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Education Week
The pitched battles that once waged over more-rigorous teacher evaluations have long since quieted, but there's a lasting legacy of those systems: They have fundamentally changed the principal's job. They have increased principals' attention to instruction and what's happening in classrooms. But at the same time, they have created monumental time-management challenges for principals that could lead to turnover and burnout.
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Education World
Studies reveal that school-wide handwashing programs can make a difference in the health of students and staff and, as a result, improve school attendance. If your school does not have a program in place, are you aware of how many resources — including many free ones — are available to help get you started?
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Harvard Business Review
Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. He's done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Likewise, there are colleagues at his firm who have leapfrogged him. Sometimes he wonders, "What am I doing wrong?"
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MiddleWeb
The days of the solitary school leader disappeared decades ago. But leaders still struggle with how to involve others in decision-making and how to build a viable and successful shared decision-making model. Professional collaboration is critical to the success of any school. The evidence indicates that decisions are better, have greater support and are more likely to be implemented if they are the result of intentional collaboration with teachers, staff and parents.
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Forbes
Generation Z is about to change the face of the workforce. These new workers don't remember a world without the internet and smartphones. They've witnessed hard times for their parents during the Great Recession. They're coming of age in the era of #MeToo. And no, they're not Millennials.
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Fast Company
In ancient Persia, there was a messenger who reported whether or not his army had been victorious in battle. If they won, citizens celebrated him like a hero. If their army lost, the messenger could expect to be executed immediately–even though he had nothing to do with the outcome. Oddly, there are no reports of messengers lying about a victory and sneaking out after the party.
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HR DIVE
The connection between EVP factors and outcome measures is no surprise; various studies showed that the biggest drivers of EVP are compensation, career development as a top total rewards factor, work flexibility and healthcare and voluntary benefits. More recently, meaningful work and a sense of belonging have emerged as contributors to employee satisfaction.
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Inc. (commentary)
James Kerr, a contributor for Inc., writes: "My 30 years of management consulting has afforded me the opportunity to work with some of the best, and worse, leaders around. What I've discovered as a result that regardless of one's particular leadership gifts and foibles, a leader can always become better, if they set their mind to it. Indeed, the difference between a run-of-the-mill leader and one that many would consider exceptional is the willingness and dedication to improve. As the old adage suggests, all you have to do is try."
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Fast Company
If you're a hiring manager or recruiter, chances are you're faced with a difficult decision when you're down to your final few candidates for a job. Perhaps you've found a winner, but you'd like to keep other interviewees in mind for future job openings or freelance work. Or maybe you just dread penning rejection letters and would like to offer constructive feedback.
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The Washington Post
The expo had finally begun, and now hundreds of school administrators streamed into a sprawling, chandeliered ballroom where entrepreneurs awaited, each eager to explain why their product, above all others, was the one worth buying. Waiters in white button-downs poured glasses of chardonnay and served meatballs wrapped with bacon. In one corner, guests posed with colorful boas and silly hats at a photo booth as a band played Jimmy Buffett covers to the rhythm of a steel drum. For a moment, the festive summer scene, in a hotel 10 miles from Walt Disney World, masked what had brought them all there.
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Leadership Freak
Self-doubt laughs when you squander your talent. Shelves filled with books on self-confidence speak to a universal truth. We seek what we lack.
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Education World
With U.S. childhood obesity reaching a crisis level, schools find themselves increasingly responsible for ensuring that they offer healthy foods. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health, childhood obesity in the U.S. has more than tripled since 1980. The percentage of obese and overweight children is at or above 30 percent in 30 U.S. states. Scientists predict this might be the first generation of Americans in 200 years to have shorter life spans than their parents. So why are French fries and hot dogs still staples of school lunches?
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 If you're like many companies, there's a good chance you have a workplace wellness program in place — maybe more than one — or a program that addresses multiple health components. But how well is what you're doing really working? Ideally, you want the program you're offering employees to not only improve their health and quality of life but also to cut healthcare expenses significantly and help your business run more effectively. Take an overview of how well your program is performing and make the changes it needs by using this advice.
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The 74
School finance systems, perpetually at the center of legal and legislative battles across the country, should go beyond funding to ensure equal access to core educational services, with outcomes-based accountability as a check, the Center for American Progress says in a new report. This next wave of school finance reform should go beyond efforts in years past to ensure sufficient funding overall and equal funding between school districts, the authors wrote.
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EdTech Magazine
Augmented data analysis, blended digital tools and connected networks will reign among technology innovations in the coming year, according to IT analyst group Gartner’s top 10 tech trends of 2019.
"The top ten digital technology trends are all about building the intelligent digital mesh," says David W. Cearley, distinguished vice president and analyst for Gartner. "It's the convergence of all of this and using it to support a continuous innovation process." School districts have already seen some of these tools enter the educational space, with innovations such as AI-enabled teaching assistant programs and advanced data collection and analysis to improve student assessments.
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The Hechinger Report
Both before and after classes at Panguitch High School, a low-slung brick building nestled in the high desert of southern Utah, students find their way to Shawn Caine's classroom. They settle in at the computers where Caine teaches coding and software, such as Illustrator and Photoshop, or they head to the back room for the 3-D printer, vinyl cutter and robotics kits.
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While every school wants to accelerate student math proficiency, administrators at five Texas school districts faced unique obstacles. And although each school had a different story, those administrators shared many key questions when considering tools to reinforce their math curricula. What solution could legitimately:
Boost learning outcomes for students of all economic backgrounds from 1st to 8th Grade?
Succeed on a limited budget, with financial constraints restricting most options?
Engage students, with disengagement being the number one complaint from teachers?
Meet the needs of a diverse student population with a wide range of proficiency levels?
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Education DIVE
When it comes to cybersecurity and digital citizenship training in schools, David Roberts believes the process needs a top-down approach. To the chief technology officer and administrator of technology for Idaho's Boise School District, that means making sure teachers have all the professional development, training and support they need — before that learning can be seeded in students.
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EdTech Magazine
Today's school libraries are being reinvented. No longer just a haven for dusty books and stern shushes, the library is now a place for digital resources and makerspaces and flexible learning. They're alive with activity and are agents for collaboration and creativity. Librarians are IT help desk masters, teachers of digital literacy and makerspace experts. The landscape of a K–12 library is changing with the times, and librarians oversee an important space for today's modern learner.
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Education World
The best behavior management plans hinge on good communications. There is evidence that new approaches to discipline are working, and even being fine-tuned — helping to fight nagging, time-devouring behavior problems in schools that have been around since the dunce cap. Functional behavioral assessments, restorative justice, Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and other alternatives all have roots dating back a few decades, but they continue to be improved upon and refined, and a collection of research now shows their effectiveness. However, we are also seeing their potential weaknesses.
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Education Week
Kindergarten has taken some getting used to for Walker Sheppard, who didn't attend preschool or day care. Besides all the new rules to remember, there's a new nightly routine: homework. "We spend anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour on it," said Michael Sheppard, Walker's dad. When the 5-year-old comes home every day, Sheppard said, his son is tired and not ready to sit down and figure out his assignments.
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Chalkbeat
It was not the place you'd expect to hear sharp critiques of standardized testing. But they just kept coming last week at an event put on by the Center on Reinventing Public Education, an organization that has spent 25 years studying and supporting key tenets of education reform.
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Getting Smart (commentary)
Caitlin Warren, a contributor for Getting Smart, writes: "Nearly one in three U.S. students say that they have been victims of bullying. Perhaps, then, it's no surprise that researchers at the University of Michigan have observed a 40 percent drop in empathy among teens over the past three decades. How can educators reverse this troubling trend? Cultivating — or restoring — empathy is one place to start. As a former elementary teacher, and in my current role supporting teachers, I've had the opportunity to observe how students learn — and educators teach — empathy. Here are four tips for educators looking to create more empathic classrooms."
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Education DIVE
Once reserved for special institutions that charged high tuition rates or parents who decided to teach their children at home, personalized learning has now been realized as a better way of learning by public schools. The traditional school model created during the Industrial Revolution — with a teacher at the board, students at desks and a one-size-fits-all curriculum — is being replaced by a school model that will better prepare students for a future globalized workforce.
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Center for American Progress
In 1968, a sheet metal worker named Demetrio Rodriguez decided to file a lawsuit against the Edgewood Independent School District, a high-poverty district located just outside of San Antonio, Texas, serving a predominately Mexican American population. Rodriguez, the father of four children enrolled in the Edgewood district, was frustrated that the schools were dramatically underfunded and marred by dilapidated facilities and weak instruction.
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NPR
When public health officials get wind of an outbreak of Hepatitis A or influenza, they spring into action with public awareness campaigns, monitoring and outreach. But should they be acting with equal urgency when it comes to childhood trauma? A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests the answer should be yes. It shows how the effects of childhood trauma persist and are linked to mental illness and addiction in adulthood. And, researchers say, it suggests that it might be more effective to approach trauma as a public health crisis than to limit treatment to individuals.
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PBS Newshour
But now, suicide is now the second leading cause of death among people aged 10 to 18. That's according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How to tackle this problem? The research points to schools. Special correspondent Lisa Stark of our partner Education Week visited a high school in Virginia to see if their approach of teaching mental health can work.
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The Hechinger Report
Small classes are very popular with parents. Fewer kids in a room can mean more personal attention for their little ones. Teachers like them too. Fewer kids mean fewer tests to mark and fewer disruptions. Communities across the United States have invested enormously in smaller classes over the past 50 years. Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3 in 1970 to 17.9 in 1985 and dropped to a low of 15.3 in 2008. But after the 2008 recession, local budget cuts forced class sizes to increase again, bumping the pupil-teacher ratio up to 16.1 in 2014, the most recent federal data available.
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North Carolina State University via Science Daily
A recent study finds young people with good family relationships are more likely to intervene when they witness bullying or other aggressive behavior at school — and to step in if they see victims planning to retaliate. The study found that kids who were already excluded, or discriminated against by peers or teachers, were less likely to stand up for victims of bullying.
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The Hechinger Report
Back when he still lived with his family, when school was across the street from his home in West Philadelphia, Johnathan Hamilton used to plow through reading assignments and research religious questions online. He stumbled over fractions — math was always a struggle — but started getting into philosophy as an early teen.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In describing his strategy as Georgia's first chief school turnaround officer, Eric Thomas referenced the thriller "Taken." Sure, as a former CIA operative, Liam Neeson possessed the skills to track down his kidnapped daughter on his own, but he sought the help of others. "We can't do this work by ourselves," said Thomas. "We have to enlist others." Since he arrived a year ago from the University of Virginia's acclaimed turnaround program, Thomas has allayed the fears of many critics who worried that he'd be closer to "The Lone Ranger," galloping into districts and corralling them into charter schools at legal gunpoint. Those concerns weren't without basis.
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The New York Times
"Some of the kids call it the singing bus," said Juliessa Diclo Cruz, 10, as she rode in back of one of New York State's first-ever electric school buses on a chilly October morning. It was easy to see why. The rumbling diesel engines on conventional yellow school buses can be heard a block away. But the five new battery-powered buses in White Plains, which went into service this fall, run so quietly that they have to play a four-tone melody for safety as they roam the streets.
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NAESP
Over the years, the responsibilities of schools have evolved to include meeting the academic needs of students and focusing on students' health, safety, and wellness. While the methods and strategies schools use to meet these nonacademic needs are often different, a core component of any health and wellness initiative is social-emotional learning.
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NAESP
Join us for our next #NAESPchat on Twitter on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. ET. We'll discuss the what and why of SsssEL and how to develop instructional skills and strategies in — and out — of school. Use #NAESPchat to be part of the conversation.
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