enriquelopezgarre / Pixabay I’m adding this new CBS News video to: A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures
Prettysleepy / Pixabay What Teachers Need to Make Remote Schooling Work is a new Atlantic article by KRISTINA RIZGA that really nails it. I think every policy-maker and administrator should read it (teachers should, too, but we already know what it says ). You’ll definitely want to read the entire piece, but here are the points she lists: Free, High-Speed Internet for Students Peer-to-Peer Profes
I think two recent articles provide good overviews of the broad equity issues challenging our shift to online learning: Millions of public school students will suffer from school closures, education leaders have concluded is from The Washington Post. The shift to online learning could worsen educational inequality is from Vox. They’re both useful. However, even though I believe there will be nega
Responding to Absenteeism – During the Coronavirus Pandemic & Beyond is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher. Four educators share strategies for responding to absenteeism – whether from remote learning or from the physical school. They include a reduced emphasis on negative consequences and a renewed focus on relationship-building. Here are some excerpts:
I am a big advocate of having English Language Learners – and all students – partner up to read text (see A Look Back: Twelve Ways ELLs – & Anyone Else – Can Read & Demonstrate Understanding Of A Textbook Chapter – Add To The List! ). Plenty of research has shown that this kind of activity improves fluency and comprehension, and reading researcher Timothy Shanahan has regularly highlighted it. He
Strategies to Support Some of Our Most Vulnerable Students Through Distance Learning is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators share advice on how to connect to some of our most vulnerable
