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Education Week
The rapid switch to distance learning for 55 million schoolchildren was never going to measure up to the experience of five days a week of teaching and learning in classrooms, despite the hard work of educators. The kids who did log in regularly had limited live instruction and few opportunities to collaborate and learn from each other. In many school districts, teachers did not teach new content at all, sticking to reviewing standards they’d already covered. In other cases, distance learning amounted to little more than schools posting lessons online and leaving it up to students and parents to figure it out.
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Education DIVE
In a U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing, health experts and legislators agreed sending children back to school should be a top goal for the country as states enter varying phases of reopening. However, with a number of states seeing a resurgence of cases, reopening in many places is still uncertain despite schools nationwide planning for some degree of in-person fall instruction.
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eSchool News
The extent of the challenges and unknowns involved in safely reopening our schools may seem daunting, but educational organizations and schools now involved in the process are developing helpful frameworks and innovative solutions that show what can be accomplished and how. Representatives of the American Federation of Teachers, accompanied by a team working on the plan for a Brooklyn, NY charter school, explained during a recent edWebinar how they are proceeding and what has already resulted.
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Education Week
The coronavirus created mass disruption of schooling in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 school year. Acting to try to stop the virus' spread, principals, superintendents and then governors closed schools across the nation in a wave that began in late February. Eventually, 48 states, four U.S. territories, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity ordered or recommended school building closures for the rest of their academic year, affecting at least 50.8 million public school students.
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EdTech Magazine
With the nationwide shift to full-scale remote learning, cybersecurity is critical to keeping virtual classrooms up and running. But in the face of ever-present budget constraints, many schools and districts struggle to allocate adequate funding to security initiatives. Recent research from CDW and IDG indicates that education leaders expect to devote just 20% of their IT budgets to risk mitigation over the next two years. Other priorities — such as modernizing IT, improving collaboration and transforming user experiences — are expected to get bigger slices of the pie.
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Edutopia
As responsibilities continue to mount on the already full plates of teachers, the amount of time needed to complete those duties has also increased. Unfortunately, the result is often that teachers use personal time — which should be used for enjoying family and friends, pursuing a hobby, or decompressing after a stressful day — to tend to work-related tasks, leading to burnout and high teacher turnover rates within schools and districts across the country.
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Tech & Learning
Fall means planning for the unplannable for schools. One Wichita, Texas, district decided to test those uncharted waters while offering a safe and educational option for summer learning. "In March, we did what we could to bring 14,000 students online," says Dr. Peter E. Griffiths, Associate Superintendent Wichita Falls ISD. "Systems were in place but we reached a point of if the kid got on, the kid did some kind of work, the kid had some sort of interaction with the teachers — that was going to have to be good enough."
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EdTech Magazine
The dynamics of digital instruction, learning outcomes and equitable access can be complex, with no one-size-fits-all approach. As researchers learn more about best practices, educators are tasked with putting their findings into practice — a job harder than it sounds. Now, districts are confronting new challenges as they seek to deliver instruction remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Edutopia
Research shows that having a teacher of color can help students of color reach better outcomes; but the benefits extend to all young people, preparing them to live and work in an increasingly diverse society.
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The Brookings Institution
Judith Heumann had a sinking feeling when she realized that the world saw her differently: "I was a butterfly, becoming a caterpillar." Neighborhood children asked if she was sick. The local school refused to admit her because using a wheelchair made her a "fire hazard." It was 1953 in New York. She was 6 years old. For children with disabilities in the United States, much has changed since then, thanks in large part to the leadership Judith and her colleagues in the disability rights movement came to exercise. Public policies improved, and popular perceptions shifted.
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Leadership Freak (commentary)
A friend of mine got laid off last Friday. Clients in education are developing three plans for the fall of 2020, but most of their work could be irrelevant. Other clients are figuring out how to bring people back to the office. People will remember how you treated them during COVID-19.
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Fast Company
If your job involves anything complex or difficult, at some point, something will go wrong. It might be that an action has unforeseen consequences. It might be that you were aware your plan had a low probability of success. You might even make a mistake in the way you execute something. It's human nature.
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Harvard Business Review
The meeting unfolded like most of her other performance reviews. Michelle and her manager discussed sales numbers, future goals and her contributions to the team. Then, in need of support, she decided to confide in him about a challenge she was having with a colleague from another department. Let's call him Dave. When working on projects, Dave had consistently failed to take Michelle's ideas seriously, and outright discluded her from informal team gatherings, like "grabbing a beer after work."
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Emotional heat tears things down. You resent a company policy, emotional heat complains about the entire company. You don't like a team member, you undermine. A leader disappoints, you attack. Any fool can tear down. Leaders build up.
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Fast Company
Do you feel like you are working harder than ever but getting less done? Does it feel like it takes more effort to complete work and life tasks, and your threshold for impatience or irritability is lower than usual? The explanation may lie in the low-grade proliferation of stress affecting us while we are in lockdown. This chronic stress is one of the main drains to our productivity and connected to a critical brain function, the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, which is tied to our psychological well-being.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Mita Mallick, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "Last fall, I remember my social feed being inundated with the piece of news that seemed to overshadow all else happening in our country: The Friends 25th anniversary. I was overwhelmed by the headlines: 'Friends Hits Big Screen for 25th Anniversary.' 'The Top 10 Ross Geller Moments.' '25 Things You Didn't Know About Friends.' '13 New Behind-the-Scenes Stories.' 'A Pottery Barn Friends Collection is Coming!'"
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Education Week
New federal coronavirus guidance does not recommend universal testing of all students and staff in K-12 schools, an idea that has been floated as educators and policymakers seek ways to safely return students to their classrooms after extended building shutdowns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations suggest testing efforts for K-12 students should focus on those with symptoms of the virus and those who may have had exposure to infected individuals.
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Language Magazine
In light of recent demands for racial justice, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP, UnidosUS, and the National Women's Law Center along with hundreds of other civil rights and education organizations, have written to Congress to again urge decision makers to enact antiracist education policies. Such steps are needed to support the educational success of historically marginalized students, including Black students and other students of color, Native students, students with disabilities, LGBTQ students, religious minorities, sexual assault survivors and immigrant students, in p-K-12 and higher education spaces.
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Food Management
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the extension of multiple coronavirus emergency feeding waivers through the end of the 2020-2021 school year, a move requested by the School Nutrition Association and school nutrition professionals. The extension will allow school meal programs to continue grab-and-go meal pickup for distance learners, serve meals to students in the classroom or adjust meal service in the event of sudden COVID-19 school closures through the next school year. Additionally, USDA announced a new waiver to address offer versus serve requirements at the high school level.
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EdTech Magazine
The coronavirus pandemic has forced school leaders to navigate a new normal in education defined by remote learning, hybrid classes and physically distanced classrooms. For many, the changes have either introduced new technology challenges or shined a spotlight on existing ones, from the digital divide to weak cybersecurity training. But as schools have re-evaluated their technology environments and planned investments, they have faced another hurdle: massive cuts in public education funding triggered by statewide economic decline.
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AV Interactive
Google Meet is adding new features later this year to help teachers and lecturers improve remote and hybrid learning through better moderation and more interactivity. The features are being added as more than 140 million teachers and students are now using G Suite for Education, according to Google figures.
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EdTech Magazine
Late summer is usually an exciting time for K–12 schools. It's when the new school year is on the horizon, bringing with it the thrill of a fresh start and reconnection. There's the anticipation of the first day of classes, when the buildings come alive with students and employees returning after months away. It's a bit of an understatement to say this year will be different. How different? School administrators have been contemplating that question as they regroup from implementing remote learning this past school year and plan out the safest, most efficient ways to continue operations.
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eSchool News
When school starts again in the fall, it's likely that a significant number of students will still be learning remotely. To make classrooms less crowded and prevent the spread of the coronavirus, many states and districts are considering a hybrid approach in which some students attend school and some learn from home, such as by having students alternate between in-person and remote learning.
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EdTech Magazine
When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced mandated school closures in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, school districts such as Peoria Public Schools knew they'd have to lean on technology to teach remotely for an indefinite period of time. But they were also concerned about how they would continue providing services from a distance to students with disabilities and unique learning needs.
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We Are Teachers
Good teachers lift their students up and give them the credit, right? Yes, and no. Students who bring hard work to the table do deserve credit for doing well, but teachers who plan lessons regularly, use (and research) best strategies for learning and check in with students consistently are the foundation for education.
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Education DIVE
After a socially distanced spring of online learning, school and county librarians are making an effort to put real books in the hands of students for a screen-free summer in an effort to stave off an anticipated "COVID slide" in literacy skills. Experts fear students will experience an exaggerated version of the summer slide this year. When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to close this spring, many districts were unprepared to transition to online learning, setting the stage for a significantly longer learning gap than during a typical summer despite best efforts to salvage the spring.
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eSchool News
Parents who might be uncomfortable with continuing their role of teacher this fall can find solace in this fact: authentic teachable moments happen outside the classroom all the time. If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Elizabeth Stein, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "This feels like the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite posts of all time here at Two Teachers in the Room. Although it dates back to 2013, parts of the post continue to be relevant. In fact, during these remote learning times, it seems to me more relevant than ever before."
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The Hechinger Report
Shelby County Public Schools, a district serving about 7,000 students halfway between Louisville and Lexington, has had state approval for "nontraditional instruction" for several years. That means if a bad snowstorm hit the county, they could keep school going remotely and count the days like any others in the school calendar. Their experience with remote learning helped when schools closed because of the coronavirus.
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Edutopia
Distance learning isn't easy for most students, but it is particularly difficult for those with learning differences that require individualized education programs.
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MindShift
For most of Karyn Parsons' life, race was considered an impolite conversation topic. But as America reckons with racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd, that view is changing. Parsons, who is best known for her role as Will Smith's self-absorbed cousin Hilary Banks on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," is glad.
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The Hechinger Report
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the American education system at all levels, and it is taking a serious toll on student mental health and well-being. A recent survey from Active Minds, a mental health nonprofit, found that 80% of the high school and college students surveyed are having difficulty concentrating. Nearly half are facing financial challenges, with unemployment, financial aid and successful distance learning among the concerns of young people.
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Ohio State University via Science Daily
Kids who miss a lot of school from kindergarten to eighth grade may suffer unexpected costs as young adults, a new study finds. Researchers found that those who were more regularly absent in these early years of school were less likely to vote, reported having greater economic difficulties and had poorer educational outcomes when they were 22 to 23 years old.
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EdSurge
America is suffering through two insidious and deadly pandemics, one brought forth by a novel virus and the other by a long-overdue reckoning of the intransigent racial and ethnic disparity at every level within all of our systems. Nowhere is this more evident than in our public schools, where nearly 50% of children come from communities of color, and with nearly one-third of Black children and one-quarter of Hispanic children living at or below the poverty level.
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Language Magazine
Early Edge California and the American Institutes for Research released their research brief, California's Early Learning and Care Providers: Essential Workers Who Need Support, which shares results from seven focus groups* conducted with Early Learning providers across the state about their needs and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research shows that the crisis has taken a significant toll on Early Learning providers, including those serving the state's large and growing population of dual language learners; and that early learning programs need more resources to continue serving families.
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EdSurge
Call it "blended," "hybrid" or "split." Students, families and teachers are gearing up for a new school year that will feature a mixture of at-home and in-class education. That was the message from the heads of school districts in New York City, Oakland and Indianapolis during a webinar where they shared a few snapshots of their evolving plans for the upcoming school year.
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The Texas Tribune
More than 600,000 Texas public school students, about 11.3% of the overall student population, either didn't complete assignments or didn't respond to teacher outreach for some period of time this spring during the coronavirus pandemic. The Texas Education Agency released a report Tuesday showing that higher percentages of low-income, Black and Hispanic students were not completing assignments or were not responsive to teacher outreach compared with higher-income, white and Asian peers.
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Education DIVE
The rush to transition online as schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic highlighted just how broad the equity gap between families really is — and how few resources schools have available to successfully make such a transition. Many students didn't have computers or home internet access, teachers struggled with a shift to a model they weren't prepared for and many parents were simply unable to help due to their own jobs, lack of familiarity or other factors.
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NAESP
Principals are essential to the success of summer learning programs that inspire, motivate, and challenge students. Ending a school year in a whirlwind of navigating students’ virtual learning, it’s no doubt this summer will look a little different, too, in terms of summer learning.
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NAESP
March 2020 will forever mark our memories as the month when the nation’s schools shut down in response to the rapid spread of COVID-19. NAESP immediately sprang into action, creating the NAESP National Coronavirus Taskforce, which is a principal-led advisory board formed to advise NAESP on the state of affairs in school communities and reveal common challenges and solutions.
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