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June 2023
Friday, 2 June 2023
Emerging Trends in Teaching and Learning and Tech
Building in Bounce: Resilience and Mission Success
Creating This New Position Could Save Schools Money
Parents are Suing Schools Over Pronoun Policies. Here’s What You Need to Know
Conversations Around Artificial Intelligence for Academic Leaders
With AI, It’s Still a Buyer Beware World
Advice From Kahn Academy on AI
Teachers Must Be Central to Unlocking How AI Can Improve Learning
How AI is Helping Students Manage Their Social Media Footprint
Helping Parents Understand ChatGPT
You Can Probably Beat ChatGPT at These Math Brainteasers
Are We Failing When It Comes to School Exams?
Inside the Perplexing Study That’s Inspired Colleges to Drop Remedial Math
In Schools, Girls Rule. Where Does That Leave the Boys?
US Depression Rates Reach New Highs
How Do You Actually Help a Suicidal Teen?
How to Help a Teen Who Can’t Sleep
Mental Health and Social Media Among Teens
What School Could Be With Health at the Core
Reinventing Australian Schools
Finding the Levers to Create Transformational Learning Solutions
Five Ways to Be Sure That Lessons Stick
The Benefits of Co-Creating a Course with Students
Graphic Organizers in the Classroom
How to Help Students Develop Better Digital Habits
Digital Games Beat Out Lectures When It Comes to Student Learning
How to Create Livelier Asynchronous Discussions
Embracing Learning Through Play
New Research on Pre-K and Long-Term College Effects
The Mood Meter and Elementary Math
An Antidote to Micro-aggressions? Micro-validations
Self-Censorship in the Classroom Harms Student Learning. Here’s What We can Do About It
Why Some Companies are Saying “Diversity and Belonging"
25 Things Parents Notice on School Tours
Should You Consider Midyear Enrollment for Your International Students?
How Wi-Fi 6 Can Help K-12 Schools Outmaneuver Bad Actors
Yes, Introverts Can Be Effective School Leaders
The New Wave of Public-Funding of Private Schools Explained
Table of Private-School-Choice Programs
State Bills on Public Support of Private Schooling
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website for a brief period of time.
NJAIS Professional Development: Plan ahead for next year! Look at some of the exciting workshops, seminars, and series that we have already on the calendar!
May 2023
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Mental Health Days for Educators
Teacher Compensation at Independent Schools
How to Interrogate Your School’s Data
I’m a Student. You Have No Idea How Much We’re Using ChatGPT
US Textbooks Found Lacking on Latino History
Best Practices for Digital Whiteboards in Today’s K-12 Classrooms
What We Lose When We Push Our Kids to “Achieve”
10 Maxims on How Children Learn to Read
Eight Picture Books About Trading Places
Using Picture Books To Teach About Large Numbers
Questioning for Retrieval: Five Mistakes to Avoid
Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject
APA Recommends Literacy Training for Adolescents Prior to Social Media Use
How to Help Your Teen Be a Better Person
The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Learners
To Fight Teacher Shortages, States Send Students to College for Free
Five Lessons for Department Chairs
Four Steps in Attracting and Keeping the Best Talent
The Six Behaviors of Adaptive Leadership
How to Address Employee Pushback to DEI Efforts
Failure Unites Us and Should Be Celebrated as Part of Learning
It’s Time for Legacy College Admissions to Go
Tax Credit Deadline Approaching
The Promise of Personalized Learning Never Delivered. Today AI is Different
Left Behind in School Evacuations, Students with Disabilities Demand More Protection in NJ
N.B.: These articles and others are saved to the NJAIS website.
NJAIS Professional Development: There are wonderful end-of-summer workshops planned. Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
Friday, 12 May 2023
AI Fails to Understand Strategy
Warren Buffett Says Who You Hang Out With Can Be a Difference Between Success and Failure
Higher Ed’s Longtime Chief Lobbyist Unplugged
Fascism History Offers Lessons About Attacks on Education
Liberal Arts Education is Not a Western Concept
Health and Wellbeing: Reframing the Anxiety Conversation
To Improve Mental Health in Students, Some US Schools Start Later
Teachers Say School Teens Showed Better Grades and Social Schools After Cellphone Ban
High School Quality May Have Impact on Cognition
High School Observatory on Campus Allows Students to Aim High
A Whole Child, Whole Life Approach Puts Relationships at the Center
To Implement Change You Don’t Need to Convince Everyone at Once
Environmental Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage in Recruiting International Students
How to Fundraise Without a Fundraising Staff
When Your Employees Tell You They’re Burned Out
Big Ideas for Independent School Business Innovations
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website for a brief period of time.
NJAIS Professional Development: Please note the upcoming workshops and events:
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
April 2023
Friday, 14 April 2023
Five Questions Schools Should Consider Before Retaining Security Auditors to Promote Campus Safety
To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It
Strategies for Increasing Teacher Diversity in Schools
How School Culture Supports Hiring During the Great Resignation
Developing Your School Culture Budget
Philanthropy Has Challenges But Are They the Ones We’re Talking About?
Is Fundraising Just a Necessary Evil?
Enrollment Leaders are On the Edge
The Pursuit of Happiness in Independent Schools
Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School
The Trending AI Tools Students are Using to Fuel Their Health, Happiness, and Future Success
The Untapped Power of K-12: The Potential for Outsized and Unexpected Impact on the Climate
Navigating 2023: What Should Be on School Leaders’ Radar?
How the Parents Rights Movement Resurged In Response to Trans Inclusivity
A New Look at Succession Planning: Ensuring the Success of Your New Head of School
To Improve a Child’s Education, We Must Be Willing to Let Old Practices Die
Classroom Discussion Just Got More Important
How AI Will Revolutionize the Practice of Law
Why International Schools are Booming in Africa
Creating a Sense of Place with Multi-Purpose K-12 School Buildings
Five Lessons For Teachers From Ted Lasso
NJAIS Professional Development:
We have an exciting lineup of upcoming in-person events!
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
For: School Librarians
At: Christina Seix Academy
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
For: Current Middle School Model UN Leaders and those interested in starting a Middle School Model UN at their school
At: Red Oaks School
Wednesday, April 26 2023
LEADING FROM THE MIDDLE: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
For: All Department Chairs, current and aspiring
At: Newark Academy
Friday, April 28, 2023
PURPOSE, BELONGING, AND AUTHENTICITY: CONNECTING SELF, STUDENTS, AND SCHOOL COMMUNITIES
This day-long experience includes a reflective and strategic workshop facilitated by Rodney Glasgow and Jen Cort, robust breakout session offerings, and a keynote presentation from Ruha Benjamin.
At: The Lawrenceville School
Please be sure to check out the full listing of professional development events and experiences on our website, https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023.
March 2023
Friday, 31 March 2023
Could Walking Facilitate Interpersonal Conflict Resolution?
Understanding Anxiety and the Brain for Middle and Upper School Students
How Understanding Middle School Friendships Can Help Students with Ups and Downs
How Writing Letters to Strangers Helps Students Who Need Mental Health Support
Diet Culture and Children: Learn How to Make Your School a Safe Space
Annual Research Review: Perspectives on Progress on ADHD Science
How Classrooms Can Promote Intellectual Humility…or Discourage It
Four Tools for Teaching the Harkness Method
Mind the Gap Between Comprehension and Metacomprehension
Research on the Forgetting Curve
The Science of Spaced Repetition
10 Powerful Ways to End Your Lessons
The Mysterious Power of Brain Breaks
Creating an Inclusive Classroom for Neuro-Divergent Students
Should Students Get a Do-Over? The Debate on Grading and Re-Doing Assignments Deepens
Is It Better to Ask Questions or Listen Carefully?
Students May Need Lesson About Active Learning
How to Manage Volunteers in Your Elementary Classroom
AI Will Transform Teaching and Learning. Let’s Get It Right!
Using AI to Make Teaching Easier and More Impactful
ChatGBT Is No Threat to a Learning Community
How to Use AI to Unstick Yourself
Practical Responses to ChatGBT and Other Generative AI
AI and Implications for Advancement Teams
Does Nature or Nurture Determine Musical Ability?
To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It
The Relationship of DEI and Physical Spaces
2015-2019 Saw More than 5 Million High School Sports Injuries Treated
After Another Week of Turmoil, How Safe Are Banks?
Lessons for Leading Schools In Challenging Times, With Equity in Mind
The Moral Case Against Equity Language
Supporting Trans and GNC Students
The Effects of Tracking on Student Achievement and Inequity
How Principal Coaching Differs From Teacher Coaching
How to Connect Donors With Your Board
360 Evaluation and Executive Session for Boards
Is Your Board Ready for a Campaign?
Is Your Board Ready for the New Cybersecurity Regulations?
How to Select First-Rate Board Members
A Nonprofit’s Checklist to Better Succession Planning
Temperament: A Critical Piece of the “Fit"
Online Fraud Aimed at Independent School Business Offices
Teaching in an Age of Militant Apathy
How to Write a Weekly Staff Newsletter that 80% Will Read
Becoming More Collaborative When You Like to Be in Control
Rethinking School Infrastructure: Sustainability Saves
We Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis Without Schools and Teachers
What Does TikTok Know About You? Here’s a Breakdown
Hiring Practices: Developing a Year-Round Model
Faculty and Staff Hiring: A Concierge Approach
Reimagining Hiring Season Best Practices
How The Pandemic Has Killed Off Teaching As a Career
Use Situation-Behavior-Impact to Understand Intent
K-12 Teachers are Quitting. What Would Make Them Stay?
Want to Give Feedback? Rather Try Feedforward!
The Magic of Knowing When to Use Concrete vs Abstract Language
Actions the Best CEOs are Taking in 2023
What is Decision-Making and How to Do It Better
The Key to Aging Well: Make These Mindshifts By Decades
Ranking Exodus Raises the Question: How Should Consumers Pick a College?
How a Flawed Study Reignited the Mask Debate
Norovirus is Back: How Educators Should Prepare
Americans’ Confidence in Major US Institutions Dips
COVID Poetry: How a New Genre is Helping Readers to Comprehend the Pandemic
NJ Colleges Try to Buck COVID-Driven Enrollment Drop
NJ School Bus Company in Driver Scandal Just Got New Routes
N.B.: These articles and others are saved for a brief time on the NJAIS website.
NJAIS Professional Development. There are a number of upcoming workshops and conferences. Register with the links here:
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
February 2023
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
AI and Education: Guidance for Policy-Makers
Exploring the Ethics of AI in K-12 Education
The Role of AI in the Future of Education
AI: What K-12 School Leaders Should Know
Tips and Resources for Introducing Students to AI
How to Keep Students Writing in the Age of AI Tools
Seven Ways Teachers Can Harness the Power of AI for Learning
Universities Embrace AI to Support Students
Four Ways Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Landscape of Alumni Relations
How AI is Transforming Fundraising
Seven Ways AI is Reinventing Human Resources
How Smart Building are Helping Schools
Tuition Setting, Financial Sustainability, and Strategic Thinking
Some Schools are Prioritizing Sleep
The Alternative to Perfectionism
To Resolve Conflicts, Get Up and Move (by Peter Coleman who spoke at NAIS)
New Higher Ed Data by Race and Ethnicity
How AI Could Change Admissions
How to Use ChatGBT As an Example Machine
What a 65-Year Old Book Teaches Us About AI
ChatGBT Cheating: What to Do When It Happens
ChatGBT and the End of High School English
Outsmart ChatGBT: Eight Tips for Creating Assignments It Can’t do
Will ChatGBT Supplant Us as Writers, Thinkers?
Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine
Why Studying is So Hard and What Teachers Can Do to Help
Creating a Weekly Sequence That Works
Routines, Habits, and Consistency in the Classroom
15 Ways to Teach and Learn With Sticky Notes
Does “Flipped Learning” Work: A new Analysis Dives Into the Research
Can You Tell Creativity Fact From Fiction?
The Two-Part Mindset That Made Leonardo So Creative
Why You Should Be Task-Switching More Often
The Head of the Carnegie Foundation Wants to Ditch the Carnegie Unit. Here’s Why
Roald Dahl: A Brief History of Sensitivity Edits to Children’s Lit
The Enlightenment as Reading Project
Ask This Question at Your Next Team Meeting
Team Teaching, Educator Retention, and Education’s Next Workforce
The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals
How Teachers Use TikTok: To Get new Ideas, Feel Inspired, and Indulge in a Laugh or Two
High Performing Teachers With Low-Tech Classrooms
Friendships at Work Can Boost Happiness
The Smartest Person in the Room
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website for a brief period of time.
NJAIS Professional Development: Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
Friday, 17 February 2023
Let Students Put Whatever Name They Want on Their Diploma
Report: Nursing Shortage in NJ Looms
A Collection of Articles for Black History Month
College Students Predicted to Fall by More Than 15% After 2025
Sweet Briar Comes Back from the Brink: Here’s How
Apprenticeship Programs Becoming More Popular as Alternative to College
Racing After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
A Curriculum for Introduction to AI for Middle and Upper Schools
Teaching in the Age of AI Means Getting Creative (and Oral Exams)
Why Students Cheat and How to Help Them
Six Ways School Marketers Can Use ChatGBT
Are You Prepared to Be Interviewed by An AI?
Online Fraud Aimed at Independent School Business Offices: Business Email Compromise
The Breaking Point for Middle Managers
Five Ways to Juggle Caregiving and Working
What Does it Mean to Have a National Teacher Shortage?
What I Look for in Head of School Candidates
The Surprising Lessons of Hate Mail
Collaborative Deliberation in the Classroom
Re-Vamping the Curriculum as Teachers, For Teachers
Spoken Latin in Making a Comeback
Three Ways to Build a Positive Reading Culture in Middle School
A New Way to Read The Great Gatsby
Surgeon General Says 13 is Too Early to Join Social Media
Yale’s Happiness Course Adapted for High Schoolers
An 85-Year Harvard Study Found the Number One Thing that Makes us Happy
The Hidden Toll of Micro-stress
Cyclic Sighing Can Help with Anxiety
Five Best Practices for Embedding Bereavement and Grief Support in Schools
Sanders Calls for Minimum Salary for Public School Teachers
Are Dress Codes for Educators Simply Out of Fashion?
When Working with Educators Resistant to Change
The Less College Students Sleep, the Worse Their Grades, Study Finds
With Test Optional Now the Norm in College Admissions, Another Gatekeeper Rises: Calculus
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website for a brief period of time.
NJAIS Professional Development: Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
January 2023
Friday, 27 January 2023
Why It’s So Hard to Explain What Makes Your School Unique
Why People Need to See Themselves in the Picture
10 Admissions Marketing Takeaways During Tours
The Harvard DEIB Calling In and Calling Out Guide
School Uniforms Are Meant to Foster a Sense of Belonging
Setting Your Annual Budget Amid Economic Uncertainty
How to Communicate Your Tuition Increases to Families
Scenario Planning: Examining the Trends in Charitable Giving
Solving the Problem of College Costs
A Step-By-Step Recipe For Meaningful Board Engagement
How Women on Boards Navigate the “Warmth-Competence” Line
Case Study on Strategy: The Pike School (MA)
A Research-Based Tool Kit of What Works and Doesn’t in Education
Combatting Low-Level Disruptions in the Classroom
How to Help Students Who Feel Inadequate
How to Problem-Solve With Your Staff About AI
ChatGPT: Everything You Really Need to Know
Academic Leaders’ Next Steps with AI-Generated Anything
Dr. Philippa Hardman on Twitter is good on AI
Prof. Ethan Mollick at Wharton is also good on AI
Civility: The Most Overlooked Buy Most Important 21st-Century Skill
Inclusive SEL Helps Students Thrive
Navigating SEL From the Inside Out
America’s Education Crisis Is a National Security Threat
Academic Freedom Is Not a Matter of Opinion
The Dangerous Decline in the Historical Professions
How the Liberal Arts Can Save Higher Ed
A Testing Strategy That Promotes Good Note-Taking
New Report Highlights the Increasing Competition for International Students From Sub-Saharan Africa
When Did the Anthropocene Actually Begin?
Can We Finally Topple the Tyranny of Rankings
Risk Management: Question Everything!
NJ Bill Would Require Schools to Let Students Use Preferred Names on Diplomas
First-Impression Facilities Challenges
Single-Use Coffee Pods Are Often Better for the Environment Than Regular Filters
Brief Structured Respiration Practices Enhance Mood
The Best Way to Sooth Someone Who is Sad
The Joy of Pickleball in Elementary School
Kids With Concussions May Recover Faster if They Return Within Two Days: Study
School Start Times and Outcomes for Younger Students
How to Gain Staff Consensus in Meetings and Why It Matters
Six Ways “Choice Architecture Enhances Well-Being in Residence Hall
Can New School Buildings Set Students Up for Success?
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website.
NJAIS Professional Development: Check out our 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Three Rules of Value Propositions
More Schools Have Panic Buttons, Locks, and Police, New Data Shows
How This School Uses Architecture and Design to Improve Mental Health
Tech Companies Want Your Kids Birth Date. Should You Tell Them
Was That Essay Written By AI? A Princeton Student Made an App That Might Tell You
AI Wrote This School Blog for Me
Did a 4th Grader Write This or the New AI?
It’s Time to Pay Attention to AI (Good video)
Best AI Detector (Hugging Face)
Princeton Senior Creates ChatGPT Detector
Making Strategic Thinking Actionable and Lasting
Five Hallmarks of a Mission-Driven Learning support Program
Why Leaders Should Be Open About Their Flaws
What School Leadership Can Learn Riding the Bus
Health and Well-Being: Supporting the Adults on Campus
Work Reset: 13 Tips to Make Your Work Less Stressful This Year
Academic Streaming Could Be Bad for Children’s Health, Study Finds
What Exactly is “Neuro-Diversity”? Using Accurate Language About Disability Matters in Schools
The Humanities Should Teach About How to Make a Better World, Not Just Criticize the Existing One
The Very Serious Science of Humor
N.B. These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website.
NJAIS Professional Development: Check out our 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Tufts University Receives Three Threats in Three Days
Navigating Children and Teens’ Ongoing Reliance on Technology
Five Ways to Stop Thinking for Your Students
What is Zearn—the Math Platform the Gates Foundation is Betting Big On?
The Five Best Teaching Methods I Used This Year
Empowering Learners by Empowering Leaders
17 Questions School Leaders Can Ask to Support Teacher Well-Being
Could the US Soon See a Federal Minimum Salary for Teachers?
American Teacher Act to Raise the Minimum Teacher Salary to $60,000 (in Public Schools)
Minding the Gap: Developing Old Wisdom in New Leaders
Today’s Business Must be “Made for Change: But Where to Start?
Computers Have Learned to Write. Here’s Why AI Should Worry Us
AI in Education and Its Ethics
AI Ethics: What It Is and Why It Matters
The Role of AI in the Future of Education
AI Can Write Essays: What Does This Mean for Educators?
ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know
NYC Ed Dept Blocks GPT on School Devices and Networks
Can Anti-Plagiarism Tools Detect When AI Chatbots Write Student Essays?
43 Examples of AI in Education
How AI is Used in Education: Real World Examples and a Peek Into the Future
McKinsey’s Global Survey of AI in Review 2022
Why One Small College Was Able to Cut Its Tuition by 62%
Pediatrician Uses Books to Connect with Kids
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does a Growth Mindset Really Help Students Learn?
Does Growth Mindset Matter? The Debate Heats Up with Dueling Meta-Analyses
Four Concepts to Design a Long Life You’ll Love
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website for a brief period of time.
NJAIS Professional Development: There are many upcoming workshops, roundtables, and conferences.
Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
December 2022
Thursday, 15 December 2022
How a Feeling That You Belong Could Protect Your Mental Health
What’s Ahead in Health and Wellness in 2023
A Fiercely Compassionate Approach to Student Mental Health
Hot to Prepare and Prevent Infection in 2023
Why the Rainbow Fentanyl Trend Might Lead You to Stock Narcan in Your School
Tuition Remission: If the Plan Discriminates, the Consequences are Brutal
NAIS Legal Advisory on Tuition Remission
Today’s Price for Timeless Value
Four Benchmarks That Predict a Successful Capital Campaign for Your School
Preparing Your Board for the Next Campaign: Finding the Functional in Dysfunctional
Family Engagement and Retention
What You Should Know About Gen Z Marketing
NBOA to Launch Research on Innovative Faculty and Staff Compensation Models
Scenario Planning: Examining Education Workforce Trends
Using Sensory Experiences to Support Elementary Students
For Teens (and Adults) Fighting Misinformation, TikTok is Still Uncharted Territory
School Social Media Accounts Put Student Privacy at Risk
Can You See Learning in the Brain?
Boys are Falling Behind. What We Can Do About It
Social-Emotional Learning: What Really Works
Every Student Needs a Learning Coach
How Do We Cultivate a Coaching Culture
Standardized Testing and the Destruction of Education
Global Impact of School Transformation Pioneers
How to Cultivate a Sense of Belonging in Schools
NJSIAA Considering New Transfer Policy
Five Tips to Help Take Feedback the Right Way
A Heuristic to Judge Leadership Effectiveness
Lessons From Ancient Rome on the Art of Succession
In a Downturn, Focus on Existing Customers, Not Potential Ones
Leading With, “I Want to Apologize”
How to Keep Departing Employees from Disparaging My School: A Proactive Approach
Building a Culture of Gratitude
Four Ways to Listen to Boost Staff Morale
Common Traits of Successful Leaders
Ego is the Enemy of Good Leadership
Five Ways to Build Staff Leadership in Your School
The Leadership Model in Education is Tired, Broken, and Not Prepared for the Future
How to Make the Four Disparate Voices in Your Head an Ally
The Future Actually IS Our Responsibility
Head of School Database: First-Year Findings
Why Have Cookie-Cutter Meetings If You Are Not Making Cookies?
Google for Education Identifies Three New Education Trends
When It Comes to EdTech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers?
These Four Pillars Support Effective School Cybersecurity
Reflections on 5- Years of Game-Based Learning
Free AI Writing Tools Can Write Essays In Minutes: What Does That Mean for Teachers?
Early Childhood and Climate Change are Connected
Teaching Time Management Skills
Tips and Resources for Introducing Students to AI
Why You Need to Take a Break from Work in Order to Be Successful
Tortoise Celebrates 190th Birthday
French Baguette Given UNESCO Protection
How and Why Pantone Chose Viva Magenta as the Color of the Year
Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
As Fewer Chinese Students Study In US, Will Indian Students Fill the Gap?
Global Google Research Project Considers the “Future of Education”
The Promise of Habit-Based (Rote) Learning
Three Benefits of Math Conferences in Elementary School
How the Game Theory of John von Neumann Transformed the 20th Century
Visualized: The Many Shapes of Bacteria
Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet
Revising the Sequence of Hamlet
Cigarette Smoking Rates Down Among US Young Adults
The Crisis of Student Mental Health Much Vaster Than We Realize
Freudenfreude is the Opposite of Shadenfreude. How to Cultivate It
The Rules of Improv Can Make You Funnier. They Can Also Make You More Confident
To Be More Disciplined, Stop These Four Bad Habits
Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI
Two Techniques to Argue Better
Rare Recording of a Music By 18-Year-Old Sondheim Surfaces
Y’all Seems to Be Going Mainstream
The Long Poem is Right for Our Confounding, Fractured Age
School Leaders Say Culture Wars Made Last Year “Rough as Hell”
What I Learned Leading Boston Latin School
The Real Teacher Shortages and How to Solve Them
A Survey of Faculty Morale Shows That the Pandemic’s Effects Continue to Ripple
The Status of the Teaching Professions is at a 50-Year Low. What Can We Do About it?
Education Next Survey: Partisan Rifts Widen, Perceptions of School Quality Decline
The Impact of Project-Based Learning on AP Exam Performance
Online Education: Even Post-Pandemic, They’re Just Not That Into You
Grant Wiggins on Curriculum Design: Understanding By Design: Part I
Grant Wiggins on Curriculum Design: Understanding By Design: Part 2
John Wooden (UCLA Coach) on The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding (WATCH THIS!)
Articles About Parenting and Children
Loving and Supporting a Trans or Gender-Creative Kid
Schools Must Resist Big EdTech, But It Won’t Be Easy
A 10-Step Process for Team Leaders to Reduce Meeting Overload
The Importance of Scheduling Nothing
What it Takes to Make a Kinder, Gentler Video Game
Are We Focusing Too Much on the Intruder Threat to School Security?
The Worst Career Advice I Have Received
Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
Friday, 2 December 2022
Building a Successful Fundraising Team
NAIS Popup Survey of International Students
International Enrollment Rebounds
IIE International Enrollment Trends
2022 Independent School Cost-Per-Enrollment Study
How Blockchain Can Change Business for Independent Schools
Ed Dept Outlines School Violence Prevention Options Under $1B Stronger Connections Grant Program
Holocaust Survivors Turn to TikTok to Teacher a New Generation Not to Forget
How NOT to Handle Student Failure
Hot to Teach Kids to Make Great Choices
Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?
Don’t Smile Until December: Bad Advice Based on the Either-Or Fallacy
Why Students Make Weird Assumptions
Is Unrestricted Library Checkout Overdue?
Classroom Library Questionnaire
Beverly Daniel Tatum: Talking About Race with Young Children
The Science of Reading and the Media: Is Reporting Biased?
Having Students Analyze our Classroom Library to See How Diverse It Is
Assessing Children’s Literature
Slowing Momentum: What Does DEIB Really Include?
Leadership Lessons: How Heads Must Address the Challenges of DEI Practioner’s Experience Today
How Equity and Well-Being Work Together in Our Schools
Carol Gilligan’s Research on Adolescent Girls
Innovation in Learning (You MUST listen!)
Learning Loss in Independent Schools: Mental Health in the Pandemic Era
How to Embrace Neurodiversity in Your Workplace
Why Don’t Teachers Complain About Infuriating Policies?
Frontline Work When Everyone is Angry
These Two Techniques Will Help You Be Better at Arguing
Employers Rethink Need for College Degrees in Tight Labor Market
Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
November 2022
Sunday, 6 November 2022
The Power of Doing Less in Schools
It’s Never Too Early for a CPA to Become a Board Member
Responding to An Internet Shutdown...
Music Class in Sync with Higher Math Scores…
Singing Helps Learn World Languages
Making Every Kid Both Math-Competent and Math-Confident
What Changes Kids’ Minds About Poetry
How Should Writing Be Taught Now?
The Story We’re Telling About Youth Mental Heal is Hurting Our Kids
How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars
Evil and Good in Social Education
Using Tech to Encourage Peer Feedback During Presentations
Perplexing Students, Prepared Teachers
Four Positive Alternatives to Problematic Teaching Practices
Culturally Responsive Ways to Teach Thanksgiving
What Museums Can Teach Us About the Emotional Dimensions of Learning
Mothers For Liberty Fuel the School-Board Wars
To Sustain DEI Momentum, Companies Must Invest in Three Areas
Why Facts Don’t Change our Minds
Five Things Colleges Can Do to Help Save the Planet from Climate Change
We Need More People to Go to College
Colleges Go Offbeat for Cybersecurity Training
Should We Rethink Our Notion of Who Is “Smart”
Lessons in Leadership and Connections
How to Prepare Your Organization if a Talent Shortage and Recession Collide
The New Playbook for International Recruitment
13 Takes on Race-Conscious Admissions
Four Questions to Measure and Boost Trust
10 Creative Giving Tuesday Ideas for 2022
Holiday Gifts Can Boost Employee Satisfaction for More Than a Year
Study Underscores Need for Food Literacy
A Canine Psychologist with a New Puppy Explores “How Dogs Become Themselves"
Check out our 2022 - 2023 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2022-2023
October 2022
Monday, 24 October 2022
NY Times Poll on Students and Mental Health
Supporting Students: What’s Next for Mental Health
Prescription to Improve School Mental Health
My School’s Efforts to Support Teacher Wellbeing Fell Short. Here’s How We Changed It
Breaking the Legacy of Teacher Shortages
The Power of Doing Less in Schools
Five Ways to Promote Effective Teaching Practices
Whatever Happened to the Flipped Classroom?
There’s Still One Big Trick for Getting into an Elite College
When the National Culture Wars Come to Your Campus
Southern Exposure: College Applications to Traditional Southern Schools
I Was Fired from NYU After Students Complained the Course was Too Hard. Who’s Next?
The NYU Chemistry Students Shouldn’t Have Needed That Petition
Growth Mindset and Intellectual Risk-Taking
Smart Fundraising: How to Streamline and Innovate
Three-Step Process for Evaluating Costly Investments
Trends to Know for Sustainable Enrollment
Strategic Planning Should Be a Strategic Exercise
MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era
What is a Sound Logo for Organizations?
Understanding Equity in Education
Resources for Finding Histories of Marginalized Peoples
Some NYC Private Schools Require Parents to Take Anti-Racism Training, Sign Pledges…or Else
At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Librarians Expand Their Skill Sets to Meet Growing Demands
Why Teachers Have Been “Sold a Story” on Reading Instruction
Strategies to Improve Students’ Listening Skills
Why Oakland Parents are Flocking to a Chinese-Immersion School
Doing Tutoring? An Education Economist Examines the Evidence on Whether It’s Effective
Why Women’s Networks Are Crucial
Four Traits Apple Looks for When Hiring
Adam Grant Interviews Atul Gawande
Let’s Make Plant-Based Foods the Default on Campus
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September 2022
Thursday, 29 September 2022
To Be or Not to Be a Trustee, That is the Question
New Trustee Orientation with the CFO
How You Can Develop a Board That is Ready for the Future
Envisioning the Future of Education and Jobs
New Director of Innovative School Models Aims to Encourage Experimentation
Reshape School Without Starting From Scratch
Students Highlight Which Pandemic-Era Changes Should Stay and Which Should Go
Redesigning Education for Learners and Educators
Still Skeptical About Mastery-Based Learning? Here’s a Better Way of Looking at What it Is and Does
Three Ways to Activate Student Engagement
What Better School Tests Would Look Like
Not Enough Teachers? Here’s What Schools Need to Know
The “Great Resignation” and How to Address Turnover Within Independent Schools
Why Boys Should Start School a Year Later Than Girls
A Genius Cartoonist Believe Child’s Play is Anything But Frivolous
Beyond Left and Right: Learning is a Whole-Brain Process
How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom
Teaching Math Through Children’s Literature
Brief History of Spanish Animated
What Mrs. Bailey Taught Me in A.P. History Changed My Life
What’s Really Causing America’s Mental Health Crisis?
Best Free Social-Emotional Learning Sites and Apps
Rethinking Resilience: Does Pushing Through Actually Hinder Growth
Gen Z’s Battle Against Depression, Addiction, Hopelessness
Legal Tip of the Week: Consider a Mental Health Day Policy
Service Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social-Emotional Learning
First, Know Yourself. Then, Pick a Career Path
AI Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Kids to Cheat
Five Ways Tech is Being Used in PE
How to Use EdTech to Engage Introverted Learners
The Biggest Myths of the Teenage Brain
A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse
Five Key Trends Shaping the New World of Work
A Free 10-Minute Plan to Include Leadership Development in Team Meetings
To Change Corporate Culture, Build Ownership and Accountability
How Department Heads Balance Leadership Roles
The School Leader and Counselor Alliance
How to Hold a Coaching Conversation
Leaders are Not Responsible for Success. They are Accountable for It
Seven Steps to Building Great Administrative Teams
What Sets Successful CEOs and Heads of School Apart
What School Marketers Need to Know About Generation Alpha
Planning for International Student Recruitment in the “New Normal"
Why Repeating Yourself is a Good Thing
Young Alumni Share Perspectives on Intercultural Learning
Poll of Public’s Attitudes Toward Public Schools
Leaning and Love: A Lesson From Mr. Rogers for the Start of a New School Year
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Tuesday, 20 September 2022
The Silent Treatment: Why College Presidents Don’t Speak Out
One President’s Playbook for Public Statements
Teach Your Students to be Builders Not Critics
Investing in Better School Counseling Will Help Struggling Students Recover From Multiple Crises
How to Help Employees Access Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Can Apprenticeships Help Alleviate Teacher Shortages
Moves to Ease Teacher’s Stress and Burnout
Teacher Shortages Are Real But Not for the Reasons You Think
When Quiet Quitting Is Worse Than the Real Thing
NYC’s Trinity School Bares Its Unholy Leftist Hate
Trinity School Staffer on Leave Following Project Veritas
Pandemic-Era Policies Caused Dramatic Education Decline
Five Tips for Creating an Effective Virtual Field Trip
Teaching “Digital Natives” Who Understand TikTok, but Not Excel
Six Puzzling Questions From the Disastrous NAEP Results
Kendi on His New Book and Why Kids Need the Kinds of Books Being Banned
The Most-Regretted (and Lowest-Paying) College Majors
My Five-Year-Old Son Says Scary Things When He is Upset. Should We Be Worried?
Should Children Eat What You Serve…? Benefits of Family Meals
Lessons on Leadership and Community From 25 Leaders of Color
Schoolwide Community Service and Volunteering in Elementary Grades
Digital-Advertising Case Study: A Shift in Spending Leads to Success at Year End
How COVID Has Pushed Companies Over the Tech Tipping Point
NJ Colleges on Forbes List (ugh, ratings!)
Northeastern Univ and Package Explosion and Campus Security
Fewer Students Studying Russian
WAWA Offers Free Coffee to Educators in September
Working Moms and Finding Balance
The Next Walk You Take Could Change Your Life
The Devious Mind Behind Wordle
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Thursday, 1 September 2022
NAIS Research Report on Staff/Faculty Turnover and Compensation
Three Ways Leaders Can Support Teachers This Year
The Great Resignation Stems From a Great Exploration
What’s Actually Being Taught in History Class
Handling Political Speech in the Workplace
African-American AP History Being Taught at 60 Schools As Part of Pilot Program
The Equity Continuum: Cultivating an Equity Mindset in Classroom Global Partnerships
Teaching Computational Thinking is More Important Than Defining It
Calm, Clear, and Kind: What Students Want From Their Teachers
Behind Their Screens: What Teens are Facing and Adults are Missing
Teens, Social Media, and Technology 2022
Behind Students’ Sense of Agency and Motivation
Some Students Succeed at the Expense of Others. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way
Empowering Students to Develop Their Own Academic Identity
Accessibility Tools Can Be Transformative for Some Students. At What Costs?
Free Assistive Tech Tools that Support Academic Success
Time Blindness and ADHD. What You Need to Know
Improving Classroom Behavior and Teacher-Student Relationships
Want More Meaningful Classroom Management? Here are Eight Questions Teachers Can Ask Themselves
What Kids Gain From Sports Depends on Adults
You Aren’t Lazy. You Need to Slow Down
Clarifying the Purpose of Advisory Programs
Three Reasons Teens Need Later School Start Times
Substance Abuse Prevention: What You Need to Know Right Now
Can You Inoculate People Against Misinformation Before They Even See It? Study Says Yes
Google Finds Inoculating Against Misinformation Helps Blunt Its Power
A New Tech Integration: A More Intentional Move Toward Instructional Design
A Rubric for Effective EdTech Use
Three Ways Web3 Will Change Education for Good
Educators Share New Ideas They Are Trying Out
Applying Think Time to Formative Feedback
The 10 Commandments of Experiential Learning
Columbia Won’t Participate in Next US News Rankings
CHOP’s Guidance for Updated COVID School Mitigation Plans for Academic Year 2022-2023
A New Social Contract for Teams
Independent Governance in a Post-Pandemic Era
Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management
If We’re All So Busy, Why Isn’t Anything Getting Done?
Avoiding the Biggest Mistakes on Your School’s Website Homepage
Four Elements of a Comprehensive Enrollment Growth Plan
How Advancement Leaders Can Engage More Women Donors
Why Surveys are a Key School Leadership Tool
Results from the 2022 Education Next Survey
Learning Spaces, Wellness Rooms, Nature Trails. This is the K-12 School of the Future
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August 2022
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Three R’s for First-Year Teachers
For New Teachers, Six Principles to Remember This Year
Three Habits of Highly Effective Teacher Teams
Shakespeare the the Headship Transition (RIP, Bruce Dennis!)
Independent Governance in a Post-Pandemic Era
How the Board Can Support the Head
Finance Experts: School Budgets Headed For a Wild Ride
What Employers Need to Know About Monkeypox
Is the Problem Really A Shortage of Teachers?
Information About the “Teacher Shortage"
Educators’ Poor Morale Matters, Even If They Don’t Quit. Here’s Why
Quiet Quitting and Setting Boundaries for Work
Get Ready to SOAR into the New School Year
More Than 120 Activities for Your First Day(s) of Class from Athena
Six Things Students Need in Today’s Politicized World
Different Ways to Play the Name Game
Ideas for Collaboration in the Classroom
For the First Time in 20 Years, Teachers Can Deduct More for School Supplies
Why You Should Ban Debate in Your Classroom
Developing the “Why” for Middle School Math
Teaching Cryptocurrency in 5th Grade
How to Hold a Better Class Discussion
Teens, Social Media, and Technology
What We Get Wrong About Teens and Screens
What Parents Are Getting Wrong About Teens and Sexting
I Didn’t Want It to Be True, But the Medium Really Is the Message
Are Today’s Children Different Than Children in the 1890s?
Three Reasons Teens Need Later School Start Times
Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Cellphones in School
Testing 101: How Parents Can Understand the Purpose of Their Child’s Tests
Unstructured, Longer Play Essential Key to Early Learning
New Study Confirms the Value of Solitude
Sharpen Your Thinking with These Cognitive Razors
The Difference Between Complicated and Complex Matters
Research: People Can Learn to Recognize Their Racial Privilege
Rob Evans on Six Truths About Leadership
Seven Leadership Styles and How to Find Your Own
10 Principles of Effective Organizations
Keeping Your Team Motivated When the Company is Struggling
Why Repeating Yourself is a Good Thing
The Rules of Flying Like a Decent Human
Doing WORDLE as the World Burns
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Monday, 15 August 2022
Loan Forgiveness Program May Attract Millennials to Nonprofit Jobs
Gen Z Workers Demand Flexibility, Don’t Want to be Stuffed in a Cubicle
Encourage Your Team to Take a Vacation and Watch Business Productivity Soar (There’s still time!)
Three Neuroscience-Based Strategies to Combat Employee Burnout
Schools Nationwide Expect Special Ed Teacher Shortages
Are You Advocating for School Librarians?
New CDC Guidelines Could Be Gamechanger
New CDC Guidelines for Schools Aim for Normalcy
Operational Guidance for K-12 Schools
NJ to Drop COVID Testing Mandates: Latest Details
Changes in the Landscape of International Student Recruitment
Deep Dive on South Korea Enrollment
Deep Dive on Japanese Education Market
Gun Violence: An International Educator’s Moral Quandary
A New Mindset for Recruiting Chinese Students
Need-Blind International Admissions: A Question of Values
Too Many Social Channels to Manage? Maybe Your Students Can Help
Teens, Social Media, and Technology
Five Key Skills to Master in Tough Times
How Advancement Leaders Can Encourage More Women Donors
Four School Marketing Initiative You Can Complete By September
Bounce Houses Can Be Very Dangerous
What If the Ancient Greeks and Romans Actually Had Terrible Taste?
Leadership: Our Timeless Truth
The Language That Doesn’t Use “No”
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Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Trustees: Long on Passion, Short on Time
The Adaptive School Board: Governance and Learning in a New Era
Recreating School for Every Child
It’s Time to Rethink the One-Teacher-One Classroom Model
Not Enough Teachers? What Schools Need to Know
Trained, Armed, and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten.
Trust is in Decline: Here’s How to Rebuild It
168 Writing Prompts to Spark Discussion and Reflection
Three Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons
Take Away Their Cellphones. Rewire Schools for Belonging and Achievement
Music Training Can Be a Literacy Superpower
How to Fall Back in Love With Reading
How Sign Language Changes as the World Changes
Why HItler and Stalin Hated Esperanto, the 135-Year Old Language of Peace
Curriculum Redesign for Equity and Social Justice
Eight Tips for Using Testimonials in Your Marketing
How to Stay Cool When You’re Put on the Spot
Three Strategies to Keep Good Employees Without a Hefty Pay Raise
Mentoring: The Art of Growing Teachers and Leaders
For Creators, Community is the New Follower Count
Oddly Enough: The Uses of Randomness
What’s Wrong with Having Competitive Kids
The Movement to End Homework is Wrong
People with Dyslexia Have “Enhanced Abilities,” According to a New Study
Which City is Most Expensive for Renters? You Might Be Surprised
NJ Rent Among the Most Expensive
Your Brain Can Hijack Your Success. Here’s How to Retrain It
18 Rules of Life From the Dalai Lama
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