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School Leaders Now
Teachers are stressed out. With the demands of classroom management and the pressures of meeting national standards, the expanded role of teachers in the U.S. is causing chronic mental health issues. As educators, we are quick to tend to the needs of our classroom community. In the process, we disregard our own mental health needs. This is undoubtedly contributing to the high attrition rate that is seen within the teaching profession. As we seek to build school communities that meet the needs of all of its members, this pattern in behavior must be interrupted.
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Education Week
When hiring teachers, district leaders prioritize "cultural fit" above all else, including training and experience. But most are unable to measure what exactly that means. That's according to a new study from the Frontline Research and Learning Institute, which asked 594 school and district hiring managers from across the United States to describe their hiring preferences. Slightly more than half of the respondents were involved in recruiting and hiring decisions at the school level (like principals) and the rest served at the district level, mostly in human resources.
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The Atlantic (commentary)
The grade-school lunchroom has long acted as a microcosm of social life. It’s where kids choose whom to sit with, develop friendships, and resolve conflicts. And lunch is one of the few less-supervised periods in most kids’ school days. Over the past several years, however, some school cafeterias have become invaded by a new group: parents.
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The Washington Post
The education world has long been filled with debate about how to improve troubled schools and help kids succeed academically and otherwise. Better teachers? Better school resources? Better school buildings (ones that aren't, for example, crumbling or homes to rodents)? Desegregated schools and neighborhoods? Feeding hungry kids? Providing medical care for kids and their families? Stabilizing communities where kids live and providing parents with adult education, jobs and other supports they need to keep their families functioning?
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Education World
Students who are disruptive, can't concentrate or lack motivation may not need a firm hand; they might need a helping hand! From Nebraska to Texas to New York, administrators have found that some of the kids in their care can't function well at school not because they don't want to learn but because they are hungry. With the help of communities, the simple remedy is a backpack — a school standby — that is filled with food supplies to help kids get the fuel they need to flourish. Included: A snapshot of hungry kids in one state and advice from successful backpack programs.
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The Lead Change Group
What do you think characterizes modern-day change leadership practice? In truth, a casual observer focused on media channels might be hard-pressed to move beyond greed, vested interests, abuse of power, poor ethics, "Me first," and a top-down targeted culture.
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By: D. Albert Brannen (commentary)
 Hiring interviews and exit interviews are standard HR practices. "Stay interviews" are not as well-known and seldom used. However, they could be the most important interviews your organization could ever conduct. In case you are not familiar with the term, a "stay interview" is simply asking employees: "What makes you stay?" A stay interview can also cover more discrete issues like why an employee stays within a particular department, on a project, or with a particular manager or supervisor.
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Inc.
People do not like getting negative feedback. This is not just my opinion — psychologists researching appraisal and management of work confirm it to be true. So it is no wonder that many leaders avoid tough conversations with their teammates. But while you might not enjoy it, there is no other option than to give and receive critical feedback if you want the team to improve. Besides, your teammates really want your honest input.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Mark Nevins, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "A few months ago, a former client — let's call her Kacie — called me to check in. I had supported her through her transition when she had joined a prestigious global financial services firm several months prior. Given how deliberately and thoughtfully she'd gone through the process, I expected that our conversation would be about her early wins. Instead, Kacie confessed that she had a simple but serious problem: she wasn't getting along well with a peer-level executive — let's call her Marta. The two had gotten off on the wrong foot, and as time passed things weren’t getting any better."
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 Increasingly in this century, researchers and business analysts are paying attention to what increases creativity. What are the approaches and habits you can adopt that will promote and increase your own creative output? Some of the research results are surprising. Although earlier articles and books on the creative process recommended such common-sense strategies as organizing your time and workspace to maximize creative output, more recent data-based research suggests there’s more to It than that — that too narrow a focus on organization can inhibit creativity.
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Leadership Freak
The negative impact of experience is a closed mind. The story of David and Goliath in the Hebrew Bible illustrates the power of embracing new methods when facing unexpected challenges.
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Inc. (commentary)
Bruce Eckfeldt, a contributor for Inc., writes: "I frequently get calls from investors in early-stage companies asking me to meet their portfolio CEOs when things get rocky. Sometimes, the strategy isn't working and they need help with a pivot. Other times, they are having difficulty executing and their processes need refinement. More often than not, these challenges arise because the company has grown, the teams are getting bigger and the founder is struggling to adapt."
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By: Lloyd Princeton (commentary)
 Have you ever had the experience of trying to get the attention of a store clerk or waiter, only to have them go about whatever they were doing and act like you weren't there? How did that make you feel? Were you annoyed, angry, exasperated? I'm guessing the one thing you weren't feeling was satisfied that they had properly responded to your attempt to communicate with them. The point of my example is that most people in a face-to-face situation would consider being ignored or not getting or giving a response as inappropriate and rude. Yet, it is becoming quite common in business communications.
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Education Week
George H.W. Bush, who styled himself as the "education president" and spearheaded a historic 1989 summit meeting with governors that helped propel the standards-based education improvement movement, has died at age 94. Bush died in Houston on Friday, Nov. 30. Bush's wife of 73 years, Barbara Pierce Bush, died April 17 at age 92.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 Chronic absenteeism data for schools is about to become much more public. By the end of this month, the Every Student Succeeds Act has required that schools list chronic absenteeism rates on their state report cards. Many schools across the country have already started to do this, and the work started with states defining at what point absences would be considered a chronic issue. By whichever standard you use, there is no debate that chronic absenteeism among students is a growing problem that plagues all schools.
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EdWeek Market Brief
Educators' use of a wide variety of digital tools and platforms — from instructional videos to learning management systems to openly licensed content — has risen over the past year, according to a new survey. Teachers' use of ed tech increased significantly for 9 out of 13 different types of ed tech they were asked about in the survey, which was conducted by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the country's biggest K-12 companies, and YouGov, a market research and analytics firm.
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eSchool News
The use of digital resources and tools in classrooms is at an all-time high, but educators still say they need more time and training if they are to effectively integrate technology resources into their curriculum. Ninety-six percent of the more than 1,200 teachers surveyed in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's fourth annual Educator Confidence Report say they see the many benefits of using ed-tech tools in the classroom, with 63 percent citing improved student engagement as the top benefit. But despite that enthusiasm, 52 percent say time to integrate the tools into their curriculum remains the biggest barrier to more effective technology use.
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EdTech Magazine
For K–12 schools interested in integrating state-of-the-art education technology, IT teams would do well to first invest in power distribution units. These solutions will help handle the load of any new technology in the school, whether adding new whiteboards or executing an entire digital overhall. Oak Ridge Schools chose monitored PDUs for its digital transformation; however, intelligent PDUs are available in several functional levels.
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Education DIVE
Empathy can be a tough concept to teach kids. First there's the subtle difference between empathy and sympathy, which can be difficult to explain even to adults. Then there's the elusive dictionary definition — "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another." This begs the question: how can someone truly understand how someone else is feeling? Are some people born with this innate ability, or is it a skill that can be learned and sharpened?
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Education Next (commentary)
There's a terrific story about the late Frank McCourt, who became famous as the author of Angela's Ashes and other books, but who was McCourt the English teacher to a generation of students at Stuyvesant High and other New York City schools. One day a student asked what possible use a particular work of literature he assigned would have in his life. "You will read it for the same reason your parents waste their money on your piano lessons," McCourt replied. "So you won't be a boring little shite the rest of your life."
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Edutopia (commentary)
As educators, one of the most important life skills we teach students is independence. In middle school, we foster gradual responsibility. We also encourage students to take a more active role in their own learning and to develop the tools needed to self-advocate. Providing students with the ability to have open discussions with their parents about their successes and struggles puts these skills into practice in a collaborative, supportive way.
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Education World
Winter is approaching, and Education World has you covered with activities for students in and out of the classroom. The following activities have options for students to exercise and be creative. Here are six winter activities for the classroom.
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Scientific America
Something is amiss among today's youth. This observation isn't the perennial "kids these days" plaint by your middle-aged correspondent. According to San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge, as reported in her book iGen (Atria, 2017), to the question "Do you have [a] psychological disorder (depression, etc.)?" the percentage of college students born in 1995 and after (the Internet Generation, or iGen) answering affirmatively in a Higher Education Research Institute study rose between 2012 and 2016.
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EdScoop
A significant number of New York school districts are dedicating state technology funds to physical security, but in some cases the investments are prompting public outcry over privacy concerns. Of the 53 districts that have been approved to receive funding under the Smart Schools Bond Act — a broad, $2 billion program approved in 2014 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — 25 have set aside funding for high-tech security upgrades. In the wake of roughly two dozen school shootings around the country this year, administrators have made it clear that improving outdated safety measures is a top technology priority for schools.
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NAESP
To address the gap between early childhood programs and early elementary schooling, the National Association of Elementary School Principals developed and piloted the NAESP Pre-K-3 Leadership Academy. The blended learning academy trains school leaders in the necessary competencies to oversee education in early childhood settings. The inaugural cohort took place in Alabama in the 2017-2018 school year and included 29 school leaders.
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NAESP
Landscape Structures Inc., NAESP's partner in inclusive play and education, is proud to be working with Shane's Inspiration to promote the animated short film, "Ian." This powerful, Academy Award eligible film, aims to help children understand disability and spread the message of inclusion to every home. In honor of National Inclusive Schools Week beginning Dec. 3, Landscape Structures is providing the opportunity for educators across the country to screen this film with students to help address the ever-growing issue of bullying. Tools to facilitate Q&A following the film can be found at www.shanesinspiration.org/IanFilm. A limited number of schools will also have the opportunity for the filmmakers to Skype into the Q&A portion of your screening all the way from Argentina!
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