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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Most of us just gathered with friends and family to celebrate the tradition known as Thanksgiving. Whether you celebrated in a traditional manner with turkey and all the trimmings or whether you took the road less traveled, let's take some time now to celebrate why it is great to be an educator in this day and age. To help you develop your own list, I share with you the seven things I am thankful for this season as an educator.
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Education Week
Today's principals are often quite skilled at being resourceful. From ensuring that teachers have sufficient lab materials to providing them with the professional development opportunities they need to be successful, we have learned to make the most of the resources we have. One valuable resource we continue to struggle with, however, is time. To be more effective collaborative leaders, we must be willing to do the heavy lifting required to move the school forward.
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Harvard Business Review
For decades, we've often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets — two popular varieties were the "visionaries", who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the "operators", who get stuff done. We intuitively knew that there must be leaders that span these areas, but in fact, few do. According to a global survey of 700 executives across a variety of industries conducted by Strategy&, the strategy consulting division of PwC, only 8 percent of company leaders were said to excel at both strategy and execution.
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Leadership Freak
Some leaders work too hard while the people around them don't work hard enough. You'll burn out if you're always the first person to arrive and the last person to leave.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 The end is near! In addition to wrapping up projects for year- and quarter-end, reviewing budgets and planning for next year, we also have to prepare for time off for holidays and deal with sick, stressed and overworked employees. The end of the year can be full of special exceptions that affect our work. Here are a few ways to carve out time to ensure we remain healthy, productive and clear-headed during the most wonderful time of the year.
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Inc.
There's one word that separates today's good leaders from great ones: Empathy. Yep, that touchy feely word that's been locked out of boardrooms for generations. Empathy in the workplace might be at an all-time low. Mass layoffs, bottom-line thinking, and the decline of mom and pop shops where people knew their customers — all common. Business is becoming, well, impersonal.
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NPR
After gunman Kevin Janson Neal killed his wife and then two neighbors he headed for Rancho Tehama Elementary School, weapons in hand. It was just before 8 a.m. when teachers heard the crackle of gunfire in the small, rural town of Rancho Tehama, in Northern California. The elementary school — with about 100 students and 9 staff — immediately went on lockdown. The training that teachers and staff practice for such emergencies helped to prevent a massive school shooting like the horror at Sandy Hook elementary in 2012, says Richard Fitzpartrick the superintendent of the school's district.
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School Leaders Now
Everybody talks about it, but do we really understand the concept of growth mindset as deeply as we should? Growth mindset in education is a lot more than just adding the word "yet" to the end of phrases like "I don't understand?" or "I can't do multiplication."
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LA School Report
One of the most important factors affecting children's academic success doesn't come from the classroom — it comes from the support of students' families. The research is clear: When parents are engaged, children are more likely to succeed. Studies from the U.S. Department of Education, Harvard University, and elsewhere have catalogued the powerful effects of schools' partnerships with families. Attendance and grades shoot up, as do a child's likelihood of taking higher-level courses, graduating from high school, and enrolling in college. Dropout rates decrease and students act out less. Children say they are more excited to learn.
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Edutopia
Many children and adolescents walk into our schools and classrooms carrying toxic levels of stress. They're on edge, and their neuro-anatomy is in a state of dysregulation, which drives their behaviors and makes it difficult for them to learn.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Joseph Grenny, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "I once served on the board of a nonprofit with a group of men and women I deeply admired. Board meetings were an uninterrupted joy. Even lengthy conference calls were opportunities for spontaneous sharing, personal connection, and productive problem-solving. It was Camelot. Until it wasn't."
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Education DIVE
Technology is widely used in today’s early-childhood classrooms and creates new opportunities for children to create their own content and express their thinking. But 1:1 device models and personalized learning might not be the best type of instruction in preschool and the early grades, Kathleen Paciga, an associate professor of education at Columbia College Chicago, said Friday during a featured session at this year’s conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children in Atlanta.
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eSchool News
An elementary technology teacher shares her game-based approach to helping her youngest students learn to love the keyboard — and prepare for computer-based assessments.
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Disability Scoop
The nation may soon be getting a new top special education official. President Donald Trump said that he will nominate Johnny Collett to be assistant secretary of education for special education and rehabilitative services at the U.S. Department of Education. This is Trump's first effort since taking office earlier this year to fill the post which is tasked with overseeing the federal government's implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and other laws.
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By: Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
 Most of us were brought up to believe that education is the key that opens the door to a better future. Whether this is true depends in part on how one defines a better future. If we're just talking about upward mobility and earning power, it is not a given that education leads to greater financial success, according to a growing body of research. The income tax records of 40 million children and their parents were analyzed to identify correlations between parent and offspring earning.
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Education Week
The U.S. Department of Education hosted a meeting of educators who have concerns about 2014 guidance from the Obama administration that pushed school officials to ensure that their discipline policies don't have a disproportionate impact on students from certain racial and ethnic groups. Civil rights groups and their advocates in Congress worry the meeting could serve as a prelude to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos ultimately revoking the guidance. It would be the latest move by DeVos and her department to end Obama-era guidance concerning transgender students and sexual assault on college campuses under Title IX.
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Edutopia
There's been a lot of talk lately about fast-track systems, separating classes based on ability and promoting earlier and earlier start times for higher concept learning. But some research has also shown that underestimating students means they may not be challenged.
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Education Week
Several national organizations are coming together to work on increasing kindergarten readiness for children from birth to age 3. The National Association of Counties, National League of Cities, Center for the Study of Social Policy, National Institute for Children's Health Quality and StriveTogether are partnering to focus on what medical professionals say is a critical time period for brain development.
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Education World
It's social studies time in Karen Baum's fifth grade class and the room is humming with activity. The class is finishing a unit on women gaining the right to vote, and the teacher has given students choices of ways to show what they learned during the unit. Some children are making a Venn diagram showing the rights of men and women during the era just before women's suffrage. Others are creating comic strips telling of the events leading up to suffrage. Still other students are creating a magazine dedicated to the women's movement of the time.
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By: Susan Winebrenner (commentary)
 While you were busy doing your life, the whole field of child and motivational psychology for teachers and parents has changed ... for the better. I have been an educator, parent and grandparent for decades, and I have often struggled with bothersome situations in which some people often just give up when times become tough, or when things don't go their way. Worse, they may blame themselves for their "failures" and berate themselves — sometimes for many years.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Laurie Detweiler, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "Is there a secret to retaining what we learn? What about our children? Children, particularly those in grammar school, are extraordinarily able to learn and recall, but there are some tricks and techniques to make it happen. Having been in education for more than thirty years, I can't tell you how many times I have been asked the question, 'How can I help my children retain what they learned? It seems like they had it last night when we studied, but then they take the test and struggle to remember.' We might wonder how this can be, but it is a fairly common phenomenon."
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The Hechinger Report
When states across the nation recently turned in accountability plans required under the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act, they showed great variety in their plans for early learning. With much of the funding going directly to school districts, state and district partnerships will be crucial to ensuring that these plans address the real-life issues that school districts throughout the country are facing. As districts partner with states to implement components of ESSA, districts that feel caught between academic rigor and developmentally appropriate practices can leverage the whole-child focus of ESSA to marry these concepts and more effectively prepare children to be successful in school and beyond.
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Education Week
State spending on K-12 education rose over the past year despite lackluster tax collections, as budgets continue to tick upward from the abyss of the Great Recession. Funding in the states for education increased by 4 percent in fiscal 2017, a bump from 2.9 percent a year before, according to a report by the National Association of State Budget Officers. "K-12 is one of the last areas states want to cut. They see the value of it," said Brian Sigritz, the association's director of state fiscal studies, in an interview.
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Brookings
It's been more than 60 years since the Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education, ruled "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional. In that time, school populations have diversified, thanks in large part to an increase in the numbers of Hispanic and Asian students attending U.S. schools. But how closely do America's traditional public and charter schools look like the communities they serve? And if schools' student bodies don't reflect their neighborhoods' racial makeup, how come?
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By: Ryan Clark (commentary)
 School buses don't have seat belts. With the lives of our nation's children at stake, to some, this one simple statement is inconceivably short-sighted. In the last few months, several states have both started discussions as well as enacted laws ensuring that the simple safety measure is present when it counts most. Just how these changes will affect local economies and school districts is another matter.
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District Administrator Magazine
Big city districts are taking the lead in funding pre-K programs as states work more slowly to expand access. "While states continue to make progress in expanding access to early education, cities have increasingly taken it upon themselves to supplement those resources with local contributions," says Albert Wat, senior policy director at the Alliance for Early Success. Usually, city preschool measures get funded through a dedicated city tax. For example, Denver and San Antonio have expanded access to pre-K through revenues from sales tax. Seattle does so through a property tax, while Philadelphia uses a tax on sodas.
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NPR
Marquan Ellis was evicted from his home in Las Vegas, Nevada when he was 18. His mother battled with a drug and gambling addiction while he stayed at his godmother's house. But he couldn't stay there forever. He found his way to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth where he enrolled in the independent living program. He isn't sure what he would have done if he hadn't found that program: "I would have been on the street looking for someone to help, looking for my next meal, looking for my next shower, looking for my next place to sleep." Like Ellis, some 4.2 million young people experience unaccompanied homelessness in the course of a year, according to a new study from Chapin Hall a research center at the University of Chicago.
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NAESP
Bill Jones, principal of Corbin Intermediate School in Corbin, Kentucky, has been elected as the new Zone 5 Director to the NAESP Board of Directors. Jones will join the Board officially Aug. 1, 2018 and complete the term of office ending July 31, 2021.
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NAESP
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