A New Reality: Getting Remote Learning Right
This special report issues of Educational Leadership from ASCD focuses on remote learning. It features a variety of articles looking at the shift to remote learning caused by the COVID 19 crisis. Topics include tips for building community, helping students cope with anxiety, and supporting students with IEPs. The articles will interest teachers, education leaders,… Read More ›
Remote Learning Readiness Survey
This free remote learning survey was designed to help districts understand how students, teachers, principals and parents are handling the transition to remote learning. It was developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and BrigthBytes, a company that provides data analysis for school improvement. It includes questions to solicit information from families,… Read More ›
Surviving and Thriving as a School Librarian During a Pandemic
This article explores ways to transform the operation of school libraries during closures due to COVID-19. The authors offer tips on how to maintain access to resources, engage students, and support school staff. This article was written specifically for librarians of middle schools and high schools. Source Organization: American Association of School Librarians Visit the… Read More ›
Coronavirus: Putting K-12 Leadership to the Test” Online Summit
Through this online summit, participants will be able to interact with Education Week’s 2020 Leaders to Learn From. These experts on teacher hiring, district leadership, technology, mental health, and social-emotional learning are tackling the new challenges the coronavirus has created for districts. Participants will be able to share practices with peers and come away with… Read More ›
Unlocking Emotional Blockades: Neuroscience-Based Tools to Optimize Self-Regulation and Joyful Learning
Neuroscience research has highlighted stressors that cause learners to “act out,” “zone out,” or give up, resulting in decreased learning and reduction in emotional self-management. This webinar will explore the effect of emotions and stress on all aspects of learning. It will cover how the “video game model” applies to teaching for motivation and perseverance… 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 ›
Pandemic Preparedness Resources for Libraries
This list brings together many different types of resources of interest to school librarians during school closure due to COVID-19. The list is divided by category. Topics include news articles from the American Library Association, resources from the federal and state governments, articles related to sanitizing collections, and resources for children. Librarians may be particularly… 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 ›
Lesson Study Blog Series from the High Tech High Graduate School of Education
This blog series documents how High Tech High Graduate School of Education’s network of schools became interested in lesson study. They have shared how their lesson study teams got started – by creating a shared vision of their hopes and dreams for students, determining a research question and theory of action, narrowing in on a… Read More ›
The Power of Inquiry in Uncertain Times
This webinar will explore how to create opportunities for students to build their own inquiry skills, as teaching and learning shifts online. Warren Berger, author of a new book, Beautiful Questions in the Classroom, will join Right Question Institute‘s Sarah Westbrook and TeachThought’s Drew Perkins for a conversation about leveraging the power of inquiry in… Read More ›
The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now
This article looks at three issues that have grown from the shift to remote learning in response to school closures due to COVID-19. In particular, it examines concerns over student privacy, accessibility of education technology materials for all students and equitable access to online learning technology and internet connection. This is a thoughtful piece for… 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 ›