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District Administration Magazine
The alarming rate of school shootings in recent years has led to the creation of emergency notification systems that can send various types of messages to multiple devices, including live videos to law enforcement. Administrators have more control of their messages, including the ability to determine who has received and read them. One system even expedites the process of family reunification through technology that identifies and accepts guardian signatures.
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eSchool News
October is National Bullying Prevention Month, so it's a great time to promote anti-bullying activities. Although it's well known that bullying is a widespread problem that can have serious implications on students' academic and non-academic well-being, the anti-bullying and cyberbullying legislative mandates districts must follow are complex and can be hard to navigate. To get a better grip on a district's bullying prevention responsibilities, eSchool News spoke with Tina Hegner, manager of research and development at PublicSchoolWORKS. In her role, Hegner researches and interprets state and federal legislation to help districts meet existing and new requirements.
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MindShift
Educators are increasingly aware of how trauma that students experience in their lives outside school affects learning in the classroom. And while this isn't new information, focusing on how to make the learning environment a safe, nurturing place where those students can succeed has become a robust topic of conversation in many districts. Some teachers worry that trauma-informed practices will mean more work for already overburdened teachers, but others respond that using a trauma-informed approach makes the rest of their job easier.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Amy Lynn Tompkins, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "Managing sub disrespect in the classroom... I'd love some advice. I spoke with a sub who was in our building yesterday. He was floored at how rude and disrespectful the fifth grade kids were to him. I am going to talk to the kids today and try and give them some understanding of my disappointment in their behavior. Have you ever been able to truly get a group of kids to stop this type of behavior with subs? They do not treat their teacher this way."
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Edutopia
Each October, individuals and organizations nationwide work together to raise awareness of bullying during National Bullying Prevention Month, an initiative of the PACER Center. Whether you are an educator, education leader, parent or other community member, you can take action to prevent bullying and harassment by fostering a culture of caring and respect in your school, home and community. Use the resources below to support your efforts.
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Inc.
Leaders that can come to grips with their own blind spots and tune into toxic, unspoken rules are skilled leaders indeed. Both of these things fit into the broader camp of self-awareness — one of the hallmarks of what companies known for leadership consider a rising star.
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Inc.
Before you take on that promotion to a leadership role, think twice. Do you really have the mindset or the emotional intelligence to lead people to accomplish great things together? Are you truly confident that you can slice through conflict like knife on hot butter in order to solve people problems tactfully, without alienating anyone or ticking off a customer? The essence of true leadership is not for the faint of heart.
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Fast Company
Assertive people — even aggressive people — thrive in American workplaces. If your boss is intimidating or a coworker has a temper, even the most well-meaning business experts will often tell you to "toughen up" or move on. As the old saying goes, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," right?
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Forbes
Over the years a great deal of research has been done on two traits people often use to evaluate others. Research done on these two traits can be traced back to the 1940's and has continued from then to the present. One trait is labeled Warmth — the extent to which a person is friendly, exhibits positive intentions toward others, and is trusted, kind, and empathetic. The other trait is Competence — an individual's intelligence, their ability to achieve, their efficiency, their individual skills and overall power.
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Entrepreneur
Working with challenging employees is one of the most difficult and frustrating aspects of any manager's job. The toll can be stressful for the manager and the employee alike. These "energy vampires" take up an inordinate amount of time and resources.
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Leadership Freak
It's a mistake to believe leadership is getting people to do what you want them to do. Engagement is getting people to do things they want to do. Pressuring people to do what they don't want to do raises resistance and results in resentment. Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Let's add the "we." It might begin with the leader, but success requires getting to WE. Leadership is getting people to do something WE want done. Apart from we, all you find is manipulation and resistance.
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Education Week
The National Center for Learning Disabilities has reviewed what each state's Every Student Succeeds Act plan says about how the state will meet the needs of students with disabilities — and for the most part, the organization is not happy with what it sees.
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EdScoop
A national cybersecurity and STEM curriculum provider has received a $21.5 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security to expand its K-12 offering to 20,000 school districts through the next five years. The National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center, or NICERC, was awarded the grant at the Cyber Innovation Center, or CIC, in Bossier, Louisiana, which operates NICERC as its academic division. The grant that provides $4.3 million in annual funding will support expansion of NICERC's free curriculum offerings, which include teacher training, professional development and project-based cybersecurity lesson plans delivered currently to 12,000 teachers in 50 states.
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EdTech Magazine
In education, software programs lend a helping hand just about everywhere, from device management to digital learning. Some schools even rely on software to save lives. Soon after Putnam County School District adopted GoGuardian internet content monitoring, it detected four troubled students making Google searches that were variations on the query "how to kill yourself." The GoGuardian software immediately generated urgent alerts to multiple administrative staff members, as did SysCloud, the Florida district's second layer of content monitoring.
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Education Week
More than 44 million students now learn in classrooms with high-speed internet connections, up from just 4 million five years ago, according to a new analysis by the nonprofit broadband advocacy group EducationSuperHighway. The group's 2018 State of the States report says such "incredible progress" puts the U.S. on the cusp of providing broadband connections to nearly every public school in the country, the goal set by President Barack Obama in 2013.
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EdTech Magazine
Let's be honest: If a student had a choice between playing a game or doing a math worksheet, he'd pick the game 100 percent of the time. That doesn't mean teachers have to turn over their classrooms to "Fortnite," "Clash of Clans" and "Pokémon Go." Instead, there are clever ways to use games to engage and enthuse students in learning.
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While every school wants to accelerate student math proficiency, administrators at five Texas school districts faced unique obstacles. And although each school had a different story, those administrators shared many key questions when considering tools to reinforce their math curricula. What solution could legitimately:
Boost learning outcomes for students of all economic backgrounds from 1st to 8th Grade?
Succeed on a limited budget, with financial constraints restricting most options?
Engage students, with disengagement being the number one complaint from teachers?
Meet the needs of a diverse student population with a wide range of proficiency levels?
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The Brookings Institution
Young people in America face an economic landscape marked by increasingly expensive higher education costs, more frequent job changes, and greater personal responsibility for retirement savings. It is more important than ever that youth are financially literate in order to navigate the many difficult decisions they will face during their lifetimes. Unfortunately, levels of financial literacy are persistently low among American youth.
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The Hechinger Report
To new teachers who recently began work: Congratulations! You have chosen an honorable profession that rewards hard work in the classroom with admiration and dedication from your students. But let's be clear-eyed about a few things. Like many in your teaching program's graduating class, you are likely working in a school with high rates of students who have been through trauma, poverty and neglect. You may lead classes with over 30 students at a time, most of whom have struggled for years with high teacher turnover and a lack of stability in their school lives.
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Education DIVE
Allowing states to incorporate measures of student progress into their accountability systems is a major difference between the former No Child Left Behind Act and ESSA. "Recognizing growth provides schools incentive to improve the performance of all students — from those who start school the furthest behind and may not reach proficiency in the first few years to the higher performers who are already proficient and ready to move to advanced achievement," Jim Hull, the director of impact for the Foundation for Excellence in Education, wrote in an article last fall.
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Education Next
Veteran education analyst Marc Tucker wrote something the other day that stopped me cold. Describing some of the highest performing education systems in the world, he said, "Students do not routinely arrive at middle school from elementary school two or even three years behind. It simply does not happen." If we could replicate this in America, it would change secondary education forever. No longer would middle schools be faced with the impossible task of catching up kids who are desperately behind while at the same time accelerating the progress of their grade-level peers.
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eSchool News
A one-size-fits-all approach to learning doesn't suit today's students, and the same can be said for schools and classrooms–learning spaces will increasingly need to become flexible, accommodating multiple learning styles to enable students to perform their best. Educators often offer anecdotal evidence about the impact flexible learning spaces have on both teaching and learning, saying that both instruction and student engagement improves when spaces are modernized and designed for different learning preferences.
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By: Aileen Miracle (commentary)
 My district has been focusing on formative assessment strategies for years, and for that, I am very grateful. We as teachers have been provided with lots of professional development about the topic of assessment, with strategies to gauge understanding and adapt instruction. One "a-ha" moment I had on my own is the idea of variety. In today’s article, I’m offering a wide variety of ways to assess your students during any given marking period, as a means to not only collect a wide variety of data, but also for your students to show you how well they understand the many aspects of musicianship.
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Michele Borba, Ed.D., shares evidence-based bullying-prevention principles, policies, and practices to reduce peer cruelty and create safe and caring learning climates.
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Education Next
The National Art Education Association and the Association of Art Museum Directors just released a new study examining the effects of student field trips to art museums. The study looked at outcomes for students who went on a single field trip to one of six different art museums around the country. Instead of going to the museum, some students received an art museum intervention typically presented by museum staff in their classroom. And a third group of students received neither the field trip or the classroom experience and served as the control group.
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Iowa State University via Science Daily
Researchers know memory retrieval is beneficial for learning, but their new meta-analysis found there are limits. The research shows the frequency and difficulty of questions can reverse the effect and be detrimental to learning. It also is not enough to simply ask a question; students must respond to see a positive effect on learning.
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Chalkbeat
When children stop showing up at Detroit's Bethune Elementary-Middle School for an extended period of time, Sherry Taylor and Myrna Capela try their best to track them down. One or two students leave Bethune every week, but Taylor, the school secretary, says only a handful — maybe 5 percent — notify the school of their plans to leave. The rest have to be found. Taylor and Capela, the attendance agent, spend hours on the phone and knocking on doors trying to account for students who have just up and left.
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NPR
Chicago Public Schools will lose millions of dollars in grant money for what federal officials say is a failure to protect students from sexual abuse. The Department of Education is withholding $4 million, asserting that the school district wasn't complying with investigations or addressing disturbing trends, according to the Chicago Tribune. The funding is part of a $14.9 million Magnet Schools Assistance grant which was awarded to Chicago schools in 2017 and is supposed to be dispersed over a five-year period.
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NAESP
In honor of National Principals Month, NAESP participated in a briefing on Capitol Hill entitled "Leveraging Principals to Retain Quality Teaching and Boost Student Learning." A panel of school leaders, including NAESP President Eric Cardwell, discussed the role of the principal in retaining teachers and improving learning, and took part in a Q&A with attendees. A recording of the livestream is available for viewing here.
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NAESP
Are you looking for strategies that will help school families and their students achieve greater learning? What actions will reach families that are traditionally disenfranchised from their children's school? Join Dr. Steve Constantino in learning about five essential components from his latest book, Engage Every Family: Five Simple Principles, which has proven effective for empowering family engagement in student learning. This webinar takes place Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 3 p.m. EDT.
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