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Edutopia (commentary)
Elena Aguilar, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "At a school where I worked, when staff gathered for a meeting there were often more elephants in the room than teachers. These elephants — the things that no one wanted to talk about — included dysfunctional team dynamics, unsupported and struggling staff, and issues of racial inequity. In retrospect, I think many staff members really wanted to address these issues but just didn't know how."
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Education DIVE
After reading recent articles regarding diversity initiatives kicking off across the New York City Department of Education, one might think that there are no diverse schools achieving strong student outcomes within some of the districts mentioned. Our school, the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, is located in District 28 in Queens, one of the districts featured in the diversity initiative within the NYCDOE, and is also one of the most diverse schools in New York. Our rich diversity is one of the primary reasons our students succeed in school and into their postsecondary lives.
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District Administration Magazine
Schools, and even some districts, are banning cell phones in the classroom as research continues to show that their use hinders learning. Students who don't use phones in class are more productive, one study concluded, while another report found that just the mere presence of these devices (even when put aside) reduces people's cognitive capacity.
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Fast Company
On the long list of crucial job skills that you aren't taught in school, how to manage up ranks high. You may enter the workforce with the belief that your boss is there to manage your performance, but their management style is something you have no control over. Learning the best way to manage your boss, however, is an essential skill that you'll use throughout your career.
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Entrepreneur
It is critically important as a leader to give team members consistent feedback, not only on what they need to improve but also what they are doing well. I meet employees all over the world who sadly tell me their boss never gives them any positive feedback, only leveling criticism when they make a mistake. When I worked in corporate America and asked my boss how I was doing, he told me, "I will let you know when you screw up." It is any wonder that according to a survey conducted by professional-services firm EY, only 46 percent of employees place "a great deal of trust" in their employers, and 15 percent report "very little" or "no trust at all"? It's time to change that.
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HR DIVE
Experts continue to agree that a lack of belonging can lead to attrition. As BetterUp pointed out, that means an employer's failure to adopt inclusion initiatives can be an expensive choice. To create a sense of belonging, BetterUp said employers can coach managers to be aware of the impact of exclusion and to focus on the human needs of team members. Additionally, Aubrey Blanche, Atlassian's global head of diversity and belonging, has encouraged employers to ensure the presence of role models and aim for balanced representation of identity groups.
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By: Lisa Cole (commentary)
Life can often feel like an endurance contest — deadline after deadline with piles upon piles of work. As much as we think pushing on even harder may remedy our discomfort, stopping may be the best first thing to do. We can give ourselves "permission to pause." By taking that break and granting ourselves a breather, it may become obvious that we are simply physically exhausted.
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Entrepreneur
Workplace stress is an epidemic, and unfortunately, high levels of stress not only harm employee health, but they also harm your business. In many cases, stress is short-lived and lasts only as long as the stress-inducing project or event. This is called acute or short-term stress. Your body is built to handle acute stress, but it’s not meant to cope with stress over long periods of time. When stressful conditions happen enduringly, your body begins to break down. This is called chronic or long-term stress. When chronic stress rears its ugly head, a break is absolutely imperative.
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The Lead Change Group
Are you one of those leaders who try something new and think you failed if it doesn't come out exactly the way you intend? Stop that. Failure is not an outcome, it's a judgement. You won't fail if you consider your trials as experiments.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
What do you think the most important job of a leader is? Is it to motivate the team to achieve departmental business objectives? Engage employees to ensure they are highly productive? Drive home business results? While those are essential, none are the most important job of a leader. Why? Because a leader cannot accomplish any of this without the right people on his or her team. Therefore, the most critical job of a leader is to hire the right people.
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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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Harvard Business Review
Although most managers would agree that it is important to hire people who fit in, the idea of hiring for culture fit has become controversial. Our work suggests it need not be. Most of the controversy boils down to a single key issue: the wrong definition of culture fit. The confusion over what culture fit is has given rise to a number of common misconceptions. Clearing these up can help managers improve their talent strategies.
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Inc.
When you think of good leadership, does patience ever come up as a key strength of great leaders? Probably not, but it should. Patience can be one of the hardest traits to master personally and professionally because of the intense pressure put on leaders to generate quick and effective results. Patient attitudes are even viewed as going against the grain of workplace culture. Instead, leaders are celebrated for working hard and fast.
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Educaiton Week
Legislation passed by the House education committee would for the first time provide an official definition for a school shooting and also require the federal government to track school shooters' motivations, as well as the demographics of shootings' victims and perpetrators. The School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act, authored by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, would also task the U.S. Department of Education with collecting information about a school's safety protocols if a shooting occurs there, from its emergency response plans to its building design.
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The Washington Post
A majority of Americans remain opposed to busing children to racially integrate schools. But opposition is not as fierce as it once was because of growing acceptance among Democrats, according to a Gallup survey. The poll found a deep partisan divide on busing and on the extent of racial segregation in schools, with Democrats more than twice as likely as Republicans to call it a serious problem. Busing was never popular in the 1970s and 1980s, when federal courts mandated programs in many communities as a way to desegregate schools. Those orders were mostly lifted in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and scant polling has been done on the matter for more than a decade.
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Education Next
As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination heats up, the televised debates have drawn attention to the state of segregation in U.S. public schools. Sixty-five years after the Supreme Court declared segregated schools inherently unequal in Brown v. Board of Education, education reformers are debating which strategies should be pursued to mitigate segregation in America's K-12 public schools. A new report by Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz at the Washington Post shows the overall number of children attending U.S. public schools with students of other races has actually doubled over the past 25 years. At the same time, many urban schools remain deeply segregated.
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The 74
It was a busy, if often frustrating, summer for the Trump administration's many efforts to destabilize U.S. immigration policies. Federal judges ruled in August that, under a long-standing legal agreement, the administration was required to provide detained children at the border with "edible food, clean water, soap and toothpaste." So the administration announced that it would write new regulations to supersede that agreement. This came on the heels of the culmination of the administration's multiyear push to redefine the country's "public charge" rule, aiming to make it harder for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants to obtain long-term legal residency in the United States. That effort also drew a raft of lawsuits.
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EdTech Magazine
As the school year kicks off, it is important for K–12 IT leaders have their fingers on the pulse around education technology to make informed decisions about where to put their efforts. To help, here is a round-up of some of the notable surveys, statistics and stories to have come over the past few months.
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District Administration Magazine
One-to-one. It's a simple little phrase that carries a great deal of meaning. Depending on your context, you might feel inspired, terrified, validated or bewildered. It might seem overly simple, or incredibly complex to achieve a ratio of one computer to one student. It's a crucial, game-changing arrangement that can empower students, solve for issues of equity, enable blended and personalized learning, and help prepare kids to take charge of their future.
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EdTech Magazine
As technology is further integrated into the classroom, digital citizenship is an essential skill all students need to possess. Responsible technology use is imperative for maintaining a safe learning environment and preparing students to be capable users in a technology-enabled workforce. Earlier this year in a webinar from edWeb, Jeff Meyer, director of education at Learning.com, outlined the importance of ingraining digital citizenship in students at a young age, and listed some of the educational tools available to teachers for starting these lessons early.
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EdSurge
While there's no exact formula for a seamless digital transformation, certain school districts are providing examples of how to take this on while keeping learners at the center of everything. Student agency is a top priority at Frederick County Public Schools in Virginia, and it definitely shows in their approach to technology implementation.
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Education World
Facing a classroom full of students — each one with different strengths and weaknesses — is often challenge enough for a teacher armed with just one carefully crafted lesson plan. Having to assess and teach to various levels can seem impossible. But experts say there are some reasons why teachers might have more motivation today to use differentiated instruction in their classroom, despite some thoughts that it is too much to expect from them.
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University of British Columbia via Science Daily
Emphasizing more play, hands-on learning and students helping one another in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation, finds new UBC research. The study, published in the journal PLoS One, found this approach to kindergarten curriculum also enhanced children's joy in learning and teachers' enjoyment of teaching, and reduced bullying, peer ostracism and teacher burnout.
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The Brookings Institution
"By the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy..." These words were
penned in 1990 by the U.S. Department of Education. Sadly, the goals were not met. Two decades later, 43 million adults — roughly 20 percent — in the United States struggle with written texts needed to participate in society. And in our knowledge economy, by 2020, 65 percent of all jobs will require a post-secondary education. Thus salaries and even adequate health care demand that we solve the reading problem.
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MiddleWeb
Many teachers start off the year by establishing the norms they'd like their classrooms to exhibit. At the time of the year you're reading this, you've probably identified the norms and behaviors that will make for an academically safe and productive learning environment.
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Forbes
According to the federal report, Charting a Course for Success: America's Strategy for STEM Education, the U.S. Department of Education is furthering efforts to increase STEM-related learning across the education space. The report states that the federal government remains committed to partnering with stakeholders at all levels while also focusing on providing more opportunities for underrepresented student populations.
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Education DIVE
When she taught kindergarten, Guadalupe Chavez was assigned a classroom where children were bilingual in English and Spanish, but some only spoke one language or the other. Her instructions were to assign different classroom work to different children based on language needs. The students, she said, rebelled — vocally.
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Ohio State University via Science Daily
Being good at math relates to better financial and medical outcomes — unless you don't have confidence in your own abilities with numbers, new research suggests. In two studies, researchers found that the key to success in personal finances and dealing with a complex disease was a match between a person's math abilities and how comfortable and assured he or she felt using those skills.
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The Huffington Post
Childhood obesity has been called an epidemic, but in some ways, that's wishful thinking. Because with an epidemic, you can usually pinpoint a cause and potential solutions. Childhood obesity is more like fighting a hundred infections at once and trying every medication you've got, hoping something sticks. Worldwide, obesity among kids is 10 times higher than it was in 1975, and many experts believe it's going to get much worse. The U.S. has some of the highest rates: According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 5 school-aged children and adolescents in the United States are affected by obesity. The issue impacts kids as young as two years old.
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Education DIVE
Less than a year into becoming superintendent of the 92,000-student Denver Public Schools, Susana Cordova has already faced a number of significant challenges — the most prominent among them being a three-day teacher strike. Having been a student and parent in the district in addition to building her career as an educator there, Cordova credits that experience with helping her navigate the ins and outs of her leadership role.
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NAESP
As the school year gets underway, we are celebrating the inaugural NAESP Week Sept. 23–27. During #NAESPWeek19 we salute NAESP members, highlighting the valuable benefits NAESP offers to help fuel your passion for leadership. We want to make sure you know about ALL of what we have to offer — from legal funds to grant opportunities to discounts on resources you need. Take time this week to tap in to these feature opportunities.
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NAESP
Help shape the premier conference for pre-K–8 school leaders! This is your opportunity to join other nationally recognized speakers in shaping the Pre-K–8 Principals Conference by sharing best practices, expertise, and successes in a variety of session formats. We need your input for creative and resourceful education sessions to make the conference an even bigger success next year in Louisville, Kentucky, July 12-14.
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