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The ability to work well with others - flexibility and interpersonal skills - seemed to be a bigger factor in teacher retention than where the teacher went to college. Other things like experience and instructional skills also were big factors.

Our research suggests that teacher workforce improvements can be derived from more careful hiring decisions,

such as whether a teacher would be good at teaching students to be good citizens, Goldhaber said.

At the same time, we need to have the confidence to make decisions on the spot, even in the absence of compelling, complete data.  The qualities needed at the top—openness, authentic listening, adaptability—also indicate that leaders need to be comfortable with and able to embrace the “grayness” that comes from other people’s ideas or situations that arise.

Learning Agility is a reliable indicator of leadership potential because learning agile people “excel at absorbing information from their experience and then extrapolating from those to navigate unfamiliar situations.

In short, Learning Agility is the ability to learn, adapt, and apply ourselves in constantly morphing conditions.

"This is a new era where everyone needs to have a voice, and you want to leave a digital trail of yourself," says Ms. Siff.

After recruiters and job seekers find each other over Twitter, more traditional means of hiring usually take over: Candidates may tweet a link to a résumé or a more complete social-media profile, followed by phone or in-person interviews.

A tweet, she explains, "is the new elevator pitch."

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How Children Succeed—Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character.

We’re all going to be literacy teachers,” said Patricia Fong, a chief academic administrator for Lakota schools. “We’ll all be teaching students how to read, write, and how to listen and speak within (our) content areas.”

The clear, alarming picture that emerges … is that while the reading demands of college, workforce training programs and citizenship have held steady or risen over the past 50 years or so, K–12 texts have, if anything, become less demanding,” the Common Core document states.

“These aren’t more rigorous tests; they’re more honest tests,”