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Monday, January 11, 2021

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Monday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings
llorcraft / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Scores of nurses with Chicago Public Schools say reopening buildings is still unsafe is from The Washington Post. As Chicago Schools Reopen, Teacher Scrambles To Keep Kids Safe is from NPR. Two new studies point to virus thresholds for in-person school is from The Hechinger Report. So
“Using Data to Support Students”
Using Data to Support Students is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators write about how they use data to improve their instruction. Here are some excerpts:
It’s Nice That Gov. Newsom Is Proposing To Pay For CA Summer School, But Who’s Going To Have Energy To Teach It?
Mylene2401 / Pixabay It’s great that California governor Newsom is proposing to pay for summer school this year . So many of our schools haven’t had it for so long. When I began teaching seventeen years ago, two-thirds of our students would attend it – we had plenty of enrichment courses, as well as straight academic ones. However, this summer is going to be a different kettle-of-fish. First, it’
Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. Of course, this is a crazy time for “classroom” instruction…. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2020 – PART TWO . Here are this week’s picks: Formative Assessment for Remote Teaching: Understanding Learning Intentions
It Doesn’t Make Any Sense To Give State Standardized Tests This Spring OR Any Kind Of Standardized Benchmark Assessments
OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay It’s a bit mind-boggling to me that we even need to discuss the topic of this post – of course we shouldn’t have standardized tests this spring and, of course we should have any kind of standardized benchmark tests (as our district is pushing). The impetus for both of these efforts is definitely not coming from educators who are teaching students everyday and who und
The Best Resources For Helping Students – & Us – Develop Good Habits
Homegrounds / Pixabay I’ve shared a number of resources over the years on how to create new habits and stop bad ones – and how to support others do the same. I thought I’d pull them all together in one post. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT “NUDGES” 

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