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Education DIVE
Drawing responses from 1,000 teachers and more than 950 school leaders between April 27 and May 11, the surveys provide a view into how schools are still trying to connect with students and families, and the worries on educators' minds as they head into the summer. Building on existing surveys and databases working to capture how the relationship between schools and students has changed during closures, the researchers aimed to draw more responses from schools serving large percentages of nonwhite students and those in low-income families.
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EdSurge
As the current school year comes to a close, looking and functioning nothing like what any of us could have imagined mere months ago, another challenging school year looms ahead. Although nearly every U.S. state has begun, in varying degrees, to reopen businesses and relax lockdown restrictions, there is still little certainty — or consensus — as to what the future of education holds this fall.
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Center for American Progress (commentary)
Communities using parent power and progressive school districts alike are beginning to plan recovery strategies coming out of the COVID-19 crisis that focus on the needs of every student and keep equity at the center of their proposals. Using federal and state funds to reinstate a broken public school system that has operated against all concepts of equity is the wrong approach. Instead, the federal government should make it a priority to fund efforts to reimagine what's possible for public education and public school students.
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District Administration Magazine
Although schools in many states will remain closed throughout the summer due to concerns about COVID-19, many districts are preparing to reopen their campuses in the fall or even earlier. A big challenge that districts will face in the upcoming school year is transitioning students with disabilities back to the school setting, says Robin S. Ballard, a partner with Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP, in Florham Park, N.J.
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Forbes
Covid-19 has exposed the fragility of many systems in our lives. From public health to public schools, international travel to international trade, a microscopic tangle of RNA with crown-like spikes protruding from its edges has brought our world to its knees. As schools look to reopen in the fall, many are considering having students attend class in physical school buildings part-time to ensure proper social distancing.
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EdSurge
While we are facing a lot of uncertainty about what school will look like this fall, it is virtually certain that, when the 2020-2021 school year begins, teachers who have always had diverse levels of student performance in their classroom will be looking at even greater diversity. Depending on each student's circumstance, some students will have grown academically, while others will have fallen further behind their peers.
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The Brookings Institution
As the unprecedented 2019-2020 school year draws to an end, school-system decision-makers are shifting their attention from the initial COVID-19 response to plans for the coming school year. In this challenging process, cost-effectiveness principles and evidence can help weigh which strategies best address learning loss and the needs of students.
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District Administration Magazine
As students having been adapting to a new way of learning, it's important to recognize that the pressure to succeed remains, and is now amplified without their usual means of support. In addition, parents have struggled to understand the best way to support their children and sought guidance and structure from the educators leading this change.
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By Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 Eighteenth century French moralist Joseph de Maistre observed, "Every nation gets the government it deserves." What he meant is that in a democracy, to some very considerable extent, the shape of the government is determined by the people. The same can be said for economic inequality. In this country, how much inequality is enough?
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EdSource
In the wake of a federal order for schools to keep providing special education during school closures, one of the trickiest parts of those services — mandatory parent meetings — has proven to be an unexpected boon in some districts but almost impossible in others. For parents who have computers and are comfortable with videoconferencing, the virtual meetings with teachers, therapists and other school staff have been relatively smooth and efficient. In fact, some districts say they'll keep them even after schools reopen, because they're more convenient for teachers and parents who work.
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Fast Company
Recently, the world has seen a dramatic overhaul of our usual ways of life. People are suddenly working from home and many children have cut their school year short. Needless to say, what the future holds is uncertain. It's no wonder that 69% of employees consider the coronavirus pandemic the most stressful point of their entire career. This heightened stress can have serious ramifications for not just your health, but also your business.
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Forbes
If you're finding yourself exhausted or unsure about how to make decisions in this time of disruption, you're not alone. Leaders around the world are trying to learn how to lead with agility in these unprecedented times.
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Inc.
Smart people know what they don't know. A confident leader has the courage to admit it. In his widely admired coronavirus updates, New York governor Andrew Cuomo often acknowledges that he doesn't have all the answers. For example, in early May as Cuomo addressed steps to reopen the state after the coronavirus lockdown, he said the process would be dictated by the best available information.
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POLITICO
DeVos is firing back at critics of her controversial push to boost emergency coronavirus relief for private school students, announcing that she'll write a new regulation about the issue "in the next few weeks." DeVos has been at odds with state education leaders, Democrats and some Republicans, including Senate HELP Chair Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., over her policy, which tells public schools to steer a greater share of coronavirus relief support to students in private schools, regardless of their wealth. The policy departs from the usual practice of how federal funding for "equitable services" is allocated under Title I.
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 Ohio, Georgia, California, and Kansas were some of the first states to announce massive budget cuts in K-12 funding, and others will almost certainly follow soon. COVID-19 has led to a deep economic downturn that some say is worse than what Americans faced during the Great Depression. To date, over 38 million people have filed for unemployment aid. K-12 budget cuts in districts across the country will result in laid-off teachers and other workers. The education of a generation is at stake, and vulnerable children and families are facing higher risks.
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Education Week
A recently released U.S. Department of Education fact sheet reminds educators that schools must continue to provide support for English language learners during distance learning, but the instructions came nearly two months after most brick-and-mortar schools around the country had shut down for the year to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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NPR
Austin Beutner looked haggard, his face a curtain of worry lines. The superintendent of the second-largest school district in the nation sat at a desk last week delivering a video address to Los Angeles families. But he began with a stark message clearly meant for another audience: Lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
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District Administration Magazine
Scammers have been taking advantage of districts with school phishing attacks as they transition to and maintain online learning. In addition to school cybersecurity threats, more solutions continue to flood the market, so K-12 leaders need to ensure faculty and staff are adhering to school data privacy policies to keep information secure. At the beginning of 2020, the number of breached records globally across industries surged by 273% with more than 8.4 billion documents getting leaked, according to Atlas VPN, a virtual private network provider.
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EdTech Magazine
Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas. Milton Area School District in central Pennsylvania, for example, found that purchasing laptops and tablets for students was not enough to prepare them for virtual instruction. MASD realized that some students — and even teachers — did not have at-home internet connections to use devices for online learning.
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Tech & Learning
The best WiFi extender won't necessarily give you the best WiFi signal in your home. Unfortunately, networking remains a complicated beast that can be tough to tame, which is the last thing you need when trying to teach a class remotely. So you've come to the right place to learn how you can improve WiFi for the ultimate connection speeds all over your home. When it comes to streaming live video, your data connection at home is going to be tested. Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Zoom are all efficient but you still need a decent data connection to get a smooth and clear video.
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THE Journal
Education technology company DreamBox Learning has released new software that lets educators predict how well their students would do with high-stakes math testing — even though the testing isn't happening. The company produces K-8 math curriculum that integrates instruction and assessment and is adaptive to each student. As a learner finishes a lesson, he or she is assessed to enable the program to provide a well calibrated lesson the next time.
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EdTech Magazine
Before technology transformed K–12 education, IT professionals and teachers mostly stayed in their own lanes: IT staff kept systems humming behind the scenes, while educators handled the classroom. Today, those lines are blurry, if not altogether erased. In fact, when the Consortium for School Networking asked IT leaders about their role in supporting teaching and learning, 76% said it is to "be more responsive to educator IT needs," according to CoSN's 2019 K–12 IT Leadership Survey Report.
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Tech & Learning
As educators prepare for a busy summer getting ready for a new school year that will most likely include some online learning, finding good content will be key. During this spring's hectic shift into remote learning, companies from around the world stepped up to the plate to offer their product for free (for a limited time in most cases). Many educators, schools and districts signed up for these temporarily free education apps, but because of the rapid shift to remote learning, it's rare that everyone actually looked through the terms and conditions before logging in with their school-issued email account.
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EdSurge
Over the past month, educators across the country have come up with creative ways to support the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of children. From "teacher caravans" to virtual office hours, read alouds and dance breaks, they have provided students with much-needed support to complement their education during a time of unprecedented disruption. But what about the wellbeing of parents? Should schools play a role in supporting their wellbeing, too?
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eSchool News
In a matter of moments, your life as kids and students went from predictable to chaos. One moment you were going to school everyday, seeing your friends and teachers, and learning new material, and now suddenly you are stuck at home, unsure of what the day will look like, not playing with anyone, and engaged in online and remote learning with your parents. School was a refuge, a safe place, a place of learning filled with friends and constant engagement. Home is supposed to be the place where you can argue with your siblings, watch TV, eat dinner with your family and play video games.
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The Brookings Institution
On May 12, former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam
announced the Tennessee Tutoring Corps, a program that will pair college students with schoolchildren this summer to reduce COVID-19 learning loss. We applaud this effort to address the economic and educational crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The need to support struggling students is acute. So is the need for job opportunities among college students and recent graduates. Moreover, Haslam is funding this initiative personally.
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Language Magazine
We find ourselves in unprecedented times as the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down our schools for an indefinite amount of time. As educators, we are scrambling to adapt to what distance learning means and how to best serve our students. In the past few weeks, many teachers have been bombarded with thousands of brilliant ideas and links for how to support distance learning, but there is a huge void of resources geared toward helping teachers support their English learners.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
Marine Freibrun, a contributor for We Are Teachers, writes: "When we first started distance learning back in March, I thought to myself, 'I've got this.' I'm pretty computer savvy, I make online teaching resources and teach fifth grade full time, and I consider myself to be an organized person. I figured the teacher/parent balance would be easy. I was completely wrong. Distance learning while being a teacher and a mom is one of the hardest things I've had to do."
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MindShift
At first, the provenance of the math problems was a mystery. The chalky, pastel words, numbers and symbols appeared on sidewalks near a small park in San Diego not long after the COVID-19 shutdown began. Families taking walks paused to ponder the patterns. They discussed possible solutions. They took photos to share with others. Within a few days, teacher Traci Jackson, who lives a few blocks away, started receiving messages from friends and neighbors. "Is that you leaving math everywhere?" they asked. Jackson's secret was out, but her public math mission wasn't over.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Rita Platt, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Since the closure of school buildings, educators, children and families have been thrust into new roles, have had to make tough decisions and have been fighting waves of stress caused by near-constant feelings of uncertainty. But together we are keeping our heads above water. The closures have helped educators reflect in some pretty intense ways. Even eight weeks into the experience I find it hard to slow my mind. The edu-thoughts come fast and furious with a mix of delight, excitement, fear and confusion."
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Edutopia
Task-based language teaching, the practice of learning through student-centered meaningful tasks, makes a target language come alive for students both in and outside the classroom. Using audio and visuals in any literacy classroom is important, particularly when working with English language learners and research from the National Reading Technical Assistance Center shows that students learn target language vocabulary more effectively when they engage with it in a variety of ways.
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eSchool News (commentary)
Elizabeth Vogel, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "As a fifth grade teacher, I used to spend hours hunting for math materials and exercises. If I had to teach my math class a standard skill, like adding fractions with different denominators, I would flip through thick binders of exercises, maybe printing up a few. Then I’d search online, where I’d inevitably find an avalanche of teaching resources, including loads of useless resources. It took hours to winnow the mathematical wheat from the chaff."
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NPR
Four out of 10 of the poorest U.S. students are accessing remote learning as little as once a week or less, according to a new survey from ParentsTogether, an advocacy group. By contrast, for families making more than $100,000 a year, 83% of kids are doing distance learning every day, with the majority engaged over 2 hours a day, the survey found. The nation's schools shut down in-person learning in mid-March, and only a few states, including Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, have experimented with opening classroom doors since then.
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Houston Public Media
Many teachers feel a strong sense of responsibliity to connect with their students in personalized ways to keep them from falling off the radar. Many public school districts, including Houston and San Antonio, have lost touch with thousands of studentS since the pandemic sent everyone home to learn remotely.
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The CT Mirror
Ernie Koschmieder figures he was luckier than most of the state's food service directors when he found out on March 13 that his school meals would switch to grab-and-go as part of COVID-19 social distancing. Groton schools, where he'd worked for seven years, were closed that Friday, giving him an extra day to upend his food service operation by the following Monday.
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The Notebook
As the nation's coronavirus outbreak enters its third month, whether and how Philadelphia's public schools can re-open in September remains unknown. But as the national response to the pandemic takes shape, the nature of the environment in which that decision must be planned and executed is becoming clearer.
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NAESP
NAESP is looking for elementary schools from across the country who are leading innovative Pre-K-3rd grade efforts to spotlight in our new publication, "Leading Learning Communities: A Principal's Guide to Early Learning and the Early Grades (Pre-K-3rd Grade)." These spotlights will provide an opportunity to showcase real-world examples of schools that are going above and beyond to create a schoolwide vision that embraces early learning and the early grades.
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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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