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School Leaders Now
So, many people in your professional learning network are telling you they find all their professional development on Twitter, but when you go on it ... either you find nothing or it's just a mess. Twitter can be overwhelming if you don't know what to look for. Principals moderate a wide variety of weekly and even daily edchat discussions on Twitter. When you commit to regularly following a chat, it becomes an energizing, transformational professional learning practice. Below are some tips for how to engage in a Twitter chat, and the best educational edchat hashtags we could find on Twitter.
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Berkeley News
In their latest report, researchers at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment reveal how some states and cities are working to narrow the pay and benefits gap between equally qualified pre-kindergarten teachers and kindergarten and elementary school teachers.
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EducationDIVE
In a new Berkeley IGS/EdSource poll of registered voters, California residents say that creating a safe and positive school environment is more important than standardized test scores, Ed Source reports. Voters were concerned primarily about bullying and cyberbullying, though they also felt more school resources should be directed to addressing the needs of homeless children and families threatened with deportation.
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By: Douglas Magrath (commentary)
 The concern among those serving international students is shifting from recruiting to retention. Student retention is especially critical at the college level, because there are many programs from which students can choose. Most leave because they are looking for a better price or a different academic program, or they may have friends in a different program. What can we do to encourage students to stay with the program until they are ready to move on to academics?
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Education Week
A new study of more than 12,000 students in 11 states finds low-income and minority children are, on average, enrolled in lower-quality preschool classrooms than their higher-income and white peers. The findings raise questions about the ability of publicly funded preschool to narrow achievement gaps.
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EdTech Magazine
When Stephanie Talalai began as the technology coordinator at A. Harry Moore School 26 years ago, nonverbal students communicated using pieces of paper with "yes" and "no" on them. Today, students can control computers using their eyes. "In terms of providing access," Talalai says, "the technology has come a long way." For students with disabilities, tech tools can help provide new and engaging ways to access content in science, technology, engineering and math. EdTech asked educators to share tips about how to use technology to give students with special needs the same access to STEM activities as other schoolchildren. Here are their recommendations.
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Edutopia
Flexible seating is transforming classrooms, enabling new modes of learning and deepening student — and teacher — engagement. Yet as we saw in a recent Edutopia Facebook post on the topic, many educators have questions about how to make the leap.
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EducationDIVE
Technology is increasingly helping educators provide students with special needs the same access to STEM learning opportunities as their peers, according to EdTech: Focus on K-12. Differentiating instruction with short video clips, devices, learning apps, after-school programs, and tools like drones or robots can help keep all students engaged on more even playing fields, as can embracing failure and encouraging students to try new things with tech.
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EducationWeek
Despite wide variation in the percentage of students enrolled in special education, a majority of teachers, principals and special administrators in a given state feel that the classification rates are largely on target, says a new report from Frontline Learning and Research Institute.
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School Leaders Now
Having good days and bad days are part of working in a school. However, if your bad days begin to outnumber your good ones by the dozens, it might be time to think about changing your job or moving schools.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 Smartphones, Internet and social media are an intrinsic part of our lives today. More than adults, teenagers and young adults find it impossible to survive without technology. But what happens when the same tech is used to harm, belittle and abuse others? From the early days of promoting BYOT (bring your own technology) to banning cellphone use, schools have gone through a gamut of changes for technology usage on campus.
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TES
As part of Dyslexia Awareness Week 2017, the founder of the Driver Youth Trust talks about the necessary leadership response to dyslexia. What does Positive Dyslexia – the theme of this year's dyslexia awareness week mean? It means a school where those who are dyslexic or those who struggle with literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening) are accounted for as part of a joined-up system, within the organization. To do this requires school leadership that make a positive decision to see the merit of addressing the needs of these learners.
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Istation
[FREE E-Book] Boost student achievement and inspire educational gains with eight steps schools can take to bridge the gap! This e-book from Istation covers progress monitoring, motivational strategies, strengthening school-to-home connections, and more.
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TrustED
There’s a few reasons why most public school superintendents lead multiple school systems by the end of their career. One of those is the nature of school leadership. The average superintendent tenure lasts only a little more than three years. Whether because of internal crises, community politics, or school leader ambition, for better or worse, most superintendents don’t stay in one district for long.
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MLive
President Donald Trump has nominated Michigan state Rep. Tim Kelly to a position with the U.S. Department of Education. Kelly, R-Saginaw Twp., currently chairs the House Education Reform Committee and the House Appropriations subcommittee on school aid and is serving his third term in office. He is in line to become assistant secretary for career, technical and adult education if his nomination is approved by the U.S. Senate.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
During the last week of September, principals across the Clark County School District began making cuts to their budgets to help address a $50 million to $60 million districtwide shortfall. The refrain was the same at many schools: Let’s keep this as far from the classroom as possible. Cashman Middle School principal Misti Taton had extra incentive to do that.
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Education Week
When the Every Student Succeeds Act was enacted, speculation swirled that states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students' social and emotional competencies to determine whether their schools are successful. Nearly two years later, not a single state's plan to comply with the federal education law — and its broader vision for judging school performance — calls for inclusion of such measures in its school accountability system.
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EdSource
In evaluating school performance, registered voters in California say creating a safe and positive school environment is far more important than higher scores on standardized tests, according to a Berkeley IGS/EdSource poll. Voters also express considerable concerns about bullying, school fights and other forms of intimidation or violence on school campuses, along with harassment that students experience through social media. These are among the principal findings of the poll to be released at EdSource's 40th anniversary symposium in Oakland.
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The 74
"Itsy Bitsy Spider” plays softly as parents step into the gleaming lobby at Educare, an early childhood education center that opened in 2013 in New Orleans. On this particular day, the spider might want to give up on the waterspout and find a leaf to huddle under. Rain from Hurricane Harvey’s outer reaches lashes at the floor-to-ceiling windows.
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New Richmond News
With the board of education's approval, which was given during its August regular meeting, the St. Croix Central School District will officially be making the transition from its current grading system to a standards based grading system. "The current system we have, we can't identify where students are succeeding or where they are struggling. With this new system, we can identify those things in a much more clear way," said Director of Teaching and Learning Glenn Webb said.
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NAESP
October is the time to shine a light on principal leadership. In honor of National Principals Month, there are a number of custom learning experiences being held, all designed to help you excel as a principal. The first Twitter chat, “Principals and Personal Wellness,” addresses the common stressors for educators and provide recommendations for becoming a healthy school leader. The chat will be held Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 8 PM ET.
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NAESP
One founding premise of the charter school initiative was that these new schools would be laboratories of innovation. Cutting red tape would free educators to test new approaches that, if successful, could be incorporated into the regular school-district environment. In reality, however, what makes the highest-performing charters so effective is tireless staff and a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement, not curricular or pedagogical innovations.
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