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School Leaders Now
Your students are connected. They're connected when they wake up. Connected on the bus ride to school. They're connected during the school day if you have a 1:1 program — and even if you don't have one. (Yes, they have ways to get around no cell phone zones.) At any given moment before, during, and after the school day, teachers and students are swapping messages, checking email, logging into the LMS to turn in and grade assignments, or performing a host of other tasks online. These tasks that have students in and out of dozens of apps and websites are potentially exposing confidential data, skirting your district's acceptable use policies, or worse.
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Education World
A positive school culture starts at the top — with the principal. But even the most upbeat principal knows that pockets of negativity can surface and spread, sometimes slowly and quietly and other times like wildfire. That's why wise principals always keep their radar tuned, watching for signs of discontent.
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Entrepreneur
With 2018 soon coming to a close, many of us will re-encounter that familiar time of year: the professional performance review cycle. Whether your company conducts assessments annually, quarterly or adopts a real-time approach to feedback, we can all agree that reviews are often anxiety-inducing.
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MindShift
Roughly half of American school children have experienced at least some form of trauma — from neglect, to abuse, to violence. In response, educators often find themselves having to take on the role of counselors, supporting the emotional healing of their students, not just their academic growth. With this evolving role comes an increasing need to understand and address the ways in which student trauma affects our education professionals.
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Education DIVE
n 2018, there has been an average of close to one mass shooting in the U.S. per day. If that statistic, from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, wasn't shocking enough, guns have killed or injured more than 2,700 people under the age of 18 this year, their data shows. In many cases, these deaths and wounds are associated with a school shooting. The aftermath of major student massacres — like that in Parkland, Florida, or Santa Fe, Texas — has left members inside and outside of school communities to grapple with the everlasting question that has catapulted to the center of the nation's attention: How do school and community leaders prevent this from happening again?
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Forbes (commentary)
We often think that only executives can become thought leaders — or that you must at least give keynotes and speak on camera. That's only one aspect of thought leadership. If you are not comfortable speaking on camera, there are various other ways to demonstrate your expertise, especially in today's digital era.
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NCTQ
The past decade has been marked by rapid changes in teacher evaluations. While many districts and states announced their intention to install better systems, they faced political and structural challenges. In this study, NCTQ examines evidence of the impact of teacher evaluation in six places (four districts and two states) that have stayed the course in developing and implementing improved teacher evaluation systems: Dallas Independent School District, Denver Public Schools, District of Columbia Public Schools, Newark Public Schools, New Mexico and Tennessee.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The unfortunate increase in school shootings across the country has thrust the school security debate into the spotlight. Parents, teachers, administrators, and the government are concerned about security and safety of all present at school premises. A Seattle-based company, RealNetworks, recently made headlines in this regard. It has introduced facial recognition technology to increase security at one Seattle school as a part of a preliminary service experiment. The experiment has fueled a fierce debate about privacy concerns.
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Inc.
Emotional intelligence is often overlooked in business in favor of traditional analytical intelligence. However, it is a key part of well-rounded leadership. At our company Amerisleep, our managers leverage emotional intelligence to build rapport with team members and motivate them. Additionally, it's helped our staff better manage partnerships and negotiations with vendors to ensure we're able to provide our customers the best products and services all at a fair price.
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Dear Principal Hotline, "My assistant principal just accepted a principal position at another school, and while I am thrilled for her new opportunity, I now have a midyear hire to do. I’ve received some great applications for the position, some with strong prior leadership experience. However, I also have an inside candidate. One of our teachers is also applying for the role."
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Harvard Business Review
Robert is a strong leader. How do I know? When he left one company to join another, many in his top team followed him to the new company because they wanted to keep working for him. That's a pretty strong testimonial. "Yes, he pushes us hard," one of his direct reports told me, "but I work harder and I deliver. I like that." But every leader — even strong ones — have their challenges. And while Robert (not his real name) inspires hard work and loyalty, he also inspires fear, especially in people who don't know him well or are a few levels below him in the hierarchy.
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CNN
Emily James, a high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York, tries to never miss a day of work. She's taught with two infected wisdom teeth. She's taught with strep throat. One time, she had no voice and just wrote things down and used signs to communicate with her students. "The kids said to me so many times, 'Miss, why don't you just go home?' And I had to explain to them, 'I can't,' " James said.
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Fast Company (commentary)
Art Markman, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "A lot of people that I know think of themselves as natural pessimists. Suggest going to see a play, and they will tell you about how crowded it will be. Suggest a new idea at work, and they will tell you that everyone will oppose it and why it won’t work. Tell them a dream of yours, and they will let you know the myriad ways it will fail to materialize."
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Forbes (commentary)
John Fenton, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "OK, I admit it. I'm guilty of this (or at least I was). It almost cost me my life. What is it? The notion that I didn't need much sleep to be an effective leader. 'I can handle it,' I used to say. I was burning the candle at both ends. The result was a weakened heart and a hasty ambulance trip to the hospital where doctors feared my heart would stop permanently. Luckily, it didn't, and I learned that in a matter of a few minutes, everything — I mean everything — can change."
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Leadership Freak
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." — Ernest Hemingway. Ego is healthy when it's used in service of others. But egotistical leaders undermine teams because they're self-seeking.
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The Lead Change Group
You may have heard of mindfulness. It's a form of meditation that businesses are beginning to embrace as a way to help employees become more efficient, productive and — most importantly — happy. As a leader, mindfulness can help you a great deal. With so much to think about in terms of people management, strategy, and your own to-do list, it's easy to get lost in the quagmire of each day's work. Here's a few reasons mindfulness can help you focus on what matters and become the best leader you can be.
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Fast Company
Does sharing your goals help you make progress? Some research says yes, but there are also studies that say you're way better off keeping them to yourself. Sharing your goals can reportedly be beneficial, and motivate you to create momentum. Of course, it can also be an impediment to taking action, give you a false sense of accomplishment and make you less likely to follow through.
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[ProdigyGame.com]
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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Education Week
Few educators are fans of fill-in-the-bubble standardized tests that don't yield results until after students leave the classroom. But when states had a chance to try out richer forms of assessment under a new pilot program established by the Every Student Succeeds Act, all but two demurred, in part because the pilot comes with tough technical requirements and no extra federal funding. That doesn't mean, though, that states are planning to stick with the Scantron sheets over the long haul.
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eSchool News
On a mission to develop more critical thinkers who can collaborate with one another, openly share ideas, and function successfully in tomorrow's work environment, our district recently kicked off a technology overhaul. We started with our classroom furniture and worked our way right up to Boxlight table displays and projectors that allow students to collaboratively dissect roller coasters in a small-group setting or work together in a whole-class setting to go through tough math problems.
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eSchool News
More and more students have access to high-speed internet in schools, but there are still students left without the connectivity they need to grow and learn, according to the annual State of the States report from the nonprofit EducationSuperHighway. Today, 98 percent of public schools have next-generation fiber infrastructure, and 96 percent have enough internet connectivity to make digital learning possible in classrooms, says ESH CEO Evan Marwell in the report's introduction.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Simple sentences are great for social media — but when elementary school children use them exclusively, it could indicate difficulties with morphosyntax, which may be undermining their reading. Continuing with our expressive language series, we turn again to Judith O. Roman, clinical faculty member at Northwestern University’s Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning, to answer questions on morphology and syntax. Morphology and syntax correspond to the function component of the "form-function-use" framework for expressive speech that Roman introduced in the first article on semantics, the form component.
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Education World
Behavior issues are typically high on the list of school problems educators talk about each year, but often not as high on the list of professional development topics school administrators stake out for the staff. And experts say even when they are covered, the sessions too often don't create change. "The absence of ... professional development in the critical competencies of classroom organization and behavior management significantly reduces the effectiveness of many teachers, especially new ones," says a report on the topic from Vanderbilt University researchers.
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Medical Xpress
Elementary school students who received child-centered play therapy services over the course of a school year showed significant positive changes, according to data collected from a research study by two University of Arkansas professors. Kristi Perryman, assistant professor of counselor education, directs the Office of Play Therapy Research and Training and is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. Graduate students in the counselor education program work as interns in local schools to gain practical experience and assist the schools to provide counseling services to children.
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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 DIVE
According to a 2017 Gallup poll, 80 percent of U.S. superintendents who responded said their state doesn't spend enough money on early care and education programs, and only 16% said every family in their state had access to a high-quality early learning program. Just 16 percent also said most young children in their state were "prepared to be successful" when they entered kindergarten.
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MindShift (commentary)
We've all had the experience of studying hard for a test, believing we know the information, and then sitting down in the testing room only to draw a blank. Why does that happen? In this TED-Ed video, Elizabeth Cox explains there are many kinds of stress and many kinds of memory, but short term stress can affect a person's ability to recall facts. There are three basic steps to learning new information: acquisition, consolidation and retrieval.
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Healio
Although kindergarteners enrolled in the 2017-2018 school year were able to maintain high rates of vaccination coverage — specifically with the measles, mumps and rubella; DTaP; and varicella vaccines — researchers observed a slight increase in vaccine exemptions.
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Education DIVE
Filmmaker Rob Reiner spent this summer plugging his new movie "Shock and Awe" on late-night talk shows and frequently tweeting his expressions of disgust for the man who currently occupies the White House. But 20 years ago, Reiner was campaigning for a different cause — passage of Proposition 10 on California's general election ballot. Called the California Children and Families Act, the measure would create a 50-cent tax on tobacco products to fund programs that improve the health, welfare and school-readiness of the state's youngest children.
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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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NAESP
Across the country, more than 400,000 children enter kindergarten from Head Start programs each year. Your local Head Start program has supported and tracked each child's social, emotional, and academic progress and health. Your school extends that "head start." Compared to peers, Head Start "graduates" are more likely to finish high school, go to college, be employed and enjoy good health.
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