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Education Week
What do rock-climbing, rappelling over a 30-foot wall and trying to find your way through nearly 10 miles of woodland, some of it at night, have to do with running a school? If you ask some Missouri school leaders who spent 72 hours doing just that — they'll say, a lot. "Problem-solving as a team and having to make a final decision among a large group of people; gaining consensus within a group, and then everybody supporting that decision along the way, relate well to what you do in a school every day," said Brice Beck, an assistant principal at Cape Central High School in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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THE Journal
Professional development for improving teacher effectiveness has residual benefits that last for decades. A project that took place from 2013 to 2017 to provide "high-intensity mentor support" for new teachers in a large urban district appeared to have three major outcomes.
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Education DIVE
Many students — and parents — have gotten used to the flurry of activity that takes place around spring standardized testing. Pizza parties, rallies, gift cards and door-to-door campaigns to students' homes are a few of the strategies and incentives schools use to make sure students are in their seats on test days, ready to give it their best.
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Tech&Learning
Mobile County Public School System's Instructional Technology department works to help administrators understand the technology integration process — from participation and modeling to evaluating the effectiveness of the integration process. As technology integration into the classroom has increased, monitoring the effectiveness of the integration process has become the major focus. Teachers are responsible for the effective integration of technology in the classroom and knowing if what they've chosen to integrate is having an impact on learning.
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Harvard Business Review
In late 2007, one of us, Charn, found himself in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, preparing to fly a Kiowa Warrior helicopter over the Iraqi border. Kuwait is a stopover where U.S. soldiers finish all required training just prior to deploying into combat. The only treacherous part of Kuwait is the sand — it is deep and very fine so walking is slow and cumbersome. One morning, as he waded through the sand on the way to the airfield, he saw a sign proclaiming, "We Need Leadership, Not Likership."
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Leadership Freak (commentary)
"To get the ball rolling at the beginning of presentations, I share my cellphone number and ask people to text me fun questions. Serious questions come later. Question #1: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? This question comes from the movie, 'Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.' I wasn't sure at the time, but after some research I discovered that it's 24 miles per hour."
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Fast Company (commentary)
Jessica Greene-Zapier, a contributor for Fast Company, writes: "I'm not here to make a semantic argument, really. But there's a difference between being productive and being efficient, and efficiency wins every time. Productivity measures how much you do or produce within a given timeframe. Efficiency, on the other hand, is about being productive with less effort. So if you answered 50 more customer support tickets this week because you worked through them as fast as possible, you were more productive."
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Entrepreneur
Most full-time workers spend about 40 hours each week on the job, accounting for roughly 35 percent of their waking moments. That's a huge emotional, physical and mental commitment. Accordingly, greater numbers of employees are seeking jobs at places where they can feel at home and forge real relationships. As a leader, you should keep this at the forefront of your mind.
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Inc.
Do you ever secretly feel like your team is withholding information? That you're only getting half of the story? Or that employees are just telling you what you want to hear? You're not alone. According to a SimplyHired survey, more employees fib to their supervisors than to their co-workers or subordinates. Combine this stat with those employees who don't say anything at all, and you're looking at a wide-spread lack of reliable information. So why do employees feel like they have to lie?
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USA Today
Nearly 1 million low-income students would lose automatic access to free school lunches under a proposal from President Donald Trump's administration that aims to limit the number of people receiving federal food stamps. And advocates say even more could lose free meals as the implications of the cuts ripple across low-income schools. But the Trump administration says those concerns are overblown. The administration is working to trim the cost of food assistance programs and close what it views as "loopholes" regarding who qualifies for them.
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EdTech Magazine (commentary)
David Andrade, a contributor for EdTech Magazine, writes: "In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. The firewall did what it was supposed to do — it didn't let the attack in — but then it failed. This happened the day before a new firewall was scheduled to be installed. Other K–12 IT professionals likely know this fear. School districts collect gobs of data, much of which is required by law. Every state has laws about data retention. For schools and districts, losing data without the means to recover it is a major issue. And schools are easy targets for cyberattacks because of persistent struggles with resources, particularly IT staffing and funds."
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THE Journal
Teachers value technology tools to boost student engagement in the classroom, but they do not see evidence in technology enhancing the quality of student work, deepening student collaborations or students' skill development, according to a report from Project Tomorrow.
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eSchool News
Robotics is attracting more student interest, and there's a reason–when students can make real-world connections between what they learn in the classroom and exciting careers, their engagement and achievement often improve. Educators across the country are working to establish robotics clubs after school, they're creating robotics units in STEM classes, and they're doing their best to ensure all students have the opportunity to learn just how essential robotics is to our daily lives.
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EdTech Magazine
Aging, malfunctioning technology can be costly for schools — not only financially but also in terms of time. But forward-looking administrators are embracing advanced technologies, as well as key business best practices, to make the most of their limited time and dollars. Take the School District of Janesville in Wisconsin, whose aging servers and storage area network were subject to time-consuming system failures that sometimes forced hour-long waits for reboots.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Jessica Cabeen, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "In working with children and families, we'll all encounter what I call 'ouch moments' — a phone message with a parent's complaint about an interaction gone wrong, for example, or a social post taken out of context. The ouch can take the form of an email in 60-point font, bold, capitalized, and underlined; or a post on social media painting you or your school in a less-than-positive light."
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MiddleWeb
"ELLs are probably the most tested students in our educational system," Wayne Wright. Let that sink in. Yet one of the biggest challenges teachers of English learners face is effectively grading and assessing our students. A primary goal of assessing is to find out what our students know and understand, but it can be difficult to find out what students know and understand if language is a barrier.
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EdSurge
All the first graders in Jean Duran's class at River Grove School outside Chicago knew the drill: when they were gathered on the multi-colored carpet at the front of the room, they had to pay strict attention to their teacher. Yet that could be a problem in the long, narrow classroom, where the carpet and white board were at one end and the projector and computer were wired into a corner 35 feet away.
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Education World
Writing about math can be a very positive and fruitful learning experience. Here's a look at some of the benefits; a variety of writing categories and topics; and suggestions for creating a positive environment for writing about math.
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Gallup
Creativity in the classroom goes hand in hand with exceptional student learning, according to a new Gallup study examining U.S. education. Specifically, K-12 teachers who frequently make assignments that require students to think creatively are much more likely than other teachers to observe higher-order cognitive skills in their students.
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Forbes
Scores on standardized tests given across the country have declined, and the gap between high- and low-achievers has widened. There's plenty of hand-wringing, but commentators continue to overlook an obvious explanation: we're not giving vulnerable students access to the kind of knowledge that could help them succeed.
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eSchool News
Poor performance in previous math classes and low confidence are some of students' biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to math success, according to a new survey about math education. The survey of more than 400 high school math teachers comes from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Teachers in the survey are all coaches for student teams participating in the MathWords Math Modeling Challenge, a national online contest SIAM organizes.
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EdSurge
Social studies is an ever-evolving discipline. As humanity's story changes, we must continually strive to tell it with accuracy. New frameworks and standards, along with new instructional methods and lesson plans, seek to represent these shifting currents and break from the status quo. Think you're up to date on the current state of social studies curriculum? Take our quiz, and put your knowledge to the test.
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Edutopia
For many teachers, the image of students sitting in silence filling out bubbles, computing mathematical equations or writing timed essays causes an intensely negative reaction. Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 and its 2015 update, the Every Student Succeeds Act, every third through eighth grader in U.S. public schools now takes tests calibrated to state standards, with the aggregate results made public. In a study of the nation's largest urban school districts, students took an average of 112 standardized tests between pre-K and grade 12.
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American Academy of Pediatrics via Science Daily
Only 48% of school age children in the United States get 9 hours of sleep most weeknights, according to new research. Those who do, the study suggests, are significantly more likely to show a positive outlook toward school and other signs of 'childhood flourishing,' a measure of behavioral and social well-being.
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Michigan State University via Science Daily
Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication purposes.
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Reuters
Chicago teachers will end their 11-day strike against the third-largest U.S. school system after their union and district officials reached a tentative settlement on Thursday of a labor battle that canceled classes for 300,000 students. The five-year contract includes funding for more than 400 additional social workers and nurses, spending that the union argued was necessary to allow teachers to focus on curriculum, according to the union.
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The Atlantic
Public schools in Rhode Island are a mess. The situation in the state is considered so extreme by activists, elected officials, students, and parents that last year they filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that Rhode Island had deprived the students of the literacy skills necessary to participate in a democracy. Things in Providence are particularly dire. When Johns Hopkins released a report about the state capital's public schools this summer, each line was more damning than the last.
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NAESP
Steve Smith is principal of Eden Hall Upper Elementary School in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. Smith and his doppelganger, Mr. Rogers, share more than similar looks. Both have invested in their lives to teaching children and helping them find ways to reach their potential. "What I really like is that the Mr. Rogers show is a lot about listening," says Smith. "I always say we have to listen more than we talk. We have two ears and one mouth — and that's for a reason. [As a principal] we have to listen to kids, listen to staff, and listen to parents. ... A lot of times parents don't want a solution or an answer; they just want to be heard."
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NAESP
Larry Jacobs, host of Education Talk Radio, sat down with NAESP Executive Director L. Earl Franks for National Principals Month to discuss principal leadership and innovation. Listen to their conversation on Education Talk Radio now.
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