How Can Educators Tap Into Research to Increase Engagement During Remote Learning?
This article lays out research-based strategies to engage learners remotely. It explores the importance of using multiple strategies to motivate students, help them focus and engage them in learning. In particular, it addresses the importance of engaging learners, parents and peers using a variety of strategies. Teachers of any subject or grade can use these… Read More ›
10 Questions for Equity Advocates to Ask About Distance Learning
This report from Digital Promise and Education Trust explores the biggest equity challenges that districts face from school closures due to COVID-19. The report outlines each of 10 challenges and offers suggestions to address them. The report discusses challenges related to continued online learning that may occur through the summer and into the next school… Read More ›
5 Strategies for Teacher Self-Care
This ASCD Express article focuses on ways for teachers to care for themselves while facing stress. The author, an assistant principal and author of the book My Bad: 24 Educators Who Messed Up, Fessed Up and Grew!, offers strategies to help teachers reduce burnout and prioritize self-care so they can better serve their students. While… 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 ›
Students Will Go Back to School Eventually
This article offers practical advice for schools and districts to help students catch up when they return to school after closures due to COVID-19. It includes concrete ideas for possible changes and supports to help students readjust, from changing the length and structure of the school year, to providing tutoring and access to mental health… Read More ›
3 Ways to Use Video Conferencing with Students Learning Remotely
In this article, Catlin Tucker, a veteran teacher, blended learning coach, and author, shares ideas for using video conferencing in student-centered ways. She explores 3 ways to leverage video conferences to foster deeper learning and connections with and amongst students. These include small group instruction, discussions and conferencing with students. These tips will be useful… Read More ›
Blended Learning Universe
Developed by the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank working to improve education, healthcare, and global prosperity through innovation, this website showcases blended learning resources. It features basics on blended learning and related instructional models, including videos and examples in action, tips and resources to take a school step-by-step through planning and research publications.… 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 ›
Bridging Digital Divides Between Schools and Communities
The paper looks at the gap between internet connectivity at schools and within under-resourced, low-income communities, which is often referred to as the homework divide. The author looks at data collected from schools in two different cities—Marion, Alabama, and Phoenix, Arizona, where access at school is high due to participation in the ConnectED initiative, a… Read More ›
How Will Schools Provide Special Education During the Coronavirus Crisis?
This article looks at the challenge districts are facing to provide special education services and equitable access to learning during school closures due to COVID-19. It dives into the dilemma administrators across the nation are facing trying to interpret and adhere to federal policies and discusses how different districts have responded. While it cannot provide… 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 ›