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School Leaders Now
One of the greatest joys of being a school leader is also one of the greatest challenges: No two days look exactly the same. Despite neatly organized calendars and to-do lists, an administrator's day rarely goes exactly as planned. While principals quickly learn to expect the unexpected, larger challenges can present themselves as roadblocks to derail the important work we set out to accomplish.
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District Administration Magazine
Lack of resources. Tight deadlines. Inadequate training. These scenarios can trigger anxiety, frustration or other negative emotions at public schools. "I felt all of these things," says Chett Daniel, a former fourth-grade ELA teacher at Neosho School District in Missouri. Daniel quit teaching last year to launch his own consulting firm, K12 HR Solutions. "Often, the areas related to negativity are the ever-changing dynamics in education."
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PBS Newshour
Across the country, rural schools are being forced to shut down as more families move to urban areas and funding sources dry up. In Arena, Wisconsin, six-year-old Brady Schlamp must now travel 10 miles to school. His former school, right around the corner, was shuttered. As Jeffrey Brown reports, the closures can cause logistical challenges, emotional fallout and community divisions.
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Forbes
Respect is the new currency in the workplace. Our research has shown time and again that if salary and compensation are truly the biggest motivators to high performance, organizations are in big trouble. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, 65 percent of employees said the respectful treatment of all employees at all levels in the organization is a very important contributor to their job satisfaction.
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Inc.
When you look at society today and compare it to how things were a hundred years ago, it's hard to find something that hasn't changed. OK, maybe Velveeta (invented in 1918). But seriously, globalization, science, medicine, and technology have evolved at an alarming pace. But one thing that hasn't evolved, tragically, since the Industrial Revolution is the mindset and belief system of today's management thinking and practice.
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Leadership Freak
You can't predict the path forward when facing new challenges. But leading a new team, thanks to "Tuckman's Stages," has elements of predictability.
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Harvard Business Review
When setting team goals, many managers feel that they must maintain a tricky balance between setting targets high enough to achieve impressive results and setting them low enough to keep the troops happy. But the assumption that employees are more likely to welcome lower goals doesn't stand up to scrutiny. In fact, our research indicates that in some situations people perceive higher goals as easier to attain than lower ones — and even when that's not the case, they still can find those more challenging goals more appealing.
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District Administration Magazine
Faced with budget challenges, shrinking municipal and state support, and intense public scrutiny, public schools may find allies in organizations that have traditionally supported charter schools and private providers. Now, foundations are questioning their investment in charters and turning their attention to public school systems that are committed to innovation, equity and success for all students.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 Meetings are an essential tool in the work your team does, of course — but are you running yours as productively as you can be? You could likely improve the way you plan, conduct and follow through on the important points you and your staff members are covering. But how do you know where to start? Use this new research to step up your game — and boost your company's productivity and profits.
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The Lead Change Group
Dealing with the growing demands of a career and your personal life can seem like a never-ending challenge. In today's competitive market where employees are expected to do more with less, the pressure of managing both your career and family is rising. However, the right balance varies over time depending on whether you're single or married with children. But, a few steps in the right direction can go a long way. We've put together a brief on how you can actively work towards achieving the right work-life balance for you.
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Leadership Freak
Even Eeyore is right sometimes. Overly optimistic leaders: Minimize challenges, fail to anticipate problems, and throw in the towel when it stays dark too long.
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Education Week
What's in a name? A lot, apparently. Members of the panel that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress — better known as the Nation's Report Card — approved small but significant changes to the test's description of what constitutes "advanced," "proficient" and "basic" performance. From now on, they'll be preceded by the word NAEP, as in "NAEP advanced", "NAEP proficient," and "NAEP basic," and references to performance in a grade will be stricken and replaced with performance on the NAEP assessment.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The FBI has issued a warning for the nation’s K-12 schools amid the increasing threats to student data privacy. As we rapidly move to all-digital education platforms, cybersecurity attacks on education technology companies have risen. Ed-tech companies and schools must take extra precautions to protect student data. Along with these attacks, increasing instances of cryptomining are posing another new threat to K-12 schools.
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EdTech Magazine
New research from Macquarie University's Department of Educational Studies and education technology company Makers Empire finds 3-D printing integration can boost creativity, critical thinking and design skills among primary school students. Researchers involved in the project, which took place between August 2017 to July 2018, saw increased levels of student engagement and educator confidence in the 24 classrooms that used the 3-D modeling and printing applications.
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Edutopia
Written and spoken language play a significant role in all classes. But if you're trained as a science teacher, how do you support literacy development without losing content time for science?
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THE Journal
A new report from the Education Trust looks at the role of two "powerful levers" — choice and relevancy — in motivating and engaging students. This national nonprofit works on issues that disproportionately affect students from low-income families and students of color. In its new paper the organization offered guidance to help educators bring relevancy to their assignments and give students "authentic choices."
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eSchool News
Minecraft has pretty amazing potential as a teaching tool. In general, it promotes creativity and problem-solving as it boosts engagement. But it also can improve achievement when confident teachers incorporate it into instruction. It's easy for students to become absorbed in Minecraft worlds, mainly due to the game's "sandbox" nature–it's open-ended and offers unlimited possibilities for math, science, and building challenges. And the game isn't just for STEM classes, either. It can help build social and emotional skills, it can illustrate concepts found in literature and history classes, and more.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Harry O'Malley, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Let's play a game. Ready? I'll show you an object and you try to guess its mass. We'll play three rounds. To start, play the video below, pausing when instructed."
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The Hechinger Report
What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5 percent fewer public school students a decade from now. "If it does come true, we're going to see massive changes," said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. "Nobody is talking about this."
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University of Montreal via Science Daily
Children from low-income families who got intensive education early in life treat others with high levels of fairness in midlife, more than 40 years later, even when being fair comes at a high personal cost, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The 78 people in the study were followed as part of the Abecedarian Project, begun in the 1970s and to this day one of the longest running randomized controlled studies of the effects of early childhood education in low-income and high-risk families.
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Education Week
Call it "reform fatigue" or "solutionitus," but most teachers and principals understand and dread the constant churn of promising school improvements that sputter out in classrooms or are discarded when district leaders change. A new report looks at how altering the way schools integrate innovation may help sustain effective changes for the long term. The report is part of an initiative by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study so-called "systems thinking," which looks at how different aspects of a district or other system affect each other.
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EdTech Magazine
At 70 public schools in Louisiana, in partnership with Tulane University, a new program using data analytics to monitor student behavior has reduced the number of disciplinary incidents by 72 percent, according to a new study released by Tulane's Education Research Alliance. Educators and administrators have raised concerns over the rate of disciplinary action involving minority students, with schools in states such as New York showing significant differences in instances of expulsion and suspension between white and black students.
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Tifton Gazette
Dr. Earl Franks, a Tifton native, was inducted into the Alabama Educational Leadership Hall of Fame Nov. 15 in Hawkins Hall at Troy University. Franks, a TROY alumnus, is currently a executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, a professional organization serving elementary and middle school principals and other education leaders throughout the United States, Canada and overseas based in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Chalkbeat
Kathryn Raasch worries about which Indianapolis children have the opportunity to go to preschool. As the principal of Wayne Township Preschool in Indianapolis, Raasch sees how many low-income families rely on public dollars to pay tuition for their 3- and 4-year-olds to attend high-quality early learning programs. In Wayne Township, three-quarters of families are poor enough for their children to qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
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Houston Chronicle
Texas spent less money this year to help fewer babies and toddlers struggling with autism, speech delays, Down syndrome or other disabilities than it did six years ago despite estimates that more children are in need, according to a report. Children under three years old with disabilities or developmental delays are eligible for therapy through the state's Early Childhood Intervention program to help them learn to walk, communicate and get ready for school. The services are available to any family regardless of income. The therapy is free for children in foster care or those covered by Medicaid.
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The Huffington Post
In the days since Camp Fire ravaged Butte County, consuming 150,000 acres and more than 10,000 homes, Annie Finney's house has been turned into a makeshift school, filled with a group of eager second-graders. Finney, a teacher at Children's Community Charter School in Paradise, California, is one of the lucky ones. Most of her school burned down, but her house is still standing, which is more than many of her students and co-workers can say.
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NAESP
The National Educational Leadership Preparation standards, which guide education leader preparation, have been approved by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration and the Council for the Accreditation for Educator Preparation. The NELP preparation standards officially replaced the Educational Leadership Constituent Council standards in 2018.
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NAESP
If some schools can overcome the powerful and pervasive effects of poverty to become high performing, shouldn't any school be able to do the same? Shouldn't we be compelled to learn from those schools? Register now to experience a powerful virtual learning experience and learn how to help all of your students succeed — and how you and your school can adopt the same practices no matter what socio-economic climate students live in. This Webinar takes place Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. ET.
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