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As 2016 comes to a close, NAESP would like to wish its members, partners and other education professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on this past year in education, we would like to provide the readers of NAESP's Before the Bell a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 6.
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Education DIVE
From Oct. 21:
When education insiders pick apart the factors that make a school successful, there's often a lot of conversation about academic rigor, resources, quality of teachers and even, in some cases, the socio-economic makeup of the students within the school. But the success of a school is as dependent on the principal as any other single determining factor one could list. If there's a great emphasis on continuous learning environments for students, it stands to reason that equally important is the professional development and continued education of the adults in the school, too.
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THE Journal
From Nov. 11:
Disturbingly little is known with any certainty about President-Elect Donald J. Trump's plans for education. Even credible speculation is difficult, given that Trump is far from a traditional Republican and that his statements on a range of issues have proved somewhat inconsistent over the last year or so. But one thing is certain for a Trump presidency backed by a Republican-dominated Congress: Education policy is going to move in a new direction.
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The Huffington Post
From Sept. 23:
Recently launched, the OECD's new report, "School Leadership for Learning: Insights from Teaching and Learning International Survey 2013", specifically looks at different approaches to school leadership and its impact on professional learning communities and on the learning environment in schools. The findings are representative of 5 million teachers in 34 countries. The ingredients that make up an excellent learning environment often vary from school to school, country to country and culture to culture. But what every great school has in common is great leadership. So what does it mean to be a great principal? Should principals be dictators of their schools? Should they lead by example? Should they be visionaries or merely implementers of a policy they have no part in shaping?
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Education Week
From Nov. 8:
A national study shows that principals regularly clock more than a standard, full-time workload every week. On average, principals work nearly 60 hours a week, with leaders of high-poverty schools racking up even more time, according to the first nationally representative study of how principals use their time. It was released last month by the federal Regional Education Laboratory for Northeast and Islands.
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Southern California Public Radio
From Sept. 13:
In the debate over what constitutes "kindergarten readiness," some educators believe it's important that preschoolers learn basic letters and letter sounds. The U.S. Department of Education's Early Childhood Longitudinal Study uses this approach, for example, to gauge how ready children are for kindergarten. It looks at skills like letter recognition and the ability to sound out words to test early literacy.
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[FreshGrade Education Inc.]
In this free eBook, elementary principal, Matt Renwick shares specific strategies and tools to build independent learners. You'll learn how to create a more connected classroom, give better feedback, and set authentic tasks for a real audience. EdTech RoundUp described FreshGrade as uniquely combining student-led portfolios with flexible, custom assessment and parent engagement in one. FreshGrade is used by teachers, parents, and students in all 50 states and in more than 70 countries around the world.
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MindShift
From Oct. 4:
As computers become a common part of daily life for most adults and children, the debate about whether handwriting should be taught in school has heated up. Some claim it will be more important for students to learn keyboarding than writing with pen and paper given the ubiquity of digital communication. But there's a lot of strong research showing that learning to write by hand aids cognition. Linking motor skills and the sense of touch to writing helps the brain recognize letters, an important part of learning to read. But while handwriting is supported by research, as well as the link between writing by hand and memory, it is far less obvious that students must learn cursive in order to get those cognitive benefits.
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Association for Psychological Science via Science Daily
From Nov. 1:
Over time, students' personal values become more similar to those of their school principal, according to new research. The findings indicate that principals' values are linked with aspects of school climate which are, in turn, linked with students' own values.
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Connected Principals
From April 8:
Shawn Blankenship, a contributor for Connected Principals blog, writes: "If you are a candidate interviewing for a teaching position, I want to take a genuine moment to explicitly share what you are up against. As a principal, I am looking for a candidate, who demonstrates a love for kids; who articulates a clear picture of what their classroom will look, sound and feel like; who reveals incredible content knowledge; who takes ownership in their own professional learning; and the most important obstacle you are up against is this internal question, 'Would I want my own child in this teacher’s classroom?'"
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Education DIVE
From June 28:
President Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act in December, signaling what could mark a massive shift in the direction of the nation's biggest K-12 law, and now state and local school leaders are doing the hard work of implementation. That work includes the development of strategic visions for education, reconsidering their assessment plans, coming up with new accountability systems and deciding how to evaluate teachers.
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THE Journal
From Sept. 30:
One has introduced "genius hour" to give students "a weekly opportunity" to "unleash their creativity through projects, performances and presentations in an area of interest." Another has begun introducing the school to competency-based education. A third has encouraged his teachers to reach out to other educators via social media. And a fourth wrote grants to secure funding for classroom technologies. These are all examples of the activities undertaken by principals in pursuit of student achievement. All will shortly be recognized by their peers for their "outstanding leadership" as "National Distinguished Principals."
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