Best Practices for Online Teaching
Laurel Springs School, a private K-12 online school focused on personalization for students, created this guide to help teachers delivering courses online. The guide provides simple tips for connecting with students and their families and delivering content. The guide can be helpful to teachers of any grade or subject and features sections specifically tailored for… Read More ›
Spring 2020 Youth Summit: Learning and Living Through a Pandemic
Living and Learning During A Pandemic is the theme of this online youth summit, organized by the Mastery Collaborative, a network of student-centered schools in New York City that use culturally responsive and mastery-based practices. This summit was designed to promote student voice and community-building during the COVID-19 school closures. The summit will be structured… Read More ›
Globalization, Robots, and You
This webinar will introduce a week-long curriculum to prepare students for the 21st-century economy by empowering them to make informed education and career choices. Through five free ready-to-go lessons, students can engage in economics, personal finance, and the history of the economics of globalization and automation and the impact these have on their future careers.… Read More ›
From Disruption Comes Change: Nurturing Sociopolitical Action with Youth
Hosted by Dr. Alfredo Palacios from the College of Education at Auburn University, the Theory of Change podcast is for counselors and counselor educators who are looking for inspiration and resources pertaining to the profession of counseling. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, an associate professor of counseling at the University of Colorado Denver, and a Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative grantee, discusses his research on sociopolitical… 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 ›
4 Common Barriers to Accessible Content for all Students
Whenever educators are delivering new content online is is important that all students, including those with disabilities, can access the materials. While most learning management systems (LMS) and software programs provide some accessibility compliance checking, they sometimes make mistakes or miss important considerations. This article offers clear, specific advice teachers can use to review the… 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 ›
14 Tips For Helping Students With Limited Internet Have Distance Learning
This article is full of strategies and tips to help make distance learning work for students with limited internet access during this time of school closures due to COVID-19. It provides specific, practical tips for working with students who only have cellphones and limited data or internet plans to complete school work. It includes advice… Read More ›
Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access
This article describes how schools are working to address issues of unequal access to learning during school closures due to COVID-19 by boosting connectivity to the internet. In particular, it discusses the growing number of schools and districts purchasing hot spots. The article also looks at the creative ways some schools and districts are reaching… Read More ›
This Large District Uses 4 Questions to Teach Every Educator How the Brain Learns
This story explores the work being done in the Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland to align research on learning science with their practice district-wide. The district has done extensive research on mindset theory and research on how the brain learns. Staff are then evaluating their current practices with this lens, asking questions such as… Read More ›
COVID-19 Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources
This portion of the Racial Equity Tools website was put together to help community leaders address the COVID-19 pandemic with social justice and equity lens. It features links to resources on analysis of the big picture, community care, organizing and solidarity, resource building and rapid response and virtual work and engagement. It also includes links… Read More ›
Leading Digital Transformations in Rural School Districts
This edWebinar will feature three rural school district superintendents, located in three different states, discussing both the challenges and the opportunities that are unique to rural school districts when leading digital transformations which change not only how teachers teach and students learn but also the ways in which school districts operate. Given the current challenges… Read More ›