Educational Links 10/23/16

School Leadership

https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/school-leadership 

Help Us Snuff Out Bullying – Bullying Awareness Month
http://special-ism.com/snuff-out-bullying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29

13 Warning Signs of Mental Illness in a Child

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/singletons/201609/13-warning-signs-mental-illness-in-child?utm_source=FacebookPost&utm_medium=FBPost&utm_campaign=FBPost 

5 Strategies For Teaching Students To Use Metacognition

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/5-strategies-teaching-students-use-metacognition/ 

Cyberbullying: What's Crossing the Line? 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/cyberbullying-or-teasing 

Beyond dyslexia fonts: What parents can do to help kids who struggle with reading

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/10/21/beyond-dyslexia-fonts-what-parents-can-do-to-help-kids-who-struggle-with-reading/?postshare=6791477052466702&tid=ss_fb 

How Important Are Principals?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/walt_gardners_reality_check/2016/10/how_important_are_principals_1.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Perhaps principals have always been expected to be more than merely administrators, but I believe the situation today is unprecedented.  That's because the accountability movement demands results that would be alien to principals decades ago.
With so much depending on strictly quantifiable outcomes, one-fourth of the country's principals leave their schools each year.  (I think the rate is higher in troubled schools.)  That's not at all surprising.  The pressure to post higher test scores and higher graduation rates becomes too great to bear.