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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
10 ways schools can better serve undocumented and asylum-seeking students
District Administration
A majority of the 320,000 children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle — Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador — enrolled in K-12 public schools with their immigration statuses unresolved, according to research by the RAND Corporation.
About 75% of those students lived in just 10 states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana.
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Boys of color were hit hard by the pandemic. What do they need now?
Chalkbeat
As students across the country wrestled with pandemic stress last winter, sophomore Nathaniel Martinez logged on to a virtual retreat. Forty mostly Black and Latino teens in Chicago were getting a crash course on gauging how their peers were coping.
They also opened up about pressures they faced amid the COVID-19 outbreak and an uptick in gun violence, from depression to disengagement from school.
Nathaniel spoke about struggling to focus in virtual classes as he grappled with isolation and insomnia.
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How to choose an SEL program for your school
Edutopia
As we enter a third school year impacted by the pandemic, there’s been increasing attention to and demand for social and emotional learning (SEL). By helping students and adults better understand themselves, relate to others, and work toward their goals, SEL can help teachers support students in the face of one of our most pressing concerns — the social and emotional impact of the past year and a half of relative isolation.
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3 ways administrators can show they care about teachers as people
Edutopia
Excitement, anticipation, fear, anxiety, hope, and helplessness are just a few of the feelings educators might face on the Sunday nights before the Mondays with students this year. While many of these feelings are not new to educators, the context in which we are feeling them has changed. Changes in protocols, pedagogy, and building practices have shifted how we go about our positions.
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8 ways teachers can support students' mental health during COVID-19 school returns
UNICEF
As adults, we all have diverse needs and different ways of coping with stressful situations. For children, it is the same. Some children will have dealt well with restrictions and school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. For others, it is challenging to cope with all the changes and uncertainty. Some children will return to school having experienced some level of stress, anxiety, isolation and grief. Some may have experienced increased violence at home.
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How K-12 schools can weave alumni back into curriculum
K-12 DIVE
When student newspaper editors at the Latin School of Chicago dug into school papers from the Vietnam era they found a voice they didn't hear in their own pages: opinionated, critical and even controversial. Reaching out to alumni who had run "The Forum," the name of the school paper, they were able to learn what had driven students then, while finding a new direction for themselves now.
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5 ways schools can make better progress on diversity, equity and inclusion
District Administration
Education has failed to move the needle on diversity, equity and inclusion over the last five years despite the attention paid to these issues, according to the racial justice nonprofit Promise54.
Compared to a study the organization did in 2016, the education sector — including schools, nonprofits and private organizations — has not made significant progress on diverse hiring, creating more inclusive climates or overhauling discriminatory systems, says Xiomara Padamsee, founder and CEO of Promise54.
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New study at Mary Cariola Center, URMC looks at COVID-19 impacts on special needs students
Rochester First
A critical new effort has been announced to help keep students with intellectual and developmental disabilities safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently, the Mary Cariola Center and Del Monte Neuroscience Institute at URMC announced a $4 million dollar study that will focus on how the virus spreads among vulnerable populations and help schools provide a safe environment.
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9 ways educators can deploy SEL to stem chronic absenteeism
District Administration
A supportive, culturally responsive learning environment can motivate students to attend and can act as a buffer against external factors that may cause absenteeism. At the same time, when students lack strong teacher connections and don’t feel safe and valued at school, these conditions can increase chronic absenteeism.
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Interventions are a key component of a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), yet it can be difficult to determine whether they’re effective and equitable. Explore ways to increase intervention effectiveness at Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 and drive decisions that improve outcomes throughout the year.
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12 things to know about the return of online learning this school year
District Administration
COVID’s ongoing spread in classrooms is forcing a growing number of district leaders to reverse their decisions to discontinue online and remote learning options.
Remote learning options doubled in just the first several weeks of the 2021-22 school year, according to a poll of 105 large and urban school systems by the education think tank, the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
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Why schools should start bullying prevention programs today
District Administration
In the hallways. On the stairs. In classes. In cafeterias. In locker rooms. Online. Bullying might seem to have no place in K-12 schools, but it continues to happen in public and private spaces within districts, even when codes of conduct, security cameras and staff supervision are in place.
More than 20% of students ages 12-18 say they have been targets, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). And 40% of those believe it will happen to them again.
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4 reasons why schools are facing crippling shortages
Chalkbeat
In Denver, schools are struggling to find nurses. In Detroit, they’re short security officers. Principals across the country say substitute teachers appear to have vanished altogether.
In Anchorage, Alaska children in several schools without enough cafeteria workers had to forgo hot meals. In New Jersey, a bus driver shortage has left hundreds of students with disabilities without access to school for weeks. Many large school districts began the year with more unfilled teaching positions, too.
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Not all data is equal. Great data provides leaders with valuable insights into classroom practice. The best data fuels PLCs, professional learning, and school improvement efforts in meaningful ways that result in visible gains. Improve data discussions at your school with our free data discussion checklist. Download now.
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Making sense of the pandemic's effects on adolescents' minds
MindShift
Isabella Juma turned 13 on February 19, 2020, just weeks before Covid-19 changed the world forever. The first year of teenagerhood would have been a milestone any year, but for Isabella and her peers, a global pandemic, a contentious election and racial conflict forced them out of childhood abruptly.
Gone were the days when she could be just “happy” and “jolly,” she said. She matured, became cautious and started worrying about the years ahead.
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How D.C. moved teacher-hiring earlier and used data to boost quality and diversity
Education Next
On a Wednesday evening in May, the personnel committee at the District of Columbia’s Roosevelt High School sifted through a batch of recent candidate applications, working to fill the school’s openings by June. The committee combined its own hiring requirements with a comprehensive, data-driven vetting system known as TeachDC, which was developed by D.C. Public Schools over the course of a decade.
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4 reasons alternative schools need a SEL curriculum
District Administration
As the alternative high school for our district, Pathfinder High School serves students in grades 9-12. We average about 50 students per semester and work with a diverse group of students that comes to us because traditional high school just wasn’t working for them. Our students are blessed to have this option, and we’re fortunate to have them as our students.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Challenging the neutrality myth of edtech
Language Magazine
Media technology has been introduced into classrooms at least since the time of educational filmstrips. Later, private media companies began providing schools with “free” equipment that could broadcast their content, introducing commercials into one of the last advertising-free spaces.
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Promote safety, address behaviors, define rules and expectations, and reward positive behavior with these 10 Free Anti-Bullying posters for your school. Download these free digital images that can be used on social media, signage or on Zoom.
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UC Irvine researchers hope that teaching computing language to kids will help level the playing field
OC Register
What if there could be a way to teach kids to use technology while gaining language skills at the same time?
That’s the question researchers at UC Irvine are trying to answer.
Professor Mark Warschauer and his team at the university are hoping to level the playing field to ensure that all students — rich or poor, native English speakers or not — have the same access to learning to communicate with computers.
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Using real AI to improve students' network experience
EdTech Magazine
With the explosion of online learning and the ubiquitous use of devices in the classroom, any problem with the school network can cause a disruption for students and teachers. Juniper Networks has devised a solution: Using AI, its network automatically detects anomalies and applies predictive analytics to fix IT issues before they reach the classroom.
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A district gets creative as it distributes Ipads to students during lockdown
eSchool News
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. The eSchool Media K-12 Hero Awards program, sponsored by Trox, recognizes the determined and dedicated efforts of educators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Maximizing student voice to achieve equity in classroom participation
Edutopia
I once heard someone say, “The person doing the talking is the one doing the learning.” This statement carries even more weight as we seek to dismantle systems of inequity in middle and high school classrooms, since it translates to: “The person doing the talking is the person with the power.”
Who has the power in our classrooms? How do we ensure equity in access to that power? We do it by ensuring equity to air space.
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Reading is the answer
Language Magazine
For the past year and a half, instead of heading to the school bus stop and socializing before classes, students across the globe walked over to a device and turned it on to access their virtual classrooms. It was, to say the least, an adjustment for everyone.
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Teaching students to transfer their learning to new contexts
Edutopia
Students in a first-grade class are starting a new unit on counting up to 120. The teacher is prepared to work with the students to ensure that they can name all of the numbers, use rules to count sequentially, and compare and contrast strategies to count up to 120.
However, to begin the unit, the teacher is focused on helping students identify times in real life when counting to 120 is important.
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A child’s first few years of educational experiences set the stage for how they will learn for the rest of their lives. The Bank Street Early Childhood Leadership Advanced Certificate Program is designed for mission-driven educators seeking to advance their professional opportunities and fill the need for exceptional leadership in early childhood education. Areas of study within the program include curriculum and development, social justice, systems thinking, progressive education and law.
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Applying vedic techniques to online learning
Faculty Focus
Often students are unaware that education is a journey from the external to the internal: From information to knowledge and from knowledge to realization. As educators, we naturally study educational theories. Theories of learning such as behaviorism, cognitive psychology, constructivism, social learning, and more have been discussed and developed responses to the phenomenon of learning, yet in classroom practice (cyberspace or physical), we are still perplexed by the mystery of learning and continue to search, know and apply improved instructional methods for improved learning.
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7 ways to ensure students bring their whole selves into the classroom
MindShift
Choosing to be ratchetdemic is choosing to challenge respectability and what those who have power cherish the most — their power and the security it affords them. Being ratchetdemic is choosing to no longer be agreeable with your discomfort or the oppression of children through pedagogies that rob them of their genius, even in its most raw and unpolished forms
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Starting schools later leads to less tardiness, fewer 'zombies'
Science News for Students
The start of a new school year brings lots of changes. One is a need to wake up earlier. Depending on when school starts, that early wake-up can turn teens into “zombies,” studies have shown. But when schools start later, teens get to class on time and find it easier to stay awake, a new study finds.
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PROOF POINTS: Focusing on glasses in schools
Hechinger Report
An argument for providing social services in schools is that students will learn better when their basic needs are met. The national lunch program exists because children don’t learn well on an empty stomach. By a similar logic, it’s hard to learn to read or multiply if you can’t see the whiteboard.
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.IN THE STATES
California pushes 1st U.S. vaccine mandate for schoolchildren
Associated Press
California is poised to impose the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoolchildren, a move announced Friday that could push other states to follow as many did after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the first statewide stay-at-home order in the U.S. during the early days of the pandemic.
Newsom said the mandate won’t take effect for all children until the U.S. government has finished fully vetting the vaccine for two age groups — 12 to 15 and 5 to 11.
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New York's COVID vaccine mandate takes effect for school teachers and staff
NPR
A COVID-19 vaccination requirement for teachers and other staff members took effect in New York City's sprawling public school system Monday in a key test of the employee vaccination mandates now being rolled out across the country.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said 95% of the city's roughly 148,000 public school staffers had received at least one vaccine dose as of Monday morning, including 96% of teachers and 99% of principals.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Tales From a First-Year Principal
NAESP
The start of the school year is full of challenges and opportunities, especially for folks leading a school for the first time. First-year Oregon principal Cassiday Hopkins sits down to chat with Adam and Rachel about her first-year experiences, and how they compare.
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