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Education DIVE
65% of teachers in a new nationwide poll favor starting next year with "regularly scheduled instruction" over other options, such as revisiting concepts from the end of this semester, extending next school year or offering students the chance to repeat a grade. Conducted by the Collaborative for Student Success, the results show administrators — who made up about 12% of the 5,555 respondents — think beginning the next year with April 2020 concepts is the best strategy for addressing learning loss due to school closures. Advocates and policymakers, about 250 respondents in the sample, agreed with administrators.
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MindShift
There's no doubt that COVID-19 distance learning makes this academic school year unlike any other. Teacher Appreciation Week began on May 4 and it offers an opportunity to take a moment and express our gratitude to teachers. MindShift asked educators on Facebook and Twitter what would help them feel appreciated, especially during this time of emergency distance learning. And what many educators requested was a note of appreciation.
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USA Today
Imagine, for a moment, American children returning to school this fall. The school week looks vastly different, with most students attending school two or three days a week and doing the rest of their learning at home. At school, desks are spaced apart to discourage touching. Some classrooms extend into unused gymnasiums, libraries or art rooms — left vacant while schools put on hold activities that cram lots of children together.
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CNN (commentary)
"Stay out of Google Classroom," the administrators of my daughter's Brooklyn elementary school cautioned parents in their first official communique about remote learning. To peer over their shoulders while sitting at their laptops and look at their work would be akin to bursting into the real-life classroom uninvited, they said.
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Chalkbeat
When school buildings started to close due to the coronavirus, many teachers and parents thought the disruption would last a few weeks. As the school closures extended, many have clung to the idea that if they made it to fall, life would return to normal. That's not looking so certain right now. Teachers unions are warning that sending educators into crowded buildings without widespread testing for coronavirus will amount to an unacceptable risk. Officials in big city districts are finding that some ideas for keeping students further apart, like running extra bus routes and reducing class sizes, could be expensive at a time when budgets are tight.
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By: Debra Josephson Abrams (commentary)
 What kind of world do you want to be a part of? While the answer may seem at once easy to conceptualize and ridiculous in its impossibility to implement, there are public and private institutions and organizations accomplishing what too many others dismiss as too…too expensive, too time-consuming, too difficult…too whatever. We can be overwhelmed considering the Herculean tasks before us. However, we can learn that, as internationally acclaimed scholar, ethologist, and environmentalist Dr. Jane Goodall asserts, "Act locally first, see that you make a difference — then you dare to think globally."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Carolyn M. Shields, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Becoming a Transformative Leader is a follow-up to a 2018 edition by Carolyn M. Shields and includes more 'how to' elements of implementing what the author calls Transformational Leadership Theory — really a call to addressing issues of equity and justice in our schools."
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The Brookings Institution
In mid-April, UNESCO reported 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90% of the world's learners: almost 1.6 billion children and young people. While some governments are starting to order teachers and students back to work, education — one of the most important drivers in human capital investment — continues to be largely closed for business.
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Entrepreneur
Everything in our lives has fundamentally changed in 2020. We can't just run to the store for a forgotten item. We can't visit our families, our parents or our children and grandchildren. No more dropping in on friends for fun. For those of us who have loved ones who are first responders or in positions considered essential, we worry every day for their safety and for the safety of those in our homes. And the experience of work has been completely disrupted, even for people used to working remotely. School-aged children are often sharing office space with parents.
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The Lead Change Group
As the late Stephen Covey said, "Leadership is a choice, not a position." So why do you choose to lead? And in today's blaring and hectic global community, how can you ensure that your voice stands out above the rest? How do you create your unique brand of leadership that will leave a lasting and impactful legacy? Paul Larsen, certified executive coach and an engaging leadership consultant and speaker, has developed a common-sense model to help you uncover your leadership brand and put it into action. Following his five-step VOICE model makes the difference between becoming a bland bureaucrat and a dynamic, influential role model.
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Leadership Freak
Accountability is a dirty word because it begins in the wrong place. Leaders wrongly think accountability begins with others. What do you call someone who bulldozes people into compliance? The nice word is jerk.
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HR DIVE
Overwork, engagement and productivity risks in the workplace were rising even before the pandemic. A SimplyHired survey from September 2019 found that younger generations admitted to being unable to stop thinking about work. SimplyHired attributed this to mobile technology and constant emails, now the primary means of communication for co-workers.
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Harvard Business Review
As businesses and schools are shuttered, economic uncertainty encroaches, and a pandemic rages worldwide, there is plenty of anxiety to go around. We're watching our healthcare system be pushed to its limits, but the grief and trauma we're seeing presages a second wave of need: Before long, our mental healthcare system is going to be stretched to the breaking point as well.
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Education Week
As nearly every state commits to keeping its schools closed for the remainder of the current school year, a group representing state education officials nationwide has taken inventory of all of the issues they must address when they eventually reopen buildings and welcome students back for in-person learning.
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EdScoop
Lawmakers have made additional funding available to ensure students have access to internet and online learning during the pandemic, but according an analysis by the education group Funds for Learning, schools are going to require more than $5 billion to ensure students can continue their educations at home for the foreseeable future.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos unveiled competitive state coronavirus aid grants that fulfill two objectives for her: providing services for students affected by the virus, and emphasizing choice in federal education funding.
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StateScoop
A group of 12 associations representing state and local officials asked Congress to include direct financial support for IT and cybersecurity infrastructure in any future emergency relief package responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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THE Journal
While EducationSuperHighway recently reported that the classroom connectivity gap was "now closed," with 99 percent of schools on fiber, that didn't take into account that school would move home in a time of coronavirus. The latest reporting by the Federal Communications Commission, found that the number of people lacking a connection of at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload was 21.3 million in the United States at the end of 2017. Some 4.3 million were in rural America or tribal lands. According to Common Sense Media, that translated to almost 12 million children nationwide in homes without a broadband connection.
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eSchool News
To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an April edWebinar featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. The presenters also provided recommendations for other educators who are now making the shift from being in a classroom to working remotely with students.
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District Administration Magazine
Consider these options to engage learners and give them a voice when schedules won't permit connections for Zoom, or similar platform, meetings.
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THE Journal
Doing school work remotely is different from handling it in-person. For one, teachers can't necessarily see how a student is accomplishing class work and may therefore make faulty assumptions about how it was done; and two, the education technology that facilitates online learning collects data on the student and the interactions, frequently without the student even knowing, let alone opting in.
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EdSurge
For perhaps the first time in recent memory, parents and teachers may be actively encouraging their children to spend more time on their electronic devices. Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90% of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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District Administartion Magazine
A student with a disability who was making progress at school thanks to a behavioral intervention plan may regress or exhibit different behaviors while starting to learn remotely and to cope with the reality of the pandemic. The existing BIP may not be appropriate. "Behaviors are context-specific, so a behavior plan developed at school isn't going to do much for us in the new environment," says Scott Singleton, a doctoral-level board-certified behavior analyst, nationally certified school psychologist, and Oklahoma Behavior Consultation Project director at the University of Central Oklahoma.
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Edutopia
Using sentence frames and explicit feedback thoughtfully can provide the right balance of structure and scaffolding for English language learners.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Lauren S. Brown, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "There is nothing like a global pandemic to help one understand what really matters. As I enter my fifth (fifth?!) week of online teaching, I have begun to develop a rhythm. It is, however, a rhythm reminiscent of my first years of teaching."
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Edutopia
For many teachers, the go-to structure for lesson planning is the "I do, we do, you do" format, also known as the gradual release of responsibility. In this model, the teacher first demonstrates a skill ("I do") and then the teacher and students use the skill together ("we do"). Then students do the work themselves, either individually or in small groups ("you do"). There's a good reason that this format is so widely used: It works, efficiently helping students master a skill or find the correct answer.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Kimberly Coy, Ph.D., a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "For more than seven years, I worked in a fully online public school that served general education and special education students in kindergarten through high school. During my teaching time, I specialized in special education needs. Since then I have worked as a professor at California State University, Fresno, conducting extensive research and presenting nationally and internationally on both online learning and special education."
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Education Week
Many teachers, students and parents are proving to be remarkably resilient during this time when it comes to the effects of the pandemic on school, education, and student learning. It is not easy to teach in a physical classroom one day and turn it into a virtual classroom the next. Most college and university teacher prep programs do not have a course focusing on virtual teaching and learning (something they may consider doing soon).
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Tech & Learning
With school closures and the move to remote learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, families and educators are looking for supplemental educational opportunities to bolster learning. A new study by NWEA projects that students who lack steady instruction during the school shutdowns might retain only 70% of their annual reading gains as compared to a normal year. This compounds the annual issue of reading skill loss known as the summer slide.
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Edutopia
Our current health crisis has given remote learning a global platform, with stay-at-home orders closing school buildings across the country. For early childhood educators who promote play- or project-based approaches, going remote can be a particularly daunting task. Preschools rely heavily on an openness to free play within carefully curated environments. Through play, children develop foundational social and emotional, executive functioning and academic skills.
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Education Week
While most parents of K-12 students seem pleased with the communication and educational activities being provided by schools during the COVID-19 shutdowns, some are still concerned about how prepared their children will be for the next school year, according to the latest findings from a nationwide survey by the University of Southern California.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students' learning loss. But use of these programs and other supports now is not enough: We must look to the summer months as another chance of salvation for students who are falling behind academically.
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The Brookings Institution
In 1996, Harris Cooper of Duke University and his colleagues first reported on the effects of what came to be known as summer slide, or summer slump. Over the summer months, when children are not in school, those from under-resourced communities tend to lose roughly 30% of the gains they made in math during the school year and roughly 20% of the gains in reading. More recently, Johns Hopkins researchers found that during the school year, students from underserved areas in Baltimore generally kept up academically with those from more privileged neighborhoods. The loss was thus unique to the time outside of school.
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Florida Atlantic University via Science Daily
A longitudinal study examined whether children who are well-liked and children who are popular got that way by being fun to hang around with. Results clearly underscore the importance of being fun. Across a two-month period, primary school children perceived by classmates as someone who is fun to be around experienced an increase in the number of classmates who liked them and the number who rated them as popular. In the eyes of peers, "fun begets status and status begets fun."
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Lillian Mongeau, a contributor for , writes: "Thursday afternoon found me kneeling in front of my 2-year-old’s bedroom door, crying. She was on the other side, also crying. Nap was not happening ... again. And not only was I failing abysmally to convince an eminently unreasonable child to nap, I was missing a work call (actually for this article). So there I was: brought to my knees, literally, by a toddler. And I had to wonder, was there really anything a teacher could tell me about child behavior that might make this easier? Because let's be real, the teacher look — you know that look — isn't going to work with tears in my eyes."
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NPR
In a landmark decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that children have a constitutional right to literacy, dealing a remarkable victory to students. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by students of five Detroit schools, claiming that because of deteriorating buildings, teacher shortages and inadequate textbooks, the state of Michigan failed to provide them with the most fundamental of skills: the ability to read.
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The Denver Post
When Vanessa Baca wraps up her full-time housekeeping job, there are only a few hours left on the clock. But the work day has just begun. The Adams County single mother must cook, clean and tend to her children's needs, but emails from her kindergartener's teacher alerting her to which assignments the 6-year-old has yet to complete weigh on her. Baca was grateful Welby Community School provided her child with a tablet when school buildings were closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, freeing up the family computer for her college-aged son.
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NAESP
Every school and district leader is challenged to develop immediate and longer term strategic solutions to serve children in these remarkable times. Our goal is to support you in determining what is working, what the next set of effective practices may be and to connect you with colleagues from across the country. NAESP and AASA are here to help! Please join us each Tuesday, with moderators Eric Cardwell and Dr. Gail Pletnick, along with representatives from NAESP and AASA when we go Live at 5 ET to help get your questions answered.
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NAESP
Each year, an update on the state of the association is provided to members of the General Assembly, held in conjuction with NAESP's National Leaders Conference. However, due to this year's cancellation as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, NAESP Executive Director Dr. L. Earl Franks, CAE has instead delivered this address virtually. Interested members are encouraged to watch the presentation, and read the accompanying annual report.
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