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Education Week
Classrooms. Hallways. Buses. Schedules. Extracurriculars. Every facet of the school day will have to be fundamentally altered when students eventually return to school. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, school leaders must ensure social distancing — limiting group sizes, keeping students six feet apart, restricting non-essential visitors and closing communal spaces. Those measures run counter to how schools usually operate, with teachers and students working together in close quarters, children socializing throughout the day and the buildings serving as a community gathering space.
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National Geographic
Like many parents, Karina Cooksey was looking forward to sending her 8-year-old son Simon back to school this fall. Now she's wondering if he'll have to attend third grade at home in Plain City, Utah, after all. Because Simon has a genetic disease that destroys his immune system, she's less worried about him getting COVID-19. She's more terrified he'll be exposed to measles.
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Tech & Learning
Parents and educators are well aware of the summer slide: That period when students go home for the summer and lose some of the learning gains they made throughout the school year, particularly in math and literacy. Miami-Dade County Schools is the nation's fourth-largest district, serving an extremely diverse population of 348,000 learners and supporting more than 20,000 teachers.
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District Administration Magazine
Students need to develop healthy relationships with adults not just to succeed in the classroom but also to succeed in life and at work after they graduate high school. The wholesale shift to online learning has, of course, complicated educators' efforts to connect with students. It has also made it difficult for teachers to connect students with community members who can serve as mentors and professionals role models.
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Education Week
America at large is facing two pandemics: racism and COVID-19. But, low-income Black and Brown children in America are facing one more, the temporary and permanent closure of their schools. For Black and Brown children living in poverty, the school building is a portal for crucial assistance, where students, their families and members of the broader community receive a variety of resources from free meals to flu shots.
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Education DIVE
New protocols will be a costly undertaking for districts as they reopen with new social distancing controls to protect students and staff from the novel coronavirus. A cost analysis by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, estimates that implementing safety measures for reopening will cost an average district $1.78 million.
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Roll Call
School food directors across the country are preparing for an uncertain year as their trade association calls for the Agriculture Department to consider giving all schools the option to provide free meals to all students. The School Nutrition Association, citing double-digit unemployment rates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sent a letter asking the USDA to extend 10 national waivers that eased rules such as requiring students to sit down and eat their meals in a central location. The association also wants the USDA to lift a rule for the 2020-2021 school year that says open sites for meals must be in communities where at least 50% of the children come from families with incomes at or below 185% of the federal poverty line.
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By Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
 It's good to remember that the charter school movement began with a 1988 speech on education by Albert Shanker, a fiery, progressive reformer — one of several who saw charter schools as a way to improve the quality of K-12 education in America. Charters would make school more accountable to students and parents and would extend the benefits of education to all. But are today's charter schools good or bad? It's an interesting question without a clear answer. In this article, I'll sort out some of the conflicting views.
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District Administration Magazine
Feb. 3, 2020, started out like any other day for our district in York County, Virgina. The school day had ended, and things were winding down when the call came in. A serious electrical fire had caused a catastrophic failure in the main electrical distribution panel that served both a middle and high school. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but once all the data was collected it became clear that we were dealing with major decisions to be made on two fronts — how to clean and restore the multi-school complex building and how to continue the education of 2000+ students without that building for the next two months. Fortunately, we had built an agile leadership team that was ready to take on the challenge with confidence and clarity.
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The New York Times
Without a large federal investment in the nation's public school system, districts hit hard by the coronavirus will struggle to meet the needs of their pupils this fall as they try to reopen their doors, educators told a Senate panel on Wednesday. In testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, education leaders from around the country said budget challenges were among their chief concerns as they drafted plans to resume in-person classes.
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Harvard Business Review
Will colleges and universities restart in-person classes this fall? Will there be a vaccine for the novel coronavirus soon? Will there be second wave of the virus? Do I wear a mask outside even if I plan to socially distance? How can I figure out which news sources and leaders to trust? Every day we are faced with a torrent of information from news articles, cable networks, social media, the White House, the Center for Disease Control — and yet, there are no clear answers.
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Leadership Freak
Stress tells you to wait. The longer it takes to decide, the more stress you experience. If you feel a little stress about making a decision today, wait a day or two and you will feel more. Create a decision-making schedule to solve the seduction of delay.
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Inc.
More workplaces continue to reopen, but it's unlikely that the old rhythms of work will stay the same. Teams that have adapted during the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown are starting to realize that certain workplace rituals aren't nearly as sacred or essential as they once thought. As leaders sort through their hopes and plans for a post-pandemic rebound, now is the time to make smart shifts in how we engage the full potential of our teams. From generating new ideas to holding meetings and sharing feedback, leaders can turn the reopening into an opportunity for boosting their team's creativity, productivity and growth in the weeks ahead.
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Forbes
Leaders are always called upon to engage in challenging and difficult conversations. That's appropriate: if leadership is about creating the conditions for others to manifest change — or, in an organization, creating the conditions for others to deliver on a strategic change agenda — then being able to engage and support others in engaging with challenge directly is part of the remit.
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U.S. News & World Report
Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican and the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee requested cost estimates from states for how much additional federal assistance they need to reopen schools this fall. "It would be helpful to me and I think other senators if you could provide some specifics to the committee about exactly what it would take in terms of financial support to open the schools safely," Alexander said.
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Education Week
Amid uncertainty over whether Congress will provide additional aid money to help schools weather the pandemic, disputes over the relief package lawmakers did provide to K-12 nearly three months ago are intensifying. One example of this fight between private schools and local public school districts is in Pennsylvania, where the state education department recently swatted aside a complaint by the state's Catholic Conference that the state is improperly disregarding U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' guidance about how relief money should be distributed. And this kind of spat isn't confined to one state.
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School shut down? Looking to expand your teachers' professional learning? IRIS can help. Supported by the U.S. Department of Education, we offer free online PD, covering behavior management, differentiated instruction, accommodations for students with disabilities and more, to increase your teachers' knowledge of evidence-based
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Tech & Learning
As the school year comes to a close and the pandemic has forced families to rethink summer traditions such as camps, family reunions and beach outings, Wide Open School is now offering new free content and resources, in English and Spanish, to provide online and offline activities to keep kids active, entertained, emotionally strong and learning.
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EdSurge
With summer and fall planning top of mind for educators across the country, one stubborn challenge is students’ online attendance and engagement — or, precisely, the lack of it. In many schools and districts, half or less of their students participate in remote learning. Many students are unable to participate virtually due to resource constraints. For those who can, it's become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning.
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Edutopia
Many students have a tough time learning at home, but teachers can create space to listen to their concerns and guide them to overcome obstacles.
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EdTech Magazine
Classroom management is a key part of teaching, even when instruction happens exclusively online. As teachers engage in remote learning, features of videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet can help minimize distractions and redirect student misbehavior. Here are more details about those features — and key classroom management strategies teachers can employ on any platform.
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Education DIVE
Ashley Jenkins' kindergartners were just about to receive a visit from a petting zoo when their school closed because of the coronavirus. The special event was the kickoff for an animal habitat project usually conducted in class. Jenkins, who teaches at the BIA Charter School in Norcross, Georgia, was planning on spending a week discussing mammals, birds and other animal groups. But now removed from her students, she had to adapt by creating a slideshow with a voiceover and reimagining how she could build the same knowledge for her young students that they would have gained at school.
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EdTech Magazine
A new Google for Education feature saves educators and students time and energy while ensuring the integrity of student work. What Are Originality Reports and How Do They Work? Google's originality reports do the heavy lifting of identifying unattributed citations, finding sources and identifying plagiarism — intentional or unintentional — by automatically searching the web for matching text results.
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District Management Group
 With so much uncertainty ahead, it’s nearly impossible to predict what back to school schedules will look like. Will we be back to “normal”? Will we have hybrid in-class/remote schedules? Will we continue to be 100% remote? What happens if rolling closures force us to pivot? Districts need to explore various scheduling scenarios now in order to be prepared to respond effectively to whatever lies ahead. Using DMGroup’s elementary school scheduling software, we quickly and easily explored a variety of social-distancing schedule scenarios. Read on to see these schedule models and explore how they can work for you.
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Language Magazine
In the minutes before your next class is set to begin, take a quick look over your students as they come in and get settled. How many do you see with laptops, tablets and phones? A quarter of the students? Half? More? No matter the age, circumstances or geography, this much is true: it's more than it was five years ago, and significantly more than the five years before that.
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We Are Teachers
Second-grader James is having a rough day. He overslept and was late to school, missing out on breakfast. His best friend is out sick today. At recess, he fell and skinned his knee, and other kids made fun of him for crying a little. Now, it's time for reading, his most challenging subject. After the third time he makes a mistake and is gently corrected by his teacher, Ms. Hernandez, he's simply had enough.
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Teaching Channel
Enough is enough. We must take daily action to undo racism and eradicate it from the fiber of our society. Teaching Channel collected and curated a list of readings, resources and tools here.
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Let SongLake Books help you to foster DIVERSITY in your classrooms through leveled diverse guided reading books! Offering K-3 six-pack collections for guided reading instruction and single sets for diverse classroom libraries-Spotlighting diverse races, cultures, ethnicities, and lifestyles, each book portrays children underrepresented in typical classroom reading material.
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This is the elementary school fundraiser EVERYONE is talking about. ABC Fundraising® will create a customized Order-Taking brochure with your logo on the masks.
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EdSurge
Every morning at Valley Day School starts off the same way. After the kids have arrived at school, passed through the metal detectors with their see-through bags and backpacks in tow, and received their morning greetings from up to a dozen staff members, they head into homeroom and begin what's known as a "community meeting." During a community meeting, the kids go around and, with their teachers' coaxing, answer several questions: How are you feeling? What is your goal for today? Who can help you with that goal?
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Edutopia
Good feedback is a critical part of quality instruction, but it doesn't need to be time-consuming writes Matthew Johnson in Cult Of Pedagogy's "Flash Feedback: How to Provide More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time."
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The Brookings Institution
Americans' participation in civic life is essential to sustaining our democratic form of government. Without it, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people will not last. Of increasing concern to many is the declining levels of civic engagement across the country, a trend that started several decades ago. Today, we see evidence of this in the limited civic knowledge of the American public, 1 in 4 of whom, according to a 2016 survey led by Annenberg Public Policy Center, are unable to name the three branches of government.
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Education Week
When students return to school, their day-to-day experiences will be dictated by social-distancing rules and recommendations from public health authorities. Long-established routines of how they learn and socialize will have to change. Education Week spoke to more than a dozen experts, including public health officials, education leaders and superintendents, to discuss how students' daily lives may look in this new reality.
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Teaching Channel
In the face of current incidents, it is evident that teachers have a responsibility to educate students by engaging with them to bring meaningful progress to the world, address real-life issues and different points of view, and build a classroom environment that fosters genuine empathy.
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Edutopia
During the pandemic, there have been many uses of the term well-being. When teachers ask students only "How are you feeling?" as a way to gauge well-being, opportunities are missed to teach students that well-being is a multidimensional concept that encompasses more than just happiness. Research shows that if youth explicitly learn about well-being, their concept of subjective well-being can increase because they become mindfully aware of its components.
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Education Week
When it comes to parenting students with learning differences, every family's experience is unique. And that reality has never been more true than it is now as millions of students are out of school due to the coronavirus pandemic. As they juggle remote learning on top of already full plates, parents of these students offer a window into their world — what their challenges are, how they're adapting, what their schedules look like, and the trauma they're seeing in their kids.
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Chalkbeat
White students feel safer in the presence of police than black students, according to a recent survey of New Orleans students. The survey, conducted by Tulane University during the 2018-2019 school year, showed that 69% of white students said they felt safer in the presence of police, while only 40% of black students said the same.
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
Researchers found boys' poor reading skills in adolescence, combined with the social attitudes about women attending college, can help explain why fewer men than women enroll in higher education or other types of post-high school education.
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Education Week
Just eight days after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man, the school board there voted to cut ties with the city police department, fulfilling a long-time goal of activists. As mass protests continued nationwide over police brutality, activists in other cities — including Chicago and Denver — hope the demonstrations will cause their districts to review their own agreements with local law enforcement agencies, and to consider how those relationships can disproportionately affect students of color.
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Rockland/Westchester Journal News
When Diane Segel started a petition on May 29 urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow in-person extended summer school, she was at her wit's end. Since mid-March, after schools shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, Segel struggled to function as a teacher, speech therapist, occupational therapist and physical therapist for her 3½-year-old son William, who has developmental delays. While most children transitioned into the routine of virtual learning, for those with special needs — who get a variety of in-person services — online learning has not been an effective option.
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NAESP
To keep NAESP's publications at the forefront of education issues and trends, the Association has established a group of editorial advisers. This group assists NAESP by: Suggesting themes and articles for Principal and other publications; writing articles and one book review per year; contributing to conference news; and providing honest feedback on publications and other NAESP services.
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NAESP
Today's principals accept a daunting challenge to ensure that schools provide an excellent education to every student. NAESP's "Leading Learning Communities: Pillars, Practices, and Priorities for Effective Principals" publication is designed to be a practical resource for new and experienced principals. Join an exciting panel of principals as they share insights from the book and resource tools that can help you be bold, effective, and caring leaders.
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