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  • How can policymakers help close the opportunity gap for students?

    How can policymakers help close the opportunity gap for students?

    Many of these districts also are closing the gap on a range of other outcomes, including graduation rates. The critical question is: How did they do it?

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  • The importance of adopting a growth mindset in your classroom

    The importance of adopting a growth mindset in your classroom

    One increasingly popular teaching strategy has less to do with lesson plans and curriculum and more to do with a teacher’s overall approach to student interaction and instruction.

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  • A closer look at the critical California teacher shortage

    A closer look at the critical California teacher shortage

    Young boys and girls see firsthand an effective educator’s impact, and they look up to their teachers as a result. By the time college comes around, however, things have changed.

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  • No Easy Answers – Cities, School Districts, and the Statewide Affordable Housing Crisis

    No Easy Answers – Cities, School Districts, and the Statewide Affordable Housing Crisis

    Implementation of affordable housing laws has widespread financial and planning impacts on cities, counties and school districts.

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  • 5 Signs You'd Excel in Educating Special Needs Students

    5 Signs You'd Excel in Educating Special Needs Students

    Educators who teach special needs students are more than just instructors. They become advocates for social justice whose mission is to protect the dignity of students with disabilities.

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  • Educators: Stop spending your own money on school supplies

    Educators: Stop spending your own money on school supplies

    Horace Mann has partnered with DonorsChoose.org to help you crowdsource for your classroom.

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  • 4 Critical factors to consider regarding compensation

    4 Critical factors to consider regarding compensation

    While all educators are dedicated to guiding and instructing students, not all teachers are compensated equally. In fact, teacher salaries can vary quite drastically from one state to the next.

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  • Your roadmap to becoming a teacher in California

    Your roadmap to becoming a teacher in California

    On its surface, the path to becoming a teacher may seem pretty straightforward. The specific educational journey you take will differ depending on the type of teacher you hope to become.

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  • How to prevent bullying in the classroom: 4 proactive tips for teachers

    How to prevent bullying in the classroom: 4 proactive tips for teachers

    More than one in four students report having been bullied at school. And yet just 20–30 percent of bullied students notify adults.

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  • Have you read these top leadership books?

    Have you read these top leadership books?

    ACSA asked this year’s Administrator of the Year winners to tell us some of their favorite books about leadership. Here are their picks that will get you ready to lead in the new school year.

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  • 10 Best Practices that Lead to Success as an HR Administrator

    10 Best Practices that Lead to Success as an HR Administrator

    The 10 HR Best Practices that great human resource administrators have in common.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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