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2020 Thanksgiving Message to NABE Family
NABE
The NABE Executive Board and staff pauses to remember and to extend our heartfelt prayers, condolences and thanks to the families and the first responders who courageously and unselfishly risked their lives in service of so many others during these very challenging and tragic times in our world history. As we all watched the daily news about the mounting tragedies and loss of lives due to COVID-19, we were also reminded of the indomitable human spirit of hope, faith, love, generosity and forgiveness that we all hold so very dearly and the meaningful life and legacy left by those who passed on.
Such reminder of these lasting qualities was recently expressed in a sign that was posted on a wall of a closed school building that reads, "Remember the lives we live now, is the life millions just dream about." Needless to say, that the year 2020 has been one of unprecedented uncertainties affecting not only our nation but also the world at large. During this year, we have experienced untold tragedies, serious illnesses and countless loss of lives and suffering brought on not only by the pandemic but also by the global, catastrophic, climactic, events too numerous to mention. NABE extends its sympathy and condolences to all affected.
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.NABE NEWS
Important Dates for NABE 2021
Conference Registration is now open!
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NABE 2021 Call for Proposals-Proposal Submission is now open!
Due to COVID-19 disruptions, the deadline to submit your proposals has been extended to December 15, 2020
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Training bias out of teachers: Research shows little promise so far
Education Week
This summer, the Des Moines, Iowa, public schools held a series of anti-racist town hall meetings in the wake of the police-led killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the disproportionate effects of COVID-19 on people of color in their community. But the conversation rapidly turned to inequalities within in the school system.
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How will ESSA hold up during COVID-19? Pandemic tests the law's resilience
Education Week
The Every Student Succeeds Act was enacted in 2015 after years of painstaking negotiations and compromise. But one thing the people who wrote it didn't include in the law, or talk about when they wrote it, was how it would be affected by a pandemic. As the coronavirus surges nationwide, some schools that had reopened for in-person instruction, or planned to, are reconsidering their options. Children who haven't swapped out public schools for other choices, or dropped off the radar altogether, still face major disruptions.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Why cultural understanding is essential: Part 5
By Douglas Magrath (commentary)
 Culture is an important element for any ESL program, and instructors need to be aware of learners' cultures as they work with international students. New students may feel isolated, especially if no one else from their country is in the program or school. Language teaching, including ESL, should include a cultural component. Language and culture go together. Sometimes culture is missing from the curriculum. This represents a missed opportunity for student engagement: Without cultural contexts, students are robbed of a full and engaging language learning experience.
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Surveys show things are better for students than they were in the spring — Or do they?
The Brookings Institution
With the fall semester two or three months underway in most states in the U.S., everyone is wondering: After the COVID-19 pandemic forced a nationwide school shutdown, are schools doing better now than they were in the spring? With virtually all schools across the nation closed by April and scrambling to transition to online learning with no preparation, the spring was "not pretty."
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Millions of students have limited contact with teachers
U.S. News & World Report
According to a report by USAFacts, about 65% of households with children used online learning during the pandemic, and about the same percentage have contact with a teacher at least four days per week. But 11% of households with children, approximately 5.5 million children, had no contact with a teacher in the last week, as opposed to the five days of in-person classes they would receive during a normal school year.
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Schools are retreating to remote learning as COVID-19 surges. Do they have to?
Education Week
As coronavirus rates surge across the country, hundreds of school districts are pulling back on in-person learning — even as a rising chorus of researchers insists that with proper safety protocols, in-person schooling does not appear to be a major driver of COVID-19 transmission. In the last few weeks alone, several major school systems, including Boston, Detroit, and Indianapolis, retreated from in-person learning. Others, like Philadelphia and Clark County, Nev., which includes Las Vegas, have pushed back plans to do so.
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Non-English speakers face challenges in virtual learning
Sentinel Colorado
As coronavirus cases surge in her new city, the refugee wants to help her sons learn virtually, but she can't read the lessons. "I'm really worried for what my children are missing," she said through a Swahili translator last week in her West Scranton apartment. "How can I explain to my children when I don't know English?" As virtual learning continues in much of northeast Pennsylvania, including the Scranton School District, families struggle with technology issues and child care and worry about children falling behind.
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CDC pulls statement that stressed importance of in-person school
Education Week
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly removed a statement from its website that stressed "the importance of reopening America's schools" even as they take steps to address the coronavirus pandemic. The July statement had been attached to revised guidance from the agency that came after President Donald Trump criticized the CDC's guidance on COVID-19 and called for K-12 schools to reopen, threatening their funding if they remained in remote learning.
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Grading what matters most
By Brian Stack
In a recent article, Edutopia's Stephen Merrill asked a pivotal question that every educator needs to ask themselves: "In schools, are we measuring what matters?" Merrill reports out on a recent interview he conducted with educator Angela Duckworth, a champion for the push to include non-academic skills and dispositions in assessment, grading, and reporting plans. Duckworth is best known for her 2016 bestselling book "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance." The book raised questions and concerns from fans and critics on whether the concept of grit was a skill that should be measured by schools.
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K-12 parents support canceling standardized testing this Spring. That might not be a good idea
The 74
In the before-times, one of the hallmarks of spring for parents, students and teachers was the ramp-up toward federally mandated standardized tests. COVID-19 had something to say about that last school year, and in mid-March, the U.S. Department of Education granted states a blanket exemption from standardized testing. With students learning from home and no return to school in sight, it took less than two weeks for all 50 states to take the federal government up on its offer.
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Pandemic teaching is the hardest thing we've ever done
We Are Teachers
Whether you love social media (#teachersofinstagram!), you hate it, or you are just plain sick of all the noise, teachers are using social channels to share the toll that pandemic teaching is taking. In the hardest year of our professional lives, sharing our vulnerability and keeping it real is the best way we can support each other. Teachers are often optimists, skilled at putting on a happy face, rolling up their sleeves and soldering on. But at what cost?
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Teacher pay tops Biden's 5 priorities for K-12 education
District Administration Magazine
Teacher pay, social-emotional learning, equitable funding and career pathways are the lynchpins of President-elect Joe Biden's platform for K-12 education. The Biden-Harris K-12 platform begins with a proposal to triple Title I funding for low-income schools, with a requirement to use the money to offer educators competitive salaries. The new administration also intends to invest in mentoring, leadership opportunities and professional development for teachers.
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