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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
How education reforms can support teachers around the world instead of undermining them
The Conversation
In many countries, including the United States, the professional status of teachers has declined in the last decade.
For example, studies in Britain, Japan and Hong Kong show an erosion of teacher autonomy and public confidence in teachers, which leads to teachers feeling disempowered and demoralized. Job satisfaction has also deteriorated among teachers in the U.S., where teacher education itself has become a target of policymakers who think it requires higher standards and greater state control.
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3 best-practice approaches for assessing students with disabilities
K-12 Dive
Limited time or resources shouldn’t prevent schools from conducting informal and formal assessments of students with disabilities, including those with significant cognitive disabilities. In fact, collecting high-quality data about a student’s performance can guide educators in making more informed decisions about instruction and individualized supports, said the National Center on Educational Outcomes, in a recent paper.
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How does student-teacher matching affect suspensions for students of color?
Brookings Institue
Persistent inequities by race and ethnicity in school discipline continue to circumscribe the educational experiences of students of color. Latino and Black students are more likely to face the harshest and most exclusionary forms of school discipline when compared to their white peers. These disparities begin when students enter school. In preschool, students of color are more likely to be suspended from school than children of other races and ethnicities, with Black students accounting for 43% of one or more preschool suspensions, despite only comprising 18.2% of U.S. preschoolers.
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5 post-COVID lessons about how to engage families more deeply in schools
District Administration
Just because you’re communicating with families doesn’t mean you’re connecting with them or realizing their untapped potential to advance education.
That’s the thrust of the new “Family Engagement Reimagined” report, which offers administrators guidance on leveraging technology and other platforms to establish more effective, two-way communication with parents as communities work to bounce back from COVID.
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How SEL can help make schools feel more inclusive
Edutopia
It is clear that creating equity in schools ultimately requires significant shifts at fiscal and political levels. Yet there is much that classrooms and schools can do right now to create environments in which diverse student learners have the opportunity to engage in learning experiences that build social, emotional, cultural, civic, and academic competence.
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12 things to know about the return of online learning this school year
District Administration Magazine
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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What do teachers know about student privacy? Not enough, researchers say
EdSurge
What should teachers be expected to know about student data privacy and ethics?
Considering so much of their jobs now revolve around student data, it’s a simple enough question—and one that researcher Ellen B. Mandinach and a colleague were tasked with answering. More specifically, they wanted to know what state guidelines had to say on the matter.
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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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Talking to parents about social emotional learning
PATHS Program Holding
Parents and caregiver understanding and support of social emotional learning is a key piece of the developmental puzzle. An educator's job is can be made easier when families reinforce at home what their students learn in school.
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Supporting faculty in uncertain times: 5 ideas for meaningful dialogue and reflection
Faculty Focus
CTLs provide professional development opportunities and coaching for faculty members. According to Leiberman (2018), the purpose of CTLs is “to get faculty members thinking about improving their classes or in some cases, to meet faculty’s hunger for innovations they commence of their own accord.” Faculty members with prior teaching experience often have little trouble implementing new teaching strategies. But, those without teaching experience can find themselves overwhelmed at the prospect of building and cultivating a teaching practice.
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Students learned so much more during the pandemic than we realize. Just ask them.
EdSurge
During the COVID-19 shutdown of spring 2020, she taught herself to garden and started reading a book about Mexican-American history — her own history, as she puts it — called Radicals in the Barrio.
The shutdown, for her, was “a good time to do research” that offered “a lot of time to learn” and reflect. She was not alone.
Kamal, a Tajik-American senior, taught himself about cryptocurrency and how to invest in stocks. For many of these students, the closure of their schools created time to learn, perhaps for the first time, about subjects and issues that interested them.
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Data discussions need quality information to be effective. 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 discussions checklist. Download your copy today.
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6 important ways to fend off teacher burnout and demoralization
District Administration
Burnout is a temporary state that results when teachers have used up personal and organizational resources while trying to do their jobs.
Demoralization, which occurs when people no longer find their work rewarding and feel they are to blame, occurs when teachers are forced to teach in ways that “violate their understanding of good work.”
Both, of course, are occurring and intensifying during the pandemic and administrators can find strategies to restore that lost job satisfaction in a new EdResearch for Recovery brief from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University and Results for America.
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Without the right curriculum, educators are in for a post-pandemic slog
The Hill
The stress of teaching has never been greater, with the impact of distance learning and the educational deficit created during the COVID-19 pandemic leaving their marks on both the students and the people we entrust with their young minds. A Rand survey earlier this year reported the troubling trend that one in four teachers were considering exiting the profession, up from one in six teachers prior to the pandemic.
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How will pandemic learning impact graduation rates long-term?
K-12 DIVE
While it's still unclear how the pandemic will ultimately affect graduation rates in the long run, concerns abound as to how much the transition to remote learning and outside-of-school factors will impact graduation rates, chronic absenteeism and more.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Analysis: Race theory report aims to sway policymakers
Associated Press
Republican candidates in Mississippi and across the U.S. have been raising money for months by promising to ban teaching of critical race theory. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn both made that pledge a central theme of their stump speeches several weeks ago at the Neshoba County Fair.
Recently, Mississippi Center for Public Policy published a report that Republicans Reeves and Gunn could cite as they bring proposals to the GOP-controlled Legislature in 2022.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
President Biden signs K-12 Cybersecurity Act to better defend schools online
District Administration
President Joe Biden on Friday signed the K-12 Cybersecurity Act of 2021, requiring the federal government to examine the state of cybersecurity in K-12 schools and provide recommended actions.
The new law will result in more information for school leaders related to cybersecurity and online safety, but will require no actions or impose new requirements for state or local educational agencies.
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3 reasons why the cloud continues to be overlooked in K-12 cybersecurity
EdTech Magazine
District technology leaders once again named cybersecurity as their top priority, yet school districts continue to fall victim to cyberattacks. In fact, K–12 education is now one of the top targeted industries. Why?
Cybercrime has evolved, but cybersecurity strategies haven’
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Educational targets hit by rising cyberattacks in 2021
VentureBeat
Educational institutions are on pace for a record year of ransomware attacks in 2021, with K-12 schools the primary targets. While contributing to better educational outcomes, successful one-device-per-student and learn-from-anywhere programs have expanded the attack surface for cyber threats of various kinds.
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The link between edtech, curiosity and creativity in the classroom
EdSurge
Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes in the presence of a child has seen how instinctively and wondrously curious they are about the world around them. Their developing brains observe and question the new, unfamiliar or confusing in an effort to understand the world and their place in it. Such exploration is key to learning. But if you’re like me, your K-12 experience focused more on educational standards than creative exploration.
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4 benefits of new technology in language learning
Amico Hoops
In recent years, new, technology-integrated classroom approaches have grown popular for language acquisition. Differentiated instruction, online classes, and learning management systems are all instances of this new phase of teaching style that is being endorsed by leading pedagogical experts. Such methods leverage technologies in language learning to increase students’ engagement, simplify the teacher’s role and create an organized, holistic learning opportunity for all relevant parties.
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Sarah Scott’s outstanding media program provides incredible hands-on experience to students who may otherwise have never become interested in the field. Using Rise Vision on the school website, Sarah Scott Middle School shares schedules and photos from the school year, upcoming events like sports tryouts, and announcements.
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How one educator made computer science a 'must' during COVID
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.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The case against zeros in grading
Edutopia
Let’s say a student fails to turn something in. What grade should they receive? I have asked this question of a lot of teachers lately, and here are the most common answers I’ve gotten: “Zero.” “Nothing.” “-5.” “An F.” “A K.” What?
I’m currently in my 19th year of teaching, and my answer to this question has evolved significantly over time. I was a staunch “Give them a zero. I don’t give points for doing nothing. You earn them.”
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Why our trauma-informed teaching must be more culturally responsive
EdSurge
Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. For the final research assignment, I choose to explore the disproportionate rates of suicide among Native American youth — an issue that impacts nearly all tribal communities, including my own, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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How we can reach Communication 4.0
eSchool News
Technology has been instrumental in enabling learning to happen throughout the pandemic and its ever-changing conditions. The adoption of tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom and expanded learning management system (LMS) capabilities helped provide new ways to deliver class curriculum to students when in-person was not an option.
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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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Short breaks help students — and teachers —find their calm
Edutopia
The pandemic has been challenging for teachers and students, and while we’ve shown a growth mindset and amazing resilience, continuing to navigate through these uncertain times can cause both mental and physical fatigue.
Tapping into what I call PAUSE — for Practice Awareness and Understanding Self Exercises — can create calm in the classroom and life amid the chaos.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
New research illuminates EL teacher certification requirements and related impacts on student learning
New America
This June marked the 30th anniversary of Castañeda vs. Pickard — a seminal case that specified three criteria for assessing the adequacy of language development programs for English learners (ELs). One of the criteria specifies that programs must be “implemented effectively with sufficient resources and personnel,” which includes teachers with the specialized knowledge and skills to support ELs' language development and academic growth.
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The universal implications of science of reading
Language Magazine
The body of research known as science of reading (SoR) is widely acknowledged among experts as both theoretically and empirically superior to other conceptions of literacy development (Rayner et al., 2001; Kilpatrick, 2015; Seidenberg, 2017). However, there is still some debate as to whether SoR can be universally applied.
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.IN THE STATES
Texas struggled to teach students learning English before COVID-19. The pandemic made it worse.
Texas Tribune
Six months ago, 16-year-old Honduran Jeffrey Flores arrived in Fort Worth with his family without knowing a word of English but secure in the knowledge it would be among the first things to tackle in his new country.
“It’s important I learn English so I can have a good job,” Flores said in Spanish.
Flores is one of about a million Texas students — roughly 20% of the state’s 5.4 million public school students — who are enrolled in English as a second language classes.
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Alabama schools struggle to get food for lunches, breakfasts
Associated Press
Alabama schools are continuing to face food shortages, education officials say.
Disruptions in the workforce needed to serve and deliver meals — along with supplies of food and packaging materials — are behind the shortages, Al.com reported.
State education officials say every school district Alabama is facing shortages to some degree.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
NAESP Mastermind Groups
NAESP
New this year, NAESP is offering Mastermind groups for school leaders. A Mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring group used to help members solve their problems through input and advice from the other group participants. NAESP Mastermind will offer a combination of brainstorming, education, peer accountability, and support in a group setting to sharpen educational leadership and personal skills. In pursuit of success, members will challenge each other to set strong goals and, more importantly, to accomplish them.
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NAESP Principal Podcast: Equity in Education
NAESP
Ensuring students are educated in an equitable matter is a critical duty of schools and the principals that lead them. Adam and Rachael sit down with assistant principal and school board member David Jaimes to discuss the importance of equity and what it should mean for principals.
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