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Education Week
Schools may be out for the summer, but the heat is on for them to reopen in less than two months. That was one big takeaway from a congressional hearing, in which several senators as well as federal health officials agreed that getting children back into classrooms next fall is vital for students, their parents and for the nation at large.
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Education DIVE
First Ahmaud Arbery. Then Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Rashard Brooks. As high-profile deaths of unarmed Black people at the hands of law enforcement, or those associated with them, made headlines this summer, middle school principal Derek McCoy felt similar feelings of shock. He thought a lot about his son and daughter, both Black young adults. He thought about his own apprehension whenever he encountered police as a Black man.
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District Administration Magazine
Teachers say they would seriously consider leaving their job if significant cuts were made to their salary and benefits, so leaders need to focus on why these employees came to their district in the first place, a study finds.
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Edutopia
CNN recently reported that if we can't find a vaccine for COVID-19 soon, social distancing could continue for another two years. Since it's nearly impossible to enforce social distancing for 30 children in a classroom, schools may be some of the last spaces to reopen.
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Education Next
This spring, the coronavirus pandemic blindsided America's schools with a staggering, unforeseen problem. On March 12, Ohio governor Mike DeWine announced that he was closing all of his state's schools. Within two weeks, more than 40 states had followed suit, upending the lives of nearly 50 million students. Schools were suddenly forced to find ways to feed millions of children and reinvent methods for educating kids and supporting families. It was easy to find tales of heroic efforts by local teachers and stories of hair-rending frustration from overwhelmed parents. On the whole, did the nation's schools rise to the challenge? If not, what will be the legacy of their failure?
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Edutopia
It was September. Back to School Night — the open house, the tradition of welcoming parents to join educators as partners in the educational process. The approach at Zane North Elementary School in Collingswood, New Jersey, had remained the same for years: Chairs set up in rows, administrator positioned front and center behind a podium, staff gathered in a designated seating area awaiting introductions. Behind the smiles, staff remained nervous until the grade-level presentations were complete.
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eSchool News
The COVID-19 crisis has made one thing clear: Teachers and administrators have used unique and innovative ways to reach students online as remote learning became the only type of learning across the nation. Most educators are certain that if they don't begin school online in the fall, they'll eventually have to move to online and at-home learning if a second wave of the virus hits the nation, or if social distancing and other precautions aren't possible in often-overcrowded schools.
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Education Next
Education discussions today have a time horizon of three months. In the fall, will we mix at-home with in-school? Does everybody have a digital hookup? Should we have police in schools? As important as these issues are, they have the unfortunate effect of pushing aside more fundamental issues that could have much greater impact. This twin crisis of COVID-19 and of societal recognition of deep-seated inequities must be directed toward essential school improvement.
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We Are Teachers
Creating learning environments in which every child can flourish, especially in regard to self-confidence and academic success, is a challenge on the best of days. Many educators already grappled with this during quarantine. Now it is even more pressing with weeks of protests addressing the stark racial disparities that continue to exist in terms of criminal prosecution, health care access and pay equity in the U.S.
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Jill Barshay, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "Americans like to believe that education can be a great equalizer, allowing even the poorest child who studies hard to enter the middle class. But when I looked at what academic researchers and federal data reports have said about the great educational divide between the rich and poor in our country, that belief turns out to be a myth. Basic education, from kindergarten through high school, only expands the disparities."
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Harvard Business Review
Structural racism has conditioned us to accept that including people of color in majority-white workplaces, especially Black people, equates to lowering the bar. Not only is this framing incorrect, it is dangerously divisive. Still, it remains pervasive.
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Forbes
Why are my employees not taking initiative right now? Why are they not stepping up to the plate? Why are they not motivated?
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Inc.
No one achieves success all on their own. Many of today's most prominent business leaders can point back to a mentor who helped guide them during the formative years of their careers. Mentors are an invaluable source of motivation and wisdom for any budding professional. These individuals can act as your guide through uncertainty and difficult career situations, and as your cheerleader when you begin to realize your goals.
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Fast Company
A lot of us are feeling anxious right now. When the pandemic started, anxiety came from not knowing what to expect. Now as workplaces make plans for employees to return, uncertainty is at the forefront again.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Tiffany Delmore, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "We've all known work martyrs. They’re the ones who flaunt their ability to toil tirelessly. You can spot them by their catchphrases: 'I'm working 'round the clock.' 'Burned the midnight oil last night.' 'I've been at my desk since 4:00 this morning and didn't stop to eat breakfast or lunch.'"
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Education Week
Top Senate Democrats have introduced a major aid package for K-12 schools and child-care services, in what they say will help them reopen with appropriate health precautions. Separately, the House — which is controlled by Democrats — was poised to approve a large infrastructure bill on Tuesday that includes $130 billion for school upgrades and repairs. There's growing pressure for schools to resume in-person instruction this fall as concerns intensify about school closures' impact on children, parents and the economy.
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Education DIVE
As schools plan for the fall, state education departments and lawmakers are gearing up to suspend another round of federal and state standardized tests, saying instruction should take priority for the 2020-2021 school year. On June 18, Georgia became one of the first states to seek an assessment waiver. Gov. Brian P. Kemp and State School Superintendent Richard Woods jointly announced their decision to apply for suspension of standardized testing to the U.S. Department of Education.
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Education Week
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the outlook for school district budgets is bleak. Many states have announced shortfalls for the fiscal year that is just ending in most places and for the new fiscal year as well. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities projects that states will have $615 billion less over the three fiscal years starting with 2020 than budgeted for in better times.
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eSchool News
The digital divide is proving one of the most pervasive and stubborn challenges in U.S. education, and its effects can follow students from kindergarten through college. As if that's not bad enough, the COVID-19 crisis, which forced students across the globe to learn at home while schools closed physical operations, made inequities even more apparent.
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Tech & Learning
New research from the American Enterprise Institute provides insight into the kinds of remote instruction districts were able to offer and how they handled other key aspects of school management, such as instructional technology, meal distribution and services for special populations. These statistics were gathered from 250 school district websites in early May. Most schools closed during the first two weeks of March and did not reopen for the remainder of the school year.
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Education Week
The K-12 mobile device market is booming. A new report from market research firm FutureSource Consulting forecasts that shipments of laptops, tablets and Chromebooks to the U.S. education market could jump by 27% this year, the product of districts and private schools buying mobile devices in bulk for remote learning in a COVID-19 era.
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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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THE Journal
Google has kicked off a new Google for Education Certified Coach Program, for instructional coaches and specifically the individuals who work with educators to help them integrate technology appropriately into their instruction. The program is free and will take about 20 hours of self-study, spread out through the school year. However, participants need to have first earned their Google Educator certifications, both levels one and two, and those programs have nominal fees attached.
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Tech & Learning
A Student Information System, or SIS, is a web-based platform that helps schools and colleges take data online for easier management and better clarity. That's at its most basic. The SIS system is able to collect school-wide data online so that it can be easily accessed by teachers, parents, students, and administrators. That includes records of tests, attendance, appraisal performance and plenty more. Essentially, a SIS allows the school to make data points for lots of areas in one place so that it's easy to keep track of progress and performance.
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Eduation 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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THE Journal
Students who have some familiarity with Python can attend a free four-day course in July on the use of data manipulation with Python. The "Data Wrangling with Python Bootcamp" is being taught by an instructor from Data Society, a company that does corporate data science training, and hosted by Skillsoft, which maintains a learning platform.
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District Administration Magazine
Online learning is having a moment. Even prior to the COVID-19 crisis, there was an uptick of interest in providing students of all ages with digital materials to supplement their online learning. Teachers are overwhelmed with digital resources, and it can often seem like a daunting task to create an online classroom from scratch.
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Teaching Channel
While there is currently more LGBTQ representation in media, politics and entertainment than ever before, school can still be a challenging place for LGBTQ kids and kids who are questioning and discovering who they are. Here are some tips for making your classroom a safe and inclusive space for all of your students.
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Tech & Learning
Frances Gipson has amassed a laundry list of roles and impressive positions during her education career, though perhaps most meaningful to her is "Champion for Team Kid." "It's about putting students at the center and backwards planning from their needs," says Gipson. "If ever there was a time to really think about those efforts, now is that time. I believe in Love-Soaked Leadership. It's important to lead with love and be unapologetic about it. One way is to get grounded in our supports around students."
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By Brian Stack (commentary)
 Summer school is underway in my New Hampshire high school, but it looks a little different from what we have offered in years past, although we have always offered a remote platform. For my school, an in-person summer school is just not practical due to our size, limited staffing resources, and lack of public transportation for students. For years we have relied on online platforms to provide content and, in some cases, instructors. This year, we took a slightly different approach for summer offerings.
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District Administration Magazine
Science instructors at a Massachusetts school system assigned activities that did more than require students to stare at their iPad screens during school closures. Students were encouraged to get out of the house and explore science outside in their backyards and neighborhoods. Meanwhile, others analyzed examples of science in the news or performed science experiments with household items.
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EdSurge
We are living through a time that is unlike anything most of us have ever experienced. The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools across the country to close their doors and, in doing so, set off a chain reaction of regulatory responses as our nation's school systems urgently worked to address student instructional, psychological and physical needs through requiring novel remote learning plans. And with no precedent to draw on.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Lauren Brown and Sarah Cooper, contributors for MiddleWeb, write: "The protests that have been occurring across the country since the killing of George Floyd have led us once again to ask how best to teach U.S. history. These are issues that we have wrestled with throughout most of our careers, but recent events bring them to the forefront."
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U.S. News & World Report
Pediatricians say students should be in classrooms for in-person learning as soon as possible — the most full-throated endorsement yet for getting children back into schools amid the coronavirus pandemic and one that was included in a set of recommendations released by the American Academy of Pediatrics for how schools should safely reopen.
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Education Week
Prior to the pandemic, between 15 and 16 million U.S. students out of 50 million total lived in a household that lacked either Internet access, a digital device, or both, according to a new report from Common Sense Media. The same was true for between 300,000 and 400,000 public school teachers, or slightly less than one out of every ten nationwide. The majority of those 15 to 16 million students — between 55 and 60 percent — lacked both an internet connection and a digital device, the report says.
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The 74
Two new surveys of teachers and school administrators confirm some of the worst fears about the switch to distance learning since the pandemic struck: The vast majority of teachers could not teach all the material they were supposed to, teacher confidence plummeted in schools without supportive working conditions, and fewer than half of teachers in high schools, high-poverty schools and schools serving a majority of children of color were able to contact their students.
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Education DIVE
The findings, the authors write, have implications for how the city approaches the reopening process for early-childhood programs. "The COVID-19 pandemic has vividly exposed the inequities built into public education, along with the uneven home resources and economic slack experienced by diverse families," they write. "Might the city seize this moment to reduce disparities in how educational resources are extended to families?"
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EdSource
Prevailing in negotiations with Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature passed a state budget that will let K-12 schools spend at the same level in 2020-2021 as this year — avoiding the billions in cuts that Newsom had proposed. But there's a catch. Spending won't equate to funding. School and community college districts will have to front $11 billion they would normally get from the state in exchange for IOUs. Districts won't be paid back until 2021-2022.
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NAESP
Most public schools in the nation closed their doors to traditional learning in March because of the coronavirus outbreak and moved for the first time ever to distance learning. Since then, we've all been in survival mode.
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NAESP
The recent violence against African Americans and uprisings to demand police reform can be grief triggers that highlight the trauma of inequality and discrimination and the resulting impact on the mental health and wellbeing for students, families, teachers and principals alike.
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