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Negative social media and coffeehouses: Distraction, focus or both?
Educators can help students focus using internet coffeehouse sounds and can counter fake, negative social media photos with the real thing.
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Unexpected leadership lessons from a comic convention
A personal adventure to New York Comic Con brought to mind several unexpected leadership lessons for educator Fred Ende.
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Avoid burnout this fall by focusing on community care
Collaboration, caring rituals and removing unnecessary tasks can help teachers avoid burnout, educator T. Nicole Tucker-Smith says..
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Leading through loss: Being a leader after someone dies
The death of a colleague can affect leadership. Fred Ende shares three insights from his recent effort at leading through loss.
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Brain science strategies to aid educator wellness
Feeling emotionally drained after the recent pandemic and school upheaval? Quick physiological tactics can ramp up educator wellness.
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Creating a safe learning environment for refugee and immigrant students
Key strategies can help put refugee or immigrant students at ease and make them less confused or frightened.
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How principals can make discipline a teachable moment
Discipline should be a teachable moment, not just a quick consequence. Jim Dillon explains why, and what to do differently.
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Life and leadership: Turning lemons into lemonade
Feel like life has been doling out way too many lemons? Fred Ende shares some ways to turn them into lemonade.
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Leadership lessons in reconnecting, Part Two
Fred Ende shares what he's learned from reconnecting -- personally or professionally --even after a short time away.
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How alternative schooling better serves diverse students
Many students are suffering in traditional schools. Robin Harwick explains alternative schooling that embraces students' differences.
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School changes: Shaking off the pandemic mentality
As districts confront a post-shutdown normal, school changes are a given. Leaders must decide where they want to go and plot a course.
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4 leadership lessons from 2021-22
Contemplation always yields keen insights into the past that can serve the future well. Fred Ende shares his recent "aha" leadership lessons.
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Network = Net Worth
Networks are vital to our growth, but they shouldn't be static or ever-growing. Fred Ende explains why networks that change are more valuable.
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Prevent violence by helping every student feel like they belong
Educators may be able to prevent more tragedies by ensuring every student feels they belong and believes someone there cares about them.
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Administrators need to give teachers real mental health support now
Educators need social and emotional development opportunities for their own well-being, as well as that of their students.
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4 ways to accelerate learning this year
Edtech data can help accelerate learning more precisely and successfully. A superintendent shares her district's has done it.
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Stigma-free CTE makes all students problem-solvers
Earlier exposure to career and technical education could benefit all students, while a reshaping of CTE would greatly help students who choose those pathways. First, though, we need to change the negative perceptions around CTE.
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Build a positive partnership with parents of students with disabilities
Program specialist Alina Davis shares 4 ways to work more effectively with parents on IEPs.
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Change or sustain? Balancing mindsets for what works, what doesn’t
If we seek improvement, should nothing stay the same? Fred Ende shares how he meshes the mentality of change with the mentality for staying the same.
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Learn the new language of transformational leadership
Learning to be a transformational rather than a transactional leader requires learning a whole new language and approach.
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Lessons from higher ed on organizational strategy
Learn about the 4 pillars of organizational strategy that TCS Education System relies on and what higher education -- and any organization -- can learn from them.
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Getting better at one of the hardest parts of teaching: Formative assessment
PD brings a common surgical and football tactic to classroom teachers.
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Leadership lessons learned from reconnecting
A long time away from others in education offers reassessment of interactions
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5 ways we made our schools better
Accreditation gave our schools the tools to ensure top-notch education
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Tolerating workplace transitions
How leaders can best handle work transitions and grow from them.
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Superintendent turnover is skyrocketing. What school districts can do now to retain experienced educators
What school communities can do to better recruit, retain and support skilled leaders from diverse backgrounds.
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How to find the routine in new circumstances
When school environments demand so much change, it's important to carve out some normalcy.
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6 ways to help students catch up this year
What a California school district is doing to support students’ learning recovery.
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Resolve NOT to do these 3 things in 2022
Rather than make traditional resolutions, Fred Ende, a director of curriculum and instructional services in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., resolves not to do three things in 2022: advocate for a return to pre-pandemic life, engage in "toxic positivity," or put fear, uncertainty and doubt into decision-making.
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Cardona shares new education goals
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the country's education reset should include student connectedness, a lifting of teacher dignity and meaningful family engagement.