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Education Week
Tim Schlosser taught English/language arts for five years before becoming a principal. With that experience and expertise, Schlosser, a principal of Tyee High School in SeaTac, Wash., can show ELA teachers what it's like to break down an academic content standard, and how to plan an effective lesson. "I am able to relate to literacy development challenges, the challenges with finding high-interest, but on-grade-level books for students to read," Schlosser said.
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Education DIVE
On Oct. 31, elementary students in Illinois' North Shore School District 112 will don costumes for Halloween parades at their schools after lunch, celebrating the holiday with classmates and family members who come for a visit. Their peers in nearby Evanston/Skokie School District 65 will do no such thing. Earlier this year — in a move that sparked local controversy and national headlines — the district announced it was banning costumes and other celebrations of Halloween during school hours.
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Harvard College
School lunch programs offer an array of benefits for children. They provide low-cost nutritious food, reduce hunger, and help children perform to the best of their abilities in the classroom. But experts say there is more work to be done to ensure that all children can benefit from the programs.
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Entrepreneur
The term "war for talent" has been thrown around for decades to underscore the challenges of retaining and attracting talented individuals in a dwindling pool of recruits, but an often overlooked concept among most businesses is that there is not a shortage of skills, but that businesses don't recognize where to look when hiring.
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Harvard Business Review
No one wants to be a nine-to-five robot. People want to feel inspired, find meaning and see the impact their work has on others. And when they do, they're more engaged, innovative and productive. That isn't a secret or a revelation. It's common sense.
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By: Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 Do you find yourself hovering over your employees to make sure the task, project or job gets done right? If you have to hover and micromanage, then you either have the wrong employee or don't trust anyone but yourself. If the latter is the case, then do it all yourself. See how that works for you. Micromanaging and trying to control every action of an employee, colleague or a family member is exhausting. Do you really have the energy? Don't you need to use your time better?
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Inc. (commentary)
Geoffrey James, a contributor for Inc., writes: "I've seldom met a successful person who didn't start out with a set of ambitious goals. However, the power of goal-setting isn't just anecdotal. It turns out that there's a wealth of scientific research into how goal-setting changes the way you brain functions. That research also provides guidance on how to make goal-setting vastly more effective."
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By: Lloyd Princeton (commentary)
 Two of the biggest challenges employers face today are retaining employees and keeping them engaged at work. To address these challenges, firms have sought to incentivize employees with additional financial rewards, such as profit-sharing and commissions. They also have increased their benefits offerings to include wellness programs, financial counseling and assistance with student debt. But what most employees really want is a better quality of life.
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Fast Company (commentary)
Melanie A. Katzman, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "When my son was five, I strapped him to my waist and ran down the beach in Bali until a parasail lifted us into the sky. It was exhilarating. Since then, I've pushed myself to ski off mountains (with a parachute), raft class-five rapids, and rappel off a 65-story building. The adrenaline rush relaxes me. It allows me to focus only on the present. I've adopted the same attitude at work, throwing myself into potentially anxious (periodically mildly dangerous) situations."
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 One of the more disappointing failures in U.S. K-12 education has been the attempt to end segregation in U.S. classrooms. As I pointed out in an earlier article on this touchy subject, the end of segregated classrooms, seemingly promised more than 60 years ago in the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, never came close to being fulfilled. In reality, the degree of segregation in 2019 is about the same as it was in the 1960s. Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has a radical plan to change that. Whether it will help or hurt her candidacy remains to be seen, but it is a radical policy change even for Democrats.
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NPR
The Department of Education has proposed several key changes to its massive survey that collects data from the nation's public schools on a wide range of civil rights issues. Among the changes, the 2019-2020 version of the Civil Rights Data Collection would remove questions that focus on preschool and school finance. The proposals would also add in more questions about sexual assault and bullying based on religion.
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EdTech Magazine
Schools are not safe from cybersecurity threats. Consider this: There have been 712 publicly disclosed cybersecurity-related incidents involving U.S. public schools since 2016, according to the K–12 Cyber Incident Map. In 2018 alone, 122 incidents affected 119 public K–12 education agencies, a rate of about one new publicly reported incident every three days of the calendar year, according to The K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, which researches education, technology and public policy issues.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 At an age where kids are completely digitally immersed, some Michigan schools have banned cellphones in the classroom, raising a lot of eyebrows in the process. In these districts, students are barred from carrying or using cellphones in class, in hallways, or even at lunch. It is a generational debate. Parents everywhere consider cellphones a considerable distraction for students. Students cannot live without them, and at these schools in Michigan, they are chafing at the loss of their phones.
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District Administration Magazine
Schools are using a variety of strategies to ensure they have adequate resources to teach computer science as policymakers increase pressure to teach the subject more comprehensively. As more states and policymakers urge schools to expand K-12 computer science instruction, experts are examining the ramifications of some of the ways the subject is being integrated. With 47 states now allowing K-12 computer science to count as a math credit, Ohio State University assistant physics professor Chris Orban, writing in The Conversation, asks whether taking fewer math courses would leave some students less prepared for college coursework.
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EdTech Magazine
One reality of the increasingly connected K–12 classroom is even the youngest students are routinely going online, using email and engaging with mobile apps that collect their information. But how do you teach a child as young as 5 how to safely navigate such technology? "Kids have a hard time understanding there is someone on the other end of a computer," says Laurie Salvail, a curriculum development specialist with the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center, a division of the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana.
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University at Buffalo via Science Daily
Introducing tablets and laptops to the classroom has certain educational virtues, according to one researcher, but her research suggests that tech has its limitations as well. A new study shows a decrease in academic motivation for students who participated in a technology-based intervention.
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EdTech Magazine
There's a temptation in the world of educational technology to think that if only instructors had the right tools, all their teaching troubles would go away. But Kathleen Perdisatt knows better. Technology "should be the secret sauce on a teacher's plate," and not another dish altogether, says Perdisatt, an educational technology teacher on special assignment at Saugus Union School District in Santa Clarita, Calif.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 In a recent Education Week article, Alden S. Blodget asked why we as educators believe that speed reflects intelligence. Blodget reported an alarming upward trend he observed over three decades during his tenure as an assistant head of school: students' parents pushing for extended test time accommodations — for both school tests and standardized tests. He would receive diagnoses from families looking to get extended time added to their child's education plan, and he wasn't always convinced these were accurate. Blodget's observations led him to a startling realization.
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Teaching Channel (commentary)
Ashley Demski, a contributor for Teaching Channel, writes: "I've always had students who could not wait to find out what classroom job they would be picked for that week. It still makes me smile to see the excitement on a child's face when they find out they were selected to be the 'line caboose.' Classroom jobs are used with the intention of giving students a role or responsibility, but they can be used for much more. Incorporating larger jobs that keep students engaged and match with their interests gives teachers an opportunity to build strong partnerships with them throughout the school year."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Megan Kelly, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "As teachers, we want to make sure our book-buying dollar goes as far as possible. Like most of you, I want my classroom library to have engaging books in a variety of genres with diverse characters and broad appeal. I've put great effort into finding books that reflect the students in my classroom. In addition, I want to make sure that the books I share are geographically diverse. A recent activity showed me that I have a long way to go."
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EdSurge (commentary)
Jillian Kaster, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "As a kid, I used to sneak into my sister’s bedroom, pull out each of her 'Baby-Sitters Club' books, look at the covers, and wonder what each one was about. I'd make up stories to what I thought was going to happen, but never once cracked the books open to attempt to read the print. Everyone in my family was an avid reader, so I wanted to be a reader, too. But I didn't think I had access to that knowledge."
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Edutopia
Addressing the differing needs of students can make teaching reading a daunting task. Students are expected to have a deep understanding of what they read and provide answers grounded in text. One way for students to interact with the text is through close reading, which can become a powerful classroom tool for fiction and nonfiction texts across grade levels.
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Education DIVE
Mandy Manning has walked the halls of many schools in the year since she was named 2018 National Teacher of the Year — and she often sees the same thing: students spread out, not talking with each other but looking at their devices. Now back in the classroom as an English language development teacher and department lead in the Newcomer Center at Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, Washington, she is very interested in the role that social-emotional learning plays in the ways students engage, whether they're physically in front of each other or connecting online. It's an area Manning calls digital civility.
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MindShift
A lot of people are concerned that American kids aren't learning to read. And rightly so. The National Assessment of Educational Progress shows only about a third of fourth-graders are proficient in reading. Much of the recent debate has been a return to an old battle between advocates of phonics instruction versus those who favor a whole-language approach to teaching the building blocks of reading. But that debate focuses on early learning and the mechanics of reading. Education journalist Natalie Wexler has a whole different argument to make that focuses on why kids often don't comprehend what they read.
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The Hechinger Report
Teachers with bachelor's degrees. Diversity. Hands-on learning. Bilingual classrooms. These are some of the qualities parents dream about when looking for preschool programs. They're also a few of the ingredients that can be found in the nation's best Head Start centers, according to a recently released report. For years, researchers and academics have debated the success of federally-funded Head Start programs, with the only real consensus being that quality varies dramatically across centers.
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EdSurge
A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool Academy, in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi. "Oooooh! That's a scary dinosaur," gasps the teacher Tracy McChester. Sitting on the mat, surrounded by a half-dozen toddlers and a baby, she asks the little boy what sound a dinosaur makes: "Roar!" he yells in delight. "Now what color is the dinosaur?" she asks. The boy answers again: "Roar!"
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University College London via Science Daily
Students who take part in physical exercises like star jumps or running on the spot during school lessons do better in tests than peers who stick to sedentary learning, according to a UCL-led study. The meta-analysis of 42 studies around the world, published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, aimed to assess the benefits of incorporating physical activity in academic lessons. This approach has been adopted by schools seeking to increase activity levels among students without reducing academic teaching time.
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District Administration Magazine
New York may begin screening preschoolers for dyslexia as parents in that state and around the country put more pressure on schools to enhance interventions provided to students with the reading disability, the Times Union in Albany reported. Until last year, New York school officials did not use the word "dyslexia" in individualized education plans for students with learning disabilities. But a law passed last year allows the mention of specific learning disorders — such as dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia — in IEPs, the newspaper reported.
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Michigan Radio
A bipartisan group of lawmakers say school busses need to be more secure. A package of bills would make it a crime to enter a school bus without the permission of the driver. In some cases, it would be a felony. The busses would also be allowed to have a sticker saying that people trying to get on without permission could be arrested.
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Chalkbeat
Offering all students free lunch helps boost academic performance, a new report, which looked at meal programs in New York City middle schools, shows. The study, out of Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research, assessed the impact of universal free lunch on students who previously didn't have access to such a meals program.
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NAESP
NAESP is seeking outstanding candidates for several open positions on the NAESP Board of Directors, specifically Directors in Zones 1, 2 and 8. For more detailed information on these open positions and to request a Prospective Candidate Data form, contact NAESP Governance Services Director Jennifer Shannon.
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NAESP
The challenges facing our nation's principals continue to increase. The invisible backpack brought into the academic setting by students and adults continues to enlarge. Social and emotional learning are at the forefront of school leadership needs. But a recent study showed that principals need greater knowledge and support to effectively implement school wide, evidence-based SEL programs.
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