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Securing sites

By Ariana Fine

More than half of state departments of education lack key security and privacy protections for users, according to a recent state-by-state survey by EdTech Strategies, a technology consulting firm. 12 states offer no HTTPS—or secure site—support 3 states have errors in certificates that guarantee website connection security Link to main story: Real-world projects guide magnet […]

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February 12, 2018

The well-read K12 administrator

Professional reading has long been a practice of leaders in many disciplines. Education is no exception. However, to be truly innovative, educational leaders can discover amazing professional insights in the areas of business, politics, psychology, sociology, technology and the military. Here is a list of non-education books that today's educational leaders recommend to their peers: […]

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February 11, 2018

PD providers

Below you can find a list of professional development providers: Link to main story: PD beyond school classrooms Kronos, www.kronos.com PublicSchoolWORKS, corp.publicschoolworks.com SafeSchools, www.safeschools.com Scenario Learning, scenariolearning.com/safeschools Matt Zalaznick is senior associate editor.

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February 11, 2018

PD beyond school classrooms

Managing and keeping track of the many hours of professional development required for a district's non-instructional staff may be one of an administrator's more underappreciated responsibilities. "There are a lot of different employees within the system who can easily be left out of the loop if you're not mindful of the two types of training […]

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February 07, 2018

7 steps for schools to provide deeper learning

Our education system is like a giant embedded rock, says Grant Lichtman. In his book, Moving the Rock, the former administrator outlines seven "levers" that schools or districts can use to begin to pry that rock free and introduce a "deeper learning" model that truly prepares students for the future. The levers, which include changing […]

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February 04, 2018

Every American school has talented students. It's time to start acting like we believe that.

The new Fordham Institute report, Is There a Gifted Gap?, gave me a lot of food for thought this week. Let's start with some important positives: Although gifted education research is in many ways thriving, attention to policy research has been woefully underdeveloped, and this study is a major contribution to filling that void. I've also […]

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January 30, 2018

Changing the culture of mathematics instruction to better prepare students

What should change about the current culture of mathematics instruction? We are preparing students who are in school today for jobs that we cannot yet imagine. We need to change school culture, including math instruction, to reflect societal change. We need to help students learn to use mathematics as a tool to recognize and respond […]

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January 29, 2018

Innovative solution improves reading proficiency for struggling student readers

When Kristie Autrey became curriculum director for Mitchell County School District in North Carolina, and learned the state had partnered with Learning Ally, she jumped at the chance to implement it. Learning Ally is a nonprofit library of high-quality, human-read audiobooks and a suite of teacher and student resources that integrates into the school instruction […]

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