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Education Week
In the days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Principal Andy Jacks huddled with members of his staff at Ashland Elementary School to see how they were processing the event. Although the Manassas, Virgina, school was 1,000 miles away, teachers and parents had already carefully reflected on the horrific details. "They wanted to know that I was listening to them, that I was taking their ideas in, that I was doing something about it," Jacks said.
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School Leaders Now
Your students came to school in August excited to start the year. Teachers began with team building, classroom procedures and establishing relationships. There was a blank slate for everyone, and teachers and students were energized by new possibilities and were ready to learn. Now it's the middle of fall, and that luster is wearing off. The routines and repetition are sapping energy from classrooms and hallways, and they're even starting to make things a little boring. Luckily, it's not too late to get that vibe going again. Here are seven ways to spice things up and maintain a joyful school climate throughout the year.
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eSchool News
Misconceptions are dangerous things. They shackle our visions of what's possible and doom us to consequences we do not expect. For example, a student who believes her genes predetermine her academic abilities may avoid crucial learning experiences that are initially challenging. A student who believes his postgraduation success will flow from his intellectual prowess may gasp when he loses his first job due to interpersonal ineptitude. School leaders, especially, need accurate notions of how the world works if they want their school improvement efforts to succeed. Yet many bold and promising ideas to transform schools falter when leaders rely on conventional wisdom about how to make their initiatives flourish.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 As a manager, you understand the critical importance of each member of your team working harmoniously toward a common goal. Yet sometimes, an individual staff member's personal agenda can interfere with your group working together seamlessly – and your projects can suffer. Here's what you need to do: identify foolproof ways to foster cooperation, and get your group dynamic in sync. Follow this clear, research-proven advice to ensure excellent team collaboration, day after day.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Sean Cassel, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "The transition from teacher to administrator is a perspective-changing experience on many levels. As someone who recently made this shift within my own building, I've learned three meaningful lessons — ones that reinforced foundational beliefs I already held."
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District Administration Magazine
Rigor is increasingly a concern in our schools. We continue to see evidence that our students in all grades are not working at a level that is challenging enough to prepare them for college and careers. However, we often misunderstand the definition of rigor. Rigor requires creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, each student is supported so they can learn at high levels and each student demonstrates learning at high levels.
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The Wall Street Journal
As schools beef up security in an age of fear of campus shootings, a New Jersey center for the extremely disabled goes to extra lengths to practice for the unthinkable. At the Phoenix Center in Nutley, just west of New York City, many students are terrified by loud alarms for security drills, changes in their routine or even something as simple as using a different doorway than usual. Many of its 143 students, ages 6 to 21 years old, have autism, Down syndrome, severe behavioral challenges and other problems.
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Inc.
Your morning can dictate the rest of your workday. It's no wonder that so many successful business people follow strict morning routines. What do they do exactly? Ask them how they begin their day, and you will see a consistent pattern. This is not just personal preferences either, as science has backed up most of these behaviors. Of course, it's not realistic to expect to mimic their ritual every day without fail, but if you want to do your best work and be a more productive person, try to follow these four common morning habits.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Last month for an Education Week blog, Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching Program participant Michael Cruse, a special educator from Arlington, Virginia, talked about his travels to Israel to study different models for green schools. Cruse's biggest takeaway from his Middle East experience that he would apply to American schools was this, "Since coming back to work at my school and reflecting on how my experiences in Israel translate into my teaching, I realized that the best lessons about sustainability are actually about people."
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Entrepreneur
Succeeding is so difficult for many people because life can be frustrating. Frustration can provoke many to give up too soon. Each challenge we face offers us the opportunity to grow, to improve upon our skillset, to test our edges and to learn new ways to solve problems. Those who are disciplined make their lives easier as their skill sets increase. To follow are the markers of discipline.
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Leadership Freak
It's dangerous to evaluate others and affirm yourself. Self-affirmation — apart from self-evaluation — is the beginning of self-deception and the end of self-development. It's perverse to give yourself a hand and give others the shoe.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Leaders must be clear, firm and consistent. In this article are three steps to ensure you are drawing the line at the right time, the right way and for the most benefit. For example, integrity is a big word to throw around at work. Most of us do not work in an environment that tests our ethics regularly. Yet it is because of this, many supervisors do not know where to draw the line. My specialty and favorite kind of work challenges are those that push me to think about ethics, integrity and the impact the lack of these characteristics can have on the work environment.
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The Lead Change Group
No leader sets out to lead an ineffective team. In fact many leaders invest a lot of time and energy agonizing over how to create the perfect high-performance team that works effectively and consistently delivers results. However, there is a problem. Many of the strategies leaders have adopted to improve teamwork, while well-intentioned, are not all that effective. Thompson, a professor of management and organizations at Kellogg and an expert on teamwork suggests five strategies that can help create a high-performance team that has impact.
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Fast Company
Being a manager is largely a balancing act, constantly weighing the wants, needs and priorities of different people against each other. One of the most difficult aspects of management, then, is keeping everyone around you satisfied–both the executives above you making demands and the employees on the ground floor carrying them out. Your superiors care about results, returns and productivity. They need to know that jobs are being done and goals are being met. They likely don't even know your team members outside of the tasks they complete and details in performance reviews they're emailed but may not read.
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Education Week
The opioid crisis has become a top-of-mind issue for schools across the country coping with orphaned children and with others facing serious emotional trauma. Congress recently passed a law that will help schools and communities cope with some of the challenges of educating kids from families grappling with opioid addiction. The legislation authorizes $50 million in grants per year for the next five years to help states and school districts implement schoolwide behavioral interventions and supports for students who have experienced trauma.
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Education DIVE
Personalized learning models continue to grow as educators nationwide are tasked with reinventing the way students are taught and tested. Meanwhile, the technological revolution keeps producing gadgets that make life easier by simplifying once-complex tasks, and this wave of innovation and invention has inevitably seeped into the educational bubble. Put those two things together, and you've got personalized learning technologies.
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eSchool News
District leaders are faced with a plethora of challenges, including how and when to deploy technology initiatives, ensuring equity across schools with different demographics and promoting cultural awareness. These challenges are complicated by funding obstacles, teacher and community buy-in, varying resource availability and more. Here, we've gathered advice of school leaders and administrators in districts across the country. As you read their stories, you'll learn how they solved problems and challenges unique to their districts, such as making data user-friendly and highlighting tolerance and diversity.
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EdScoop
Efforts by K-12 schools to provide every student with a laptop or tablet are on the rise. A 2017 survey conducted by the Consortium for School Networking found that 40 percent of today's classrooms provide one device for every student, and this number is expected to grow. One of the key drivers behind the increased interest in 1:1 device programs is equal opportunity. Many students lack access to a family PC or the resources to get online, and as more educational resources move to the cloud, students need reliable devices with modern browsers to keep pace and accelerate their learning.
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Education Next
When students look back on their most important teachers, the social aspects of their education are often what they recall. Learning to set goals, take risks and responsibility, or simply believe in oneself are often fodder for fond thanks — alongside mastering pre-calculus, becoming a critical reader, or remembering the capital of Turkmenistan. It's a dynamic mix, one that captures the broad charge of a teacher: to teach students the skills they'll need to be productive adults. But what, exactly, are these skills? And how can we determine which teachers are most effective in building them?
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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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eSchool News
Fun topics keep students engaged in learning, and what better way to pull students in than framing a lesson around Halloween? From vampires and ghost ships to bats and pumpkin facts, it's easy to craft lessons for students in all grades. Elementary school students can learn about famous ghost stories and share their own spooky stories, and older students can learn about some of the real-life historical events and rumors behind some of today's most loved scary tales.
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Edutopia
Bookmatching is the art of connecting a student to the right book. For it to be successful, the matchmaker (i.e., the teacher) needs to know the student's personality, interests, aspirations and reading level. The ultimate goal is to connect students with books they'll love — and stick with. When bookmatching is successful, it increases student engagement with reading, and has the side benefit of cultivating stronger relationships between students and teachers.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
The honeymoon is over. Or, at least, if you're like many teachers, it feels that way. Depending on where you live, you're 6-8 weeks into the school year. You're probably tired and the students in your care are probably beginning to make more poor choices than they did in those first blissful few weeks you were together.
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The Hechinger Report
Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Now imagine that this protest continues for several years in a row and that it takes place in multiple locations simultaneously. Wouldn't you want to know what parents are protesting and why?
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Edutopia
Crimes against people of color continue to appear in the news, and the ugly truth is that the number of hate crimes in large cities increased for four straight years since 2014, according to the FBI. Hate, racism and prejudice can take a toll, a psychological toll, on those who face these attitudes, and they impact all of us in schools. The good news is that educators can do something about this in our schools. If there's any place in America where we can create change for a better society, it's our schools — no other institution has their reach as every member of society (aside from kids who are homeschooled) is educated through schools. So what are things that we can do to combat racial prejudice and promote understanding in a multicultural society?
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The Brookings Institution
With the learning goals of education shifting to include a broader range of skills, the challenge globally is how to support students in developing these skills. The components of the education system must be aligned to support the development of 21st century skills, and the qualitatively different structure of these skills requires some completely new approaches, both in the measurement aspect and collection of assessment data. A major issue that confronts education systems is a deficiency in the effective use of collected student learning outcomes data. Notwithstanding the huge sums that are dedicated to its collection, a proportional commitment is not made to its strategic analysis or its dissemination.
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HealthDay News
Children with autism or developmental delays may be at increased risk for obesity, a new study finds. The study included nearly 2,500 2- to 5-year-olds in the United States. Of those, 668 children had autism spectrum disorder; 914 had developmental delays; and a control group of 884 children had neither. Compared to the control group, the risk of being overweight or obese was 1.57 times higher among children with autism and 1.38 times higher among those with developmental delays.
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The Washington Post
At the end of a narrow road, beyond single-story homes and a mobile home park in this mountain town, the pavement opens onto the gravel parking lot of Raven Elementary School. It has sat there since the 1950s, built at a time when the nearest elementary school was a nearly two-mile slog away. Donna Whittington's mother and other parents pressured school system leaders to establish a school for Raven, and over the decades, the modest building became the backdrop for fall festivals and plays, a place where neighborhood children would shoot hoops.
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Education Week
Getting back to normal after a devastating hurricane is long, arduous and expensive for schools. In Florida's Panhandle, education leaders have started the strenuous work of cleaning up and repairing schools ravaged by Hurricane Michael earlier this month, but they are also running into a longer-term problem: steep cost estimates that could lead to mounting piles of bills.
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The Oregonian
Portland Public Schools has won a grant worth $11 million over seven years to help students in grades six through high school who are slated to attend Roosevelt, Madison and Jefferson high schools get on track for college success. The high schools and the middle schools that feed them will join a national network of mentoring programs that already includes scores of Oregon schools. Oregon State University currently operates the mentoring and college-readiness program in 16 schools in rural areas and small towns around the state plus those schools' feeder schools.
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NAESP
NAESP Executive Director L. Earl Franks, Ed.D., CAE, will be inducted into the Alabama Educational Leadership Hall of Fame at Troy University in November. "I am extremely honored and humbled to have been selected for induction into this illustrious group of Alabama educational visionaries who have made state, regional and national contributions as leaders in the field of education," said Franks.
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NAESP
Michelle D. Young, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the University Council for Educational Administration and a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the Curry School of Education (University of Virginia). In this episode we talk with Dr. Young about the state of principal preparation and opportunities for principals to advocate for research-based leadership standards to improve how principals are prepared, developed, supervised and evaluated.
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