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.PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
Looking ahead to the last weeks of school!
MiddleWeb
As the school year approaches summer break for most, some end-of-school resources are as relevant as ever. But students and teachers find themselves in a different world after more than two years into pandemic. So in addition to offering the traditional spring activities, this resource collection begins with educators’ ideas to meet the moment.
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With millions of kids on the line, can schools make tutoring work?
Education Week
Tutoring is on the brink of a national inflection point. School districts are channeling big chunks of their federal COVID-relief money into tutoring programs, relying on research that shows that the strategy can be a powerful ally in completing unfinished learning. Billions of dollars—and millions of children—are on the line.
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How supporting students during Ramadan helps build feelings of belonging
PBS
A 2020 poll by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) found that younger Muslims, ages 19 to 29, are most likely to experience religious discrimination. Half of Muslim families have at least one child in K-12 who was bullied in the past year because of their religion. According to the poll, in a quarter of these instances, an adult teacher or other school official perpetrates the bullying. Additionally, just under 90% of young Muslims said religion is important to them.
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Analysis: New parental activism shifting ed landscape
K-12 Dive
Parental involvement in schools is shifting rapidly from traditional parent-teacher organizations and associations that focus on community-involvement, to a new landscape of parental involvement and activism.
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Simulating student mental health for teachers
Hechinger Report
Glenn Albright, a professor and clinical psychologist at Baruch College at the City University of New York, may have an idea to help educators taking care of those teens: virtual role-play simulation.
Albright is co-founder and director of research of Kognito, a company that develops online role-play simulations to train educators and healthcare professionals to have conversations with young people on mental health, substance use, suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ issues.
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When to be concerned about a struggling reader
U.S. News & World Report
A key indicator of a reading disability, experts say, is if students don't improve with focused reading instruction. “If you’re wondering whether you should request for the school to evaluate your child for a learning disability, especially considering pandemic disruptions, I ask parents and teachers if the concerns you’re seeing are consistent and persistent, even though there’s now adequate instruction in place,” says Amanda Morin, director of thought leadership and expertise at Understood.org.
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As US schools reopen, many families continue to opt for homeschooling
PBS
The coronavirus pandemic ushered in what may be the most rapid rise in homeschooling the U.S. has ever seen. Two years later, even after schools reopened and vaccines became widely available, many parents have chosen to continue directing their children’s educations themselves.
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How schools are targeting safety more precisely during the latest COVID wave
District Administration Magazine
School leaders are not rushing to impose districtwide mask mandates or close schools to combat the omicron-driven resurgence of COVID. Instead, when they are reinstating mask requirements and other precautions, they are targeting single schools, grade levels and classrooms.
In fact, more districts continue to lift mandates than impose them.
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How to work effectively with interpreters
Edutopia
Tips for working with interpreters before, during, and after meetings to provide high-quality translation services for students’ parents who have limited English.
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Recommendations for long-term English learners
Language Magazine
This report is a call to action to use the information and policy gains of the last decade to accelerate improvement for these students. In particular, the English Learner Roadmap offers key guidance to school districts for improving outcomes for EL students—including LTELs and those at risk of becoming LTELs.
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.EDUCATION POLICY
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona: This is our moment to improve education. Here's our plan.
EdSurge (Commentary)
After consulting with thousands of stakeholders in over 100 school and college visits, we at the Department of Education released our priorities for improving education in our country as we move into this next phase of recovery. Laying out our values and direction allows our families, educators, and other stakeholders to understand how we are using our time and money—two of the greatest resources we have.
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.SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY
How K-12 schools are bringing classroom technology to outdoor learning
EdTech Magazine
If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an outdoor learning space.
From informal hammock gardens to high-tech tents, outdoor learning spaces have become markedly more popular over the past few years because of the pandemic. Educators say these spaces give students a chance to breathe fresh air, experience a change of scenery and, most importantly, gain opportunities for increased learning engagement.
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As school communities have struggled to address the mental health needs of their students, the focus has been on treatment. Understandable.
However, we can start proactively helping our students in elementary school. Brain-based mental health literacy & resilience training provide strong Tier 1 support.
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What educators need to know about assistive tech tools
THE Journal
Dozens of studies over the past year have shown alarming drops in the percentage of students meeting reading benchmarks at the beginning of the current school year, particularly among grades K–2, where 50% or more of students are already behind on foundational literacy skills. The learning loss in math is similarly significant and persistent, those same studies show.
Technology-based solutions are more available and capable than ever before, particularly for the estimated 20% of students with language-based disabilities.
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Teachers aren't getting enough training on technology. It's a global problem.
EdSurge (Commentary)
Teachers are consistently under-prepared to incorporate tech tools into their classrooms. Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. In 2020, only 10 percent of Kenyan teachers were using the more than one million laptops distributed through a Digital Literacy Program between 2016 and 2018.
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4 lessons from ongoing efforts to close the K-12 digital divide
K-12 Dive
When the global health emergency forced school systems to find immediate solutions for at-home learning access, some viewed that time as a failure, with students struggling to connect virtually or encountering less-than-robust online learning content.
But Chiefs for Change CEO Mike Magee doesn't see it that way. He says that experience created momentum to improve at-home internet accessibility so students from all backgrounds can access essential learning content outside the school day.
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Closing the US homework gap using unlicensed spectrum
THE Journal
As schools closed their doors in 2020 at the start of the pandemic, more than 55 million students moved to online learning practically overnight. This shift exposed the extent of the digital divide in the United States. Almost 17 million students had no access to the internet in their homes, while many more were impeded by unreliable internet connectivity and slow speeds. This divide wasn’t only restricted to rural locations; it was mirrored in towns and cities too.
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Educators use technology to expand learning opportunities
EdTech Magazine
Education should give students more options, not fewer. While the connection between teachers and their students remains key, the right set of tools can link students to more options and turn the average K–12 classroom into a launch pad for a bright future.
Many educators agree. They believe technology can be a key tool for learning that helps students develop critical skills for the future.
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Transforming learning spaces in virtual environments
Tech & Learning
In the past few years, the concept of innovative learning spaces has moved beyond reading nooks or modular classroom furniture that can be morphed into new learning stations throughout the day.
Kristy Beam, Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning for City Schools of Decatur re-imagined learning spaces with the adoption of a virtual learning program for the 6,000-student district in the 2020-21 academic year.
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4 hands-on STEAM projects that also teach other skills
THE Journal
After years of hybrid or at-home learning, teachers and students are eager to end this school year on a positive note by doing as much hands-on learning as possible. Fortunately, many schools and districts have once-in-a-generation access to ESSER funding that they can use to buy hands-on STEAM tools ranging from craft supplies to educational robots.
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.PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
5 principles of culturally responsive teaching
MiddleWeb
Many of us, have never participated in culturally responsive teaching, yet it is so crucial to providing an equitable learning experience for multilingual students. Teachers can develop culturally responsive instruction by incorporating into their lesson design five guiding principles.
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Fostering metacognition in preschool
Edutopia
Young children, 3 and 4 years old, acquire knowledge by playing; they investigate, raise, and evaluate hypotheses, creating meaning for their interactions and experiences. While they play, children learn how to recognize and solve problems by exploring different situations, which allows them to acquire knowledge in the physical, social and emotional, and cognitive areas. It’s through play that children legitimize their learning processes and have the opportunity to be protagonists in their own learning development.
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Mindfulness training shows promise for teachers in new study
Tech & Learning
Though small, the randomized controlled design of the study adds powerful weight to previous evidence that mindfulness training is a worthwhile intervention in schools. It is also particularly important to understand the potential of these types of interventions during the pandemic era as teacher stress and burnout has skyrocketed.
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A 5 step coaching model for instructional innovation
Edutopia
Systematically examining instructional problems can be part of the level setting needed for long-term sustainability in order to avoid brainstorming fuzziness. It can also clarify needed steps and provide chronological order to design and implementation.
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8 key beliefs that teachers should have when working with dual language learners
Brookes Blog
Early childhood programs are welcoming more dual language learners (DLLs) than ever—and if you’re a teacher, you may be wondering how to teach and engage DLLs and promote their language development. In today’s post, we’re sharing 8 research-backed beliefs that teachers of young dual language learners should understand and internalize.
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How to deepen math learning with word sorts
Edutopia
Math learners across grade levels can use word sorts to gain a deeper understanding of how different math concepts connect, allowing them to decode increasingly complex problems, and building critical disciplinary literacy.
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3 ways to teach multi-sensory math
eSchool News
Using multi-sensory learning to make sense of mathematics, as well as introducing students to strategies and tools such as the ones below, helps them become flexible thinkers and allows them to be fluid with numbers.
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.EDUCATION RESEARCH
Dubious research, vexing guidance: CDC struggles to help schools during pandemic
Chalkbeat
Many have debated the substance of the CDC’s recommendations to schools throughout the pandemic. But a Chalkbeat review suggests that over two years, the agency fell short at a more straightforward task: to communicate clearly and accurately with schools about its guidance and research.
Those missteps have left school officials without a precise sense of the benefits and downsides from different mitigation measures, including masking. In other cases, officials missed or disregarded CDC guidance because it was unclear or overly complex.
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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
NAESP Twitter Chat: Creating a Culture of Support for Teachers
NAESP
As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week May 2-6, we acknowledge just how much teachers do for their school communities. In this #NAESPchat, we’ll discuss ways to lift up the teacher voice and build a community of support to ensure they grow in their role and students succeed. Join us at #NAESPchat on Twitter on Wednesday, May 4 at 8 p.m. ET.
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