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School Leaders Now
As a school leader, one of the most important parts of your job is facilitating clear communication between school and home. Luckily, there are many excellent parent communication apps on the market designed to make your job easier. But which one is the best, and why? We've done the research on nine of the most popular apps, and here's what we found.
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Education Commission of the States
Too often, we hear stories of young people taking their own lives and we find ourselves asking what could have been done to prevent these tragedies. Suicide is a public health crisis in this country, and youth suicide rates are striking and concerning: It is the second leading cause of death among youth ages 10-18 and according to the CDC, suicide rates have increased significantly for all age groups across most states between 1999-2016.
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HR DIVE
Just about every company has at least one: that exceptional manager, the one that everyone on the team likes and respects. Their team not only performs well, but also genuinely enjoys working together. Those who work for them are motivated, creative and productive — in other words, engaged.
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District Administration Magazine
As a math teacher at Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx, Sheldon Vleck didn't give much thought to the master schedule. "I never saw it. The only thing I'd see were kids sitting in front of me," he says. "You'd take a look at a kid and say, 'Well, this kid is really good. How come he isn't in the honors class?'" It was only when Vleck became the school's master scheduler that he first appreciated the intricacies involved. With 2,100 students, Truman is one of the larger public schools in New York City, and Vleck now had to put students into the courses they needed to graduate.
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Leadership Freak
Suppose a leader's team chronically under-performs. How might you help? The beginning of transformation: Pain and frustration are opportunities for transformation. Success that breeds contentment destroys the future. Painful failure inspires openness to change. But there's a trap.
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By: Linchi Kwok (commentary)
 Gen Z, also known as the iGen or post-millennials, has grown up. Born between 1996 and 2010, Gen Z makes up 32 percent of the world's population. They are young, they are energetic, and they are driven. They are now joining other generations in the workplace. As Gen Z is different from the previous generations, their expectations may or may not align with other generations, especially millennials. With what they want in mind, companies must adjust their recruitment strategies in attracting the top talents in Gen Z.
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Inc.
There's no shortage of leadership content available. As you're reading this article, millions of other people around the world are gaining knowledge on how to become better leaders via YouTube, blogs, audiobooks, and podcasts. But the alarming part is, the improvement to content consumed ratio is near non-existent.
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Edutopia
Sometimes we take the little things for granted. Knocking on a teacher's door to borrow a lesson plan or dropping into a colleague's room to chat about content — these little everyday occurrences are rare luxuries when you're a rural teacher and may be the only one for miles who teaches your subject area or grade level. Isolation can be challenging for many rural teachers. The lack of opportunities to connect with and learn from peers takes away one of the greatest professional learning opportunities teachers have — each other.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 If everyone was professional, we would not need HR. While that is not exactly true, it is true that employee relations issues can take a lot of time to address for both managers and HR teams. In many cases, neither managers nor HR have the bandwidth to help resolve issues of trust. The bottom line is trust is a tricky thing to prove or disprove. Here are a few actions to take when you do not trust a colleague.
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Entrepreneur
Back in 2008, a team of researchers at Google started a fascinating project called Project Oxygen, in order to determine the qualities of their highest-performing managers. Recently, that team updated its research and modified and added some qualities. Here is that more recent list of the top behaviors of Google's best managers.
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Education Week
The Senate has approved a spending package that contains funding increases for prominent education programs focusing on disadvantaged students and special education, among several others. Senators voted overwhelmingly in favor of the legislation, which was crafted and approved by House and Senate appropriations leaders last week. The bill for fiscal 2019 includes a $581 million increase in total U.S. Department of Education spending over current levels for fiscal 2018.
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Education Week
States: Were you worried you missed the window to apply to the Every Student Succeeds Act's innovative assessment pilot? Then, some good news for you: The U.S. Department of Education is inviting more state applications for the testing leeway, which allows states to try out new types of tests in a handful of districts before taking them statewide.
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Education DIVE
If you type, "how to hack into school server" into Google’s search bar, dozens of articles give readers a step-by-step guide on how to get through what arguably should be an impenetrable IT system — at least for a teenage amateur. And thanks to a boost in ed tech, collecting and storing data on centralized platforms is more common than ever, giving people in and out of the school community the opportunity to hack into these files.
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EdScoop
Hoping to protect the privacy and safety of K-12 students, the FBI has issued a public service announcement encouraging awareness of cyberthreats involving education technologies, or edtech. The announcement warns parents, students and teachers of the potential exploitation of information stored on these technologies, which include personalized learning experiences, tracking academics, disciplinary issues, student information systems and classroom management programs.
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EdTech Magazine
Forecasts report that computer science skills will be essential for the future workforce, creating a need for K–12 experts to work harder to incorporate such lessons into the curriculum. According to the App Association, there will be approximately 1 million unfilled computing jobs in 2024. Research conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that number could be reached by 2020. These findings have put a fire underneath educators and K–12 organizations to refocus efforts to teach computer science skills.
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Forbes
Reading and math scores have long been the currency of American schooling, and never more so than in the past two decades since the No Child Left Behind Act. Today, advocates will describe a teacher as "effective" when what they really mean is that the teacher's students had big increases in reading and math scores. Politicians say a school is "good" when they mean that its reading and math scores are high.
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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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Education Dive
Nasrin Jafari feels fortunate to be teaching in a school where educating students to develop critical thinking skills is considered more valuable than correct answers to standardized test questions. As a humanities teacher at City School of the Arts in New York City, Jafari sees tremendous value in taking missteps and failing. She wants to support the middle school children she works with so they know how to handle the stumbles that will happen not just in their educations, but throughout their lives.
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eSchool News
STEM learning is a cornerstone of education in today's K-12 schools, but STEM classrooms often aren't all that inspiring to students who are blind or have low vision. So much of science is based on sight and observations, and when students who have vision challenges are forced to stand off to the side and listen to classmates' observations about experiments or data, they lose some of the excitement that goes along with scientific discovery.
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University of Michigan via Science Daily
As childhood obesity rates rise and physical education offerings dwindle, elementary schools keep searching for ways to incorporate the federally mandated half-hour of physical activity into the school day. A series of recent University of Michigan studies found that two-minute bursts of in-class exercise breaks increased the amount of daily exercise for elementary children without hurting math performance. More importantly, when incorporated into classrooms across southeast Michigan, teachers found the breaks were doable and didn't disrupt learning.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Jen Schneider, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "'It bothers me that I am not learning things in school that will help me become what I want to be.' This is the most sobering and common response to one of three questions I ask my students before we start Genius Hour: What bothers you? What do you love? What do you wonder about? What would it take to help students find that connection between school and their future? Sometimes, all it takes is permission."
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Education Week
Tens of thousands of babies are born each year to mothers who abused opioids when they were pregnant. Now, a new study offers a snapshot of the educational impact of that early trauma — and a hint of what schools are already facing and may have to grapple with for years to come. Researchers examined the educational status of a group of Medicaid-eligible children in Tennessee ages 3 to 8. Some of those children were born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, meaning that they spent their earliest days coping with the health effects of opioid withdrawal.
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University of Michigan via Science Daily
Some kindergartners and first-graders suspended from school can find it challenging to reverse the negative trajectory in their academic life, says a University of Michigan researcher. These young suspended students — especially boys — are likely to be suspended again later in elementary school, according to Zibei Chen, a research fellow at the U-M School of Social Work, and colleagues at Louisiana State University.
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The Atlantic
When Eric Ushiroda moved to a tiny Japanese village in the mid-1990s to work as a teacher, there was one thing he learned almost immediately: His middle-school students in this chilly, forested town were obsessed with L.L. Bean backpacks. A recent graduate of the University of Hawaii who'd applied for the teaching job as part of an exchange program, Ushiroda didn’t own winter clothing. Mail-order catalogs were the easiest way for him to get what he needed, living in a rural town. So he ordered some thermal underwear and fleece jackets from L.L. Bean.
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The Huffington Post
When asked what she remembered about Hurricane Maria, 10-year-old Yermiletsy Quiñonez Rosado immediately began to imitate the high-pitch whistle of the storm's 155 mph winds. "We thought the wind was going take the house. We were very scared," she told HuffPost in late July, her eyes focused on a toy she was restlessly turning in her hands. But it wasn't memories of the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico last September or her family's nearly four months without power or water afterward that made Yermiletsy anxious just weeks before the start of the new school year. It was knowing she would soon begin fifth grade at a new school, Escuela Inés María Mendoza.
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Education Week
Even short suspensions can add up to big losses of instruction, particularly for students of color and special education students, researchers have found. A new study by Daniel Losen and Kacy Martin at the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California, Los Angeles, found deep discipline disparities for California middle schoolers.
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EdScoop
Surveys have shown that children and adolescents are more likely to listen to their peers than their parents or other authority figures when it comes to judging risk. It was with this idea in mind that New York state government announced the launch of a K-12 poster competition to get the word out about dangers online.
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NAESP
How many elementary buildings have a museum? How amazing is that? Sugar Creek Elementary in West Terre Haute, Indiana, has on display all the district's artifacts from band uniforms to composite pictures to old scoreboards. The artifacts tell the history of the district. Retired school personnel volunteer time to coordinate the efforts.
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NAESP
Effective leadership begins with the development of a school-wide vision of commitment to high standards and the success of all students. The principal helps to spell out that vision and get all others on board. This webinar will highlight five key practices that characterize the leadership of principals who can make a difference in teaching and learning. This webinar takes place Monday, Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m. EDT.
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