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Edutopia
If you're a leader and want to see broad, authentic participation in a school initiative, you'll need to think it through carefully, according to leadership consultants Ronald Williamson and Barbara Blackburn in their recent MiddleWeb article "How Leaders Develop Stakeholder Ownership." The top-down approach won't work: Asking stakeholders — like teachers, parents and students — to get involved has to be an organic and meaningful process, and not merely lip service.
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District Administration Magazine
In districts across the country, bus driver shortages continue to make it difficult for many kids to get to school. Students in Greater Amsterdam Interim School District in New York have experienced up to 1-hour delays due to bus driver shortages, according to Spectrum News. Denver Public Schools have also seen delays, as well as more congestion around schools, as more parents drop off and pick up students, reported The Denver Post. In addition to late buses, the Baltimore Sun reported at the start of the school year that shortages led to overcrowding, with students crammed into seats or sitting on another student's lap.
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Leadership Freak
If you think listening is easy, you aren't doing it. Listening is hard because some people can't stop talking. Perhaps a talk-timer would help, like a chess timer with a slap-button on the top. You have one minute to talk. When you're done you slap the timer to assign your partner one minute. But a talk-timer wouldn't help. All you would do is wait for their minute to expire so you could say the really important stuff.
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Fast Company
Molly Shea, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "I have a dream version of myself in my head. In this ideal world, I wake up (naturally!) at 6:30 a.m., meditate, hydrate, exercise, and work diligently for the next eight or so hours before putting up an email-proof boundary and spending time with friends. In reality? Late nights make getting up at 7 a.m. a win. Some days, I have boundless energy and get right to work. But other days?"
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Leadership Freak
Don't expect high performance when you sabotage enthusiasm. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." Jewish Proverb. Words have consequences. You don't have to be a genius to identify words that energize people and words that suck the life out of people.
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Inc.
Not only are leaders responsible for the performance of a specific department, but they're also in charge of the employee experience. To some extent, you can hand off the customer experience to employees, but who's managing the experience your employees are having? If you're doing things right, you are. But even then, you may be sabotaging your own efforts to lead a highly impactful team. Mishandling conversations or overlooking details might feel like temporary setbacks, but in your teammates' eyes, they can be permanent.
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The Lead Change Group
How do you lead your team in today's organization? The basic premise is: intrinsically motivated team members perform better because they come to work because they want to, not because they have to. So how does your function as leader change as you shift your focus towards this intrinsic motivation? Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room and backup.
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Fast Company
As a leader, you must be someone who can both be counted on and who people want to be with. There are all sorts of leaders, from command-and-control leaders who bark orders and expect everyone to toe the line, to inspirational "servant" leaders who put the entity's needs above their own. The most inspiring CEOs are committed to changing the world, and they are able to do so by putting the destiny of the company ahead of their own ego or needs
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Entrepreneur
When there's a talent gap in your company, you probably want it filled pronto. But what happens when you have a role you need filled yesterday? Let's face it — finding a warm body is often the basic strategy when it comes to attracting talent. And the result is that undesirable characteristics in candidates are often overlooked.
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HR DIVE
People may tremble at the thought of having a hard conversation, but experts say that doesn't mean they can't overcome their fear. "Courage is teachable, observable and measurable," Brené Brown, speaker and researcher at the University of Houston, told attendees of the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference in June. She added that tough conversations calling for corrective action are difficult but necessary, and that although managers may not have the skills to initiate these conversations, HR can help them develop these skills.
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Education DIVE
Following No Child Left Behind's strict requirements for education accountability systems, ESSA returned much of the control to the states. In addition to legal challenges over linking test scores to teacher evaluation results, education researchers also raised questions about the validity of such systems, according to a report from the National Education Policy Center at Arizona State University.
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Chalkbeat
Fewer states are using student test scores to evaluate teachers, according to a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality. As of this year, 34 states require scores to be used in teacher evaluations, down from a high of 43 in 2015. The decline illustrates the continued retreat of an idea that took education policy by storm during the first half of the decade, but proved divisive and difficult to implement.
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EdTech Magazine
When students email each other about the adolescent hot topics of who likes who or to gripe about teachers, more people than they realize may see the messages. That's also true when the emails, chats or other online activity lean toward harm — either self-inflicted or against other students — including instances of cyberbullying. Technology allows school and district leaders to keep a closer pulse on it all and intervene if necessary.
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District Administration Magazine
There are many reasons why we tend to fall back on either what we are comfortable with or what we have always done. Comfort tends to be the enemy of growth, and the fear of failure and the unknown can derail us from taking the necessary risks to implement new and better ideas. The most dangerous view in education: The way we have always done it is the best way. One last reason has to do with our experiences. We tend to teach in the same way that we were taught and lead in the same way that we were led, and in a sense, we become victims of our past.
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eSchool News
Every school district is faced with a choice about how to protect student data. As districts have implemented more technology to support digital learning, student data privacy in schools has become a critical issue. It can be a huge undertaking to vet and manage the privacy policies of all of the online resources used in a district. Even with good intentions, most districts do not have adequate protection and are vulnerable to a data breach. These breaches are becoming more common as districts struggle to keep up with technology.
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Edutopia
Shana V. White, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "At a bare minimum, my job as a teacher is to create a learning environment where all kids feel valued, safe, and eager to learn from everyone in the room. Often, though, as teachers, we get too distracted with getting through curriculum or testing to give enough attention to our classroom culture. But the importance of ensuring that all students feel they can be themselves at school cannot be underestimated."
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 Most parents agree that kids are going to learn better and faster in a smaller class than in a large one. But not everyone agrees that this is so, despite the fact that the largest study on the effect of class size to date demonstrates that "small classes appear to benefit all kinds of students in all kinds of schools." One of the more trenchant critiques appeared in 2018 in the technological- and education-oriented THE Journal, which concluded that "class size doesn’t matter," and that in at least one area, mathematics, outcomes improved as class sizes increased.
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Education World
Each school year there is new debate about how best to teach reading, and this year there are at least two new studies on the topic along with a detailed article about what the author says is mounting evidence suggesting that popular techniques are flawed. Some of the research is about large print books. It comes from a study by Project Tomorrow that consistently shows that students who read from them change their mindsets about reading.
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
Starting kindergarten can be a challenging time for children as many are leaving home and learning to interact with others for the first time. As such, it is important for kindergartners to receive proper support from their teachers.
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Education World
When we think about controversial topics in education, a wide array of issues come rushing to the fore. However, one of the most ubiquitous is the endless debate surrounding best practices for homework. Experts and laypeople alike go round after round arguing about the worth and validity of homework. It's like the fourth constant: death, taxes, childbirth and ... homework. And no matter where people come out in the conversation, opinions tend to be strongly polarized. Why is that?
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Edutopia (commentary)
Stephen Merrill, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "When I was a young high school English teacher, I always completed our reading of Romeo and Juliet with a viewing of Franco Zeffirelli's charming version of the play. I would stop every 15 or 20 minutes to ask questions about the director's choices. 'Why might a scene or a few lines of text have been redacted? Did this or that character look or sound like you imagined?' That stop-and-start approach is a widely used strategy, according to a recent Twitter thread among teachers on best practices for integrating movies into the classroom."
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The Atlantic (commentary)
Alia Wong, a contributor for The Atlantic, writes: "Middle school. The very memory of it prompts disgust. Here's a thing no one's thinking: Geez, I wish I still looked the way I did when I was 12. Middle school is the worst. Tweenhood, which starts around age 9, is horrifying for a few reasons. For one, the body morphs in weird and scary ways. Certain parts expand faster than others, sometimes so fast that they cause literal growing pains; hair grows in awkward locations, often accompanied by awkward smells. And many kids face new schools and a new set of rules for how to act, both socially and academically."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Sarah Cooper, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "It has taken me a year to write this post, and I still feel inadequate. I'm writing about this experience because I want to take something from it — to understand better how I can prepare to teach, and then lean into, difficult topics in class. So what happened?"
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Language Magazine
Outside singles competitions — say, in tennis or the shot put or figure skating — there are very few truly individual athletes. And even for those athletes, odds are they're not training in isolation. They're training with a team — people who support them and challenge them to be better than they might otherwise become. Today, teachers are in a similar (though significantly less sweaty) situation. While they may sit (or stand, or pace) alone at the front of a single classroom, today's teachers are educational athletes, playing a team sport, together with educators across different areas of an academic context. To make sure today's learners are getting the full set of supports they need to succeed, teachers have to work collaboratively. They need to train, constantly, to teach at peak performance. In schools where students might arrive as English language learners, this is particularly true.
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EdSurge
Teachers play a critical role in young children's development, especially for children who are at developmental risk due to factors including poverty and adverse child experiences. Yet the early childhood workforce is faced with the constant challenge of recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers, in part due to low compensation, poor benefits and underappreciation.
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MindShift
Homework is a hot-button issue for both parents and teachers. When we asked the MindShift audience about it, we got a wide range of thoughtful answers. And the results of our poll were pretty evenly split, although the "No's" have it by a small margin (it's worth checking out the poll on Twitter and Facebook to read about teachers' experiences with homework). That's probably because a lot of adults are concerned that students are tired, stressed and don't have enough downtime at home after school.
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The Huffington Post
Under federal law, states are required to help maintain a stable educational environment for youth in foster care, even when the children's personal lives are in tumult. But most places are struggling to follow the law, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office released and provided early to HuffPost. The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act that governs K-12 education says that children in foster care should remain in the same school, even if their home placement changes, unless it is against their best interest. States, school districts and child welfare agencies decide how to arrange and fund a child's transportation to school in these cases, though they may no longer live in the district.
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NAESP
Help shape the premier conference for pre-K–8 school leaders! This is your opportunity to join other nationally recognized speakers in shaping the Pre-K–8 Principals Conference by sharing best practices, expertise and successes in a variety of session formats. We need your input for creative and resourceful education sessions to make the conference an even bigger success next year in Louisville, Kentucky, July 12-14.
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NAESP
The challenges facing our nation's principals continues to increase. The invisible backpack brought into the academic setting by students and adults continues to enlarge. Social and Emotional Learning are at the forefront of school leadership needs. A national principal survey by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning found that while principals value SEL, they need greater knowledge and support to effectively implement school wide, evidence-based SEL programming. While most agree on the importance of strong leadership, principals often lack information on how to best manage an SEL program. Tap into this enlightening conversation and learn how to coordinate and build upon SEL practices and programs to create an environment that infuses SEL into every part of students' educational experience and promotes equitable outcomes.
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