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Education Week
Without a vaccine to halt the spread of the coronavirus, widespread testing and tracing of the illness will be essential to ensure public confidence that children can safely return to school in the fall, federal health officials told a Senate committee. Such testing will be necessary to determine if states are ready to ease restrictions that have shuttered schools and businesses and to trace inevitable reemergence of the coronavirus in some areas after schools welcome students back, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's chief epidemiologist, told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee.
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Edutopia
It's hard to believe two months have passed since Edutopia contributor Carly Berwick wrote about her school's sudden closure for the coronavirus — our very first article on the topic. At the time, her district in Bergen County, New Jersey, was ahead of most, but within days, school systems across the country, like toppling dominoes, rapidly followed suit.
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Edutopia
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report setting out guidelines for opening child-care programs, day camps and K-12 schools — or the report leaked, depending on who you read. The guidelines break school reopening into three phases — each with incrementally more relaxed rules, if infection rates are sufficiently low — but the big picture provides some good news: the recommendations reveal a path forward for schools to reopen, albeit with restrictions.
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The New York Times
As society tries to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic, some scientists hope a decades-old technology could zap pathogens out of the air in stores, restaurants and classrooms, potentially playing a key role in containing further spread of the infection. It has the ungainly name of upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, and it is something like bringing the power of sunlight indoors.
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Edutopia
Educators often face challenges supporting students through loss and grief, in part because neither teachers nor principals are generally trained as grief counselors. Yet in the coming weeks and months, many students will experience losses of loved ones and of ways of life, and schools are in a unique position to collectively engage and support them with compassion in the grieving process.
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THE Journal
The mental and emotional health of students is becoming just as important during COVID-19 as their academic development. Two recent surveys have examined the social and emotional well-being of K-12 students but from opposing sides — one focused on the students and the other focused on teachers. Both were undertaken by companies that sell products and services to help teachers teach or participate in well-being activities.
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NPR
Kids have lots of questions about staying home right now. When can I go out to see my friends again? When will this be over? To answer them (and have a little fun), NPR's Life Kit reached out to Sesame Street's beloved monster, Grover, to speak directly to kids. Grover talks with Life Kit hosts Anya Kamenetz and Cory Turner about wearing a mask, missing his friends and why it's OK to be sad sometimes.
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
Julia Felton, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "I don't think anyone can dispute that now, more than ever, we need great leaders. People who can step up and show others the way. People who take charge, not in an overbearing way, but in a way that inspires others to follow. After all, you can't be a leader unless others will follow you. Leaders emerge in all shapes and sizes and from all ranks of the organization and society. Leadership is not something just reserved for the top bastion of an organization. It exists everywhere, and right now we are witnessing some great leadership and also some really poor leadership."
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Leadership Freak (commentary)
Dan Rockwell, a contributor for Leadership Freak, writes: "Melted synthetics cling to the bottom of some hotel irons. When the iron gets hot, the residue stains your clothes. I learned this the hard way. My experience with irons also taught me to hold my hand close to see if the iron is hot. Don't touch it! The most painful and embarrassing defeat is self-inflicted."
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Training Industry Magazine
No one planned for such an enormous change in the way we interact, the way we work and the way we live. While we often reviewed scenarios around natural disasters, fires and computer attacks, we never fathomed that a pandemic would close down our offices, our restaurants and our stores and have such a profound impact on the way we live and interact.
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Fast Company
In crises, many leaders listen less because they believe immediate action is required. Usually, they are acting from a mindset that using techniques associated extroversion is the only way to get ahead. Unfortunately, those leaders often forget that employees, the people actually taking the action, are key to navigating challenges. During the coronavirus pandemic, when many people are working from home and communicating through screens, adopting the traits of an introverted leader can help.
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Entrepreneur
During times of uncertainty, fear and anxiety, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the world around us. As we search for security and stability, we might be faced with all the things we can't control: the decisions our legislators make, the state of our healthcare system, whether our loved ones get sick and dozens and other circumstances. However, if we choose to, we can take solace in what we can control — which is a lot.
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U.S. News & World Report
President Donald Trump countered Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House coronavirus taskforce, saying that the virus has had "very little impact" on children and that schools should "absolutely" reopen.
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Education Week
The coronavirus pandemic has put enormous pressure on school meal services, and there have been recent signs that this safety net is coming apart. Now advocates say flexibility from program requirements that the federal government provided towards the start of the pandemic for schools and others should be extended for several months. Since late last month, there's been a Beltway push for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to extend waivers from various meal rules.
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By Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 In a recent article, I compared the views of President Trump and former Vice President Biden on K-12 charter schools. Let's compare their views on six of the remaining important education issues as we approach what promises to be an unusually combative election. For starters, how much money is in each candidate's education budget is almost certainly the most significant indicator of their positions on almost every other education issue. Without funding, no education initiative, no matter how well-designed, can be implemented effectively.
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EdSource
Fearing that special education students will fall substantially behind their peers as a result of prolonged school closures and distance learning, a group of Democratic U.S. Senators is asking for almost $12 billion in the next federal coronavirus aid bill to be earmarked for those students.
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EdSurge
Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. But for now, some experts say to start simple: Take a short online course, for example, to see what students experience.
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eSchool News
The U.S. education system has never experienced a challenge like COVID-19, and it is fundamentally altering students' and staffs' access to edtech. School districts across the country have turned to their cloud-based learning resources to continue learning. With so many students and staff remaining behind their own front doors, what is your district's plan for changing access needs?
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Education Week
The outbreak of the coronavirus isn't the first time Robert Spall has had to learn from home. The 13-year-old and his mom, Kirsten Spall, a high school teacher from Sacramento, Calif., were once "reluctant homeschoolers" after Robert was pulled out of a handful of schools for focus and behavioral issues — all before the 1st grade. "He didn't respond to normal redirection. He didn't respond to normal behavioral strategies, like giving choices," Kirsten Spall said.
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THE Journal
Zoom has some new competition. Google has just made premium functionality in its online video meeting software freely available to anybody with a Google email account. As of this week, Google Meet enables users to host video meetings with up to 100 people for up to 24 hours. (Zoom cuts off freebie meetings at 40 minutes.) That unlimited amount of time will last until Sep. 30, 2020; then it will be shortened to 60 minutes in the free product.
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Lanugage Magazine (commentary)
There has been an incredible rise of AI in the field of education in the past decade. Proliferation of smart technology has touched many schools, universities and even kindergartens. For example, in Great Britain, schools have implemented robot teachers to deal with staff shortages, while in Irvine Unified School District, kids are wearing 3D glasses to study science. Chalkboards, textbooks and videotapes are being gradually replaced by VR systems, smartphones, tablets, the Internet of Things, and robots. How can we measure the impact of digitalization on the learning curve and teaching environment?
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eSchool News
Today's 24/7 access to technology has brought many benefits, from online collaboration to improved parent-teacher communication. But that 24/7 environment has also brought increased stress to students' lives as issues they encounter at school, especially on social media, follow them home. In the edWebinar "How Digital Stressors Impact Student Learning," Jamie Nunez, Bay Area regional manager at Common Sense Media, explained what digital stressors are and how social-emotional learning can be used to combat them.
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Teaching Channel
Remote learning seems to be a popular topic these days. With half of the world being on lockdown, online education is the only way students can keep track of their studies. Even if it means a major disruption of the educational process, online learning helps make the most of the time students must spend at home. Yet, for some, distance learning is a big challenge.
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We Are Teachers
A well-documented summer slide means many children need access to books and literacy resources, now more than ever. To address the challenges teachers face in providing resources to get kids reading, Reading Is Fundamental created an amazing literacy page filled with many of the tools you need to get kids reading, reading, reading.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Cheryl Mizerny, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "One of the best educator blogs that you may not be following is Crawling Out of the Classroom by the incomparable Jessica Lifshitz. On April 28, she wrote a post that has stayed with me. It was called The Teachers Are Breaking. In this post, she speaks about how teachers are willingly giving more of themselves than ever before because we care about and miss our students."
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eSchool News
If circumstances call for social distancing (think COVID-19!), distance learning comes into play. It has its benefits, wearing PJs among them. It also has its challenges: lots of screen and seat time; virtual tools that might not fully engage learners; and programs that may not be a good fit with the curriculum. In short, they don't always measure up to the "real thing" that is school.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Teachers have said for decades that inflexibility on teaching, testing and innovation keep them from adapting to student needs. We should've listened. Now, coronavirus measures have put more than 55 million students out of school, and a year of performance observation could be lost by our inability to administer exams to students who aren’t sitting quietly in neat little rows.
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MindShift
Every other day, a McKinney-Vento program coordinator with San Leandro Unified School District travels to the marina on the district's eastern boundary. There, she drops off meals, hygiene kits and school supplies to families who are sheltering in their cars. She also provides information such as where to access public WiFi so students can keep up with classes. Reaching homeless students is just one of the many challenges educators are tackling during COVID-19 school closures.
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CNBC
With more school districts deciding not to return to the classroom for the remainder of the academic year, parents are increasingly worried about the impact on their child's education. According to a survey by EdChoice Public Opinion Tracker and Morning Consult, 43% of parents are concerned about their children missing instruction time.
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The 74
Several years ago, Harvard University professor Stephanie Jones found herself sitting in a meeting where she and her peers were once again debating the meaning of social-emotional learning. It was a common pattern Jones found herself in. Even though many groups around the world have identified important skills students should learn — self-regulation, self-management, social awareness — it didn't always feel like people were talking about the same thing.
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Education Week
From states' reopening plans to federal emergency aid, the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus pandemic has "focused on the health and economic effects facing adults," and top pediatricians argue child wellness and school reopening plans must be included in discussions for the nation's recovery. "Even as states provisionally plan on opening workplaces, most are giving no consideration to opening schools," said Dimitri Christakis, director of Seattle Children's Research Institute, Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development and editor of JAMA Pediatrics, in the first of a trio of articles on the reopening problem published online today in that journal.
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NPR
It hadn't been easy, but before the pandemic Elia Gonzalez had always managed to keep her family fed by stretching her food stamps and her partner's modest income as a D.J. at bars around Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan. That changed in mid-March, when those bars closed and her daughter's school, where she'd gotten free breakfast and lunch, did too.
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NAESP
NAESP is providing opportunities for principals to connect, learn, and share virtually with COVID-19 focused collaborative groups. If you are interested in supporting and/or learning from others around topics relevant to leading schools during COVID-19, please complete this short form.
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NAESP
In this episode of NAESP HQ, NAESP Executive Director L. Earl Franks, Ed.D., CAE, speaks with NAESP Associate Executive Director of Advocacy and Policy Danny Carlson about the impact of the CARES Act on K-12 schools, and how principals can use their voices to guide funding decisions.
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