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Edutopia
In a recent study conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, school leaders identified five ways they were most likely to receive professional feedback: through school-level opportunities, through district-provided opportunities, by reading journals and books, in face-to-face networking with colleagues and through attendance at state association conferences.
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Today
Everyone knows bullying is a huge problem, and we all need to work to stop it. But how? The science is unclear. While school districts across the country spend millions of dollars each year to combat bullying, not all anti-bullying programs work equally — and some of the most common approaches, it turns out, don't work very well at all.
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eSchool News
In May, when edWeb.net surveyed principals, personalized PD for teachers was the number one topic of interest. With all the responsibilities and tasks on principals' plates, relevant, engaging PD focused on best practices can be extremely challenging. In a recent edWebinar, Dr. L Robert Furman, principal of South Park Elementary Center in Pennsylvania, asked the question, "Why is it that when we think of PD, it becomes a comedy or a depression and teachers automatically assume that it is going to be a colossal waste of time?"
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Education DIVE
Mentoring programs for new teachers can save districts as much as $1 million over a five-year period because they increase teacher retention rates, according to a return-on-investment analysis of the New Teacher Center's work in Chicago Public Schools. Conducted by Metis Associates, a New York City-based research and consulting firm, the calculations also show such support for novice teachers results in additional learning gains for students compared to a control group and could lead to as much as $38,000 in greater lifetime earnings for those students.
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District Administration Magazine
As schools start to decorate for Halloween and other fall festivities, students and teachers are coping with summertime heat in parts of the country where warmth isn't typically an issue this time of year. On Monday and Tuesday, as September gave way to October, districts in parts of Ohio dismissed students early due to temperatures that hit the low 90s, according to the Bellefontaine Examiner and other news outlets. Heat also drove Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland to close schools building without air conditioning on Wednesday, Oct. 2, local news outlets reported.
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By: Roberta Matuson (commentary)
 People reach out to me daily asking for my advice. They tell me they want to fill jobs more rapidly or improve their retention rates, followed by all the reasons why no matter what they do, nothing will work. I even had one guy ask me, "Does what you do really work?" I replied, "I've had my consulting practice for 22 years. Do you think I'd still be in business if my clients weren't better off having worked with me?" I then placed him on my list of people I will not be working with, as it was clear to me that no matter what I said or did, he'd never be happy.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Ivan Misner, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "When I was very young, my mother gave me a paperweight that said, 'Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.' She went on to say, 'Honey, I love you but you are a bull in a china shop; you just run people over. You have to learn how to work with people.' This advice was a major influence on me for the rest of my life. Think back to your elementary school report card and how it graded you on your ability to play well with others. Well, things haven't changed."
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Harvard Business Review
The stakes are high when a new leader takes over. Despite their training and experience, a full 74% of new leaders say they are unprepared for the new role, and in 18 months nearly half of them disappoint or fail entirely. In many cases, leaders either judge too quickly, making snap decisions that prove to be ill advised, or wait interminably to "gather more facts," only for the critical moment to slip away.
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Forbes
Many people get into leadership thinking they must drive results. While leaders are hired to ensure results, being attached to the outcome can send a leader into operating from their EGO: edging their greatest self out. This can lead to an unconscious mantra of "If it's meant to be, it's up to me!" While this mindset may produce positive short-term results, it will also produce a fear-based culture where employees mirror the mindset of the leader.
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Fast Company
You'd think the kids who spent less time in the principal's office and more time studying would develop into more successful adults, but that's not necessarily the case. A recent study suggests that those who had poor grades or were disciplined more frequently in school might actually have a better chance at being happier and successful later in life. In addition, researchers have found that other attributes prove far better indicators of future potential than academic performance or discipline rates.
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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
When one of the nation's highest-profile and most divisive supporters of school choice went on an interstate, back-to-school tour last month, she largely steered clear of using the phrase "school choice" at all. Instead, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who used school visits in six states to promote her federal tax-credit scholarship proposal, referred to "education freedom," a rebranding that suggests options that go beyond being expected to choose a school — options like mixing and matching components to build an educational experience from scratch.
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Education DIVE
Though the filing window closes in February, it's never too early to start the planning and paperwork for E-rate funds from the Federal Communications Commission. The program's impact has been critical to broadband connectivity for many schools, especially when it comes to ensuring infrastructure is up-to-date and there's enough bandwidth for the ballooning amount of tech in classrooms. This only grows in importance as more states take their annual standardized exams digital, particularly for rural schools and low-income schools at large.
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EdTech Magazine
Legislators across all 50 states have introduced student data privacy laws. The move makes sense: As educators leverage the benefits of connected classroom technologies, student data is captured and used to personalize the experience. But what happens to this data when lessons are over and students leave for the summer, or move on to college or the workforce? How do K–12 schools ensure they're in compliance with local laws and minimize risk without hampering their ability to deliver high-quality, engaging classroom experiences?
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Education Week
Evaluating the usage of ed-tech products is tricky, complicated, and oftentimes confusing. But it can be done. Consider the case of the Granite County school district in Utah. It partnered with a company called LearnPlatform to measure whether time spent on three particular pieces of software led to a bump in student achievement. The district found that one program had great results for English language learners and Native American students. Another seemed to get results when students used it as often as the manufacturer suggested, but going beyond that didn't lead to better outcomes. A third was barely used at all, and the district is considering nixing it.
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EdTech Magazine
The beginning of a new school year is exciting, but as the novelty fades and academic routines set in, emphasis on and commitment to new, technology-driven initiatives may wane. This raises the question of how to ensure the related investments — whether its time, money or both — don't go to waste, and that efforts to enhance learning with technology continue throughout the school year. Here are some ways to keep the momentum going.
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EdScoop
To strengthen school safety for K-12 students across the country, lawmakers proposed a bill to establish a national database as a resource for districts to assess, identify and share information on school security technology and innovation. While the safety of students has become a top priority for many schools, there is no general approach to help educators sift through the multitude of safety technologies or share best practices for designing a secure school environment, according to lawmakers.
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eSchool News
K-12 teachers, counselors and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation or community service opportunities.
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Edutopia
New teachers intuitively understand the need to create a welcoming community in their classrooms. A warm and responsive classroom culture is essential because, like all of us, students need to feel safe and valued in order to thrive. As the professor of education Linda Darling-Hammond has said, "When that sense of belonging is there, children throw themselves into the learning environment."
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EdScoop
Teachers at Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia say that audiobooks are improving access to grade-level content and helping students develop a love of reading that motivates continued improvement. Two assistive-technology teachers recommended the use of audiobooks in a recent webinar hosted by edWeb.net and presented by Terrie Noland, vice president of educator initiatives at Learning Ally, a nonprofit organization that specializes in audiobooks for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
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The Brookings Institution
Given the increasing polarization of the political debates about immigration, which has occurred in the context of persistent and growing socio–economic inequality in the United States, it is important to understand the possible influences of immigrants on U.S. schools. Immigrants and their children are one of the fastest-growing demographic groups — comprising 26% of the U.S. population in 2015.
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Tech&Learning (commentary)
Glenn Wiebe, a contributor for Tech&Learning, writes: "One of my fave conversations centered on the idea of using emojis as a way to help kids make sense of social studies and incorporating them as part of a quality lesson that can help improve student thinking and literacy skills."
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The 2019 K-12 School Giants Report shows that many K-12 districts across the country are emphasizing hands-on, practical and personalized learning. As a result, 360-degree learning has emerged as one of the latest trends in K-12 education. A core concept for 360-degree learning is that surroundings and all aspects of students’ experiences impact education. Most of all, it considers how students engage with their fellow students, the subject matter, and how interactive these lessons can become.
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Education DIVE
Sara Sweetman, a University of Rhode Island assistant professor, still remembers pulling her car over to the side of the road in 2009 to take an important phone call. Sesame Workshop was ready to bring science, technology, engineering and math to the most famous street in America, and Rosemarie Truglio, senior vice president of curriculum and content, was calling on experts to advise Sesame Street's writers on what STEM learning might look like with a muppet.
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EdSurge
When my children were small, they loved the book "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems. In the book, a persistent pigeon begs, with increasing intensity, to drive a bus. As he pleads, children reading along with the story are meant to say "No" over and over again, thus reinforcing the concept for small children that there are limits, and that perhaps letting a pigeon drive a bus might be as foolhardy as letting a child eat napkins for dinner. In other words, we have to learn to accept the concept of no.
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Newsweek
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics finds that charter school and public school students have the same academic performance in testing conducted at the fourth- and eighth-grade level. "In 2017, at grades 4 and 8, no measurable differences in average reading and mathematics scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress were observed between students in traditional public and public charter schools," the "School Choice in the United States: 2019" report found.
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Education DIVE
Early-childhood programs — including center- and home-based settings — are twice as likely as kindergarten and 1st-grade classrooms to have all black or all Hispanic children. They're also less likely to be "somewhat integrated" with 10-20% of children being black or Hispanic, according to a new Urban Institute study comparing segregation between K-12 schools and the variety of learning arrangements for children 5 and under.
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The Hechinger Report
Why is it that higher income kids tend to score better on achievement tests than poor kids, even at the youngest ages? One explanation from the 1990s is the so-called 30-million word gap, in which researchers observed how higher income parents talked to their kids more and estimated that low income kids heard 30 million fewer words before the age of four.
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Education Week
How do children learn to read? For almost a century, researchers have argued over the question. Most of the disagreement has centered on the very beginning stages of the reading process, when young children are first starting to figure out how to decipher words on a page. One theory is that reading is a natural process, like learning to speak. If teachers and parents surround children with good books, this theory goes, kids will pick up reading on their own. Another idea suggests that reading is a series of strategic guesses based on context, and that kids should be taught these guessing strategies.
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Eduation DIVE
Walking from classroom to classroom, David Brown completes his morning ritual of greeting every teacher and making sure Hillcrest Heights Elementary School's students get accustomed to seeing his tall frame around the building. "Wait, we missed one," he says, doubling back down the hallway. Finding a few boys in a classroom by themselves, he escorts them to join their classmates and checks the locks on all doors before returning to his office. "I like to look at a school kind of like a hotel. What's the level of customer service you're providing?"
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Chalkbeat
The Detroit school district is asking all of its students and staff to sign an anti-bullying pledge to set new expectations for how people treat each other inside roughly 100 city schools. "It's unfortunate that we live in a day and time where we have to have a document, but respect isn't always given and received," said Angelique Peterson-Mayberry, a member of the board of the Detroit Public Schools Community District.
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NAESP
National Principals Month is here! NAESP is celebrating principals throughout the month with live events, webinars, and Twitter chats. Visit the National Principals Month website at principalsmonth.org for the full schedule.
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NAESP
Accomplished elementary and middle-level principals from across the nation and abroad have been named 2019 NAESP National Distinguished Principals® by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. The pre-K–8 principals will be honored Oct. 11 at an awards banquet in Washington, D.C. "Today's principals lead dynamic learning communities with high standards and an eye toward equity, all while attending to students’ growing social and emotional needs," said Dr. L. Earl Franks, CAE, NAESP's executive director. "NAESP's National Distinguished Principals program recognizes the exemplary leadership of highly successful principals and is a heartfelt 'thank you' to outstanding school leaders."
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