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School Leaders Now
Need a way to keep morale up and staff energized this month? We have you covered with this Staff Countdown to Holiday Break! Tons of talented administrators and school leaders have been sharing the ways they use a countdown-type of activity each year in the busy month of December. With the many emotions associated with the holidays and anticipation of days off of school, this time of the year can be super challenging for students and teachers alike.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Michael S. Gaskell, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "Suspension has been a commonly used disciplinary method in schools for decades. Unfortunately, it also has no positive impact on students. What's worse, these same children often develop a dislike for law enforcement that lasts into adulthood. This is a dangerous cycle that we have to stop to help students stay in school, develop positive relationships with adults in positions of authority, and achieve greater success. At my school, we found a solution. Read on and you will discover where the idea came from and how to replicate it in your school."
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Training Industry Magazine
Leaders are measured by their ability to inspire and influence others. Another critical measure of leadership is the ability to develop talent for future leadership roles. Effective leaders are less concerned with telling others what, how and when to complete a task and, instead, focus on empowering their team members to discover solutions for themselves and act accordingly as leaders.
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Harvard Business Review
People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. What can you do if you want to face your fear of screwing up and push beyond it to success? Here are four steps you can take.
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Forbes
How do you take the seed of an idea and nourish and grow it into a full-fledged, super-successful business? For Nicole Farb, CEO and cofounder of the video shopping platform Darby Smart, the key ingredient is confidence. The word confidence comes up a lot in conversation with Farb, whether she’s talking about Darby Smart’s wide community of users, or about having the gumption to break into the boys’ club of Silicon Valley.
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School Leaders Now
Nothing tears down a workplace culture like negative talk. This is particularly true in a school environment, where bad attitudes can trickle down from unhappy teachers and staff to students and then be carried home to families and into the greater community. So what's an administrator to do? Here are ten great books recommended by members of our Principal Life Facebook group to help you promote a positive school culture.
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Inc.
We live in a world where nearly every parent encourages their children to get good grades in school. Not only that, there might even be the expectation that their child should get ALL As — a perfect 4.0 grade point average — for their entire academic life. Anything less would be considered a disappointment (you know who you are parents). The belief, of course, is that unless a child performs well in school, they won't experience the same success in life as those children who get all As.
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Quartz (commentary)
Nora Bateson, a contributor for Quartz, writes: "In this era of multiple crises and global threats, I am increasingly uneasy with the call for leadership. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson, and other iconic figures are held up as examples of true leaders: They offered charisma, vision and strength enough to pioneer new eras of thought. The lack of such characters now, we are told, suggests a vacuum in our capacity to generate the old-school kind of hope for the future that these courageous individuals embodied."
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Fast Company
Great leaders understand they don't operate in a vacuum and that building the right team can define their success. They put their own ego aside and make the people around them better–and they get a reputation for helping others achieve.
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Training Industry Magazine (commentary)
Leena Patel, a contributor for Training Industry Magazine, writes: "Did you know that 70 percent of all change initiatives fail? That's because we are living at a time when the future of business is highly unpredictable. We don't know what the world is going to look like in five years. The old expression, "What got me to where I am will get me to where I need to be" no longer applies. Sixty-five percent of children entering school today will work in jobs that don't exist yet, and the times when an individual contributor was a cog in the wheel, working on the assembly line, are fast disappearing."
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NPR
For public school teacher Kaitlyn McCollum, even simple acts like washing dishes or taking a shower can fill her with dread. "It will just hit me like a ton of bricks," McCollum says. " 'Oh my God, I owe all of that money.' And it's, like, a knee-buckling moment of panic all over again." She and her family recently moved to a much smaller, older house. One big reason for the downsizing: a $24,000 loan that McCollum has been unfairly saddled with because of a paperwork debacle at the U.S. Department of Education.
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The New York Times
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is not shy about sharing his taste for chocolate milk. "I wouldn't be as big as I am today without chocolate milk," Perdue told reporters in May 2017, while discussing his plan to relax Obama-era school lunch rules. It was one of his first days on the job. Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture announced its final plans to lower nutrition standards for grains, flavored milks and sodium in school cafeterias that were part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and that Michelle Obama, the former first lady, had advocated.
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Education DIVE
Knowing that digital equity can help close the achievement gap and help prepare students for success in college and the workforce, our district has invested time and effort over the past few years into infusing uniform technology into our classrooms. Ultimately, our goal was to transform our rural district from one where teachers and students used disparate technology dry erase boards in one room, traditional projectors in another — into one that helps all students and teachers thrive in a 21st century learning environment.
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EdScoop
The Consortium for School Networking and EdScoop are calling on U.S. school district leaders to nominate promising individuals making a difference in K-12 education technology. This year's search for next generation school technology leaders began as part of an annual recognition program conducted by CoSN and co-sponsored by EdScoop.
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Education Week
Fueled by technological advances, changing state policies, and a continued push from advocates, ed-tech companies and researchers are crafting new tools and strategies to better serve students with disabilities. Underlying a range of new trends, experts say, is a growing recognition that designing learning resources from the beginning with students with disabilities in mind can benefit all students.
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EdTech Magazine
The Internet of Things is making a big splash in K–12 school districts. Connected IoT devices provide school IT pros with helpful real-time data to share with educators and students. Some of those connected systems include smart lighting and HVAC, facial recognition technology, wireless door locks and temperature monitors, interactive whiteboards, IP surveillance cameras and other sensor-equipped items.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Ashlee Tripp, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "If you asked my coworkers to describe me, they probably wouldn't arrive at the word flexible. Routines, to-do lists, and structures calm me. When my roster hit 36 a couple years ago, I shoved yet another desk into my room and carried on. But watching the athletes among my juniors and seniors squeeze into desks made for pre-growth-spurt underclassmen finally made me feel a need for change."
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eSchool News
Even with the Next Generation Science Standard's emphasis on engineering, there's still a feeling that in preschool and kindergarten, teachers shouldn't place as much emphasis on the E in STEM. But younger children can learn and benefit from modified lessons.
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Education World (commentary)
Keith Lambert, a contributor for Education World, writes: "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."
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Teaching Channel (commentary)
Brett Bigham, a contributor for Teaching Channel, writes: "I'm a huge fan of using those lost minutes in a classroom to teach. What Ms. Torres has done here with her 'Line Up With Numbers' has reclaimed her line-up time for class time. Most people know that different students learn in different ways and any time we can fit additional visual, audial and kinesthetic learning into our classrooms, the more opportunities our students have to learn."
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CBS News
If you have kids and wonder if all that time they spend on their smartphones endlessly scrolling, snapping and texting is affecting their brains, you might want to put down your own phone and pay attention. The federal government, through the National Institutes of Health, has launched the most ambitious study of adolescent brain development ever attempted. In part, scientists are trying to understand what no one currently does: how all that screen time impacts the physical structure of your kids' brains, as well as their emotional development and mental health.
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Forbes
What do we want out of our schools? It turns out that opinions differ. That is the takeaway from EdChoice's annual Schooling in America Survey. The survey asked respondents where they would send their children if they had a totally free choice. 36 percent said traditional public school, 13 percent said charter, 40 percent said private and 10 percent said homeschool (two percent didn't know).
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Education Week
In recent years, more state-sponsored early-childhood education programs have called on teachers to obtain four-year degrees and additional training. But a study released this month raises some key questions about what is known about the quality of these teacher preparation programs. "The research suggests that we don't know what a high-quality, early-child program looks like, so there's no guarantee that if an early educator goes through a degree program that it will improve their practice," said Ashley LiBetti, an associate partner with Bellwether Education Partners and the author of the study, "Let the Research Show."
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The Hechinger Report
A look at raw numbers of who is most likely to be suspended from school indicates that black students and students with disabilities are at the top of the list. For example, 23 percent of black students and 18 percent of students with disabilities were suspended from high school during 2011-2012 school year, compared with fewer than 7 percent of white students overall.
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Chalkbeat
Second-graders at Aurora Quest scrutinized a complicated calendar on their classroom wall. Each day had a different kind of clock and a different background. Their hands raised impatiently, they described ever-more intricate patterns. In a fifth-grade classroom across the school, students analyzed data on tablets and tested a series of claims against it. Were the claims true or false or did they just not have enough evidence?
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The Conversation
A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This fight has been a long time coming and is now suddenly at full steam. In 1973, plaintiffs in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez argued that school funding inequities violated the right to education. The Supreme Court rejected education as a fundamental right under the federal Constitution, leaving funding inequalities in Texas and elsewhere completely untouched.
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NAESP
Cultures reflect visions of an ideal, especially in the world of education. So, when six school districts across the country took on the challenge of transforming their leadership cultivation practices through The Wallace Foundation's Principal Supervisor Initiative, they knew it would involve changing their existing cultures and visions.
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NAESP
So many people say they aren't techie and fear is at the heart of it all. Create a mindset of innovation not failure and start clicking those links to amplify your inner techieness that is already inside of you! Join presenter Adam Welcome for an informative webinar on learning technology tools that will build your practice. This webinar takes place Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. ET.
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