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EdTech Magazine
The past several months have been transformative for K–12 schools. The shift to remote learning in the spring pushed school leaders and teachers to rethink what teaching and learning look like today and how that vision could shape the future of education. But transitioning to an online environment was far from easy. The pandemic further exacerbated existing challenges, from connectivity issues to achievement and equity gaps. Teachers also struggled to engage students with virtual lessons, particularly those who did not have reliable access to a device, adequate Wi-Fi or tech support at home.
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The Hechinger Report
These stark words are spelled out in large letters to protect children as they enter a community playground. But the biggest danger to our children isn't the possibility of contracting the virus on a playground. As we protect our children from becoming infected, and from infecting vulnerable family members, we are overlooking a far greater danger to the children themselves: stress.
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Education Week
Working parents across professions were forced to balance the demands of their jobs and their children's remote education in the spring, and teachers were no exception. But this new school year has created even more logistical hurdles for teachers with kids at home. In schools that have adopted a hybrid model of instruction where groups of students alternate days of in-person instruction, teachers are often expected to be in their classrooms full time.
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Education Next
With more school districts around the country announcing that fall classes will consist either of full-time remote learning or hybrid learning where children will spend up to a week at home at a time, increasing numbers of parents are taking matters into their own hands. Some are forming "pandemic pods." These pods are a do-it-yourself approach to restarting children's academic progress and social lives after the challenging lockdowns of the spring. In these learning pods, families "bubble" together in small, closed groups to provide and share childcare, curriculum or both.
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District Administration Magazine
Feeling detached from everyone and everything beyond their family because of the pandemic may cause students who have never been on educators' radar in the past for mental health concerns to start bubbling to the surface as the school year begins — regardless of whether they are continuing to learn remotely or back at school buildings.
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Fast Company
In March, when many states were scrambling to respond to a novel deadly virus that was spreading quickly, a small elementary school in Glocester, Rhode Island, made the decision to use its upcoming spring break to pivot to online-only classes.
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The Brookings Institution
With the new school year now upon us, questions of how to reopen safely are paramount. The nationwide spike in COVID-19 cases over the summer has forced many school districts to reverse their opening plans, either by delaying the start of the academic year or by switching to remote-only instruction for the initial part of the school year.
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eSchool News
The spread of the coronavirus transformed our education system overnight. With school districts completely caught off-guard by the speed and severity of the outbreak, the U.S. Department of Education announced flexibility for states to cancel their annual summative assessments and accountability ratings for the 2019-2020 school year.
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By Patrick Gleeson (commentary)
As schools have been reopening the past few weeks, I've been following teachers' responses to classroom vs. online teaching. There seems to be growing unease among teachers about opening classrooms in the midst of the coronavirus. But education authorities — certainly the federal government, but also many state and city governments — have not shown the same reluctance.
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NPR
It's September and millions of kids are going back to school this month. Millions more already have. And while some students are beginning the new year in physical classrooms, many are still learning in online classrooms that schools transitioned to when the pandemic began in March. Remote learning isn't easy for anyone, but it's especially challenging for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other learning disabilities. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on the challenges facing these students and their parents, who are often required to become educators to make it work.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
Many people believe that leaders need to adopt a tough-minded approach to steer their organizations in the right direction, or that leaders must be great intimidators with strategic bullying tendencies. After all, a tough mindset is often seen as necessary to take the helm of large corporations, especially those with mutinous organizational members, rigid management systems or turbulent business environments.
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Leadership Freak
Rise above self-obsession so you can live for something bigger than yourself. You might be self-obsessed if you:
Always know the "right" way. Can't take criticism. Make excuses for your flaws, frailties and failings.
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Entrepreneur (commentary)
Joel B. Carnevale, a contributor for Entrepreneur, writes: "In a recent Entrepreneur article, I discussed some of the reasons we often fall prey to conspiracy theories during moments of crisis, describing how our desire for control, cognitive biases, and narcissism can spur such toxic thinking. The primary focus of that article was one of personal agency, as the onus is largely on us to be mindful of our own susceptibility to conspiracy thinking."
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The Lead Change Group
Mom had a saying, "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get." Translated from her Pennsylvania Dutch expression, she was saying another maxim: haste makes waste. Today as flames of burnout and exhaustion circle the globe, extra work is not the thing we all need. Yes, we are working more. A PwC survey in June found that 44% of employers felt employees were more productive at home during this pandemic vs 31% who felt they were less productive and 25% who felt the work output was roughly the same.
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Training Industry Magazine
To protect our collective health, face masks are now an essential wardrobe accessory, and many workplaces have issued stringent safety measures that include wearing masks. But communicating in a masked world will require learning new skills. With the covering of the nose and mouth, faces become more difficult to recognize and decipher. Those nuanced movements around the mouth, which convey a richness of emotional data, are hidden from view, creating a communication barrier that can pose ongoing challenges.
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Leadership Freak
We each have a responsibility to elevate each other. This is the essence of leadership — each of us is a leader because we each have the ability to enrich the lives of the people around us. The only question is whether we choose to use that ability.
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Fast Company
Every one of us has to deliver bad news sometimes, and we all know how to do it occasionally when we've built up enough political capital. But what if you have to do it all the time? As part of their responsibilities, some people are destined to bring bad news to management with regularity.
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Forbes
The longer you live, the more likely it is that you will encounter really difficult conversations. Those tough encounters that keep you up at night preparing, or that give you that "pit" in your stomach when you imagine what might happen. When the time comes, you arrive feeling tired, defensive and anxious. And rarely does it go well.
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Harvard Business Review
Leading effectively — especially during a crisis — takes patience. If you can't retain your composure in the face of frustration or adversity, you won't be able to keep others calm. When your direct reports show signs of strain, you need to support them, not get irritated. Solutions to new challenges usually take time to put into practice.
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Inc.
For C-suite leaders, setting the tone is paramount when it comes to morale. When Covid-19 disrupted businesses, leaders were tasked with adopting a new workflow as well as managing the widespread anxiety felt across their organizations. While fear evokes a strong response, the result from anxiety-based motivation is not only unsustainable, but also detrimental to the workforce. The solution? C-suite leaders need be comfortable with chaos and find a more positive way to lead. To keep teams motivated amid industry and global changes, leaders must keep three best practices top of mind.
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Disability Scoop
Federal officials are reminding schools and vocational rehabilitation agencies of their responsibility to work together to help students with disabilities transition to adulthood, even amid the pandemic. In a letter this week to special education and vocational rehabilitation administrators across the nation, officials from the U.S. Department of Education said that while the coronavirus might alter how things are done, the expectations for transition remain.
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The Washington Post
After an outcry from educators, the U.S. Agriculture Department is extending a school meal program that has provided free meals to millions of children since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools in the spring. The program allows families to pick up free food from any convenient school campus, regardless of whether their child is enrolled there and even if they do not qualify for free and reduced-price meals. It's a form of meal delivery typically offered only during the summer months. But due to the pandemic, the Agriculture Department — which oversees the nation's school lunch program — launched the program ahead of schedule in March and has kept it running ever since.
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THE Journal
While most Republicans would prefer that fall classes be in person, Democrats feel even more strongly that they should be remote. That finding comes from a recent poll conducted by Ipsos on behalf of NPR. The poll surveyed 1,115 U.S. adults on July 30-31. Overall, 66% of respondents said they'd choose remote school. However, while 87% of Dems sided with online education, just 41% of Republicans did. Among independents, 68% would choose remote education.
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Education DIVE
The Ingenuity findings were gathered prior to the coronavirus pandemic disrupting the delivery of arts education for districts nationwide. The resulting transition to virtual learning moved what has traditionally been a hands-on experience to a virtual space, and arts curriculum may additionally face financial constraints, with education funding likely to be tightened by states facing budget concerns exacerbated by the pandemic.
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The Hechinger Report
Even as the country skidded to a dystopian halt in the first days of the pandemic, Sam Chaudhary and his colleagues found themselves with more work than they had ever seen. Chaudhary is co-founder of the education technology provider ClassDojo, which enables kindergarten through eighth grade students, teachers and parents to share content, schedules and feedback — an obvious and critical need as education abruptly became remote.
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EdTech Magazine
For many students and educators, back to school this year means a return to extended remote learning. But teaching and learning for a longer period of time in this new environment — which is often virtual and technology-heavy — can make it harder for schools to protect student data. School leaders and teachers, in particular, are worried about violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects the privacy of student education records, when holding classes online.
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Education DIVE
Schools and parents scrambled last spring as the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated school closings and virtual learning solutions became the norm. If the virus continues its deadly spread, it may be necessary to continue with these solutions. However, it is important to consider the long-term effectiveness of these programs. Results vary greatly, especially for students with fewer resources at home and those in low-income or rural areas. As many as one-third of American homes do not have access to digital devices or the internet.
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eSchool News
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been the source of many discussions in the past few weeks about the "return to school." We're witnessing major public city schools opting for hybrid or fully-remote options, the CDC director and the president are at odds over the White House administration's suggested guidelines, and many states' re-entry plans seem to be even more uncertain as we see cases continue to rise across the U.S.
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The Hechinger Report
When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. This time, we wanted our students at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York, to report on contentious border issues — immigration, Trump's wall, the Latino vote and voter suppression — that have turned Texas into a purple state.
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eSchool News
Jon Castelhano, Executive Director of Technology at Gilbert Public Schools in suburban Phoenix, Arizona, is making lemonade. Instead of stopgap measures to make it through the COVID-19 crisis, his district is crafting strategic changes with an eye toward the long term. These are ideas long talked about but never implemented in the 40 schools that serve 34,000 students. For it to work, faculty need to reinvent themselves too. In this conversation with eSchool News, Jon describes how they intend to do just that.
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Teaching Channel
Unfortunately, the sudden nationwide transition to online learning last spring yielded less than promising results. Studies show that these newly remote learners had trouble engaging and keeping up with their courses, resulting in rampant absenteeism and what researchers from the Brookings Institute have dubbed the "COVID slide." If the impromptu transition to online learning has been difficult for typical learners, for many of the more than 7 million students with special needs in American public schools, it has been even worse. Without access to the in-person services, from academic support to physical therapy to counseling, students and their families, are floundering.
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District Administration Magazine
How can audiobooks help to support learning in remote and hybrid school environments? Audiobooks can play a key role in supporting struggling readers in a distance learning environment, provided they are paired with features that aid in absorption and enjoyment of content. With anywhere, anytime access to the largest library of curriculum aligned, human-read audiobooks, including popular fiction, classics and text books, that are paired with highlighted text, the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution is an ideal support for remote and hybrid learning environments.
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EdSurge
Everything about Ray, from his seat choice to his body language in class, indicated that he didn't want to be noticed. And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs and Ds. Ray was the kind of kid who could easily have slipped through the cracks. But Ray taught me an invaluable lesson about buzzwords, adaptability and unintended results. Any connected educator has heard buzzwords like flipped classroom, gamification, social-emotional learning, differentiation and personalized learning.
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Fast Company
There's no question: School looks different this year. Some students will attend in-person classes. Others will participate in a hybrid model, mixing online and in-person classes. Still others will stay entirely virtual, logging into classes from their bedrooms or kitchen tables.
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ADDitude Magazine
Weak executive functions sabotage our kids' efforts to organize, plan ahead, and make smooth transitions to demanding environments — like virtual or hybrid school. Use these strategies to improve your students' executive function skills and switch on their ADHD brains for distance learning.
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We Are Teachers (commentary)
"I'm a writer and an English teacher, so I've always used personal stories to connect with people, especially my students. When we read To Kill a Mockingbird, I talk about my Ewell-like childhood neighbors. During The Outsiders, I tell them about the brothers I went to school with who always reminded me of Soda and Ponyboy. It makes the kids realize that I'm a person, not just a teacher, and it models vulnerability and making connections to the text."
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Edutopia
Last spring, when COVID-19 made distance learning the most viable option to keep school communities safe, teachers adapted. But it was hard. Physical separation from students and colleagues forced some educators to learn how to manage loneliness. Some teachers felt guilty teaching remotely because they didn't feel that they were teaching effectively. Communicating care through computer screens felt impersonal.
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We Are Teachers
So, your school is back in session taking every precaution for safety and it's a rainy day. The kids have been inside all day and in the same spot, mostly. They need a break, as we all do, but they can't use a ball, share toys, or play together without being socially distant. What's a teacher to do? Try these indoor recess games to help your class hit the "refresh" button and maybe even save your sanity.
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THE Journal
The educational experience of kindergarteners was dramatically different from the one received by preschoolers after the March 2020 school shutdown took place. While the majority of preschoolers ages three to five listened to stories, did learning apps or games or performed physical activities "less than once a week," according to a recent survey, the opposite was true for kindergartners, most of whom did the same every day or "several times each week."
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EdSurge
Even before the pandemic, teachers were feeling burnt out and demoralized. For many, it seems the sudden changes in recent months — prolonged school closures, emergency distance learning and the politicization of school reopenings — have only pushed them closer to a breaking point.
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The 74
During particularly harsh winters when schools are closed, states require students to make up any days they miss. So why aren't states requiring students to make up the learning time they lose due to COVID-19 disruptions? The logistics would be daunting, for sure, but it's a question we should be asking. Based on my series on how students were affected in the aftermath of an earthquake in Pakistan, flooding in Thailand and a series of teacher strikes in Argentina, it's clear that children suffer short- and long-term consequences when they miss school.
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Education DIVE
As the academic year begins, COVID-19 is causing declines in student enrollment and teacher morale, an increased likelihood of teacher resignations, and growing concerns about a slowdown in student academic progress. With 60% of the nation's educators reporting that the 2020-2021 academic year is underway and the remainder to follow suit early this month, the EdWeek Research Center fielded a nationally-representative online survey Aug. 26-28 to see what educators are thinking. Following are nine key findings from the survey of 826 K-12 educators, which included 415 teachers, 149 principals and 262 district-level administrators.
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The Hill
Teachers unions are waging court fights across the country aimed at unwinding what they say are unsafe and politically motivated timetables for reopening schools that risk exposing personnel to the coronavirus pandemic. State officials eager to ramp up brick-and-mortar operations are facing lawsuits from Florida to Texas to Iowa over reopening plans as well as access to the COVID-19 infection data needed to monitor the rate of spread within school communities.
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Chalkbeat
New York City teachers and principals have about 10 extra days to get ready for a school year unlike any other, after the mayor and union leaders agreed to hold off on opening buildings for in-person instruction. The delay was hard-fought, coming after hundreds of principals had written open letters demanding more time, and with just hours to spare before teachers were scheduled to vote on whether or not to authorize a strike.
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NAESP
The CARES Act, passed and signed into law in late March, provided schools with much-needed support to respond to the coronavirus. The $13 billion in CARES Act funding provided schools with emergency needs such as WiFi hotspots and delivering meals to students in need. Since passage of this legislation, however, Congress has failed to provide additional funding to help schools. This despite schools facing significant costs to reopen, either in-person or remotely.
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NAESP
School leaders learned a lot from spring school closings that they are putting to use this fall as schools reopen — whatever that looks like for their district. Everything from combating learning loss and ensuring students get continued social-emotional support to opening safely and meeting equity requirements are concerns — and priorities — for principals.
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