2013

  		• March 2013 School Board News
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284480
    This month: “On the Hill” outlines a school board agenda for the 113th Congress, and a Q&A with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson -- the man who stripped Pluto of planet stat...
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  		• Test Track
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 2/26/2013, Product#: 284469
    The goal of the Common Core assessments, as with the curricula itself, is to devise a richer, more thoughtful approach to K-12 learning, one that is – in the words of the Commo...
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  		• The Deal with Data
    Authored By: Todd D. Mora, Jackie Wahl, and Richard B. Hathaway, Date Published: 2/26/2013, Product#: 284470
    Until the mid-1990s, Michigan’s Comstock Public Schools was considered one of the premier districts in Kalamazoo County. Then the automobile...
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  		• Getting Virtual Learning Right
    Authored By: Ann Flynn, Date Published: 2/26/2013, Product#: 284471
    From institutions of higher education to corporate training and the military, online learning has taken root. The most important lifelong skills to be gained from an online learning...
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  		• Agents of Change: Balsz Elementary School District
    Authored By: Del Stover, Date Published: 2/26/2013, Product#: 284472
    After years of lagging academic performance within their district, the leaders of Arizona’s Balsz Elementary School District searched for a way to turn things around. In 2009, they...
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  		• Time After Time
    Authored By: Naomi Dillon, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284476
    While the amount of time teachers and students spend in school – a six-and-a-half-hour, 180-day academic calendar -- has remained remarkably constant over the past several decade...
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  		• A Wider Lens
    Authored By: Steve Gill and Ushani Nanayakkara, Date Published: 2/26/2013, Product#: 284473
    Educational staff and districts have unwittingly developed systems in which some minority students are consistently overrepresented and others underrepresent...
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  		• Why Do Superintendents Leave?
    Authored By: Brian A. Sheehan, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284474
    The demanding nature of their jobs, an aging superintendent population, and relationships with school board members all lead superintendents to leave. School boards can make ...
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  		• High-Tech Storytelling
    Authored By: Nora Carr, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284477
    Storytelling is different in the digital age. With smartphones, flip video cameras, and inexpensive software, it’s easier than ever to create compelling new stories and slide shows....
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  		• We Love Trash
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284478
    An often-overlooked opportunity can benefit both sides of the balance sheet, increasing revenue while reducing expenses. What is this opportunity? Recycling. A comprehensiv...
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  		• The Last Word March 2013
    Authored By: C. Ed Massey, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284479
    After Newtown, the safety of schools was called into question. My experience has been – and I am convinced – that schools are still safe. More than 50 million children are in sch...
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  		• March 2013 Adviser
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 2/27/2013, Product#: 284481
    What would you do if … teachers wanted different types of professional development?...
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  		• February 2013 School Board News
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284284
    This month: “Safe from Harm” points out that school shootings rarely occur and that schools are safer than you might think. Plus, the Connecticut Association of Boards of Educ...
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  		• The Tablet Revolution
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284272
    The popularity of tablets comes as no surprise to school technology advocates. Several factors have converged to make tablets attractive. Prices have fallen; funds previously r...
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  		• Mission Critical
    Authored By: Nicholas Shipley, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284273
    E-rate started as an effort to provide discounts for schools and libraries to acquire affordable telecommunication service and Internet access. Demand for program funds has s...
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  		• Innovation Renaissance
    Authored By: Ann Lee Flynn, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284274
    In K-12 education, the biggest wins have been in districts that create a culture that nurtures and supports new tools and ideas, maintain a keen focus on the educational challen...
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  		• Agents of Change: Warsaw Community Schools
    Authored By: Glenn Cook, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284275
    The Warsaw Community school board faced some major hurdles. In 2011, the Warsaw Community Schools received an overall grade of C in the state accountability system, with several el...
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  		• Getting Back to the Top
    Authored By: Jim Hull, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284276
    President Obama has made it a priority for the U.S. to lead the world in college attainment by the year 2020. Improving two-year degree completion will help put the U.S. back to the ...
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  		• Tinker and Online Student Speech
    Authored By: Sonja Trainor, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284278
    As school officials encounter student speech that is or may be disruptive to the educational environment, they are learning (sometimes the hard way) just how far the Tinker stan...
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  		• Beyond the Basics
    Authored By: Doug Eadie, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284280
    High-impact school boards recognize the need to invest in ongoing development of their governing knowledge and skills...
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  		• Everybody Knows
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284281
    Does your district have a system that encourages reporting unethical or illegal behavior and protects the informants? Let’s explore how employee education, anonymous tip ho...
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  		• The Last Word February 2013
    Authored By: Thomas J. Gentzel, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284282
    NSBA is preparing for changes in Washington. But the biggest change you may see will come from within NSBA. As part of what we’re calling the “New NSBA,” we are going to sig...
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  		• February 2013 Adviser
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 1/29/2013, Product#: 284283
    What would you do if … the board disagreed with a superintendent's purchasing recommendation?...
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  		• January 2013 School Board News
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283986
    This month: “On the Hill” points out that cutting education is the wrong choice in a tough budget climate. “NSBA Roundup” covers Learning by Design, Ariz.’s “empowerment scho...
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  		• Common Core Backlash
    Authored By: Lawrence Hardy, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283974
    “Fewer. Higher. Clearer.” Those are the types of academic standards the Common Core State Standards Initiative has promised. Finally, the U.S. will have, if not a national cur...
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  		• Agents of Change
    Authored By: Del Stover, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283976
    When officials in Missoula, Mont., realized that nearly one in five students failed to graduate from high school on time, instead of assigning blame, they tackled the problem by c...
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  		• Dry Spell
    Authored By: Del Stover, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283978
    The drought of 2012 has inflicted untold damage on crops and communities. Districts, already grappling with upgraded federal standards for school meals, are bracing for the drough...
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  		• The Power of Math
    Authored By: Patte Barth, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283979
    Young children’s math abilities are far more predictive of their academic achievement throughout their school years than their social or emotional behaviors, neither of which, it...
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  		• Religion in the Cafeteria
    Authored By: Shamus P. O'Meara and M. Annie Santos, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283980
    With the diversity of religious diet requirements, and potential for legal challenges to school action in this area, it is important for school distric...
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  		• Battling Hunger
    Authored By: Nora Carr, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283981
    Swept into children’s lives along with a rising tide of poverty that shows no signs of receding, hunger is haunting America’s classrooms. Linked to weakened immune systems, cogniti...
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  		• Large-Scale Innovation
    Authored By: Doug Eadie, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283982
    Significant change is possible in even the largest, most complex organizations. The key is collaboration combined with meticulous leadership and management and the commitment of s...
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  		• A Shell Game
    Authored By: Charles K. Trainor, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283983
    The shell game has not disappeared. Instead of nutshells, scammers use companies. Rather than a pea, companies hide their true ownership and function. Don’t hesitate to as...
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  		• The Last Word January 2013
    Authored By: C. Ed Massey, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283985
    What school leaders can learn from NASCAR...
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  		• January 2013 Adviser
    Authored By: Editorial Staff, Date Published: 12/27/2012, Product#: 283987
    What would you do if … your students wouldn't eat healthy school lunches?...
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  		• The Last Word January 2012
    Authored By: Mary Broderick, Date Published: 1/3/2012, Product#: 281599
    William Butler Yeats often is credited with saying, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” The lack of growth in the nation’s NAEP results over th...
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