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EdSurge
A few years ago, Chrissy Romano-Arribito began to experience something that may sound familiar to a lot of teachers: burnout. Or not burnout, exactly, but demoralization. Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. But while teaching middle school a few years ago, she began to feel the squeeze from high stakes testing, administrator turnover and battles over curriculum scripting. It was making it hard for her to do good work. Worse, it began sapping her love of teaching.
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By: Christine Mulhern (commentary)
 Counselor effectiveness is most important for low-achieving and low-income students, perhaps because these students are most likely to lack other sources of information and assistance. Good counselors tend to improve all measures of educational attainment, but some specialize in improving high school behavior while others specialize in increasing selective college attendance. Improving access to effective counseling may be a promising way to increase educational attainment and close socioeconomic gaps in education.
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Edutopia
Physical education is important not only for an individual student's health and well-being, but also for the development of a strong and healthy school community. Whether it be structured play in physical education class, extracurricular clubs, or recess, physical activity contributes to building a better school culture.
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Fast Company
In the early 16th century, Niccolo Machiavelli famously wrote, "It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both." If we look at modern-day leaders, this seems to corroborate Machiavelli's observation. Fear can be an effective mobilization tool in the short-term. But research suggests that leading with fear is, at best, a shortsighted business strategy.
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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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Inc.
A new year is almost upon us, which means you're probably trying to set goals for your team going into 2020. You're probably thinking about where resources should be allocated, and your employees are creating personal development plans to pitch during performance reviews. So many people are competing for your attention and consideration that it can sometimes be easier to focus on what you don't want.
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Forbes
Holiday season is ramping up, along with stress levels. If you consider yourself among the many who experience holiday-related stress, you are in good company. In the U.S., 38 percent of the workforce experiences an increase in stress due to the holidays. Here are some pitfalls to avoid, and also some tips for balancing work around the holidays.
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Small Business Trends
Leaders possess skills that may not always easy to define. But we know leadership when we see it. As a result, those with leadership abilities share several qualities that make them successful and stand out. For example, they remain anchored by a clear set of principles and values about themselves, the people in their lives and their place in the world.
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Leadership Freak
On average, most leaders are average, even if they think they're remarkable. But every leader can become truly remarkable in some areas. Remarkable leadership is never an accident. Someone is going to hurt your feelings. Remarkable leaders rise above offense and continue bringing their best.
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Entrepreneur
When you think of a successful CEO or leader, classic extrovert traits come to mind: outgoing, energetic, charming, talkative. Steve Jobs was famously extroverted, as was Margaret Thatcher. And while about half of the general population are extroverts, up to 96 percent of managers and executives display extroverted traits, reveals a study published in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Other research estimates that up to 70% of C-suite executives are extroverts.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Process provides perspective in lieu of panic. When we face challenges, we can rely on process to get us through difficulty one reliable, tested step at a time. Any leader who has faced a potentially devastating situation and worked through it, relying on methods instead of in-the-moment emotional reactions, understands the value of process. Yet for some reason when we hire, we often miss an important aspect of process in judging candidates: differences.
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Education Week
The public comment window closed this week on proposed changes to the massive trove of civil rights data the U.S. Department of Education collects from every public school in the country. The proposed changes — including the addition of new data on religous-based bullying and the elimination of an array of data points — drew praise from advocates concerned about anti-Semitism in schools, but concern from civil rights groups and policymakers who believe the elimination of some data will make it more difficult to weed out disparities.
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Education DIVE
The advent of technology in schools has provided overwhelming benefits for decades. We've witnessed the rise of learning management systems, student information systems, 1:1 technology and much more. Very rarely do those technologies remain static, though — school leaders investigate the latest, greatest developments in ed tech before semesters even end.
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EdScoop
A new bill now being considered by the House Science, Space, and Technology committee aims to improve STEM education in rural areas by giving teachers more resources, engaging students though hands-on education and increasing access to broadband and grow the technical workforce.
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By: Angela Cleveland (commentary)
 The first week of December is nationally recognized in schools as Computer Science Education Week or "CSEdWeek." This is a week dedicated to providing students in all grade levels with opportunities to learn about computer science. Many websites offer entertaining and engaging ways to introduce algorithms, loops, conditionals, and other CS concepts to students. While hands-on coding activities foster a fun introduction and spark interest, many educators are looking for more ways to embed the value of CS into a school's physical environment and highlight how CS intersects with other content areas.
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eSchool News
Preparing young children for jobs that haven’t been invented yet may sound like a difficult task for educators, but a recent edWebinar showed how preK and kindergarten teachers can start developing the skills needed for future careers. Marnie Forestieri, the CEO of Young Innovators, and Debby Mitchell, Ed.D., a Young Innovators curriculum writer, explained the process for creating lesson plans that include projects introducing science, technology, engineering, arts and math, noting that "STEAM happens naturally in young children as they explore and investigate the world around them."
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EdTech Magazine
An often-heard lament from parents and teachers is that kids these days don't get enough exercise, tethered as many are to their handheld electronic devices and video games. Help is on the way, however, from an unlikely source. Ironically, the tech that could get kids moving is the same thing that promotes their sedentary state: video games.
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MindShift
Stacey Roshan has always loved math. It was her favorite subject in school and she went on to study applied economics in her postsecondary education. But despite her love of the subject, Roshan remembers being terrified of math class itself. As a student, she was smart, quiet, a slow processor and a perfectionist in a competitive academic environment. She rarely raised her hand in class because she was scared of being wrong. She needed time to let the question sink in, think about her answer and work it out.
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eSchool News
Rural school districts face many unique trials, and access to educational technology is no different. But the obstacles aren't just about location. In many cases, school leaders need to justify why the district should invest in the first place. During the edWebinar "Technology in Rural Schools: Leading with Why," presenters discussed how they overcame challenges and helped the community understand the value of tech in schools.
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MiddleWeb
Academic stress and pressure are getting more and more prevalent in our schools, even with students as young as pre-kindergarten. Our students are spending less time participating in the arts and play while spending more and more time on academic subjects. Children are experiencing "anxiety disorders" at earlier ages, which can negatively impact their mental and physical health.
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Education DIVE
Now what? That's what many experts have been asking since the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results were released, showing a decline in reading achievement at fourth grade in 17 states and at eighth grade in 31 states. "The NAEP results are a clarion call for change," says a statement from 10 education organizations that have outlined an agenda for reversing the trend in students' reading achievement. The Council of Chief State School Officers is also planning to hold a literacy summit in late January on the issue.
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Edutopia
Compared to other learning disabilities like ADHD and dyslexia, dysgraphia is not well understood. But we do know that for children who have dysgraphia, it can be a serious obstacle to academic success — and the research suggests there are tactics you can adopt to help kids with the condition express themselves.
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MindShift
Among the many things students are expected to do, self-assessing their learning is part of the suite of metacognitive tools that are valued in today's society. This skill enables the student to think about their thinking, identify what they're doing well and what needs improvement. Self-assessment takes practice, and when it comes to schoolwork, students are not given enough opportunities.
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EdSurge
At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. Some are climbing on the playground equipment, others are taking part in a soccer scrimmage and the rest are playing a game similar to tag.
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School Leaders Now
You know integrating social-emotional learning schoolwide is working, but you don't always have the SEL statistics close at hand to support your thinking. So, we pulled some interesting data together in an easy-to-follow format.
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Taylor & Francis Group via Science Daily
A new study shows that the elementary school a child attends has almost no influence on their desire to progress to higher education — as factors including parental aspirations, academic support from their mother and having a desk to work on are much more important.
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EdSource
California schools have beefed up their counseling staffs dramatically in the past few years, but the need for student mental health services — to address trauma related to fires, shootings and social media — has far outpaced counselors' ability to keep pace with student needs. Students at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita last week were evacuated after a student opened fire, killing two classmates and himself and wounding three others. It was the 11th school shooting in the United States this year, according to the New York Times.
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NAESP
Let's talk about student mental health. NAESP will be hosting a Twitter chat about mental health on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. ET. We'll look to each other for best practices and tips to overcome challenges as we work together to support the whole child. Use #NAESPChat to participate.
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NAESP
In its nearly 100-year history, NAESP has established itself as a leader in many areas, but none so much as in defining the competencies of what principals should know and be able to do. For nearly two decades, Leading Learning Communities has been a foundational and essential resource for the nation's elementary and middle-level principals.
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