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To create a strong learning environment, Harbison writes, teachers must build a relationship with each child, recognize each student's unique strengths, promote teamwork and establish a climate of mutual respect. <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXztjwiT">Voxxi</a><font color="#666666"> (7/27)</font> <img border="0" align="absmiddle" height="14" width="34" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sm_share.gif"> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYhFhrku" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/linkedin.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="LinkedIn"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYhRtjwX" title="Facebook"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/facebook.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Facebook"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYiBskCX" title="Twitter"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/twitter.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Twitter"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYiNsUOq" title="Email this Story"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_email_story_gray1.gif" height="14" width="45" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Email this Story"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYiZuZwr" title=""><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_ttt.gif" height="14" width="111" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></font> </li> </ul> <div style="clear:left;"> </div> <a name="2407271F-B3A1-4417-B268-CFABF21138DB"></a> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;list-style-type:square; margin:0; padding:0 0 13px 15px;"> <li style="color:#663366;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXzFlAQU"style="color:#663366;"class="none_und">Study: Texting affects grammar skills of middle-school students</a><br> <font style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;">The more often students use text-message shorthand to communicate, the worse they perform on grammar tests, according to an experiment conducted on Pennsylvania sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. Because texting is not a different language, students transfer text-talk to other forms of communication, said S. Shyam Sundar, who supervised the study. Teachers can improve the grammar of these students by giving them writing assignments that are different from typical texting topics and require more formal language, he said. <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXzFlAQU">Education Week/Inside School Research blog</a><font color="#666666"> (7/27)</font> <img border="0" align="absmiddle" height="14" width="34" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sm_share.gif"> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYjlyyDe" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/linkedin.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="LinkedIn"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYjxDslF" title="Facebook"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/facebook.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Facebook"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYjJJGru" title="Twitter"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/twitter.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Twitter"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYjVRoXx" title="Email this Story"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_email_story_gray1.gif" height="14" width="45" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Email this Story"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYkhasmi" title=""><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_ttt.gif" height="14" width="111" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></font> </li> </ul> <a name="C5C190E8-C3DA-45E3-AA63-45A008DDCEC5"></a> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;list-style-type:square; margin:0; padding:0 0 13px 15px;"> <li style="color:#663366;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXzRoZXH"style="color:#663366;"class="none_und">Teachers plan student lessons after attending green-energy academy</a><br> <font style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;">Teachers in Clark County, Nev., learned lessons about energy efficiency and explored how to incorporate those lessons into their own classrooms at a recent professional-development academy on green energy. After participating in a home-energy audit, math teacher Wanda Mallard said she plans on having her students figure out the energy consumption of appliances, while fifth-grade teacher Jason Smith says he is planning a hands-on lesson in which students build and test an energy-efficient paper house. <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXzRoZXH">Las Vegas Review-Journal</a><font color="#666666"> (7/28)</font> <img border="0" align="absmiddle" height="14" width="34" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sm_share.gif"> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYktkQrh" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/linkedin.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="LinkedIn"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYkFwIDK" title="Facebook"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/facebook.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Facebook"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYlpxely" title="Twitter"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/twitter.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Twitter"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYlBxOwR" title="Email this Story"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_email_story_gray1.gif" height="14" width="45" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Email this Story"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYlNzTeS" title=""><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_ttt.gif" height="14" width="111" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></font> </li> </ul> <a name="2495FD63-FCFF-4DE2-B7E2-3DD90DC4D30F"></a> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;list-style-type:square; margin:0; padding:0 0 7px 15px;"> <li style="color:#663366;"> <font style="color:#663366;">Other News</font> </li> </ul> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#999999;list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0 0 13px 15px;"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXAdtTGi"style="color:#663366;font-weight:bold;"class="und_none">Resources for teaching about the London Olympics' opening ceremony</a><br>Examiner.com (7/27) <img border="0" align="absmiddle" height="14" width="34" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sm_share.gif"> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYlZDslF" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/linkedin.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="LinkedIn"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYmlIlUg" title="Facebook"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/facebook.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Facebook"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYmxOzZV" title="Twitter"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/twitter.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Twitter"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYmJWiFY" title="Email this Story"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_email_story_gray1.gif" height="14" width="45" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Email this Story"></a></li> </ul><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td height="45" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tr bgcolor="#663366"> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid #663366;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF;white-space:nowrap;"><b> School Leadership </b></td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid #663366;"><img width="70" height="19" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sec_corner.gif"></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" style="border-bottom:1px solid #663366;"><img height="1" width="1" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/shim.gif"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><a name="6477AB97-CE10-4CCC-81AA-2642950F654D"></a> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;list-style-type:square; margin:0; padding:0 0 13px 15px;"> <li style="color:#663366;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXApAhLX"style="color:#663366;"class="none_und">How to develop high-quality school leaders</a><br> <img border="0" hspace="5" align="left" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/storyicons2/icon_blog.gif" height="72" width="75" alt=""><font style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;">Effective school leadership is a core component for school reform, writes Frederick Brown, director of strategy and development for Learning Forward. In this blog post, he shares and discusses a recently released Wallace Foundation perspective on five lessons for obtaining effective leadership. Those lessons include a more selective process for choosing candidates, a training program that focuses on instructional leadership rather than building management and a high-quality mentoring program. <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXApAhLX">Education Week Teacher/PD Watch blog</a><font color="#666666"> (7/27)</font> <img border="0" align="absmiddle" height="14" width="34" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sm_share.gif"> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYmVflUJ" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/linkedin.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="LinkedIn"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYnhpJZI" title="Facebook"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/facebook.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Facebook"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYntBCml" title="Twitter"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/twitter.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Twitter"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYodDsrn" title="Email this Story"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_email_story_gray1.gif" height="14" width="45" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Email this Story"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYopEcCG" title=""><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_ttt.gif" height="14" width="111" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></font> </li> </ul> <div style="clear:left;"> </div> <a name="59DBD0B5-8611-4D79-874B-96CE1678675A"></a> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;list-style-type:square; margin:0; padding:0 0 13px 15px;"> <li style="color:#663366;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXABHQsa"style="color:#663366;"class="none_und">Iowa task force looks at successful teacher-leadership program</a><br> <font style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;">An Iowa task force on teacher leadership and differentiated compensation recently met with Colorado administrators to learn about a program in which designated mentor and master teachers receive higher pay and release time from some classroom duties to serve as coaches for other teachers. Even though class size went up under the Colorado program, teacher quality improved and student performance increased, officials said. The task force is charged with making recommendations for new leadership and pay structures for teachers in Iowa. <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXABHQsa">The Des Moines Register (Iowa)</a><font color="#666666"> (7/28)</font> <img border="0" align="absmiddle" height="14" width="34" src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/sm_share.gif"> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYoBGhkH" title="LinkedIn"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/linkedin.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="LinkedIn"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYoNJGru" title="Facebook"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/facebook.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Facebook"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYoZOzZV" title="Twitter"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/twitter.gif" height="14" width="14" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Twitter"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYplUOfK" title="Email this Story"><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_email_story_gray1.gif" height="14" width="45" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Email this Story"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqYpxcwLN" title=""><img src="http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/btn_ttt.gif" height="14" width="111" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></font> </li> </ul> <a name="8954E391-5D60-4DA0-9BC9-227FF51CA1A0"></a> <ul style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;list-style-type:square; margin:0; padding:0 0 13px 15px;"> <li style="color:#663366;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/dNgaCfbwnseGqXANQTGL"style="color:#663366;"class="none_und">Can teachers improve with help from other teachers?</a><br> <font style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;">While some school districts seek to let go of struggling teachers, new research shows that teachers can improve their performance over time. Effective improvement models adopted in some districts include allowing top teachers to conduct in-class evaluations and offer feedback and coaching. 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