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  • Understanding and Relieving Stress for Women in Educational Leadership

    Understanding and Relieving Stress for Women in Educational Leadership

    Dr. Monica Peterson will be presenting her recent research on the topic of stress management specific to women in leadership roles.

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  • Conversational Leadership

    Conversational Leadership

    Dr. Kristin Baranski (Santee School District) and Dr. Lisa Paisley (Saddleback Valley Unified School District) share their research findings on educational leadership behaviors.

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  • Meaning-Centered Leadership

    Meaning-Centered Leadership

    Based on a recent study by Gallup (2017) over 70% of all employees in the United States are disengaged!

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  • ACSA Candidate Forum

    ACSA Candidate Forum

    Candidates for state ACSA officer elections participated in an online town hall on Feb. 4.

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  • 7 Things to Keep in Mind after a Teacher Strike

    7 Things to Keep in Mind after a Teacher Strike

    The after effects of a strike are long lasting and healing can take years.

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  • Eight Key Points for California’s Accountability & Continuous Improvement System

    Eight Key Points for California’s Accountability & Continuous Improvement System

    The California School Dashboard, the Local Control and Accountability Plan and the California System of Support are key features of this effort.

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  • 2018 California School Dashboard: Eight Changes

    2018 California School Dashboard: Eight Changes

    The 2018 Dashboard brings two additional color-coded indicators into the Dashboard for the first time, reflecting the completion of a multi-year data collection cycle.

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  • Retaining & Supporting Employees Through Financial Wellness

    Retaining & Supporting Employees Through Financial Wellness

    This webinar will explain how districts can help employees overcome financial concerns, including how to get out of debt, plan for retirement, start saving and avoid living paycheck to paycheck.

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  • 9 Ways to Win at Leadership Summit

    9 Ways to Win at Leadership Summit

    A list of 9 practical tips and suggestions for getting the most out of the 2018 Leadership Summit.

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  • New Dates for Education Officials to Assume Office, Effective January 1

    New Dates for Education Officials to Assume Office, Effective January 1

    A new law will change the date that members of a county board of education, school district governing board, or community college district governing board take office.

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  • School Safety and New Guidance on Addressing School Violence

    School Safety and New Guidance on Addressing School Violence

    Preventing school violence and ensuring school safety have become dominant topics and part of an ongoing national conversation.

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  • Legislature Increases Bid Limits under Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act

    Legislature Increases Bid Limits under Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act

    Lawmakers drafted the bill to address construction cost increases that have occurred since the limits were last increased, in 2011.

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  • 9th Circuit Shoots Down Challenge to Law Prohibiting Concealed-Carry Permit Holders

    9th Circuit Shoots Down Challenge to Law Prohibiting Concealed-Carry Permit Holders

    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to a 2015 change to California's Gun-Free School Zone Act, but maintained the same exemption for retired peace officers.

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  • Field Trip Immunity Does Not Apply to a Community College’s Hosting of an Intercollegiate Athletic Event

    Field Trip Immunity Does Not Apply to a Community College’s Hosting of an Intercollegiate Athletic Event

    Community college districts are generally immune from liability for injuries sustained in the course of field trips and excursions under the California Code of Regulations, title 5, section 55220.

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  • Public Entities May Rely on Claimant’s False Representations of Timeliness on Claim Forms

    Public Entities May Rely on Claimant’s False Representations of Timeliness on Claim Forms

    The Court of Appeal has ruled that a public entity has no duty to advise a claimant that they may seek leave to file a late claim within 45 days, where the claim appears to be timely on its face.

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  • 10 tips for onboarding new trustees

    10 tips for onboarding new trustees

    Use this advice to smooth the transition after the midterm elections.

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  • Suicide on campus: How schools are dealing with the crisis

    Suicide on campus: How schools are dealing with the crisis

    The newest student suicide cluster is no doubt sending administrators statewide into a thoughtful review process of their mental health student services and crisis intervention teams.

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  • Parent-Child Border Separations: Supports to Invoke Humanitarianism

    Parent-Child Border Separations: Supports to Invoke Humanitarianism

    An estimated 2,000 undocumented immigrant children have been separated from their families along the southwest United States border and placed in facilities that have been described as “cages."

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  • Public Records Act Does Not Require Creation of Generalized Electronic Data

    Public Records Act Does Not Require Creation of Generalized Electronic Data

    A California appellate court has ruled that public agencies are not required to provide anonymized data in response to California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests.

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  • Records Requesters May Recover Attorney Fees in Reverse-CPRA Actions

    Records Requesters May Recover Attorney Fees in Reverse-CPRA Actions

    California appellate courts have handed down a pair of decisions holding that private parties who sue to pay the requester's attorney fees if they lose.

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