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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Today, more than ever, it is essential to have some fun and humor at school. Regardless if you’re a student, a teacher, or an administrator, we all need a good laugh as we face many changes in education. At Summit K12, we are having fun creating the most personalized curriculum for the Texas Science Adoption in 2024. After we jump into our fun video series, please see some tips below regarding how laughter and having fun in education is critical to the learning process.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By LeiLani Cauthen With A.I. arriving in schools, questions of its use and possible threat to teaching and learning have erupted across the world. We looked back at what Learning Counsel’s 2022 National Digital Transition Surveys asked about how teachers, and separately, administrators define teaching today. Surprisingly, the results showed some big differences.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

For schools, this is some pretty big news. Dreambox Learning currently serves more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide, and they offer those 6 million learners the only dual-discipline solution rated “Strong” by Johns Hopkins University’s evidenceforESSA.org in both mathematics and reading. “Discovery Education is excited to welcome DreamBox Learning, a brand synonymous with quality, research-based math and reading EdTech solutions to our growing family of services,” said Di

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JUNE 21, 2023

By Zach Vander Veen Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) has become an incredibly effective framework for increasing student success. We’re big fans of practical methods for supporting students, and MTSS is a valuable framework that delivers results. At its heart, MTSS is a process that helps students grow and addresses two key areas for students – their academic performance and their behavior.

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JUNE 6, 2023

By Zach Vander Veen On March 14th, the neighborhood school district took a freshman math class down to the local food pantry to serve pies. It was Pi Day. Students were learning about pi and the many applications it has in the real world. Beyond core academics, their school district emphasized service learning and community service as part of their mission and vision.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Who was your favorite teacher growing up? What do you remember about this person and why? Yes, that’s me in my first year of teaching. Oh, the 90s hair that my students loved. This classroom was my personal 4th-grade classroom growing up. I took over for my teacher who retired at Nelson School. But, I digress, let’s get back to the important stuff!

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MAY 24, 2023

By Mark Booker AI is like any other new tool that has entered the arena of learning that enhances a student’s access to data and information to process and consume knowledge more quickly. Whether it be the Internet, the calculator, or even the printing press – all have entered social consciousness as disruptors with some wariness and skepticism, but were ultimately used to change how fast we can learn and share information to enhance the depth of information we pass on to future generations.

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MAY 24, 2023

By Dr. Aurelia L. Henriquez and Tiffany Law Superintendent turnover has hit districts nationwide, leaving school boards scrambling to find permanent replacements. Research from the ILO Group found that since 2020, 49 percent of the country’s 500 biggest school districts have experienced a leadership change. If districts are lucky, their vacancies are filled by experienced superintendents or up-and-comers jumping into a new administrative role.

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MAY 24, 2023

By Zach Vander Veen Part Four: Transforming Data into Action Individualized Supports Expanding and tracking learning opportunities opens up the ability for districts to properly implement, monitor and manage their Mult-Tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS) initiatives, as well as opening more more opportunities to individualize and adapt instruction to the learners’ needs, abilities, and interests, ultimately improving learning achievement.

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MAY 9, 2023

By Zach Vander Veen Part Two: The Nuts and Bolts By definition, the power of Community Schools resides in the local community. It is the identification, structuring and connection of the many assets within the community, and goes far beyond academics to include the total needs of child, family, school faculty and staff, and the business and faith communities.

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MAY 1, 2023

By Richard Luna As a person who has dedicated his life to technology, I can tell you with the utmost certainty that every school and educational environment can be modified to be protected from both cyber and ransomware attacks. Every time there’s a new report of another school being attacked by hackers leaving the business office or classes down, I just want to bang my head against the wall.

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APRIL 17, 2023

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A number of state departments of education are working to remove the grading systems for schools that were established in the No Child Left Behind era. The idea behind those systems was that parents needed a simple way to understand how the schools their children attended were performing. They would then be able to make more educated decisions about where to send their kids to school.

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MARCH 29, 2023

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay The essence of the principal’s role is a combination of school leader and school manager, and the leadership and management components are far from mutually exclusive. In fact, a strong management framework must be in place before sustainable leadership has a legitimate chance to prosper. Management issues tend to be more immediate and shorter-term, whereas leadership initiatives extend well into the future.

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MARCH 29, 2023

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Cognitive training (which is also called brain training) involves activities designed specifically to strengthen one or more cognitive skills. Some cognitive training programs focus on individual cognitive skills, while others are more com­prehensive and integrated, focusing on a large number of cognitive skills at one time.

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MARCH 10, 2023

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay This is the time of the school year when principals do their best to meet two very important, and very different, mandates: ensure a successful conclusion to the current school year and begin the planning process for September. Specific staffing parameters will be provided by each school district. The principal certainly needs to be very well versed in the key details, while also being committed to humanizing this very important, but often quite stressful, proce

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

By Justin Bean Our world has changed radically over the past two hundred years. Our education system has not. The foundation for our current Western education system was designed for a very different time, one adapting to the nascent Industrial Revolution and moving from an agricultural society. This society shifted from most people working on farms, to a factory-based economy, with employment clustered in urban areas.

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MARCH 10, 2023

By Betsy Hill From my heart and from my hand Why don’t people understand my intentions? –Oingo Boingo Education is moving from being based on folklore to being grounded in science at an ever-faster pace. And the science that is playing a greater role encompasses both “traditional” education research as well as research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology and other related fields.

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MARCH 10, 2023

The Learning Leadership Symposiums, brought to you by the Learning Counsel, are regional professional learning events designed to promote innovation in the field of education. By combining timely research and knowledge of trends and market changes on the horizon, the Learning Counsel facilitates a high-level experience in a single-day workshop format.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

By Tamara Fyke Whether you are aware of it or not, you are teaching social-emotional learning (SEL). Your students are watching and learning from everything you do and say. They are learning how to deal with stress and conflict, how to relate to others similar and different, how to organize their tasks and time and so much more. According to the Collaborative for Academic and Social-Emotional Learning (CASEL), there are five SEL competencies, which are self-awareness, self-management, responsibl

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

By Aaron Rafferty Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a more prominent component of several global industries, including education. But in some industries, it has reached a point where workers are now concerned about whether or not their jobs are safe. However, AI is unlikely to replace workers in the education industry due to its inability to recreate the traditional educational experience at the same scale as human teachers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Education leaders tell the Learning Counsel that they wait literally “all year” to hear Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen deliver the results of the Learning Leadership Institute’s annual National Digital Transition Survey. Delivered first thing every year at the Virtual National Event, the survey is the most widely participated, most in-depth and most anticipated survey in EdTech, and paints a very realistic picture of where schools and districts are in the digital transition.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

By Chris McMurray One of the most valuable skillsets we can teach our students is the ability to code. Not only does it enhance their writing and math skills, but it also gives them a valuable mindset for future life and employment situations. Perhaps the top reason to teach our students how to code is that it gives them a strong basis for problem-solving and helps them understand the way things work.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

By LeiLani Cauthen There are several divergent points of thinking when it comes to considering adoption of a Matrix Digital Model of teaching and learning. Becoming organized and more efficient digitally involves a recasting of many of the methods and procedures of traditional schooling. These are the essential ones Distinguish Analog vs. Digital Every point of the GVC needs a clear distinction between teaching content via human discourse or interaction, and self-directed learning or information

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JANUARY 30, 2023

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host, Learning Counsel News Media and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen, talks with Nicholas Feroce, Ph.D., Research Scientist at Lexia Learning about research design in the area of emergent bilinguals, and program causality to effect notable gains among that population. Click Here to Listen The post Podcast: EdTech for Emergent Bilinguals: Interpreting the Research first appeared on EdNews Daily.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

By Duncan Young and Jerry Barone Editor’s Note: This is the first of a four-part series on the student mental health crisis and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for in-school mental health resources. Our children are facing a mental health epidemic. From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 44 percent.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

By LeiLani Cauthen Age-old methods of meeting pressures in schools by leaders have typically included making program cuts because there are fewer students to serve and less dollars to go around. Adding specialized programs to serve unique popufations is another one. These are at the programmatic level and do not address delivery structure, even when they “blend tech” or offer online programs.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

By Mike King Providing high school and college students with work-based experiences has been proven to improve their career prospects. Several thought leaders in the industry have documented the positive outcomes that work-based learning can provide. The challenge has been getting more employers to provide these opportunities and encouraging them to support greater numbers of students.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

By Charles Sosnik Now that the joyous holiday is over, whether for you that means Christmas or Hanukkah, we set our sites on the new year, and all that new year implies. Personally, I am a huge fan of both Christmas and Hanukkah; I have ties to both. For Christians, when you strip away the veneer of Santa and the endless commercials of cars with giant bows, there is something so wonderfully satisfying in the traditions and family and, of course, the reason we celebrate Christmas in the first pla

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JANUARY 3, 2023

By Scott Kinney Do you remember the story of Chicken Little? In the updated version of this classic tale, I recently saw an elementary school teacher deliver, Chicken Little read online that the sky is falling. Alarmed, he rushed to tell his friends who all replied, “If it’s on the internet, it must be true!” While the story then continues with predictable consequences, it also kickstarted my thinking on a phenomenon we are currently experiencing in education.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Do you speak two languages? Has it made a difference in your professional life? (Please scroll down to the middle of this interview if you’d like to hear Martha Carrasco-Salazar‘s story first). My Journey Toward Dual Language My journey toward a second language began when I was in middle school. I have always loved language and was excited to start learning Spanish.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

By Charles Sosnik 2022 will go down in the annals of education history as a milk toast year. Or perhaps, a breather year. After the amazing heroics of 2020 and the outstanding recovery of 2021, 2022 was a year where we got back to work in as normal a pattern as was possible, and we proceeded to conduct business as usual, or as usual as we could. There were challenges.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The percentage of students classified as “special ed” across the country is currently about 13 percent. We have come across schools where the proportion of students receiving specialized services is as high as 30 percent or more. And in some of our testing, we see 70 percent or more of students living in poverty showing cognitive deficits.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By Charles Sosnik Next week we welcome another Turkey Thursday. Another Gobble Fest. Another opportunity to be truly thankful. For those of you that don’t know me, I am on the elder side of whoever happens to be in the room. I’m not really sure how that happened. I remember a time when I was the youngest person in the room. A whiz kid, a wunderkind.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Nigel Nisbet, Vice President of Content Creation at the MIND Research Institute. Nisbet shifts the question from ‘How should I teach,’ to ‘How do they learn?’ It’s a profound difference which helps you to focus on optimal learning methodologies, and to gain an understanding of the Science of Math.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Truth is Out There. Let’s Just Make Sure This Time the Kids Win. Enjoy this video, taken at the Orange County Learning Leadership Symposium, presented by the Learning Counsel. Dr. David Miyashiro may not be your typical school superintendent. For one thing, he speaks his mind. Unabashedly. For another, he gets things done, and Katy bar the door if you are an obstacle getting in the way.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speaking to Lessons Learned According to many of the people who attend the Learning Counsel’s Learning Leadership Symposia, the Administrator Panel Discussion is the icing on the cake, a chance for some of the area’s most distinguished administrators to let their hair down and let the ideas fly. In typical fashion, there are no rules and no censors, and the truth comes out, often gloriously so.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Do you remember a favorite Science teacher or Science class you had in high school or college? I have fond memories of different teachers who taught Science in a fun, witty, and engaging manner. Watching some of the most comedic educators perform science experiments in school was quite often the highlight of my day during my young learning years. From learning about the moon’s phases to the movement of plate tectonics—Science should be an essential part of every curriculum.

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