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Education Week (commentary)
Welcome to Teacher Evaluation 101. Do not copy and paste the notes from one teacher's evaluation into another's. (Yes, this happens.) Avoid the "kiss, kick, kiss" approach — you know, the one where you tell the teacher something good, proceed to list all the things that went wrong and then end on a high note. You may also know this as a compliment sandwich.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 A teacher shortage doesn’t look the way you might expect. Your child doesn’t come home from their first day of class and announce there’s not enough teachers at school. Neither does this year’s K-12 classroom necessarily have a dozen more kids than last year’s. In some ways, the teacher shortage is nearly invisible, which is part of the problem. What a teacher shortage does is most simply lower the quality of the available teachers.
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District Administration Magazine
An overwhelming number of district leaders want to build trust with their community, yet many administrators lack confidence in their customer service skills, according to a new report. Additionally, some systems don't even make any staff member responsible for improving customer service. Here are some examples of good customer service in schools. In Maryland, Harford County Public Schools created a new communications and family outreach office to strengthen the system's message and an academy to further support parents, Superintendent Sean Bulson told The Baltimore Sun.
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School Leaders Now
Sounds daunting, doesn't it? But as school leaders, we need to face up to it. Sexual harassment has happened or is happening in your middle school. According to a 2016 study, 43 percent of middle school students reported they had been the victims of verbal sexual harassment, such as sexual comments, jokes or gestures. That's nearly half of all middle school students. It's highly unlikely your school is an exception.
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MindShift
Many people believe that life is a zero-sum game and that the most ruthless people get the furthest. But Jamil Zaki, a Stanford psychologist and author of "The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World", says there's a lot of evidence to the contrary. "It turns out that nice guys finish first in lots of different ways," Zaki said on KQED's Forum program. And, when people are nice, they not only help others, but they help themselves as well. Empathetic people are generally happier, healthier and more effective at work. And, acting from a place of empathy, he argues, could be just what the world needs at this moment, when division has become the norm.
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Fast Company (commentary)
Toni Strandell, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "The people you hire can make or break the company. That's a lesson I learned early on. I also learned that making the right hiring decision is hard. There are no easy yes-or-no questions to filter out candidates. These challenges make it easy to fall back on feelings and intuition when it comes to hiring. Now, gut feelings have their time and place — but making hiring decisions isn't one of them."
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Forbes
You probably, and rightfully, consider CEOs and other leaders as the chief architects and strategists of the organizations they represent. However, how many leaders actually possess the skills and vision to see into the future? How many can see that future in detail, and then bring that clarity to the planning stages? How do you balance the here-and-now with that long-term vision? It requires a leader with a mind for strategy.
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HR DIVE
As the Monster poll revealed, more than half of respondents who were bullied reported their superiors as the perpetrators. Bosses who bully not only damage the mental well-being of their workers — they also compromise employee judgment and create safety risks, according to recent research from Portland State University. When workers face bullying, they're more likely to forget safety procedures, according to the report.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Entrepreneur Network partner Mike Phillips discusses how you can evaluate if you and others are good leaders. Phillips points to three metrics of good leadership.
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Inc.
Explaining expectations is the first positive habit of inspiring coaches. But explaining is only a one-way process. To continue to inspire winning results and relationships, ask questions to initiate two-way communication and engage your team. Coaching is more about asking questions than it is about knowing the answers. Managers tell while coaches ask. Business schools don't teach courses on asking questions, so leaders rarely, if ever, study the art of questioning the way they would study financial reports.
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The Brookings Institution
Education is hardly the only issue driving the 2020 presidential campaign, but policies affecting schools and students are emerging as some of the most discussed. From addressing the cost of college, to increasing access to quality education, to improving teacher recruitment and retention, to realigning education curricula with workforce needs, many of the top candidates' policy proposals could have a significant impact on students and teachers across the country.
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THE Journal
The United States Census Bureau has released free resources for K-12 classrooms. The focus is on encouraging students to make sure their families participate in the upcoming Census, which influences the federal funding given to states and communities for classroom technology, teacher training, special education, after-school programs and school lunch assistance, among other programs. Materials include teacher and student content.
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eSchool News
Using the right edtech tools, combined with knowledgeable and confident teaching, can help accelerate student learning, according to Promethean's 2019 U.S. State of Technology report. The report surveyed educators to offer a comprehensive views of current classroom technologies, adoption, usage, and trends over the next five years. 86% of teachers and 82% of administrators agree that edtech tools improve achievement, according to the report, which analyzes edtech trends and usage.
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EdSurge
When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. The district loaded up on engaging tools to help teachers and students connect and collaborate—TVs in classrooms, whiteboarding devices and wireless HDMI to name a few.
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EdTech Magazine
As modern learning environments evolve, a new technology has appeared more and more frequently among K–12 schools: screencasting. The interest in adopting this new technology is evident. In the U.S., the demand for screencasting and screen-sharing software in the education space accounts for 50 percent of the global demand, according to Ben Davis, senior education market analyst at Futuresource Consulting, who took part in a CDW panel at ISTE 2019. But what is screencasting, why is it becoming more popular, and what does this mean for the future of modern learning environments?
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THE Journal
While the majority of teachers and administrators recognize that educational technology can accelerate student learning opportunities, a recent survey finds that 39% of school staff do not have training or "adequate learning opportunities" to adopt ed tech solutions in the classroom. The survey from educational hardware provider Promethean provides insights from 1,000 K-12 educators in the United States on their ed tech priorities and challenges.
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MindShift
Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through arts integration are seeing kids thrive.
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EdSurge
In our ever-changing digital world, new information spills out of devices by the second. This means that no matter which career students choose, there will always be more to learn and consider. As researcher and professor emeritus of education at the University of Maryland, Dr. John T. Guthrie explains, the road to lifelong learning starts with proficient reading. Unfortunately, says Guthrie, students’ reading motivation is often "shockingly low."
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Edutopia
Our schools are currently seeing a dramatic increase in students of all ages carrying in anxiety, adversity and trauma from a variety of adverse childhood experiences. Social and emotional learning programs are critical for addressing these emotional and mental challenges, but we must also rethink our discipline procedures and policies. We need to understand that traditional discipline works best with the children who need it the least, and works least with the children who need it the most. Discipline ideally is not something we do to students — it should be a quality we want to develop within them.
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eSchool News
Current employment trends and future projections all point towards continued growth in science, technology, engineering and math jobs, as well as the need for STEM-related skills in other fields. Yet, recent math proficiency levels among American students remain low, at just 44% in fourth grade and 33% at the eighth-grade level, and the math score trend lines are not showing significant improvement.
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District Administration Magazine
Growth mindset studies reveal conflicting evidence on the benefits of the idea that student intelligence can improve through challenges and hard work. Lower-achieving students' grades and enrollment in math courses improved after taking short online exercises that promoted growth mindset in a recent national experiment.
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Educational World
It may seem like a fundamental mission for education, but a surprising number of students in high school or even college will admit they really don't know how to study. "It isn't unusual for a student at a young age to need to learn study skills, but it is surprising how many older students really don't know how to study or are studying in inappropriate ways," says Henry Roediger a distinguished professor of brain science at Washington University in St. Louis and co-author of leading book on the topic. "It's actually shocking how often it is overlooked."
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District Administration Magazine
As K-12 educators adopt yoga, meditation and other mindfulness exercises to reduce student stress, some controversy continues to swirl around use of the practices in public education. The Cobb County School District in the Atlanta suburbs just this month settled a lawsuit filed by an assistant principal who says she was transferred when parents complained that she taught yoga to students, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The district will pay the assistant principal $150,000 in exchange for her resignation, the newspaper said.
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NAESP
NAESP and Crayola are proud to announce the 2019-2020 winners of the Champion Creatively Alive Children grant. The program awards schools with grants valued at $3,500 to create innovative, arts-infused education opportunities for students. Arts-infused education teaches children the four Cs (communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity), skills they need to understand our increasingly interconnected world and thrive as 21st century citizens.
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NAESP
As part of National Principals Month, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will be hosting a webinar on the youth e-cigarette epidemic. The webinar will discuss its causes and how principals can get involved and help their students. This webinar takes place Wednesday, Oct. 23, 4-5 p.m. ET. Click here to register.
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