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Education Week
School nurses have a critical role to play as schools grapple with responding to coronavirus. They can advise district leaders on how best to communicate key information from health authorities to their school communities. They can oversee their school's tactics for limiting the spread of the virus, through handwashing demonstrations and talking to parents. And their health expertise can help administrators make important decisions about limiting large group gatherings or ramping up cleaning schedules.
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District Administration Magazine
Principals either don't prioritize the advancement of STEAM education or don't have the means to do so, according to a recent survey. Only 23% of principals agreed STEAM was a top priority while 66% said it was important but other problems took precedence at their school. Over 139 elementary and middle school principals participated in this STEAM survey by Unruly Studios, an EdTech company that focuses on coding for kids.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Jeremy Hyler, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "It should be easy to communicate, right? But from where I am sitting, it seems to be more difficult than ever for both students and adults. We have email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and so many other platforms designed for person-to-person communication. You'd think we would all be masters of communication with so many high-powered tools at our fingertips. Yet I'm seeing more and more communication breakdown among educators, parents and students."
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NPR
The spread of coronavirus has compelled hundreds of K-12 schools in the U.S. to close, affecting more than 850,000 students, according to an analysis by Education Week. And those numbers are certain to increase in the coming days, as concerned parents call for more school closures. The growing health crisis presents school leaders with a painful choice. Closing schools — as has been done, so far, in China, Japan, Italy and elsewhere — is a proven measure that has been shown to slow the spread of disease and, in turn, save lives. But it also causes huge economic and social disruption, especially for children, millions of whom depend on the free and reduced-cost meals they get at school.
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Education Week
Across the country, schools and universities are closing to prevent further outbreak of the coronavirus — and student-teachers are caught in the middle. Thousands of schools have been closed or are scheduled to close, according to Education Week's database, which is continuously being updated. And dozens of colleges and universities have also canceled or postponed in-person classes, moving to online instruction.
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Fast Company
If you want to get ahead in the workplace, it helps to be seen as a "high-potential employee," or HIPO. As reported previously in Fast Company, Gartner's research finds that HIPOs exert 21% more effort than their non-HIPO peers and have a 75% chance of succeeding at roles that are critical to business performance and the future leadership pipeline. These are the folks who get plum assignments and are selected for training, mentoring and other advancement programs, if they're available.
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Inc.
Now more than ever, companies need to create cultures centered on employees. Strong cultures create effective working teams that attract top talent, while weak cultures can quickly lead to burnout or employees heading for the exit. Companies facing these high stakes are eager to create a place where employees want to go to work. But they can struggle to find the right person to own culture. Who will invest in leading their organization's unique blend of people and purpose?
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Benchmark Advance engages diverse K-6 students in building literary and content-area knowledge through close reading and collaborative conversations. Foundational skills and use of text evidence are seamlessly integrated through a balanced literacy approach, as are resources for ELs. Fully equitable Spanish edition is also available. FREE Sampler
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Forbes
We are living in a world today where we are waking up every day to new levels of uncertainty with the spread of the coronavirus. We are waking up to how interconnected and interdependent we really are. Fear sets in for many of us. At the same time, leaders around the world are leaning into change, learning how to quickly adapt to disruption and ambiguity.
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Training Industry Magazine
One thing is clear: High-quality leadership is an enormously powerful force in shaping an organization's long-term, sustained success. In order to get the best out of their people while contending with the inevitable dilemmas, uncertainty and complexity that comes with operating in today's business environment, leaders must be at the very top of their game.
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Harvard Business Review
While greetings are typically small gestures, they can carry a lot of weight. When someone makes an overture, and you choose to reject that offer, you're violating social norms, says Andy Molinsky, a professor at Brandeis and the author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process.
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HR DIVE
While intentional bias and discrimination remain too common in U.S. workplaces, recruitment bias can occur unintentionally. AI-enabled applicant tracking systems and machine learning may have the potential to help reduce the impact of human foibles in the recruiting process, but misused, the tech can actually exacerbate it. What's more, candidates say they distrust AI-based tech in the recruiting process.
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Fast Company
Most of us have a general idea of what we should be doing (logging off social media) and what we shouldn't be doing (scheduling another unnecessary meeting) to get more done. As someone who spends more time talking about productivity than could possibly be productive, I can tell you it's less about knowing what you need to do and more about finding the motivation to do it.
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By: Victoria Fann (commentary)
 No one likes to suffer. Whether it's physical or emotional pain, we'd much rather avoid it, and often go to great lengths to do just that. But what if instead of trying to escape the experience, we looked at suffering as an ally that has come into our lives bearing gifts? I know that might sound trite or insensitive, but bear with me. Having personally experienced my share of intense suffering, I wouldn't dream of sugar coating it. Rather, my intention is to show how navigating suffering can be the way a surfer rides a wave.
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IRIS Center
 Supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Department of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the IRIS Center creates reliable, trustworthy online open educational resources covering a huge variety of the issues most important to educators in today’s classrooms. In this article, we’ll tell you a little about IRIS, our resources, and why for almost 18 years the IRIS Center has been hailed as one of the most proven and credible sources for information about evidenced-based instructional and behavioral practices.
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Education DIVE
The U.S. Department of Education released guidance Thursday afternoon for schools to navigate closures amid the spread of novel coronavirus. With more schools expected to close for a minimum of 14 days, the department is saying it will consider providing states with one-year waivers of assessment requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, most recently reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act, if they have been impacted by the pandemic's "extraordinary circumstances."
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The Brookings Institution
It now seems clear that the coronavirus will keep a large share of students from attending school in the coming weeks and months. New York, Seattle and other places have already gone down this road. Schools across the country are now preparing to provide online instruction and give students schedules of homework in advance.
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THE Journal
An education technology company is opening up access to its digital study programs for young and elementary students. Age of Learning announced that it would grant free home access through the spring for schools and districts affected by coronavirus closures. The offer applies to three programs: ABCmouse, Adventure Academy and ReadingIQ.
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EdTech Magazine
When Danvers Public Schools in Massachusetts introduced virtual reality into classrooms, students discovered a new way of interacting with the world around them. Using Google's virtual reality tour creator, Google Maps Street View and VR headsets, students with disabilities were able to tour downtown Danvers at their own pace in preparation for a real-life walk around the area as part of a life skills class. It was a "low-stakes opportunity to practice critical life skills," Jeff Liberman, the district's technology director, tells The Hechinger Report. "VR allows students to go places and see things virtually without actually having to go there."
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eSchool News
Digital learning puts the best edtech tools and strategies into the hands of highly-qualified and trained educators who know how to transform learning for students. Digital learning tools are invaluable when they're used by confident educators. In fact, when used appropriately, digital and mobile learning resources engage students — and they can even help boost achievement. Online literacy platforms, virtual field trips, STEM simulations and modeling — these are just some of the tools that help elevate instruction in classrooms across the country.
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Tech & Learning
Overall, there are lots of things going on in cybersecurity today, which can be characterized in three themes. No.1 — Depth of defense still works. You have to look at all possible angles of attack, and then prepare from there accordingly so that you have an end-to-end defensive strategy for your district. The fact that you've prepared for ransomware but haven't prepared for a denial of service attack or a phishing attack means you're wide open. You've got to have a blend of technology, policy and education training and awareness approaches to address the growing cyber threats.
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eSchool News
This summer, many faculty will work on developing or revising curricular content for their courses. One of the keys in developing new digital materials is verifying that those materials offer accessible content for all students. Today, most learning management systems and software programs offer some level of accessibility compliance checking. However, they are not always thorough or error-free.
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EdScoop
In response to growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, in-person attendance for the Consortium for School Networking's annual conference, which was to take place in Washington D.C., has been cancelled, event organizers announced. "This was done with consideration for our registrants' safety based on official health recommendations and the newly established District of Columbia health guidance," CoSN announced on its website.
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EdSurge (commentary)
Reshan Richards and Stephen J. Valentine, contributors for EdSurge, writes: "Dear Teachers, Recently, the two of us had a conversation about school leaders who would be leading and making decisions related to the spread of COVID-19. That conversation turned into a set of guidelines that we published first with Global Online Academy and later with EdSurge. We have tried to be clear about our intent to share our thinking, since some schools have very different priorities than the ones we have been projecting."
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District Administration Magazine
When Steve Langford realized that his employer, Beaverton School District, needed a process to manage the abundance of learning apps in the classroom, he asked teachers to submit help desk tickets through the IT department to help vet the learning tools. Within weeks, more than 1,600 tickets had been submitted.
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Edutopia
One of the most powerful ways to impact achievement is to actively engage students in the life of the classroom. Although educators know that our students' contributions are vital to the learning process, educator and author Alexis Wiggins was surprised to observe that many students "feel like a bit of a nuisance all day long." As teachers, we have the capacity to change our students' experiences if we design lessons that prioritize student voice and participation.
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The Hechinger Report
The threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is forcing educators across the country to think about what they'll do if they have to close their schools for weeks or even months at a time. State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. For some schools, that's a small leap. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.
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Edutopia
A text of any genre has the potential to pull at your heart, fill you with laughter or ignite your anger. If you find your interest piqued when you're reading, the author has succeeded. Effective literature and expository texts often inspire empathy and utilize pathos to inform, persuade, or entertain the reader, and these texts should be used in literacy-based lessons in our classrooms to kick-start critical conversations and learning, and to build deeper mastery of literacy standards as students find stronger personal connections to what they read.
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We Are Teachers
Here's what we know: students learn best when they have choice, a "real-life" mission, and time to develop their own questions and answers. And that method of learning is at the heart of project-based learning. Research confirms that PBL is super effective. So why aren't more of us trying it in our classrooms? Why is so much of learning still teacher-led? Below, we explore some of the biggest PBL roadblocks.
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Edutopia (commentary)
David Bulley, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "When a teacher at my school asked Joey, a student with a long history of disciplinary issues stemming from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a history of trauma, to sit down for class, he began to argue. Because he was loud and disrespectful, he was sent to visit me, the dean of students. Joey and I had a talk, and he understood his role in being sent out of the room. However, he was back in class for less than 10 minutes before being asked to leave again."
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Society for Neuroscience via Science Daily
What we learn through our senses drives how knowledge is sorted in our brains, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. When we take a bite of an apple, we learn that "apples taste sweet" the same way we learn much of the information we know — through a sensory experience. The brain stores such information in groups of neurons according to broad categories, like food and places. But, how does the brain store abstract knowledge that spans multiple categories, like "Granny Smith apples come from Australia"?
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eSchool News
District administrators are under immense pressure from parents to keep their children safe and are investing money in school safety initiatives. Communities have shifted from the belief that "it can't happen here," to doing everything they can to prevent it from happening. Twenty years ago, the concerns about student safety were about preventing classroom misbehavior, physical bullying, fighting and drugs. Now, it's much more complex and the stakes are higher. We are literally talking about life and death issues for our students. What has changed in recent years to explain this increase in personal self-harm, suicide and school violence?
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