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The Brookings Institution
Research consistently shows that teacher turnover has
negative effects on schools and students. For this reason, education researchers have devoted a great deal of attention to identifying the factors that drive teachers to leave their schools. Several such studies conclude that the quality of a school's leadership is among the most important predictors of teacher turnover.
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Reuters
Schools that install a lot of indoor cameras may not be improving security while in fact making children feel less safe, a U.S. study suggests. Surveys of more than 54,000 middle and high school students found that the presence of security officers as well as outdoor cameras made kids feel safer, according to the report published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. But cameras indoors made them feel more vulnerable.
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HR DIVE
Autumn brings school buses, falling leaves and — less idyllically — flu season. If you haven't yet thought about how to keep your workers healthy and flu-free, now's the time. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccination for everyone older than six months (barring medical contraindications), ideally before the end of October. The 2017-2018 flu season, according to the CDC, was a doozy: It featured high levels of outpatient clinic and ER visits and was the first flu season to be classified as having "high severity" across all age groups.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Amy Lynn Tompkins, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "Cell phone use at our middle and high schools is creating a distraction from learning. I'd like to say this is our students' problem, but it's actually teacher cell phone use! I expect teachers to model good cell phone protocol when it comes to school. But, who wants to monitor everyone's use of them? I also don't want to take them away. Is there any common ground here?"
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Fast Company (commentary)
Kat Boogaard, a contribuytor for Fast Company, writes: "I don't want to. How many times have you wanted to say those four words in your professional life? I'm willing to bet the number is pretty high. Maybe you were looking for a way out of a networking event that your friend was begging you to attend. Perhaps you just really didn't feel like meeting that acquaintance for coffee so she could "pick your brain." Or, maybe you wished you could scream this in your boss's face when you were tasked with a project that filled you with dread."
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HR DIVE
Women are 10 times more likely than men to temporarily leave the workforce when they become parents, according to the responses of more than 2,500 parents in a Merrill Lynch and Age Wave study. Women also are more likely to quit their jobs for those offering more flexibility, whereas men switch jobs for higher pay, better benefits or more hours.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Audrey Sofianos' job as principal of Morningside Elementary School frequently pulled her in different directions. Too often, she wasn't headed toward a classroom but instead into an administrative morass of managing the day-to-day concerns of running a school. This year, she has backup. Atlanta Public Schools has hired 17 "school business managers" since recreating the position this spring. They handle the business side of school operations — from budgeting and purchasing to dealing with food service, transportation and facilities.
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HR DIVE
While pay and assignment disparities are sometimes chalked up to stereotypes about the way women talk and act, Hive's findings suggest that those stereotypes may not have much truth to them. To combat this, experts suggest that employers train managers and standardize evaluation criteria. GoDaddy, for example, asked managers to really look at whether they evaluate men and women using the same criteria.
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By: Anne Rose (commentary)
 An old Buffy Sainte-Marie love song crooned about staying until it's time to go. That applies to the work world, too, when a longtime, valued employee, seemingly out of the blue, announces he's quitting because, "it's time to go and move on." Why, you ask, stunned? Because it's just time, is the vague answer. When is it time to go, and is there a way to delay that time, and should you even try?
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Entrepreneur
Everybody makes mistakes — it's part of life. In fact, it's through our mistakes and failures that we acquire the experiences and insight that allow us to succeed. Some people have a hard time admitting it when they make a mistake. However, successful people recognize when they've made a blunder. They learn from it, grow and then move on. They know that if they ignore a mistake they can get caught in a negative cycle that will leave them defeated. That would be true failure.
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Harvard Business Review
Many managers want to be more inclusive. They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it's the right thing to aspire to. But they don't know how to get there. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits.
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Forbes
When clients tell me that their job search has stalled, often the culprit is expecting others to shoulder the bulk of the work or to be as invested as they are. Most people want to help you, but you'll always get better results when you do the work for them up front, ensuring your request is something they are uniquely qualified to assist with.
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By: Linchi Kwok (commentary)
 Artificial intelligence (AI) and machines can now perform many jobs traditionally done by human beings. Even in the restaurant business, where many believe only real human beings can accomplish most tasks, some entrepreneurs have already begun using machines to cook and serve customers. According to a recent CNBC update, AI can help businesses manage their human capital, too. For example, AI can help companies pick the best candidates, and more.
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The Lead Change Group
Leaders often assume the role of coaches and educators as they encourage change and development in their teams. Those who use Experiential Learning will be far more successful in the long run than those who simply dictate or lecture. Encouraging team members to connect with their own experiences is central to the success of Experiential Learning. Remember that it is not the experience itself that triggers learning, but actually paying attention to the experience in a particular way rather than simply going through the motions. Leaders will want to interrupt the normal flow of experience in their teams, such as when they are "stuck" with a challenge or "struck" by the dissonance of something outside their usual experience.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has a lot of questions about the American K-12 education that she's been charged with leading, and she unspooled a series of them in a speech in Huntsville, Alabama, the first day of four-state "Rethink School" tour. "Why does 'the system' pretend that every teacher and every student is the same?" "Why aren't parents allowed to decide the education that's right for their children?" "Why aren't all students allowed to pursue learning in ways that work for them?" DeVos argued in her speech at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center that "next to nothing" has changed in education, since 1983's landmark "A Nation at Risk" report, which warned that the country was falling dangerously behind foreign competitors.
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Education DIVE
Devastating school shooting, and mass shooting incidents at large, have rocked cities nationwide, and in the aftermath of a February massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, advocates and lawmakers have responded with a wave of prevention efforts. These latest grants come less than a week after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced $200,000 in funding for the National Association of School Resource Officers, which will help the organization expand and train more personnel. This money is an addition to school safety funding looped into an appropriations bill that averted a government shutdown and funded the U.S. Department of Education for fiscal 2019.
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EdSurge
As America's classrooms become increasingly connected, the nation inches ever closer to reaching a major milestone: 100 percent of schools with high-speed internet access, defined as at least 100 kbps (or 100 thousand bits per second) per student. But what was once the gold standard for high speed is now barely enough to keep pace with modern learning environments, according to Evan Marwell, CEO of the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway, which released its annual State of the States report.
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The Associated Press
Facial recognition technology is being used to increase security at one Seattle school, but the technology is fueling debate about privacy concerns. The Seattle Times reports that the company RealNetworks began offering the technology free to K-12 schools this summer to improve school security. It's in use at the private elementary University Child Development School. The school gave parents the option of adding their face to the database, and so far about 300 parents have done so. If a parent's face is recognized by the system, the door opens, reducing the need for someone inside the school to answer a buzzer.
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eSchool News
Picture a group of students storming a council meeting, except they aren't there to protest — they're there to run the meeting. One student, witnessing the needs of the elderly and handicapped in her community, creates a handyman organization. Another student, noticing a social gap between special needs students and others, creates a horticulture program and greenhouse garden curriculum to help forge new friendships.
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The Atlantic
On the second floor of a brick building on Branch Avenue in Washington, D.C., green and white signs celebrating innovation and professionalism decorate the classrooms of Digital Pioneers Academy, the first computer-science–focused middle school in the nation’s capital. One early afternoon, students at DPA worked on Scratch, an animation-based coding platform, to make a virtual cat move around in a box. When Crystal Bryant, one of the school's STEM teachers, told the students it was time to close their Google Chromebook — class was over — they groaned.
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Teaching Channel
When we think about developing confidence, we might think about preparing students to talk in front of the class. But true confidence is so much more — it's the ability to feel brave enough to share your ideas and speak your truth. To help students feel comfortable doing this, we have to create class cultures where all students are respected.
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Education DIVE
The report comes as research at the classroom level is showing students don't have equitable access to grade-level and standards-aligned assignments. In addition, professional development experts stress that teachers need more time to “unpack" and work with curriculum materials, especially as more districts turn to open educational resources to supplement textbooks.
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Eduation Week
As for many districts around the country, attendance is a high priority for the Madison Metropolitan School District. With MMSD already invested in work to increase attendance and having added attendance as part of its accountability metrics, the Madison Education Partnership set out to better understand how much missing school mattered for the academic progress of MMSD students.
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Washington University in St. Louis via Science Daily
Although people often think about multiple-choice tests as tools for assessment, they can also be used to facilitate learning. A new study offers straightforward tips for constructing multiple-choice questions that are effective at both assessing current knowledge and strengthening ongoing learning.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Imagine a boy in a classroom who regularly raises his hand to respond to questions, yet when called on hems and haws not knowing what to say. Meanwhile, other students shout it out and the teacher wonders why he raised his hand in the first place. One viable explanation for the boy's actions comes from Judith O. Roman, M.A., CCC-SLP, who is a clinical faculty member at Northwestern University's Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning. In this series, we turn to Roman, an expert in the field of pediatric speech and language pathology, who shares her experience in the area of expressive language.
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The Journal
States are "shirking" their responsibilities in two important Every Student Succeeds Act provisions, according to a new analysis by the Alliance for Education. Specifically, performance ratings on two equity-focused policies are being tucked away by states, the nonprofit asserted, masking weaknesses in their accountability efforts. The Alliance advocates for high school transformation that will set every student up for success in college and life.
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The Texas Tribune
A mother offers to buy her son's textbooks and pay for a tutor, promising not to reduce her financial support for his education. The next year, textbook prices unexpectedly plummet and the tutor offers a major discount — meaning mom ends up spending less. Could anyone rightly accuse her of breaking her promise to her son? Of course not, argued attorneys for the state of Texas, providing a colorful analogy in a recent legal brief to explain why the state provided $33.3 million less in 2011-2012 to educate kids with disabilities than it had the previous year.
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NAESP
Friday provided an opportunity to participate in an all-day meeting with the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association's Board of Directors and local regional leadership. MEMSPA is a community of principals dedicated to advocating, leading and learning.
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NAESP
NAESP has partnered with NAEYC and other stakeholder groups to develop new standards and competencies for early childhood educators, and is asking members to weigh in. The first public draft of its position statement on "Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators" is now available. This is a revision of the position statement on "NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation", and it is driven by recommendations in Decision Cycle 2 of Power to the Profession, a national initiative to develop and implement a unifying framework for the early childhood educator profession. Please visit NAEYC's website to provide feedback through their survey.
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