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Education World
A long-awaited break is just around the corner. As the break approaches, here are some activities you might implement with staff to let them know you are thankful for the opportunity to work with them.
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Forbes
Here we go again. The results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and mathematics were released at the end of October. NAEP is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics and is often called the "Nation's Report Card." Reading and math tests are given every two years to a sample of students across the country. As usual, the test results brought forth dire warnings from politicians and pundits.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Liz Garden, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I sat in the conference room with twelve 5th grade girls, breathing in drama, competing voices and the smell of cheese pizza; breathing out patience, listening and lots of love. This 'lunch meeting with the principal' had been suggested to try to address the latest drama and attempt to stop the tears, gossip, and verbal fighting that had been happening in the lunchroom and during recess."
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Edutopia
School districts often focus on developing teaching staff, but they may struggle to establish a climate of lifelong learning for their building administrators and content-area supervisors. Emails, phone calls, teacher observations and handling emergent issues may push professional growth goals down the priority list. To address this issue, our school district designated time within the school day for book clubs, biweekly leadership meetings and instructional rounds. These scheduled events ensure that the administrative team receives relevant, ongoing professional development.
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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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Leadership Freak
The problem is in here, not out there. The core difference between remarkable leaders and lousy leaders is responsibility. The real problem isn't unmotivated team members. The real problem is what are you doing to engage and energize team members.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Experts can become successful leaders; so can non-experts. The path to leadership for the former includes understanding the limits of their expertise. Conversely, the path for the latter includes recognizing the value of their non-expert contributions. Both paths, thus, require an understanding of the benefits of specific and general knowledge and how they should be combined and used as the diverse tools they are. In other words, the path to leadership includes not being the smartest in the room.
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Harvard Business Review
Hiring people is a lot like picking stocks. It's all about the narrative. We begin by asking "what kind of stock is this?" Is it best-in-class, with strong positioning in the market and consistently solid results; a turnaround story, where there have been struggles but better days are on the horizon; a cash cow, where revenue is flat but the business will pay out dividends for the foreseeable future; or a growth story, with potential for accelerating revenue and expanding margins?
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Forbes
A vital skill of any good journalist is the ability to interview. In a podcast with Chris Cilizza of CNN, Chris Cuomo revealed that when he interviews people on his show, he employs three attributes: head, heart and gumption. He uses cognition to keep his facts straight and his emotions to connect with the person to whom he is speaking. Gumption, he implied, came from keeping the cognition and emotion in balance. That is, if you are asking pointed questions to people in power, you better have more than guts on your side: know your facts.
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Fast Company
The train was late. My phone died. It's easy to spot someone else making an excuse, but when we're the one explaining what happened, it often feels more justifiable. But reasons are excuses, says Eric Kapitulik, author of "The Program: Lessons from Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams."
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 One of the hot-button areas for all the Democratic presidential candidates is education. How do they propose to make it more affordable and equitable? How do they propose doing that without lowering standards? Most importantly, how do they propose paying for these costly improvements? Here are the plans of the leading candidates for the nomination — Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — on two of the most important education areas.
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District Administration Magazine
Some 98,000 immigrant students — who were brought to the U.S. as young children without legal permission — graduate from high school each year, according to research released earlier this year by the Migration Policy Institute. That's far above the previously estimated 65,000, the report said, adding that 27% of the students are in California and 17% in Texas. They are commonly referred to as "Dreamers," based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act.
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District Administration Magazine
School administrators are facing mounting pressure to reduce dropout rates and improve student outcomes. The solution lies in keeping students engaged and excited about learning. That's why educators are using imaginative, nontraditional teaching methods to promote deeper learning.
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EdTech Magazine
The next generation of Wi-Fi is on the horizon, with big implications for K–12 education. It's designed for high-density environments — such as auditoriums, gyms or large classrooms — but can put a strain on current networks. Here's what you need to know. Wi-Fi 6, the next-generation wireless standard, isn't just a step up in speed from Wi-Fi 5. The goal is to boost performance in densely populated areas, but that only works when both clients and access points play by Wi-Fi 6 rules.
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EdScoop
Engaging girls in STEM education has been a strong focus for the Girl Scouts of the USA, but including students in the development of curriculum and projects has opened up a new way to help solidify their interest in technical subjects. The first-ever Girl Scouts Cyber Challenge, developed in partnership with the defense contractor Raytheon, was designed to give girls a sense of what a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics could look like.
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Tech & Learning (commentary)
Michael Gorman, a contributor for Tech & Learning, writes: "I believe that collaboration is a major key to learning. I feel that learning in the group is so much more powerful and productive then learning in isolation. To hear students talk with each other as they cite important learning standards is exciting to see. What are some reasons to see our students collaborate?"
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EdScoop
A New Mexico school district that had its systems infected by ransomware last month is now having to scrub the hard drives of about 30,000 devices, district officials announced. At a news conference held by the Las Cruces Public School District, Interim Superintendent Karen Trujillo said the cyberattack has kept the district's 39 schools offline since the malware was detected on Oct. 29.
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eSchool News (commetnary)
Tracey Smith, a contriubutor for eSchool News, writes: "With Thanksgiving right around the corner, now's the time for principals like me to take a moment to be grateful. It's also a time to inspire an attitude of gratitude among teachers and students. At my school, Brookwood Elementary, our mindset of the year is 'Live to Give,' so our social-emotional learning lessons this fall have been focused on serving each other and the community. One of the many benefits of sharing our skills with others is that it makes us grateful for what we have and, more importantly, who we are. Here's how we're putting four tenets of the 7 Mindsets' 'Attitude of Gratitude' into action."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Teachers check-in with students frequently. These conversations are necessary and serve their purpose, but if those quick drive-by interactions are the only way we are talking to students about their learning, we're missing the beautiful opportunity to connect and engage in meaningful discussion.
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MindShift
For the fourth time in history, Congress is considering impeaching the president of the United States. For teachers around the country, it's an opportunity to explore concepts and skills that are often relegated to textbooks. We asked social studies teachers from around the country how — if at all — they're using this teachable moment, navigating the nationally polarizing topic and trying to sidestep the often asked question, "What do you think?" Many educators told us they're embracing the opportunity to bring concepts such as checks and balances to life. Some say they don't have much time to address current events in class because of the amount of material they have to cover in a year.
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eSchool News
Children begin learning the moment they're born. That means it's never too early to begin setting children up for future academic success. When we talk to them and read to them, we expose them to a more literature-rich environment that helps them grow. Unfortunately, not all children receive that exposure, widening the achievement gap. Evidence of that gap begins to show up as early as kindergarten — and it affects students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds far more than their more privileged peers.
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NPR
There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys. A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported Friday in the journal Science of Learning. "They are indistinguishable," says Jessica Cantlon, an author of the study and professor of developmental neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University.
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School Leaders Now
For months now, one of your teachers has been coming to you about a struggling student. The student is easily distracted, disorganized, often hyperactive and restless. Your training tells you to recommend an evaluation for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Your gut tells you this may be something more.
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Education Week
EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, released its first reviews of foundational reading and writing skills programs — and none of the materials met the evaluator's highest standard. The organization, which evaluates curricula against the Common Core State Standards, looked at five programs. Three of them partially met EdReports' criteria: Puzzle Piece Phonics by Catawba Press, Fundations by Wilson Language Training, and the Fountas & Pinnell Phonics, Study, and Word Study System by Heinemann.
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University of California - Davis via Science Daily
Roughly 85 percent of recently installed HVAC systems in K-12 classrooms investigated in California did not provide adequate ventilation, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). For the study, published in the journal Building and Environment, researchers visited 104 classrooms in 11 schools throughout California that had been retrofitted with new heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC, units in the past three years. They evaluated the HVAC systems, carbon dioxide concentrations, and indoor temperature and humidity through field inspections, monitoring and a teacher survey.
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NAESP
Professional learning communities were introduced in the 1970s, at about the same time as bell-bottoms and disco. Fashion and music have evolved, but when you see teachers trying to work collaboratively, have their practices kept pace with the times? It's time to advance teacher collaboration — upgrading the wardrobe and playlist, in a sense — to ensure that we can continue to maximize student learning better than ever before. Here are three things you and your teams can do immediately to increase the impact PLCs have on students' — and teachers' — learning.
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NAESP
Don't miss a unique opportunity to advance your career and strengthen the leadership skills of new principals. Your knowledge and expertise is critical to ensure the success of the next generation of school leaders. As with any career, mentors offer guidance and support to help others become highly effective leaders. Take the time to invest in yourself, your career and the principal profession as a Certified National Principal Mentor.
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