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As 2015 comes to a close, NAESP would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, 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 Tuesday, Jan. 5.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
From Aug. 11:
In an elementary classroom in southern California, teacher and educational consultant Sarah Weaver was working with a group of students to use marshmallows and spaghetti to build the tallest, freestanding structure possible. This activity was a great way to promote communication, teamwork and creativity, while allowing students to get to know each other and develop an understanding of appropriate group work behavior. The activity is also a great example of STEAM programming.
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By: Janet B. Reyes
From Oct. 27:
Many educators and parents are unaware of one potential reason some students perform poorly or inconsistently in school: underlying problems with perceptual-motor integration. This system relates to sensory intake and processing, awareness of body position and differences in muscle tension. Deficits in these processes may cause behavioral and learning issues that are mistaken for ADHD or learning disabilities. Perceptual-motor development occurs in sequence as a child matures.
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By: Savanna Flakes
From Feb. 27:
James R. Delisle recently wrote a controversial commentary for Education Week titled, "Differentiation Doesn't Work." But what Delisle may not realize is that differentiation is not a set of prescriptive strategies, rather a purposeful way of planning to account for student differences. Differentiation is a journey, not a one-stop fix or end point. To support teachers who are looking for some low-prep differentiation strategies, I have compiled the top-five strategies that take minimal planning time but can have a big impact in the classroom.
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By: Archita Datta Majumdar
From July 14:
Texas school districts were in the spotlight again as recent reports revealed thousands of elementary classes exceeding their set 22-pupil maximum size limit. The number of classrooms that exceeded this limit in 2014 was up to 5,883, meaning 130,000 K-4 students were crammed in together. The fast-growing school districts in the state have sought more funding so they can hire more teachers and deal with the influx of students. But Texas is not the only state facing such a dilemma.
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By: Linda R. Hecker
From May 29:
When I talk with educators across the country, they often lament that students don't read much anymore, especially in the face of ubiquitous social and multimedia distractions. Even students with intact decoding and fluency complain that reading is just too hard, not worth the effort. Why is reading such a challenge for so many? One often overlooked factor is the role that executive function plays when we engage with text. Broadly put, executive function describes the cognitive processes that regulate self-directed behavior toward a goal.
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By: Stephanie Cork and Laurie Wagner
From Aug. 14:
There has been a lot of buzz lately in the education world about dyslexia, which affects as many as 1 in 5 children. Dyslexia is a neurological condition that affects fluent reading, spelling and writing skills. Remediating dyslexia requires training beyond what most teacher preparation programs offer. To address these concerns, roughly half of the states in the U.S. have laws relating to dyslexia. Most of these laws require early screening for students and training for teachers.
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By: Brian Stack (commentary)
From April 10:
A former student from my school recently came back to interview me on zero-tolerance policies for a research paper she was writing for her graduate program. Her questions really got me thinking about the purpose and the effectiveness of this approach in schools. Designed to eradicate students from engaging in certain behaviors, zero-tolerance policies generally call for punishing any infraction of a rule, regardless of the severity or whether the infraction was due to a mistake, ignorance or an extenuating circumstance.
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By: Joan Spitrey
From Aug. 28:
Back-to-school season is a time for next chapters, seeing old friends, making new friends — and, of course, organized germ exchanges. Yes, the sharing of germs and other critters, such as lice, also is part of the fun of back to school. Although a lice infestation is a common rite of passage for many elementary school children, a recent report by the American Chemical Society found lice are mutating and becoming more difficult to treat.
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By: Dr. Sheri Williams (commentary)
From Aug. 7:
Reports of the shortage of applicants for school leadership positions are well-known. The authors of "Churn: The High Cost of Principal Turnover" say a quarter of the country's principals will leave their schools each year, and nearly 50 percent will leave in the third year. Missing from the reports is an analysis of why individuals who already hold an administrative license are not applying for vacant principal positions.
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By: Pamela Hill
From March 31:
Teachers and parents do not set out to teach a child to have learned helplessness. However, the components of learned helplessness are often better understood by teachers and parents than the child. The child may be experiencing many emotions that she cannot sort out on her own. She may really want to attempt what is being asked of her, but she does not know where to begin. She may have had negative experiences in the past that are flashing into her memory. But many of the behaviors demonstrated by the child can be recognized and changed with guidance.
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By: Brian Stack
From Nov. 20:
In our house, homework must be completed before anyone gets to go outside to play with friends. Through the years, we have found some homework assignments are appropriate and effective. Some assignments, however, amount to little more than "busy work" that does not challenge them with deeper understanding. So what is the purpose of homework? Is it to reinforce skills from the classroom? Is it to provide additional practice? Is it to develop appropriate work study practices?
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By: Howard Margolis
From Jan. 16:
Homework creates anxiety, frustration and failure for untold numbers of children with learning disabilities. Conflict ensues among children, parents and teachers. Children's motivation for schoolwork plummets. Confidence disappears as resistance emerges. So, is there a way to assign 15 minutes of homework, four times a week, that can help strengthen struggling readers' word recognition, reading fluency, comprehension, motivation and sense of satisfaction? No miracle solutions exist, but good solutions do.
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By: Alanna Mazzon
From Feb. 6:
The classroom environment plays an important role in how the students and teachers in that environment feel, and how they will interact with the room and the materials. To a student whose native language is not the one used in the classroom, having a lot of labels without pictures, words on bulletin boards, and paragraphs on walls explaining what to do with the materials is both overwhelming and frustrating. Imagine you walked into a new room that you were going to spend eight hours in every day, but you couldn't understand a single thing in there. Would you feel comfortable?
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By: Archita Datta Majumdar
From Nov. 20:
National education organizations have launched an intensive social media and digital ad campaign to push Congress to act on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The legislation has already seen much development and simply needs that final push toward the revised law. The current, much-despised version of ESEA, also called the No Child Left Behind Act, has perhaps received more criticism than any of its predecessors.
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By: Katherine Dayton
From March 3:
Any educator who works with middle school and high school students knows how challenging it can be to understand exactly what kids are going through during these complex stages of life. It's an exciting time of tremendous growth, both physically and emotionally. For the thriving, the struggling and those in between, traveling to other countries or communities within one's own country to perform impactful service work can be an enlightening, exhilarating and empowering experience that helps shape their future and sense of self.
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By: Douglas Magrath
From Nov. 17:
This article provides some helpful hints and suggestions to ESL instructors who wish to use modern techniques in teaching even though the class texts are of a more traditional nature. The learners need to move from language form to language function as soon as possible. Texts and materials using a grammar-based sequencing of lessons focused more on structure than on communication or realistic situations make this situation difficult.
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By: Dorothy L. Tengler
From Sept. 29:
Although childhood shyness is commonplace, it concerns many parents, especially those who place great value on sociability. Some children become shy because of harsh life experiences, but most are born that way. In some cases, shyness can be disabling. Extremely shy children often do not adapt as well as most of their peers in the classroom and on the playground. A recent study, however, has uncovered a deeper possible explanation for such shyness.
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By: Debra Josephson Abrams
From May 5:
In previous articles, we have explored best practices in curricula, methods and approaches, multiple instructional approaches, choosing materials and assessment. In this article — the final in the series — we examine the content elements necessary for inclusion in a best practices-based curriculum. There is no dispute that a broad and deep vocabulary is necessary for academic success, just as there is no dispute that ELLs generally have a paucity of vocabulary.
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By: Ryan Clark
From Oct. 20:
Following the recent college shootings in Oregon, Texas and Arizona, schools nationwide are rightfully investigating ways to strengthen their building security. While many are placing the eye of scrutiny on guns, others are choosing to place it on physical accessibility. After all, if the bad guys can't get in, all talk of gun carrying is moot. Now, there are good ways and bad ways to go about this — there are also some dangerous ways. This article will attempt to discuss them all.
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By: Susan Kahn
From July 21:
Just as a famous chef buys the best quality organic foods to prepare a culinary delight, an expert learning specialist combines the best educational and brain research with creative teaching techniques to accelerate learning. Dr. Jean Piaget advocated using concrete, simple words to ensure comprehension. These words should be easily understood through seeing and touching. A baseball might be shown within a player's glove on a baseball field to teach the word baseball or the "B" sound.
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