Educational Articles in the News
Educational Articles in the News
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
November 2023
Resources for Educators About the Conflict in the Middle East
The College President’s Role in the Wake of World Crises
School Mission and Vision Statements
Nonprofit Leadership and Talent Survey
It’s Time for Boards to Take AI Seriously
How Purpose Can Inform Strategy Design
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department
Back to School with AI: AI and Academic Rigor
What Bloom’s Taxonomy Can Teach Us About AI
On AI, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and the Risks of Playing With Magic
I Used to Think I Was a Fair Grader. Now I Look Back and Cringe
Student GPA and Test Score Gaps are Growing
This District Banned Cellphones
What Happens When Young People Actually Read Disturbing Books?
How to Support Twice-Exceptional Students
Children’s Risk of Suicide Increases on School Days
When Bullied Students End Their Lives, Parents are Suing
Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z, Especially for Girls
Vaping Down in HS, Up in Middle School
Black Educators’ Racial Identity Attitudes and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
It’s Time to Monitor Workplace Air Quality
Top-Paying School Districts: See Where NJ Administrators Make the Most
Why Schools Need An Employee Experience Strategy
The Big Shift in Universal Fundraising
The Happy Holiday Email Checklist for Schools
October 2023
The Legal Duties of Board Members
Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome
IRS Orders Immediate Stop to New ERC Processing
What Inspires Us to Do Our Work and Why Independent Schools Matter
Alumni Advocacy Groups: Strategies for Administrators
Higher Ed is Consolidating, Transforming the Sector
Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault is That?
College Rankings: Perceptions, Realities, and Ideas for an Overhaul
The College Access Index Returns
Innovations and its Discontents
Road Trip: Eight Things We Learned About America’s Most Innovating High Schools
The Unstoppable Search for Successful Teaching in Schools
What is Your Teacher Superhero Origin Story
Best and Worst States for Teachers
How to Help Girls Grow in Resilience
The Science of Reading Swept Reforms Into Classrooms. What About Math?
The Value of One-Size-Fits-All Math Homework
Lowering Test Anxiety in the Classroom
Guidance for Navigating the DEIJ Journey
The Evolving Role of Educators in the Age of AI
Embracing Empathy: Navigating Challenging Interactions with Parents and Guardians
What Makes an Inclusive Leader?
Why Can’t We Let Our Leaders Be Human
Build That Bridge (By Andrew Schneider, formerly at Peck!)
Can PD Icebreakers Be Less Cringey?
Bittersweet Milestone for Catholic College
Who Should Shape What Colleges Teach?
By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Created the Culture Wars
Too Much, Too Young: Pornography and Children
I Finally Learned to Draw. Here’s How
Introducing Our New University’s Executive Vice President of Saving Money
September 2023
DOJ and DOE Federal Guidelines for Colleges and Universities
Colleges are Spending as Though There Were No Tomorrow. These Places are Devouring Money
More Colleges Considering Mergers
FAFSA Changes are Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know
Colleges Hide the Truth About Tuition
US Suicides Reach an All-Time High
The Path to Lifelong Happiness Comes Down to Seven Simple Choices
A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
Neuroscience Holds the Secret to Good Decision-making and It’s Not What You Think
Science Shows that Humility Makes You Smarter and More Successful
Many Parents Have No Idea How Their Kids are Doing in School
Teens are Crumbling Under Pressure. Parents Need to Change
Stability is Key for a Healthy School Culture
Teacher Shortages are Getting Worse. Here’s How Schools are Coping
Limiting Attrition with Attraction
The Importance of Surveying Constituents
When You Speak Do People Follow?
People are More Generous Than You Think
Back to School for Everyone: Free Syllabi From Favorite Writers
Boston’s Transit Agency Used One Weird Trick to Increase Bus Driver Job Application by 356%
Six Tips for Natural Disaster Planning for Schools
NJ’s Top 100 Public High Schools Ranked by US News
Use Your Phone as a Pocket Tutor for Study on the Go
August 2023
Wednesday August 30, 2023
America’s Empty Classrooms: Teacher Shortage
Fueled By Teacher Shortages, Zoom-in-a-Room Makes a Comeback
34 Ways to Quiet a Rambunctious Class
To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior Stop Punishing Them
Cyberattacks Drain Millions From Schools
Schools are Teaching ChatGPT So Students Aren’t Left Behind
How Schools Can Survive (and May Even Thrive) With AI This Fall
Google’s AI-Powered Note-Taking App is the Messy Beginning of Something Great
A Powerful Rethinking of Your Math Classroom
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
Five Lesson Plan Tweaks to Borrow From Marketers
Making Virtual School a Permanent Option
Bringing eSports to the Next Level
U. Chicago Financial Aid Settlement Leaves Co-Defendants in a Tough Spot
What Former First-Gen Students Wish They Knew About College
Challenge and Opportunities for Independent Schools
NJ Public School Enrollment Dropped 18,000 Since Start of the Pandemic, State Data Shows
NAIS Snapshot Survey on Admissions
An External Audit for Admissions
Google Analytics for Marketing
Understanding the State of Independent School Marketing
10 School Storytelling Mistakes That Cause Your Audience to Disconnect
Supreme Court To Hear Case on High School Admissions
The Diversity Issue on Campuses That May Surprise You
I have a Pretty Good Idea Why Michael Oher is Angry
Legacy For You, But Not For Me
My School Devolved into Polarization. It Didn’t Work
Fed Complicates College Mergers, With Possible Unintended Consequences
Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings
How Teaching Virtues Can Empower Young People
To Implement Change, You Don’t Need to Convince Everyone at Once
Tax-Exempt Financing for Independent Schools: A Legal Overview
Screen Time is Top Parental Concern about Children’s Health
Music Can Serve as Therapy. Here’s How It Can Help Reduce Anxiety
Book Rec: A Fire to Be Kindled
Mental Health Education is Imperative for NJ Students
NJ Changes to School Equity Code Won’t Affect Trans Youth in Sports, Group Says
CVS, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb Disclose Layoff Plans
Monday August 21, 2023
Teacher Expectations and Their Impact On Student Outcomes
Five Ways to Get to Know Your Middle and High School Students Better
The Best Ways to Welcome New Teachers
20 Sites and Apps Every Teacher Should Try for Back-to-School
Setting the Tone for the New School Year
The Best Way to Create Community in the First Week of School
How to Cultivate a Sense of Belonging in Schools
Research Insights: Supporting Belonging and Community in Schools
Why is it Important for Students to Feel a Sense of Belonging at School?
A Research Update on Social Emotional Learning in Schools
How to Help Kids Become Skilled Citizens
A Role for Every Staff Member in Promoting Student Mental Health
Five Mistakes Nonprofits Make When Managing Internal Candidates in an Executive Search
Traditional Strategic Planning Must Shift
Four Essential Questions Boards Should Ask About Generative AI
Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students
AI in Education: New Guidance from the DOE
Leveraging Upskilling Through AI Coaching Tech
Three Reasons I’m Using a Chatbot in My Classes
Eight Things Educators Need to Know About AI
The Course Catalog of the Future
Achiever: Developing Your Leadership Skills
High Performing Teams Begin with Great Team Members
Meetings and Greetings with Purpose
Monday August 14, 2023
Biden Administration Offers Guidance on Affirmative Action post-Supreme Court Ruling
Thinking Outside the Inbox: Email Management
US Postal Service and Check Mail Fraud
School are Now the Leading Target for Cyber Gangs as Ransom Payments Encourage Attacks
Teaching Black History in Polarized Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/
Is Digital Text a Good Idea for Reading Instruction?
Education Needs a New Taxonomy of Educational Imperatives
What’s the Purpose of Standards in Education?
Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow
Making Math More Equitable by Building Up Math Identity
Six Foundational Ways to Scaffold Student Learning
Two Crucial First Steps Will Fuel Student Success
Powerful, Evidence-Backed Ways to Connect With Students in the First Week of School
23 Ways to Build and Sustain Classroom Relationships
Why Haven’t We Made it Safer to Breath in Classrooms?
What If an AI Assistant Could Summarize Your Class?
Back to School with AI: Making Sense of It
Berkeley Pushes AI with Hackathon
Stanford University Curated Resources for AI
Creative Ways Teachers are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom
Humans with AI Will Replace Those Without
How Nations Worldwide are Dealing with AI in Education
Follow the Leader: How a Leader’s Personality is Reflected in Culture
Six Tactics to Propel Innovation Before the Next Crisis
Five Questions Every Manager Needs to Ask Their Direct Reports
10 Snapshots of Effective Middle School Teams
Meaningful PD to Help With Teacher Burnout
When Should You Take a Problem to HR?
NJ High School Athletes Prep for Extreme Heat
Here’s What World-Class Scrabble Looks Like
July 2023
Monday, 17 July 2023
Students Turn to TikTok for Study Buddies
Combining Maths With Music Leads to Higher Scores
Helping Adolescents Feel Competent and Purposeful
Students Need Extra Learning to Return to Pre-Pandemic Math, Reading Achievement
4 Ways Educators Are Configuring AI for Classroom Use
America's Schools Are Finally Embracing Financial Literacy
How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work
Monday, 17 July 2023
How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether
Students Turn to TikTok for Study Buddies
June 2023
Thursday, 29 June 2023
Rethinking Leadership Development Evaluation
High-Quality Child Care Contributes to Later Success in Science, Math
High School Quality May Have A Long-Term Impact on Cognition
How Can Educators Optimize Project-Based Learning Experiences?
The Education Sector Struggles with Evolving Cyberthreats
3 Ways Educators Can Adjust Financial Literacy for Gen Z
Social and Emotional Skills Can Give Students, Workers a Competitive Edge Over AI
How to Implement Peer Tutoring in Your Classroom
A Push For Climate Change Education
Teens Don't Read for Fun and Are Often Absent
Friday, 9 June 2023
The AI Hype is Distracting Companies
Intelligent Classrooms: What AI Means for the Future of Education
Is Your NonprofiDistrat Considering Using ChatGPT? Your First Step is to Do No Harm
Four Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Our World Needs a New Taxonomy of Educational Imperatives
Reframing Self-Care for Independent School Faculty
Set Your Summer Hours to Boost Morale
Why We Need the Great Conversation to Recover from the Great Resignation
More Canadian Companies Adopt “Stay” Interviews Amid Push to Retain Staff
Could Helicopter Parenting Jeopardize Kids’ Success and Fuel Inequality?
Why Schools Need to Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids
Kids Can’t All Be Star Athletes. Here’s How Schools Can Welcome More Students to Play
More Students Are Beginning Research on Study Abroad Within Six Months Before Applying
Five Summer Tasks to Set Your Development Office Up for Fall Success
13 Top Execs Weigh In on Their Best Strategies for Managing Email
To Build a Top Performing Team, Ask for 85% Effort
Three Steps to Identify the Right Strategic Goals
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website.
NJAIS Professional Development: There are many summer workshops and conferences upcoming. Check out our 2023 - 2024 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2023-2024
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
Educational Articles in the News
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
October 2023
The Legal Duties of Board Members
Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome
IRS Orders Immediate Stop to New ERC Processing
What Inspires Us to Do Our Work and Why Independent Schools Matter
Alumni Advocacy Groups: Strategies for Administrators
Higher Ed is Consolidating, Transforming the Sector
Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault is That?
College Rankings: Perceptions, Realities, and Ideas for an Overhaul
The College Access Index Returns
Innovations and its Discontents
Road Trip: Eight Things We Learned About America’s Most Innovating High Schools
The Unstoppable Search for Successful Teaching in Schools
What is Your Teacher Superhero Origin Story
Best and Worst States for Teachers
How to Help Girls Grow in Resilience
The Science of Reading Swept Reforms Into Classrooms. What About Math?
The Value of One-Size-Fits-All Math Homework
Lowering Test Anxiety in the Classroom
Guidance for Navigating the DEIJ Journey
The Evolving Role of Educators in the Age of AI
Embracing Empathy: Navigating Challenging Interactions with Parents and Guardians
What Makes an Inclusive Leader?
Why Can’t We Let Our Leaders Be Human
Build That Bridge (By Andrew Schneider, formerly at Peck!)
Can PD Icebreakers Be Less Cringey?
Bittersweet Milestone for Catholic College
Who Should Shape What Colleges Teach?
By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Created the Culture Wars
Too Much, Too Young: Pornography and Children
I Finally Learned to Draw. Here’s How
Introducing Our New University’s Executive Vice President of Saving Money
September 2023
DOJ and DOE Federal Guidelines for Colleges and Universities
Colleges are Spending as Though There Were No Tomorrow. These Places are Devouring Money
More Colleges Considering Mergers
FAFSA Changes are Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know
Colleges Hide the Truth About Tuition
US Suicides Reach an All-Time High
The Path to Lifelong Happiness Comes Down to Seven Simple Choices
A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
Neuroscience Holds the Secret to Good Decision-making and It’s Not What You Think
Science Shows that Humility Makes You Smarter and More Successful
Many Parents Have No Idea How Their Kids are Doing in School
Teens are Crumbling Under Pressure. Parents Need to Change
Stability is Key for a Healthy School Culture
Teacher Shortages are Getting Worse. Here’s How Schools are Coping
Limiting Attrition with Attraction
The Importance of Surveying Constituents
When You Speak Do People Follow?
People are More Generous Than You Think
Back to School for Everyone: Free Syllabi From Favorite Writers
Boston’s Transit Agency Used One Weird Trick to Increase Bus Driver Job Application by 356%
Six Tips for Natural Disaster Planning for Schools
NJ’s Top 100 Public High Schools Ranked by US News
Use Your Phone as a Pocket Tutor for Study on the Go
August 2023
Wednesday August 30, 2023
America’s Empty Classrooms: Teacher Shortage
Fueled By Teacher Shortages, Zoom-in-a-Room Makes a Comeback
34 Ways to Quiet a Rambunctious Class
To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior Stop Punishing Them
Cyberattacks Drain Millions From Schools
Schools are Teaching ChatGPT So Students Aren’t Left Behind
How Schools Can Survive (and May Even Thrive) With AI This Fall
Google’s AI-Powered Note-Taking App is the Messy Beginning of Something Great
A Powerful Rethinking of Your Math Classroom
Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading
Five Lesson Plan Tweaks to Borrow From Marketers
Making Virtual School a Permanent Option
Bringing eSports to the Next Level
U. Chicago Financial Aid Settlement Leaves Co-Defendants in a Tough Spot
What Former First-Gen Students Wish They Knew About College
Challenge and Opportunities for Independent Schools
NJ Public School Enrollment Dropped 18,000 Since Start of the Pandemic, State Data Shows
NAIS Snapshot Survey on Admissions
An External Audit for Admissions
Google Analytics for Marketing
Understanding the State of Independent School Marketing
10 School Storytelling Mistakes That Cause Your Audience to Disconnect
Supreme Court To Hear Case on High School Admissions
The Diversity Issue on Campuses That May Surprise You
I have a Pretty Good Idea Why Michael Oher is Angry
Legacy For You, But Not For Me
My School Devolved into Polarization. It Didn’t Work
Fed Complicates College Mergers, With Possible Unintended Consequences
Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings
How Teaching Virtues Can Empower Young People
To Implement Change, You Don’t Need to Convince Everyone at Once
Tax-Exempt Financing for Independent Schools: A Legal Overview
Screen Time is Top Parental Concern about Children’s Health
Music Can Serve as Therapy. Here’s How It Can Help Reduce Anxiety
Book Rec: A Fire to Be Kindled
Mental Health Education is Imperative for NJ Students
NJ Changes to School Equity Code Won’t Affect Trans Youth in Sports, Group Says
CVS, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb Disclose Layoff Plans
Monday August 21, 2023
Teacher Expectations and Their Impact On Student Outcomes
Five Ways to Get to Know Your Middle and High School Students Better
The Best Ways to Welcome New Teachers
20 Sites and Apps Every Teacher Should Try for Back-to-School
Setting the Tone for the New School Year
The Best Way to Create Community in the First Week of School
How to Cultivate a Sense of Belonging in Schools
Research Insights: Supporting Belonging and Community in Schools
Why is it Important for Students to Feel a Sense of Belonging at School?
A Research Update on Social Emotional Learning in Schools
How to Help Kids Become Skilled Citizens
A Role for Every Staff Member in Promoting Student Mental Health
Five Mistakes Nonprofits Make When Managing Internal Candidates in an Executive Search
Traditional Strategic Planning Must Shift
Four Essential Questions Boards Should Ask About Generative AI
Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students
AI in Education: New Guidance from the DOE
Leveraging Upskilling Through AI Coaching Tech
Three Reasons I’m Using a Chatbot in My Classes
Eight Things Educators Need to Know About AI
The Course Catalog of the Future
Achiever: Developing Your Leadership Skills
High Performing Teams Begin with Great Team Members
Meetings and Greetings with Purpose
Monday August 14, 2023
Biden Administration Offers Guidance on Affirmative Action post-Supreme Court Ruling
Thinking Outside the Inbox: Email Management
US Postal Service and Check Mail Fraud
School are Now the Leading Target for Cyber Gangs as Ransom Payments Encourage Attacks
Teaching Black History in Polarized Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/
Is Digital Text a Good Idea for Reading Instruction?
Education Needs a New Taxonomy of Educational Imperatives
What’s the Purpose of Standards in Education?
Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow
Making Math More Equitable by Building Up Math Identity
Six Foundational Ways to Scaffold Student Learning
Two Crucial First Steps Will Fuel Student Success
Powerful, Evidence-Backed Ways to Connect With Students in the First Week of School
23 Ways to Build and Sustain Classroom Relationships
Why Haven’t We Made it Safer to Breath in Classrooms?
What If an AI Assistant Could Summarize Your Class?
Back to School with AI: Making Sense of It
Berkeley Pushes AI with Hackathon
Stanford University Curated Resources for AI
Creative Ways Teachers are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom
Humans with AI Will Replace Those Without
How Nations Worldwide are Dealing with AI in Education
Follow the Leader: How a Leader’s Personality is Reflected in Culture
Six Tactics to Propel Innovation Before the Next Crisis
Five Questions Every Manager Needs to Ask Their Direct Reports
10 Snapshots of Effective Middle School Teams
Meaningful PD to Help With Teacher Burnout
When Should You Take a Problem to HR?
NJ High School Athletes Prep for Extreme Heat
Here’s What World-Class Scrabble Looks Like
July 2023
Monday, 17 July 2023
Students Turn to TikTok for Study Buddies
Combining Maths With Music Leads to Higher Scores
Helping Adolescents Feel Competent and Purposeful
Students Need Extra Learning to Return to Pre-Pandemic Math, Reading Achievement
4 Ways Educators Are Configuring AI for Classroom Use
America's Schools Are Finally Embracing Financial Literacy
How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work
Monday, 17 July 2023
How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether
Students Turn to TikTok for Study Buddies
June 2023
Thursday, 29 June 2023
Rethinking Leadership Development Evaluation
High-Quality Child Care Contributes to Later Success in Science, Math
High School Quality May Have A Long-Term Impact on Cognition
How Can Educators Optimize Project-Based Learning Experiences?
The Education Sector Struggles with Evolving Cyberthreats
3 Ways Educators Can Adjust Financial Literacy for Gen Z
Social and Emotional Skills Can Give Students, Workers a Competitive Edge Over AI
How to Implement Peer Tutoring in Your Classroom
A Push For Climate Change Education
Teens Don't Read for Fun and Are Often Absent
Friday, 9 June 2023
The AI Hype is Distracting Companies
Intelligent Classrooms: What AI Means for the Future of Education
Is Your NonprofiDistrat Considering Using ChatGPT? Your First Step is to Do No Harm
Four Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Our World Needs a New Taxonomy of Educational Imperatives
Reframing Self-Care for Independent School Faculty
Set Your Summer Hours to Boost Morale
Why We Need the Great Conversation to Recover from the Great Resignation
More Canadian Companies Adopt “Stay” Interviews Amid Push to Retain Staff
Could Helicopter Parenting Jeopardize Kids’ Success and Fuel Inequality?
Why Schools Need to Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids
Kids Can’t All Be Star Athletes. Here’s How Schools Can Welcome More Students to Play
More Students Are Beginning Research on Study Abroad Within Six Months Before Applying
Five Summer Tasks to Set Your Development Office Up for Fall Success
13 Top Execs Weigh In on Their Best Strategies for Managing Email
To Build a Top Performing Team, Ask for 85% Effort
Three Steps to Identify the Right Strategic Goals
N.B.: These articles and others are saved on the NJAIS website.
NJAIS Professional Development: There are many summer workshops and conferences upcoming. Check out our 2023 - 2024 Professional Development Calendar of Events!
https://www.njais.org/professional-development/2023-2024
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