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Articles for the January 12, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting.
3. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
4. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
5. 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
6. 7 Verbal Habits for Very High Emotional Intelligence by Bill Murphy
7. How to Introduce Yourself in a Professional Situation by Gary Genard
8. 5 ed-tech trends to watch in 2021 by Natalie Gross
9. Crush Your Next Virtual Presentation by Gia Storms
10. 10 Questions to Ask to Spark Stimulating Conversationsby Marcel Schwantes
11. How Charter Schools Cashed in on the Paycheck Protection Program by Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris
12. What It Takes to Run a Great Virtual Meeting By Bob Frisch and Cary Greene
13. The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020 by Youki Terada, Stephen Merrill
14. Family Leadership Institute by Consuelo Castillo Kickbush
15. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? by Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones
16. Saying Yes to These 8 Questions Means You May Be More Emotionally Intelligent Than You Thought by Marcel Schwantes
17. 9 Tech Trends for 2021: What Leaders Should Think and Do About Themby Peter Cohan
18. Quotations for Leaders edited by Jack McKay

Articles for the January 19, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting. (No Charge)
3. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
4. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
5. Effective online teacher training grows, but in-person supports still needed by Kara Arundel
6. What Do Principals Want From Professional Development by Denisa R. Superville
7. The most influential education scholars on the Kappan site.
8. 5 Ways to Take Some of the Distance Out of Distance Learning by Eric L. Johnson
9. Marketing Your School Through Digital Innovations by Danielle Clark
10. 9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond by Brian Kropp
11. 4 Predictions for a Post-Pandemic World in 2021 and Beyond by Joel Comm
12. The Dark History of School Choice by Diane Ravitch
13. 5 Engaging Activities for Virtual Classrooms, by Melissa Childs
14. Educational Leadership in the Twitterverse: Social Media, Social Networks, and the New Social Continuum by Alan J. Daly
15. An Agile Approach to Change Management by Sarah Jensen Clayton
16. A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers reviewed by Brian Miller
17. Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions by John Hagel
18. Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy by Derek Black
19. What If Only What Can Be Counted Will Count? A Critical Examination of Making Educational Practice “Scientific” by Jennifer C. Ng

Articles for the January 19, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting. (No Charge)
3. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
4. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
5. The 1 Brutal Question That Will Make Any Leader Instantly More Effective by Jessica Stillman
6. School Choice Lawsuit Surge Pushes Possible High Court Fight by Lisa Rathke
7. School enrollment decline threatens lasting funding damage for districts by Naaz Modan
8. Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich
9. Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations by Nitin Nohria
10. Keeping the Good Stuff – Strategies for Translating Virtual Instruction into Buildings by Miriam Plotinsky
11. Rural Schools Have Battled Bad Internet, Low Attendance and Academic Decline on the 74 site
12. What Biden’s ‘American Rescue Plan’ Would Do for Schools and Students, in One Chart by Andrew Ujifusa
13. You’re Never Going to Be “Caught Up” at Work. Stop Feeling Guilty About It by Art Markman
14. 7 daily productivity hacks to help you work smarter in 2021 by Doug Aamoth
15. City Schools and the American Dream: The Enduring Promise of Public Education by  Pedro A. Noguera
16. Why Did We Create Public Schools?: A Short History of Education on Youtube

Articles for the February 2, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting. (No Charge)
3. The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
4. 4 barriers districts, teachers unions face in school reopenings by Kara Arundel
5. How One Bad Employee Can Corrupt a Whole Team by Stephen Dimmock
6. The Sharpest Minds Do These 5 Things Daily by Justin Bariso
7. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary
8. Top Priority About Remote Work That Most Managers Are Forgetting by Marcel Schwantes
9. Farewell to the SAT! We Hope by Diane Ravitch
10. The Marketization and Mediatization of School Reform Discourses by Rebecca A. Goldstein
11. Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools by Larry Cuban
12. 2 studies urge schools to reopen despite COVID by Matt Zalaznick
13. Do You Know Burnout When You See It? by Margaret M. Luciano
14. Eight Recommendations for the Biden Administration by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
15. 9 best practices for adapting educational leadership in the age of virtual learning by Melissa Ezarik
16. A Fuller Picture of What a ‘Good’ School Is by Youki Terada

Articles for the February 9, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting. (No fee)
3. Schools Reimagined: Unifying the Science of Learning With the Art of Teaching by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Martin G. Brooks
4. Educators around the world seek to take axe to exam-based learning by Bethan Staton
5. Looking for Your First Job? Here’s What to Focus on by Kelsey Alpaio
6. The Sharpest Minds Do These 5 Things Daily by Justin Bariso
7. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary in 2022.
8. How to Foster Psychological Safety in Virtual Meetings by Amy C. Edmondson
9. Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions by John Hagel
10. Identifying Risks to the Well-Being of Rural Young Children and Families by Sara L. Hartman
11. How Does Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Influence Novices’ First-Year Instruction? by Hosun Kang
12. Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve by Jim Collins
13. Church, state, and  Kappan by Teresa Preston
14. Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk by Deborah Grayson Riegel
15. Speak with Clarity: How to Get Your Message Across by Gary Genard
16. A Fuller Picture of What a ‘Good’ School Is by Youki Terada

Articles for the February 16, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Register for the 2021 Annual Meeting. (No fee)
3. This Friday: The Horace Mann League’s 2021 Awards
4. Zoom Burnout Is Real. Here Are 4 Practical Ways to Cope by Lindsay Blakely
5. What’s behind The 1619 Project controversy? by Naaz Modan
6. Beyond Burned Out: by Jennifer Moss
7. Celebrating the Leagues’ 100th Anniversary in 2022.
8. Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters and What We Can Do About It by Desiree Carver-Thomas, Linda Darling-Hammond
9. Is Learning “Lost” When Kids Are Out of School? by Alfie Kohn
10. The Two Biggest Lies Leaders believe on the Leadership Freak site
11. Teachable Moments from a Career in School PR by Rich Bagin

Articles for the February 23, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Horace Mann League’s Note in the AASA Convention Reporter by Jay Goldman.
3. What 20 years of research says about the importance of principals by Matt Zalaznick
4. Five Intuitions to Guide Assessment in 2021 and After by Frederick Hess
5. Schools, Not Teachers, Must Reduce Stress and Burnout—Here’s How by Sarah Gonser
6. Toward racial equity in public schooling: Less talk, more action by Nancy B. Gutierrez
7. Educators are lousy at creating, marketing, and recruiting by John Eggers
8. Navigating the Pandemic and Beyond: Redesigning Schooling, Teaching, and Learning in the International Council of Education Advisers
9. What Mentors Wish Their Mentees Knew by Vineet Chopra
10. When to Switch Strategy in a Crisis by Mark Chussmon

Articles for the March 2, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. 9 Ways to Promote Equity in Our Schools by Matthew X. Joseph
3. Digital equality requires more than access by Matthew H. Rafalow
4. Schoolhouse Rocked: The pandemic crumbled cornerstones of U.S. education by Sam Scott
5. Leading Virtual Team Meetings Is About Creating Connections by AMA Staff
6. From Checklists to Heuristics: Designing MOOCs to Support Teacher Learning by Karen Brennan
7. The Bipartisan Assault on Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
8. How to Stay Optimistic (When Everything Is Awful) by Bill Taylor
9. Why Religious Schools Should Never Receive a Dollar of Public Funding by David C. Berliner
10. Resilient Public Schools: Bright and Dark Sidesby Larry Cuban
11. The Power of a Teacher by Julie Lineback

Articles for the March 9, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. 10 Focusing Techniques for Public Speaking by Gary Genard
3. Twenty Years of Failing the Schools by Diane Ravitch
4. Leaders Need Professional Coaching Now More Than Ever by Ann Rindone
5. After feds say tests still required, critics mobilize and states look for loopholes By Matt Barnum
6. If You Can Honestly Say Yes to Any of These 6 Questions, You May Be a Toxic Boss by Marcel Schwantes
7. Making Education Research Relevant by Daniel T. Willingham
8. Mission as Metaphor: Reconceptualizing How Leaders Utilize Institutional Mission by Leslie R. Zenk
9. Is Teaching Still an Appealing Profession? A Growing Teacher Shortage Worries Expert by Stephen Noonoo
10. The Dr. Seuss Controversy: What Educators Need to Know by Sarah Schwartz
11. Characteristics of Effective Superintendents: A study to identify qualities essential to the success of school superintendents by Louise Henry
12. Digging deeply into the data on school turnarounds by Olivia Piontek
13. 5 Research-Backed Tips for Dealing With Boredom, Courtesy of Psychologists by Jessica Stillman

Articles for the March 16, 2021 Issue:

1. Quote for the Week
2. Develop Loyal and Trusting Stakeholders through ‘Authentic’ Branding by Kathleen Kennedy
3. These Are the Skills Students Need in a Post-Pandemic World by Mark Lieberman
4. Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation by Dagny Dukach
5. 10 Truths About Marketing After the Pandemic by Janet Balis
6. 8 ways a year of dueling crises is shaping the future of K-12 schools by Roger Riddell
7. 130 studies favor reopening schools with safety measures by John Bailey
8. Why Brilliant Leadership Minds Embrace the Rule of 1 Percent by Jeff Haden
9. Instructional Leadership. Easy to Talk About. Hard to Do? by Peter DeWitt
10. The Marketization and Mediatization of School Reform Discourses by Rebecca A. Goldstein
11. What “building back better” might mean for education and job training in the United States by Marc Tucker
12. Becoming a Math Person: Why students develop an aversion to mathematics by Leah Shafer
13. 7 Presentation Skills Your Boss Wants You to Master by Gary Genard
14. Important Composition Tips for Better Photos (video) by Caz Nowaczyk