By Daniel Pink, The Washington Post (from February 19, 2024)
Adam DiPerna always had to hold it in. As a Spanish teacher at Gerald G. Huesken Middle School in Lancaster, Pa., he’d arrive in his classroom at 7:10 a.m. each day and cannonball into a morning that left no time for a bathroom break. He’d teach back-to-back-to-back-to-back classes until his lunch period, 27 minutes during which he also had to heat and eat the food he’d brought from home, email parents about problems and absences, and field questions from students. After school, he coached wrestling, advised the student council and chaired the GHMS world language department. Work, from grading papers to preparing lessons, spilled into the evenings and weekends he wanted to spend with his wife and three kids.
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By Christina A. Samuels, The Hechinger Report (from February 15, 2024)
By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that:
- Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.
- Fewer teens are taking up smoking.
- The birth rate among 15-to-19 year olds is at a record low.
- Arrest rates among teens are dropping. Youth drug use is trending down.
By Jill Barshay, KQED (from February 5, 2024)
Psychologists have long warned that children’s lives are overscheduled, which undermines their ability to develop non-academic skills that they’ll need in adulthood, from coping with setbacks to building strong relationships. Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs.
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By Jessica Comola, ASCD (from February 13, 2023)
“Belonging” is a fundamental human need—but not one that’s easily defined. In their latest video column for Educational Leadership’s February issue, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher ask, “What does it really mean to ‘belong’ at school?” To unpack this question, Fisher and Frey gathered perspectives from both faculty and students—and their responses shed light on the profound impact that a sense of belonging can have on overall well-being.
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By New Leaders
When former Duke University men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, better known as “Coach K,” retired in April 2022, there was no denying his incredible legacy—a 46-season career with a record 1,170 wins and five national championships.
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By Jessica Black, DRG (from February 13, 2023)
When I work with an organization looking to hire the right talent, they often talk about looking for candidates who are a “culture fit” for their organization. This is a well-intentioned but misguided approach—one that can lead to bias and prevent us from finding people who add value to an organization’s culture rather than those who just fit in. It can also get in the way of hiring someone who truly has the needed skills and experience to do the work.
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By Ben Wigert, Gallup (from December 18, 2023)
In 2024, employers and employees are heading for a relationship reset. This shift partly stems from changes in where and how people work. In 2019, 60% of remote-capable employees spent their week working fully on-site, whereas that figure has fallen to just 20% in 2023.
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By Eric Hudson, Learning on Purpose (from February 9, 2024)
When it comes to learning and teaching, AI is a design challenge, not a technology challenge. We are making, and will continue to make, choices about what, why, and how we want students to learn in our new AI era. In many cases, this means integrating AI into coursework and teaching students how to use it responsibly. In other cases, though, it might mean purposefully and strategically going tech-free, and I wanted to dedicate at least one post to that.
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By Ian Symmonds & Associates (from February 7, 2024)
The private education sector is struggling. You might not experience it directly at your school or college, but there are signs all around us that private education is, yet again, at another inflection point. The writing is on the wall, from softening demand, college closures and school consolidations.
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By Anna Merod, K-12 Dive (from February 16, 2024)
Amid ongoing efforts to diversify the K-12 teacher workforce , a United Negro College Fund report finds some historically Black colleges and universities are working to get Black students in the teacher pipeline by tapping into faculty networks, establishing relationships with school districts and using financial aid as a recruitment tool.
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By Tracy Bennett, Educators Collaborative (from January 14, 2024)
“Wild Geese” is a beloved poem by Mary Oliver and a lovely read on any day. However, I am guessing that many of the two dozen division heads on the screen wondered how this verse would connect to developing leadership skills. Their doubt may have increased when my colleague and I suggested they consider when and how they are in touch with that kitten or puppy inside them. In this second of five sessions, I knew we were either onto something or would see the checkerboard of screens contract as people politely logged off.
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By Adam Grant, Granted (from January 17, 2024)
How do you give feedback to a CEO who’s twice your age? I was 25, a new professor called in as a last-ditch, Hail Mary effort to save a dying company. They had already fired three consultants, so why not try me?
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By Arnold Holtberg, The Dallas Morning News (from January 18, 2024)
This article is an opinion piece by one of ISAS' former Heads of School, Arnie Holtberg.
As a teacher of history since 1973, I’ve long been interested in how Americans view the subject and the way our national story continues to unfold. Lately, though, things have gotten a bit strange.
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By Alexander Bant, Helen Poitevin, Nicole Greene, & Erick Brethenoux,
Harvard Business Review (from December 14, 2023)
Generative AI turned one in November 2023 — at least for most executive leaders who had never heard of the technology before OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT dominated news coverage this past year. Executive leaders have since been busy reviewing use cases while attempting to put in place governance strategies to guard against emerging risks.
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By Emma Pettit, The Chronicle of Higher Education (from January 2, 2024)
Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, has resigned after a month of intense scrutiny over alleged plagiarism spanning her career and controversy around her lackluster appearance before a congressional committee.
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By Robert Feirsen & Seth Weitzman, Edutopia (from December 21, 2023)
Leaders devote between 20 and 40 percent of their day to managing conflict. Typically, they adopt a dominant conflict leadership style, a go-to approach to mediate friction between and among teachers, building administrators, parents, and central office staff. However, this style may prove ineffective or even counterproductive, resulting in aggravated stress levels, frustration, and stymied school reform efforts.
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By Craig Gordon, Zinn Education Project
Back in 2001, I was trying to get my eleventh grade U.S. history class to focus on a passage from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Unfortunately, I was not surprised when a student protested, “We already know about him. We’re tired of hearing about Martin Luther King.”
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By Elizabeth Heubeck, Education Week (from September 15, 2023)
In an era where humans have managed to create an artificial intelligence tool sophisticated enough to churn out an essay on Shakespeare, it seems unlikely that there would still be ambiguity about how best to teach kids how to read. But the “reading wars” continue to incite differences of opinion in various forums, from school board meetings to legislative sessions.
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By Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News (from January 5, 2023)
Claudine Gay has resigned from her seat as Harvard University's president after a tenure mired by controversy and skepticism, with several forces at play in her exit from the prestigious position at the Ivy League school.
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By Megan Zahneis, The Chronicle of Higher Education (from December 9, 2023)
After four days of intense pressure from politicians, donors, and alumni, M. Elizabeth Magill has resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania, as has Scott L. Bok, chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees.
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By Eric Kelderman, The Chronicle of Higher Education (from December 5, 2023)
The agency that accredits many colleges in the South had been poised this week to vote on creating a new standard requiring member colleges to demonstrate how they are supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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By Sarah Schwartz, Education Week (from November 22, 2023)
Vocabulary development is often the province of English/language arts instruction. But it’s also a core part of Deaquanita Lancelin’s 9th grade science class in the Pine Bluff schools in Arkansas.
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By Kai Krautter, Anabel Büchner, & Jon M. Jachimowicz,
Picture this: You ask two of your direct reports to take on important projects for your team, expecting both to be passionate about the opportunity. In response, one gets visibly excited, becoming animated as you discuss their ideas, and you notice them chatting with their coworkers about it over lunch. The other reacts with less enthusiasm, remains calmer, and seems to keep to themselves. Who would you conclude was more passionate about their assignment?
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By Joshua Bay, The 74 (from November 14, 2023)
Despite undergraduate enrollment gains for the first time since the pandemic began, a new report shows jarring declines among traditional freshmen.
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By Lomit Patel, Forbes (from November 27, 2023)
Mobile learning has become increasingly popular, mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic that forced many schools to close and shift to online learning. This trend also led to mobile educational applications to support students, teachers and parents.
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