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School Leaders Now
As principals we all wish we could put more time into building social-emotional skills, not only with students but also with teachers. Because when we support teachers' emotional well-being, we model what we want them to do with kids. One of the fastest ways to connect with teachers is to send regular emails that focus on social-emotional learning instead of the usual school issues.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Bullying statistics in U.S. schools are as much a cause for shame as a concern. One in five kids are bullied during their school years, and one in five admits to bullying others. The advent of social media has amplified the problem. Now, bullies can hide behind a screen, encourage others to join in the bullying session anonymously and cause more harm. October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and there is a renewed drive to fight the bullying issue.
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Education World
The shortage of good, qualified substitutes is not just a nagging scheduling problem for teachers and administrators, it is an issue that hampers instruction and can damage school culture and even create safety and security risks. Good substitutes can step into temporary, unexpected gaps or long-term roles, but unqualified or unsuitable ones can create classroom atmosphere or management issues that reach beyond the periods they are teaching, and, can create holes in instruction that significantly affect how students in those classes advance.
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eSchool News
Since the 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, a large number of states have backed away from recently enacted policies that were designed to breathe new life into moribund teacher and principal evaluation systems, according to new research from the National Council on Teacher Quality. No fewer than 30 states have recently withdrawn at least one of the evaluation reforms that they adopted during a flurry of national activity between 2009 and 2015.
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Education DIVE
There have been moments for Marini Hamilton Smith when negotiating aspects of her son's Individual Education Program felt a lot like haggling with a car salesman. The Los Angeles mom would tell the teachers, specialists and administrators in the room what her medically fragile son Colson needs in terms of therapy and special educational services. A representative of the district would offer something less — $80 per hour for a specialist instead of $95, for example — but Smith would hold firm.
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Inc.
You know that being an entrepreneurial leader is hard. It comes with its own rewards, to be sure, but it can be exhausting. Once you're in the thick of it, the weight of meeting payroll and keeping people happy can take a toll — no matter how successful your business is. If you're the spoke that the whole wheel turns around, you can't afford to lose your sanity. In the midst of a mental health crisis in entrepreneurship, your ability to keep it together deserves attention.
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Leadership Freak
You do some of your old job and some managing too. It's a pressure cooker of tasks and responsibilities. No stress is boring. Reasonable doses of stress challenge you to rise and conquer. Stressed-out makes you stupid, moody, negative and unproductive.
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Forbes
As a leader, learning how to channel your emotions in the workplace and communicate how you feel — without offending, criticizing or disrespecting others — can be challenging. But by doing so, you set new precedence and permit others to confront their feelings. I believe that by facing any negative feelings, such as resentment, we can learn what motivates us.
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Fast Company
How do you find an employee with the skills to head up the VR division of your agency? How do you hire a lawyer who specializes in AI? You don't. In a world where job requirements are constantly changing, an employee's raw potential is more important than his or her résumé. According to Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at executive search firm Egon Zehnder, competency-based hiring is becoming obsolete in today's volatile business landscape.
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Leadership Freak
If you're a pessimist, the only thing worse than dying young is living a long miserable life. Pessimistic leaders focus on faults and weaknesses. Success with people requires optimism.
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Education Week
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week shows just how far away we are from how the Obama administration handled guidance, which is provided by agencies regarding how to follow federal law, including for controversial issues in public schools. The order, entitled "Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents," requires guidance from each federal agency to "clearly state that it does not bind the public" except under narrow circumstances.
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EdTech Magazine
Phishing remains the leading cause of data breaches. Bogus emails that con or coerce users into disclosing key personal data are responsible for the vast majority of successful cyberattacks across the public and private sectors. K–12 education is not immune. More than half of K–12 CTOs say phishing scams are a significant or very significant problem, according to a recent Education Week/Consortium for School Networking survey.
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EdScoop
In an effort to combat cyberbullying this October, Google has teamed up with two nonprofits to teach kids how to spread kindness and positivity online. Cyberbullying is the number one online safety concern in the classroom, according to research from Google, and both parents and teachers have recognized that more needs to be done to teach kids to be safer, more positive digital citizens.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Matthew Howell, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "I remember the first time I proposed screen-free days in our school to some of our student leaders. It was a couple of years ago, and we were having an informal conversation during recess about the benefits of technology. I asked how they would feel if we had entire days dedicated to learning with no internet-connected devices. One of the students in the conversation, who I know to have great insights, appeared perplexed. 'Do you mean we won't use our Chromebooks for the whole day? What will we do then?' He was very concerned. It was clear that this ever-conscientious student relied on the technology to learn."
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District Administration Magazine
The number of touch-screen Chromebook models available for purchase has dramatically increased over the past three years. Today, nearly every model has a touch-screen variant. Should you consider touch-screen Chromebooks for your district? Is it worth the extra cost? Here are the questions you should be asking.
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eSchool News
Rural schools in the United States face challenges many of their suburban counterparts couldn't fathom. For example, access to challenging and engaging STEM courses such as robotics and coding is not as prevalent in rural schools as it is in larger districts. But one district is aiming to make it easier for students to access robotics in rural schools.
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District Administration Magazine
As 44 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, K-12 districts across the nation have been implementing changes to align science curricula to the standards, which stress skills such as communication, collaboration, inquiry, problem-solving and flexibility. NGSS focuses on three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science — cross-cutting concepts, science and engineering practices, and disciplinary core ideas. These dimensions are combined to form each standard — or performance expectation — and all work together to give students a comprehensive understanding of science.
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School Leaders Now
As teachers, we know that when students have certain abilities, they're better prepared for school and life. Working memory is one of those things. We know it when we see it: Students are organized, know exactly what to do after you've given directions and are able to follow in-depth discussions. On the flip side, there are students who need extra help to develop their working memory. As it turns out, working memory and dyslexia go hand in hand, and there's a lot we can do to help students with dyslexia remember more.
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The Atlantic
When Michelle Martin thinks back on her teaching career, she identifies its starting point as second grade — not when her students were second graders, but when she was. Earlier this year, sitting in her office full of children's books at the University of Washington, Martin told me that her first pupil was a classmate, a little girl whose family had moved into Martin's neighborhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and who "had had a turbulent childhood."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Susan O'Brien, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "I used to think that the perfect classroom had students sitting in rows, hands folded, with their eyes on me. 'All eyes on me' was in fact my favorite teacher line. Having an attentive audience was one of the reasons teaching was fun for me. Fast-forward 35 years to my last year of teaching before I transitioned to being an instructional coach — my students were at tables or sitting knee-to-knee in small groups. They weren't quiet, and they were facilitating their own learning."
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EdScoop
Storytelling can create educational environments where content is approachable and relatable, gives meaning to complex information and creates new pathways to existing knowledge. STEM projects, which are designed to ensure that students have opportunities to learn problem-solving skills, engage in real-life experiments and analyze data, can be enhanced by adding story and humor, increasing overall student engagement.
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Education Week
Gaps between black and white students in school suspension rates and academic achievement may be two sides of the same coin, according to a massive new national study. The study, based on data from more than 2,000 school districts, finds the two racial disparities are tightly intertwined, compounding challenges for students of color and the educators trying to support them. "These disparities are two things the districts think and care a lot about," said Francis Pearman, an assistant education professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the lead author of the study.
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District Administration Magazine
A readiness test given early in the kindergarten year can predict a student's performance at the end of first grade, researchers at the University of Missouri have found. Some 350 kindergartners in six elementary schools were screened, and then retested in math and reading 18 months later. The researchers also had teachers rate the students' social and emotional skills. Kindergartners who rated poorly in academic and behavior readiness were far more likely to display disruptive behavior and have low reading scores at the end of first grade.
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HealthDay News
America's child obesity epidemic shows no signs of shrinking. About 4.8 million American kids aged 10 to 17 — just over 15% — were obese in 2017-2018, according to a new report. "These new data show that this challenge touches the lives of far too many children in this country," said Dr. Richard Besser, the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which produced the new report.
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EdSurge
When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and she felt she'd hit her stride in the classroom. Then the new school year started. From day one at Langley, a Title I school in northeast D.C., Gunter felt like she had no control over the students under her supervision.
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Fox News
A new California bill hopes that "lunch shaming" will be a thing of the past as it guarantees that students in schools will receive state-funded lunches, even if their parents have failed to pay meal fees. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the new piece of legislation, which bans the process in which institutions deny students a meal of their choice due to unpaid fees. The law amends the 2017 Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act by requiring schools to invalidate policies that ask officials to give alternative meals to students who have unpaid fees, according to Newsom.
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NAESP
As part of National Principals Month, an event on Capitol Hill was hosted, titled "Principal Pipelines, Not Just a Pipe Dream." Principals, researchers and other practitioners came together to share firsthand knowledge of the importance of pipelines as a proper form of principal preparation, and how the federal government can support states as they implement these pipelines. To hear their stories, check out a recording of the livestream on NAESP's Facebook page.
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NAESP
Experience three days of information-packed sessions, inspiring keynotes, and high-energy networking with your fellow elementary and middle level school principals from across the country. The Conference will focus on topics that are unique to your needs, connecting you with colleagues and strategies to take your school, career and leadership to the next level. As one of the largest educational conferences for pre-k-8 educators, we're thrilled to bring together industry experts, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to collaborate on issues facing today's educators from around the world.
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