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Education Week
The single most important job of the principal is creating a school environment where students feel safe, supported, engaged and accepted, according to many child development and school leadership experts. The reason? Children who are afraid of bullying or fights have less bandwidth for learning. Negative emotions, such as feeling alienated or misunderstood, make it harder for the brain to process information and to learn.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
Julie Mason, a contributor for We Are Teachers, writes: "I left a school I loved, colleagues I loved and kids I loved because of the principal. She kept asking me to do more. (If you've ever had to take over the yearbook halfway through the year with a brand new software and no photography or graphics skills, I feel your pain.) Bottom line: school leaders can make or break it for teachers. Many leave a school, district or the profession altogether because of a toxic school culture and unsupportive or overbearing admin."
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
Shortly before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, President Donald Trump announced that the federal government would begin distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests. The goal is to use them to urge faster reopening of K-12 schools. As virus cases continue to pile up, some school districts have announced staggered and hybrid learning modules for fall 2020 and beyond.
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Education DIVE
As the coronavirus pandemic set in during the spring and school districts scrambled to transition to remote learning models while also helping provide students' basic needs, continuing services for students with disabilities posed a particular challenge.
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The majority of America's public school students are learning exclusively online, according to a new national poll of their parents — and most of those parents want school officials to focus on improving that experience. The poll, released by the National Parents Union, a group that backs school choice and a comprehensive educational response to the pandemic, paints one of the most complete pictures to date of parents' feelings about this school year. It also offers hints to school officials about what parents want as debates about when to open school buildings continue.
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The Associated Press
Toys that look like weapons. Barefoot students. Disruptive imagery in the background. Pets roaming the room. All a clear violation of rules inside most American classrooms. But that was when most American students were actually inside schools. How do standards like these translate when everyone is logging on from home? Schools are struggling to figure it out this fall — yet another adaptation demanded of educators during the coronavirus pandemic. In the learn-from-home world, teachers and experts can easily imagine the friction of extending regular classroom discipline into young people's previously private spaces.
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District Administration Magazine
Creating a suicide prevention task force is one of the most important steps school leaders can take to protect students who are contending with the added stresses posed by COVID and the racial justice movement. Such a task force can focus solely on student mental health and wellbeing while other administrators and staff tackle online learning, potential quarantines and other challenges of the pandemic, says Rich Lieberman, a Nationally Certified School Psychologist lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at Loyola Marymount University.
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More than two dozen school districts, including some of the nation's largest, have signed on to a new national effort to promote the racial and economic integration of America's schools. The effort, known as the Bridges Collaborative, spans 20 states and includes the New York City, Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, Dallas, Fort Worth, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Oakland school districts, as well as charter school networks and housing organizations.
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eSchool News
There's no doubt that the abrupt shift to online learning in the spring was largely an emergency reactionary response to the COVID-19 pandemic–but now, educators are determined to make the best of the "new normal" in classrooms this fall, even as learning challenges abound. In-depth interviews with 22 educational leaders across the U.S. have been compiled into research from NWEA, a nonprofit assessment provider, and they offer insight into some of the many hurdles educators will have to face as the new school year progresses.
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Education Week
Principal Marcia Carmichael-Murphy and her leadership team put teacher-candidates in the hot seat when they interview them for a position at Coleridge-Taylor Montessori Elementary School in Louisville, Ky. The school is in the historically Black Russell neighborhood in the city's West End. The school leaders ask about cultural bias, community wealth, and how prospective teachers will build positive relationships with students. They pay attention to whether candidates are comfortable even saying the word Black. They drill down on how the candidates' worldviews will impact their teaching styles and how they'd help students feel like they belong at the school.
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Fast Company
As a leader responsible for driving performance and results in your organization, many variables are simply outside of your control. Obstacles to success like shoestring budgets, limited timelines and any number of unexpected challenges are often unavoidable. But one thing you can manage is team chemistry. Part science and part artistic undertaking, this powerful leadership skill is essential to powering teams to their most peak performance.
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Harvard Business Review
Many decision-making frameworks aim to help leaders use objective information to mitigate bias, operate under time pressure or leverage data. But these frameworks tend to fall short when it comes to decisions based on subjective information sources that suggest conflicting courses of action. And most complex decisions fall into this category.
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Leadership Freak
Others handle day-to-day challenges. But the hot potato lands in your hands. Passing the buck in a high stress situation means you've reached your peak. But an aspiration to advance requires resolve to hang on to hot potatoes.
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The Lead Change Group
In today's world, with contradicting advice on how to live within the constraints of the coronavirus and the many other crises, it's common to feel as if life is happening to you; however, those rumors aren't true. In fact, it was Buddha who once said, "The mind is everything. What we think we shall become." By changing the way you think, you will experience more success, health, and fulfillment. But first, you must believe and embrace the choice and the control you truly have over your life (and mindsets).
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Entrepreneur
Partners and employees who are no longer happy, committed and loyal to the company will perform lower and produce less. They will either leave the company (never at the right time) or "quit and stay." Although it will be natural for some to go for various reasons, in most cases, keeping your team present and fully engaged will be an ongoing priority.
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Leadership Freak
A leader without purpose aimlessly jostles on well-worn paths. A leader with purpose climbs through the fog. Purpose pulls leaders into the future with courage and vitality.
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Education DIVE
Few administrators felt prepared for the coronavirus pandemic that shut down schools in the spring, although many said they felt most prepared to equip students with laptops or tablets and to provide meals and other essential resources for families in need when schools shut down in spring, according to the Education Dive: K-12's COVID-19 Preparedness Survey.
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Education Week
Washington officials have insisted for months that emergency aid for education is one of their top priorities during the coronavirus pandemic. Yet political drama and fundamental disagreements between the White House and Capitol Hill have made those negotiations volatile and reaching a deal elusive.
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District Administration Magazine
Now that the interim final rule on equitable services for private schools is no longer in affect and the U.S. Education Department has stated that it will not appeal the U.S. District Court rulings, states that decided to follow the IFR will need to make financial adjustments to fit the ESSA Title I funding formula.
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EdTech Magazine
When school districts started to reopen with online and hybrid learning this fall, familiar issues emerged. In some schools, students and teachers couldn't log in to their learning management systems. Videoconferencing platforms crashed for many. Internet connections at home and in school buildings failed. Device shortages and cyberattacks prevailed, even pushing some districts to delay reopening.
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Tech & Learning
As school leaders, many people come to us to help solve problems and work through issues both large and small. Some of the problems we're dealing with right now, however, we just can't fix — districts have students who have lost family members to COVID-19; staff members whose own children have been put on ventilators; and several principals who have contracted COVID-19 since coming back to school.
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eSchool News
With the 2020-2021 school year underway, many K-12 educators, administrators, students and families are facing an indefinite period of remote learning. While there are numerous challenges arising from this new academic environment, chief among them is this unfortunate reality of our times: hackers are always looking for ways to capitalize on a crisis.
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EdTech Magazine
When technology leaders encounter the term "zero trust" for the first time, they often find it off-putting. In a cybersecurity context, zero trust sounds like a paranoid approach, embracing the "trust nobody" philosophy that forms the basis for many negative stereotypes of cybersecurity teams.
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The New York Times
Margaret Li once described herself as the kind of mother who rarely allowed her two sons to miss a day of school. But in the pandemic, she faced a dilemma. Though she believed her boys would benefit from in-person classes, she had another person to consider: her 68-year-old mother, who lives with the family in Bellerose, Queens.
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We Are Teachers
Parent-teacher conferences can be a challenge even at the best of times. Adding technology to a virtual conference can feel like a blessing or a curse — or both. The good news is, the general purpose of a conference remains the same. You and the parents are both there to help create the best possible outcomes for the student.
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Tech & Learning
As we start the school year in whatever learning environment your district or school is in, there's a great deal of emphasis and pressure on students and educators related to learning gaps and loss from the spring. However, from a trauma-informed research and mental health perspective, concentrate on well-being first. We all have experienced trauma in so many different ways throughout this pandemic, so to establish a strong foundation for learning, we need to acknowledge and work through it.
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Edutopia
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact on many students' mental health. In a May 2020 survey, seven out of 10 teens reported mental health struggles, 61% said they had experienced an increase in feelings of loneliness, 43% said they had experienced depression and 55% said they had experienced anxiety.
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EdSurge
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there's been a lot of discussion about digital equity in U.S. public schools. But the virus has drastically expanded another gap that is key to children's learning and wellbeing: out-of-school enrichment. Through enrichment, children form bonds with peers and mentors and find sustenance for their passions, interests and social-emotional development.
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Edutopia
Digital learning can get old. It can become harder and harder to vary without complicating our lives or our students'. This feels especially true for younger learners, who might struggle with navigating multiple apps or who need parental support for learning.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Tan Huynh, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I have to confess that I previously used the label 'long-term English learners' to categorize students who had received intensive language support for five or more years. But after my podcast interview with Dr. Maneka D. Brooks, author of 'Transforming Literacy Education for Long-Term English Learners (2019)', I now realize that some identification labels can mask what students are able to do."
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We Are Teachers
Teachers have always relied on their teammates, but wow! Teaching in the pandemic has really brought to light how important having a great team is and how much we really need each other. It's true — teachers sometimes feel like they exist on their own little island. But in times like these, we need to share the load and have each other's backs.
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Tech & Learning (commentary)
Tzvi Hametz, a contributor for Tech & Learning, writes: "When school abruptly shut down in March, much of the instruction was limited by the conditions of distance learning. When planning for the start of the 2020-21 school year, I was determined to keep hands-on, playful learning going because I believe it is important, especially during times of crisis. I knew that students would be even more engaged and have better learning outcomes if I could send home the STEAM solutions I use in the classroom."
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Edutopia
It has been my experience that many teachers perceive computer science a content area that only a CS educator can support. However, with the right training and mindset, any educator can teach CS — and all should be aware of the broader implications of CS concepts and content.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
New to teaching this year? And honestly, who doesn't feel like a novice teacher these days? For those of you who actually are new to teaching (or co-teaching) this post is for you!
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The 74
School districts with new projects or renovations underway are in a form of limbo. They don't know if students will be there when the doors open or the ribbon is cut. They are reexamining designs they approved months ago, exploring whether environments will meet the requirements of a post-COVID world.
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By Douglas Magrath
 As they prepare for and move on to college life, students undergo many transitions. The most important are the social and academic changes that new students will face in addition to dealing with a new language if English is their second language. Students need to make connections that will help them adjust to this new life. International students especially may feel isolated as they are far away from home, and the initial excitement may wear off quickly.
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Edutopia
At the beginning of the school year, just as huge numbers of students and teachers were logging on to their new virtual classrooms for the first time, the popular videoconferencing platform Zoom had an outage. In an article about that crash, one administrator was quoted as saying, "2020 is a year of whatever can go wrong, has."
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eSchool News
Disruption is the operative word these days when talking about school. COVID-19 has changed education's landscape — and stressed out students. They are negotiating lots of uncertainty while navigating a different way of learning, all of which affect their overall well-being. Social and emotional learning can play a valuable role here — building SEL skills can help students process uncertainty and changes.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Rita Platt, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Not long ago I was participating in a Twitter chat about technology in school. A question that tweeps (Twitter people) were asked to comment on was, 'What is the most important technology you use on a day-to-day basis?' There were many great answers that ranged from interactive smart boards to Chromebooks to online lesson plan websites. Those are really helpful to be sure. But, after thinking about it, I decided that for my money, the most important piece of technology I use is my cell phone."
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District Administration Magazine
The change from learning in person to learning remotely has had an impact on all students, but that impact may be greater for students with disabilities. Educators to consider taking the following steps if they notice a student struggling with remote instruction.
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The 74
In 28 districts across the U.S., students in middle and high school lost more than a year of learning due to suspensions, according to a new study. The study from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA analyzed discipline data from 2015-2016 for almost every district in the nation. The most extreme losses ranged from 183 days in Edgecombe County Public Schools in North Carolina to 416 days in Grand Rapids Public Schools in Michigan. The study also shows that while the racial gap among secondary school students at risk for suspension has narrowed since 2009-2010, Black students still miss almost two-thirds of a school year of instruction for discipline reasons — 103 days per 100 students, compared to 21 days for white students.
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By Dorothy L. Tengler (commentary)
Since the start of the pandemic, researchers have been puzzled at how children have been spared by the same rate of COVID-19 infection as adults. In fact, new evidence shows that children carry high levels of the virus even without falling ill, which may impact the spread of the virus to others, especially those who are at high risk of developing severe COVID-19. One study, out of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, found that young children carry far more of the coronavirus than adults.
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Education Week
An estimated 1.3 million students stopped engaging with their schools at the end of last academic year, according to an internal data analysis by a company that facilitates intensive digital communication between schools, students and parents. The company, Remind, says that the number of texts, emails and in-app messages dropped by an average rate of 8% to 17% of active students across all 50 states.
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NPR
Kelly Mrozik wears a cloth face mask as she asks her room of energetic first graders a question: What sign do you use when you want to add two numbers together? Wayne, a student who sat on the carpet in front of her, points to a plus sign on the board. Mrozik cheers: "Very good. Elbows, Wayne!" The two bumped elbows. That's the school-during-the-coronavirus version of a high five. There are other versions, too.
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The Associated Press
At least 116 schools across New York state that opened their doors to in-person learning have had to close for at least a day since the academic year began because of the spread of COVID-19, according to state data obtained by The Associated Press. That tally excludes additional school closures in New York City, which reports data separately. About 1 in 10 of the state's roughly 700 school districts has had at least one school temporarily shift to online learning only, according to a list of closures reported to the New York State Education Department. Roughly 3,300 school-aged children in New York have tested positive for COVID-19 since Sept. 1, according to state data.
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NAESP
The need for another federal COVID-19 relief package is urgent. Since the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act in March, national education groups have advocated that at least $175 billion for K–12 schools be included in an additional federal COVID-19 relief package. Experts have consistently agreed that at least this level of funding is needed to support schools now and to prepare for looming state and local revenue shortfalls on the horizon. But Congress has yet to pass another bill, and schools around the country are already facing budget cuts, a lack of resources and many tough decisions in the weeks and months ahead.
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NAESP
Join representatives from AFSA, NAESP and NASSP in this open townhall session as they discuss the challenges principals are facing throughout the ongoing COVID pandemic and examine schoolwide trends seen through the COVID-19 database, a live tracker of how schools are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic nationwide. This discussion will allow individuals the opportunity to ask questions directly of principals on the difficult decisions they are making to ensure the safety of their students and staff as well as provide access to the best learning opportunities possible.
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