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School Leaders Now
Q. How can I improve our monthly faculty meetings so they are more useful and informative and help build a sense of community? They start out well, but sometimes they degenerate into a kind of gripe session that just isn't helpful. A. Faculty meetings are a great opportunity to plan and to share ideas. They are also important in building a sense of community and developing a common philosophy about kids and education.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Leading for a long time has many benefits: calm composure, wide-ranging perspective and wisdom from handling diverse experiences. Unfortunately, it can often lead to complacency. We become set in our ways, sure that our tenure means we know best. To avoid stagnancy, adjust your leadership perspective with these two simple steps. Leaders are like navigators. We have our team, instruments and plan to get where we are going.
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Lead Change Group (commentary)
Chip Bell, a contributor for Lead Change Group, writes: "'If all decisions were made by the following policy or gaining consensus, my secretary could do my job.' The words came from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company at the company's senior leadership retreat. It got me thinking about what it means to be an effective leader. Not an administrator who seeks policy compliance; not a manager who directs based on the preference of underlings; but someone who makes the tough calls and dicey judgments. Full disclosure. The impetus for penning this post was prompted by the actions of our president following Charlottesville. They clearly demonstrated a penchant for division and darkness."
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Training Industry Magazine
Emotional intelligence affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities and make personal decisions that achieve positive results. An emotional leader can influence the emotional atmosphere of the whole group. Studies have found that EQ is a required competency for effective leaders. It is the number-one predictor of professional success and personal excellence. Leaders' EQ affects organizational profitability and performance; they must be able to relate to and understand customers and competitors in order to gain a competitive advantage.
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Leadership Freak
Feedback conversations begin with the conversation you have with yourself. You've been playing scenarios out in your head since you decided to give corrective feedback.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 The kind of meeting I hate having the most as a high school principal is one with the parent of a student who has just engaged in behavior in the school that warrants, according to our school board policies, a suspension from school for a period of time. In these kinds of meetings parents and guardians ask, rightly so, what good will come of keeping their child out of school where the child will fall further behind his or her peers.
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Reuters
A four-hour mental health training program for managers could yield fewer employee sick days and a roughly 10-to-1 return on investment, a study in Australia suggests. "Across the developed world, mental health has taken over as the leading cause of long-term work absence," said senior study author Samuel Harvey of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine in Sydney.
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Education DIVE
The survey provides further insight into the efforts school leaders across the country are taking to move from talking about the importance of SEL to following through with having programs in place. About three-fourths of the respondents said that their district strongly emphasizes SEL programs for students, but only about 40 said they are required to have a clear plan for implementation. School-level plans were also more likely in districts with strong central office support of SEL.
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Education DIVE
Keeping students focused has always been a challenge, but in today's distraction-ridden world, it's even more difficult. Technology can be a source of distraction, but when harnessed effectively, it can engage students and enable educators to adopt a more personalized approach to education. With the adoption of tech devices and innovative solutions on the rise, many schools are rejecting the traditional lecture class format in favor of more active learning initiatives. With that in mind, we rounded up five of the most popular approaches to boosting student engagement — and how they’re faring in the classroom.
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Istation
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MindShift
School leaders are bringing technology into classrooms more than ever before, often concerned that without access to the tools of the modern work world students will be unprepared when they leave school. But recent studies about the effect of technology on achievement have shown uninspiring results, reinvigorating the conversation about how technology is used in classrooms. Educators who have been active in this space for many years have long known that technology can be used to connect students to the broader world, give them tools to create new and interesting learning artifacts, and open up a world of digital resources.
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THE Journal
As many students are using their personal devices in class as school-issued Chromebooks. According to new data released this fall, more than half — 58 percent — reported using their personal devices in the classroom for school-related activities; a similar percentage (56 percent) are using school-issued Chromebooks. Only 9 percent are using school-issued tablets, and another 9 percent are using school-issued traditional laptops. More than a quarter — 27 percent — rely on their school library for device access.
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eSchool News
Maker culture is going mainstream. The maker industry is projected to grow to more than $8 billion by 2020, and with the maker movement infiltrating classrooms, after-school clubs and homes, it's no wonder. But where is the maker movement strongest? A new report from robotics and open-source hardware provider DFRobot aims to find out by analyzing DIY-labeled products hosted on Kickstarter.
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Education Week
For a while, the Common Core State Standards seemed to teeter on the brink of the abyss. State lawmakers were defecting left and right, convening committees to rewrite the standards. But a review of 24 states' revisions show that they have largely preserved the Common Core's most important features. The report from Achieve, a Washington-based nonprofit that supports states' efforts to improve their academic standards, does not explicitly compare old and new standards.
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Edutopia
Recent research by Google found that the single most important factor contributing to innovation by teams was "psychological safety," a sense of confidence that members of a group will not be embarrassed, rejected, punished, or ridiculed for speaking up. In other words, interpersonal trust and mutual respect aren't simply nice-to-haves, but are vital to healthy collaboration, an essential 21st-century skill.
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Edutopia
Chances are high that computer science literacy will be increasingly relevant for jobs of the future. Some theorists even suggest that the ability to read and write code is a fundamental 21st-century competency. Yet according to an August 2015 Gallup survey, many students get little exposure to these concepts at school; opportunities are even more limited for low-income students.
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Education World
While schools have worked hard to integrate computers into the classroom and many do a great job teaching students how they work, many schools do not even consider teaching the art/science of using a keyboard. Once upon a time (not so very long ago), many high school students took a course called typing. The course was probably taught by a business ed teacher trained in the best method of teaching students to type quickly, accurately, and with correct technique. Few students — with the possible exception of those aspiring to business school — paid any more attention than was absolutely necessary to pass the course. Consequently, the hunt-and-peck method appears to be the technique of choice for many adults today.
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The Associated Press
You won't find gym class on the schedule in upstate New York's Victor school district. What you will see: kayaking, rock climbing, mountain biking, dance, self-defense, archery and in-line skating — all under the heading of physical education. The teachers say it's a more fitting description of lessons meant to last well beyond the class bell. "We want our kids as they walk out of these halls in grade 12 to be active for life," said Ron Whitcomb, the district's director of health, physical education and athletics.
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Edutopia (commentary)
In the post "What Doesn't Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon," I wrote, "The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. It's not surprising that we feel a press for time. Our expectations for students have increased dramatically, but our actual class time with students has not. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time, looking for [and doing away with] what Beth Brinkerhoff and Alysia Roehrig (2014) call 'time wasters.'" In this post, I take the inverse approach: identifying three research-supported practices that are especially worthy of class time.
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NAESP
The NAESP nominating committee has announced candidates for vice president. Kimbrelle Barbosa Lewis, principal of Cordova Elementary School in Cordova, Tennessee; and Thomas Payton, principal of Roanoke Avenue Elementary School in Riverhead, New York, will be running in the 2018 NAESP election. Voting will take place March 20–30. Eligible NAESP members may vote for vice president during this voting window.
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NAESP
Looking for ways to maximize literacy learning at your school? NAESP will be hosting an upcoming Twitter chat focusing on literacy instruction for English language learners. We'll be discussing questions, sharing resources, and talking best practices with fellow principals. This chat takes place Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. EST. Use #NAESPChat to join the conversation.
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