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Happy New Year!
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If your answer is "not many" or "none," perhaps it's time to start thinking about how you can
reach your business and personal goals in 2019. Believe it or not, there are plenty of tactics you can use to make your dreams come true.
Here are some of the ways you can change your mindset, get better results and make sure that this time next year, you can proudly say you completed a majority -- if not all -- of your goals for 2019.
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Break big goals into smaller tasks.
Instead of thinking about the big picture, break it down into smaller, more manageable goals.
2.
Set deadlines.
Deadlines allow you to establish a flow of progress so you're not caught at the end rushing through everything you hope to accomplish.
3.
Talk about your goals.
When you talk about your personal goals to friends and family, they can give you the support you need to make sure you accomplish them.
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Reassess your goals.
Sometimes you have to stop and reassess your goals throughout the year. Things change over time.
5.
Avoid procrastination -- start now.
Start thinking about the things you want and how you're going to get there. Procrastination can kill ideas. It's the enemy of success and growth. (
Learn more.)
In this discourse, bad teachers are the key to education reform, if only they could be identified, counted, and removed. Others argue that the current system already removes most ineffective teachers, and that reform efforts are instead motivated by a neoliberal ideology hostile to teachers unions and indifferent to segregation and resource inequality (Kumashiro, 2012). From this perspective, the bad teacher narrative serves to distract from deeper structural issues in American schools. While the latter is a perspective we authors tend to align with, it is essential to understand just what makes for a bad teacher and to then estimate how many of them are present in our schools before making the kinds of decisions which affect thousands of schools and millions of students and their families. (Learn more.)
What parents wouldn't want to give their children the ability to get good grades and excel at work?
Those benefits are linked in research to a high IQ.
Dozens of recent studies shed new light on the extent to which parents can-and cannot-help their children score higher on that popular and widely used measure of intelligence.
Here's an assessment of other pursuits often promoted as ways to improve your child's intelligence:
- Learning a Musical Instrument
- Learning Chess
- Enriching the Environment
- Working Memory Training
- Staying in School . (Learn more.)
This article addresses issues of school violence from the perspective of what happens after a rampage school shooting. It reports findings of qualitative research into challenges faced by parents and families in the years following the shootings at Columbine High School, beginning with a brief overview of the tragedy and then describing research into the experiences of parents of Columbine students. This research, which was conducted to help inform responses by educators and crisis teams to a school shooting or other community-wide trauma, revealed three primary issues to be addressed in providing services following such an event: 1) location, 2) intention, and 3) connection. (Learn more.)
An excerpt from the study by
Peter Bergman and Isaac McFarlin Jr.
We find that, overall, traditional public schools' response rates are similar to the response rates from charter schools across treatment messages. However, there is a different response rate to messages that signal a child has a significant special need.
Traditional public schools exhibit no differential response rate to these messages, but charter schools are 7 percentage points less likely to respond to them than to the baseline message. This result is important because students with disabilities are twice as expensive to educate than the typical student without a disability (Moore et al., 1988; Chambers, 1998; Collins and Zirkel, 1992), and students with the severe disabilities can cost 8-to-14
times to educate compared to the typical non-disabled student (Griffith, 2008). (
Learn more.)
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry finds that when adolescents stop using marijuana - even for just one week - their verbal learning and memory improve. The study contributes to growing evidence that marijuana use in adolescents is associated with reduced neurocognitive functioning.
More than 14 percent of students in middle school and high school reported using marijuana within the past month, finds a National Institutes of Health survey conducted in 2017. And marijuana use has increased among high-schoolers over the past 10 years, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (Learn more.)
Contract Bridge might be the last game you would expect 21st century children raised during an explosion in technology and video games to play. Yet on Sunday mornings, a group of youngsters, ages 8 to 16, gather at the Bridge Center of Buffalo to learn a game often considered more difficult than chess.
"Bridge is my reason to get my kids away from their iPads. That was my original goal getting the kids to play here," said Jia Passucci, whose son Michael, 14, and daughter Leondina, 10, participate in the program. "Over time we got to know the teachers. These teachers are master bridge players. They share the passion, and they want to pass it on to the next generation." (Learn more.)
Did you know that leading difficult people can actually be beneficial to you?
We have all found times when we've had to lead difficult people. In retail or business operations, they can deliver poor customer service to your patrons. In project teams, they can slow down the progress of creativity. In any setting, they can drive you up the wall! You probably don't have to think hard to identify someone you lead who is causing you trouble.
Women in leadership encounter this more often than male leaders do for a variety of reasons, the first of which is the shifting of the workplace. Depending on the industry, some individuals are reporting to their first woman manager, and the change is still catching some people by surprise. (
Learn more.)
Frustrated by little pay and better opportunities elsewhere,
public school teachers and education employees in the United States are quitting their jobs at the fastest rate on record.
During the first 10 months of the year, public educators, including teachers, community college faculty members, and school psychologists, quit their positions at a rate of 83 per 10,000.
According to the report, teachers are leaving for a variety of reasons. Unemployment is low, which means there are other, potentially more lucrative opportunities elsewhere. Better pay, coupled with tight budgets and, in some cases, little support from communities could also push educators to other positions. (
Learn more.)
There doesn't have to be a single, sickening moment when you realize that you just shoved your foot firmly in your mouth, either. Little things can add up over time and undermine your career just as much as (or more than) one huge lapse in judgment.
The good news is that if you stay aware of them, these are all things that you can control before they creep up on you and kill your career.
1. Over-promising and under-delivering.
4. Having an inflatable ego.
5. Losing sight of the big picture.
7. Low emotional intelligence (EQ).
8. Sucking up to your boss.
McChrystal profiles thirteen famous leaders from a wide range of eras and fields-from corporate CEOs to politicians and revolutionaries. He uses their stories to explore how leadership works in practice and to challenge the myths that complicate our thinking about this critical topic.
About the Power of a leader:
Perception matters greatly, because power rarely resides within just an individual. Power is not an absolute state but an arrangement among stakeholders. It is bestowed upon the leader as much as it is taken by the leader. While we speak about power as something that a leader seizes and dispenses, it is more accurate to say that power exists within the system that envelops a leader, and reflects that system's expectations of its leaders. This explains why so many power brokers can seem frustrated and feckless despite their apparent positional authority.
Quietly, they know that their power is contingent and derived from elsewhere, whether it is another branch of government, a board of directors, shareholders, an electorate, or a fan base. (
Interview.
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by Rachel L. Harris and Lisa Tarchak on the New York Times site.
Can America's languishing rural communities reinvigorate themselves and bring jobs, infrastructure and people back to their increasingly austere landscapes? Or is it time to cut and run?
In "
The Hard Truths of Trying to 'Save' the Rural Economy," Eduardo Porter writes about their grim prospects. Among more than 1,000 comments from readers, rural Americans talked about the harsh reality of living in, and sometimes having to leave, a small town with few job prospects or a failing family farm.
Geographic and cultural stasis concerned
Sil Tuppins, a reader from Tennessee:
"We are leaders in opiate deaths and abuse. We continue to be historically low educated. And our rural folk stay in their communities for a lifetime. That is a prescription for failure in a technology driven world."
"Accepting that some of these communities will die also requires acknowledging the suffering that goes along with their ending," wrote
Betsy S, a reader in Otsego County, N.Y. "I don't know the answer, but I am absolutely certain demanding individual responsibility isn't going to make anything better." (
Learn more.)
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Horace Mann League' s Annual Conference
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Horace Mann League will be on Friday, February 15, 2019, at noon, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel near the LA Convention Center, and held in conjunction with AASA's Conference.
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The 2019 Outstanding Friend of Public Education- Dr. Henry Levin
Dr. Henry Levin,
Professor of
Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Dr. Levin's special areas of interest are: Economics of education, cost-effectiveness analysis, school reform, and privatization. He is Co-Director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education.
The 2019 Outstanding Public Educator- Dr. Jeanne Oakes
Dr. Jeanne Oakes is Presidential Professor Emeritus in Educational Equity at UCLA. She focuses her time with the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) on projects related to
deeper learning, teacher preparation, and resource equity. She plays a leadership role in both the resource equity work, as well as LPI's work with the Partnership for the Future of Learning.
The 2019 Outstanding Friend of the Horace Mann League - Andy Schaefer and Discovery Education.
Andy Schaefer, as Vice President of Discovery Education, has over the past ten years, been a strong advocate of public education and the mission and purpose of the Horace Mann League. During the ten-year span, Andy has assisted the League in building a stronger relationship with our corporate partners.
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Horace Mann League will be on Friday, February 15, 2019, at noon, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel near the LA Convention Center, and held in conjunction with AASA's Conference.
Click here to register for the 2019 Annual Meeting.
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