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MiddleWeb
The strange new world we find ourselves a part of is perplexing to say the least. Honestly, it's hard to know where to begin this post. Educators, if you're anything like me, you've experienced a wide range of emotions since schools closed.
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Education Week
As students with learning disabilities enter distance learning environments, a tangled patchwork of state regulations, a lack of therapist training, and limited access to high-speed internet threatens to limit their access to key services that help them speak, move and acquire skills for daily living.
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Education Week
State leaders have a better picture now of how deep and widespread fiscal fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will be, and they're warning many K-12 districts to prepare for the worst. The impact on sales and income tax revenue of having so many workers laid off and holed up in their homes for weeks on end will vary from state to state and district to district.
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PBS Newshour
More than 55 million American students are staying home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The impacts are huge — affecting students, parents and teachers. Learning is happening with a host of new challenges. Kate Gardoqui of the Great Schools Partnership joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
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Champions is an opportunity to exceed every parent’s expectations of what before and after school can be. Our programs immerse K–6 students in an inquiry-based, whole-child learning environment that supports academic and social-emotional learning. Support your teachers’ goals outside the school day without costing your district’s budget. Learn more
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THE Journal
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, signed into law on March 24, 2020, includes about $30.75 billion in funding dedicated to the needs of public education.
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The Hechinger Report
Emergencies that disrupt the regular functioning of schools and colleges don't occur in a power vacuum. They play out in education systems with deeply embedded patterns of inequality, determined by where students live, by family income, by race and by ethnicity, among other factors.
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Edutopia
Mike Magee is the chief executive officer of Chiefs for Change, a network of district and state education leaders dedicated to changing the status quo around education equity in the United States. Magee was formerly a teacher of American literature and philosophy at Haverford College, and won the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Studies for his 2004 book Emancipating Pragmatism.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Aytekin Tank, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "No one has all the answers. When I look around me and see the constant bustling of my team working hard, I remember that one of our biggest strengths is just that. We are a team. In an industry that often praises charismatic founders for managing increasingly complex problems, I'm amazed that the rest of the hardworking employees who help grow a business are often left out of the equation."
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Harvard Business Review
As leaders looks for new ways to improve workplace well-being while reducing stress and burnout, a relatively new concept has emerged: job crafting, a strategy that gives employees the chance to design their roles for a more meaningful experience of work.
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Inc.
There are simply no right words or readily available playbooks that can tell us which direction to take for what we are facing now. We are in a global crisis. Many leaders are grasping at straws trying to wrap their arms around the magnitude of these ever-changing circumstances that are continuing to unfold at a rapid pace.
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Leadership Freak
15 discussion topics that strengthen teams during stress: What do you admire about your team members? Direct reports?
What strengths/skills/attributes does our team have that will help us thrive during the next 30 days? What bolsters your confidence?
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Forbes
There is good stress and there is bad stress. The good kind is necessary for survival and involves the fight-or-flight response. When you see a lion stalking you through a cubicle jungle and you run into the VP's office, shut the door and hide, that's good stress keeping you alive. It makes you hyperaware, sends extra blood to your muscles and increases glucose levels to speed up your heart rate. When the threat is over, your body returns to its normal hormonal levels.
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The Lead Change Group
We are social creatures that thrive with connections with others, seeking to exchanges ideas, conversation and special moments. Heat maps visually display the spread of COVID-19 across the globe. It is this image that truly represents or connection with each other. Is it not ironic that a virus is forcing us to separate from our connectedness?
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District Administration Magazine
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, H.R.748, which was signed by President Trump into law on March 27, includes new funding opportunities for state educational agencies and local educational agencies dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the measure includes nearly $16.2 billion in new funding for two emergency education relief funds to be administered by the U.S. Education Department.
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Education Week
A provision in the massive coronavirus stimulus bill President Donald Trump signed into law has set off a fierce debate between schools, education groups, and advocates for students with disabilities: It gives U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos 30 days to tell Congress if she needs additional authority to waive parts of the nation's primary special education law.
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By: Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 On March 27, President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act Act into law. It provides $30.75 billion in emergency relief funds for the U.S. Department of Education. If you're a K-12 teacher, you're probably wondering how this affects you. Importantly, how will your students benefit? More pointedly, how much will they benefit?
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School shut down? Looking to expand your teachers' professional learning? IRIS can help. Supported by the U.S. Department of Education, we offer free online PD, covering behavior management, differentiated instruction, accommodations for students with disabilities and more, to increase your teachers' knowledge of evidence-based
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District Administration Magazine
As a district technology director, chief technology officer, or technology or instructional coach, your role will continue to have a major impact as teaching and learning move from in-school classrooms to homes. You may have a well-established professional learning plan that was working before, but now you may have to alter it to assist administrators and teachers (and student families) working remotely. But you are not alone.
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District Administration Magazine
The equity problems that plague K-12 education under normal conditions have only been worsened by the shift to online learning during coronavirus school closures, experts say. Superintendents and other K-12 have to start planning now to build resource equity because some students will have suffered significant learning loss when the 2020-2021 school year starts — whether that's in-person or online, says Jonathan Travers, who leads the consulting practice area at Education Resource Strategies.
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Tech & Learning
In this age of Covid-19, the fear of spreading infectious diseases and the fact that many school districts have shut down, doesn't have to mean education has to suffer. With Reverb Record, a teacher can create a 10-minute audio lesson and then share it with her class online. It can be recorded in a browser window or as a Chrome extension and the playback window shows a rolling bar graph of the audio level. It's all free.
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THE Journal
Common Sense has launched an online school to help educators and families cope with remote learning and teaching. "Wide Open School," as it's called, features resources curated by the media organization and provided by a number of well known education content providers, including Khan Academy, Scholastic, Time for Kids, National Geographic, PBS, Sesame Workshop and others. The daily learning activities are organized by grade band and subject.
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eSchool News
Online learning's reputation has taken a hit in recent years amid reports of poor academic performance and concerns over lax regulation. While there is certainly some cause for concern, many of the problems center on for-profit providers who manage full-time virtual schools. The truth is that not all online learning experiences are of suspect quality.
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The Suffolk Times
In an effort to engage with Greenport students who are now learning from home, elementary school staff have teamed up to create an Instagram video series for young students to watch before bed. Greenport and other school districts in Suffolk County shut down March 16 after state officials mandated a two-week closure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a March 17 press conference that it's "probably a safe assumption" that there will be another two-week school closure will begin March 30.
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Tech & Learning
The most important thing to know about remote learning is that it is not simply doing school at home. It's different. Throw the bell schedule out!
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MiddleWeb
Today many teachers are scrambling to figure out how to adapt their teaching methods to online instruction at the same time they are home with their own children attempting to help them navigate new ways of learning. The world has suddenly gone a little sideways, and the abrupt necessity to create new routines and procedures is formidable.
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Language Magazine (commentary)
Tom Beeman, a contributor for Language Magazine, writes: "With the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, many schools are closing their doors and shifting students and faculty to online study with little-to-no advanced notice nor training. I know one's first reaction might be to panic or to get upset with administrators for doing this. But remember, they are following guidelines from the Department of Education as well as state and federal officials. You chose this profession because of your passion for imparting knowledge on students, so take that passion and turn it in to an opportunity to learn a new skill that will not only benefit students, but you as a well."
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EdSurge
The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. Indeed, presidents and sports stars choose exactly this photo op when visiting schools. And teachers across the country reenact the scene daily — or did until a few weeks ago.
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eSchool News
With the Common Core Standards came an increased focus on reading informational texts, starting with kindergarten. But integrating informational texts isn't as simple as having students read a couple of biographies every marking period. In the edWebinar, "Strategies to Engage Young Learners with Informational Texts," Nell Duke, Professor of Literacy, Language and Culture at the University of Michigan School of Education, offered her advice for understanding and incorporating informational texts in the classroom.
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Edutopia
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A consultant or speaker came to your school or a conference you attended to talk about an amazing new teaching approach — maybe it was project-based learning, genius hour, STEM, flipped classrooms or makerspaces. They went on and on about how successful this innovative strategy was in their own classroom — and how we need to abolish all the outdated teaching practices we’ve been using and replace them with this new one, which is the greatest pedagogical approach of all time.
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Education DIVE
Districts with more resources and technology are better prepared for this type of interruption. In Forsyth County, Georgia, where only 15% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the district can hand out hot spots for students who need them, and an existing multilingual messaging app helps keep parents informed.
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The Hechinger Report
The reading wars are back, reignited by radio journalist Emily Hanford of APM Reports, who in 2018 began arguing that too many schools are ignoring the science of reading and failing to teach phonics. My news organization, The Hechinger Report, recognized the importance of Hanford's reporting and immediately republished a print version of the story.
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Education Week
Deatrice Edie, who lives in Miami, already juggles three fast-food jobs, at McDonald's, Wendy's and Papa John's. With the abrupt closure of Florida schools to slow the coronavirus pandemic, she's also expected to shoulder another job: making sure her 16-year-old son, Jahiem Jackson, keeps up with his 10th grade coursework, now being delivered online. Jahiem, like most teenagers, has other ideas, Edie said.
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Fast Company
Between school closures and shelter-in-place orders to curb the spread of COVID-19, parents across the country are now quarantined with their children. For those who have the ability to work from home, this has meant juggling a variety of roles in addition to their full-time jobs. Under normal circumstances, they might outsource this work to childcare providers. And for many parents with essential jobs who don't have the luxury of working from home, from doctors to grocery store employees, that has been the case.
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EdScoop
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed a bill to double minimum internet speeds at Alaska's K-12 schools to support online learning in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate Bill 74 increases the minimum internet speed for all of Alaska's schools from 10 megabits per second to 25 megabits. The legislation will primarily impact teachers and students in rural school districts that have limited access to high speed internet service because of its relatively high cost of deployment there.
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EdSource
Affirming a prediction that Gov. Gavin Newsom made exactly two weeks ago, California's schools chief Tony Thurmond is recommending that the state's public schools plan to provide distance learning to students through the end of their school year.
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NAESP
Principals are uniquely positioned to take steps to engage and support students while families shelter at home. This webinar will examine how you can team up with your staff to promote positive conditions of learning – ensuring students and families are physically and emotionally healthy, feel a sense of connection and belonging, and are academically engaged — even in a remote or virtual learning environment. Consider the value of using existing data collected prior to school closure, such as absences, behavior, academics (including special education) and demographics, to target and tailor resources for students and families, especially those facing additional challenges.
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NAESP
The last day to vote in the NAESP Vice President Election is April 3, 2020. Voters are encouraged to visit the NAESP election page at www.naesp.org/election for more information on the candidates, as well as rules for eligibility and voting procedures.
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