2020 HML Post Archives

Articles for the December 29, 2020 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
  3. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
  4. Registration for the 2021 Annual Meeting.
  5. Opportunity to Reduce Standardized Testing by Joshua Starr
  6. If You Can Honestly Say Yes to These 5 Questions, Your Emotional Intelligence Is Pretty Low by Marcel Schwantes
  7. 90-Day Entry Plan for the Superintendent of Schools by Students First.
  8. Solutions For an Uncertain 2020-21 by Sarah Gonser
  9. What Teachers Makeby Taylor Mali
  10. Superintendents must be willing to take the heat by Joshua Starr
  11. A new blueprint for schools by Thomas Arnett and Chelsea Waite
  12. Aggressive Common Sense by Rick Bagin
  13. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting? by Elizabeth Grace Saunders
  14. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay
  15. Cartoon of the Week
  16. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

Articles for the December 22, 2020 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
  3. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
  4. In 2021, the 9-to-5 Will Become the ‘3-2-2,’ by Jessica Stillman
  5. The 14 most memorable pieces of education journalism from 2020 by Alexander Russo
  6. The Mental Balancing Act for School Leaders by Baruti K. Kafele
  7. 5 Best Practices to Ensure Student and Teacher Engagement Online by Achieve 3000
  8. Serving Rural Students by Andrew Crain
  9. A big reason rural students never go to college: Colleges don’t recruit them by Aaron Gettinger
  10. The Rural Higher-Education Crisis by Jon Marcus and Matt Krupnick
  11. The effects of social-emotional development on academic achievement by Olivia Piontek
  12. Districts could use state support in principal quality initiatives by Naaz Modan
  13. How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too by Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg
  14. Steps to Take When You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out by Monique Valcour
  15. High School GPA to Predict College Readiness by the Institute of Education Sciences
  16. How to Handle Yourself in an Argument by Gary Genard
  17. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay
  18. Cartoon of the Week
  19. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

Articles for the December 15, 2020 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
  3. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
  4. How We’re Robbing Our Future By under-investing In Our Children by Linda Darling-Hammond
  5. Reopening Schools Before a Children’s Vaccine by Amelia Nierenberg
  6. Lawmakers Urged to Maintain K-12 Investments by Joel Aune
  7. 5 Clear Ways to Tell Whether You’ll Be a Good Leader in 2021 by Marcel Schwantes
  8. Will Pandemic Changes in Schooling Be Temporary or Permanent? by Larry Cuban
  9. Remote Work Isn’t Going Anywhere in 2021. These 9 Tips Can Help Make It Better by Jason Aten
  10. Don’t Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience by Amit Goldenberg
  11. Should You Re-Consider the Length of Your Meeting? by Stephen Rogelberg
  12. 14 Easy Ways to Be a Memorable and Successful Public Speaker by Gary Genard
  13. 5 Digital Strategies to Increase School Enrollment by Megan Smith
  14. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay
  15. Cartoon of the Week
  16. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

Articles for the December 8, 2020 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
  3. Three alternatives to requiring video in online learning by Matt Zalaznick
  4. Focusing on Feedback in Distance Learning by Joe Mullikin
  5. Neuroscience Reveals 3 Simple Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Emotional Intelligence by Jeff Haden
  6. Get Rid of Meetings? NO, Solve Meetings Trough Science by Steven G. Rogelberg.
  7. What the Research Says About the Academic Power of Friendship by Gail Cornwal
  8. How to Brief a Senior Executive by Grant T. Harris
  9. Leadership in a tumultuous year by Maria Ferguson
  10. 5 Common Mistakes Managers Make, According to Their Workers by Marcel Schwantes
  11. I Was Diagnosed with Insomnia. Here’s How I Get More Sleep by Apurva Purohit
  12. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay
  13. Cartoon of the Week
  14. Horace Mann League Officers, Directors, and Past Presidents

Articles for the December 1, 2020 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
  3. 11 Mental Tricks to Stop Overthinking Everything by Scott Mautz
  4. Work-from-home tips on the Zoom site.
  5. What Happened to the School in New Orleans That Was First to Desegregate? by Diane Ravitch
  6. Ruby Bridges’s historic school in New Orleans by Valarie Strauss
  7. To Sound Like a Leader, Think About What You Say, and How and When You Say It.by Rebecca Shambaugh
  8. Using PBL to Boost Online Engagement By Amy Nichols
  9. Who Is Behind the Assault on Public Schools? by Howard Ryan
  10. Do You Have E-Charisma on Zoom? Here’s How to Get It by Ray A. Smith
  11. Will students recover their Covid-19 learning losses? by Tom Coyne
  12. Disagreement Doesn’t Have to Be Divisive by Francesca Gino
  13. EDUCATION POLICY WISH LISTS  on the Politico Site.
  14. Want to Persuade People? — Understand Their Culture! by Gary Genard
  15. Will blended learning become the new normal? on the Enterprise-Verison site.
  16. Cartoon of the Week

HMLPost for November 24, 2020

  1. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
  2. 6 Exercises to Get to Know Your Students Better—and Increase Their EngagementBy Nora Fleming
  3. Superintendents must be willing to take the heatbyJoshua P. Starr
  4. Things That Make a Difference in Remote Learning by AJ Juliani
  5. The Upside of Your Public Speaking Jittersby Allison Shapira
  6. Is Self-Sabotage Burning You Out?by Kandi Wiens
  7. Why online education can’t replace brick-and-mortar K-12 schooling
  8. Why Reopening Schools Has Become the Most Fraught Debate of the Pandemicby Rachel Cohen
  9. Overconfidence Is Contagious by Joey T. Cheng
  10. Dead horse theory and Agile by Daniel Gullo
  11. Make Mindfulness a Habitby Matthias Birk
  12. How to Lead Your Audience to Your Important Messageby Gary Genard
  13. The Virtual Meeting – HML Post Articles edited by Jack McKay

HML Post for November 17, 2020

  1. School Reopening 2020: The Surge That Never Happened by Alexander Russo
  2. 5 Powerful Ways to Motivate and Inspire Your Audience by Gary Genard
  3. Biden’s Education Department Will Move Fast to Reverse Betsy DeVos’s Policiesby Erica L. Green
  4. Pandemic Sparks Fears That Without Sports and Other Activities, Students Will Disengage from Schoolby Greg Toppo
  5. A New Education Vision for a New Administration by Sasha Pudelski, Noelle Ellerson, and Chris Rogers
  6. Sticky schools: How to find and keep teachers in the classroom  by Anne Podolsky, Tara Kini, Joseph Bishop, and Linda Darling-Hammond
  7. The Virtual Meeting – HML Post Articles edited by Jack McKay
  8. We Must Teach Students to Recognize Misinformation by Diane Ravitch
  9. Whatever Happened To Cursive Writing? by Larry Cuban
  10. The Difference Between Good Leaders and Great Onesby James R. Bailey
  11. Rethinking schools, rethinking learning by Maxine McKinney de Royston
  12. Reinventing Your Career in Uncertain Timesby David Lancefield and Dorie Clark
  13. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay

HML Post for November 10, 2020

  1. The Virtual Meeting – A Summary of Article – edited by Jack McKay
  2. Make Remote Learning More Effective by Angela Duckworth
  3. Teaching Young Students Remotely by Wendy L. Ostroff
  4. The 6-Step Guide to Strategy Implementation by Tom Wright
  5. Strategies for Helping Students Succeed Amid COVID-19 by Cecilia Cruse
  6. Universal Preschool Could Be a National Model by  Claire Cain Miller,
  7. Labeling Students Then and Now (Part 1)by Larry Cuban
  8. Labeling Students Then and Now (Part 2) by Larry Cuban
  9. Building Racial Equity Through Trauma-Responsive Discipline by Micere Keels
  10. How to Be a Star in Your Next Video Conference by Gary Genard
  11. Improve the Quality of Their Video Instruction by Matthew X. Joseph
  12. Crisis Management During COVID-19: A Roadmap for Principals by Jim Dunn
  13. Don’t Get Blindsided by Your Blind Spots by Amy C. Edmondson and Aaron W. Dimmock
  14. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay
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HML Post for November 3, 2020

  1. Congratulations to Dr. Laurie Barron
  2. Quote for the Week
  3. Administrator support essential to maintain teacher morale by Matt Zalaznick
  4. Successful Decision-Making During Uncertainty by Thomas Arnett and Bob Moesta
  5. As more students head back, here’s what we now know (and still don’t) about schools and COVID spread by Matt Barnum
  6. Staff Meetings Get a Needed Makeover During the Pandemic
  7. Successfully Taking Offline Classes Online by Catlin R. Tucker
  8. How deeply will digital learning transform K-12 long-term? by Roger Riddell
  9. The schools teachers choose by Jeremy Glazer
  10. How the Best Leaders Answer “What Are We Here for?” by Margaret Heffernan
  11. Give Your Remote Team Unstructured Time for Collaboration by Barbara Z. Larson
  12. 8 Questions About Planning Safe In-Person Events on the Meeting site
  13. Avoid This Common Mistake Most Speakers Make in Virtual Meetings by Carmine Gallo
  14. Politics, Not Science, is Driving School Reopening Decisions by Kevin Mahnken
  15. Linking Social-Emotional Learning to Long-Term Success by C. Kirabo Jackson
  16. Does Start Time at High School Really Matter? Studying the Impact of High School Start Time on Achievement, by Emelina Minero
  17. What It Takes to Lead Through an Era of Exponential Change by Aneel Chima and Ron Gutman
  18. Managing the Virtual and Hybrid Teaching Workload by Beth Pandolpho
  19. School choice programs at public expense harm the public good by William L. Phillis
  20. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay

HML Post for October 27, 2020

Articles and other Things

  1. The Ultimate Guide to Job Interview Answers
  2. These 3 Tips for Better Zoom Meetings by Jason Aten
  3. State Funding for Higher Education by Jason Delisle & Andrew Gillen
  4. The Value of Setting a Clear School Vision This YearBy Joe Mullikin
  5. Trump’s And Biden’s Plans For Educationby Elena Moore
  6. Our Work-from-Anywhere Future by Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury
  7. ‘If choice and competition improve schools, I found no sign of it.’by Valarie Strauss
  8. Ted Dintersmith is not here to save neighborhood schools! on the Seattle Education
  9. Most Likely To Succeed by Ted Dintersmith.
  10. 3 Scientific Reasons Coffee Makes You Happier and More Productiveby Jason Aten
  11. Storytelling Can Make or Break Your Leadershipby Jeff Gothelf
  12. Supports for Social and Emotional Learning by Laura S. Hamilton
  13. 4 Tips for Effective Virtual Collaborationby Elizabeth Grace Saunders
  14. After the Pandemic, a Revolution in Education and Work Awaitsby Thomas Friedman
  15. These 3 Tips for Better Zoom Meetings by Jasom Aten
  16. Start Stopping Fasterby Darrell K. Rigby , Sarah Elk and Steve Berez
  17. Cartoon of the Week
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HML Post for October 20, 2020

Articles and other Things
7 Tips for Remote Teaching
The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage
Stepping Up to the Challenge
9 Words and Phrases You’re Probably Using Wrong
Find the Coaching in Criticism
A Framework for Leaders Facing Difficult Decisions.
Let Them Read, Please
The Essential Traits of a Positive School Climate
5 Ways to Make Your Presentations Memorable!
How to Be a Good Board Chair
Chair and Member Roles: The Nuance of Effective Leadership of a School Board
Some Witty One Liners for all Occasions
William Frantz Public School: A Story of Race, Resistance, Resiliency, and Recovery in New Orleans
Type Less, Talk More
A Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
What Teachers Make

HML Post for October 13, 2020

Articles and other Things

  1. 100 school leaders identify the biggest challenges this year by Mara Rodriguez
  2. Social Studies Instruction and Reading Comprehension: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studyby Adam Tyner and Sarah Kabourek
  3. Here’s Why I Wouldn’t Teach Less Reading to Improve Social Studiesby Tim Shanahan
  4. A response to Tim Shanahan on “Social Studies Instruction and Reading Comprehension”by Adam Tyner
  5. To Succeed in a Negotiation, Help Your Counterpart Save Faceby Joshua N. Weiss
  6. Three Lessons That 2020 Has Taught Every Leader by Michael T. Nietzel
  7. A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Leadership in Three Full-Service Community Schools by Mavis G. Sanders
  8. If You Listen, We Will Stayby Davis Dixon and Ashley Griffin
  9. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ADVANCING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS STRATEGIES on the Community School site.
  10. A Framework for Rebuilding Initial Certification and Preparation Programs in Educational Leadership: Lessons From Whole-State Reform Initiatives by Joseph Murphy
  11. Based Learning is Transforming Remote LearningbyKyle Wagner
  12. Federal policy and push to privatize education by Patricia Burch
  13. Type Less, Talk Moreby Amit Kumar
  14. A Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Educationby Justin Reich
  15. What Teachers Make byTaylor Mali.
  16. Cartoon of the Week
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HML Post for October 6, 2020

Articles and other Things

  1. What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali.
  2. Teacher Talk About Student Ability and Achievement in the Era of Data-Driven Decision Makingby Amanda Datnow
  3. Pandemic could spur new school staffing approachesbyKara Arundel
  4. 5 Dos and Don’ts for Virtual Event Success
  5. 5 Ways to Use Videoconferencing by Mariana Aguilar
  6. After-school programs struggle by  Shawna De La Rosa
  7. The Art of Communicating Risk  by Ann Cleaveland
  8. Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life by Cyril Bouquet
  9. Teacher leadership: Prospects and promises by Barnett Berry
  10. Who are the real experts in your school system? by Joshua Starr
  11. 5 Books to Read If You Want to Understand the Future of Work by Jessica Stillman
  12. Cartoon of the Week

Articles for September 29, 2020

  1. 5 Principles to Guide Adaptive Leadership by Ben Ramalingam
  2. What Is Good Teaching? by Kristina Rizga
  3. Restore Your Sense of Control — Despite the Pandemic by Eric M. Anicich
  4. How to Run a Virtual Meeting by Adriana Girdler
  5. Stop doing these 9 things to improve your life by John P. Weiss
  6. Online Charter Schools Are Not a Solution by Florina Rodov
  7. For Complex Texts, the Brain Prefers Paper by Douglas Fisher
  8. COVID-19 Should Help Us End Education Excuses by Martin O’Malley
  9. 7 Strategies for Better Group Decision-Making by Torben Emmerling
  10. Connect, Include, Create Guide by Education Elements.
  11. How to Maslow Before Bloom, All Day Long By Tom Berger
  12. How to Debate Someone Who Lies by Richard A. Friedman
  13. A Businessman Learns a Lesson by Jamie Vollmer
  14. What Makes a Leader? by Daniel Goleman

Articles For September 22, 2020

  1. Will This Be a Lost Year for America’s Children? by Emily Bazelonon
  2. The Social Dilemma Directed by Jeff Orlowski
  3. Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?
  4. Lessons Learned from Strategic Plan Failures
  5. 6 Reasons Your Strategy Isn’t Working by Michael Beer
  6. Why remote learning is hard — and how to make it easier by Daniel Willingham
  7. Want to Learn More Effectively? Take More Breaks, Research Suggests by Jeffrey R. Young
  8. 4 Focus Areas for School Leaders This Fall by Beth Holland
  9. Educational Leadership in the Twitterverse: Social Media, Social Networks, and the New Social Continuumby Alan J. Daly
  10. Getting a Grip on Project Based Learning: Theory, Cases, and Recommendations by Michael M. Grant
  11. DeVos vows to withhold desegregation aid to schools over transgender athletesbyErica L. Green

Articles for September 15, 2020

  1. Turning Temporary Changes into Lasting Reform by Alfie Kohn
  2. 8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom by Emelina Minero
  3. Guidelines for a Critical Incident Follow-Upon the NSPRA site
  4. States where teachers are best paid and worst paidon the USA Today site
  5. In Defense of Refusal: Teacher Rebellion Rejects Corporate Assault on Public Education by Graham B. Slater
  6. 10 Reasons to Use the Telephone Rather than EmailbySam Rainer
  7. Improve Your Presentation Skills for Video Conferencingby Gary Genard
  8. Test the Waters: Social Media Surveyon the NSPRA site
  9. 5 Tips to Improve Your Online Teaching Presence by Youki Terada
  10. The Benefits of Being Open-Minded By Kendra Cherry
  11. Becoming a More Patient Leader by David Sluss
  12. 3 Things You Should Do Right Now While Working From Homeby Jason Aten
  13. 8 Important Composition Tips for Better Photos byCaz Nowaczyk
  14. In Pandemic, Private Schools Face Perilby Juliet Squire
  15. A New Model for Ethical Leadership by Max H. Bazerman
  16. 5 Changes that will Prepare Students for the Future of Work by Matt Zalaznick
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September 8, 2020
6 Things Educators Can Do From Home To Help Their Students by Thomas Hatch
What Teachers Make…… by Taylor Mali
7 Strategies for Leading a Crisis-Driven Reorganize by Peter Buchas
Zoom Basics – Using Zoom for Classes and Meetings by Steve Dotto
Learn from Your Competition: Marketing Your Schools by Rich Bagin
What was school reform like before Covid-19 ( BC)? by Larry Cuban
6 Questions That Predict Success by Jeff Haden
How Schools Can Redeploy Teachers in Creative Ways During COVID-19 by Catherine Gewertz
5 Dos and Don’ts for Virtual Event Success
Thinking of Skipping Vacation? Don’t! by Rebecca Zucker
Local unions need to catch up with the times by Joshua Starr

September 1, 2020
School: Learning in the Time of COVID and Beyond by Linda Darling Hammond
7 Guidelines for Setting Up Clear Online Lessons and Meetings by Elizabeth Skopec
How to Eliminate PowerPoint by Geoffery James
The 52nd annual PDK Poll: Public School Priorities in a Political Year
How to Build Your Mental Strength by Amy Morin
Get Ready for a Teacher Shortage Like We’ve Never Seen Before By Kelly Treleaven
7 policy moves that could transform K-12 education by Matt Zalaznick
Remote Learning Checklist on the Lexia site
How to Be More Personable in Virtual Meetings by Gary Genard on Genard site.
10 of the Best Critical Thinking Books for Boosting Brainpower
Take Ownership of Your Future Self by Benjamin Hardy

What Every Educator Needs to Know About Artificial Intelligence by

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