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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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APRIL 7, 2023

By the Editorial Team at (ET) Magazine This is something school districts have talked about for years. They have dreamed about it. They have danced around it. They have spent billions to warehouse it. They have pulled their hair our worrying about it. They have worked their teachers to tears, to exhaustion, and often to quitting to try to organize and control it.

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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 8, 2023

The Benefits of Being a Multilingual Speaker Do you speak more than one language? Are you a multilingual speaker? This is part three of our interview series, “Thinking in Two Languages.” I had the chance to sit down and talk with Maria Fernanda Márquez to learn about her journey, benefits, and life as a bilingual speaker and educator. Maria not only works with us here at Summit K12, she has taught in dual language and bilingual classrooms respectively.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Zach Vander Veen MTSS stands for “Multi-Tiered System of Supports.” It’s a framework, process or model used by schools and districts to elevate student learning, giving targeted support to struggling learners. It should be a robust framework, backed by social science, and used by schools and districts to support struggling students. MTSS assists schools in identifying struggling students early in the process to they can intervene as soon as possible.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Kelly Wolfe Presence works every day to ensure children have access to the services they need to be healthy and successful. We know kids deserve support, no matter where they live or what local workforce challenges exist. For us, that means addressing any barriers to teletherapy and mental health, including licensure hurdles and funding shortages.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Martin Demkowicz How do we keep virtual learning human-centric? Remote, virtual, distance learning… call it what you will, millions of us choose – or have to choose – to learn from someone physically separate from us. But as all our interactions become increasingly rooted in remote digital experiences, what are we actually losing besides the proximity of other people?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Dr. Felicia Bolden Instructional coaching for any leader can be challenging especially when working with educators who have never been coached, whether they are novice or experienced. It may be hard for educators to realize and admit to areas they need to improve due to the stigma in society that everyone wants to focus on what’s going well. However, through effective coaching by educational leaders, teachers can reflect and grow through a coaching process.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

By Ross Romano What’s the greatest burden on you or your business? What might you do to control it — to remove it? How successful might you be once unburdened? Often, we reflect on our personal achievements as a year closes, and perhaps even make some goals for the next. But many times, professional reflection doesn’t go beyond the basics — financial performance, the next market to conquer, organizational shake-ups, and so on.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

By Tamara Fyke Holidays can be stressful no matter your family. But what about families that don’t always get along? Whether it’s past tensions, differing opinions, or general annoyance of bringing the whole family together, holidays aren’t always perfect and peaceful. When it comes to parenting, how do you model positive relationships when/if your family doesn’t really get along?

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

In this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Podcast, your host LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of The Learning Counsel, discusses the fact that as education embarks on pandemic recovery, the mission of continued support for literacy skills beyond early elementary grades is emerging as vital. What does this mean for teachers needing solutions for literacy skill gaps after those foundational school years?

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

By Nadine Levitt We have to talk about the elephant in the room. Our teachers are tired. They are running on fumes, trying as hard as they can to show up for our kids while covering for staffing gaps as more and more teachers leave the profession. For those of us who have been in the field for a long time, we know to expect the proverbial pendulum swing to a degree.

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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 11, 2022

By Stephanie Hinds Our rural school district operates from a single campus, but that doesn’t make school-home communications any easier. With 1,500 students across grades K-12, we were previously using a blend of different tools to sync up our teachers, students, and families. The selection included a host of other apps that teachers would discover on their own and begin implementing.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Presented by Dr. Paul O’Malley, Superintendent of Butler School District 53 and Ray Harth, Chief Executive Officer at the Heliox Group Data. Those four little letters hold the key to the world. And nowhere is that truer than in the world of the school district. In this presentation at the Learning Counsel’s Chicago area Learning Leadership Symposium, you’ll hear from Dr.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

If you are familiar with the Learning Counsel’s Learning Leadership Symposia, you know that it consists of a region’s best and brightest education leaders coming together for some of the nation’s top solutions-oriented professional development. These symposia follow a fairly standard schedule, packing a couple days’ worth of learning into one action-packed day.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

By Lucy Sanders After a long day at work, unwind with a book. Alternatively, make the most of your free time on weekends and holidays. Here are some novels that we think you would like and those we’ve read and appreciated that will suit a variety of moods. 1. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu: 1983 August. The anticipation is at an all-time high for Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, which is today.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

By Rick Vanover As digital learning possibilities expand, school districts have become major ransomware targets. Throughout 2021, 162 school districts were the target of a cyber incident, and for the first time ever, ransomware was the most frequently reported attack. Bad actors target K-12 schools knowing they receive limited cybersecurity funding yet maintain large repositories of personal identity data on their students and staff including medical records and social security numbers.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

By Ross Romano What does it look like for each of us — independent of our role or stature within the education ecosystem — to meaningfully contribute to gains in educational equity? Recently, I’ve been working with the authors of Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters, published by Stenhouse, to generate new and necessary conversations with educators about their critical work.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Dr. Sherry Wilson, Director of Innovative Learning for Broward County Public Schools comes from a family of educators, and her passion for children and their education is undeniable. As Director of Innovative Learning for a behemoth system like Broward County, her passion sets the tone for 240 schools and 256,000 learners. “I remember March 13th, 2020, very well,” said Dr.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

By Carol DeFuria Understanding diverse cultures and perspectives is essential for high school students as they prepare for careers in our increasingly global society. One of the best ways for students to experience diversity is to learn with and from those who come from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and walks of life. For students residing in major cities, diverse interactions are more likely, as large cities are often melting pots bringing different groups of people together.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

By Kate Eberle Walker Last year, a national state of emergency in children’s mental health was declared by leading children’s health authorities, and there is a nationwide shortage of educators in schools who are equipped to effectively address this crisis. In the 2020-21 school year, the national number of students per school counselor, who are often providing direct services, was nearly double the recommended ratio.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

By Abbey Dorsey One of the attributes of a great teacher is the ability to open up new possibilities for their students. Every young person deserves to feel empowered to pursue opportunities, but students can’t reach for options they don’t know exist. Successful teachers enable students to become their best selves by revealing what’s possible for them in college, careers, and life.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

By Welda Simousek No running water or electricity? Sound like a third world country? No, it’s a fact of life for many on the Navajo reservation (about 37 percent of the Navajo Nation residents). This means the impact of COVID was so much worse for these residents than for many others across the country. The Navajo renamed COVID as Dikos Ntsaagii (“big cough”) (sorry I couldn’t type in the accents on the letters as they should be in Dine).

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

All signs point to training weak cognitive processes rather than bypassing them. By Betsy Hill & Roger Stark Multiple decades of research and practice have resulted in significant shifts in the way students with learning disabilities are supported in schools in the U.S. and elsewhere. In the U.S., federal policy defines various categories of disabilities that may entitle students to special education services or other educational accommodations.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

One of the favorite features of the Learning Counsel’s Learning Leadership Symposia is the Guest Administrator Panel. This is a no-holds-barred discussion featuring some of the top minds in education from the Symposium location. This Nashville area discussion featured Dr. Chris Causey, Superintendent at Robertson County Schools, and Dr. Janis Epperson, Superintendent at Humboldt City Schools.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you have been to one of the Learning Counsel’s Learning Leadership Symposiums, you know there is something very special about the Guest Administrator Panel Discussions. On these panels are some of the top minds in education, but what makes these discussions really special is the panelists don’t pull any punches. In the recent symposium for New York and New Jersey, the panel consisted of Kimberly Ramones, Executive Director of Student Support and Operations for New York City Geographic D

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay In our previous column, The Pillars of Principalship, we stressed the importance of establishing foundational pieces that will provide the underlying support and structure for all stakeholders and all day-to-day school operations. Administrators must now focus on both establishing new and enhancing existing working relationships with all staff members.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. In part one, we addressed the teacher shortage and found that it is not the problem, it is a challenge. In part two, we addressed student attrition, loss of enrollment to any alternatives, and found that it too, is not the problem.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

By Colleen Robinson Education is an ever-changing and adapting trade that has educators constantly evolving to the conditions around us. Like the banded snails that continue to transform their colors to adapt to the climate change surrounding them, us educators find ourselves preparing students for a coming climate unknown to us and in unique technologically expanding times.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. As stated in the first article, if the problem that is attempting to be solved is not the problem, it won’t be solved. It will get worse. On the attrition problem, let’s start with the fact that there are 13.5 million K-12 school-aged children that are possibly not going to any type of schooling environment including homeschooling.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A special Learning Leadership Topical Event, presented by LeiLani Cauthen, CEO at Learning Counsel News Media and Research With special guests, Jose A. Viana, Ed.D., Senior Education Advisor at Lexia Learning and Wendee Evering, Assistant Administrator at A.C. Moore Elementary in Columbia, SC Jose A. Viana, Ed.D., Senior Education Advisor at Lexia describes Lexia Learning as being all about literacy.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

By Kim Bollesen After attending a recent principals’ conference, I came back to my school with resolve, knowing exactly what needed to be done in the SEL arena to work with our single, onsite counselor. The problem was that I thought I really needed ten counselors, and we just didn’t have those levels of resources. With an SEL curriculum, we now have a way to get into all the classrooms without having to physically be in those classrooms.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

By Charles Sosnik “Still, it’s a real good bet, the best is yet to come You think you’ve seen the sun, but you ain’t seen it shine” –Frank I was tempted to quote Dickens for this one; that trite and quite overused line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” But as I see what lies before us, I just don’t believe that quote is appropriate.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

By Brooklin Trover Everyone knows the RTI Triangle with the red/yellow/green shading because it basically appears on every type of instructional resource. Unfortunately, the prominence of the triangle itself hasn’t been enough to provide educators with a deeper understanding of its intention. And, worse, those three branded colors have led many educators to place their students into three static groups and to teach three different “levels” of students.

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