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Reuters
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines to help schools and workplaces determine whether they are ready to open for business. It provided six "decision trees" that cover yes-or-no scenarios to help assess readiness for opening workplaces, restaurants and bars, mass transit, childcare, camps and schools.
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We Are Teachers
Rumors are swirling about what a potential return to school might look like. Since teachers are on the frontlines in terms of the impact of these decisions, we turned to them to answer the question: "What will it take to make you feel safe again?" Teachers represent a huge and diverse group, so it's no surprise their answers ranged from ready to go back without any additional precautions to wanting to wait for a vaccine.
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NPR
Nightmares. Tantrums. Regressions. Grief. Violent outbursts. Exaggerated fear of strangers. Even suicidal thoughts. In response to a call on social media, parents across the country shared with NPR that the mental health of their young children appears to be suffering as the weeks of lockdown drag on. Most U.S. states have canceled in-person classes for the rest of the academic year. This week in Senate testimony, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sounded a cautionary note on the prospect of reopening school buildings nationwide, even in the fall.
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Education DIVE
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released much-anticipated guidance to help school leaders nationwide as they weigh options to reopen schools in the fall — or even as early as the summer in some places. When compared to frameworks and recovery plans released by other organizations and states, the decision tree is relatively general and leaves much in the hands of state and local leaders.
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District Administration Magazine
How many school districts had a workable plan for distance learning before the coronavirus pandemic? Our pre-K through grade 6 district didn't. Like many others, we have been challenged with a rapid and disconcerting set of changes that have forced us to shift to distance learning more quickly than we ever imagined.
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EdSurge
In the food service business, it is wise to have a Plan B at all times. And, for good measure, probably a Plan C, too. On any given day, the food delivery may not arrive on time. Or, when it gets there, half of the supply has spoiled and needs to be thrown out. "You make decisions knowing they might change," says Beth Kujawa, the food services supervisor at Leyden High School District 212, located just outside of Chicago. This is a fact understood — and accounted for — across the school food service industry.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
"I know better. I swear I do. Just like reading the comments on a blog post or eating "just one" Dorito, I know it's a bad idea and I'll only regret it within minutes. And yet, I can't stop myself. The minute I see a headline that claims to predict what schools will look like next year, I have to click. It doesn't even matter if it relates to my school at all. I read articles about colleges. Preschools. Private schools. Schools in Nova Scotia and Finland. I'm so desperate for any kind of intel about what I'll be dealing with next year, I just can't look away."
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The 74
This will all end. State lawmakers will lift stay-at-home orders, office dwellers will return to their cubicles, and — critical for America's stressed-out parents — children will go back to their classrooms. For most schools, however, getting there will be easier said than done. Despite widespread uncertainty and the unique demands of online classes, a growing chorus of education leaders say school officials must act now to prepare for a future return to school.
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Language Magazine
With school buildings closed across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new poll shows educators and their students face significant challenges in making the difficult transition to distance learning. The poll, which surveyed 1,936 National Education Association members, shows the complexity of teaching students with disabilities, providing the same level of education to all students, and higher absenteeism rates are among the top concerns for educators during distance learning.
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By Simma Lieberman (commentary)
 As recently as February, it was easy to think that what happened in the "outside world" was not relevant to the business world. That's no longer true. Lines between work, home and community are blurred because our homes are our workplaces and our workplaces are in our homes. Even essential workers who work on-site for the most part go home at the end of their shift and stay there. Even as cities and states begin to open up, people will still spend most of their time inside for now.
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By Cathy Bush, Ph.D. (commentary)
 Conflict between co-workers is a fact of life. If you work with people who care about the mission of the work and who are invested in doing it well, there's a good chance there will be conflict when each person tries to offer ideas and contribute to group decisions. Even though conflict can come from a good place, it's definitely a challenging part of work life, and it can lead to the rapid demotivation of your employees. In a virtual setting, poorly managed conflict can push teams to the breaking point.
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Education Week
On the heels of controversial guidance about how private school students are broadly eligible for federal COVID-19 relief, the U.S. Department of Education is pointing out how Congress said certain public school districts are not eligible for the biggest pot of that coronavirus school aid. In a "Frequently Asked Questions" document published earlier this month, the Education Department says districts that did not receive federal Title I money for disadvantaged students in fiscal year 2019 — the last fiscal year — are not eligible to receive CARES Act money that's earmarked for districts.
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THE Journal
While it's much too soon to understand what impact COVID-19 will have on K–12 education, two researchers have looked at the potential outcomes based on the impact made by the Great Recession of 2008. According to "The Coronavirus Pandemic and K–12 Education Funding," published by the Albert Shanker Institute, while some states had recovered from precipitous drops in state and local K–12 funding by 2017, "most had not." The greatest impacts were felt in higher-poverty districts.
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Education Week
The U.S. Department of Agriculture extended waivers from rules for school meal programs Friday so that schools can continue feeding students affected by closures due to the coronavirus pandemic through the summer months. The federal agency originally eased several rules in the spring as schools closed and local meal programs shifted from serving lunches in cafeterias to distributing take-home meals under social distancing protocols.
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EdTech Magazine
The Consortium for School Networking is resuming its annual conference virtually from May 19-21, making it one of the first K–12 national education conferences being held online. The thought leadership event, which drew more than 1,000 attendees in 2019, was slated for mid-March. But because of official health and safety advisories regarding the novel coronavirus, CoSN's Board of Directors split the conference into a two-part virtual experience. The board also factored in travel restrictions and how school system leaders were gearing up for remote learning.
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District Administration Magazine
When we consider the situation that our education system is in today and how drastically different it is from the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the contrasts are remarkable. Many districts across the nation have transitioned from an in-classroom instruction model to one that revolves around a remote learning environment. Not all districts or all schools have been able to make this move, but a vast majority of them have done well, all things considered.
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eSchool News
Teachers understand how important it is to use high-quality educational tools and digital resources in the classroom, and they know it's important to help students select books that match their needs and interests. However, students today are learning from an expanded array of digital content, both at home and at school. This means teachers and parents have shared responsibility for teaching students a new set of skills for selecting media.
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Tech & Learning
Zoom, the online video conferencing tool, has taken the internet by storm since many of us became stuck at home and unable to see others in person. That's partly because it works well and is easy to use. Zoom shortcuts can make online video classes even more streamlined. Shortcuts are the use of a combination of keyboard keys to quickly interact with the system. As such these shortcuts are only for use with the Zoom apps, rather than when used in a browser window.
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District Administration Magazine
School districts in the San Francisco Bay Area have launched several broadband pilots to test how well "super hotspots" provide high-speed WiFi internet access so all students can participate in online learning. The newly-formed Digital Bridge initiative is also providing a playbook that school district leaders can follow to determine which students lack internet access and best practices for distributing laptops, WiFi hotspots and other essential devices.
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eSchool News
A new report from CoSN builds on a survey of more than 500 school systems to gauge the top challenges edtech leaders grapple with each day. Cybersecurity, tight budgets, and much-needed infrastructure updates are among edtech leaders’ the top concerns and challenges. The survey and report was conducted with the support of CDW-G and the Ed-Fi Alliance, and in partnership with AASA, The School Superintendents Association, MDR and Forecast5 Analytics.
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Language Magazine
How surreal it was as we said goodbye to our fellow teachers. We had, of course, no idea that it would be so long before we would be seeing our students. Before we left, the kids in my intensive reading classes were responding to the situation with little emotion, or none, like most of the rest of us, not taking it too seriously. These times are certainly unprecedented and uncharted territories for all of us. Helping students with online learning is a multifaced challenge that calls for multifaced measures to deal with it. We have gathered some information to provide a systematic approach that we hope can be useful to all of you.
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EdSurge
For the past two months, Girls Who Code has been racing to design and deploy new virtual initiatives to serve thousands of girls around the world who rely on our programming. We had no choice. We needed to reach our girls. We couldn't risk losing progress on closing the gender gap in tech. And we refused to let the COVID-19 pandemic stop us. The idea of a long-term shift toward virtual schooling fills me with dread and excitement at the same time.
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eSchool News
Students don't always need to jump right into a programming tutorial to develop an interest in coding. Sometimes, all it takes is an engaging book — and with most students across the country learning from home in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, a downloadable resource they can do from their own home may be just the thing to spark their interest in coding.
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Edutopia
One of the hardest parts of teaching from home is the increasing blur between work mode and home mode. Many of us are struggling to find anything resembling a balance when teaching from home, but the uncertainty around when schools will reopen makes finding the balance even more important.
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eSchool News
Over the past weeks, we've been talking with school and district leaders as they continue to navigate these new challenges we're all facing. As students adapt to a new way of learning from home, it's important to recognize that the pressure to succeed remains, now amplified without their usual means of support. In addition, parents are struggling to understand the best way to support their children and are desperately seeking guidance and structure from the educators leading this change.
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Edutopia
Think about these three quotes: "I'm not a reading person." "Reading? I haven’t done any reading since ninth grade!" "I don't do reading." It's hard to imagine anyone talking about reading like this in a professional setting. So why is it socially acceptable to say, "I don't do math"? It's true that students — and adults — have very real fears about their mathematical abilities, a mindset that often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy leading people to handle even simple math problems poorly. I saw this firsthand in law school.
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By Brian Wallace (commentary)
 Right now, 90% of parents are concerned about their kids falling behind academically, and more than 80% say they are struggling to keep their kids engaged in learning. This infographic outlines how to keep your kids engaged by making learning feel like play and exploration instead of an academic exercise.
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Teaching Channel
While every day may feel like Groundhog Day in home quarantine, as the weather heats up we are reminded that summer is just around the corner. And while it is impossible to predict what life will be like in the fall, we do know that "The Covid Slide" is a real concern for many educators and parents alike. So how do we keep kids engaged after a difficult spring season of learning? We keep it light, we keep it personal, and if nothing else we help children fall in love with reading and writing again.
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Education DIVE
For the past 10 years, Portland Public Schools in Oregon has been one of several districts in Multnomah County to offer the Early Kindergarten Transition program for children entering Title I schools. The three-week summer session targets incoming students who have little to no experience in an early-childhood education program.
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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg via Science Daily
A dominant body posture may help children to feel more confident in school. These are the findings of a new study by psychologists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg. The study was recently published in the journal "School Psychology International" and provides initial evidence that simple poses can help students feel better at school.
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NPR
In a typical summer, more than 14 million campers and staff attend overnight and day camps in the United States. But summer 2020 will be far from typical. To prepare for that, the nation's largest summer camp associations, the American Camp Association and the YMCA of the USA, have released a "field guide" for how summer and day camps can operate more safely during the coronavirus pandemic.
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MarketWatch
K-12 schools' long-term future looks vastly different absent a widely available COVID-19 vaccine, advocates and educators say — but some also say the pandemic presents an opportunity to rethink how America educates its students. With in-person classes canceled in most states for the remainder of the K-12 school year, policy makers and school districts across the country are weighing various options for when students should return and in what capacity.
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NAESP
No one knows a principal’s job better than you do. You know the challenges, rewards and strategies for successful principal leadership. How about sharing some of that knowledge? Writing for Principal is a great way to contribute to the principalship and to enhance your own professional development. In addition to publishing principal voices, we also welcome submissions from other education professionals. Click here for more details.
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NAESP
One Billion Meals. That's the number of meals at school that kids in need have missed due to school closures. Join No Kid Hungry and the National Summer Learning Association to learn about the innovative ways schools are connecting kids with food and how to help your district continue this critical work throughout the summer.
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