Lower Your Expectations, And Other Parenting Advice For The Era Of COVID-19
This resource offers parents tips to cope with their own and their children’s anxiety. The articles summarize the information provided during an online presentation for a group of Colorado parents by Dr. Amy Lopez and Dr. Scott Cypers from the stress and anxiety programs at the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center at the… Read More ›
7 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home
To help parents taking on new roles as their children’s teachers during remote learning, this article introduces some basic teaching concepts grounded in research and science. The author reminds parents that teaching is more than just sharing content. The article includes advice to help parents create a productive workspace and routine for their family as… Read More ›
Wide Open Schools
This website features a free collection of high-quality online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. In response to school closures, more than 25 organizations came together with a shared vision to make learning from home an experience that inspires kids, supports teachers, relieves families and restores community. The site will… Read More ›
Unleashing Your Innovative Genius: A Conversation with Deborah Olatunji
This is a transcript of an interview with Deborah Olatunji, a high school student from Delaware who recently authored a new book, Unleashing Your Innovative Genius: High School Redesigned, with the goal of igniting young people across the country to realize they have the power to transform education. The interview covers her educational journey including her… Read More ›
“It’s Our Right…”: The Opportunities Gained by Helping Students of Color Practice Resisting Racism
In this article, two authors discuss lessons they learned about supporting student activism during research for their book, Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice. They share examples that illustrate the importance of supporting actions taken by students to protest rather than simply teaching about systemic… Read More ›
A New Way Forward Series: Building a Learner-Centered Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented myriad challenges on multiple fronts but it has also provided a unique opening to reinvent how the education system serves our nation’s youth. Learner-centered leaders have been reinventing education in small pockets around the country for decades, and their expertise can help to transform education for every single child in… Read More ›
How We Can Help Our Children to Be “Disaster-resilient” & Why We Must
This webinar run by Embrace Race will look at the indirect effects of COVID-19 that could have long-term impacts on children, especially in socially, politically, economically and, often, racially marginalized communities. This conversation will focus on the ways in which the unfolding crisis might be affecting children’s mental health, and what educators, community members, and… Read More ›
New Strategies in Special Education as Kids Learn From Home
This article offers advice for teachers and schools providing special education services remotely. The author provides specific ideas for helping families recreate some of the supports children receive at school, such as a sense of structure or ways to participate in sensory and gross motor activities. In general, the article discusses a shift in the… Read More ›
Confronting the Coronavirus Outbreak
This section of the Usable Knowledge website brings together advice for educators during school closures due to COVID-19. Usable Knowledge is an online resource from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that aims to make education research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, members of the media, nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs and parents. As such,… Read More ›
What We Know about Successful Instruction in a Digital Environment
Earlier this week, I read this post on Facebook, and it got me thinking… Attention Parents: As we move closer to embarking on what is being called “remote teaching,” I am asking my Facebook friends to refrain from publicly scrutinizing their children’s teachers for the way they are teaching or the lessons they are assigning.… Read More ›
Teacher Resources While Social Distancing
Empowering student-centered learning in new ways Never have my two worlds collided in such a big way. I have worked in education research for the last 20 years and spent the last several curating the Students at the Center resource database part-time. The rest of my hours are spent raising two delightful AND infuriating elementary-age… Read More ›
School Closure Toolkit for Teachers
Teachers and parents across the country are taking on new and intimidating things this week. While exhausted from taking care of families, we are trying to provide some stability for the kids’ no longer in the classroom. Many of us feel unclear about our role in the delivery of online learning, and expectations seem to change by the minute. Uncertainty is what we all have in common right… Read More ›