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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
5 ways to overcome compassion fatigue in K-12 education
District Administration Magazine
As the world continues to experience rising levels of COVID cases, healthcare workers, teachers, parents, administrators and others are feeling the heavy weight of burnout and compassion fatigue. While we don't normally think of K-12 educators as the most susceptible to compassion fatigue, the demands of the field often lead to similar outcomes as those in healthcare.
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Pandemic has changed main challenges of school counselors
THE Journal
For once, the number of students an individual school counselor is responsible for advising wasn't the overwhelming choice when they were asked to examine their day-to-day challenges. Many more school counselors responded that the big obstacles were getting access to students in a virtual environment (cited by 68%) and providing counseling and lessons to students in a virtual environment (mentioned by 62%). Just a little over half (53%) said managing a high caseload was either "challenging" or "extremely challenging." And 51% said it was a continual challenge to close "opportunity and achievement gaps."
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Why we need to rebuild our schools with empathy and equity
Fast Company
At some point in the last 12 months, every parent had the same realization: Schools are absolutely critical to daily life. Although schools are often reduced to grades and test scores, the value of hot meals, safe spaces to play, friendships, time away from the family unit, and more, have all been underscored by school closures.
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5 ways to effectively utilize substitute teachers during COVID-19
District Administration Magazine
Whether districts are operating in-person or remotely, there is arguably an even greater need for substitute teachers during this not-so-normal school year. Subs can be invaluable resources for districts as they navigate the complexities of operating during COVID-19 and, as findings reveal, many are ready and eager to teach in various capacities. Below are five ways districts can effectively utilize subs during the pandemic (and beyond) to both fill teacher absences and meet the needs of students.
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COVID-19's kindergarten setbacks will have long-term achievement impacts
K-12 DIVE
While higher-income families may have been able to place their students in private schools or hire tutors, many lower-income families were left to manage their kindergarteners in front of a computer screen or not enroll them. The discrepancy further exacerbates the chasm in education equity and creates further curricular challenges for educators, experts say.
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React calmly, listen, offer hope: How to help a child at risk of suicide
MindShift
It was over a decade ago when Regina Crider's daughter first attempted suicide at age 10. "As a mom, the thought of losing your child to suicide is overwhelming," says Crider, who is the founder and executive director of Youth and Family Alliance, a support group for families of youth with mental illness in Rantoul, Ill. Crider was upset and confused and felt that she had failed as a mother.
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New study finds that routines could be blocking teacher improvement
The 74
Much education research in the past few decades has pointed to a quietly discouraging finding about teacher quality: After rapidly growing in effectiveness over her first few years in the profession, the average K-12 educator subsequently improves at a much more modest pace. And while that average can obscure significant variation between different teachers, the overall arc of slowing growth has given rise to worries about a "performance plateau."
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UNESCO promotes safe reopening of schools; putting teachers up front for vaccines
THE Journal
UNESCO, the United Nations agency responsible for education, and Education International, the global federation of education unions, has made a plea for schools worldwide to reopen "safely" and to keep them open "as long as possible." That would require that teachers and others working in schools be considered part of a "priority 1" group for vaccines. The comments came during By UNESCO's recent International Day of Education, which took place online.
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4 ways to support students during online learning
eSchool News
Online learning can both hinder and hold back a child. During this past year, educators and students across the country have grappled with how to adapt to online learning challenges.
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Building equity in early learning through partnership, collaboration
District Administration Magazine
As continued reports come in of the tens of thousands, if not millions, of children going "missing" from the education system during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new multi-organization effort in Mississippi is aimed at ensuring none of the state's youngest learners fall through the cracks.
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Here are our recommended cleaning protocols for the new year
We Are Teachers
2020 was a tough year, but even as we remain hopeful for better in 2021, we must continue to be vigilant in keeping our classrooms sanitized and safe. Hopefully, like mine, your school has a strong custodial team to take the lead. But for now, it's all hands on deck. To help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we'll all be pitching in. Many school plans require mask-wearing, frequent hand washing, social distancing and daily cleaning, but there is a lot of information out there and it changes daily.
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The post-COVID path to equity and access
eSchool News
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed longstanding inequities across the globe. As education leaders move forward with plans for what learning will look like "after COVID," they must consider how to advance equity and access for the nation's most marginalized student groups. During a virtual FETC keynote, Dr. Lisa N. Williams, executive director of equity and cultural proficiency for Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland, emphasized the need for educators to carefully think about and analyze the questions raised by the pandemic moving forward.
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Pandemic schooling is overwhelming. Here's how one school lightened the load.
MindShift
From personal health concerns to worries about students who’ve fallen off the grid, the toll of teaching during the coronavirus pandemic can be immense. Many educators say their schools have done little to lighten the load. Not everywhere, though. In a MindShift survey this fall, some of our newsletter subscribers described structural changes at their schools that were making the year more manageable, such as shorter class periods or having one day per week devoted to teacher planning.
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How to be a leader people like — Without being needy
Leadership Freak
Leaders who need to be liked are lawn chairs blown in hurricanes. Leaders who don't care if they're liked are jerk-holes. We resist leaders we don't like — but if we like each other, we are likely to be influenced by each other. In other words... Liking is a channel of influence.
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When to switch strategy in a crisis
Harvard Business Review
The universal managerial imperative is clear: When something happens, you must do something. Still, while operational adjustments are relatively straightforward, even if potentially painful, it is hard to know whether you should you change your competitive strategy. It would help, of course, if we could run experiments. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a double-blind randomized controlled trial for competitive strategy. Even if there were, it would be too slow. Do something, after all, means now, especially in an urgent, widespread crisis, like a pandemic.
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Students are 'checking in' to a better state of wellbeing
Forbes
One of the unfortunate realities of the pandemic is a sharp rise in the negative effects experienced by youth, including stress, anxiety, mental illness and suicide. A majority of schools are delivering instruction through remote or hybrid learning creating a real-time need for schools and teachers to identify and address the mental health and wellbeing of their students.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Push to reopen schools could leave out millions of students
The Associated Press
President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April, but even if that happens, it is likely to leave out millions of students, many of them minorities in urban areas. "We're going to see kids fall further and further behind, particularly low-income students of color," said Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform. "There's potentially a generational level of harm that students have suffered from being out of school for so long."
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
3 tips for better device management
EdTech Magazine
With remote and hybrid learning at an all-time high, device management has taken on increased importance in K–12. Here are three tips to enhance your district's device management and help keep everything under control.
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5 ways to bridge the gap between in-person and online learning
eSchool News
Before the pandemic hit, our district was rocking right along and getting ready to go on spring break. Like many other districts around the country, we never went back to school after March 13. We had just four days to transition to online learning, help our families through the transition, and also provide a sense of normalcy for our students. We immediately started food deliveries, getting devices to students who didn't have them, and helping to connect the 2,000 (out of a total of 14,000) families that didn't have Wi-Fi access.
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How to use Keynote for education
Tech&Learning
How to use Keynote for education is a great skill to acquire since it allows teachers and students to create the most powerful and engaging presentations. Apple Keynote is, at its most basic, a presentation slideshow creator. As an education tool, however, it can be very useful indeed.
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5 ways to create a virtual classroom with Microsoft Teams
EdTech Magazine
Students may now be learning from home, but many teachers still think in terms of the classroom, whether it's a virtual one or in a brick-and-mortar building. That's why collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams have become so valuable during the pandemic. They provide an all-in-one hub that help teachers replicate — with a few modifications for the digital realm — many of the same activities that are part of their classroom routines.
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13 ways to use Google Meet in the classroom
We Are Teachers
Using Google Meet (previously Google Hangouts) in the classroom is a great way to connect and collaborate, especially when so many classes are still involved in distance learning. Since many teachers already use Google Classroom, Google Meet becomes a powerful tool for making connections, working collaboratively, and introducing the wider world to your students.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Best Valentine's Day digital activities
Tech&Learning
Valentine's Day provides an excellent opportunity to incorporate fun and engaging pop culture into your classroom or remote learning instruction. Graphic arts, design, literacy, social-emotional learning and even STEM topics lend themselves nicely to Valentine's Day themes.
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Addressing significant learning loss in mathematics during COVID-19 and beyond
Education Next
With vaccine distribution in progress and an end to the pandemic in sight, schools are beginning to turn their attention to the next enormous challenge: How best to address learning loss once students fully return. Nowhere is the challenge more daunting than in middle-school math, where pre-pandemic research showed the average 5th-grade classroom included students performing at seven different grade levels.
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Using digital media to support early learning
Edutopia
Young children experience learning across a variety of physical contexts — at home and in school, but also at the grocery store and the neighborhood park. And digital media — apps, videos, games and songs — are engaging and entertaining, providing another context that can be leveraged for learning.
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As virus cuts class time, teachers have to leave out lessons
The Associated Press
English teachers are deciding which books to skip. History teachers are condensing units. Science teachers are often doing without experiments entirely. With instruction time reduced as much as half by the coronavirus pandemic, many of the nation's middle school and high school teachers have given up on covering all the material normally included in their classes and instead are cutting lessons. Certain topics must be taught because they will appear on exit exams or Advanced Placement tests. But teachers are largely on their own to make difficult choices — what to prioritize and what to sacrifice to the pandemic.
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12 fun learning apps to beat winter boredom
eSchool News
The 2020-2021 school year has been anything but typical. With more and more students using devices for school each day, learning apps are more prevalent than ever. While too much passive screen time isn't ideal, active screen time–during which students are creating content or thinking critically using engaging learning apps–can be beneficial, especially when students are learning from home or in hybrid situations where they're using devices more often.
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Getting to know the whole student in distance learning
Edutopia (commentary)
Cara Furman, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "Knowing my students holistically has always been important to me. When I was an elementary school teacher, a process of attending to students called the Descriptive Review of the Child helped me gain a better perception of each child. Drawing on the review, I wrote detailed, multipage narrative reports and ensured that my curriculum allowed for students to participate in a range of ways."
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Having complex classroom conversations
Teaching Channel
What do you do when your student asks a big, hard, nuanced question about self, someone else, or a big important topic like inequity? Let's explore how we might make those moments more meaningful and inclusive for all of us. We want to encourage those moments more in our classroom conversations and our lives, rather than hiding from them consciously or subconsciously. Together, let's learn to see the magical opportunity for growth that exists in these big complex classroom conversations.
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Rebuilding learning beyond the classroom
EdTech Magazine
The shift to remote and hybrid learning environments has not been easy for educators to manage. That's especially the case when their lessons lean heavily on interactive learning approaches. This is a particular challenge for STEM-based educators, who often rely on hands-on learning approaches. Despite this, many have found a way.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Tackling the nation's math education deficit
By Sheilamary Koch
Ask students whether they like math. Now ask the same question about money. Usually their reactions are pretty distinct! Since finances boil down to numbers, couldn't they be used to teach math? Of course, the answer is yes. Teaching about money is just one way innovative educators are picking up the slack on the country's dismal state of mathematics. COVID-19 related school closures and distance learning have made the situation even worse, especially for students from marginalized communities.
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Addressing learning gaps with a little grace
eSchool News
At Sonora Elementary School, we've been fortunate to be able to offer in-person classes to most of our students this year. Our district gave all students a fully online option as well as the option to return fully in-person or blended. At the beginning of the school year, about 500 of our 600 students came back full-time, and by November we only had approximately 20 students who were still blended.
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Why teamwork in class builds competence and confidence
Education Week (commentary)
Angela Duckworth, a contributor for Education Week, writes: "In the workplace, co-workers often collaborate in teams on projects—and some teachers are redesigning classes in a similar vein. Here's something I wrote recently on the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: 'What's different is that we're learning things together, rather than just on our own. This is the only class where it doesn't feel like I'm competing against my classmates.' 'When you see someone else have an aha moment, it makes you think maybe you could do it, too.'"
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Creating a culture that welcomes mistakes
MiddleWeb (commentary)
M. Colleen Cruz, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "We know and say and even hang posters about how valuable and welcome mistakes are in our classrooms. From the time kids first step into school until the time they leave, we are telling them that mistakes are part of the learning process and that everyone will make them. Kids as young as five know the difference between fixed and growth mindset. And yet... I don't know of a single educator who does not worry about how risk averse students are."
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Study: Children who use touchscreens more easily distracted than peers
UPI
Young children who use touchscreens extensively are more easily distracted than peers who engage less with the technology, a study published Tuesday by Scientific Reports found. Children aged 12 months, 18 months and 42 months whose parents reported high touchscreen use at home were more quick to look at new objects in their field of vision while engaged in computer tasks than their peers who used touchscreens less or not at all, the researchers said.
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.IN THE STATES
65% of Denver parents say kids are learning less in online school, survey finds
The Denver Post
While online education has become a necessity of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey found most Denver parents feel their children are learning less when seated in front of a computer versus in the classroom. The survey of 647 Denver parents with school-age kids found 65% said their students were learning less online. That percentage was higher among parents with kindergarteners (80%) and elementary students (69%), while 60% of those with middle and high schoolers reported their students were learning less than if they were attending classes in-person.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Register for implicit bias virtual training
NAESP
Unconscious and implicit racial biases can impact a school leader's ability to lead an equitable learning environment for all students. That is why on behalf of the NAESP Board of Directors, the NAESP National Task Force on Race and Equity, and the NAESP Center for Diversity Leadership, NAESP is inviting you to participate in a two-part, virtual training on implicit bias.
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Learning in Parallel
NAESP
Alignment across the early childhood educational continuum has multiple definitions—and purposes—beyond making sure classroom learning experiences tie to curricular standards. And as schools work to move beyond one-size-fits-all curricula and focus on nurturing enthusiastic children who excel at academics and life, they must also consider and support teacher needs.
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