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Education DIVE
Like many of his peers, David Brown's first year as a principal was far from ordinary. Where the school leader at Hillcrest Heights Elementary — a pre-K to 5 school serving just over 400 students in Prince George's County, Maryland — initially set out to improve metrics like assessments and attendance at his school, he ended up helping students, families and educators adjust to a pandemic that shifted most of the nation's schools to distance learning for at least the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.
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The New York Times
Schools are not islands, and so it was inevitable that when students and teachers returned this fall to classrooms, coronavirus cases would follow them. But more than a month after the first school districts welcomed students back for in-person instruction, it is nearly impossible to tally a precise figure of how many cases have been identified in schools.
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District Administration Magazine
It may seem counterintuitive, but COVID has so disrupted K-12 education that building leaders and teachers could look at 2020-2021 as their first year in the profession, says one administrator. That's because online learning is a brand new instructional setting for most educators, says Adam Brown, assistant principal of the Renaissance Academy in Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
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NPR
A new national effort asks K-12 schools to voluntarily — and anonymously — report their confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases, along with the safety strategies they're using. Opening schools safely in person is seen as key to restarting the economy and recovering the learning loss that has fallen most heavily on marginalized groups of students. There are also many fears associated with reopening — of severe illness among vulnerable staff and family members, and of stoking broader outbreaks, as seems to have happened where colleges have reopened in person.
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EdSurge
Our school leaders and their teachers have just had the most stressful summer to date. When was the last time educators had to wait so long to be able to figure out what back-to-school would look like? To add to the complexity, they all know that their current plans will have to shift as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve.
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POLITICO
Amy Neier carefully wrote "first day of kindergarten" on a whiteboard and posed her 5-year-old son Hunter with the sign to capture the milestone she had long waited for. Then Hunter headed off for another year of preschool instead. Neier and parents across the nation are skipping kindergarten in droves during the most tumultuous school year in generations. Frustrated by the thought of sticking their 5-year-olds in front of screens during the pivotal first year of school, they are sending their children to extended preschool, forming learning pods or foregoing formal instruction altogether.
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District Administration Magazine
Non-classroom duties, such as after-school supervision, are among the leading causes of low teacher morale and professional burnout, a human resources researcher at the University of Flordia says. Even leading a student club can frustrate a teacher if it's not something they volunteered for on their own accord, says Brian W. Swider, an associate professor in the university's Warrington College of Business. "The extent to which those responsibilities are thrust onto a teacher or strongly encouraged increases the likelihood people will leave because that's not why they entered the profession," Swider says.
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Chalkbeat
Even as the coronavirus has created a slew of rules students will be expected to follow — from social distancing to wearing masks every day — New York City officials are instructing principals to use last year's discipline policies. As schools prepare to open their doors to students next week, the city's discipline guidance does not explain how administrators should enforce health and safety standards, according to a memo obtained by Chalkbeat.
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By Amanda Kowalski (commentary)
COVID-19 has left school districts scrambling to provide education and keep kids safe since March. The worldwide pandemic shut down in-person classes for the end of the 2019-2020 school year, and districts worked all summer to come up with a plan for 2020-21. Those plans have varied from district to district and state to state, ranging from all virtual to all in-person and a combination of the two. But which is better? What are the differences? And what do the teachers think?
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District Administration Magazine
On Monday, personal finance website WalletHub released its annual publication of "Best and Worst States for Teachers." There are those that provide competitive salaries to educators and others that don't. There are states where teacher turnover is high and states where the teacher-pupil ratio is low. Beyond the data and lists, which are based on 25 indicators of "teacher-friendliness," WalletHub tapped education experts for guidance to school district leaders on two important topics: how to attract and retain the best teachers and key measures on implementing remote or in-person 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.
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The New York Times
One month into the school year, Linnet Early, a social studies teacher outside St. Louis, has an anxious new ritual: scanning the Zoom squares on her computer screen at the beginning of each class to see which of her sixth-grade students are missing. It is usually quite a few.
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Education DIVE
At the crack of dawn on the first day of school, Mike Geluardi drove to campus to record a video message. The school board president from California's Bonny Doon Union Elementary School District hoped his analogy would resonate with teachers as they dove into what would be a challenging year like no other: He, his sole administrator and the teachers of the small, one-school district were like Odysseus and his crew facing the monster of coronavirus.
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NPR (commentary)
Anya Kamenetz, a contributor for NPR, writes: "I catch Patricia Stamper with a Zoom meeting going in the background and a child at her knee asking for attention. Stamper works as a teacher's assistant for special education students in the Washington, D.C., public schools. These days, her virtual classroom is at home — and so is her toddler, who has a genetic disorder called Noonan syndrome, and her kindergartner, who receives speech therapy. Her husband works outside the home at a golf course."
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Entrepreneur
Are there people in your life that you just love being with because they have great energy? That is one of the secrets of high performers: the energy they put out into the world attracts other high performers to them. I want to share with you one of my secrets and three easy ways high performers generate energy.
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Forbes (commentary)
Janette Braverman, a contributor for Forbes, writes: "I began diversifying my network at a very young age and have not stopped. Start early, and be open to connecting often with people who don't look like you! I'm intentionally connected to people who spark new ideas and perspectives. It forces me to be more creative and ensures inclusive thinking. Embracing diversity has even prompted me to learn new languages and cultures, which greatly expanded my global network."
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Inc.
When you're recruiting new talent, you want to make sure you find the right person for the job. A good interview will help you get to know a candidate better, but be careful that the questions you ask don't act as a deterrent. A poorly judged question might actually frustrate, irritate, or even offend a prospective employee. A new study by Resume.io surveyed 2,000 Americans to find out about the worst questions people get asked in interviews.
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Leadership Freak
"I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." Bonnie Ware, Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Stop working so hard to fit in. What is your unique contribution? What do you have that others don't? Conformity makes you average. Otherness makes you remarkable. We fear that which makes us unique. Sadly, fitting in incapacitates exceptional contribution.
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Forbes
Why is it that most managers seem to work around the clock? The majority of an overworked manager's "work" is often self-imposed tampering on tasks better handled by those they lead.
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Training Industry Magazine (commentary)
Jared Narlock, a contributor for Training Industry Magazine, writes: "Do you ever take time to reflect on what the ideal workplace would look like? A few years ago, I had the privilege of working with a large number of leaders who wanted to focus on the topic of engagement. I started our time together by asking them to write — in pictures, words, sentences or bullet points — what their team would look like if all of its members were highly engaged."
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Education Week
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer in the women's rights movement and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday at age 87 due to complications of pancreatic cancer. On education issues arising during her 27 years on the court, Ginsburg was a stalwart vote for sex equity in schools, expansive desegregation remedies, strict separation of church and state, and, in a memorable dissent, against broader drug testing of students.
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Education DIVE
The ADA forbids employers from retaliating against a person who has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by the federal law or because an individual has "made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing" under the federal law. In general, when workers complain about discrimination or harassment or participate in an internal investigation into alleged misconduct, they are engaging in protected activity.
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Education Week
The political divide separating Trump and Biden voters extends to where — and how — their children are attending school for the 2020-21 school year, according to a nationally representative survey conducted by the EdWeek Research Center. Supporters of Democratic candidate Joe Biden were far more likely than respondents overall to say their children will be engaged in full-time remote learning, compared to respondents who plan to vote for President Donald Trump. About 48% of Biden voters say their children are learning remotely, compared to around a quarter of Trump voters and more than a third of respondents overall.
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EdSurge
Parents are concerned about their children’s online safety and data privacy, but not as much as other issues such as the quality of education their child receives, protection from violence and bullying, and ensuring their child doesn’t fall behind in school.
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EdTech Magazine
Last spring's school closures led to new questions about student learning and the use of technology in education. Administrators and teachers wondered about how students were — or weren't — engaging with online instruction. IT teams were concerned about who needed laptops and mobile hotspots and how those devices were being used. But with everyone working remotely, they were left in the dark.
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District Administration Magazine
The goal: engage one million school-age girls in the U.S. in STEM learning opportunities over the next five years. The program: Million Girls Moonshot initiative, which provides grant funding and in-kind resources to afterschool networks in all 50 states to increase access to hands-on, immersive STEM experiences. The players: The initiative Intel Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, STEM Next Opportunity Fund and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are launching the effort.
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Tech & Learning
The research surrounding student outcomes of remotely versus in-person college tells two different stories, says Justin Reich, director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. "There's a group of people who say whenever we do studies where we compare radio versus in-person, film versus in-person, computer versus in-person, there's no difference in terms of media, that you can do good instruction in any model," says Reich whose book "Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education" is available on Sept. 15.
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Tech & Learning
Although many districts have been forced to eliminate music, band, and chorus this year as they navigate the pandemic, technology can still keep the music alive. These remote music education platforms can engage students as they boost comprehension, infuse creativity and improve social-emotional learning skills.
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We Are Teachers
Are you teaching online? In the classroom? Both? Whatever your school year currently looks like, we’re all trying to find ways to save time — and our sanity! While unbelievably gratifying, teaching can be exhausting during the best of times, but it's especially tough during a pandemic. Here are some Chromebook keyboard hacks to make remote learning a lot easier. And make sure to share with your students!
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Edutopia
Professional learning is an integral part of school culture and developing staff. Even though we know professional learning is important, a 2013 report on professional development by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education noted that more than 90% of teachers report that professional learning is not helpful. We want PD to build teacher capacity and to be just as good as the lessons that teachers are creating for their students.
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eSchool News
The first phase of distance learning shocked education systems across the nation as schools were forced to migrate students and staff to distance learning in a week's time, leaving many struggling to simply "make it work." Fast forward six months and schools are still dealing with the weight of the pandemic–but are now confronted with new, added challenges.
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Teaching Channel
To say that the first year of teaching is challenging would be an understatement. There are so many moving parts to manage and so many new things to learn that it's sometimes difficult to know where to start. Keep it simple and start with these small teaching tweaks.
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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)
Beth Nicklaus, a contributor for MiddleWeb, writes: "Harper has questions. Harper, my fourth-grade virtual tutee, is my awesome question connection. I met Harper last spring when the colleges here in Wisconsin created an e-tutor collaborative program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program networked tutor and tutees who then got together during the quarantine. These students needed a little extra help after we were all thrown into remote learning that fateful Monday in March."
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By Brian Stack (commentary)
I'll admit it, as a school administrator, the pandemic has given me some new vocabulary to incorporate into my daily professional life. For example, a new concept has emerged this fall: Microschooling or pandemic pods. Pods are popping up all over the country as families try to cope with fluid school models while maintaining their ability to work and/or keep their kids safe if they do not feel comfortable with the school's plan. But, are these pods a Band-Aid fix to the challenges the pandemic has presented to schools, or might they be the wave of the future?
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Edutopia
As Mr. James starts today’s class about volcanoes, he shares one of his all-time favorite wonder moments: “The loudest known sound was made by a volcano called Krakatau, in Southeast Asia. When Krakatau erupted in 1883, it was reported to have sounded like 15,000 nuclear bombs! Like 200 megatons of energy! What do you imagine a volcano eruption sounds like?” The imaginations of all 28 of his fourth graders were set afire, with many sharing their ideas.
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ADDitude Magazine
The intellectual potential of twice exceptional youth is great but sometimes difficult to recognize and cultivate due to a co-existing condition like ADHD, a learning disability, sensory issues or other conditions that complicate learning — and teaching.
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EdSurge
In what seems like forever ago, but was actually only May, images circled the internet of preschoolers in France, newly returned to school, sitting alone in chalk drawn squares that may as well have been surrounded by invisible walls. The photographer who took the photo said the half dozen or so kids were told to stay inside their zones, which they do, more or less. In one image, many of them sit plaintively under jackets and sweaters without so much as a toy for company; few look like they're having any fun at all.
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THE Journal
Nearly two dozen organizations, including teachers, instructional coaches, researchers in higher education and experts from nonprofits and offices of education recently contributed to the creation of a digital toolkit for anti-racist instructional practices for teaching math in grades 6-8. Coverage includes guidance for teachers implementing hybrid and remote learning. The project was led by the Education Trust-West, which advocates for "educational justice and high academic achievement" for and among California students.
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Education DIVE
As education leaders grapple with distance learning and reopening schools safely, common best practices are becoming part of the strategy. Maintaining connections and supporting students' social-emotional needs is a top priority for many administrators, including Richard Gordon, principal at Paul Robeson High School in Philadelphia.
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Université de Genève via Science Daily
If sport is good for the body, it also seems to be good for the brain. By evaluating memory performance following a sport session, neuroscientists demonstrate that an intensive physical exercise session improves memory. How? Through the action of endocanabinoids, molecules known to increase synaptic plasticity. School programs and strategies aimed at reducing the effects of neurodegeneration on memory could benefit from the study.
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EdSurge
John Sweller is one of the most influential learning science researchers, best known for his "cognitive load theory," which suggests that educators should present information without extraneous details. Otherwise, the brains of students can literally overload with what amounts to intellectual clutter. Sweller's latest line of research offers a new insight: the human brain may need regular breaks when learning to help it refresh its "working memory" capacity.
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Indianapolis Star
When Hamilton Southeastern Schools went from all virtual instruction to offering a hybrid schedule for students, Jessica Savage knew she had to keep her sons at home. Her second-grader, who is in special education classes, has multiple health concerns and she's unsure how COVID-19 could affect him. Plus, she said virtual learning was going great. "The boys were thriving and we had a pretty good handle on their schedule," she said of her two school-age sons.
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NAESP
Join K-12 school principals and school counselors for a frank discussion about ensuring equitable opportunities and positive outcomes for all students. Collaboration among the education team is critical to addressing racism and bias at school.
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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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