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Medium (commentary)
I have spent the past twenty-four years in education working in a K-12 learning setting and have taught online at the college level for the past five years. Despite all this experience, I must say that where I am currently — leading a school in a virtual world at the preschool through fourth-grade level — poses new challenges, but is proving to be an exciting adventure. I am now tasked with teaching from afar, making sure our students have something to eat for breakfast and lunch and ensuring they have an electronic device and internet to learn from home.
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District Administration Magazine
Shifting school start times continues to generate headlines, but some educators say the entire school schedule can be reorganized to better support teaching and learning. Administrators can consider adjustments to the daily bell schedule, staff time and academic programming, according to a new report and survey from Unlocking Time, an educator group that provides resources for reorganizing school.
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We Are Teachers
A month ago, we were prepping for AIR tests, AP tests and many other high stakes standardized evaluations. Now, we are watching the news from home, changing our lesson plans, and wondering what will happen to state testing. Some states have already canceled it. Others are under immense pressure from school leaders to do so. The changes have teachers, students, parents and lawmakers wondering: will this set a precedent for future years? Will emergency policies change the future of testing forever? Is this the end of standardized testing? Stakeholders are examining the following potential consequences of a year of no tests.
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The Brookings Institution (commentary)
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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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 As we all struggle with the unprecedented threat to our health the coronavirus represents, it's becoming increasingly clear that the virus presents a similarly unprecedented threat to our financial well-being. For now at least, government workers — whether local, state or federal — seem to be better off than other workers. For teachers, however, that may not last. Here are the possibilities, both good and bad.
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The Hechinger Report
As schools across the Washington, D.C., metro area announced closures, Siobhan Davenport and her colleagues at Crittenton Services of Greater Washington, a nonprofit that seeks to empower teen girls, began receiving dozens of calls and messages from middle- and high-school girls concerned about how the novel coronavirus would impact them.
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Education Week
Teachers are overwhelmed by the flood of online educational resources on social media since schools across the country began a rapid and unexpected transition to remote learning in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Professional organizations, school districts, and individual teachers have started running lists of materials and programs. Many curriculum companies have made portions of their offerings free for the next few months, while nonprofit organizations like the Smithsonian Institution have posted free resources specifically for educators.
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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
Students are learning all the time — in school, at home, and in their extracurricular activities, clubs and churches. But for more than 100 years, the center of formal learning has been the public school classroom. Over four days in March, that changed for 80 percent of America's children due to the coronavirus. Education Week put it this way: "It can be difficult to visualize the sheer scale of this wave, affecting tens of thousands of schools and tens of millions of students."
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Harvard Business Review (commentary)
Bill Taylor, a contributor for , writes: "It's easy to look around and see how the Covid-19 crisis has brought out the worst in some people — from hoarding thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer to crowding bars and restaurants despite public-health guidelines. But such irresponsible behavior, I believe, is more the exception than the rule. Time and again, individuals and communities have demonstrated that the worst situations tend to bring out the best in people and the organizations to which they belong."
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Inc.
Forrest Gump is known for the famous line, "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." The same is true for bosses. Anytime anyone accepts a position, they never really knows what they're going to get. To really find out whether you have a good boss or not, a quick exercise in assessing your boss's current emotional competencies against bosses with high emotional intelligence is in order.
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Forbes (commentary)
John Baldoni, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "There's an old show business adage that seems perfect for our times. 'Life is easy,' goes the saying. 'Comedy is hard.' And so when I connected with Trevor Smith, who bills himself as Certified Laughter Leader of the World Laughter Tour, Inc., I knew he would have some good advice for leaders dealing with the hard times of the COVID-19 pandemic."
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By: Candice Gottlieb-Clark (commentary)
 We're all in a state of shock, or maybe it's confusion or concern. For some, possibly quarantine. What was in China is now everywhere and it's affecting everything. What we thought we could weather, or even pay only mild concern, is now overwhelming us and impacting our every thought, decision, and plan. And, we don't know what's next. What does one do, when there's nothing you can do? First, remember there is always something you can do. You can make good choices. You can look at the big picture and evaluate what matters to you and what doesn't.
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The Lead Change Group
Feeling a little uncertain about events today? All of us are. With the news of a pandemic and the fluctuating stock market, we all desire a safe haven — or at the very least, some consistency. We long to express a deep sigh of relief and hopefully whisper the words "safe and sound." Did you know "safe and sound" is actually a Naval insurance term? Whenever a ship returned from a journey overseas, if everyone were "safe" it meant there were no injuries or deaths. The ship was "sound" if it had not suffered serious damage.
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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 Week
Senators has passed a $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that includes $13.5 billion in dedicated funding to shore up K-12 education budgets, as well as additional aid for student nutrition and child-care services. It also gives U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos new waiver power to grant states and schools flexibility under the main federal K-12 law.
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Education DIVE
It took 10 years for some states to recover from the Great Recession — and to see surpluses they could use to increase funding for K-12 education. How they weather the "economic shock" brought on by the novel coronavirus will depend on several factors, including the duration of the pandemic, the size of their rainy day funds, and whether they act quickly to keep budgets balanced by increasing revenue or making cuts, said Barb Rosewicz, a project director focusing on states’ fiscal health at the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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EdTech Magazine
Increased availability of mobile technology is enabling teaching and learning at any time, anywhere. More than half of U.S. school districts have one-to-one computing programs, says Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking. Many districts that lack one-to-one environments are close to it, he says. That trend, along with advancements in other educational technology, can also support instruction even when school buildings close.
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StateScoop
The spread of the novel coronavirus has placed 100 million people across the country under guidance to stay in their homes, with orders from their state and local governments not to leave their homes for anything but essential goods and services. As teleworking, distance- learning and telemedicine become more prevalent to maintain the economy and save lives, access to high-speed broadband — or the lack of it — has never been more important, according to state broadband officials who say they've spent years lobbying for more infrastructure and funding to prevent such a crisis.
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Multichannel News
The FCC has confirmed that schools and libraries can open up their WiFi networks to the public during the coronavirus pandemic without losing e-rate funding. In response to queries by schools and libraries, the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau has confirmed that schools or libraries closed due to the coronavirus can open up those networks and still get access to e-Rate funding.
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EdTech Magazine
School districts must keep cybersecurity a priority, especially when they're forced to quickly move instruction online. Bad actors can take advantage of moments when IT staff are strained with creating backup e-learning plans and managing them in times of adversity, such as the COVID-19 outbreak. In this video, Joe Phillips, director of technology at Kansas City Public Schools, shares ways his district is staying secured as they temporarily shift to a mixed remote learning environment and consider an extended e-learning program.
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By: Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 The COVID-19 pandemic and its social distancing consequences have taught us that online education and soft skills will be integral parts of education going forward. As schools rapidly switch from classrooms to e-Learning modes, students are learning how to interact and collaborate on projects that they would do in person. At this point, no one is sure how long the quarantine will last, but schools are focused on continuing education efforts and coming up with innovative ways to keep students engaged.
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eSchool News
Billings Public Schools is the largest school district in Montana, supporting more than 16,800 students across 33 schools. With the support of technology levies, we have invested $1 million into new technology for both the high school and elementary levels. Over time, Billings Public Schools accumulated a complex assortment of devices, including 16,000 Chromebooks, 7,000 Apple iPads, 3,000 Macs and 2,000 Windows devices. These devices are used to support a STEM program that is leveraged by every student at every school.
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THE Journal
It's time for E-rate to cover the cost of home internet access. That's the word from 7,664 teachers, education IT people, principals and superintendents who have signed a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the Commission to make E-rate funds available to help schools and districts "equip" students with home internet access.
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EdTech Magazine
When faced with unexpected school closures, Gwinnett County Public Schools has a backup plan in place: digital learning days. Since 2017, the district has been using digital tools to continue instruction and communication when inclement weather days, natural disasters and other emergencies force them to close their buildings.
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MindShift
Schools across the nation are closing in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 and in the scramble to provide at-home learning, a major problem has risen to the forefront: millions of American students don't have reliable access to the internet. According to recent federal data, approximately 14% of U.S. families with school-age children lack high-speed internet. Most of those families are low-income or live in rural areas. While there are plenty of best practice guides available for online learning, strategies for bridging the digital divide are scarce.
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Tech & Learning
Tech & Learning editors curate hundreds of free e-Learning resources for schools worldwide, especially those affected by coronavirus/COVID-19 closures.
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eSchool News
With 87,000+ schools closing, the idea of school districts moving to a digital platform has become a reality. As a teacher, you're probably feeling information overload. Not only has your normal day to day routine of teaching completely changed, the sheer amount of tools and information to go through can be staggering.
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EdSurge
The new realities of the COVID-19 pandemic are starting to set in this week. For educators, that means disrupted routines and a shift to online learning at many schools. In the United States so far, 46 states have decided to close schools, affecting more than 54 million students nationwide. That's 54 million students out of a total of about 56 million in the country. And no one knows how long this will last. Some have noted that this feels like the first few steps of a marathon.
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By: Howard Margolis (commentary)
 For struggling learners, success is often difficult. In many cases, their difficulties emanate from our views of teaching: Here's an all-too-common example: "Just tell them what they need to know. Then let them practice. Correct their work. When necessary, keep telling them to focus and try harder. Then move on. We’ve got a lot to cover." When done repeatedly, this view undermines critical aspects of motivation and learning.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
Samantha Cleaver, a contributor for We Are Teachers, writes: "I added three students to my roster this week … my children. They're ages 5, 3, and 2. When the charter school I teach at closed due to COVID-19, I set up a home office to facilitate online lessons and set up a curriculum for my caseload of students. I also posted a new daily Mommy School schedule in the kids’ playroom."
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EdSurge
As schools shift to remote learning models for the foreseeable future, parents and caregivers are finding themselves in a new role — that of the school co-teacher. Though parents are naturally a part of their children's ongoing education, co-teaching is a new role for many of them.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Tan Huynh, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Due to the increase of schools and districts offering distance learning or virtual school in response to the COVID19 outbreak, I wanted to share how my school in Saigon is structuring online learning for students. This is not an article directly related to working with language learners, but the suggestions can be applied to working with language learners."
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Chalkbeat
The new coronavirus has closed schools for weeks, and in some places for the rest of the academic year. Thousands of parents have already lost their jobs. And many believe a recession is on the way. That's a cocktail with the potential for harmful, long-lasting effects on students, research suggests.
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EdSurge
For Jason Coe, life is much different under the COVID-19 outbreak. The Cary, N.C., high school freshman has been out of school since March 16, with schools in his state closed until May 15. North Carolina is not among the states to issue "shelter-in-place" directives, and Jason says that seeing shoppers at Walmart ignore recommendations to stay six feet apart to avoid disease spread has been "scary."
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The Hill
With the realities of COVID-19 forcing administrators to close schools in 45 states, many school leaders are scrambling to keep students safe, while transitioning to remote learning. Despite their best intentions, a large number of districts do not have the infrastructure for online learning, making the scramble pronounced. The crisis is pressing educators to quickly pivot. Google Classroom and other platforms may prove helpful.
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The Associated Press
Virginia public schools will remain closed for the rest of the current school year and certain types of businesses, like bowling alleys, salons, gyms and theaters, must close in response to the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Ralph Northam said. Northam's order would not apply to businesses deemed essential, including grocery stores, pharmacies, banks and gas stations. State-owned liquor stores will also remain open. "I know that the next several weeks, the next several months, will be difficult. They will require everyone to change the way that we live, the way we interact with each other," the governor said at a news conference.
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Chalkbeat
When Franklin School students logged on to their devices Monday morning to begin their second week of home learning, a woman in a red cape appeared on their screens to greet them. "Today is superhero day!" said Principal Amy Panitch in a video message the school posted on YouTube and Facebook. "I can't wait to see all of you dressed up as superheroes."
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Everyone knows schools are institutions of learning.
But the COVID-19 crisis shows that their purpose goes far beyond education.
Whether it is providing meals to hungry students, services to learners of English as a second language and students with disabilities, or a sense of community with sports and extracurricular activities, schools do it all and more.
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NAESP
We invite you to watch the speeches of the NAESP Vice President candidates. Due to the cancellation of the National Leaders Conference and General Assembly, NAESP recorded their speeches remotely including their response to one known question posed by the NAESP President. We appreciate your understanding with this modified format.
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NAESP
The proposed resolutions were approved by the Board of Directors during their March meeting. Due to the cancellation of the National Leaders Conference, a meeting of the General Assembly will he be held during the 2020 Pre-K-8 conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The NAESP Platform serves as the statement of beliefs for the Association and its members: elementary and middle-level principals. It consists of a summary of all resolutions adopted by business meetings, and since 1974, by Delegate Assemblies. The Platform is reviewed and updated annually and submitted to the Board of Directors in March.
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