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Education DIVE
From preschool to early elementary school, play-based learning continues to be an important part of every young child's day. It's how students physically express themselves, while simultaneously learning how to develop crucial social skills. Yet COVID-19 has affected this important childhood activity.
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eSchool News
As America's schools reopen this fall, most are returning at least partially — if not fully — virtual. While policymakers, health experts, parents and educators continue to debate the right course of action, one thing is for certain: back-to-school is here. As students log into their classrooms, another question arises — what has been the impact on student learning since the COVID-19 pandemic began?
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By Bambi Majumdar (Commentary)
 There have been numerous debates on the pros and cons of e-learning during the pandemic. The school year has started, and a large number of the nation's K-12 children are learning virtually. It is not an ideal situation, but it seems to be the best way to keep them safe from the virus. However, providing the same services to students with disabilities has been quite a challenge. Special education administrators across the nation are struggling to get their online learning programs off the ground.
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Tech & Learning
Sir Ken Robinson inspired educators around the globe to include creativity and rethink the way we consider schooling. Uncanny, we lose the loudest voice of re-envisioning school during a period in world history where we are actually being challenged to re-envision school. As we are beginning a new school year in the midst of a pandemic, we are realizing this crisis has challenged districts and ministries of education worldwide to consider schooling in a very different way.
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We Are Teachers
The death of George Floyd horrified a world that was already reeling from how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily life. Our collective outrage sparked a much-needed conversation about racism in America as demonstrations took place across the country. Suddenly, many schools are truly paying attention, some for the first time, and evaluating how long-held policies and practices may be impacting students. Many schools are finally acknowledging that, despite our best efforts, schools aren't always the most welcome spaces — even unintentionally.
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The 74
Late last month, the United Federation of Teachers, representing employees of the nation's largest school district, threatened to hold a strike authorization vote if certain safety measures related to the coronavirus weren't put into place in New York City. In the nation's second-largest school district, United Teachers Los Angeles provided a long list of necessary conditions before its members would return to in-person instruction.
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Education DIVE
While strong parent-teacher communication has always been important, it's now critical since many caregivers feel overwhelmed with the demands of distance learning. Educators must be sure parents understand what is expected of students so they can help support learning strategies from home. One step many teachers have taken is implementing virtual office hours so parents and students know when to reach out for help.
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Education Week
The Schenectady, N.Y., school district realized it needed to do better by its students of color: The vast majority of its teachers were white, while less than a third of students are. A couple years ago, the district began ramping up its efforts to hire more teachers of color, as well as provide anti-racist training for its staff.
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University of Missouri-Columbia via Science Daily
Just how stressed are teachers? A recent Gallup poll found teachers are tied with nurses for the most stressful occupation in America today. Unfortunately, that stress can have a trickle-down effect on their students, leading to disruptive behavior that results in student suspensions.
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We Are Teachers
There's a lot of pressure on teachers to make up for COVID-19 learning loss and "stop the slide." We know that students experienced unfinished learning. We understand that the long term effects on students' academics could be challenging. But we also know that teachers are working harder than ever, trying to make the best of an extremely challenging situation.
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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.
MindShift (commentary)
Kara Newhouse, a contributor for MindShift, wrties: "How can I teach music if the kids aren't allowed to sing indoors? How will lag time affect group singing online? How will I make students feel seen and heard via Zoom? Those were some of the questions that elementary music teacher Angela Carpenter spent her summer trying to figure out. Though she would be entering her 15th year of teaching, it was like being new to the job. 'No one has done this before. Even the teaching that we're doing now is so vastly different than what we did in the spring,' she said, 'because that was panic teaching.'"
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Chalkbeat
Judith Hernandez never thought she’d miss the old remote learning. When the pandemic confined her four children to their home this spring, their schools in Newark, N.J. distributed paper packets, loaned out laptops, and posted online assignments. Hernandez helped her children complete their work, while their teachers recorded short videos and checked in by phone or text. It wasn't much, but it was manageable.
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Education Week
As school administrators wrestle with when and how to reopen their buildings during the coronavirus pandemic, many states have provided them little guidance about when its safe to do so. They've left the decision up to local officials and, in some cases, pushed for buildings to open without providing public health rationale, a new analysis finds. "It may be that districts are, in that vacuum, turning to local health officials," says the analysis by the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research center at the University of Washington, Bothell. "But silence from states jeopardizes the safe and timely reopening of public schools and opens the door to local decisions shaped by politics, not public health."
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Entrepreneur
Just as we got used to the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, we experienced a second pandemic: the social unrest from the growing rage about systemic racism. Tough topics like racism require introspection and response from the business community, and there has been a wide variety of responses to these issues. Consumer demands are shifting, and as business owners, we need to communicate what we're doing to address the dual pandemics of social upheaval and coronavirus.
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Inc.
Over the last decades, as Americans have grown sadder and lonelier by a whole host of measures, our employers have become obsessed with cheering us up. Google and many other companies have "chief happiness officers," and an army of researchers churn out advice on how to be happier and why we should strive to be so. Of course, being happy is a fine goal (if also a problematic one — there are a lot of competing definitions of happiness), but according to a fascinating and timely new report in The Washington Post, the pursuit of happiness, if taken too far, can actually turn into harmful "toxic positivity."
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Harvard Business Review
The COVID-19 pandemic is constantly evolving, with leaders facing unpredictability, imperfect information, multiple unknowns, and the need to identify responses quickly — all while recognizing the multi-dimensional (health-related, economic, social, political, cultural) nature of the crisis.
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Fast Company
If you're one of the many people who feel you work for a tough or unlikeable boss, you are not alone. According to a recent 15Five report, one-third of all employees would be relieved to hear that their managers were leaving the company. And managers would be the first to admit they aren't perfect. According to the same report, 75% of managers would like more training in how to be a good boss.
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Leadership Freak
The good you'd like to do — but don't do because of fear — exposes you. Fears reveal highest realities. Fear wipes steam from the glass. The person looking back surprises you. The awkward potential of anxiety, worry, and fear is uncomfortable self-revelation. You see yourself clearly when your knees knock, and self-protection takes charge.
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Forbes
With the pandemic and lockdown in full effect, the world of work has completely changed. Everything is now online, including those virtual meetings you find yourself attending several times a day, every day. Although you are not actively seeing these people face to face, it is still important that your body language is correct and that you are communicating with others in a professional manner. So, here are a few tips and methods on improving your body language.
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Harvard Business Review
The last several months have stacked painful experiences on top of each other: a global pandemic, economic collapse, and new reminders of perennial racial injustice and police violence. This July, rates of depression and anxiety in the U.S. were more than triple those of early 2019. The simple question, "How are you?" has turned into an emotional minefield.
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Education Week
Motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education has released five guides highlighting government-funded ed tech products and programs to assist educators in remote teaching. The department's Institute of Education Sciences recently released "Ready Now" guides for math, science and engineering, special education, early learning, and social studies. The guides were put together by private technology developers that benefited from government-funded programs.
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Education Week
Two education civil rights bills that represent some of the top K-12 priorities for Democrats are poised to be approved by the House. The House passed the Strength in Diversity Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, would essentially revive Obama administration grants that would support local efforts to increase diversity in schools, revise school attendance boundaries, and create public school choice zones, among other initiatives. The Trump administration nixed these Obama grants.
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EdTech Magazine
There's no denying that 2020 has been a challenging year for teachers, administrators, students and their families. The coronavirus pandemic threw several curveballs at our nation's schools and education systems, pushing many educators to teach and work together remotely for the first time. Despite the hardships this year has brought on, educators were quick to adapt. They worked tirelessly to continue learning for millions of children online without forgoing authentic relationships and community. They embraced the power of technology and learned to use digital tools — from collaboration platforms to the cloud — in ways that support inclusive, innovative and secure learning experiences for their students.
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Education Week
Just two weeks into the school year, the Rialto schools in California had to shut down virtual instruction for a week due to a malware attack. Designed to disrupt or gain access to a school's network, the malware attack also forced the 25,500-student district to collect — and fix — thousands of school-issued digital devices. Staffers wore masks and gloves as they worked, to protect themselves from potential COVID-19 infection. Cyberattacks on school districts are nothing new. In fact, there have been nearly a thousand such incidents since January of 2016, according to the K-12 Cybersecurity Research Center.
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The Associated Press
T-Mobile is pushing to offer internet service to schools that are doing online learning with a program aimed at low-income students who don't have access. In the U.S., millions of students don't have high-speed internet or computers at home — a difficult enough situation when it was just about trying to get homework done, but a much bigger problem when many school districts have moved part or all of the school day online during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Brookings Institution
Hooray for the broadband industry! It is time for some good news! America's broadband providers have stepped up with the "K-12 Bridge to Broadband" to help meet the needs of millions of low-income American students who are unable to get on the internet so they can go to class from home.
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eSchool News
What would happen if we didn't have the millions of cybersecurity professionals needed to fight hackers and prevent cyberattacks? Unfortunately, that's not a hypothetical question. Data suggests that, by 2021, there will be a deficit of 3.5 million cybersecurity professionals globally and 300,000 in the U.S. alone. Without these workers — and the cybersecurity education to prepare them — cyberattacks will only continue to increase in frequency and severity.
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Edutopia
Self-motivation. Ownership. Engagement. We have always wanted students to feel passion for learning and to be intrinsically motivated — to be driven from within. With much learning moving to an at-home environment, these student characteristics are more important than ever, and the way that we, as educators, frame at-home learning experiences can have a profound impact on how students feel about them.
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Education Next
We all make bad decisions sometimes. The role of behavioral scientists is to understand why we make these poor choices and develop policies to help us make better ones. With a Nobel Prize for Richard Thaler's work on individual decision-making and runaway bestseller status for books like Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, behavioral science has garnered wide and growing attention.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Rita Platt, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "This year might shape up to one of the most challenging of our careers. As I head into my 26th year as an educator with the miasmic mood of the pandemic permeating every thought and action, I feel more nervous energy than I ever have before."
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The Hechinger Report (commentary)
Rayna Dineen, a contributor for The Hechinger Report, writes: "When Juan Pablo entered third grade, he was not yet reading in English. He was beginning to lose confidence in his abilities and worried about being held back. His teacher referred him to Reading Quest, the nonprofit I run, where he could receive free, weekly personalized tutoring. After just a few months, Juan Pablo grew one full grade level in reading. He later attended our Reading Is Magic summer camp and grew another full grade level in reading in just two weeks."
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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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Edutopia
We know that students are joining virtual classes in all kinds of different situations. Some students have their work-from-home parents closely monitoring their schoolwork. Other students are babysitting three cousins while their parents are at work. It can feel impossible to move at a pace that works for all students. So why not let them set their own pace?
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eSchool News (commentary)
Lee Jackson, a contributor for eSchool News, writes: "When our school closed in the spring, my physics class still had two units left to cover for the school year – waves and electricity. I immediately thought about how I was going to teach remotely when a lot of the lessons are experiments and hands-on activities. I started brainstorming and collaborating with my peers and fellow teachers about ways to successfully teach hands-on physics remotely."
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Edutopia (commentary)
Rachel Fuhrman, a contributor for Edutopia, writes: "After teaching in both Harlem and New Orleans, I have seen many BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) students face the same tragic challenge, that schools view their differences in cultural background and language as weaknesses. Teachers have the power to shift their focus from what a student lacks to the vast array of experiences and diversity that such students bring. Teachers can focus on differences in their classrooms instead of deficits."
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By Sheilamary Koch (commentary)
From paper waste to police brutality, 145 children and teens took a deep dive into the social issues that most concern them this summer. Sounds like a good social justice project, right? What took the work of students who took the recent STEM Kids NYC course outside the realm of what we'd expect from a project on social activism was their final product. No, there were no reports, posters, presentations nor a single PowerPoint or video — instead, each student (aka computer scientist) created a digital app to illuminate their issue.
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Language Magazine
Whether teachers are instructing entirely online, face-to-face or in a hybrid capacity, the one constant this school year will be instructional technology. Even in a classroom setting, health guidelines will dictate that students not sit side-by-side sharing math manipulatives, creating posters or handling science lab equipment. Instead, students will be collaborating through online platforms and may even be interacting asynchronously through tools such as Google Jamboard or Flipgrid.
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Kasey Short, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "In August I began teaching in a hybrid model. I synchronously teach half of my middle school students remotely and the other half in person. I also have a few students who are remote every day, as this is an option for all families. I have learned a lot in the past month, but I still often feel like a first-year teacher, figuring out what works with lots of trial and error. It is new, complex, and takes multitasking to an entirely new level."
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Education DIVE
According to a separate CRPE report released in August, nearly half of school districts were planning full in-person instruction, with rural areas far more likely to return to a brick-and-mortar environment and 85% of districts nationwide offering a remote instruction option.
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The Atlantic
Growing up, Gary Koppelman, now an award-winning science teacher, didn't think he'd make it to college. In elementary school in the late 1950s, he struggled with math and reading and got mostly Cs and Ds. Speaking in front of his classmates made him stutter. He was teased relentlessly, and he had very few friends. By the time he began high school in 1966, his counselor told him to forget about college.
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EdSource
The first significant change to the state's 7-year-old K-12 funding system, the Local Control Funding Formula, is a signature away from becoming law. But if Gov. Gavin Newsom accepts the recommendation of his advisers at the California Department of Finance and ignores the Legislature's near-unanimous vote favoring the significant reform, he'll veto the legislation within the next few weeks. Hundreds of nonprofits and civil rights groups signed a letter last week urging him not to do that; signing it instead would ensure that funding for "our highest-need, most vulnerable students is actually directed to support them," the letter said.
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Language Magazine
A new report from the Council of the Great City Schools suggests a wide range of actions that schools and districts can take to help English learners make up for the educational opportunities lost during the first few months of school closures due to the pandemic. Supporting English Learners in the COVID-19 Crisis makes recommendations on all sorts of crucial decisions such as which technology to use when, how to assess what ELs missed during shutdown, how specific professional development for all educators who work with ELs can help, how to encourage family engagement, and how to deploy aides and English-learner specialists to help afford students one-to-one or small-group learning support during remote classes.
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NAESP
With everything educators have had to juggle in recent months, strong instructional leadership is more important than ever. The following practices have proved effective in the past, but in a year like this, they can provide antidotes to stress while supporting student and teacher growth.
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NAESP
The National Association of Elementary School Principals has partnered with Emily Oster, Brown University, Qualtrics, the School Superintendents Association, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals in the creation of the National COVID-19 School Response Dashboard to systematically map schools' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Formal data collection starts September 14, and the data dashboard will go live on September 21. Districts and schools can enroll in the dashboard at any time. This webinar will your first chance to walk through the dashboard and its data.
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