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Inc.
The trend from a recent "Happiness at Work" poll by Partners In Leadership confirms what our gut tells us: when employees are happier at work, 85 percent say they take more initiative; 73 percent say they are better collaborators; and 48 percent care more about their work. Recent research by economists at the University of Warwick has even found that the brain functions more effectively when a person is feeling positive about themselves and their surroundings.
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Leadership Freak
Throwing in the towel feels like relief when hope turns to disappointment. Sometimes the voice in your head says, "It's not worth it." Meaningful achievement includes disappointment. Hard-fought battles taste sweet but include frustrations, setbacks, and disenchantment.
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Forbes
Leaders are tasked with the responsibility of developing the strategic vision for our organizations. This means that we first define the path forward, then develop strategies to reach our goals. Finally, we must continually nurture and adjust the vision as our organizations turn imagination into reality. This is not a one-time or a part-time undertaking; it is what we do every single day.
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Leadership Freak
Everyone who reaches high falls short. There is no progress apart from falling short. "Progress is falling short a little less each time." Falling short — small failure — is easy to hide from others. It's easy to ignore and just press forward. What happens after you fall short leads to catastrophe or victory. Catastrophe lurks for all who ignore small failures and tolerate little inconsistencies.
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By: Catherine Iste (commentary)
 Dissatisfaction with work can affect even the happiest employees from executive down to the front line. Sometimes it can be directly attributed to a discrete event: a new boss, lack of promotion, change in business strategy. However, it can also be the result of a less obvious and more pervasive problem: an inaccurate job description. The disconnect between what we do daily and that little document that summarizes our responsibilities can be significant.
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Monique Valcour, a contributor for Harvard Business Review, writes: "'Traditional approaches to staying focused don't work for me.' 'I know what I should do to be more productive, but I just don't do it.' I hear sentences like these repeatedly from coaching clients. Many have read articles and books — and have even been trained in productivity methods — but still find staying focused to be an uphill battle. Why do people who know a lot about what helps people focus still struggle to focus? Through my work, I've identified several reasons, as well as strategies that may help you gain control."
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eSchool News
Parent engagement in their child's education is key to successful growth, but consistently engaging parents is at the top of the list of teacher frustration. Teachers must establish communication with parents by figuring out what works best for them and showing that they are a team when it comes to their child.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Ben Johnson, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "While I was helping an older gentlemen clean out his house after Hurricane Harvey, he asked me a poignant question, 'Do you know what it feels like to have everything under control, not worrying about a thing, when suddenly you're dealing with a hurricane?' I comforted him as best I could. Later, I reflected on that question. I thought about my life struggles, including those very tough few years as a beginning teacher way back when. I'm quick to admit that I made plenty of mistakes along the way to becoming what I am now, a veteran teacher."
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NBC News
The U.S. Agriculture Department released a new school lunch rule that would let cafeterias skip the whole grains and serve salty food, as well as sweetened milk. Health experts gave the new rule an "F" and said a return to unhealthy standards is not the way to get kids to eat better. The USDA included similar rules in May as part of temporary budget legislation.
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Education World
Could you be working smarter in your day-to-day teaching? Teachers spend a tremendous amount of time and energy carefully crafting lesson plans and assessments. A key player in high-quality instruction often gets overlooked — the learning environment. How could adjusting the physical space of the classroom work to meet your learners' needs? A student-centered environment prioritizes the individual needs of each student and gives them freedom and choice in their learning.
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Distict Administration Magazine
What if we taught kids how to think, not what to think? That question is the focus of Re:Thinking, a new documentary that inspires educators, politicians and the public to reimagine schools. The film is based on the work of Derek and Laura Cabrera, cognitive scientists who apply systems-based concepts to learning design, leadership and organizational change. Producer and director Deborah C. Hoard spent three years observing schools that practice this approach to learning. She says these educators meet public education requirements while embracing a culture that emphasizes thinking over memorization and sees the individual child not as an empty vessel to be filled but as an adult-in-training.
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Edutopia
Do your students turn the pages of a book or swipe the screen of a tablet as they read a new story? When children scroll through a blog post like the one you're reading, how do they know when to pause, click, share or talk about what they've read? Today's readers are diving into text in ways we simply couldn't imagine a decade or two ago. They navigate a new world of print and digital reading material, and our work as educators is to prepare them to grow and shine as readers.
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Education World (commentary)
It's happened to all of us, and although I'd love to tell you it won't happen again, I just can't: Sometimes what feels like even the best, most engaging, exciting, and well-planned lesson ... just implodes. Sometimes it is simply due to the ever-changing classroom climate: students are fickle, and every day is a roll of the dice. Still, with time and reflection, you begin to become aware of some of the more common maladies that will knock the legs out from under your otherwise sturdy lesson. Here are some of the things to pay close attention to this coming week.
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Stanford University News
For years, parents and policymakers have looked to test scores to gauge the effectiveness of school districts and teachers. New research from Stanford Graduate School of Education Professor Sean Reardon provides a different measure: students' academic progress over a period of years. Reardon examined test scores for students in third through eighth grade at 11,000 school districts across the country. Third-grade test scores, he found — whether they were higher or lower than the national average — did not correlate to students' academic growth through elementary and middle school.
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Youth Truth Survey
Across all grade levels, the majority of students feel engaged, according to data by the San Francisco-based nonprofit YouthTruth Student Survey. On a more concerning note, the survey found that less than half of secondary students feel that what they’re learning in class helps them outside of school, with high school students feeling slightly less positively than middle school students.
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New York University via Science Daily
Student teachers with more multicultural awareness foster more positive classroom environments for their students, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and published in the Journal of Teacher Education. However, multicultural awareness varies considerably among future teachers based on their own race or ethnicity and prior experience working with youth of color.
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THE Journal
Early test scores do not predict future academic growth, according to new research from Stanford. The research was performed by Sean Reardon, a professor who studies poverty and inequality in education at the university, and based upon analysis of test scores of students in grades 3-8 at 11,000 districts across the country. Those scores are stored in the Stanford Education Data Archive, which makes a range of data from schools across the United States publicly available.
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EdScoop
The Data Quality Campaign's latest analysis of the states' federally required education "report cards" contains some good news about overall data-sharing habits — and some not-so-good news about the usability of that data. DQC's Show Me the Data 2017 analysis concluded that states have gotten better at providing more relevant and timely data, but many fall short when it comes to clarity, accessibility and completeness in their report cards.
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NAESP
Principals and educators of all stripes are welcome to join us on Twitter this coming Wednesday for a chat on "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year." NAESP is joining forces with #NAESPChat to discuss how educators are making the most of this crucial time during the school-year. This chat takes place Dec. 13, at 9 p.m. EST. Use hashtags #NAESPChat and #KidsDeserveIt to participate.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals today announced that Danny Carlson will serve as the Association's Assistant Executive Director, Policy, Advocacy, and Special Projects. Carlson's 10 years of pre-K–12 policy experience at federal, state and district levels will help reinforce NAESP's mission to lead in the advocacy and support for elementary and middle-level principals and other education leaders in their commitment for all children. In this role, Carlson will guide NAESP's advocacy and legislative initiatives and strategic alliances to advance the Association's policy agenda.
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