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School Leaders Now
Reviewing lesson plans. Organizing school events. Making sure parents are happy. Principals have a lot of responsibilities, and it's up to us to be able to manage them all efficiently. Here are 5 essential but overlooked principal school responsibilities you have to contend with to develop a successful school.
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Leadership Freak
Everything goes dark if you leave organizational culture to chance. You're responsible for the way it feels to be on your team.
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Training Industry Magazine
Increasingly, professionals know that success does not have to come from long nights; cut-throat competition; intense daily grinds; or massive sacrifices to their health, sleep or family. There was a shift toward positive psychology in the 1990s, and in my work, I can see the benefits of this shift. More people are embracing wellness — and not simply as an add-on. They are embracing it as a core ingredient in their success.
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Inc.
Google's research on what constitutes a great leader revealed that employees appreciate managers who care for them both professionally and personally. Whereas taking care of your people professionally may come a little more instinctively (providing development opportunities, coaching, mentoring, etc.), showing that you're genuinely interested in their personal well-being may be foreign territory. Although the process will be unique from employee to employee, there is a universal skill that can be levered to connect with others on a more personal level. This ability comes through the development of your emotional intelligence.
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District Administration Magazine
Crafting a strong and well-balanced social media policy requires considerable time and effort. The policy must be flexible enough to accommodate new tech trends — such as anonymous messaging apps and livestreaming — yet thorough and specific enough to address a multitude of potentially troublesome scenarios involving students, faculty and staff.
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Forbes
Keeping employees engaged and healthy is particularly difficult during the holiday season. The weeks between Thanksgiving and the New Year offer a lot of challenges when it comes to productivity, illness and work performance. Healthy, engaged employees are vital to a company. When employees are over-stressed or dealing with hectic schedules, they tend to drop healthy habits and become disengaged with their work.
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Harvard Business Review
Chris, a senior manager at a New York design studio can't sleep. His mind is churning, thinking about the mountain of tasks facing him back at the office. Katrina, the production manager at a well-known publishing house is distracted by a work email at the dinner table. Her partner complains that she "never seems able to turn off."
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School Leaders Now (commentary)
Suzanne Tingley, a contributor for School Leaders Now, writes: "Should teachers be fundraising for their own projects? Last month one of my teachers held a GoFundMe. The money raised was to take her students to a live theatre production of Romeo and Juliet. She told me about it after the funds had been raised, so I felt obligated to approve the activity. I admire the initiative and commitment she showed, but I'm wondering about teachers raising money online for their students. Your take?"
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eSchool News
The days of overhead projectors and chalkboards are behind us. Today's educators are looking to Chromebooks, smartphones and maker spaces to enhance their teaching. Other tools going the way of the overhead projector? The traditional textbook and workbook combination, complete with a #2 pencil. As digital natives, today's students have grown up with technology integrated into every aspect of their lives, and education is no exception.
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Istation
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Education Week
A provision of the House and Senate tax bills could increase how much schools pay for long-term debt, and subsequently shrink resources for students and teachers. That's the view of the Association of School Business Officials International, which represents officials who oversee budgets, capital costs and maintenance in K-12 and in higher education. Their beef is that the bill would no longer allow districts to get a tax exemption for certain bonds that helps them pay off outstanding debt at lower interest rates.
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Education DIVE
Pai has suggested that net neutrality rules have harmed innovation, hindering broadband investment and expansion by corporations. But consumer advocates and many major tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Netflix have expressed support for the regulations. Should they be rolled back, schools will particularly have to consider whether a decision to adopt digital materials beyond what's offered by major providers could result in those resources potentially being delivered at a slower speed.
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The Atlantic
A school district north of Denver is doing away with the traditional parent teacher conferences this year, instead urging parents to log in to a website to find out how their children are doing. The Commerce-City based Adams 14 school district says it made the change in an effort to squeeze in as much instructional time as possible. The 7,500-student district — where almost half the students are English language learners and about 85 percent qualify for subsidized lunches — has long struggled academically and is under a state-ordered improvement plan.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Jenny Abamu, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "At the beginning of my fifth grade school year, my family was homeless, or as some say, transitional — meaning an individual who is a resident in temporary housing. We lived in hotels for a period of time. And we would 'double up,' which means to live with other families. I don't remember much from that year, but I do remember that no one asked if I was alright. No one seemed to notice — not my classmates, teachers or administrators. For a long time, I didn't even know there was a technical term for my housing situation, and I didn't realize being an unidentified transitional student in Texas is not unique, either."
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MindShift
Flexible seating in classrooms has become popular over the past few years as educators try to make school feel like a welcoming place with different kinds of spaces for different types of learning. Frustrated with static rows of clunky desks, some teachers have taken to rearranging their rooms, bringing in furniture from home, and generally trying to shake up the way classrooms feel by paying attention to lighting, color and clutter. Educators who have followed this path insist there are some serious considerations to keep in mind.
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eSchool News
The generation in school now is the first generation raised entirely in the Age of Technology. They are digital natives, many of them using computers, smartphones and other digital tools nearly from birth. As technology continues to grow and expand, so too will the ways we use it. This growth and expansion will impact the types of jobs that will be available in the next 10–20 years. So how do we as educators prepare Gen Z for jobs that may not even exist yet?
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Education Week
A recently released batch of federal data offers a portrait of the nation's homeschool population, including the backgrounds of students and their families' reasons for choosing that option. The information provides potentially useful intel for companies that are working in the homeschool market or thinking of jumping into it. The data are included in the "First Look" report on Parent and Family Involvement in Education, a collection of survey results published by the National Center for Education Statistics, in which parents were asked a series of questions about their children's education.
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Edutopia
On-task comportment, engagement, effort and participation — praise enhances them all. Even the most challenging behaviors yield to praise, according to many studies. Maybe, like me, you've experienced how praise alters the consciousness of both the giver and receiver.
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eSchool News
An alarmingly large majority of U.S. teachers — 78 percent — say they feel they haven't received the training they need to teach with technology in the classroom, according to new research. The study from edtech and coding company SAM Labs, conducted online with independent research firm 72 Point, outlines the opportunities teachers see when it comes to technology in the classroom, as well as some of the biggest challenges the U.S. education system faces related to computer science and coding.
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Detroit Free Press
Special education in Michigan schools is underfunded by nearly $700 million — a shortfall that leaves school districts with less money to educate their general education students. That's according to a report from a special education task force subcommittee that was released by Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, an advocate for special education students. The $700 million is the difference between what it costs to educate special education students in Michigan and what the state spends to educate them.
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Disability Scoop
Jennifer was sitting on a plane at Denver International Airport last March when she got an email on her phone that made her want to scream with joy. It was official. She and her husband Joe had won their long-running case against the Douglas County School District with a unanimous decision from the highest court in the land.
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NAESP
What can leaders do to motivate themselves and others to complete the school year with phenomenal success in reaching project outcomes? Join us next Webinar Wednesday to learn timely tips and proven strategies with Jacob Clifford to persevere and finish the school year strong. This webinar takes place Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 3–4 p.m. EST.
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NAESP
What will matter most to students when they have moved on from their time with us? As an elementary school principal, I keep coming back to this question. Even as I focus on leading efforts to develop a solid foundation for literacy, mathematics, science, and technology, I think continually about essential skills that will provide students with opportunities to experience a successful and fulfilled life five, 15, and even 30 years from now.
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