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 Engagement By Nora Fleming
  3. Superintendents must be willing to take the heat by Joshua P. Starr
  4. Things That Make a Difference in Remote Learning by AJ Juliani
  5. The Upside of Your Public Speaking Jitters by 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 Pandemic by Rachel Cohen
  9. Overconfidence Is Contagious by Joey T. Cheng
  10. Dead horse theory and Agile by Daniel Gullo
  11. Make Mindfulness a Habit by Matthias Birk
  12. How to Lead Your Audience to Your Important Message by Gary Genard
  13. The Virtual Meeting – HML Post Articles edited by Jack McKay
  14. Articles on Leadership Edited byJack McKay

HML Post for April20, 2021

Articles for the April 20, 2021 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. Orwellian Educational Change under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, and Accountability Failures by Paul L. Thomas
  3. Teacher Unions, Charter Schools, and the Public/Private Distinction in Education Law and Policy by Benjamin Michael Superfine
  4. Study links later middle, high school start times to better student achievement by Naaz Modan
  5. How a Cheerleader’s Snapchat Profanity Could Shape the Limits of Students’ Free Speech by Mark Walsh
  6. The Repressive Politics of Emotional Intelligence: by Merve Emre
  7. 5 Ways to Write Better by Jeff Hayden
  8. 11 Powerful Reasons for Peer Coaching by Brenda Steinberg
  9. The 6 Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice
  10. Are You Clear? How to Be a Concise and Compelling Speaker by Gary Genard
  11. The Surprising Science of Meetings by Steven G. Rogelberg
  12. Meeting Quality Assessment Tool —Calculation of a Wasted Meeting Time Index Instructions by Steven G. Rogelberg
  13. The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership by Ellen Goldring
  14. We All Pay for Public Services and Public Goods, for Our Common Benefit by Diane Ravitch
  15. Stop the college sports ‘arms race’ by Tom McMillen
  16. Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here’s What the Research Says by Lynn Berger

HML Post April 13, 2021

Articles for the April 13, 2021 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. Grading by States on the NPE site.
  3. The Perils of Authentic Leadership Theory by Katja Einola
  4. Linking Student Outcomes to School Administrator Discretion in the Implementation of Teacher Observations by Seth B. Hunter
  5. A Few Thoughts about Classroom Technology Then and Now by Larry Cuban
  6. Managing a Chronic Complainer by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
  7. 7 Step to Persuade by Yoora Park
  8. Leadership Tenacity and Public-School Superintendents by Barbara A. Klocko
  9. Why I fight to save public schools by Karen Francisco
  10. An American Imperative by the AASA National Commission on Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education
  11. 10 Reasons to Use the Telephone Rather than Email by Sam Rainer
  12. Time to Rethink Standardized Testing by Yong Zhao
  13. 3 Ways to Help Your Team Recover from Disruption by Sayra Cristancho
  14. Harnessing the Science of Persuasion (PPT) by Robert B. Cialdini
  15. The Weekly HML Post Index for 2021 (January through April)

HML Post for April 6, 2021

Articles for the April 6, 2021 Issue:

  1. Quote for the Week
  2. Want to Raise Successful Kids? Science Says Make Sure They’re Doing This Right Now by Bill Murphy
  3. Prevailing Myth Tying Student Test Scores to Teacher Performance by David Berliner
  4. Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost by Shibeal O’Flon
  5. Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On? by Daniel Goleman
  6. The Beginning on Public Education by Jack Jennings
  7. Science Reveals a Brutal Truth About Pursuing Certain Goals That Most People Realize Too Late by Jeff Haden
  8. 7 Deadly Sins of Nonverbal Communication by Gary Genard
  9. Why Teaching to the Test is Educational Malpractice by Steve Singer
  10. Neoliberal Policies and Their Effects on Teaching and Learning by Danielle Ligocki (pdf download)
  11. Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools by Jeff Bryant
  12. Charter schools – the obsession and deception by Sen. Mike Romano
  13. The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
  14. How to Overcome Red Flags on Your Resume by Patricia Carl
  15. Remote Workers Need Small Talk, Too by Jessica R. Methot

December 1, 2020

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

December 8, 2020

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

December 15, 2020 Issue:

Articles for the December 15, 2020 Issue:

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

HML Post for December 22, 2020

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

HML Post for December 29, 2020

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

The HML Post for January 5, 2021

Articles for the January 5, 2021 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. Seven Habits of Collaborative School Leaders by Dr. John Draper
  6. What America’s kids need now: Biden should marshal the nation to address the dire condition of U.S. children by Norm Ornstein and James Harvey
  7. The Super-Speedy Meeting by Steven Rogelberg
  8. Want to Be a Great Leader? Write These 2 Things Down Now by Bill Murphy
  9. Has the Pandemic Ushered in New Norms in Education? by Heather Wolpert-Gawron
  10. Great Leaders Are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous by Peter Bregman
  11. High schooler suspended for explicit Snapchat speaks out on CNN.
  12. A Cheerleader’s Vulgar Message Prompts a First Amendment Showdown by Adam Liptak
  13. The Wreckage Betsy DeVos Leaves Behind: The Education Department lies in ruins right when it’s needed most, by NY Times The Editorial Board
  14. Do You Practice This Winning Communication Skill? by Gary Genard
  15. Research: Women Are Better Leaders During a Crisis by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman
  16. 8 trends influencing K-12 in 2021 by Roger Riddell
  17. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay