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District Administration Magazine
In many school districts today, hiring practices for administrative leaders often consist of "replacement filling," waiting for a position to open up before searching for candidates, according to a 2014 report on K-12 education titled "Best Practices in Succession Planning," created by Hanover Research, a market research and survey analysis company based in Washington, D.C. Instead, the report states, successful succession planning, or "proactive filling," requires "an appraisal of anticipated district needs, a clearly outlined plan with measureable objectives and a set of standardized evaluative criteria."
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Education Week
President-elect Donald Trump met with two education leaders rumored to be under consideration to serve as his education secretary: former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and Betsy DeVos, the chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, a school choice advocacy group. So what did they talk about? According to a statement from the transition team Trump and Rhee, "enjoyed an in-depth discussion about the future of education in our country. This included the possibility of increasing competition through charter and choice schools.
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Education World
Although Minecraft: Education Edition already launched in the U.S. at the beginning of the month and has been tested by U.S. teachers since June, Microsoft's U.K. launch is just happening this week. Ahead of the launch, Engadget reports that an expert for the U.K.'s Department of Education is skeptical about the game being a learning tool and instead is worried that it will turn out to be nothing more than a gimmick.
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THE Journal
The majority of students spend fewer than 15 minutes per day reading, but increasing their daily reading time to 30 minutes can improve comprehension and boost student achievement, according to a new report from Renaissance Learning. The ninth-annual What Kids Are Reading report examines students' overall reading, nonfiction reading and reading across the curriculum, and it analyses the data to identify reading habits that can support student achievement. The report's data comes from Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader 360 (AR 360) software for managing and monitoring student reading. The report analyzes AR 360 data from 9.9 million K–12 students at 30,863 schools during the 2015–2016 school year.
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eSchool News
Tapping into data collected from nearly 10 million K-12 students who read 346 million books and nonfiction articles last school year, Renaissance® releases its ninth annual What Kids Are Reading report. Researchers at the K-12 learning analytics company produce the report, which provides the comprehensive review of students' reading habits and achievement. What Kids Are Reading: And How They Grow, 2017 includes most read fiction and nonfiction books by grade level, nonfiction selections by gender, and a sampling of popular reading across the curriculum. The report is an important annual reflection on reading trends in U.S. schools.
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MindShift
Early in his career Dr. Robert Brooks became the principal of a school in a locked-door unit at McLean Psychiatric Hospital. He and his staff of teachers worked with children and adolescents who were severely disturbed and whose behavior showed their turmoil. Within the first few months, Brooks felt demoralized and dreaded work each day.
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EdTech Magazine
By utilizing students' devices, physical education teachers can add an element of cross-curricular engagement.
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[FreshGrade Education Inc.]
Encourage your students to guide their own learning and begin to master their destinies. In this free eBook from FreshGrade, you’ll learn how to reclaim assessment, create purposeful assessment, and implement innovative approaches with real examples of innovation from schools across the United States. EdTech RoundUp described FreshGrade as uniquely combining student-led portfolios with flexible, custom assessment and parent engagement in one. FreshGrade is used by teachers, parents, and students in all 50 states and in more than 70 countries around the world.
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MindShift
The most important thing you can do to set up your tinkering space for primary students has nothing to do with the space. Of course you'll need space for your students to work in, but the physical space for tinkering matters much less than the mental space that you create for young makers. To be effective tinkerers, students need to achieve a state of mind in which they are primed to play and make joyful discoveries.
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The Associated Press via PBS Newshour
Will President-elect Donald Trump remake school lunches into his fast-food favorites of burgers and fried chicken?
Children grumbling about healthier school meal rules championed by first lady Michelle Obama may have reason to cheer Trump's election as the billionaire businessman is a proud patron of Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's while promising to curb federal regulations. The Obama administration has made healthier, safer and better labeled food a priority in the last eight years, significantly raising the profile of food policy and sometimes drawing the ire of Republicans, farmers and the food industry. The first lady made reducing childhood obesity one of her signature issues through her "Let's Move" campaign.
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New York University via Science Daily
Charter schools — particularly middle and high schools — enroll a larger share of girls than do traditional public schools, in part because boys are more likely to exit charter schools, finds a new study.
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THE Journal
The vast majority of teachers are using technology daily with their students, and most say their use of technology will increase even more next year, according to a new study involving 2,500 K–12 teachers. The study, conducted by adaptive learning provider Front Row Education, found that 75 percent of teachers use technology with students on a daily basis and that a bit more than half have a 1-to-1 ratio of devices to students in their classrooms (up 10 points from last year's survey). That increase in student devices is helping to drive an increase in the use of technology, with about 60 percent of teachers surveyed saying they expect to increase the use of technology in the 2016–2017 school year.
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Education Week
Three-fourths of children across the United States aren't meeting the recommended amount of physical activity per week, according to a report card from the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance. The World Health Organization and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggest children participate in 60 minutes of daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, such as running or swimming, along with vigorous-intensity activity at least three days per week.
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The Boston Globe
With school budgets running tight, Tom Shull turns to the web to raise money for all sorts of supplies for his students at Quincy Upper School in Boston: books, pencils, highlighters, Post-It notes, toner cartridges. In all, the speech therapist has posted four dozen funding requests over the last five years on DonorsChoose.org, raising more than $25,000 for his high school students. The requests sometimes go beyond the typical. When he and his colleagues started a running club for students with disabilities, he sought help to buy sneakers for those who couldn't afford them.
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The Washington Post
When Donald Trump was running for president, he said repeatedly that the Common Core State Standards initiative has been a "total disaster" and he would get rid of it if he landed in the White House. And when he was duking it out with a gaggle of Republicans for the GOP presidential nomination, he went after former Florida governor Jeb Bush, a key Core supporter and a leader of corporate education reform, by calling him a "very, very low-energy" person who could put to sleep the people watching him speak.
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The Atlantic
Many eyes have been on Trump Tower as the president-elect and his transition team have started to select key cabinet positions. Effectively shutting down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan during these deliberations, the team is making decisions that will shape wide-ranging policies, on everything from immigration to trade, in the coming years. For people like myself who are closely monitoring what the future will look like schools, the locus of attention is not on Trump Tower, but on the state capitals, which have the greatest power over America’s classrooms.
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Education Week
The folks on President-elect Donald Trump's education transition team will help set the policy course — and likely, even appoint key personnel — for the new administration. Their backgrounds could provide clues on the direction the Trump administration wants to go on K-12. Here's a look: James Manning Trump's transition team told reporters that Manning will be a part of the "landing team" at the U.S. Department of Education; the transition team said his name would be sent to President Barack Obama's administration.
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Chalkbeat New York
Families from across New York City flock to Brooklyn School of Inquiry in Gravesend — the kind of school where parents raise enough money to pay for extra helpers in most classrooms and a multi-million dollar STEM lab is being built on the roof. But for all the gifted and talented school offers, Principal Donna Taylor says there is one thing lacking: a student body that reflects the diversity of the city.
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NAESP
The NAESP Nominating Committee met virtually to review and select the nominees for NAESP Vice President in the 2017 election.
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NAESP
Student voice for age 3 through grade 2? Aren't these the classrooms where it's challenging to find a moment of silence? Walk into a kindergarten classroom first thing Monday morning and the cacophony of noise flowing out of the classroom can be daunting even for a veteran educator. Student voice, however, is distinct from merely talking (or shouting). It involves decision-making and requires intentional teaching strategies and opportunities to practice voice skills. In contrast, talking can be blurted out, mindless, and a constant interruption in the classroom.
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Designed for kids ages 5 to 12, Smart Play: Venti packs 20 exciting activities into its compact size.
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