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District Administration Magazine
A student with a disability who is recovering from contracting the novel coronavirus may have lingering issues that may interfere with his learning. The student and his family may also have concerns about his mental health and interactions with other students. Start thinking now about how you will address returning a student to learning after recovering from COVID-19, experts advise.
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Education Week
There's a lot of uncertainty about how schools will eventually return to in-person instruction. But in many places, teachers will likely be encouraged — or required — to wear masks. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all school employees wear cloth face coverings, and many school and district leaders are incorporating that guidance into their reopening plans. Some states, including California and Texas, are providing millions of masks for teachers in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19 when school buildings reopen.
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NBC News
With the next academic year less than three months away, and no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, school districts face a daunting decision: Reopen the schools they shuttered, or continue to teach students remotely? Educators across the United States are weighing their options, taking into account the quality of the education they can offer, the need for children to socialize and keeping safety in mind above all else.
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The Conversation
Once children return to school for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic upended everything, they will most likely spend less time on school grounds. And as educational leaders decide how to schedule elementary school students’ days, they see catching students up on math, English and other academic subjects as a top priority.
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Chalkbeat
It seemed unimaginable until it happened — a near complete shutdown of school buildings across the nation. As coronavirus began spreading in the U.S. in March, tens of millions of students saw their education come to an abrupt halt, as administrators raced to build distance learning programs from scratch. School as we knew it was redefined in the months that followed. Gone were the teachers lecturing in front of dry-erase boards, students sitting criss-cross applesauce on rugs, children marching to art class or laboring over standardized tests.
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The 74
Researchers at the Center on Reinventing Public Education spent this spring analyzing 82 school districts' responses to COVID-19 closures. Our analysis focused on large, high-profile school systems. While the districts served more than 9 million students combined, we wondered if it represented school systems across the country. Now, we know the picture it painted was too rosy.
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Education Week
Opening school with a mix of online and face-to-face instruction — the so-called hybrid model — is shaping up to be the most likely option for scheduling this fall. A hybrid schedule can take many forms. It offers schools the most flexibility but does carry risk by putting people inside buildings together, even if it's in smaller groups and with social distancing protocols. The logistics will not be simple. And the learning curves for everyone will be steep.
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U.S. News & World Report
Schools will need as much as $245 billion in additional federal support to safely reopen in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a new estimate from the Council of Chief State School Officers shows. The cost estimate — the biggest yet from a national education organization — represents a sobering recognition from red and blue states alike that a major federal bailout is needed in order to reopen for 55 million children whose schools shuttered in March.
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By Bambi Majumdar (commentary)
 It is summer and time for children to relax. Parents this year are finding it hard to relax, though. They cannot help but worry about the COVID-19 risks awaiting their kids in the fall if schools decide to reopen and resume in-person learning. A Morning Consult survey states that a vast majority of parents in the U.S. want schools to be ready to shift to online learning by the fall. K-12 school districts can do this by equipping themselves with better technologies and focusing on robust blended learning for all children.
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Fast Company
Remember the first day of kindergarten? If you were like many kids, it was likely fraught with emotion, uncertainty, and excitement all at once. According to a recent survey of professionals by organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry, 50% admit they are fearful of going back due to health concerns, even though 75% believe their employer will create a safe and healthy work environment.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
John Monarch, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "I've been in executive positions for about a decade now. Although it's been an incredibly rewarding experience, I can’t say that it has always gone smoothly. I've made mistakes, including hiring someone who ended up stealing from my company. Leading a company is a trial by fire, and you simply have to reflect and learn from your mistakes as you go. That being said, creating a few general rules can help guide you through difficult decisions. I've had plenty of ups and downs over the past 10 years, and I've learned a great deal from both the highs and the lows."
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By Anne Rose (commentary)
 Almost everyone has experienced some sort of personal crisis in life, some more cataclysmic than others. Some of us have endured divorce, job loss, death, estrangement, and broken relationships. No one can escape a crisis of some kind because it's the human condition. But recently, we have collectively undergone several public crises in health, societal fabric, trust in our institutions, and morality. And that's shattered our complacency that life is good, life is predictable, life is fair, and life is secure.
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Fast Company
If you're like many people, you don't take a lot of vacations from work. Even people who can take as many days as they want a year often take fewer than two weeks of paid time off each year. A big reason why is that work builds up. Vacations are nice, but the amount of preparation you need before you go away to make sure responsibilities are taken care of and the number of tasks waiting for you when you return makes vacations sometimes feel like more of a hassle than they're worth.
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Harvard Business Review
As many states are giving the green light to reopen, employers are developing plans to bring employees back to work safely, giving careful thought to schedules, seating configurations, visitor policies, elevator usage, food delivery and much more.
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Leadership Freak
Adding one bad apple to a team has four times as much negative impact on a team's performance as adding good apples. The best team members are highly conscientious, agreeable, and low on neuroticism. You might have a team member who is highly agreeable but not conscientious. They drop the ball because they can't say no.
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Entrepreneur
The workplace is changed. As parts of the world begin to loosen coronavirus-related restrictions, organizations are emerging from COVID-induced hibernation. These transitions back to work are gradual. Uncertainty will remain for months as threats of renewed waves of coronavirus persist. We are anticipating a new normal — but what we need is a new now.
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Disability Scoop
The U.S. Department of Education is offering up details about how states and schools can address special education disputes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal agency issued two question-and-answer documents — one outlining considerations for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act dispute resolution procedures for services for kids ages 3 to 21 and another for younger children.
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Education DIVE
In a House Education and Labor Committee hearing, lawmakers predicted the ongoing coronavirus pandemic could widen racial funding gaps between wealthy and low-income public school districts. Reports cited by committee members suggest public schools already have a $23 billion racial funding gap between districts serving predominantly students of color compared to districts with a majority of white students.
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Education Week
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue extended some flexibilities that are designed to make it easier for schools to continue distributing student meals, even as they close buildings or modify operations in response to COVID-19. As schools around the country abruptly closed in the spring, the U.S. Department of Agriculture waived some rules for its meal programs so that they could more easily distribute subsidized breakfasts and lunches to students who were learning remotely.
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NPR
In a new rule, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos signaled she is standing firm on her intention to reroute millions of dollars in coronavirus aid money to K-12 private school students. The CARES Act rescue package included more than $13 billion to help public schools cover pandemic-related costs. The move comes nearly two months after the Education Department issued controversial guidance, suggesting that private schools should benefit from a representative share of the emergency aid. Lawmakers from both parties countered that the aid was intended to be distributed based on how many vulnerable, low-income students a district serves.
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EdTech Magazine
The school year has come to an end, but many districts are still continuing remote learning this summer. In Seattle Public Schools, all students will have access to online courses so they can stay engaged in learning before the fall. The virtual summer program they offer covers a range of subjects from math and language arts to social-emotional learning.
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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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Tech & Learning
Supporting special education students continues to be a priority for educators and parents alike. Fortunately, there is an ever-growing number of sites and apps for special education available. Here, in alphabetical order, are 20 to get you started.
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Education DIVE
Cybersecurity in K-12 is ultimately more than a student data privacy concern, additionally encompassing employee and staff data. Ransomware attacks targeting any of this data, for example, can scam districts out of hundreds of thousands or even millions, in funds.
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EdTech Magazine
Until recently, Madera Unified School District in California had little in the way of a plan to replace aging classroom technology. The district's roughly 1,000 K–12 classrooms were sprinkled with various projectors and laptops at different points in their lifecycles. Most of the projectors weren't wireless, and many weren't compatible with teachers' devices, which forced the IT department to distribute dongles to enable instructors to use the technology.
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THE Journal
An education technology company that produces a robot for use by early learners has developed resources to help teachers prepare for fall classes that could be held remotely. KinderLab Robotics is the maker of KIBO, a robot that can be programmed by young students without the use of a screen and with the use of wooden blocks.
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Tech & Learning
In light of the widespread disruptions to education, work and in-person social connections due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Comcast announces two initiatives to help students, teachers and members of the public to maintain their connectivity to important resources, friends and family. Comcast's Internet Essentials service, the internet adoption program for low-income households, will be offered to eligible new customers for 60 days without charge.
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Edutopia (commentary)
Lori Desautels, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "As I work with families, educators and students during this pandemic time, we're trying to figure out how to do school in a way that feels safe, comprehensive, and doable with limited technology and internet accessibility. The traumatic conditions of isolation, chronic unpredictability, and physical and emotional constraint are affecting all of us at some level. How do children express their feelings of abandonment, loss, grief and confusion? How do adults express these feelings? Often, our behaviors tell our stories, signaling the pain we can barely speak of or understand."
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District Administration Magazine
The coronavirus pandemic and online learning have shown that all schools should become 1-to-1 — not just with computers, but also for cementing student-teacher relationships, one advocate says. "Those staff-student connections should become the norm," says Jonah Edelman, founder & CEO of Stand for Children, a nonprofit focused on equity in education. "It absolutely needs to become the norm during the pandemic to prevent a huge number of students from dropping off the map."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Amanda Armstrong, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "There are various ways educators can approach working with multicultural groups of students, and it can be overwhelming to choose one that fits you. One approach that I've found myself consistently using, whether in early childhood or informal education, is culturally responsive teaching, which validates and affirms the cultures of the students and incorporates their cultures in multiple aspects of learning and the environment in meaningful ways. This approach also encourages educators to hold high expectations of the children and their ability to learn content."
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Valentina Gonzalez, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "I posed a question in the Facebook Group 'Advocating for ELLs' and to my Twitter PLN. I asked what their non-negotiables were for teaching English Learners. The responses were overwhelming. Just imagine if we set aside time as campus or district teams to develop non-negotiables and then we lived by them. This would be a great practice for ESL and bilingual teams. And all teams!"
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Language Magazine
As schools around the world increase in neurodiversity as well as cultural and linguistic diversity, many educators are turning to professional collaboration as a powerful tool not only to improve student learning but also to fuel teacher growth. Evidence is clear that specialists and general education teachers working together provide access to learning for all students and become better teachers in the process. Although education has been a historically isolating profession, collaboration is fortunately emerging as a new norm in today’s schools.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
Theresa Pickett, a contributor for We Are Teachers, writes: "Teacher moms are always busy, but this spring I held more roles than ever. Virtual second grade teacher, calendar keeper, food preparer, recess monitor, cleaner and technology coordinator. Often, making sure that my own children got the most from their online education fell to the wayside. I realized I needed to foster independence in both my own children and my students…but how do I do that given the circumstances?"
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We Are Teachers
You must do the writing you ask of your students. It's nothing new, but did you know it's the single most effective way to get kids writing? If you take the time to do the following five writing assignments, you'll start to see why finishing this work has a big payoff for teaching it. Bonus points for keeping a notebook about any thoughts and feelings you have while creating these writing examples because you probably won't remember when you get in front of your students!
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Language Magazine
Instructional strategies that have proven effective in improving English language learner achievement include providing ELLs with intentionally planned vocabulary instruction; using gestures, visual cues, or realia; providing opportunities to practice using language; activating prior knowledge; and linking content to language instruction (Calderón et al., 2011; Facella et al., 2005; Gersten and Baker, 2000; Haynes and Zacarian, 2010; Lake and Pappamihiel, 2003). However, with the COVID-19 crisis, many educators are converting their face-to-face pedagogies into remote-learning pedagogies.
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Times Union
The state's last-minute approval of in-person special education has sent Capital Region school districts, which had planned to deliver the instruction online, scrambling to meet the community demand for the services in time for July 7. Districts plan to improvise with vacant school buildings and outdoor space in order to keep students six feet apart as part of the first attempt at in-classroom teaching since schools closed in March to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Education Week
The social justice movement sweeping the country is forcing the K-12 education system to take a hard look at how it treats students of color, why it has taken so long to recognize the need for change and what approaches would work best to build a better system for all students.
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The Hechinger Report
"We need to talk about parenting," my friend texted me a few weeks ago in the wake of nationwide protests and outrage over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. "I have questions." Like many parents, she was now explaining and answering questions about nationwide protests and going deeper than ever into conversations about white privilege and racism.
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Cell Press via Science Daily
Two new studies show that relaxed school and work schedules and more time spent at home has led people to sleep more on average with less "social jetlag" as indicated by a reduced shift in sleep timing and duration on work days versus free days. But, at the same time, one of the studies also finds that the pandemic has taken a toll when it comes to self-reported sleep quality.
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The Hechinger Report
The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that schools are lifelines for children not just during the school year but also during the summer months. Traditionally, schools are able to reach a portion of students through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option. But, nationwide, the 3.76 million children who receive summer meals through this program are a small segment of the 22 million children who receive free or reduced-priced meals through the National School Lunch Program.
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Chalkbeat
With school buildings reopening in the fall, the Illinois State Board of Education's new guidelines make it clear that school will not be the same as in the past. Recently, the state board and Gov. J.B. Pritzker said that students, teachers and staff can return to school buildings after an abrupt closure in mid-March during the coronavirus pandemic. Pritzker signed a bill giving schools districts flexibility to use remote learning days or blended learning days if there is a spike in coronavirus cases and schools close again.
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NAESP
Because it values diversity in our culture and prioritizes achieving education equity, the National Association of Elementary School Principals formed its National Taskforce on Race and Equity. The taskforce will advise NAESP on issues related to racial equity in school communities, reveal schools' common challenges and solutions, and support a peer-to-peer network of support for school leaders.
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NAESP
For the first time in U.S. history, a majority of K–12 public school pupils are students of color. Recent uprisings over police violence against Black people have brought light to a centuries-long issue of race inequality in the U.S. Schools are a key part of the solution, making it imperative that they not only welcome diversity in the classroom but also teach students how to navigate an increasingly racially, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse society.
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