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As 2020 comes to a close, NAESP would like to wish its members, partners and other education professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on this past year in education, we would like to provide the readers of NAESP's Before the Bell a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Friday, Jan. 8.
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Coronavirus school closures: What US schools can learn from other countries
Education Week
From April 10: In one global wave, fears of the novel coronavirus have swept more than 1.5 billion children out of school. A new study of nearly 100 countries' responses to the pandemic suggests the United States can take a lesson, particularly from the early-exposed Asian countries, on how schools can help their students and families weather what may be weeks or months away from their classrooms.
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What schools will look like when they reopen: Scheduled days home, more online learning, lots of hand-washing
USA Today
From May 5: Imagine, for a moment, American children returning to school this fall. The school week looks vastly different, with most students attending school two or three days a week and doing the rest of their learning at home. At school, desks are spaced apart to discourage touching. Some classrooms extend into unused gymnasiums, libraries or art rooms — left vacant while schools put on hold activities that cram lots of children together.
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9 big questions education leaders should ask to address COVID-19
Edutopia
From July 3: CNN recently reported that if we can't find a vaccine for COVID-19 soon, social distancing could continue for another two years. Since it's nearly impossible to enforce social distancing for 30 children in a classroom, schools may be some of the last spaces to reopen.
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Researchers: White men have the edge in the school principal pipeline
The Hechinger Report
From June 26: Educators who run U.S. schools aren't a diverse group. Almost 80% of the nation's 90,000 principals are white. Only 11% are Black and 9% are Latino, according to federal data. That doesn't come close to reflecting the demographics of the nation's 50 million public schoolchildren who are 46% white, 15 percent Black, 28% Latino and 6% Asian.
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In the wake of the coronavirus, we must design and build the schools we need — Not simply reopen schools as they were
Center for American Progress (commentary)
From May 29: Communities using parent power and progressive school districts alike are beginning to plan recovery strategies coming out of the COVID-19 crisis that focus on the needs of every student and keep equity at the center of their proposals. Using federal and state funds to reinstate a broken public school system that has operated against all concepts of equity is the wrong approach. Instead, the federal government should make it a priority to fund efforts to reimagine what's possible for public education and public school students.
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How to prepare and support educators teaching from home
EdTech Magazine
From April 17: As schools stay closed across the country, many students and educators are adapting to a new reality of remote learning. School districts that moved the majority of instruction online had to address existing challenges — from the lack of device and internet access to looming cyberthreats on sensitive data. They also had to acknowledge and bridge the gap between teachers and technology to ensure its success.
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5 simple ways to manage stress this year
Edutopia
From Oct. 23: Educators this year are faced with a multitude of decisions and reflexive reactions as schools and communities try to create the safest plans for the return to school, and the chronic unpredictability of this situation wears on our nervous systems. Why is this? Our brains and bodies are being flooded with millions of bits of sensory information every day, but with an increase of anxiety and worry, these sensations can trigger our stress response systems, causing our bodies and brains to move into a survival state where we find ourselves feeling chronically unsafe, dysregulated and stressed.
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5 reasons to make sure recess doesn't get short shrift when school resumes in person
The Conversation
From June 30: Once children return to school for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic upended everything, they will most likely spend less time on school grounds. And as educational leaders decide how to schedule elementary school students' days, they see catching students up on math, English and other academic subjects as a top priority.
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Closing schools to slow a pandemic
Education Next
From March 13: The growing threat of a novel coronavirus pandemic — Covid-19 — is forcing governments, businesses, and families, to develop responses in the midst of rapidly changing facts and guidance. While Federal efforts are important, action by state and local officials will be crucial to mitigating the impacts of a pandemic.
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Decades old student counseling benchmark has no research basis
The Hechinger Report
From May 15: Schools are commonly advised to hire one counselor for every 250 students. The figure has been recommended and publicized by the American School Counselor Association since 1965. And it's been frequently used by education lobbyists and advocates to demand more money for schools at state legislatures and in Congress for decades. Some states have the 250 number written into their laws.
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5 ideas for supporting teachers during COVID
District Administration Magazine
From Sept. 25: It may seem counterintuitive, but COVID has so disrupted K-12 education that building leaders and teachers could look at 2020-2021 as their first year in the profession, says one administrator. That's because online learning is a brand new instructional setting for most educators, says Adam Brown, assistant principal of the Renaissance Academy in Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
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Are the risks of reopening schools exaggerated?
NPR
From Oct. 27: Despite widespread concerns, two new international studies show no consistent relationship between in-person K-12 schooling and the spread of the coronavirus. And a third study from the United States shows no elevated risk to childcare workers who stayed on the job. Combined with anecdotal reports from a number of U.S. states where schools are open, as well as a crowdsourced dashboard of around 2,000 U.S. schools, some medical experts are saying it's time to shift the discussion from the risks of opening K-12 schools to the risks of keeping them closed.
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How great leaders build strong relationships
Leadership Freak
From May 12: You might think leadership would be easy if it wasn't for people. Try sending everyone home! Now what? You're an individual contributor — not a leader — when you work in isolation.
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3 principles for reopening schools safely during the COVID-19 pandemic
Center for American Progress
From July 21: For months, parents and educators have worried about whether or not schools will be able to reopen safely this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic. State and local officials have struggled to balance competing priorities and answer complicated logistical, educational, and public health questions. For the safety of students, families and educators, science must drive these decisions. Yet recently, President Donald Trump began a politically driven pressure campaign to force schools to physically reopen across the country.
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Teachers are anxious and overwhelmed. They need SEL now more than ever
EdSurge
From April 10: At the end of March, our team at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, along with our colleagues at the Collaborative for Social Emotional and Academic Learning, known as CASEL, launched a survey to unpack the emotional lives of teachers during the COVID-19 crisis. In the span of just three days, over 5,000 U.S. teachers responded to the survey. We asked them to describe, in their own words, the three most frequent emotions they felt each day.
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Strong leadership matters: A principal's perspective on leading through a pandemic
District Administration Magazine
From July 31: The closing of schools in March was very surreal and unsettling. COVID-19 rocked the world and changed the reality of schools in general and the concept of leading in particular. Leading and operating in challenging and unpredictable circumstances is the norm for school leaders, but the COVID-19 pandemic came crashing down with little time to prepare or plan.
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10 things about childhood trauma every teacher needs to know
We Are Teachers
From Feb. 25: With grief, sadness is obvious. With trauma, the symptoms can go largely unrecognized because they mimic other problems: frustration; acting out; or difficulty concentrating, following directions, or working in a group. Students are often misdiagnosed with anxiety, behavior disorders or attention disorders rather than understood to have trauma that drives those symptoms and reactions.
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Schools struggle to educate students with disabilities amid pandemic
U.S. News & World Report
From April 21: Setting up distance learning for the 55 million students who were forced out of school by the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge, but it's even more of a challenge for educators to figure out how to best educate the 7 million students with disabilities. And those students, who are less likely to be able to access online education, are also at much greater risk of falling behind.
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We should be focusing on absenteeism among teachers, not just students
The Brookings Institution
From Feb. 4: Measures of chronic student absence are now taking on important policy roles across the country. The Every Student Succeeds Act required the adoption of non-test-based performance measures in revamped school accountability systems, with chronic absenteeism emerging as a common preferred measure. Thirty-six states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have included either chronic absenteeism or other measures of student attendance as a factor in their school-quality indicators.
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The retirement elephant in US classrooms
By: Patrick Gleeson
From April 17: By now, most Americans know that pension plans in this country have a problem — put simply, many and perhaps most pension funds don't have enough money to pay the pensions they've promised their retirees. The coronavirus has already deeply affected education in K-12 classrooms. Soon, it will also affect the pensions of K-12 teachers across the country. Here's why.
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Amid school closures and social distancing, finding hope in a crisis
The Brookings Institution (commentary)
From March 27: Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education, writes: "In over seven years running Chicago Public Schools, I never once closed schools because I knew how important schools were to vulnerable children. In addition to learning, schools provided needed sustenance in the form of meals to our mostly low-income students, as well as structure, play, camaraderie and, for some, safety."
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Yoga, help lines, virtual social hours: Strategies to support staff through COVID-19
Education DIVE
From Nov. 10: Distance learning is a new skill for many teachers, and it leaves many of them with all the stress of being a first-year educator. It's an overwhelming career change in an already overwhelming year. Professional development sessions give teachers opportunities to target specific skills they may be lacking, such as learning how to use platforms like Flipgrid and creating weekly goals can allow them to reach small benchmarks without feeling overwhelmed. Remaining mindful of teachers' workloads is also critical, experts says, especially because virtual learning platforms can have a steep learning curve.
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10 team-building activities for distance learning
eSchool News
From May 1: As a teacher, team building is something that comes naturally. We do it to break the ice at the beginning of the year, to build a community in our classroom, and as a brain break when our kids (or the teachers) need a break. Now that we are all learning and teaching from home, building a community and connecting with our kids is a little harder with distance learning factored in.
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'There is no guidebook': Being the principal in the age of coronavirus
Education Week
From March 20: Virtual calming corners for students. Online staff hangouts instead of in-person team meetings. Student advisory groups on Zoom. Video morning greetings for students. This is what the principal's job is looking like right now in the age of coronavirus. "These are things that pop into our heads when we are trying sleep at night," said Kelly Corbett, the principal of Otsego Elementary School in Otsego, Minnesota, listing of a stream of ideas that she and her staff are knitting together to keep their colleagues and students connected while schools are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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