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School Leaders Now
As principal, you are the leader of your school community. That means when tragedy or school trauma strikes, all eyes are looking to you for comfort and guidance. Whether you are responding to a student death, a loss in the local community, or a national tragedy, the way you respond can calm your staff and students and help ease the burden of grief within your school. Here are five steps to take if tragedy strikes in your community.
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School Leaders Now
When you became an administrator, you had a basic idea about the expected principal duties. You knew how to steer the vision and the mission of teaching and learning in your school. Then you realized that there was a host of unexpected principal duties you wish had been mentioned in the job description.
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The Lead Change Group
"You are only as good as your word." This used to be a popular, if trite and overstated concept. Unfortunately, in many circles today, the mantra may sound to many as some quaint old notion. We all know that, in reality, it's far more than that. Without high integrity — without an implicit trust that people can fully believe you actually mean what you say — all of our interactions with other people are cheapened dramatically. However, if I can trust you — and you can trust me — then, we already have the most important piece of the puzzle in place for getting along well together. We have the building blocks of genuine friendship and an authentic relationship.
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District Administration Magazine
Across K-12 education, the roles of educators are shifting as instructional practices advance, schools more actively support the social-emotional development of students, and new technology is integrated into the classroom. In a survey, readers described how their roles in education are changing and how their responsibilities will evolve in the coming years.
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Edication DIVE
The week leading up to a break can be particularly difficult for educators and students alike, with the former often struggling to hold the latter's attention as they become increasingly anxious about the prospect of time off. This is especially true of winter break, when — no matter what they might celebrate — everyone is looking forward to the opportunity to spend time with loved ones and perhaps exchange a few gifts.
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HR Dive
In any job market — but perhaps even more so today — top talent can come and go in the blink of an eye. Based on the pace needed to secure these top performers, you need to be nimble and poised to react quickly and efficiently to ensure you get the best available candidates — and not let the fruits of your labor be brought to a halt with a delay in the background check. A poorly conducted background check is one of the most common reasons employers lose candidates; 34 percent of employers say they have lost candidates because background screening took too long.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Paul Cummings, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "There's a saying that says that we don't remember the days, we only remember the moments. I'm sure you were probably out having lots of fun this holiday season with friends and family making the most of every moment. And I bet you were also probably capturing some of those magical moments with a camera — probably the one on your smartphone. As you know, most cameras that people use today, like on a smartphone, come with something called "autofocus." The camera automatically knows to try and focus on the image that it sees. However, back in the day, the cameras we used didn't have that fancy feature. You actually had to take the time to focus your camera on the image that you wanted to photograph. You had to slowly twist and adjust the lens in such a way that the image you saw through the camera, finally looked clear and in focus."
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Inc.
Looking back at the countless, high-profile, sexual harassment allegations that continue to pour in, it's fair to say, 2017 was a brutal year. It was especially daunting on the leadership front. There's no doubt, with more individuals in positions of power and influence being exposed, we are faced with a crisis — the absence of true leadership. Whether in the halls of Congress or the halls of a small business in middle-America, most of these issues we are now confronted to deal with are, unquestionably, leadership issues.
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Harvard Business Review
To tackle employee burnout, companies need to assess just how burned out their staff members are — and why. Many organizations conduct surveys to gain this sort of insight, but serious flaws in how those surveys are designed often lead to bad results. Well-intentioned leaders, following an inaccurate roadmap of where the problems lie, end up wasting time, energy, and resources on the wrong things. For example, they may ask people if overwork is an issue and then try to reduce the load, when the real problem is more psychological.
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Education Week
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her team will be taking a second look at rules for Title I, Part A, also known as the part of the Every Student Succeeds Act that deals with accountability, testing, standards, and more. And they are also considering a revamp of language governing the the charter schools program. The department put out a notice Thursday alerting everyone who spends their life combing the federal register that they planned to examine Title I rules.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The GOP tax reform bill has massive implications for K-12 public schools. For starters, the bill features tax breaks for families that prefer private and charter schools. They will find it easier pay tuition with the expansion of "529" savings accounts that had been exclusively for college. Advocates call this a much-needed move that seeks to prioritize the education of the next generation. But Americans are divided on this issue, and it's not just a Republican-Democrat split.
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Education Week
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing a two-year delay of a rule that would require states to take a stricter approach to identifying whether their districts have wide racial or ethnic disparities in special education. The department is asking for comments on its proposed delay. If there is no change, the rule, which was issued under the Obama administration, is set to go into effect for the 2018-2019 school year. During the two-year delay, the Education Department will consider eliminating the rule entirely.
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eSchool News
The Education Technology Industry Network and Empirical Education Inc. recently released the Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting EdTech Impact research in U.S. K-12 Schools. These guidelines help clarify how research is conducted and how information is presented to users of edtech products based on the changes brought by the Every Student Succeeds Act. In "Measuring Edtech Impact in the ESSA Era," experts delved into the details of the guidelines.
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MindShift
Schools across the country are nervously watching to see if the Federal Communications Commission chooses to repeal Obama-era regulations that protect an open internet, often referred to as "net neutrality." The 2015 rules are meant to prevent internet providers, such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, from controlling what people can watch and see on the internet. Companies can't block access to any websites or apps, and can't meddle with loading speeds.
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eSchool News
Although schools in rural areas traditionally hit roadblocks when it comes to securing technology tools and high-speed internet access in classrooms and student homes, a new study suggests students in those schools actually outperform their urban and suburban peers in access at school. The data comes from data management and learning analytics firm BrightBytes, which analyzed more than 180 million data points collected via a national survey gauging educational technology access, use and effectiveness across 8,558 U.S. schools.
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The New York Times
Skeptical researchers have contended that it doesn't really matter, that preschool provides only short-term educational assistance that fades out after a few years. But new findings from a continuing study of 4,000 children in Tulsa, Oklahoma, should put that contention to rest. High-quality prekindergarten has powerful long-term cognitive effects. The researchers, based at Georgetown University, began tracking these children in 2006 and followed them through the eighth grade. As eighth graders, they were less likely to be held back than their classmates who did not attend preschool, and their scores on the state's math achievement test were higher. They were also more likely to take algebra in the eighth grade — a consistent predictor of college readiness.
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By: Susan Winebrenner (commentary)
 The first time in my career that I received in-depth training in how to teach gifted students correctly was at a training called "Confratute" at the University of Connecticut. It was amazingly motivational and thoroughly informative, and I returned to my school district raring to get started, as correctly as possible. The core information of that training was the importance of consistently applying a principle called "compacting."
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The Atlantic
U.S. students spend more time in K-12 schools than their peers in many other countries. In fact, in Japan and South Korea, kids spend an average of about 150 fewer instructional hours per year in school, yet these students consistently score higher on international tests. How is that possible?
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Edutopia
In the glittery bustle of the holidays, teachers often scramble to fit in last-minute lessons and refocus students dreaming of vacation excitement. It's worthwhile to pause in the middle of all that excitement to build in reflective moments of gratefulness. Yet without a clear plan to foster classroom gratitude, we risk missing the improved attitude, improved physical and psychological health, and enhanced social and emotional skills that giving thanks can bring. Positive psychology suggests that learning to be thankful has benefits that extend far beyond the classroom walls, including lifelong happiness.
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NPR
With wildfires still raging across parts of Southern California, dozens of schools have been closed. Many will stay that way till the new year. That gives educators valuable time to think about what they can do, when school resumes, to help students who have been traumatized by these fires. One answer can be found a few hundred miles north, in Santa Rosa. In late October, students there returned to class after three weeks away. A massive wildfire had swept through the city of 175,000 and the surrounding county, killing at least 22 people and destroying or damaging at least 5,500 structures.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals believes that education must assist each child to realize his or her potential as a functioning and contributing member of society. Furthermore, the Association believes that each child should have an equal opportunity to attain self-realization. In order for these beliefs to become reality, literacy must be at the forefront of every child's educational journey.
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NAESP
Even though the calendar year is coming to a close in December, for principals the school year isn't even half-way finished. There's a whole host of work on the horizon, whether it be testing season or refining approaches to school improvement plans. So we decided to ask principals: How do you prepare for a strong start to the second half of the school year after returning from winter break? Here's what some of them had to say.
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