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Education Dive
A widely used principal professional development program focusing on teacher and classroom observations, did not boost student achievement, improve school climate or increase the amount of time principals spend on instructional issues, according to an evaluation from the Institute for Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Fast Company
Everybody wants to be a leader. But sadly, not always for the right reasons. If leadership roles weren’t associated with higher levels of personal career success, including more status, money and power, there would surely be a much lower proportion of people in the world willing to be leaders — particularly among men.
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Inc.
Leadership is both a gift from birth and a learned skill.
For anyone who has led large teams in business, you know there are certain methods and best practices that are important.
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Forbes
If you want to be a great leader, you’ll have no shortage of advice from articles, books, pop culture or experts. From setting a vision and giving people a sense of purpose to empowering innovation and stomping adversaries, there are scores of tips for successful leadership.
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LINC, The Learning Innovation Catalyst’s comprehensive Digital Tool Box can guide your selection of engaging and effective digital tools to use with students. Download it here. LINC supports educators as agents of innovative classroom transformation, equipped to prepare all students for their rapidly changing world.
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Catherine Iste
 As seems common in many conferences lately, the audience was asked to participate in a brief group mindfulness exercise. After we all adjusted our postures and closed our eyes, the facilitator asked us to take a deep breath and, while exhaling, acknowledge that we were done for the day, free to let our minds go and… something. I do not know what the last thing she said was, because I could not get past the phrase: done for the day. It was 4:30, how could anyone possibly be done for the day?
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Forbes
Action is often the difference between success and failure. In a comprehensive study of 17,000 executives, decisiveness — making decisions quickly — mattered significantly more than the quality of those decisions. Too often, leaders delay decisions or, worse, make none at all.
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Education Dive
Coinciding with the release of a new report, "The Broadband Imperative III: Driving Connectivity, Access and Student Success," State Educational Technology Directors Association members went to Capitol Hill this week to urge lawmakers to develop initiatives and policies supporting digital equity for all students.
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WGNO-TV
Georgia Republican David Perdue and Alabama Democrat Doug Jones generally stay on their sides of the aisle in the U.S. Senate. But when it comes to keeping schools safe.
“It means that this is not a partisan issue,” Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said.
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Study International News
Chicago’s teachers went on strike in October, suspending instruction for the city’s public school students for 11 days.
Educators in the nation’s third-largest school district were seeking higher pay and improved benefits, but they also wanted to reduce the number of classrooms with large student numbers.
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Education Week
Georgia students taking certain advanced classes in high school will take fewer state tests under a new state policy.
The state Board of Education voted to stop requiring students who take certain Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses to take state end-of-course exams in the same subject.
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Education Dive
U.S. 8th graders can use computers to gather basic information and make simple edits. They also have some awareness of security risks in the digital world. But they’re less likely to understand the purpose of sponsored content on a website, use generic mapping software or know how to control color and text when creating a presentation.
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By Glory Ressler
 The early learning and child care sectors in Canada are increasingly using technology to document children's learning, communicate with families and engage in continuous professional learning activities. Today's families have expectations of technology-rich communication with their children's educators, and today's students are increasingly adept at using technology to bolster their own efficiency and professionalism. Many will begin their careers in centres and programs that use sophisticated software for communication, documentation and planning, and they will need to be up to the task.
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Education Dive
With the school year in full swing, there’s no scarcity of challenges education leaders will be working to overcome in the 2019-20 school year.
Districts are facing teacher strikes, administrators are wading through various curricula to fit students’ evolving needs, and leaders are addressing the evergreen question of how to close the revolving door of teachers.
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eSchool News
A critical topic for schools and communities–and most importantly, our students–is how teachers nurture all students, create a sense of belonging and keep educational standards high.
Only then can students, especially immigrant students and students of color, meet their potential and succeed in school and beyond.
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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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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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Education Dive
The pay gap that exists between early educators and those who work in K-12 schools is frequently blamed for high turnover in the early-childhood education field. But back and knee pain, below-average cardiorespiratory health and work-related injuries might also have something to do with teachers leaving the profession.
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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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Wisconsin State Journal
Students in Madison’s middle and elementary schools will have one less standardized test this year.
The Madison School District is not having students take the Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP, assessment this winter, reducing the use of the test to twice a year.
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By Michelle R. Matisons
 U.S. labor has been at forefront of the news recently, as the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), along with the allied nonteaching staff from SEIU Local 73, will soon look to ratify a new contract with Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This follows the contract ratification between UAW and GM and a tentative Ford contract. This holiday season could offer a pay increase, workload reduction, and a social justice cornucopia for CTU teachers.
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit schools are getting ahead of the program.
Computer science course offerings are expanding rapidly in the city — faster than the rest of the state.
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NAESP
In its nearly 100-year history, NAESP has established itself as a leader in many areas, but none so much as in defining the competencies of what principals should know and be able to do. For nearly two decades, Leading Learning Communities has been a foundational and essential resource for the nation’s elementary and middle-level principals.
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NAESP
As a former principal, chief academic officer, and superintendent, Ann Clark knows it can be difficult to apply new concepts in a school — especially when there are a multitude of programs and trainings, and as many questions about what works and what doesn’t. Here, the former superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and co-author of the SEAD Action Guide for School Leadership Teams talks about the principal’s role in implementing social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD).
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