison pipeline.
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eSchool News
How do you know if your school system is high performing in its use of technology? What are your strengths and weaknesses? While there are many free, self-assessments, how do you get a rigorous, outside expert assessment?
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EdTech Magazine
Digital citizenship has stepped into the forefront of a modern-day education. Experts indicate that as schools roll out tech, they also need to be rolling out digital citizenship education. Tech giant Google heeded that call and partnered with experts to launch Be Internet Awesome, an interactive campaign that educates students on how best to act on the internet. One part of this Google campaign is Interland, a game that has students travel an imaginary world where they need to fight hackers, phishers, oversharers and bullies with digital citizenship skills. While game-based learning can be effective, educators also need to be armed with skills to teach their students to be citizens of the web.
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Education Next (commentary)
Rob Waldron, a contributor for Education Next, writes: "During our honeymoon in Istanbul several decades ago, my wife and I found ourselves caught up in negotiations in the famed carpet souk. Having expressed a flicker of interest in one of the rugs we passed, we were whisked into an extraordinary sales pitch, the likes of which I've never encountered in all my years as a CEO. Dazzled by intricate weaving and gorgeous colors, we were fish in a barrel — fish with no idea what questions to ask, how to check for quality, or what to pay for such a rug. We emerged dazed, with significantly fewer lira and a lovely rug we never knew we needed."
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Education Week
Champions of spending on after-school programs got a qualified victory during debate over the House education funding bill for the next fiscal year. Lawmakers voted 228-188 to increase what the bill originally earmarked for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program by $100 million in the House budget bill for the U.S. Department of Education. The amendment to the House bill was sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., among others.
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EdSource
Intern teachers in programs like Teach for America who earn their preliminary credential while on the job will not have the scarlet letter of being labeled an "ineffective teacher" in California. In adopting the state plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act on Wednesday, the State Board of Education resolved a remaining contentious issue: the definition of an "ineffective teacher." It decided not to include teachers with intern credentials in the definition after much testimony from former intern teachers and districts that readily hire them. All teachers with a teaching credential — including the standard "preliminary" teaching credential through a traditional teacher preparation program or an intern credential — will now meet the definition of "effective."
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EdSurge
Anthony Principe worked as a special education teacher in Boston, Mass. for more than 30 years, and throughout that period he watched the educators in his city experiment with different instructional philosophies. From Montessori to personalized, to college and life-prep schools, individual campuses picked up pedagogies and transformed their learning spaces.
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Oklahoma Watch via Ada News
Special education teachers have become so scarce that districts face fierce competition to find and keep good candidates and sometimes leave open positions unfilled. That's why late one night in August, Ponca City Public Schools Superintendent Shelley Arrott sprang into action when she heard the distinctive ding of her cell phone. The alert meant a job application had been submitted online to the district. She scrambled to arrange an interview the next morning for the applicant.
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NAESP
Are you interested in strengthening your career while preparing a new generation of leaders? The National Mentor Training and Certification Program offers a highly structured professional development program which integrates a mentor training component that can make the critical difference in sustainability of skilled leaders. NAESP will be hosting upcoming mentor trainings in Mason, Michigan, Oct. 5–6; and Alexandria, Virginia, Oct. 26–27. Click here to register and find more information.
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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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