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Education DIVE
Teachers likely don't want to be polled every time the bus schedule changes or the nutrition staff is considering changing the lunch menu. And they want school leaders who they can trust to keep operations running smoothly so they can focus on teaching. But surveys have shown that school climate is a leading factor in whether teachers remain at their schools. And if decisions regarding curriculum, student assignment to classrooms, teacher evaluation, assessments or other issues related to instruction need to be made, teachers want principals to value their expertise and experience.
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School Leaders Now
It's 6:50 am, and school doesn't start for another hour. Students won't be in the building for another 40 minutes. It's the perfect time for teachers to get their classrooms and lessons ready for the upcoming day. But not this morning. This morning they are fighting back yawns as their principal preemptively starts a staff meeting by saying, "We know this isn't fun, but we have to get through [new age educational theory, which is backed by very little research] this morning." This is followed by showing an hour's worth of information, which could be read in 10 minutes. I don't know about you, but that just doesn't get my blood pumping and spine tingling, leaving me super excited for the day!
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Education World
The Love & Logic Institute may sound like a hippie holdover from the flower-power days, but its founders and practitioners say it offers a practical, time-tested system for improving student behavior and school climate. The foundation of Love & Logic is positive bonds between teachers and students, so children want to be compliant; and using techniques to avoid arguments and power struggles. Educators also are encouraged to express empathy when students disobey the rules and tailor consequences to meet the needs of individual students and infractions.
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The Hechinger Report
Matthew Snyder sinks into the chair in his office with a tattered purple carpet and running trophies arranged in a corner. It is well before dawn and students won’t start streaming past his window for at least another 45 minutes. Enough time, he thinks, to answer some of his 68 unread emails and comb through the inches-thick white binder on his desk holding a proposal that he needs to present to his school board the next morning.
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Education World
Data about loss of new teachers varies, but the problem is clear. Two visible and conflicting sets of data about the loss of new teachers have been used in the media over the last decade, but educators generally agree that regardless of the numbers in vogue, retaining good teachers is a growing problem, especially those in the first few years of their careers. A recent study based on federal data from the National Center for Education Statistics found that about 10 percent of new teachers did not return after their first year. Also, it showed that by their fifth years about 17 percent of them had quit.
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eSchool News
There are a number of old sayings about learning to understand another by walking in their shoes, moccasins or sandals. Since those sayings cross quite a few cultures and were even turned into an Elvis Presley song — "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" — maybe edtech leaders need to consider the concept behind the saying. When IT leaders make decisions regarding changes to systems, it is essential to consider the perspectives of the end users.
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By: Hank Boyer (commentary)
One of my first bosses, Bill Forte, taught me a very valuable career lesson that is worth sharing. "Hank," he said, just as I was about to leave for a weeklong training meeting, "at this meeting you are going to see a room full of people from across the country who are just like you — working hard to get ahead. I guarantee there'll be some doofus who shows up late for a session and has an excuse. Maybe he'll say something stupid and anger someone. Or have too much to drink and behave badly. Or be disruptive. Sometime next week he’s gonna get fired because he just didn't understand that everything he said or did was seen by someone whose opinion matters. Hank, don't you be that guy!"
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
Now, researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Virginia have found that when educators and administrators focus on creating a positive school climate, the likelihood of a student being suspended decreases by approximately 10 percent. To put this in context, more than 2.75 million K-12 students were suspended during the 2013 to 2014 school year. A 10 percent reduction would have meant 275,000 more students staying in class and learning.
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Forbes (commentary)
Robert Fish, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "As an aspiring professional mountain bike racer, I knew the quickest way to turn pro was to win as many amateur races as possible in order to build my resume quickly. Part of what drove me was I thought turning pro would make training and racing easier because I would know exactly what to do. But after turning pro, I had a strong dose of reality. Racing at the professional level was not necessarily physically or logistically harder, but it was instead psychologically harder."
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HealthDay News
Flu season is getting off to a slow but steady start, a U.S. health official said. As of now, only Georgia is seeing high levels of infections, but cases are being reported throughout the nation. "Flu activity is still fairly low, but as expected we have been seeing activity slowly increasing over the last few weeks," said Alicia Budd, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The Lead Change Group
Jane Perdue, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "Wouldn't it be great if chocolate was one of the four food groups? Maybe my preference to see that happen (*smile*) is why the topic of 31 flavors keeps popping into how I think about success, civility, inclusion, leadership, and respect. I worked in corporate America for lots of years. When I look back at that time, I see how all the places where I worked managed by one flavor. That flavor was numbers, results, and the bottom line. Because I was ambitious, I was complicit and played along in placing a higher value on results than relationships. Today, the memories of my conformity haunt me."
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Leadership Freak
Ambiguity is always present in a world filled with people, change, and opportunity. Only the dead are certain. Clarity and confidence develop as you go, not before you go. An imperfect decision is better than none, if you learn as you go. But lack of decision-making leads to stagnation, pessimism, and deeper distress. Things don't magically get better on their own.
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By: Lisa Mulcahy (commentary)
 If you're a workaholic — meaning you're on the job 50 or more hours per week — your physical and emotional health can easily suffer without you even realizing it. Poor sleep, weight gain, stress at home, and multiplying mistakes as you start to burn out won't lead to a good outcome for you or your company. No worries, though: science has several easy and effective solutions to help you treat yourself better — and do your best work. Try these tips.
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Inc.
When you first started your business, you tackled almost every operational detail on your own. Hiring managers allowed you to step back from some of the day-to-day work so you could focus on growing the company. It's not always easy to entrust important responsibilities to someone else, but when you have hard-working, competent leaders, delegation becomes a lot less scary and a lot more beneficial to you. It's important to let your managers know just how much you appreciate them for steering the ship under your navigation.
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Education Week
The U.S. Department of Education ranks dead last among 27 mid-size federal agencies when it comes to employee job satisfaction, according to a new report that ranks "the best places to work" in the federal government. Overall, job satisfaction at the U.S. Department of Education has plummeted from an "engagement" score of 59.7 in 2017 — the year DeVos took office — to 47.3 in 2018.
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Education Week
A senator-elect from Nevada will be joining the Senate committee that oversees education policy, but the panel will be losing a Democrat who helped craft the Every Student Succeeds Act. Rep. Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat who beat GOP Sen. Dean Heller in the midterms, will join the committee at the start of the next Congress. And Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., will leave the panel. With Bennet's departure and Rosen's arrival, the majority of Senate Democrats on the committee will be women. They will also be led by a woman, ranking member Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state.
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EdTech Magazine
Ten years ago, if you walked into a K–12 classroom, the focus — at least at first glance — was on the teacher. To collaborate, students rearranged their desks into a circle. Today, however, that's shifting. As we move toward a student-focused classroom, collaboration requires more than rearranging the desks. It demands a technology infrastructure overhaul. And now is the perfect time to address this sea change, because many schools are making physical renovations from top to bottom, including their buildings, infrastructure, learning tools and furniture.
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THE Journal
The National Association of School Boards of Education has released a two-page brief to bring members up to date on the protection of school directory information. According to author Amelia Vance, policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, "a gap in federal law" is leaving directory information "vulnerable."
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EdTech Magazine
The evolution of education technology has been swift. Interactive whiteboards hang in place of chalkboards, students use Chromebooks in the classroom and schools are investing in emerging technologies such as virtual reality. As K–12 schools continue to evolve, having a firm grasp on current ed tech trends is crucial for educators, administrators and IT teams. At American University's School of Education, experts have created an infographic to illustrate how the integration of classroom technologies may shift from where we are now to where we are going in the near future.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
 I spent years as a high school math teacher unsuccessfully trying to find an answer to this question: Why didn’t my students have as much passion and enthusiasm for math as they did for their extracurricular activities, and what could I do as a teacher to change that? The closest I had ever come to reaching an answer actually came two years after I left the classroom to become a school administrator. That year (over a decade ago), my school tried an experiment. We paired a math teacher with a woodshop teacher to offer a class entitled "Geometry in the Woodshop."
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Edutopia
Who gets the coveted seats in enrichment classes? In many schools, it's the students who are academic stars or labeled as gifted. That's the model my school followed for many years — academically proficient students were selected for classes such as math and word mastery competitions.
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The Journal
Amazon has expanded its "Future Engineer" initiative into K-8. The program has begun offering free online lessons and funding summer camps to help students discover the fun of computer science. Earlier this year, the company began revealing its "Amazon Future Engineer Pathway" program, to support 100,000 high schoolers in taking Advanced Placement courses in computer science and award four-year scholarships and internships to a sizable group of students from under-represented populations who participate in those courses.
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Edutopia
As in higher grades, stories are often an important part of early learning environments. Whether shared by teachers, children, family members or authors, stories can help children process and understand their daily experiences, explore a new topic or express their responses to or emotions about a situation.
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The Atlantic
In recent years, many of America's urban schools have improved significantly. A 2016 report from the Urban Institute found that while all the country's public-school students improved in the decade starting in 2005, the gain for those in large cities was double that of the U.S. average; the advances are especially pronounced in kids' reading scores. With these strides, the achievement gap between city districts and their suburban and rural counterparts closed by roughly a third during that same period.
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HealthDay News
Good sleep routines can help children get the rest they need, researchers say. For the new report, investigators reviewed 44 studies from 16 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. The studies included a total nearly 300,000 children, aged 4 months to 18 years. "Good sleep hygiene gives children the best chances of getting adequate, healthy sleep every day. And healthy sleep is critical in promoting children's growth and development," said review leader Wendy Hall. She's a nursing professor and sleep expert at the University of British Columbia, in Canada.
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Chalkbeat
The annual ritual of state testing in elementary and middle schools often comes within an unwelcome side effect: jittery, stressed-out kids. Now, a first-of-its-kind study documents some of what's actually happening to students. It found that students in one New Orleans charter network saw modest spikes in cortisol, a hormone caused by stress, leading up to state exams. And the students whose cortisol spiked most or crashed furthest did worse than predicted — suggesting that the test scores reflect not just what students know, but how they perform under pressure.
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NPR
Six years after 26 children and educators were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut by a troubled 20 year old, a group of parents is stepping up its efforts to make sure it doesn't happen again. "Sandy Hook Promise," a non-profit anti-gun violence group formed after the attack, is training students around the nation to spot warning signs in other would–be shooters, and to anonymously report concerns through a mobile app.
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NAESP
As we close out 2018 and look forward to starting the new year, we'd like to take a minute to wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season and a happy and healthy new year. Best wishes in 2019 from all of us at NAESP.
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NAESP
One of the outcomes of the growth mindset movement is a focus on student engagement. Schools are recognizing that teaching the standards requires students' active participation. This is a refreshing move away from more traditional teaching methods, and schools should feel less constrained when planning for instruction that combines the rigor of higher standards with a pedagogy that excites young learners.
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