HML Post thru July 2, 2019

Date Topic
2-Jul Special Edition on Leadership and Meetings
The Magic of 30-Minute Meetings 
How to Spend Less Time in Meetings 
3 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Next Meeting 
Five Tricks to Maximizing Meetings 
Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation
How to Speak Up in a Meeting, and When to Hold Back
Five Secrets of Great Leaders Who Get the Most Out of Meetings
How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting
Making a Motion at a Meeting 
How to Take Minutes at a Board Meeting
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25-Jun Special Edition on Leadership
Asking These 9 Questions Will Instantly Reveal What Employees Think of Their Boss 
The 4 Brain Superpowers You Need to Be a Successful Leader, According to Neuroscience 
The Five “Cs” of a Trusted Leader 
Great Leadership is about Influence not Authority
Adopt these 4 speaking habits to boost your leadership presence
Five Secrets of Great Leaders Who Get the Most Out of Meetings 
The Leader’s Reading List 
5 key priorities for today’s superintendents 
The Leader’s Guide to Organizational Culture 
5 Leadership Blind Spots That Limit Your Ability to Keep Up With Change 
One Leadership Habit Bad Bosses Always Fear 
Which kind of bold leadership?
3 Things All Great Leaders Have In Common
Ask This 1 Simple Question to Instantly Improve Your Leadership
The Focused Leader
Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One 
What leaders can (and cannot) learn from scientists 
The Best Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Ask for Help
Leadership: Myths and Realities 
9 Things That Will Kill Your Career 
Leaders Influence
The Importance of Self-Care for Administrators
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18-Jun Key Communicators: More Important Than Ever
The silence of school leaders on climate change 
Critics of charter schools say they’re hurting school districts. Are they right? 
What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop 
The Case for Finally Cleaning Your Desk 
Extroverts have 4 consistent advantages over everyone else at work 
Six Easy Tricks That Will Make You Way More Productive 
Create a Growth Culture, Not a Performance-Obsessed One 
Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups 
10 Steps to Reduce Liability of School Sports, Athletics Personnel  
How Reading Improves Your Health
The Leader’s Reading List 
Leaders Influence 
Keeping Board Members in Touch With the Classroom 
11-Jun Keeping Board Members in Touch With the Classroom 
Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Start a Business Email This Way
People Who Do These 7 Toxic Things Have Very Low Emotional Intelligence 
The Best Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Ask for Help b
What Makes a Great Remote Team. It Came Up With These 3 Things 
What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter Than we Are? 
The Magic of 30-Minute Meetings 
Latest Charter School Scandal  
School’s out: Charters were supposed to save public education. Why are Americans turning against them? 
The United States of America, ranked from best to worst 
Understanding and Addressing Principal Turnover Research Review 
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4-Jun Refusing to release education funds is harming our schools and children
Learn from Your Competition: Marketing Your Schools
To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience 
Unlearning is often a part of effective teaching 
What Students Gain From Learning Ethics in School 
From Agriculture to Art – the A.I. Wave Sweeps In
This Is The Greatest Threat Of AI, And It’s Not What You Think
How arts-based lessons improve science performance 
What leaders can (and cannot) learn from scientists
Don’t Be the Boss Who Talks Too Much
4 Things the Best Leaders in the World Never Say
Extroverts have 4 consistent advantages over everyone else at work 
7 Reasons Your School District or Association Needs A Clear, Written Mission
3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Critical Thinking
5 Myths About Strategy 
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28-May Make Sure You Get Your Story Straight 
Americans See Advantages and Challenges in Country’s Growing Racial and Ethnic Diversity 
What kids need from education in the 21st century 
The Bright Side of Nationalism Reasons for Hope
Blended Learning Built on Teacher Expertise 
How you can help introverts flourish in the classroom 
 A call for systemic change for personalized learning 
Let’s be precise about personalization
To Come Up with Better Ideas, Practice Paying Attention 
Alignment Matters: A Framework for Advancing Student Learning and Promoting Equity 
A Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement Engaging Families to Transform Education
Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success
Why Streaming Kids According to Ability Is a Terrible Idea 
The Three Goals of Public Education 
Collaborative Professionalism
Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform
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21-May 5 Lessons Most People Learn Way Too Late in Life
Educational Reform Movement: Education Reform means to take us Back to the Future-I mean way, way back.
Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds
Building the Relationship Between Home and School at Back-to-School Time Tools and Advice for District Success
Student Voice: The Most Important School Leadership Tool
How Do You Say Something When the Law Says You Can’t? 
Where have all the Chromebooks gone?  
What Aging Means Today
The 5 Most Annoying Manager Traits and How to Deal With Them Without Quitting Your Job 
The Hype of “Transforming” Teaching and Learning . 
Teacher retention, team-building key to school turnaround . 
What superintendents need from their technology leaders
9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk
10 Exceptional Strategies for Extraordinary Executives
8 Great personalized Learning Strategies That Work Every Time
 What is Plickers? 
Top 10 Reasons School Choice is No Choice
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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14-May What Aging Means Today
How Asking Multiple People for Advice Can Backfire 
9 Skills Digital Marketing Managers Need (And high school graduates!)
Here’s how to take your strategic plan from Good to Great
5 Lessons Most People Learn Way Too Late in Life
35 Ways They Dumb Down America: Still, There’s Hope!
The 11 barriers to technology adoption 
Does year-round schooling add up to better learning?
In These Rural Schools, the Computer Science Teachers Are Volunteers Who Work for Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
In L.A. Unified elementary schools, library books could be off-limits to many students 
Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform
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7-May It’s Time to Develop a Progressive Education Agenda
Addressing Current and Future Challenges in Education
Education may be key to a healthier, wealthier US 
Why watch other people play video games? What you need to know about esports 
Why Esports in High School
How Digital Games Take the Stress Out of Formative Tests
Why Attitude Is More Important Than IQ
How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You
The Best School Innovation Would Be More People
Principles for School Safety Privacy, and Equity
What Makes a Leader?
Dr. M. Donald Thomas
Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform
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30-Apr What Makes a Leader? 
Five Tricks to Maximizing Meetings
Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Educators: What Does the Evidence Say? 
Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation
What Listening to Music at Work Does to Your Brain (It’s Pretty Amazing) 
Watch Out Workers, Algorithms Are Coming to Replace You – Maybe
What Should K-12 Students Know About Artificial Intelligence? New Guidelines Are in the Works
How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping the Future of Education
Using AI to Make Knowledge Workers More Effective
Making Schools Business-Like: The Longest School Reform in U.S. History?
How to Write a Newsletter Email 
Middle School Science teacher 
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23-Apr Education in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
5 Myths About Strategy 
The Psychology Behind Unethical Behavior 
Religion and the Public School 
Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism.
Many Online Charter Schools Fail to Graduate Even Half of Their Students on Time 
5 Questions to Ask When Starting a New Job 
What Should K-12 Students Know About Artificial Intelligence?
Whatever Happened To the Self-Esteem Movement? 
The economic roots of helicopter parenting 
Therapy dogs in schools 
16-Apr Planning for Success 
Intrinsic Motivation is Key to Student Achievement – But Schools Can Crush It 
Expanding charter schools to metro counties could hurt suburban school districts 
Re-Framing the Discourse on Readiness and Athletics: A Charge for Researchers 
Firstborns get intellectual advantage over younger siblings 
An Agument for Music Education
5 Strategies to Demystify the Learning Process for Struggling Students . 
It’s Time to Change How We Do Business
9 Ways to Say No to Busywork and Unrealistic Deadlines
The complexity of memory
Horace Mann: An Exemplar of Reform
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9-Apr Move back to your dying hometown. Unless you can’
Middle School is Becoming the New High School and It’s Ridiculous 
The Cult of Homework 
How Come Schools and Teachers Change Yet Both Remain So Familiar?
How to Take Criticism Well 
What This Year’s World Happiness Report Reveals About Our National Well-Being b
The Extraordinary Reason Exceptional People Avoid Mediocre Friends 
How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)
How to Speak Up in a Meeting, and When to Hold Back 
Here’s How to Tell Within 5 Minutes If Someone Isn’t As Smart As They Think 
Golf and Accountability: Another perspective on high stakes testing: Playing golf under Educational Accountability rules 
What to Do When Your Meetings Have Gotten Too Big
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Date Topic
2-Apr 9 Ways to Say No to Busywork and Unrealistic Deadlines
Promesa: Worst Charter Chain or Just the Tip of the Iceberg?
 Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One
Should Children Be Ready for Kindergarten-Or Should Kindergarten Be Ready for Children? 
Why Most Marketing Strategies Fail: Low ROI
The Science of Learning and Development
The great smartphone debate: Do mobile devices belong in the classroom? b
The 100 Best Leadership Quotes of All Time 
From Science to Art, US Teachers Educate Students on Climate Change
The social costs of proliferating charter schools 
The Case for Finally Cleaning Your Desk 
Asleep at the Wheel
All Parents Who Raise Successful Kids Perform These 8 Specific ‘Types’ of Parenting 
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26-Mar Getting Real About Rural America 
Standards, instructional objectives, and curriculum design: A complex relationship  
How to Speak Up When It Matters 
Billionaires v teachers: the Koch brothers’ plan to starve public education 
The legal balancing act over public school curriculum 
Rediscovering the middle school mission
Leadership for The All of It: Formalizing Teacher-Leader Networks 
This 1 Interview Test Reveals a Candidate’s True Character and It Only Takes Seconds 
Design and Implementation of High School Reform: Perspectives from Research and Practice 
Time to Play: More State Laws Require Recess 
Certain symbols no longer allowed on clothing in schools 
Understanding and Addressing Principal Turnover: A Review of the Research
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19-Mar It’s time to Change How We Do Business 
What Linda Darling-Hammond’s Appointment Means for Education 
4 Things to Do Before a Tough Conversation 
A New Framework for Effective School Leaders: How Can School Boards Benefit? 
Shocked by the college admissions scandal? School counselors aren’t 
Self-assessment: Are your schools the epicenter of your community? 
Superintendents Under Fire: The Tricky Calculus of When to Quit 
The political economy of public education
Playing to Learn: How a pedagogy of play can enliven the classroom, for students of all ages 
The Ripple Effects of Parents Not Using Their Vacation 
The growth mindset problem 
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12-Mar The Focused Leader 
Strategic Planning: Is Your Board Ready? 
Opening the Schoolhouse Door for Patrons: The Tour
Teenagers Say Depression and Anxiety Are Major Issues Among Their Peers
5 tips for communicating about school lockdowns
The Instructional Leader’s Most Difficult Job 
The Science and Practice of Persuasion 
Education Reform’s Deep Blue Hue: Are school reformers right-wingers or centrists – or neither? 
When Managers Break Down Under Pressure, So Do Their Teams 
The Chart: What Makes a NesSource good? 
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5-Mar Poor Implementation of Learner-Centered Practices: A Cautionary Tale 
Measuring Teacher Effectiveness Using Value-Added Models of High School Achievement 
When Am I Ever Going to Use This?
The superintendent’s 5 Priorities for the Week
Why Schools Aren’t Like a Businesses 
New Survey Reveals Alaskans Rank K-12 Public School Investment as Top Priority
What They (Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Betsy DeVos) Won’t Tell You About ‘School Choice’ 
The Problem With Literacy Programs 
Why Our Education Funding Systems Are Derailing the American Dream
2018-19 AASA SUPERINTENDENT SALARY & BENEFITS STUDY
The Instructional Leader’s Most Difficult Job 
Rebuilding public education is essential to saving America 
How to Encourage Girls to Lift Each Other Up, Instead of Tearing Each Other Down 
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26-Feb The Other Factors That Make a Difference: Influening Test Scores
Charter Schools:  Rending or Mending the Nation  
How to Teach Kids abut Taboo Topics 
Teachers experience more stress than other workers, study shows 
Americans with higher education and income are more likely to be involved in community groups 
The science and poetry in learning (and teaching) to read
When evidence-based literacy programs fail 
70 Percent Jump in K-12 Homelessness Over Past Decade, With Big Implications for Academic Performance 
In Thinking About America’s Education System, the Most Important Question Must Be, And How Are the Children?
To improve the curriculum, engage the whole system 
Using Neuroscience to Launch a Research-Informed School ScheduleB
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19-Feb The Other Factors That Make a Difference: Influening Test Scores 
Privatizing Educational Choice Consequences for Parents, Schools, and Public Policy 
Time in Pursuit of Equity: Reform that Crosses Ideological Divides 
Making Time for Mindfulness
Reducing Absences, Capturing Days 
The Science of Learning and Development 
Decoding the Teenage Brain 
A New Study Reveals That This Surprising Drink Will Improve Your Judgment and Decision Making 
Reducing Weapons in Schools 
Connect, Then Lead 
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12-Feb Failing Charter Schools and a School Board’s Choice 
Leveraging Digital Content to Differentiate Learning
How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet? 
Five Tricks to Maximizing Meetings 
Communications E-Kit for Superintendents 
The Trouble with Test-Obsessed Principals 
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5-Feb Worldwide, School Choice Hasn’t Improved Performance 
Why It’s Time to Focus on Equity in Rural Schools 
A Communications Audit 
What Confidence Should Boards Give No-Confidence Votes? 
The Interplay of Transformation and Strategic Planning
It’s absolutely terrible: When a charter school closes, what happens to the kids?  
What’s Next for Public Education in 2019 
When Overconfidence Is an Asset, and When It’s a Liability
When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior 
5 Tips for Reaching Your Goals in 2019
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29-Jan Leadership lessons from the boxing 
Public Scholarship Is About More Than Edu-Celebrity
Personalized – Learning is Research-Based?
School Reform and Classroom Practice: Donors Reform Schooling: A Lawsuit Aimed at Civic Education
Educators as Ed-Tech Company Brand Ambassadors Raises Ethical, Policy Questions 
Where Have All the Phonics Gone? 
Bringing the Science of Learning Into Classrooms
5 Habits That Keep Your Brain Young 
Leadership: Myths and Realities b
Dr. David Berliner, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
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22-Jan 4 Reasons Educators Use Research and 4 Reasons They Don’t 
Leading Virtual Team Meetings Is About Creating Connections 
Teaching: Respect but dwindling appeal
What’s Next for Public Education in 2019 
How Teacher Strikes Are Exposing the Corrupt Charter School Agenda 
The Cure for the PowerPoint Blues
Critical parents causing referee shortage in high school sports 
School-related activities influence student equity
Teacher professionalism from the superintendent’s perspective 
The Simple Power of Showing up: How small things repeated consistently turn into big things 
Linda Darling Hammond, Commission of Education for the State of California
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15-Jan Don’t Teach Your Kid to Code. Teach Them to Communicate 
Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform 
Worldwide, School Choice Hasn’t Improved Performance 
The Grand Scam: The Economy’s Turned Around But Where Is the Praise for Schools?
The Two Powerful Forces Changing College Admissions
Is This a Political Turning Point for the Teaching Profession? 
4 ways to improve urban school attendance 
Showing Up and Doing Well in School Should Lead to Better Opportunity But It’s Not Always True 
A Personalized Learning Backlash 
The Importance of Self-Care for Administrators 
Tips for Welcoming Parent Volunteers Into Your Classroom 
Dr. James Harvey, Executive Director of the National Superintendents Roundtable
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8-Jan Education Statistics: Facts About American Schools 
Why we need a new approach to teaching digital literacy  
School uniforms, dress codes, and free expression: What’s the balance? 
Five ways leaders can help their teachers progress
Nineteen For 2019: Choose This, NOT That, to Save Public Education in the New Year! 
If you are Planning on Using PowrPoint – Some suggestions 
Community Conversations for Your Board 
The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century 
What worked (and didn’t) this year: 10 lessons from education research to take into 2019 
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1-Jan 5 Tips for Reaching Your Goals in 2019
Is the Teaching Profession Dominated by Bad Teachers? 
The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter 
What Happens Next? Research into the Aftermath of the Columbine Shootings 
When School Choice Means Schools choose
Teenagers’ minds improve if they stop using pot 
Juuling Skyrocketed This Year. What Does It Mean for Schools? 
Teaching kids an old card game helps bridge a generation gap and much more 
Why Women Leaders Should Welcome the Challenge of a Difficult Employee 
Juuling and Teenagers: 3 Things Principals and Teachers Need to Know
America Is Losing Its Teachers at a Record Rate 
9 Things That Will Kill Your Career 
Leadership: Myths and Realities b
Small-Town America Is Dying. How Can We Save It?
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