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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
School leaders take note: Teacher care is a lot more than self-care
EdSurge
If you get burned in a fire, you first treat the wound, but you also try to put the fire out. In education, we treat the wound and then usher our teachers back into the fire. Excuse the pun but they are more than burned out, they are scorched.
Chelsea Prax, a program director at the American Federation of Teachers, sums it up succinctly.
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For education leaders, school-family relationships key to pandemic recovery
K-12 Dive
The panel was hosted by the Center on Reinventing Public Education, RAND Corporation and other organizations to discuss school systems’ pandemic experiences, including competing challenges they face and their problem-solving approaches.
Financial stability and student supports were among top priorities panelists discussed.
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Building a positive school climate through restorative practices
Learning Policy Institute
Widespread efforts to curb exclusionary and discriminatory discipline in schools have led to a growing focus on restorative approaches, a set of practices aimed at building strong in-school relationships and attachments, rather than pushing students out of school. This brief reviews research illustrating the benefits of these practices for improving student behavior, decreasing the use of exclusionary discipline, and improving school climate.
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Educational institutions are a top ransomware target. What can you do?
District Administration
The crisis facing the education sector becomes even direr when we consider one survey that found recovery costs are "48% above average." Considering all aspects of a ransomware attack (including downtime, device and network costs, ransoms paid), the total cost averaged US$2.73 million.
The aftermath of poor cyber hygiene can put educational institutions at risk.
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Polikoff: It's easy to blame common core for lagging NAEP scores. But the evidence doesn't really add up
The 74
NAEP long-term trend scores dipped pretty substantially, and the alarm bells are going off. To be sure, the alarm bells should have been going off for quite a while — after big bumps in the early aughts (at least in mathematics), NAEP scores have been pretty much stagnant since around 2009 or so. And there have been troubling signs over at least the last decade that a) various longstanding achievement gaps have not been closing, and b) gaps between high- and low-performing students have been widening.
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Why controversial issues must still be taught in U.S. classrooms
EdSource (Commentary)
Research shows that some successful teachers use an approach to teaching controversial issues characterized as “contained risk-taking.” This approach encourages inquiry and discussion of open questions related to public policy and contested history from diverse perspectives — Should college be tuition-free for all? What is a fair refugee policy? — while the teacher proceeds with caution by building a supportive environment, selecting and framing issues appropriately, and choosing resources and pedagogies wisely.
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Schools want more rapid COVID tests but supply chain stands in the way
District Administration
Supply chain snags and production issues are hampering schools’ ambitious plans to screen students and staff more widely for COVID as rapid test kits remain scarce in some places. Adding to the urgency is that many districts are now following a test-to-stay approach. This allows unvaccinated students who are close contacts of a positive COVID-19 case to stay in class if they receive a negative test result at the beginning of the school day.
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Some pods will outlast the pandemic
New America
While the Delta variant has kept plans changing, people seem more interested in a return to in-person schooling. The conversation around pods hasn’t vanished, but it has quieted. Many families, including my own, pulled out of their pods last year because they found them unsustainable for any number of reasons.
And yet many pods that have an institutional structure behind them, rather than being fully parent-run, have survived. They are finding their niches and growing.
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Reports outline recommendations for creating high-quality career and technical education
Chiefs for Change
Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan network of state and district education leaders, released two reports outlining how systems can create rigorous career and technical education (CTE) programming to give students the knowledge and skills they need for high-wage, in-demand jobs, along with strong pathways to obtain those positions. The first report explains how state and local governments can implement a well-coordinated approach to CTE governance, one that involves all relevant entities and is aligned to educational attainment and economic development goals. The second report describes the specific role that intermediary organizations can play in supporting and sustaining effective CTE partnerships.
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Progress monitoring ensures Tier 1 instruction is on track and that Tiers 2 and 3 interventions are closing gaps quickly. Read this eBook to explore the types of progress monitoring assessments, effective procedures, and tips for our interpreting and using data to guide instructional decisions.
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Mental health checkup: 3 ways students are feeling about post-COVID friendships
District Administration
Students felt classmates have been friendlier during COVID but fewer are saying they can be themselves around their peers over the last 18 months, a new survey shows.
The national advocacy organization, YouthTruth, surveyed students about their relationships and sense of belonging in spring 2021, fall 2020 and pre-COVID.
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8 lessons for student success — and strengthening the state's talent pipeline — to sustain another century
The 74
The urban and suburban boom of Texas is full of both promise and risk. According to the 2020 census, Texas grew the fastest — and grew more diversely — than any state in the union since 2010. And according to Texas 2036, the state's population is likely to grow to 10 million by 2036, Texas' bicentennial. Over 71% of jobs will require some college, but only 32% of Texas high school students earn a degree or credential within six years of graduating high school.
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A guide to mastering the IEP process during a chaotic year
District Administration
During the pandemic, educators scrambled to figure out how to update IEPs during remote instruction. Now they are faced with the challenges of transitioning back to in-person or hybrid teaching on top of doing IEPs. Teachers are working hard to build relationships and create a positive classroom culture, while managing an uptick in referrals after remote schooling. It can feel overwhelming to write and implement long-term plans when faced with so much change during the past school year.
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High school students and counselors are burned out
Insider Higher Education
One of the things Ursinus College does to stay in touch during the pandemic with high school counselors who advise students on where to go to college is send out a survey. Most of the questions, and answers, weren’t that surprising (we’ll come back to them).
But Shannon Zottola, vice president and dean of enrollment management and marketing, said the most important message may have been in the open-ended question about the impact of COVID-19 on the year.
The results: counselors and their students are burned out, frustrated by the pandemic, and the reality that their high school (and likely college) experience has changed.
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What pandemic-related test waiver requests suggest about states' testing priorities
Phi Delta Kappan
Recent reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic offer some insight into state and federal officials' current thinking about the usefulness of such tests and their overall costs and benefits. In the 2019-20 school year, as school buildings closed, all ESSA-required tests were canceled, prompting questions as to whether they ought to be required in 2020-21. Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) allowed for some testing flexibility in the form of ESSA waivers. In turn, states’ waiver requests provide some clues as to how policy makers think those tests should be used in the future.
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As school communities have struggled to address the mental health needs of their students, the focus has been on treatment. Understandable.
However, we can start proactively helping our students in elementary school. Brain-based mental health literacy & resilience training provide strong Tier 1 support.
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Setting up strong family engagement in the early grades
Edutopia
When teachers create connections between their classrooms and their students' families, they are opening and investing in lines of communication that can sustain student success. Connections are now especially important given the ongoing pandemic. These days, parents and families are isolated from schools, as social distancing and extra precautionary measures preclude parent-teacher conferences, open houses, and other opportunities for teachers and students' families to meet.
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Gifted education's future requires more diversity, inclusion and access
K-12 Dive
Instead of using arbitrary, one-point-in-time test scores, educators across the country are incorporating multiple data points at various stages during a child’s schooling to determine talent potential and including giftedness in the performing arts, leadership, and career and technical education.
School systems also are using local norms, even at the building level, to determine who their gifted and talented students are, rather than using national or state comparisons.
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5 ways to foster family engagement in your district
eSchool News
One-way communication falls flat, and families must be engaged with schools in order for schools to create and maintain equitable learning environments for students, says Mahnaz R. Charania, PhD, a senior research fellow at the Christensen Institute and author of a new report about reimagining family engagement. This engagement requires trust and reciprocity–merely sending information home in student backpacks and out in electronic communications is ineffective
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6 new COVID testing plans are rolling out as districts ease mask mandates
District Aministration
More personnel to help schools conduct COVID testing and guidance on incentivizing parents to opt-in highlight the latest pandemic prevention strategies the White House rolled out this week.
More than 96% of school districts are open full-time and in-person for all students this fall, the White House noted, even as districts across the country are now dropping mask mandates in droves as transmission rates drop. Here are the components of the new plan.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Texas governor adopts lawmaker's probe of books in schools
Associated Press
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined a conservative Republican lawmaker’s campaign to investigate books that cover race, gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools.
State Rep. Matt Krause, who chairs the House General Investigating Committee, has sent state and local school officials a list of more than 800 books dealing with those subjects and related issues, asking them to search for the books on their campuses. Krause wants the schools to advise which of the books and how many they possess, where they are kept and how they were paid for.
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Report: Testing requirements for lead in school drinking water remain hit-or-miss nationwide
K-12 Dive
State leaders have long lacked federal requirements for creating rules around drinking water lead testing, but that could soon change. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to implement revisions to its Lead and Copper Rule, which would require community water systems to test for lead in drinking water at 20% of K-12 schools and licensed child care centers in their service areas each year.
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Schools are dropping mask mandates, but some say not so fast
abc News
Masking in schools — a policy that researchers say is a simple and cost-effective, non-medical COVID-19 intervention — has been a highly politicized issue throughout the pandemic, igniting fury from parents and educators on all sides of the issue and reflecting the contentiousness of face coverings in society at large.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
Study: Computer science now taught at over half of U.S. high schools
Government Technology
Access to computer science courses in high schools has jumped significantly over the past three years — from 35% to 51%, concludes a new study by the nonprofit Code.org.
But access to those courses still remains uneven in many places. Rural and urban schools, and schools that serve a high percentage of kids from low-income families, are less likely to offer foundational computer science.
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5 ways to make edtech more inclusive
Tech and Learning
Making edtech accessible to all students has always been important but as it is now an essential part of the classroom, it has never been more vital.
Gillian Hayes, vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate Division at University of California, Irvine, has studied edtech accessibility extensively. Making technology more accessible in the classroom is one of her goals at The Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES), which she coleads with UCI colleague Candice Odgers.
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For this webinar, we’re bringing together educational professionals and digital signage experts to share best practices in setting up and managing digital signage in schools. Hear from a middle school A/V Director, a district Network Video System Analyst, and an elementary school Media Specialist on how they improve their school's communication with digital signage. Join Webinar
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Ecosystem of accessible digital content and tools
Accessible Digital Learning Portal
Digital accessibility for learning requires a holistic approach addressing all the elements of the digital learning ecosystem, because if one or more of these elements are overlooked the risk is that some learners will not be able to access and benefit from the resources provided, and teachers may not have the appropriate support to successfully implement these solutions in both classroom and remote learning environments. This article analyzes the most relevant components of the digital learning ecosystem and provides recommendations on what actions should be taken in order to reach every learner.
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Court reinstates distant learning for disabled student group
Government Technology
State officials must act immediately to provide distance learning that is comparable to last year for students with disabilities and also adequate to their overall needs, a judge has ordered.
The court finding, in the form of a temporary restraining order issued Thursday, will provide immediate relief for 15 students — with several dozen others that could follow — but there are broad implications for students across California.
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Just-in-time professional development for edtech tools
Edutopia
Professional development has its challenges. From the inability to get substitutes for teacher coverage to the often-large financial burden of these workshops, it can be difficult for school districts to provide training for their staff. Even if a school can bring in PD opportunities, these onetime sessions rarely offer an in-depth dive into a concept. This problem is especially prevalent in educational technology training, where sessions are devoted to navigating a specific tool and not classroom implementation strategies.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Using art to teach critical literacy skills in the high school English language classroom
Edutopia
Any high school English teacher will tell you that it's not easy teaching students how to become effective readers and writers. So it's understandable that we're always hunting for new and engaging texts and ways to teach them.
Instead of jumping right into a new book, I began the school year by introducing my students to my favorite works of art. Not as I've done in the past, as prompts for narrative writing assignments, but as texts that we would explore using the tools of literary analysis.
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4 ways prioritizing digital literacy improves in-person learning
K-12 Dive
Across the country, educators are experiencing “lightbulb moments” of realizing the technology they used during the pandemic is making them better teachers in brick-and-mortar classrooms. They’ve deployed randomized questions to prevent cheating on tests. They’ve received instantaneous feedback during lessons to gauge whether students are “getting it.” They now understand that no matter what their classroom looks like, those tools can make them much more effective and efficient in their instruction.
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Helping students reacclimate to being with others all day
Edutopia
We can observe this detachment in student behaviors, which are signals of a nervous system dysregulated by often toxic levels of stress. Our schools are being challenged to return to some type of normalcy even as we move through the third academic year of a global pandemic. The social loss our students are carrying is palpable.
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How cooperative learning can benefit students this year
Edutopia
As students have returned to the classroom this year, it’s important to reignite the power of cooperative learning. Valiant teachers worked to incorporate this invaluable tool in remote learning, but let’s remember its importance as the school year progresses. Cooperative learning skills are crucial for students especially as globalization and technological and communication advances continue to increase the quantity of accessible information and the need for collaboration.
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Reducing foreign language anxiety for test taking
Piqosity
If you are receiving classroom instruction in a language that is not your native tongue, you may sometimes experience foreign language anxiety. Like other forms of anxiety in general, foreign language anxiety stems from feelings of uneasiness and self-doubt, and, unsurprisingly, it&'s easy to fall into a state of anxiousness when you're surrounded by a language you may not be fluent in. So how can you avoid that and reduce foreign language anxiety?
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How to apply the 4 pillars of opportunity in literacy instruction
eSchool News
Consider this: 95% of students have the capacity to learn to read, according to the National Institutes of Health, yet only about 34% of fourth and eighth grade students read proficiently, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Is this disparity an achievement gap or an opportunity gap?
How we answer this question frames our thinking about solutions. If we look at the disparity as an opportunity gap, we are saying that all students have the same ability to achieve, but not all students have had the same opportunity to achieve.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Bilingual language control flexibly adapts to cultural context
Frontiers in Psychology
How does bilingual language control adapt to the cultural context? We address this question by looking at the pattern of switch cost and reversed language dominance effect, which are suggested to separately reflect reactive and proactive language control mechanisms, in the contexts with culturally-neutral pictures (i. e., baseline context) or culturally-biased pictures (i.e., congruent context where culture matched the language to be spoken or incongruent context where culture mismatched the language to be spoken).
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Would a longer school day help children catch up after the pandemic? Here's what the evidence says
The Conversation
International evidence seems to suggest that, in some instances, a longer school day may be beneficial. A report by the United Nations-led Accelerated Education Working Group has proposed multiple ways to deal with pandemic-induced learning losses. These range from extending teaching time to implementing formal catch-up programmes with remedial education for struggling pupils. Extending teaching time was proposed as an appropriate strategy when pupils have missed out on up to one year of education.
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.IN THE STATES
Hawaii schools have substitute teacher shortage amid COVID
Associated Press
Of a daily average of 1,200 requests for substitute teachers statewide, nearly 150 go unfilled, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported, citing state Department of Education data. The shortfall is occurring even though the department has a pool of 3,200 active substitutes.
Sierra Knight is one of those substitutes. The 67-year-old retired teacher from California now lives in Kula, Maui. She has not accepted a substitute job this year and, she said, neither have a lot of her seasoned substitute-teaching friends.
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Fighting for the education of Black students in California
EdSource
When Sacramento State professor Otis Scott slammed his fist on the table at a Sacramento Area Black Caucus meeting in 2007, infuriated about the test scores of local Black students, no one knew he was setting in motion the creation of an organization that would eventually fight for the equity and fair treatment of California’s Black and Latino children.
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'Indian Education For All' curriculum is now required in all Wyoming schools
Wyoming Public Media
Starting this fall, schools across the state should have been including social studies curriculum about Native American history, government, culture and contemporary contributions. That's because back in 2018, the state legislature passed the "Indian Education For All Act" that gave schools three years to adopt the new curriculum.
Wyoming Department of Education's (WDE) chief policy advisor Kari Eakins said Wyoming's two tribes worked tirelessly to get this curriculum into schools. She said it wasn’t easy. At first, some argued for a short-term education project.
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Vermont has program to build social emotional learning
Associated Press
The Vermont Agency of Education has a new, free program to help students build social and emotional learning skills that is part of an effort to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students. The Vermont Agency of Education has a new, free program to help students build social and emotional learning skills that is part of an effort to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Three bills with big implications for schools
NAESP
Though Congress has already provided $197 billion in pandemic relief funding for K-12 schools, including the most recent American Rescue Plan approved in March 2021, federal funding for K-12 programs continues to draw significant attention from lawmakers. A triad of a bipartisan infrastructure bill, reconciliation legislation, and the FY22 appropriations bill all have significant implications for K-12 schools. Each impacts schools in unique ways and all are at different stages in the legislative process. Below, NAESP’s advocacy team provides legislative analysis of these bills and their prospects for becoming law.
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What's my role? — Part 2
NAESP
Much as districts and states don’t often delineate a recommended distribution of tasks between principal and assistant principal, they rarely state whether the AP’s role should be seen as a sort of understudy or apprenticeship for the principal position, or as a career position in itself. “The position is such a linchpin in leadership development,” says Ellen Goldring, lead author on “The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership,” a report released in April from Vanderbilt University and Mathematica and commissioned by The Wallace Foundation. “But we really don’t know that much about it.”
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