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District Administration Magazine
School districts across the country that are putting temporary structures on their school campuses and finding bigger spaces to convene to help with social distancing of students can't forget about the mandates of the ADA. "Accessibility means more than just a physical structure," says Rachel M. Weisberg, a staff attorney at Equip for Equality, a nonprofit disability advocacy group. "Even if something isn't the wall or the doorframe, but it's a plexiglass or temporary shelving built in to keep folks away from each other, make sure it's accessible for students and staff." Here are five actions to consider in ensuring practices comply with the ADA.
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We Are Teachers
In the wake of its path of mass cancellations, the COVID-19 pandemic left the detritus of collegiate and professional sports (they're back ... kind of), concerts, conventions, vacations, and most recently the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (it's going virtual, but still). Look, I'm all about prioritizing public health, so I'll suck up the cancellation of my beloved state fair. But when you come for my snow days, coronavirus, you've officially crossed a line.
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Edutopia
Tackling topics ranging from transportation to technology, leaders have undertaken Herculean efforts to address how to best begin the new school year. In preparation for this moment, Lindsay Unified School District in California conducted a research study last spring with the Learning Accelerator, the national nonprofit where I lead research and measurement. The purpose of that study was not only to understand learners’ experiences during remote learning in the spring but also to gain insights that would inform decisions for the reopening of schools in the fall.
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District Administration Magazine (commentary)
Michael Moore, a contributor for District Administration Magazine, writes: "I don't know what the 'new normal' will be, but after supporting school and district leaders for the last few months as they address one novel challenge after another, I know what good leadership looks like. The demands and conditions of K-12 leadership have transformed nearly overnight, driven by the pandemic, its economic impact, and racial justice protests. In the face of these challenges, I've noticed that the most effective leaders have moved away from their traditional approaches and are trying new leadership skills."
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Education Week
As summer transitions to fall, millions of students began the new school year the same way they ended the last: physically separated from the teachers and staff who are crucial to their academic success. For English language learners and students with physical or learning disabilities, the indefinite shift to distance learning poses even more challenges.
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Chalkbeat
The Government Accountability Office sounded a dire warning: One in three public school students — some 14 million — was learning in a building in need of extensive repair. In New Orleans, that meant rotting buildings with no air conditioning. In rural California, it meant difficult-to-maintain portable classrooms. America's school facilities, one observer said, were a "national crisis." That report was issued in 1995.
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The 74
Grace Warniment vowed to never put a face mask on her elementary-age sons. Even as public health officials recommend that students cover their faces on campus to slow the pandemic's havoc, the Florida mother insists that cloth face coverings are disgusting — and could put her kids at risk. "Why would I cover my children's face when they're healthy?" she asked. "You're only going to lower their immune system. The masks are what are hurting people."
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Education Week
We use a lot of phrases in schools. Walking around the hallway or sitting in a faculty meeting, we will hear words like "common formative assessment," "growth mindset," "fidelity," and "differentiated instruction." It's important for those who work in schools to explore the words they use because the school community may have a common language, but those individuals who make up the community may not have a unified common understanding of those words.
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Education DIVE
The disparity between teachers' salaries and those of other industries remains high despite some slight improvement last year. In 2019, teachers made 19.2% less than their nonteaching peers who had similar experience and education, an improvement of 2.8% from the year before when teachers made 22% less, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute.
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eSchool News
In a recent principal training session, a participant raised his hand and asked: "How can I afford to invest in social-emotional learning when my students have fallen so far behind?" EdSource reports. The real question is whether we can afford not to invest in practices that support students' social, emotional AND cognitive development right now. If we really care about student success, then we need to honor the biology of our brains — our interconnected centers of emotions, focus and learning.
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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.
District Administration Magazine
Some administrators are keeping tabs on the entire community's social-emotional wellbeing by having their staffs conduct regular "empathy interviews" with students and their families. Every member of the school staff is assigned a cohort of families to contact to determine who is dealing with health problems, financial strains, or other difficulties, says assistant professor Christina Cipriano, who has studied the social-emotional impact of the pandemic on educators as the director of research at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
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Education Week
Administrators in Anchorage, Alaska, cranked up the volume on their annual back-to-school campaign a few weeks ago when, after scanning district attendance rolls, they realized they were more than 4,000 students off from their projected enrollment. District leaders appeared on the nightly newscasts and the morning radio shows, they extended in-person registration into the weekend, called parents of kids who were MIA, and then dispatched teachers to start knocking on students' doors.
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The New York Times
The coronavirus is unpredictable, but one thing seems certain in this back-to-school season: Outbreaks will appear in many K-12 schools as they reopen. "It's not a question of if, but when outbreaks will occur," said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and the former health commissioner of Baltimore. "We have to be realistic," said Dr. Benjamin Linas, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University. "If we are opening schools, there will be some Covid."
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Leadership Freak (commentary)
"I don't turn on the lights when I get a drink in the night. But occasionally, while standing in front of the fridge, I hear the freezer grinding. A frozen clinker is clogging the icemaker again. I can't leave it till morning. I struggle to keep the sleep in my eyes while I pry out the stuck ice cube with scissors. Ice is slippery, but I can grip clinkers with scissors. It's 2 a.m. During the day, when I hear an avalanche from the icemaker, I wonder if another ice cube clogged the works."
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Fast Company
It's not unusual to feel as if 2020 is like an ultramarathon, with no clear finish line in sight. You tell yourself you need to keep moving forward, but you can only do so if you refuel and recharge consistently to avoid fatigue, burnout and other mental illnesses. With the amount of change going on in the world and the additional pressures of potentially working from home and trying to help your children stay on track with remote learning, the mental load is exponentially higher.
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Forbes
After some time working remotely, some people may have learned to work autonomously, while others may still struggle. Especially leaders. Some leaders try to be on top of everything, just like they would do on-site, while others abandon the employee as long as the job gets done. What is your leadership style?
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The Lead Change Group (commentary)
John Thurlbeck, a contributor for The Lead Change Group, writes: "Now, more than ever, leaders are dealing with changing patterns and trends, too much data, too little knowledge, sketchy and stretched resources, and the changing habits of mass populations, all brought about by the pandemic. Is that testing your leadership mettle? If it is, I offer some thoughts to help you reorient yourself as a successful leader."
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Fast Company
When Bombas CEO Dave Heath walks into a room, he commands attention and authority. With a deeply empathetic and engaging presence, he makes you feel strangely relaxed and energized at the same time. The only problem right now for Dave and other extroverted leaders like him is that during this global pandemic, there are no physical rooms to be walking into.
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Training Industry Magazine
You know that the people on your teams learn differently — but did you know they listen differently, too? Listening is as distinctive as our personality, and a new area of brain science research tells us that listening is a key learning style. We now know that individuals listen for — or prefer — certain kinds of information and miss or ignore other information. This new awareness of what is filtered in or out relates directly to learning and has implications both for onboarding new hires and for team development.
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Inc.
You only need to scroll through your Twitter feed, turn on the news, or even just look around you to see that 2020 has taken burnout to a whole new level. As millions adjust to their own homes becoming their new offices, over-reliance on screens has taken a toll on productivity and mental wellness. In fact, the second annual Workplace Productivity Report from the Paper and Packaging Board found that three in four of the 2,000 workers surveyed are experiencing an increased sense of digital overload since the switch to remote work.
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Entrepreneur
If you're like most people, you probably have countless goals and aspirations: eating a more balanced diet, saving money, exercising more, being a more engaged parent. Prepared to make a major life change with your sights set squarely on perfection, you fail — if not immediately, within the first few weeks.
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Education Week
New guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the risk of COVID-19 transmission within a school, using a color-coded scale to show levels of vulnerability. Some data suggest large portions of the country fall into the highest risk categories. To determine risk level, the scale relies on a few health-related indicators, like cases of the virus. It also includes a school's ability to carry out key mitigation strategies like use of masks, social distancing, cleaning, hand hygeine and "respiratory etiquette," as well as working with local health officials on contact tracing to monitor transmission of the virus.
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Education Week
Though federal law requires it, states' rollout of data detailing how much districts spend on schools, has been clumsy and overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic. Data has been incomplete, hard to comprehend, buried on hard-to-navigate state department pages or, in some cases, entirely unavailable. So U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who has spent much of her tenure advocating for states to upend the way they distribute their K-12 dollars, did a runaround and took a crack at highlighting the mounds of data herself.
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THE Journal
Two organizations have kicked off a project to help increase home connectivity for students. The "K-12 Bridge to Broadband" initiative is the brainchild of the Internet & Television Association and EducationSuperHighway, a national nonprofit that helped lead work to close the classroom connectivity gap. The goal is to help public school districts and states identify the students who need access to the internet and potentially connect them.
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EdTech Magazine
Working from home is part of the new normal for K–12 schools and districts. How can IT managers secure teachers and staff in online environments? Here are some questions and answers. End users remain the biggest security vulnerability — and educators are naturally more curious, open minded and excited to try new things, making them information security's worst nightmare. Applying technical protections — such as setting strong anti-phishing on email and installing centrally managed endpoint security tools — certainly helps, but technology alone won't top a good dose of quality, targeted end-user training and an easy-to-reach online help desk staffed for as many hours a day as the district can afford.
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TechRepublic
This year's back-to-school season is quite different than it has been in the past. With the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdown, many school systems are restricting teachers and students to remote access or offering some combination of classroom and virtual training. However school is being conducted, cybercriminals are naturally taking notice of the season, which is why there's been an increase in attacks against academic facilities as of late. A Tuesday blog post published by cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research looks at the rise in such attacks across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and offers advice on how schools can better protect themselves.
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EdTech Magazine
For many K–12 schools, the new academic year kicked off with a long list of problems: videoconferencing glitches, device shortages, cyberattacks — all amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. If that wasn't enough, there's another urgent challenge they also need to address: learning loss. Academic progress for millions of K–12 students was disrupted with the scramble to implement remote learning after the pandemic shut down school buildings last spring. Some fell behind because they lacked reliable internet access or devices; others were supporting their families by working or taking care of younger siblings and sick relatives.
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eSchool News
Over the coming weeks, students, teachers and caregivers alike have adjusted to the modern-day classroom — many of which consist of a full or hybrid online learning model. This virtual shift brought on by COVID-19 comes with many unique challenges, and one of the most concerning is ensuring optimal online learning security across new and emerging technologies.
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District Administration Magazine
As STEAM educators, we talk a lot about the importance of teaching students robotics and coding at an early age. In a remote learning context, though, students may not have the same tech tools they would in the classroom. So how do we move beyond the tool and still teach the behaviors and skills that we want to foster in young children?
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MiddleWeb (commentary)
Sarah Cooper, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Sending my students into Zoom breakout rooms last spring to work on projects or discuss their opinions seemed easy – an extension of sitting in class and talking in pairs or small groups. When the pandemic struck, I already knew every student well from our in-class time together and had an idea of how everyone would behave, even the perspectives they might take. Higher risk conversations felt manageable."
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EdSurge
It's September. It's been six months since teaching and learning as we knew it was turned on its head. Six months filled with increasingly disproportionate experiences of loss across school communities. Six months of social distancing, remote learning plans and hybrid models, temperature checks and face coverings, school waivers and district accountability policies.
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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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We Are Teachers
Whether you use Zoom, Google Meet or Webex to teach online, you've undoubtedly experienced the newly coined term Zoom fatigue. While it's true that teachers are used to juggling zillions of things all day, every day, caring for the needs of their students, teachers are reporting a new kind of tired. So why exactly do video calls make us feel so weary?
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Edutopia
As remote learning became the norm, some of my students began to not-so-subtly indicate that something was wrong. During a guest lecture on Zoom, several typically engaged students had their cameras turned off. One student stopped attending synchronous class meetings, and another stopped submitting assignments.
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Teaching Channel
As we move through back-to-school mode, it's mission critical that we remember to check in with our student and with ourselves. Here are three ways we can have meaningful Social Emotional Learning check-ins during class time and beyond, without losing sight of our academic goals.
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Edutopia
Now more than ever, teaching is a mix-and-match proposition as K–12 teachers have been pushed to come up with new ways to engage students during distance and hybrid learning. To leverage experience from teaching in traditional classrooms and meet the demands of online learning, educators are exploring different models, as well as ideas from outside their own disciplines.
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Language Magazine
Academic integrity is something every teacher strives to maintain in the classroom. We want our students to be honest in their work because this will better help them achieve long-term retention of the material taught in class and will teach them the importance of honesty, hopefully giving them the satisfaction of knowing they did a good job without having to take any shortcuts.
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Education DIVE
Delayed openings in many districts mean students and their families may have only a few days or weeks of the new school year in the books. Already, parent, teacher and administrator frustration is understandably widespread due to the unpredictability of the pandemic and the forced change to traditional education.
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EdSurge
At this point the Zoom call has almost come to define learning and working in the age of COVID-19. But a few months ago, people began realizing that all these video calls were making them tired — exhausted even — more so than a day of in-person class or all-day meetings. The phenomena even has a name: Zoom fatigue. And it's backed by some pretty interesting brain science.
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Education DIVE
National surveys of 1,001 parents of public school K-12 students and 816 public school teachers — both conducted by Hart Research Associates for the American Federation of Teachers, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, League of United Latin American Citizens and NAACP — find both groups remain concerned about school reopenings amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Science Daily
Students who are quizzed over class material at least once a week tend to perform better on midterm and final exams compared to students who did not take quizzes, according to a new meta-analysis. The researchers found in addition to frequency, immediate feedback from instructors also seemed to positively impact student performance.
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The New York Times
Ash fell from an apocalyptic orange sky as Jennifer Willin drove home last week from the only school in tiny Berry Creek, California, where she had picked up a pair of Wi-Fi hot spots for her daughters' remote classes. Hours later, her cellphone erupted with an emergency alert: Evacuate immediately. By the next morning, what one official described as a "massive wall of fire" had swept through the entire Northern California town of about 1,200 people, killing nine residents, including a 16-year-old boy, and destroying the school and almost every home and business.
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The New York Times
Students who are homeless already face exceptional challenges in school. They are more likely to drop out, and they tend to perform worse than other students in several academic areas. Advocates have long said more services are necessary to address their learning needs. As New York City's 1.1 million schoolchildren plunge into a new experiment in remote learning, homeless students may not have the resources they need.
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NAESP
Are your teachers concerned that parents are telling their children answers? Have you supported family members in their new roles? We are in this together and will get through this together, but only if roles are clear and parents are seen as partners. Let's help families create an environment conducive to learning, establish routines, and create habits that foster creativity, critical thinking and increased responsibility for their learning.
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NAESP
As schools begin to reopen for the 2020-2021 school year, big questions remain for education leaders — thanks in part to several versions of the coronavirus rescue package that have shortchanged schools nationwide. One of those questions: How do schools address the homework gap, which has gotten worse during the coronavirus, when they don't have adequate funding?
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