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The 74
President Donald Trump took action over the weekend to extend unemployment benefits, suspend payroll taxes, prevent evictions, and freeze federal student loan payments. But his impatience with Democrats in negotiations over another pandemic relief bill leaves K-12 schools out for now.
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District Administration Magazine
Principal supervisors should focus their time on developing strategies to improve teaching and learning, rather than on administrative duties, according to a trio of new reports released by the Wallace Foundation. The first report, "Changing the Principal Supervisor Role to Better Support Principals," analyzed how six large districts successfully shifted the principal supervisor's role toward instruction.
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Edutopia
Our brains do not like surprises — they love to make predictions by finding patterns that are familiar, and they learn from associations, connections and patterned experiences. But as schools begin to resume in late summer, there will be many unfamiliar experiences: new routines, schedules and guidelines. Especially for young students, it's going to be challenging at best to adjust to wearing masks for extended periods.
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District Administration Magazine
School shootings, suicides, COVID-19 — these are just a few of the recent incidents on the rise that impact school communities and weigh heavily on the staff who suddenly become the caregivers. The lasting impact of these events is huge and we need to do more to ensure the well-being of our school personnel — those who are entrusted to educate, lead and maintain the safety of the children while in their care. Their jobs become even more difficult and challenging during a crisis, especially if they're asked to manage scenarios that are well out of the norm while remaining calm and leading others. It's imperative that we care for and support these folks before, during and after a crisis.
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The New York Times
More than 200 employees have been barred from work in Georgia's largest school district. A high school in Indiana had to shift to online learning after just two days. And students in Mississippi were forced to quarantine after classmates tested positive for the coronavirus during the first week of classes.
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Education Week
As a school year like no other approaches, principals and teachers are experimenting with new staffing arrangements that are designed to provide support for the deep academic and emotional needs of children who are returning to school — physically or virtually — after the coronavirus threw their lives and learning into disarray.
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Edutopia
The Black Lives Matter protests aren't just about police brutality. The movement asks all institutions, including schools, to take a hard look at themselves and identify policies that contribute to systemic racism — and then to reform them. Data is a crucial tool for teachers, administrators and principals to begin this reflection process. But too often, racial blindness and deficit-based thinking can corrupt data analysis. When they do, school personnel may inadvertently arrive at conclusions that mischaracterize or harm students of color.
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District Administration Magazine
While preparing for the 2020-2021 school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, school districts in states that allow gatherings should be careful when considering whether to use federal funds to purchase food for events they are hosting. Events, such as professional development sessions and annual parent meetings, might be an allowable cost to buy food, but only if the district can prove that the expense is reasonable and necessary.
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EdSurge (commentary)
April Williamson, a contributor for EdSurge, writes: "Before I started teaching ninth grade Algebra in D.C. Public Schools, I had a career in global health. I would sometimes travel alone for work for weeks at a time, collaborating with partners abroad and updating my boss back in D.C. every few days. The scope of these trips could be nebulous and my boss didn't know exactly how I was spending my days, much less my hours and minutes. He trusted me to do my job, and as a result, I held myself accountable for doing it well."
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Education DIVE
As fall nears, many large urban districts have backtracked on their plans to return to brick-and-mortar buildings, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, Chicago Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. New York City's public school system, however, is pushing forward with in-person instruction and rolled out plans last Friday to quarantine individual schools for up to two weeks if there is a positive COVID-19 case on-site.
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Education Week
One billion students. That's the number of students worldwide whose learning has been disrupted, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said in a video message released today. It's the largest disruption in schooling in history, he said, affecting children in more than 160 countries. Let's pause to think about that number for a moment: A billion. It's more than an eighth of the total population of the globe. In monetary terms, a sum so vast it's hard to spend it in a lifetime. A one with nine trailing zeros: 1,000,000,000. A thousand millions.
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District Administration Magazine
Schools should take a trauma-informed rather than a punitive approach to school discipline during the COVID-19 outbreak to support students with challenging behaviors and create a positive school climate, advised school mental health and safety professionals. By focusing on prevention and intervention, educators can better support students who are struggling emotionally and behaviorally during the pandemic, says Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists.
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MindShift
It's unclear when school buildings will reopen across the U.S., but when they do, it won't be education as usual. Coronavirus precautions may include wearing masks, spacing desks six feet apart, restricting hallway movement and eating lunch inside classrooms. Students will be reconnecting with peers after months of limited contact, and some will still be dealing with the stress caused by the pandemic's medical or financial impact on their families.
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Forbes
The grace shown to education leaders in the spring as our nation went into lockdown has dissipated. Highly politicized and divisive battles over school reopening plans are playing out across America and it's left these same education leaders in a tough position. Likewise, parents are, for the most part, stuck in a gray zone somewhere between politics, public health, and a balancing act of their own work and their child's at-home learning needs.
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Harard Business Review
If you're a leader, it's likely that not everyone who works with you will agree with the decisions you make — and that's okay. Leadership involves making unpopular decisions while navigating complex relationships with colleagues, partners, and clients. But often, you will need to get buy-in from these constituents and therefore you will need to convince them to change their mind.
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Inc. (commentary)
Heidi Zak, a contributor for Inc., writes: "In any business, one of the most challenging aspects is hiring the right people at the right time. I recently spoke at a virtual conference for female entrepreneurs where I shared some of my lessons learned building ThirdLove into one of the largest online retailers of bras and underwear in America."
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As we head into the new school year, it is going to be essential to have the flexibility to provide both in-class, as well as distance learning opportunities. Online curriculum resources will play an important role in helping to support teachers and students.
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By Hank Boyer (commentary)
Planning is your No. 1 strategy when it comes to having a difficult conversation. Not all things in life can and should be planned. But if you are the one initiating the difficult conversation, it is essential that you thoroughly plan for the conversation and plan for the things that will likely not go according to your preferred plan. Planning should take place at each of the stages in this article in order to assure that each stage goes as smoothly as possible.
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Fast Company
Many American workers are long-delaying their vacations due to the pandemic. But what are the consequences of running and running without a break? For some people, they don't want to use vacation days if they can't do the types of trips they usually take. For others, they're tightening their grips on their jobs, afraid their positions will slip away. In both cases, the hesitation can be damaging to their health.
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Entrepreneur
Overnight, COVID19 changed the leadership menu from survival to evolving in a crisis. Leading through a crisis can feel like a heavyweight boxing championship — fifteen rounds to decide who will emerge on the other side. Change disrupts people's expectations of the future, reduces their sense of control and their ability to process information. In times of high stress, Daniel Goleman coined the term "amygdala hijack" to capture how you analyze and interpret behavior resulting in a fight, flight or freeze response.
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The 74
Nationally mandated reading and math tests scheduled for 2021 should proceed, the National Assessment Governing Board decided. But the board acknowledged that it might be impossible to collect accurate assessment data and that Congress might not provide enough funding to give the tests under social distancing conditions.
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Tech & Learning
When it comes to diversity, "It's more than just hashtags," said Adam Phyall III, Director of Technology and Media Services for Newton County School System in Covington, Georgia. "When you start talking about diversity, whether it's in technology or education, what happens when the hashtag is over and it's no longer trending on social media, what are you still doing?"
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USA Today
When her South Carolina high school went online this spring, Maya Green struggled through the same emotions as many of her fellow seniors: She missed her friends. Her online assignments were too easy. She struggled to stay focused. But Green, 18, also found herself working harder for the teachers who knew her well and cared about her. "My school doesn't do a ton of lessons on social and emotional learning," said Green, who just graduated from Charleston County School of the Arts, a magnet school, and is headed to Stanford University.
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District Administration Magazine
Coding instruction begins in elementary school in California's Compton USD to prepare students to succeed with STEM technology in the ever-changing high-tech job market. "By the time they leave us, the opportunity gap related to brown and African American students is eliminated so they can compete," Superintendent Darin Brawley says. Grants have allowed Compton USD leaders to create an ed-tech feeder pattern that runs to high school from elementary schools, where specialized coding coaches supplement STEM instruction for the district's youngest students.
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Digital Trends
With back-to-school season just around the corner, Google Assistant has several new features that will help get the day started. These features are aimed specifically at those learning from home. Until schools are safe to return to, Google Assistant can help re-create at home the same feeling as the start of a new school year.
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Tech & Learning
In recent years, virtual reality and augmented reality have helped teachers educate, motivate and increase classroom interaction for students of all ages and abilities by making learning more accessible, memorable, practical, and engaging. VR immerses the user in a 3D environment in which they hear, touch, smell and taste stimuli. Students interact either through a traditional desktop and VR software or wear a head-mounted display and data glove.
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eSchool News
The weather breaks. The sun is shining. Nature is in full bloom. Imagine a group of students gathering outside in a large grassy area. Their teacher is giving directions and assigning students to teams. In a virtual setting, the teacher makes a video explaining the task and students walk into their own backyards to execute the lesson on their own. We can all benefit from the environmental learning opportunities right outside our door.
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EdTech Magazine
When schools went remote last spring, educators had to get creative to continue instruction without sacrificing student engagement. Many embraced project-based learning, an instructional model that takes a learning-by-doing approach, and found ways to integrate it into online instruction. Research shows that PBL can help students build 21st-century skills such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity. It also gives students agency in their learning and lends itself to a more authentic assessment of their skills and capabilities. Plus, PBL allows students to learn about and reflect on real-world problems through well-designed projects and self-evaluation.
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Education Week
With less than a month before most schools in the country are scheduled to start, many teachers still don't know how they will be conducting classes this fall. Each model brings its own challenges. Remote teachers will have to build class culture and routines with students they may never have met in person; teachers in school buildings will need to figure out how to adapt their instruction, shaped and constrained by the physical environment.
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Edutopia
The COVID-19 pandemic forced students and teachers to change their routines drastically and quickly as they shifted to online learning. They could no longer sit in a circle and read a book, jump up to the front of the classroom to recite a poem or work with a partner to share a dialogue in a language class.
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Language Magazine
When we have a chance to look back, many in education will recognize 2020 as the year that learning radically changed. The impact of quickly pivoting the entire industry to an online environment has only begun to truly sink in. It is clear technology will play a role in learning in more conscious and thoughtful ways for the foreseeable future. As the fall approaches and we look toward a blended, hybrid, digital future, the focus on working with technology has made it easy to forget one critical area of support for future success: our ability to manage the social and emotional needs of both our learners and ourselves.
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Classcraft
In an effort to adapt to the sudden outbreak of COVID-19, many school administrators are going virtual overnight and are, understandably, feeling slightly overwhelmed. Transitioning from a brick-and-mortar to a virtual school is no small task, and you may find yourself in uncharted territory.
So, where do you start?
Here are five questions you should ask about online learning to help get you started.
THE Journal
At Lakes & Bridges Charter School, where I teach, 100% of our student population has been diagnosed with either dyslexia or a specific learning disability related to reading or math. When the pandemic hit, we were in a rush to adopt remote learning for our specific student population, and we needed a reliable system to maintain ongoing family communication. We also had to make sure our students continued to get the proper support, both academically and emotionally.
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ADDitude Magazine
"Back to school" in 2020 will mean "back to the kitchen table" for many students, including children with ADHD and learning disabilities who need extra academic, organizational and social support.
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Edutopia
When our classrooms moved online this year, many of us scrambled to find ways to engage students with lessons remotely, only to find that it was no simple task. Many of us, myself included, didn't know where to start.
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“Together, We Thrive,” the latest series of webinars and resources from Classcraft, is designed to equip educators with the tools they need to support students through MTSS or PBIS, maintain consistency when shifting between in-person and remote learning, actively engage parents, and promote equity. Join us!
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Quite often when we hand students a graphic organizer to complete while analyzing a text's structure, we're doing the thinking for them. We're telling them how the author has organized and developed the ideas in that source. The students just have to find the details that fit into the graphic organizer. This is a missed opportunity for kids to engage in critical thinking of their own.
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We Are Teachers
Whether you've been teaching online for years or venturing into it for the first time, you're probably looking for ways to capture your students' attention. Virtual teacher backgrounds can give you a boost, and also help to protect your privacy at home. Check out this list of eye-catching designs that you can change depending on your mood or the subject you're teaching!
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Education Week
If social media posts are any indication, Bitmoji classrooms are becoming a teacher obsession. Since so many teachers are planning to "return" only to online classrooms in the fall, they're building these colorful virtual environments for their students featuring avatar versions of themselves.
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MindShift
If this were a normal summer, Katy Phinney and her colleagues would be organizing their pre-K classrooms for the new school year, choosing classroom themes and wall décor. Instead, Phinney is worried about what pre-K will look like if and when students return to classrooms. "My biggest concern is teachers needing to balance the importance of safety procedures with creating a welcoming and loving environment for our students," says Phinney, the pre-K program director in Richardson Independent School District in Texas.
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Edutopia
Because hand signals allow students to engage both verbally and nonverbally, conversations that use them can be more inclusive. Teachers can post the hand signals in the classroom or share them online so that students can easily refer to the visual reminder.
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NBC News
With just days to go before the start of the new academic year, schools around the country are rushing to gather materials they never thought they would need: plexiglass dividers, piles of masks and internet hot spots to connect with students remotely. And then there are schools that have an even more unusual list. The Detroit Waldorf School in Michigan is buying carriage bolts, berry bushes and 8,000 square feet of cedar wood.
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The Hechinger Report
Mikaela Johnson has a vague notion of a home she'd like to live in with her mother and her younger brother and sister.
"A four-bedroom house," she said. "A backyard for sure. Maybe a house that has no mold, no pests, no cracks, no floor that sinks." She paused. "Maybe I'm asking for too much."
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NPR
As the school year starts in many districts across the country, a new national poll of teachers from NPR/Ipsos finds overwhelming trepidation about returning to the physical classroom. Eighty-two percent of K-12 teachers say they are concerned about returning to in-person teaching this fall, and two-thirds prefer to teach primarily remotely. On the latter point, teachers are aligned with parents and the general public: Another recent NPR/Ipsos poll found two-thirds of respondents thought schools in their area should be primarily remote, including 62% of parents of children under 18.
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The 74
In suburban Detroit, a teenage girl was sent to juvenile detention after failing to complete her online homework. The story, as is often the case, is more complicated than that. But it underscores a key dilemma many school leaders face as they contemplate another semester of remote learning: How do you measure student participation when students aren't in school?
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
School districts will not get legal immunity from COVID-19 lawsuits and could be held liable if public school teachers, employees or students were to contract the virus under an amended bill on business and worker protections that moved through the legislature, the sixth and last day of special session.
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Illinois State University
Did you know that Illinois is one of only six states that require principals to take course work that covers early learning content during their principal preparation program? In fact, Illinois’ principal training in early childhood content goes further than any other state requiring that candidates of the P-12 Principal Endorsement have clinical experiences in early childhood settings. These experiences must be aligned with early learning competencies that they must show evidence of mastering.
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NAESP
Join Peter DeWitt, Ed.D., as he shares pandemic survey results on hundreds of students, teachers, and parents. He will show you how to focus on effective instructional leadership practices that will take your school from pandemic teaching to virtual learning. Participants will learn the latest research supporting effective instructional leadership during a pandemic, use a program logic model to better assess your current need in six important areas of instructional leadership, and engage in reflective practice to focus on improved practices.
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NAESP
When it comes to building a strong school culture, campus relationships can make or break the efforts of even the best administrators, teachers, and student leaders. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, JC Pohl, has spent nearly 20 years helping schools build campus cultures where relationships can thrive. In this session he will lay out a powerful “needs based system” that provides the exact blueprint you can use to build stronger campus relationships.
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